40:0 for the shoulder of lamb but it seems like I won the game 🤔

At least there is chicken soup for the soul.., and the throat.

Now‘s the season to be … sick like dog. The Bergs family is down and out…

What in fresh hell? ERC plus? ERC grants are already 74% oversubscribed (the share of proposals evaluated as excellent but not receiving funding because there is not enough of it), just put more money in the pot instead of creating a new instrument to waste time erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

One of the most important works of literature in my life. This play opened my eyes to what was possible in drama, in comedy, in philosophy, in performance, in conversation with the past. My first play was an almost direct homage and I’ve been chasing it ever since. RIP to a true genius.

My first ever paper has just been published in English Language and Linguistics @universitypress.cambridge.org! 🥳🥹 If you’re interested in Construction Morphology, I’d be thrilled if you gave it a read! I’d love your feedback! doi.org/10.1017/S136...

Out now! Kudos to Kim Droste! Constructing a hierarchical network of prefixal up from a Construction Morphology perspective | English Language & Linguistics | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨 Great news 🚨 The #CfP for the 11th DGKL/GCLA conference in Bielefeld has been published! Deadline for both theme sessions proposals and abstracts for presentations/posters is Jan. 15th 2026 See the conference website for more information tinyurl.com/dgkl2026 #langsky #BLinguistik #linguistics

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!

Denkt dran: Morgen ist die Deadline für die 23. Sprachwissenschaftliche Tagung für Promotionsstudierende in Osnabrück! Noch nichts eingereicht? Hier geht's zum CfP: staps.stuts.eu/call-for-pap...

Die 2. Keynote hält der an der Universität Osnabrück heimische Alexander Bergs @alexbergs.bsky.social mit einem Vortrag zu sprachlicher Kreativität aus konstruktionsgrammatischer Perspektive unter dem Titel „That’s so Mike Myers. Not. A few (random) thoughts on language and creativity“.

Just realizes that RAI is showing the ATP matches and that I can watch the ATP finals on the big big screen in my appartment. Happy as a Frenchman that invented self-removing trousers!!! Forza, Jannik!

is soooo frustrated to be in beautiful Torino at the time of the ATP finals but without the resources to buy tickets ($500+).

Die Abgabefrist für Abstracts für die 23. STaPs kommt immer näher! Diese und nächste Woche präsentieren wir die geplanten Keynotes und Workshops für eine Extra-Portion Motivation beim Abstract-Schreiben. 💪

Rinderbäckchen coming your way 🤩

Grocery shopping for our Minerva workshop on „constructing bridges“ next week. I am not sure that was part of my contract when I became full professor 🤨

If I hear ball striker one more time, I will just switch from net*** to ***hub. What’s the difference?

The clapping intro at six kings sounds like whipping rather than clapping, or is that just me?

Ich glaube ich richte eine auto-reply ein mit nur einem Wort: Nein. . . . Hallöchen Frau Meyer….nein. Kann ich…nein. Ist es möglich….nein. . . . Es würde das Leben so viel einfacher machen 😇

New paper by @remivantrijp.bsky.social in #Constructions! doi.org/10.24338/con...

Thrilled to announce the publication of my paper "A Modern Synthesis: The Fillmorean Construction and its Hidden Lineage" in Constructions! The article digs into the prehistory of #ConstructionGrammar and is based on the first chapter of my upcoming book constructions.journals.hhu.de/article/view...

„Dass aufgrund der für Kinder erforderlichen Zeit weniger Zeit für die Einkommenserzielung zur Verfügung steht, wirkt sich bereits dadurch aus, dass das in der nicht zur Verfügung stehenden Zeit nicht erzielte Einkommen nicht besteuert wird.“ (Finanzgericht Hannover).

This one made my day. Seriously. Off to the special room now. www.youtube.com/shorts/I3YTc...

Your daily university meeting. Just that. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Rot...

