Matthias Hüning (@mhuening.bsky.social), Professor für niederländische Sprachwissenschaft, fasste zusammen: „In Forschung und Lehre sollten wir die Möglichkeiten der KI nutzen, aber den Umgang mit diesen Tools kritisch hinterfragen. Hier sehe ich noch Nachholbedarf.“

Archaeology of Language For centuries #Jewish #communities living in Iraq cultivated a multitude of distinct dialects. Israeli linguist Assaf Bar-Moshe wants to preserve them for posterity. www.fu-berlin.de/en/featured-... via @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social #langsky

#OTD 160 years ago, Hermann Hirt (1865–1936) was born 🥳 Hirt was one of the most influential Indo-Europeanists and he specialized in Proto-Indo-European (PIE) stress and ablaut. He supported the claim that the PIE homeland was located in Northern Europe. #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays

Sto lat! 🎉 Episode 15 of our podcast explores the development of modern phonology, focusing primarily on the work of Roman Jakobson and Nikolai Trubetzkoy, while also highlighting the crucial role played by Mikołaj Kruszewski. 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/06/01/p... #Histlx

Confs: Linguistics Prague 2026

Books: Wirkungsgeschichte der Soziolinguistik des Deutschen: Dittmar and Neuland (eds.) (2025)

Feliĉan naskiĝtagon, dear Dr Esperanto! 🎉 If you ever find yourself in Berlin, be sure to visit Esperantoplatz (Esperanto Square) in the hip neighbourhood of Neukölln. #Histlx #Esperanto

CfP: 4e Online Colloquium Digitale Neerlandistiek, CoDiNeer, op 5 februari 2026 Keynote: @mhuening.bsky.social Gezocht: 10-minuten bijdragen van neerlandici uit de Duitstalige landen Meer info: ▶️ www.fid-benelux.de/2025/12/09/c... #DigitaleNeerlandistiek #Neerlandistiek #Niederlandistik

🧑‍🔬I’m recruiting PhD students in Natural Language Processing @unileipzig.bsky.social Computer Science, together with @scadsai.bsky.social! Topics include, but aren’t limited to: 🔎Linguistic Interpretability 🌍Multilingual Evaluation 📖Computational Typology Please share! #NLProc #NLP

@linguacene.bsky.social and I are hosting a reading group in Feb and March 2026 to examine the keywords for our new multi-year research project titled "Linguaphobia, Linguistic Indifference, and the Monolingual University." If you are up for it, join us. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#OTD 172 years ago, Jacob Wackernagel (1853–1938) was born 🎂 He was an Indo-Europeanist, specializing in Greek and Sanskrit. He formulated the so-called Wackernagel’s Law, describing the positional constraints on clitics in Indo-European, which is named after him. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 96 years ago, Lila R. Gleitman (1929–2021) was born 🎉 A pioneer of cognitive science focusing on language acquisition, working also on the theory of syntactic bootstrapping. She served as president of the Linguistic Society of America in 1993. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics

#OTD 306 years ago, Ann Fisher (1719–1778) was born 🥳 She was an entrepreneur, a school director, and an author of several works on language. Her "A New Grammar", printed in 1750, was the first grammar book of contemporary English written by a woman. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics

Sepsal recenzi na popularizační knihu The Language Game od Chatera a Christiansena @mh-christiansen.bsky.social. Je zdařilý úvod, který bere náhled evoluce a komunikace a kontrastuje s chomskyánským Jazykovým instinktem od Pinkera. Doporučuji pro výuku úvodů! digilib.phil.muni.cz/sites/defaul...

Pro aktuální vydání časopisu Heroine (6/2025) jsem se s Viktorem Elšíkem (@ff.unikarlova.cuni.cz) bavil o romštině. Jednak obecně o jejím rozšíření, o její historii, ale také o konkrétní sociolingvistické situaci romštiny v Česku.

