🚨 We are recruiting! 5-year post-doc in Computational Humanities at the University of Lausanne Working language: French Details: www.unil.ch/news/1743431... Deadline: 22 April 2025 I'm happy to (informally) answer any questions. Please share widely! 🙂

V. excited that we got the 🟢 light for our workshop on the Comparative Method – its history, challenges, and the way forward – at the next International Conference on Historical Linguistics in Santiago de Chile. 🥳 The 12 papers sound very interesting; have a look: sites.google.com/view/ichl27cm

🚨 New publication (in Open Access)! "Language Pedagogy from Memphis to Tokyo: Current Perspectives on Teaching Ancient and Modern Languages of Asia and Beyond" (Cahiers du CLSL 68) www.cahiers-clsl.ch/issue/view/604

Have 10 minutes to spare? My wife is writing her Master's thesis in psychology on the correlation between inner experience and autobiographical memory and would be very grateful for your answers to her survey questions! Feel free to share widely! Thanks! brookeshls.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Pour ceux et celles parmi vous qui n'ont pas encore eu le temps de parcourir le livre sur Antoine Meillet que j'ai eu le plaisir de coéditer avec Sébastien Moret, voici un tout petit résumé en format d'interview. Le livre: journals.openedition.org/edl/6438

📢📢📢 I recently learned the teaching of ancient languages at Cardiff University is under threat: Latin, Ancient Greek, Hebrew & Sanskrit SIGN AND SHARE this petition created by ancient history and archaeology students 🏺 #AncientBlueSky 1/7 www.change.org/p/reverse-ca...

I have had great fun writing about my research into the ancient grammatical tradition and its reception for Antigone, an open forum for Classics. If you're interested in reading about "A Greek Grammar in Armenian – What could possibly go wrong?" in an accessible fashion, head over and have a look!

Two full-time open ended positions in linguistics at Cardiff for September 2024. Please share! #linguistics One lecturer in Discourse Analysis krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear... One senior lecturer in Forensic Linguistics krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear... Closing date 18 Feb

🚨 New publication: the special issue of the Transactions of the Philological Society on contact-induced morphosyntactic change, guest-edited by Michele Bianconi and me, has now been published. All 11 papers, many of which in Open Access, can be found here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1467968x...

🚨 Job Alert: Maître d'enseignement et recherche 1 en Histoire et philologie des langues de l'Antiquité classique Where: Université de Lausanne, Switzerland Deadline: 12 February 2024 Details: career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

🚨Call for Papers: Language and Identity in Antiquity Where: Université de Lausanne, Switzerland When: 19–20 July 2024 Deadline: 1 March 2024 Languages: English, French Details: unil.ch/languageiden... Please repost widely!

It's a publication-rich December! Just published, in Open Access (and in French to boot): "Antoine Meillet. Regards linguistiques et historiques sur sa vie et son œuvre", edited by Sébastien Moret and myself. journals.openedition.org/edl/6438

I'm pleased to announce the publication in Open Access of: Iranian Syntax in Classical Armenian. The Armenian Perfect and Other Cases of Pattern Replication All relevant details, including an abstract and the PDF of the book, can be found on the Publisher's Website. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

"Emerging Topics in Typology", conference for PhD students (Stockholm, June 2024): ett2024.github.io

Another testament to our non-religious household: 5yo, singing "Go tell it on the Mountain" (learnt for a Christmas concert), explains the line "...where cheese and rice was borne" to his 3yo sibling, saying: "That's all the food they have up there." We explained it all – after uproarious laughter 😂

Academic jobs: Am Anglistischen Seminar der Universität Heidelberg sind zwei Qualifikationsstellen (Predoc/Postdoc, 100% E13) im Bereich Englische Soziolinguistik zum 1.4.2024 zu vergeben. Details in der Ausschreibung unten. Auskunft erteile ich gerne. Please share!

Are you interested in joining my team and doing research in English sociolinguistics, with a focus on digital practice, language and gender, and/or English as a global resource? Job openings for pre and postdoc positions in beautiful Heidelberg will be forthcoming soon!

Call for papers ‒ bitte teilen! Am 23. und 24. September 2024 findet unsere Tagung "Stabilität und Dynamik in der regionalen (Morpho-)Syntax des Deutschen. Standortbestimmungen und Zukunftsperspektiven" im Haus der Universität der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf statt. Beiträge willkommen!

🚨 Another new open-access paper, this time on an unusual agreement feature in Classical Armenian that resembles (but is not exactly) Suffixaufnahme. dx.doi.org/10.30687/arm...

🚨 New open-access publication: "Towards a Typology of Contact-Induced Change Questions, Problems and the Path Ahead" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

This is how you deprive a deaf child of a language. Source: twitter.com/Lifeway52783...

On my to Washington DC to speak at the Dumbarton Oaks Fall Colloquium about Byzantine commentaries on the Armenian version of Dionysios Thrax. Then northwards for a guest lecture at Harvard about my research on Iranian-Armenian language contact in Late Antiquity. Join me there if you like and can!

🚨 Job opportunity @ Université de Lausanne! 5-year doctoral position (80%FTE) in language variation and change. Deadline: 20 November !!! Language: French Details: news.unil.ch/display/1698... Please share widely!

Offene & herzliche Einladung auch an die #BlueLinguisitik (sowie alle Studierenden und Interessierten) zu unserer kleinen Vortragsreihe zur ling. Diskursforschung in diesem WiSe! Alle Vorträge sind digital zugänglich. Infos: diskurslinguistik.net/aktuelles/di... #BLinguistik #Linguistik

Very proud of our 5yo this evening. Discussing the designation 'Our Lady of...' / 'Notre Dame de...', we said it (usually) referred to Mary. Us: 'Do you know which Mary?' 5yo: 'Mary Anning?' 😁 'nuff said. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_An...

New Open Access publication on questions of transmission, translation, and the use of linguistic methods for philological problems. "Translation and transmission in the Armenian New Testament: a note on Lk. 3:23" doi.org/10.1515/if-2...

I've been working on an 11th-c. commentary on the Armenian version of Dionysios Thrax' "Art of Grammar" today. The highlight: this passage dealing with declension at the example of Plato (Պղատոն), including dual (a pair of Platos), feminine (Platoness) and neuter (a plato-thing) forms. 1/2

Auch in diesem Schuljahr biete ich wieder Lesungen aus Victor Klemperers Tagebuch 1933-1945 an. Lebendig, informativ und mit viel Raum für Fragen. Welche Schule hat Interesse? renatus-deckert.de/victor-klemp... Danke fürs Weitersagen!

"A Post-doctoral #Research Associate is required for a study into the learning of #French, #German, and #Spanish in primary schools in #England" at University of Reading. Might be of interest to some! #linguistics #AcademicSky #PhDSky jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

🇧🇪 Unbefristete Stelle mit Schwerpunkt Belgien und europäische Francophonie für Promovierte mit guten Kenntnissen in Französisch und Niederländisch!

In lieu of a blog post for September, we ask you to read and disseminate the statement of the AIEA on the situation in Nagorno Karabakh. releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...

Academics/AltAc/related Ceruleans, what is the one thing you do on a daily/very regular basis as part of your job that, as a graduate student / younger self, you wouldn't have thought you'd (have to) do so often? [For me, it's the sheeeeeeer amount of emails.]

A Cerulean hello! I'm a historical linguist / linguistic typologist working on diachronic syntax and language contact, mainly in the late antique / early mediaeval Caucasus and Mediterranean. My new book 'Iranian Syntax in Classical Armenian' will be out soon in #OpenAccess. 🥳