Looking forward to my LiME lecture at the @meertens-knaw.bsky.social today 🤩 I’ll be presenting my work on non-canonical causal constructions (#BecauseX) in English, German, Dutch, Czech, and beyond. Thanks to Jeroen Van Craenenbroeck for inviting me 🙏 lime.meertens.knaw.nl/en/lime-lect...

Episode no. 51 is out 🤩 Martin Haspelmath (@haspelmath.bsky.social) talks about how he got started in linguistics, the rise of large-scale areal typology in the 1990s, language description vs language comparison, and the current state of the field. 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2025/11/01/p... #Histlx

Hans Conon v d G features in a recent paper on which I was co-author doi.org/10.1075/hl.0...

My blog posts are always a bit niche, but this one is a bit nicher than others. This is not to say it’s not interesting. It should be of interest to anybody who works on language, #LLMs, #meaning and context. Have a look! makingsciencepublic.com/2025/09/05/u...

In the latest episode of our podcast (no. 47), we talk to Geoff Pullum about his career, his contributions to linguistics, and how he sees the future of the field. 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2025/09/01/p... #Histlx #Linguistics #BLinguistik

A fresh new batch of Language & History articles has been published online, with a focus on the interactions between ✨Chinese and English✨ language teaching! Give them a look 👀 www.tandfonline.com/toc/ylhi20/0/0

Call of the Consoritium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM): Working group History of the Language Sciences Where? Online When? September 2025 - May 2026 Further details? See the post on our blog 🔗 hiphilangsci.net/2025/08/09/c... #Histlx

Staatliche grammatische Empörung 54books.de/die-sprache-...

Call for Papers for the Annual Meeting of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences (NAAHoLS) Date: 8-11 January 2026 Place: New Orleans, Louisiana Deadline for submission: 1 September 2025 🔗 hiphilangsci.net/2025/08/05/n... #Histlx

📕 Puss in Boots in Ottoman Turkish, 1910s #cat

It was a true privilege to have had the chance to interview Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, whose work has long influenced both my research interests and engagement with this discipline. It's this week's episode of The HPS Podcast – out now! 🎧 @hpspodcast.bsky.social #hps #histsci #experiments

For weekend readers, my first Making Science Public post on my own blog site, reflecting on the current state of and challenges to science communication #scicomm - feel free to press 'subscribe'! makingsciencepublic.com/2025/07/25/m...

A perfect occasion to listen to ep. 44 of our podcast, in which James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) talks to Ian Stewart (@princetonupress.bsky.social) about modern ideas about the Celts and and the role of historical-comparative linguistics. 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2025/03/01/p... #Histlx

Don't forget that the full archive of the Henry Sweet Society Bulletin (predecessor of Language & History) is available on our website in ✨OPEN ACCESS✨! This includes issues no. 1-51 (1984-2008). Drop by and browse: www.henrysweet.org/bulletin-of-...

The latest round of cuts at ANU include an outrageous plan to close the Australian National Dictionary Centre (ANDC). ANU has forgotten its vital function as the national university. Please sign this petition urging ANU to reconsider and protect the ANDC: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

✨Vivien Law Essay Prize in the history of linguistic ideas✨ Deadline: 30th September 2025 If you are: a currently registered student or received your PhD/equivalent within the last five years (maternity leave excluded) See details and get your submissions ready!👇 www.henrysweet.org/vivien-law-p...

‘If we could stop thinking of the brain like it’s a Rubik’s cube, then perhaps we would have more capacity to talk about what’s truly iconic about Gage: that he survived, both as a body and a person’ buff.ly/1gMuFXd

Look what's arrived!

Die FAZ über unsere aktuelle Ausstellung: „Warum wir nicht alle plattdeutsch sprechen Die Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg widmet sich in einer Ausstellung der Geschichte des Niederdeutschen.“ Noch bis 21.7. in der Stabi: blog.sub.uni-hamburg.de?p=40359

‘Enchantment and wonder can still coexist with the most serious science.’ How French ‘merveilleux-scientifique’ fiction reframed reality buff.ly/QnbZuh8

Check out the latest publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences for June 2025 🤩 📚 hiphilangsci.net/2025/06/23/p... #Histlx

"Alles Verstehen ist […] zugleich ein Nicht-Verstehen" #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #LinguisticQuotes

#OTD 258 years ago, Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835) was born 🎉 A diplomat, politician, and highly influential philosopher of language, he was an early language typologist who contributed to the description of numerous languages, including Basque and Kawi. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Should be interesting: “The Bloomsbury handbook of Saussure” ed. by John E. Joseph (July ’25) www.bloomsbury.com/ca/bloomsbur...