Why, look at that: Graeme Trousdale (Edinburgh) is our next speaker! He’ll discuss the grammaticalisation of mirativity in English from a Word Grammar perspective, with the mirative "why" as his example. 🔗 www.dcl.fu-berlin.de #DahlemLecturesInLinguistics

#OTD 202 years ago, Max Müller (1823–1900) was born 🎉 He was an expert on Sanskrit and the study of religion, as well as a scholar of language evolution and a translator. Müller later became the first Professor of Comparative Philology at Oxford. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Finally out & open access: Hoffmann & Turner on Creative Construction Grammar. How do we communicate complex meanings? How do we combine words into sentences? #creativity #language #linguistics #Construction Grammar Find out at www.cambridge.org/core/element...

#OTD 98 years ago, William Labov (1927-2024) was born 🥳 He was a pioneering sociolinguist studying language variation, dialectology, but also AAVE. In 1966, Labov published his landmark study "The Social Stratification of English in New York City". #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 100 years ago, Joseph R. Applegate (1925–2003) was born 🎉 He was, among other things, a specialist in Tashelhit, a Berber language spoken in Morocco, as well as an expert in machine translation. In 1955, Applegate became the first Black faculty member at MIT. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Sprechen ist Handeln, es muss sich deshalb an moralischen Standards orientieren. Wo unser Sprachgebrauch an solchen Standards scheitert, müssen wir ihn und unser sprachliches Selbstverständnis infrage stellen. Mit Anatol Stefanowitsch, moderiert von Rosa Hesse userpage.fu-berlin.de/~structeng/t...

#OTD 213 years ago, Matthias Castrén (1813–1852) was born 🥳 He undertook several journeys through Lapland, Karelia, and Siberia, and became an expert in the Finnic, Ugric, and Samoyedic languages. In 1841, he also translated the Finnish epic poem Kalevala into Swedish. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Britta Schneider (@viadrina.eu) is our next speaker! In her talk, she shows how large language models contribute to new language assemblages, which entail new possibilities for global social order and new forms of imperial exploitation. #DahlemLecturesInLinguistics

New episode (no. 53) alert 🚨 James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) talks to Paul Kiparsky about the ancient Indian grammarian Pāṇini and the philosophical significance of his grammatical description of Sanskrit. 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2025/12/01/p... #Histlx #Panini #Sanskrit

🚨 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

#OTD 83 years ago, Robin Lakoff (1942–2025) was born 🎉 She was a pioneering sociolinguist, focusing on the relationship between language and gender. She also studied power relations, politeness, and the role of frames in meaning. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics

Who wants to be the new professor for general #linguistics in Cologne? 👀 ifl.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/sites/lingui...

Happy World Linguistics Day from Berlin, Germany! 🥳 #WorldLinguisticsDay

Call for Papers ICHoLS XVII (23–27 August 2027), Niterói (Rio de Janeiro) 🔗 hiphilangsci.net/2025/11/26/c... #Histlx

Happy World Linguistics Day 🎉 Not Saussure how to celebrate? Episodes 12 and 13 of our podcast will give your plans some structure... 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/02/01/p... 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/03/01/p... #LinguisticBirthdays #LinguisticQuotes #Histlx #WorldLinguisticsDay

#OTD 152 years ago, Osborn Bergin (1873–1950) was born 🎂 Bergin was an expert on (Old) Irish language and literature, a translator of early Irish texts, and a poet. He formulated the so-called Bergin’s Law pertaining to word order in Old Irish. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Calls: 26. Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium

#OTD 175 years ago, Gustav Meyer (1850–1900) was born 🎉 A pioneer in the study of Albanian, he is famous for demonstrating that it belongs to the Indo-European family. A school in Tirana is named after him, and the Albanian Post has issued a stamp with his name. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 175 years ago, Eduard Sievers (1850–1935) was born 🎂 A historical linguist and one of the leading Neogrammarians, he is best known for his analysis of Old English metre and for formulating the so-called Sievers’ Law. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Confs: Grammaticalization and Diachronic Construction Grammar: Convergences and Challenges

Episode 42 of ALILI is a return to the Germanic languages, but with a new guest: Old Norse specialist Jackson Crawford (@norsebysw.bsky.social) of YouTube fame introduces the language and discusses his translations of the Poetic Edda. A great chat, freely available here: pod.link/1703401848/e...

