Coming soon - Turner & Hoffmann on Creative Construction Grammar. In this, we argue that the domain-general process of Conceptual Blending is the cognitive operation that combines constructions. BTW this will be published open access! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

#CfP alert! 🚨 The call for papers and theme sessions for the next International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Conference (Bielefeld, 31.08.-02.09.2026) is finally out 🎉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...

Just finished reviewing @grambelli.bsky.social's book (available soon): a clear and engaging synthesis of the major strands of work on compositionality, analogy, and usage, while pushing #ConstructionGrammar toward a more explicit engagement with processing and computation. Highly recommended!

"Edinburgh is one of the wealthiest universities in the UK" and, yet, here we are. How? Why? Staff/students did not create this problem-- they keep the uni running through endless crisis. It's time for "leaders" to accept they have failed and step down. www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/gacde2g...

Have you seen our Forensic Linguistics elements series? Edited by @timgrant123.bsky.social & Tammy Gales, this series offers cutting-edge research, theoretical advancements, & discussions of historical development across all areas of language & law. https://cup.org/48Ah0ac #LangSky 🐦🐦 #CrimSky

Thank you to the organisers of 13th International Conference SLOVKO 2025 on Natural Language Processing and Corpus Linguistics for inviting me to talk about ‘Constructional Creativity - The Role of Corpus Data’ #creativity #CxG

just finished steve levinson's new book! it's a beautifully articulated argument for social interaction as the evolutionary niche which made language possible, rather than the other way around. progress in linguistics depends on a stronger science of interaction. www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...

RIP Peter Eisenberg (1940-2025), syntactician of German, phonologist, orthography specialist, and very public linguist (who was not afraid of controversies). He was my second PhD advisor in 1990-93, and an important person in my life during those years at FU Berlin. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_E...

And... here's another brilliant Element! Congrats to Elisabeth! Come and get it while it's hot (and free). (Waves Hands Enthusiastically) www.cambridge.org/core/element...

UPDATE: Abstract deadline: Nov 1, 25! Invited speakers: Corrine Occhino, Dagmar Divjak, Idan Blank, Randy Allen Harris, Gary Lupyan, Laura Michaelis, Kanishka Misra ! @dagmardivjak.bsky.social @randyallenharris.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social @kanishka.bsky.social

A brilliant linguist and sociolinguist, RIP Gift article from NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...

📌 👉 The 14th International Construction Grammar conference will be held at Princeton, June 4-7, 2026 Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods Stay tuned for updates!

Check it out - the corpus MOOC is back (15th September) on a new platform (edX) exploring new topics, including AI. One thing has not changed - it is still free to access 😁 Find out more here: www.edx.org/learn/social...

Call for incoming researchers for 2026: Come to #Bielefeld and #CRC1646 on a scholarship and work with us on linguistic creativity! All details can be found here: www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/... #BLinguistik #linguistics

Support: New Funding Opportunity for Students, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

📙 'The Meaning of Constructions' is out now! A short book on how meaning works in Construction Grammar - covering semantic, pragmatic & social dimensions. 🔓 Open access for two weeks. Download from: doi.org/10.1017/9781... 🔁 Feel free to share!

FYI: FYI: Editorial change JB bookseries CAL

Exciting news! ✨ Do you want to ... 👩‍💻... work on linguistic creativity 🌄 ... get to know #Bielefeld Here is your chance: The 1st Summer School on Linguistic Creativity, hosted by CRC 1646, from July 21st-25th 2025. More info here: www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/... #linguistics #BLinguistik

We have some, well 13(!), amazing PhD-positions on construction grammar. Grab your chance & join us in Erlangen! www.cxg.phil.fau.eu/projects/new...

We are disappointed but not surprised that Meta has used millions of pirated books to develop its AI systems. As a matter of urgency, Meta needs to compensate the rightsholders of all the works it has been exploiting. But what can authors do? Read here: societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...

Have truly lost patience with the New York Times’ editorial coverage of AI, which has basically degenerated into industry cheerleading. They are completely misrepresenting what most academics believe about AGI. I detail some blunders here: open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

@FrankBruni's Best Sentences of 2024 😂 from A.O. Scott: “If our brains are foundries, they are also warehouses, crammed full of clichés, advertising slogans, movie catchphrases, song lyrics, garbled proverbs and jokes we heard on the playground at recess in third grade... 1/3 link below

📣MY FIRST BOOK OUT!📣 Does language rely solely on rules, or is there more to it? 🔎Explore the interplay between compositionality and analogy from a constructionist view in this New Cambridge Element (Elements in #ConstructionGrammar) 👉Download for free: cup.org/41DP95c ⚠️Available just for 4 weeks!

🤓 Yet another new paper alert: @hartmast.bsky.social and I tried to bring together collostructional analysis and my ideas on construction semantics, a frame-semantic extension of construction grammar. Check it out: www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

#AI chatbots 🤖 are a hot topic 🔥 But what if we shift the conversation from what they can do with language to what they can do for the Linguist? That’s the topic of our new @CambUP_LangLing book Copilots for Linguists: AI, Constructions, and Frames. DOWNLOAD FOR FREE 🧵👇