The Romance Inter-Views no. 4 on theory and experimental evidence is online on #Isogloss! Six linguists talk about the integration of experimental and theoretical linguistics, when experiments challenged theory and when they confirmed it, and share ideas for new research directions in Romance ling!

New on #Isogloss: Antonio Fábregas and Mike Putnam: The role of gender suffixes in number suppletion: Exponent shapes and left branches. Enjoy! revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/index

Here's another Your Academic Auntie video with some #timemanagement tips. I don't think there's anyone left in this world who doesn't know these, but just in case: enjoy! youtu.be/eKDk24ATMqI

Do you ever feel like no matter how much you work, you never get to the bottom of it? Like you're not really being productive? The Done! list will help you realize just how much you actually accomplish without even noticing 🙂 #timemanagement #AcademicAchievements youtu.be/TECRexTWlJc?...

Diego Krivochen's new article on #Isogloss : Subjecthood in Spanish meteorological verbs revistes.uab.cat/.../article/...

Two days left to send an abstract to the Formal Linguistic Approaches to Multimodality Workshop in Dublin! sites.google.com/view/flammtr...

How do I say no? Ask Your Academic Auntie :) youtu.be/iMoTcWHRyLk?...

I'm honored to have been invited to join the Committee for Freedom and Responsibility in Science of the International Science Council. council.science/news/welcomi... Thanks to @globalyacademy.bsky.social for nominating me!

I'm feeling #overwhelmed! How can I cope with #academic #workload? A new video by Your Academic Auntie :) youtu.be/BAnGua1HPjo

Hot off the press: Li, Lobo & Teixeira, #Subject-#object asymmetries in the processing of #EuropeanPortuguese cleft structures: Assessing the role of #animacy revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/art...

End of term time, time for student #evaluations, sometimes hurtful ones. How should you take them? A new #AcademicAuntie video 😊 youtu.be/gmPsuv5PSWE

Third factors in language design: the view from hashtag#heritage languages, INALCO Paris (and Zoom), next Friday (6 June)! Join us (in person or online) to discuss the latest findings on heritage language grammars and cognition. sites.google.com/view/thirdfa...

The dates are out! Heritage Language Syntax 6 (#HLS6) will be held at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul on 6-7 November! The CFP is open; the deadline for abstract submission is 13 July: hls.bogazici.edu.tr

#OA textbooks in #Linguistics! These #textbooks are free to download and use in class 🙂 Enjoy, share, and long live #OA! www.robertadalessandro.it/oa-textbooks

Are you stuck, do you have some issues in your academic life and need some feedback, or just a chat with an experienced person? Contact your Academic Auntie! www.robertadalessandro.it/mentoring #academic #mentoring

Is it ok if I contact some #bigshots and ask them to join my publication so that I have their name on my paper and they get a publication for free? A new #YourAcademicAuntie video! www.youtube.com/shorts/awxFj...

Can you avoid #rejections? On having your #article, your #project or your #jobapplication rejected, by #YourAcademicAuntie youtu.be/xyp99gS7VXQ?...

The Academic Auntie playlist! Tips and tricks and FAQ for junior scholars! www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-eQ.... If you have questions, or wish to discuss issues or strategies, feel free to contact me at www.robertadalessandro.it/mentoring

È online la mia intervista col fantastico Leonardo Durante per il suo podcast sulla scienza. Abbiamo parlato di linguaggio, di sintassi formale, di LLM, e di ricerca sul campo. Buon ascolto! open.spotify.com/episode/5tvE... youtu.be/533OCV6PR-s?...

NEW! #Ethics in #Linguistics, ed by Marina Terkourafi, in full #OA! Enjoy! www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...

#Isogloss is #Q1! So proud!

The deadline for submitting an abstract to the #Paris workshop "3rd factors in language design: the view from heritage languages" is approaching (15 April!) Send an abstract! (The workshop is hybrid.) sites.google.com/view/thirdfa...

New on @Isogloss! Masullo, Casado, Leivada, Sorace, Register variation and linguistic background modulate accuracy in detecting morphosyntactic errors, with #opendata, #openreview, #openreply revistes.uab.cat/.../view/v11... 1/

Dear all, a quick reminder that I'm available for informal #academic #mentoring for #ECRs in case you need it. [Not for helping you find jobs - I can't do that, sorry] robertadalessandro.it/mentoring

I reorganized my publications page by topic, added some old papers that I had forgotten and are quite interesting. Here it is (if you're interested!): robertadalessandro.it/publications... (All I could find is downloadable, for some papers I don't have the copy)

A brand-new special issue on #Isogloss: Romance minority languages: A challenge for linguistic theory, edited by Michela Russo and Shanti Ulfsbjorninn. This is a really cool collection, as usual in full Open Access. A great read for your weekend, enjoy! revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/index

If you're interested in discussing the "principles not specific to the faculty of language" that have an impact on the way #heritage speakers acquire their languages, come to Paris in June! Abstract deadline: March 31. Info here: sites.google.com/view/thirdfa...