Happy birthday, dear Anna! 🥳 #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays #LinguisticQuotes

If you've ever fed Vegemite to someone from overseas, I salute you. It's our national duty to do so.

Along the Elbe in Dresden in 1909 (photo by Karl Struss)

Very excited about the Call for Papers for the upcoming 2025 conference for the Australasian Association for History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science. Come join us in sunny Brisbane QLD this December!! It is always a wonderful event. #hps #histSTM #philsci #STS #metasci 🧪

Thanks for posting. My chapter in Limits of Structuralism covers similar material in greater depth and with refs and footnotes. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

author beat me to posting this! tl;dr awesome book – highly recommmended

Ich habe gestern und heute die handschriftliche Frühfassung der Golemsage in J. Grimms Nachlass gefunden: ein Exzerpt aus Tentzel 1689. (Hatte Moering 2014 schon per Textvergleich vermutet, nun ist aber das histor. Bindeglied nachgewiesen.) Das ist der Ausgangspunkt für den Golemstoff im 19. Jh.

I wrote about the social history of analytic philosophy @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

Im Wesentlichen FERTIG! Puh, was für ein Ritt.

„Mein schönstes Gedicht? Ich schrieb es nicht. Aus tiefsten Tiefen stieg es, Ich schwieg es." Guten Morgen mit dem Mascha Kaléko. - 7. Juni 1907 - 21. Januar 1975 - 

Obligatory photo of physical book. Nice to finally hold it in my hands. With many improvements on the English version (and only a few Verschlimmbesserungen).

Enfants ne jouez pas à la guerre. Parents... si vous voulez que vos enfants vivent Préparez le désarmement moral Supprimez les jouets militaires https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b53205530m

How to create a hand shadow of Otto von Bismarck – it's all in the middle-finger moustache and thumb and pinkie Pickelhaube (from 1905) 🗃️

Our monthly newsletter with the latest publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences for May 2025 is out now 😇 📚 hiphilangsci.net/2025/05/28/p... #Histlx

We are hiring a dream team of doctoral and post-doctoral research fellows in applied sociolinguistics, education and related fields to work on "Linguistic Diversity and Social Participation across the Lifespan" @uni-hamburg.de www.languageonthemove.com/hiring-a-dre...

she was first author on our intro to lx textbook

Diese Woche erschienen: Entstehung und Entwicklung der modernen Linguistik www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Excellent episode on The Philosopher's Zone featuring our own @samaragreenwood.bsky.social is now available on Spotify, Apple & all the usual pod places Highly recommend for those interested in relations between science and society #hps #scicomm #sts 🧪 #biology #primatology #evolution #feminism

From NLP to LLMS - really interesting!

Episode 46 of the podcast is out! 🤩 In this instalment, James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) talks with Philip Kraut (@herbilis.bsky.social) about the scholarly work and political engagement of the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. In German! 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2025/05/01/p... #Histlx

Mein Gespräch mit @jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social ist nun erschienen! Podcast episode 46: Philip Kraut on Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm auf dem Blog: "History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences" (@hiphilangsci.bsky.social ) open.spotify.com/episode/5UzW... oder hiphilangsci.net/2025/05/01/p...

Episode 45 of our podcast is out! 🤩 This time, James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) meets Beijia Chen (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) to discuss her research on the citation networks that connected the Neogrammarians as a school of thought. 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2025/04/01/p... #Histlx

makes me wanna read the book

Visible Speech is a system of phonetic transcription devised by Alexander Melville Bell (1819-1905) to help deaf children learn to speak. Bell’s notation is based on the physiology of the speech organs and can, therefore, be used as a universal alphabet to represent any language. 1/3 #Histlx

From the 1920s until the early 1950s, Soviet linguistics was dominated by Nikolai Marr (1864-1934), who would have turned 161 #OTD. His teaching, Marrism, was the linguistic adaptation of the Marxist materialist tenets and represented the official linguistic policy in the Soviet Union. 1/7 #Histlx