We are looking forward to our next #LangSci special series colloquium! Next Thursday (May 21st) at 16:15, Judith Holler from Radboud University will talk about "Visual bodily signals as core coordination devices in talk". The talk will take place only online. #colloquium

Looking forward to our next #LangSci talk: Katharina Ehret from the University of Freiburg will give a talk on "Language contact and morphosyntactic variation in English: towards robust and incremental corpus evidence" this Thursday at 16:15! #colloquium

Looking forward to the first #LangSci colloquium of the semester: João Veríssimo @jverissimo.bsky.social from University of Lisbon will give a talk on "A novel method for detecting the onset of experimental effects in visual world eye-tracking (and other time series) data" April 15th! #colloquium

Looking forward to our next #LangSci #colloquium! Nikolette Mus from ELTE University will give a talk on "The role of Information Structure in the OV-to-VO shift in West-Siberian languages", January 29th at 16:15. After the talk we would like to invite you to a New Year get-together in room 2.07.1

We are proud to announce that the paper by Ariun-Erdene Tumurchuluun, Yusser Al Ghussin, David Mareček, Josef Van Genabith, Koel Dutta Chowdhury won the best paper award at the Multilingual Representation Learning 2025 WS at EMNLP 2025. Many Congratulations! sfb1102.uni-saarland.de/publication/...

As part of its Emmy Noether program, the German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding Michael Hahn’s work with 1.4 million euros. Many congratulations to Michael Hahn on this great accomplishment! More information here: sfb1102.uni-saarland.de/news/emmy-no...

We are happy to announce our first talk of the semester in the #LangSci series by George Walkden from University of Konstanz @uni-konstanz.de on Thursday, November 6th! The topic is "Implicational universals and a self-actuating gradient model of morphosyntactic change". #colloquium

We are proud to announce that the paper "MultiCoPIE: A Multilingual Corpus of Potentially Idiomatic Expressions for Cross-lingual PIE Disambiguation" by Uliana Sentsova, Debora Ciminari, Josef Van Genabith and Cristina España-Bonet won best paper award at MWE WS @ NAACL 2025. Many Congratulations!

Looking forward to our first #LangSci talk of the semester which is also part of our RAILS series: Micha Heilbron @mheilbron.bsky.social from the University of Amsterdam will give a talk on "Language models for cognitive neuroscience: Two success stories and a warning" May 8th at 16:15! #colloquium

We are happy to announce two #LangSci talks next week: Haim Dubossarsky from Queen Mary University of London on Tuesday (March 11th) at 3.30pm and Jet Hoek from Radboud University Nijmegen on Friday (March 14th) at 9.15am! #colloquium

Keynote by Annemarie Verkerk on "The evolutionary dynamics of language: universals, rates of change, and explanations" at 47th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society this week (March 4–7 2025). converia.uni-mainz.de/frontend/ind...

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