Save the date and spread the word: Die 23. STaPs wird am 13.-14. März 2026 an der Universität Osnabrück stattfinden! Haltet die Augen offen für Updates auf der Website (staps.stuts.eu/23-staps-osn...). 🎉 #staps23

Yup, I should have seen that one coming. Bonnie banks of Loch Lomond now....

If I hear Flower of Scotland one more time, I will go downstairs and shove that bagpipe where it belongs. Let's see how piping is going, then. Beyond that Santiago and ISLE8 are absolutely fantastic, as always!

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...

#SLE2025 is winning at this year's conference bingo so far (Design by @leftyveggie.bsky.social)

Two new papers out in #Constructions! - Flavio Pisciotta: Construction Grammar meets Graph Theory doi.org/10.24338/con... - Gauthier Delaby & Timothy Colleman: Multiple sources of constructional contamination in different language varieties doi.org/10.24338/con...

www.cambridge.org/core/element... And here’s another one! Proud to present our latest Element, by Chaves, Kay & Michaelis. Free download for a few weeks, so come and get it!!!

Salatouri … life is so hard these days…

Again what learned: if you are eating at a souvlaki place, don’t order the salad

And yet…

Once you go tsoutsoukakia you’ll never go Frikadellen again🤩

sooo much fun: after a great HELLEX symposium I am at the Viru Sokos Hotel in Tallinn - built in the 1970s with an extra floor for the KGB and filled to the brim with espionage history - watching "From Russia with Love" on TV :-) Just one more thing that makes Tallinn a truly great place!

We're very, very proud to present a new Element by Benoît Leclercq and Cameron Morin in our series! Ever wondered about the Meaning of Constructions? Find out - it's free (for the next 2 weeks)! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Harvard Law sues Trump Admin. Let the games begin.

Nimmt es Wunder, dass vor jedem DB infopoint eine Reihe DB Security Typen stehen…?

Fuck is a versatile word (definitions suck) youtu.be/_42tJgX_S48?...

This article is so so good @superlinguo.bsky.social @gretchenmcc.bsky.social love the idea and the execution. Lingcomm as a true practice to develop. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

Excited to check out this new Cambridge Elements on Constructions and Compositionality. I hope our theme session on "Compositionality in Cognitive Constructional Perspective" is accepted for ICLC17. It seems like this topic is very timely! #linguistics

We have a new Element in our Series! Very proud to host Giulia Rambelli with a fantastic discussion of Constructions and Compositionality. Free download for the next couple of weeks. Come and get it while it's hot!!! DOI: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Hab gerade herzstattmerz.com registriert. Gibt es hier ne(n) Webdeveloper(in), die mit mir naechste Woche eine Seite, inkl. Spendenkampagne aufsetzt, die bis zur BTW zeigt, dass 🇩🇪 so viel mehr ist als das, was der Mr Burns der Union hier zeigt? Meldet euch! Lasst uns was machen! Wir sind mehr!

Aha. Lindner und Lehfeldt erwarten Nachwuchs. Das freut mich natürlich. Er wird ja ab Februar hinreichend Zeit haben und sie könnte als Journalistin durchstarten. Eine Win-Win-Win Situation …

But I believe we all should start thinking about where and how Bologna failed and how we can bring back some of the good stuff, without provoking the same kind of problems we had back then. 25 years of Bologna baloney: if you’re happy and you know it… clap your hands. 11/11

And, last but not least, why are we all still playing along (and I am including myself here)? Just to be sure: I don’t simply want to go back to 1998, when university life was so much better. Been there, done that, and I know it had its problems and drawbacks. 10/11

What about other countries in Europe? Do you celebrate the occasion? Apparently, in Germany, no one in charge saw the need to push this topic with the media or the public. Why? 9/11

Why don’t the mainstream media celebrate this glorious anniversary – after all, it was a major reform of our most valuable training and research system? It was not even mentioned, except for that one radio station no one listens to. 8/11