#OTD 152 years ago, Matteo Giulio Bartoli (1873–1946) was born 🎂 A historical linguist and dialectologist, he is best known for his descriptions of the now-extinct Dalmatian language. He is also known as the founder of the linguistic school known as Neolinguistics. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 238 years ago, Rasmus Rask (1787–1832) was born 🎉 A comparative historical linguist and author of a number of grammar books, he is today best known for showing the systematic links between the (North) Germanic languages and other Indo-European languages. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Die Aufzeichnung unserer Podiumsdiskussion mit Anke Haupt (BLiQ), Regina Ultze (@senbjf.bsky.social) und Barbara Schlücker (@bschluecker.bsky.social) ist online! 📺 www.fu-berlin.de/sites/dhc/vi... @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @berlinscienceweek.bsky.social

We verwelkomen (synchrone en/of diachrone) studies naar (on)gelijkenissen tussen het Nederlands, Duits en Engels, evenals andere (West-)Germaanse talen zoals het Afrikaans en Fries. blogs.fu-berlin.de/germanic-san... 🔗 neerlandistiek.nl/2025/11/opro... Thx @neerlandistiek.bsky.social 🙏

#OTD 212 years ago, Franz von Miklosich (1813–1891) was born 🎂 He was a pioneering scholar of historical-comparative Slavic linguistics. He also studied Romani dialects as well as the areal convergence between Slavic and Romance varieties in the Balkans. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

We’re thrilled to welcome Barış Kabak (@uni-wuerzburg.de) as our next speaker! He will discuss the importance of mismatches for our understanding of the structure and organisation of sound systems. 🔗 www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/dcl/veran... #DahlemLecturesInLinguistics

1/4 Po listopadu 1989 ještě chvilku trvalo, než na změnu zareagoval i jazykovědný časopis Naše řeč. Ještě v 1. čísle v roce 1990 je recenzován sborník jazykovědných textů, v recenzi je násobné ujištění, že texty vycházejí z učení marxistické filozofie a marxistické dialektiky. Jak se patří.

Conference alert: Falco Pfalzgraf @qmul.bsky.social is organizing an online conference on the resistance to gender-inclusive language. The program looks amazing, including a talk by our member Samira Ochs with Aline Siegenthaler. Register until March 23! www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguis...

Es geht wieder los mit der Reform des #WissZeitVG! Der letzte Versuch ist geplatzt, weil die 🚦 auseinandergeflogen ist. Aber: Seitdem liegen aussichtsreiche Lösungen für das Kernproblem Postdoc-Phase auf dem Tisch! Wie lassen sich Befristungen in dieser Phase eindämmen? 5 Instrumente: ⬇️ #IchBinHanna

#OTD 89 years ago, Suzette Haden Elgin (1936–2015) was born 🎉 Best known for her work on verbal self-defence and for the conlang Láadan from her Native Tongue series. The Elgin Award for the best sci-fi poetry collection is named in her honour. #WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

World Linguistics Day is coming up on November 26th! Have you made any plans yet to celebrate? lingcomm.org/2025/10/26/w...

Episode no. 52 is out 🚲 James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) talks with Gereon Müller (@unileipzig.bsky.social) about his new book Lanes to Language, which unites the worlds of history of linguistics and cycling. 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2025/11/15/p... #Histlx

#OTD 223 years ago, August Friedrich Pott (1802-1887) was born 🥳 He started working as a schoolmaster in Celle, but would later become one of the pioneers of (historical comparative) linguistics as well as the leading scholar of Romani in the 19th century. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

1. Dne 5. listopadu zveřejnily @novinkycz článek s titulkem „V Kateřinské jeskyni našli tajemný úlomek břidlice s klínovým písmem“. Autor se ptá, zda jde o „fantastický nález“ či „geniální historický podvrh“. www.novinky.cz/clanek/veda-...