Now accepted for publication in Linguistics & Philosophy:

New (very brief!) draft: "Meaning after the Multimodal Revolution: Seven Things Signs and Gestures Teach Us about Meaning." From the perspective of formal semantics, here are seven lessons I draw from studies of sign languages ("sign") and gestures: ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/010...

La danse des #abeilles est un système de communication remarquablement sophistiqué, mais on considère d'habitude qu'elle n'a rien de commun avec le #langage humain. 🐝 Une nouvelle étude révise ce verdict : 👉 www.inshs.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...

The waggle dance of #bees is recognized as a remarkable communication system, but it is usually thought to have properties that are wholly distinct from human #language. 🐝 A new study revises this verdict : 👉 www.inshs.cnrs.fr/en/cnrsinfo/...

The next session of the Multimodal Semantics seminar will take place on Tuesday, April 28, 6pm Paris, on Zoom only, world-wide, in ASL with English interpretation. Speakers: Gaurav Mathur & Christian Rathmann: Constrained Integration of Gesture in Sign Language Morphology. All are welcome!

New paper (a note, really) on animal implicatures, with E. Chemla and B. Spector. In animal linguistics, the Informativity Principle posits that when animals can choose between a signal S and a more informative signal S+ , S+ is preferred if it is true. lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009...

*** The deadline of the Beth Dissertation Prize in Logic, Language, and Information has been extended to April 20th, 2026, AoE. *** In case of any problems or questions please contact the chair of the committee Yoad Winter ([email protected]). folli.info?page_id=74

This coming Tuesday, March 17: Cornelia Ebert in the Multimodal Semantics Seminar.

Coming soon: a session on dolphin communication

New manuscript: "Animal Linguistics as an Integrative Framework for Animal Communication", with E. Chemla, and N. Mathevon, M. Hagiwara, O. Pietquin. We argue that animal linguistics offers a unifying framework for animal communication. lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009...

About to start. Please register ahead of the class if you wish to receive the link. Thanks!

First session on Monday, February 2, 2026 on Zoom. Please register below if you wish to receive the link. Thanks!

Today!

First session on Monday, February 2, 2026 on Zoom. Please register below if you wish to receive the link. Thanks!

The next session of the Animal Linguistics seminar will take place on Wed., Jan. 28, 5pm Paris, on Zoom only, world-wide. Speaker: Christoph Grüter: Bee talk - Communication in an unpredictable world. All are welcome!

New manuscript: "Animal Linguistics as an Integrative Framework for Animal Communication", with E. Chemla, and N. Mathevon, M. Hagiwara, O. Pietquin. We argue that animal linguistics offers a unifying framework for animal communication. lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009...

*** Online course on Multimodal Semantics in February-March 2026*** How should semantics and pragmatics look like after the “multimodal revolution”, which unearthed multiple new data from sign langages and from gestures? This course will offer partial answers.

Emar Maier's survey article on Super Linguistics: lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009...

1/ 📢 Come study cognitive science in Paris! The Master’s program in Cognitive Science at @ENS_ULM, @psl_univ, and @EHESS_fr is now accepting applications for the next academic year. 🗓 Deadline: February 24, 2026 💻 Apply here: master-cognitive-science.ens.psl.eu/en/applicati...

The next session of the Animal Linguistics seminar will take place on Wed., Nov. 26, 5pm Paris, on Zoom only, world-wide. Speakers: C. Crockford & C. Girard-Buttoz, Chimpanzee Vocal Utterances: Flexible and combinatorial with protracted development All are welcome!

First session of the Multimodal Semantics seminar this coming Tuesday, October 21, on Zoom only, with Lyn Tieu:

First session of our new online seminar on multimodal semantics: Tue October 21 with Lyn Tieu

New paper with Jason Lamberton and Jonathan Lamberton: “Traveling Shots in Language: Towards an Analysis of Dynamic Viewpoints in ASL”, to appear in Linguistic Inquiry. ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/008...

Our online Animal Linguistics Seminar starts this coming Wednesday, September 24:

Recent manuscript on “Context Shift and Viewpoint Shift”, with Jason Lamberton and Jonathan Lamberton: ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/009... The philosophy of language of the 1970’s claimed that natural language lacks operators that can shift the context of evaluation of indexicals.

After a successful trial session in July, the Animal Linguistics seminar is continuing:

Reminder: Gallot on olive colobus grammar in the Online Seminar on Animal Linguistics on Tuesday, July 22, 5pm Paris. Please register here if you wish to attend: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📢 Join the online Animal Linguistics Seminar on the 22nd of July, at 5 PM CET! Quentin Gallot will discuss the alarm call sequences in olive colobus. Links for registration and more information here: sites.google.com/site/philipp... @cogcompneuch.bsky.social @phschlenker.bsky.social

Online Seminar on Animal Linguistics on Tuesday, July 22, 5pm Paris: On an experimental basis, we are organizing a seminar on Animal Linguistics, on Zoom only, world-wide. Speaker: Q. Gallot, Alarm call sequences in olive colobus: a primate grammar enabling incremental processing

MIT on Haj Ross, a great, great linguist who died in May 2025: whamit.mit.edu/2025/05/19/j...

An excellent semantics/pragmatics group is advertising positions - including for work on great ape communication and the evolution of language:

An excellent semantics/pragmatics group is advertising positions - including for work on great ape communication and the evolution of language:

Incroyable dérive d'une ministre: www.huffingtonpost.fr/politique/ar...

A lire: www.fabula.org/actualites/1...

An important petition regarding the future of research in Europe: bit.ly/4kzL4pi

The AERG expresses grave concern over the future of fundamental research in Europe in a statement urging European leaders to protect fundamental science by reaffirming the autonomy of the @erc.europa.eu aerg.eu/news/new-sta... Read the full statement 👇 aerg.eu/storage/AERG...

A statement by the Association of ERC Grantees (AERG) on the importance of protecting the autonomy of the ERC: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Statement by European Academics in Defense of Academic Freedom form.jotform.com/251461942218...

Tribune très juste. Mais qui omet de dire que, pour certaines équipes du moins, le manque de locaux de recherche à Paris est un problème fondamental. www.latribune.fr/idees/tribun...

We commend Harvard for standing up for itself. Free speech and academic freedom are essential to higher education. They are values worth fighting for.

Here is one big reason to choose Europe to advance with your research career: We 💙 science.

As the US government slashes Harvard’s funding, Nature has learnt that researchers at the university have lost nearly 1,000 grants worth more than US$2.4 billion. https://go.nature.com/4jg8Sxa

Full support to Harvard! www.harvard.edu/president/ne...

⚠️ Sur les "ouvriers de la 11e heure" et sur Gaza (suite de la suite) • La lecture des prises de position récentes de Anne Sinclair, Joann Sfar, Delphine Horvilleur et d'autres appelant Israël à un "sursaut de conscience" provoque ici de la stupeur, de la rancœur, parfois de la colère. …

Persecutions against trans people in the United States: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Sur l'incroyable dérive de l'extrême-gauche française: youtube.com/watch?v=EMX01K