A Germanic Sandwich 10 🤩 When? 7-8 May 2026 Where? Freie Universität Berlin (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) Registration deadline when? 26 April 2026 🔗 blogs.fu-berlin.de/germanic-san... #GermanicSandwich #BLinguistik #Linguistics

U příležitosti Mezinárodního dne Romů vyšel můj rozhovor s Viktorem Elšíkem i na webu Heroine (bohužel za paywallem): bavíme se v něm o romštině, o jejím vztahu s češtinou a o pozici v české romské komunitě... 🔗 www.heroine.cz/spolecnost/r...

How "Cognitive Linguistics" started as an organized enterprise: dlc.hypotheses.org/4252

Am 21. April (Dienstag) findet eine Online-Informationsveranstaltung zu unserem Masterstudiengang Sprachwissenschaft statt. Ab 15:00 Uhr (s.t.) wird Sascha Gaglia alle Fragen rund um das Studium beantworten. 🔗 www.fu-berlin.de/studium/term...

Fantastic 2.5 year postdoc working on 🤩emojis🤩 ! Are you a #linguist with experience in running experiments in formal semantics & pragmatics? Please come join our lab and the @vicom#linguistvisual communication research cluster! Apply by April 28 - or contact me with questions. #emojis #linguistics #job […]

Hey if you need something to do over this long weekend, have a go at my PhD student Anna-Merete’s survey. It’s sentences to rate, you just need to have any English variety as your first language, and it’ll take you 10–15 minutes. #linguistics docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Sto lat, dear Bronisław 🎉 Celebrate by listening to episode 19 of our podcast, in which we look at the central role the analysis of meaning played in British linguistics in the first half of the twentieth century. 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/11/01/p... #Histlx

As LLMs acquire language, they also develop an understanding of space, math, causality, and more. What does this tell us about where our own abilities come from? Just one of the topics discussed in our latest episode, @mcxfrank.bsky.social & @glupyan.bsky.social! Listen: disi.org/what-can-ai-...

New blog post: a recently published autobiographical article by Manfred Bierwisch (1930–2024), completed after his passing by Carla Umbach and Manfred Krifka. 🔗 hiphilangsci.net/2026/04/02/m... #Histlx

Aprílem, tehdy aprilem, se posílalo už před dvěma sty let. Podle jednoho dokladu nejen prvního, ale i posledního dubna, na čarodějnice 🤷‍♀️

Diskusí o inkluzivním jazyce se v médiích objevuje mnoho. Větší roli v nich ale často hrají vášně a pocity než data. Právě proto jsem si s Mikulášem Preiningerem (@ucjtk-ff-cuni.bsky.social & @ff.unikarlova.cuni.cz) povídal o jeho výzkumu generického maskulina 🤩 🔗 www.heroine.cz/clanky/lekar...

Happy birthday, dear Leonard 🥳 Have a celebratory listen to episode 32 of our podcast, in which we discuss Bloomfield’s connections to the psychological school of behaviourism and the philosophical doctrines of logical positivism. 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2023/05/01/p... #Histlx

#OTD 133 years ago, Emma Adelaide Hahn (1893–1967) was born 🥳 She was an expert in Latin grammar and Indo-European linguistics. In 1946, she became the first female president of the Linguistic Society of America (@lingsocam.bsky.social). #WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays

New episode 🤩 This time, James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) talks with Ryan Nefdt (@ryannefdt.bsky.social) about how the work in "artificial intelligence" relates to questions of linguistic relativity and to the philosophy of linguistics. 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2026/04/01/p... #Histlx

As March 2026 comes to an end, it’s time to look back at some noteworthy publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences. In other words, our latest blog post is out 🤩 📚 hiphilangsci.net/2026/03/30/p... #Histlx

#OTD 200 years ago, Friedrich Staub (1826–1896) was born 🎉 He is best known as a dialectologist and lexicographer, and the founder of the Swiss German Dictionary (@ch-idiotikon.bsky.social). A sound law in the Alemannic dialects of German, known as Staub’s Law, bears his name. #LinguisticBirthdays

Niederlandistenverband, Essen und Signifik 🤩

📢 Stellenangebot: Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in niederländische Literaturwissenschaft, Universität Oldenburg 📆 Bewerbungsschluss: 07.04.2026 ⚠️ #joboffer #vacature #neerlandistiek #literatuurwetenschap ▶️ www.fid-benelux.de/2026/03/17/s...

