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!

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It's striking how good AI assistants are at reading linguistics texts. I couldn't have explained the neologism "synexpression" better. In fact, saying that synexpression is about bundling, while coexpression is about sharing is perhaps better than anything I have said. (ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/007...)

Episode no. 51 is out 🤩 Martin Haspelmath (@haspelmath.bsky.social) talks about how he got started in linguistics, the rise of large-scale areal typology in the 1990s, language description vs language comparison, and the current state of the field. 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2025/11/01/p... #Histlx

Yuen-Ren Chao was a phenomenal linguist. I recently discussed the enduring relevance of his key 1934 article here: dlc.hypotheses.org/3381

📅 The deadline to submit abstracts has been entended to November 23rd! 📅 La date limite de soumission des résumés est prolongée jusqu'au 23 novembre !

We accepted "I always migrated by reindeer: Lamunkhin and Bystraja Even narratives about their traditional way of life" by Brigitte Pakendorf langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

What is a “copula”, and what is “predicative inflection”? This new blogpost continues the comparison between the comparative concepts of Creissels et al. (2026) (in Bertinetto et al. 2026) and those of Haspelmath (2025): dlc.hypotheses.org/3865

Many thanks to Lilián Guerrero for inviting me to give lectures at UNAM in Mexico City! (The lecture materials are here: zenodo.org/records/1743...)

Just published "Notes on the grammar of Andakí" by Jelien Moens and Matthias Pache #openaccess #ela langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

Bertinetto, Ciucci and Creissels just published a fantastic new cross-linguistic handbook. But I have some critical comments on their introductory chapter. It turns out that it's not so easy to say what exactly is "nonverbal predication". dlc.hypotheses.org/3832

Good to be back home after a week-long trip to Germany for a symposium at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology on "What Makes Us Human?" (www.eva.mpg.de/events/2025-...). I spent about the same amount of time traveling as I did at the symposium, but it was worth it.

A bit of linguistic cartography to brighten your day. This map shows how the words for camel 🐫 spread across the Old World.

Because I think better in pictures, here is a visualisation of languages according to documentation and endangerment status (I'm calling it glottocloud). glottolog.org/langdoc/status

Thrilled to announce the publication of my paper "A Modern Synthesis: The Fillmorean Construction and its Hidden Lineage" in Constructions! The article digs into the prehistory of #ConstructionGrammar and is based on the first chapter of my upcoming book constructions.journals.hhu.de/article/view...

Confs: 4th International Conference "Prominence in Language"

Advanced Tongue Route, obviously #IPA #Linguistics

“It is precisely because social media has democratised the public sphere that it has contributed to trends liberals (including myself) are so worried about.” 👏 www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/is-social-...

🚨Call for Papers | Morphology in Context! We are organising a workshop at IMM 2026 (Budapest). ⏰Deadline for submissions: 1 december 2025. Details/call below. We are looking forward to your submissions! #CfP #Morphology

"A compelling and thought-provoking analysis of human sociality and the origins of language." The Interaction Engine by Stephen C. Levinson (@mpi-nl.bsky.social), Out Now & #OpenAccess https://cup.org/4nusznG #OA #Linguistics #LangSky 🐦🐦

We're seeking the next Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics! Lead cutting-edge research in language & cognition. Nominations (incl. self) due 19 Dec 2025. mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max

Heute 13 h in Berlin und Stuttgart: Gemeinsam setzen wir vielfältige und deutliche Zeichen. Gegen alle Kriege. Gegen die Aufrüstung. Für diplomatische Initiativen, Verhandlungen und gemeinsame Sicherheit. friedensdemo0310.org

My paper on two types of comparative concepts (construction-functions and construction-strategies) is now published: langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

📢 Jetzt bewerben: Wissenschaftler:innen können bis zum 31. Januar 2026 ihre Forschungsvorhaben für das #Akademienprogramm 2028 einreichen! Fokus auf Geistes-, Rechts-, Wirtschafts- & Gesellschaftswissenschaften. Interdisziplinäre Projekte willkommen! Zur Ausschreibung 🔗 shorturl.at/GXQC3 #Forschung

Thanks to @bodowinter.bsky.social for the wonderful endorsement of my upcoming graphic novel about language, cognition, and visual communication! visuallanguagelab.com/sip

RIP Peter Eisenberg (1940-2025), syntactician of German, phonologist, orthography specialist, and very public linguist (who was not afraid of controversies). He was my second PhD advisor in 1990-93, and an important person in my life during those years at FU Berlin. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_E...

"In the U.S., long hours are worn like badges of honor. But after my time in Denmark, that way of life no longer appeals to me." nice short piece on science-expathood from a grad student at Aarhus

Bybee et al. 1990. So cool I had to make a graph about it 🤩

How do languages capture the same scene in different ways? 🍏🌍 Subtle differences in spatial terms show how we frame the world through words. Curious? Read the full article in Cadernos de Linguística: doi.org/10.25189/267...

I knew about this website with Libyco-Berber texts but never looked at it in detail. It is wonderful! libyca-project.com/map.html

i love the idea implicit here, that decent peer review is worth paying for

Calls: 23. Sprachwissenschaftliche Tagung für Promotionsstudierende

Check out this excellent new article by Ekstrom et al., "The Phoneme as a Cognitive Tool", in the special issue of Topics in Cognitive Science, "Cognitive Technologies and their Histories", which I'm co-editing with @helenamiton.bsky.social. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Der diesjährige Alexander-von-Humboldt-Tag rückt eines der komplexesten Manuskripte des Humboldt-Nachlasses ins Zentrum: die "Fragmente des Sibirischen Reise-Journals" von 1829. Jetzt anmelden! buff.ly/LzptX5Z

Great new paper: Patterns of genetic admixture reveal similar rates of borrowing across diverse scenarios of language contact #linguistics #language www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

It's Scientific American's 180th birthday! To celebrate we have stories on 180-degree turns in science--times when scientists did an about-face in light of new evidence. My essay looks at how the notion of human uniqueness has evolved. Turns out a lot of other species share our "special" abilities 🧪

Should PhD students drink more?🤔 This essay examines the declining alcohol consumption among PhD students and its implications for academic social life. 🍻 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📆 Reminder! Application deadline for incoming researchers (PhD students & postdocs) is August 31st! If you want to come work with us in Bielefeld, apply for one of our scholarships. We would love to have you! More infos here 👉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/... #BLinguistik #linguistics

Anton Wilhelm Amo gratuliert Moses Abraham Wolff zur erlangten medizinischen Doktorwürde (1737).

Given the current moment in the US, liberals should reflect on the dangers of illiberal censorship and government repression of speech in all forms www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Note the important difference between "valence" and "valency" (see, e.g., ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/005...)

A brilliant linguist and sociolinguist, RIP Gift article from NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...

Es ist sehr schockierend, aber was ist die Ursache? Warum ist kulturelle Vielfalt plötzlich nicht mehr so cool wie früher?

Books: Children of the sago: Zahrer (2025)