Hot off the press! An entire issue of Romanica Cracoviensia on the grammar of Romance #heritagelanguages, featuring 7 short articles including one by Gigi Andriani and myself. All in #OA! ejournals.eu/en/journal/r...

Please download enjoy my recently co-edited book with @robertadal.bsky.social & Silvia Terenghi "Heritage Languages and Syntactic Theory" (OUP)! #OALinguistics academic.oup.com/book/59663

#Heritage languages and syntactic theory is out! in full #OA. Enjoy! @oalinguistics academic.oup.com/book/59663

𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐝 has just appeared on Isogloss, edited by Katrin Schmitz & Tim Diaubalick. As usual, in ful #OA. Happy reading! revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/index

Dal 2026 non sarà più possibile laurearsi in Italiano nei Paesi Bassi seguendo corsi nella nostra lingua. Nel frattempo l’olandese continua a essere insegnato a Trieste, Bologna, Napoli, Milano e Roma. A cosa serve? Il mio blog di oggi su @HuffPostItalia shorturl.at/2mfHp

The Heritage Language Syntax (#HLS) platform has a website with information about workshops, conferences, and informal meetings. We have now added a "Languages" page with such a cool list of languages. Take a look, and join! sites.google.com/view/heritag...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

More marvels from #AI: @fonolog.bsky.social asked NotebookLM to create a podcast out of Polinsky and @syntaxpunk.bsky.social 's "Formal approaches to complexity in heritage language grammars". Listen for yourself! shorturl.at/XmSLd And in case you're interested: langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

Oggi è la #Giornata del #dialetto e delle lingue locali. Ma che cos'è una lingua e che cos'è un dialetto? Una nota che ho scritto per l'HuffPostItalia shorturl.at/wbnuP

And here is the most read paper on #Isogloss every year: the 2024 list of reviewers! revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/art...

New on #Isogloss: #Romance scholars off the beaten track, short interviews with Romance scholars who work outside the traditional regions where Romance linguistics is commonly studied. revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/index

RLLT23, Selected papers from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages 53 in Paris, is out! This is a truly impressive volume, edited by Lisa Brunetti, Ioana Chitoran, and Alexandru Mardale, with papers by great senior and junior Romance linguists: revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/index

#Ethical concerns for #theoretical research in #linguistics: issues and best practices. In full #OA for you. Enjoy! www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

@robertadal.bsky.social's Abralin talk covers Italian heritage languages, microcontact in linguistics, and ethical challenges in research. Learn about language change, inclusive academia, and her innovative outreach efforts. ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=4goU...

New publication: The use of agarrar ‘grab, take’ verb constructions in #Belizean #Spanish: An intergenerational analysis, by Balam, Ross & Bravo. Enjoy! revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/index

AuthorAID - New Open Research Hub for researchers in Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda https://www.authoraid.info/en/news/details/2018/

My edited volume w/Víctor Fernández-Mallat (Dialect Contact: From Speaker to Community-Based Perspectives) is out! Available via Georgetown University Press & the usual sites (academic friends, please ask your library to order a copy!) #linguistics press.georgetown.edu/Book/Dialect...

Cross-linguistically interjections that are similar iconic by nature 🗣️ Nonling vocal'ns have distinct vowel patterns 🗣️ Only 'pain' robust: wide falling dipth, open vowels like [a] 🗣️'Disgust': central schwa-like vowels 🗣️'Joy': front vowels like [i] (doi.org/10.1121/10.0032454)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ 🐦🐦

✨ Revisit Elizabeth Traugott's lecture at Abralin ao Vivo! 🌍 www.youtube.com/live/FrkKMMW.... A pioneer in historical syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, Traugott discusses grammaticalization and lexicalization. Watch the session and read her article: doi.org/10.25189/267... 📚

📢 If you’re looking for a job in #linguistics: CNRS is hiring every year For 2025, posting of offers (tenured positions) & applications online from early December to early January It’s still time to contact a research unit to prepare your application! carrieres.cnrs.fr/en/external-...

The very first publication in #Continua - OA Linguistics Journal is out! Congrats to Neil Myler and to @syntaxpunk.bsky.social and @davidnatvig.bsky.social ! A brand-new #OA journal in linguistics with a great editorial team! Happy first publication, Continua! journals.psu.edu/continua/art...

Are you stuck, do you have some issues in your academic life and need some feedback, or just a chat with an experienced person? Contact your Academic Auntie! www.robertadalessandro.it/mentoring #academic #mentoring

Dynamic semantics for the win