Jong Neerlandistiek zoekt nieuwe redactieleden! neerlandistiek.nl/2026/03/vaca...

IPRA 2027 is inviting you to Helsinki, Finland, in the summer 2027! Call for papers is open! Deadline fo panel proposals: June 5th 2026 Deadline for presentation and poster proposals: October 15th #IPRA2027 #linguistics #pragmatics

#OTD 149 years ago, Wilhelm Doegen (1877–1967) was born 🥳 He was an specialist in phonetics and phonology and he invented the so-called Doegen Lautapparat in 1909 and recorded the speech and songs of prisoners of war in multiple languages during World War I. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

It would be great to have some #linguistics representation in these survey results! Attn @lingcomm.org

Te gek, mieters, onwijs gaaf, blits, vet, echt tof, nice, cool, chill, dolletjes... In de nieuwe podcastaflevering van 'Over taal gesproken' spreken we met jongerentaalonderzoeker Kristel Doreleijers over generatietaal. #boekenweek #podcast #generatietaal www.buzzsprout.com/1767106/epis...

Join us in Berlin at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social for the 10th instalment of the Germanic Sandwich series. The programme is out and registration is open! 🥪 blogs.fu-berlin.de/germanic-san...

Brigitte Nerlich (@bnerlich.bsky.social) on our podcast 🤩 In episode 57, James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) talks with Brigitte Nerlich about her career in the history of linguistics and the public understanding of science. 🔗 hiphilangsci.net/2026/03/15/p... #Histlx

#OTD 186 years ago, Georg von der Gabelentz (1840–1893) was born 🎂 A general linguist and Sinology scholar, he was in many ways a forerunner of structuralism. Among other things, he formulated a spiral model of language change, also known as the agglutinative theory. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 177 years ago, Karl Brugmann (1849–1919) was born 🎂 An expert on Sanskrit and comparative Indo-European linguistics, he was one of the most prominent Neogrammarians, who argued that sound laws operate without exceptions. Brugmann’s Law is named after him. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Call for applications: Language & Cognition is looking for a new editor-in-chief! Feel free to message me if you have any questions about the position and the responsibilities it entails: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#OTD 181 years ago, Jan Baudouin de Courtenay (1845–1929) was born 🎉 An expert in Slavic languages and a member of the Kazan linguistic school, he was one of the scholars responsible for the modern concept of the phoneme. He nearly became President of Poland in 1922. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

New theme issue edited by Karen Alonso, Martin Hilpert, and Taísa Oliveira welcomes work on language change from constructional perspectives, including corpus-based studies, cognitive processes, usage patterns, and methodological innovation. Details: cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/ca...

#OTD 135 years ago, Yevgeny D. Polivanov (1891–1938) was born 🎉 An orientalist, translator, and expert in Chinese, Japanese, Uzbek, and Dungan, he helped develop writing systems for previously unwritten languages of the Soviet Union. He was executed by the NKVD in 1938. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

HiPhiLangSci recommends: a celebratory stroll along Schlegelstraße in Berlin-Mitte on a sunny spring day 😇 #Histlx

#OTD 254 years ago, Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829) was born 🥳 With the publication of "Ueber die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier" (1808), he became one of the founding figures of Indo-European studies. A street in Berlin is named after him (and his brother). #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 154 years ago, Cinie Louw (1872–1935) was born 🎉 She was a missionary, translator, and linguist active in present-day Zimbabwe. In her linguistic work, she specialised in the Shona language, particularly the Karanga variety. #WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays

𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻: 𝗠𝗮𝘅 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗸 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 (𝗪𝟮) An exciting opportunity for outstanding researchers ready to lead an independent research group and shape the future of multimodal language research. Learn more and apply here: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

Promotionsstelle (100%, E13) am Sprachlabor der Universität zu Köln bei Axel Bohmann, in den Bereichen Mehrsprachigkeit, English as a Medium of Instruction und Digital Literacy:

Super happy to see our paper (w/ @riannawalcott.bsky.social) in Journal of Sociolinguistics: "‘Gen Z Language? Y'all Mean AAVE’: The Appropriation of African American Vernacular English as ‘TikTok Language’ 🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In ancient southern Italy, there was a settlement known as something like Malies in the local Oscan language, rendered in Greek as Malioenton. This became Maleventum to the Romans, but that by accident sounded unlucky (like 'evil-wind'). So, it got renamed Beneventum – today, the city of Benevento.

#OTD 83 years ago, Norbert Dittmar (1943–2025) was born 🎉 A pioneer of German sociolinguistics, he studied, among other things, the language of migrants. Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he compiled a corpus of interviews with East and West Berliners. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 89 years ago, Annegret Bollée (1937-2021) was born 🥳 A classicist, Romanist, and pioneering scholar of (German) creolistics, she was an expert on French-based creoles, particularly those of the Indian Ocean, such as Seychelles Creole and Réunion Creole. #LinguisticBirthdays #WomenInLinguistics

#OTD 233 years ago, Karl Lachmann (1793–1851) was born 🥳 A classicist, translator, and textual critic, he formulated the so-called Lachmann’s Law and proposed a normalized Classical Middle High German, a written variety that disregarded dialectal and other differences. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

the conference website for the 9th conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English is live now: isle9conference.com KU Leuven, 24-27 May 2027 #ISLE9

"Chomsky revidierte seine Lehre [Generative Grammatik — SK] in mehreren Durchgängen, bis der Traum der Linguistik, zu den exakten Wissenschaften zu gehören, in den Neunzigerjahren in den Kellern und Grotten des akademischen Betriebs verschwand." Haha-Moment, ansonsten wohlfeile Personenkritik.

Vyšel nám článek o útvaru líčení, jednom z nejpodivnějších slohových reliktů ve školské výuce. Předložily jsme různým vyučujícím jednu písemnou práci z Cermatu a poprosily je o hodnocení: rozptyl byl od známky 1 po 4, od 100 % po 40 %. Podle mě to je to alarmující. journals.upol.cz/CJL/article/...

We have opened abstract submissions to the Biennial! We're looking forward to getting your abstract in our submission box 📮 on OpenReview. You can send us your abstracts until April 30. openreview.net/group?id=BCL...

#OTD 161 years ago, Elise Richter (1865–1943) was born 🎂 A specialist in Romance linguistics and phonetics, she became Austria’s first woman to obtain a Habilitation (1905) and its first female professor (1921). She died in 1943 in Theresienstadt. #WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays

Need some food for thought today? youtu.be/eKlEeKC8qLk?... Martin Hilpert has you covered. 👇 #BLinguistik #linguistics

We’re proud to host the 10th instalment of the #GermanicSandwich conference series on 7 and 8 May 2026. And today, we’re thrilled to share the preliminary programme 🤩 🔗 blogs.fu-berlin.de/germanic-san...

Likve every month, February 2026 brings a new batch of recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences 🤩 📚 hiphilangsci.net/2026/02/26/p... #Histlx

Když půjdete studovat jazyk k nám na @ff.unikarlova.cuni.cz, můžete být jednou tak vzdělaní jako kuřátka! Jo, a @katquita.bsky.social upravuje: v češtině by to měla být Kiki a Buba. Tak aby tam česká kuřata nepípala diftongy 🐤 ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/clanek/veda/...