On the blog, how a Latin pronoun became synonymous with Frenchness: mashedradish.com/2025/11/25/f...

CFP extended deadline for abstract submission : December 8 2025 Join us in Trois-Rivières! named26.wordpress.com

Today and tomorrow colleagues and I are organising a two-day workshop on the use of LLMs for linguistics research at @UniKoeln: https://sfb1252.github.io/llm-workshop/. This is largely a university-internal event and we found that there is a lot of interest […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Une journée inspirante au Musée Pop! Merci @museepop.bsky.social pour l’accueil incroyable réservé à mes étudiant·e·s. Nous avons exploré les concepts linguistiques à travers l’exposition « Attache ta tuque »… et c’était passionnant (et amusant) !

I’m looking forward to reading this!

Ergative structures show how languages organize meaning — not every sentence needs someone “doing” the action. Studies like this help us understand how verbs express states and events, a topic still little known outside linguistics classrooms. doi.org/10.25189/267... #linguistics #langsky

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine. My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask: Why, even now, is no-one asking questions? t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.

Ma publication dans "the Conversation" sur l'écriture inclusive (theconversation.com/lecriture-in...) m'a valu ma première qualification de "wokiste" ("immonde wokiste"). L'ironie, c'est que le mot "wokiste" est lui-même une forme d'écriture inclusive (forme neutre). "Wokard" serait plus adapté.

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

Planning my intro to linguistics course at UQTR is more fun this year with this little gem!!

Assistant Professor - Language Revitalization - Linguistics, UC Berkeley: research interests or skills in "..language documentation, description, and analysis; sociolinguistics; anthropological linguistics; language acquisition; language education; areal and language-family expertise" (Oct 31)

I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus

❤️ Out in paperback! It has a lovely feel !!

I’m very happy to have received this today! 4th edition

Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"

How do you decide whether or not to use AI tools in your research? One approach is to judge the extent to which they align with the values that underpin your research - in this open access paper we look at this question of alignment. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

OK, here is the site for live by-election results at Battle River-Crowfoot. enr.elections.ca/ElectoralDis... Let's hope Poilievre gets at least a bit spanked from the shoe-in riding. Results starting after 8 PM.

The kids are calling it “Quebecmaxxing”: two anglos in Montreal having an entire interaction in French without realizing they’re both anglos

This is a good and quite detailed summary. It sets out clearly just how badly Trump performed in this summit. He lost absolutely everything and has actually managed to make backwards progress in the interests of Ukraine, European security and enforcing international law. www.ft.com/content/2866...

#Linguistics 2 new additions in my #corpus toolbox, geared towards the study of the meta-discourse of press coverage: the Guardian and Figaro Comments Corpus Builders can be used to collect corpora of article comments from those two online newspapers. 1/3

Amber Rynearson and I presented today at @raammetaphor.bsky.social, on our work trying to integrate different frameworks for metaphor identification. What a great conference and so well run. Thank you, Hamad @al-azary.bsky.social and team!

Good aggressive journalism. www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news...

🚨Here’s Mark Carney just now, announcing Canada’s (conditional) intent to recognize a Palestinian state in September:

Call for papers: Quantitative Diachronic Linguistics and Cultural Analytics, 15-16 January 2026 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/quant...

For followers from China - Tsinghua University Press is publishing an edition of my CUP book, Corpus Linguistics (written with Andrew Hardie) next year. The book includes explanatory notes in Chinese and quite a bit of text from the original version which was lost due to space constraints.

Très fier d’annoncer que notre nouveau certificat en études et expressions autochtones est maintenant ouvert!

La France reconnaît officiellement l’État de Palestine. Qu’est-ce que ça veut dire? Question encore complexe, mais parlons-en. #Québec #polqc #FarnellMorisset

A message from a New Yorker who was arrested while blockading ICE's headquarters.

‘On the nature of linguistics and its transdisciplinary potential’. Our new volume of transdisciplinary research in linguistics will be out in the autumn. If this is of interest to you, the pre-print of the introduction is available here : bit.ly/4eZDlih

Given that she was The Foreign Secretary at the time of the leak, what exactly is she shocked about?!

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

PhD vacancy for a great topic in sociolinguistics 1+3 years, 100%, in Maastricht with @daanhovens.bsky.social English and Dutch required, additional languages highly appreciated. In the unlikely situation that a candidate is not proficient in Limburgish, that will be taken care of quickly 🙂

Fully transparent and open AI coming out of Switzerland soon. Something worth monitoring. ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

Campaigners, academics and groups that support asylum seekers have long called for the UK to introduce “safe and legal routes”.

To our American friends 🇺🇸
 Québec tourism dropped the friendliest ad ever inviting you to come visit. Come explore, show your love for Canada and support your neighbours up north! 🇨🇦🧀🍷 
#BonjourQuebec #CrossBorderLove www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABsJ...

Many readers now think of Margaret Wise Brown titles like “The Runaway Bunny” as tranquil introductions to storytelling. But the books, like their author, were radical for their time.

Misused terms in linguistics: a good link to put on the reading list for Child Language Acquisition—which I'm back to teaching this year inference-review.com/article/misu...

I will be brief. If you care about the quality of news we get, this clip is the most disturbing and important 20 minutes I have for you. If you have only 5 minutes to watch then do that. Via @michaelsocolow.bsky.social Did you watch the clip? Now go to this link. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/c...

This tiny café in Edinburgh is not only adorable but just excellent in every way

My personal highlights of #CL2025 , one for each day. Although there were many fine contributions from established figures in corpus linguistics, I prefer to cite names that were previously unknown to me (and that's my problem, not theirs). So, here goes...

In case you missed the QR code during my talk on Geometric Multivariate Analysis @cl2025.co.uk: You can find slides, code, and data at osf.io/9p25y

Today women MPs wore Suffragette sashes to celebrate Votes for Women–won by civil disobedience & celebrated in Parliament's gift shop. And yet now the government is asking us to vote to proscribe Palestine Action–a modern civil disobedience group–as terrorists

Someone took the time to state the obvious

Y’a vraiment des trucs exotiques sur des parties du monde dont j’avais jamais entendu parler à ce colloque. Ici une communication de @dinortho.bsky.social sur le… Limousin. (C’était très bien 😉)

Don't try to figure out Canadians. We don't know either. #HappyCanadaDay

On my way to the ISFC in Glasgow, early yes but with a short visit to Edinburgh first

We’re hosting a conference next year on motion event description in the belle province! Join us in May 2926! named26.wordpress.com.