Hubby, a statistician, trying to help out a friend from education w analysis of her survey data: Friend: I dropped all incomplete observations from the data Hubby: Uh, maybe send me the raw data to see how we should handle missing data Friend: Here, raw data, but I dropped everyone who seemed fishy

🚨 Dnes je poslední den pro odeslání Vašich příspěvků na Bienále! Today is the deadline for abstract submissions to the Biennial!

We are looking to fill an open-rank position in Sociolinguistics in Oxford, in conjunction with Worcester College. Come be a part of the exciting developments in language and linguistics in Oxford! www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2026/05...

Ambiguity of the day

Prodloužili jsme termín pro odesílání příspěvků do 15. května! We have extended the submission deadline to May 15!

My academic life in a nutshell

Dva týdny do uzávěrky zasílání příspěvků na Bienále! Sběr se uzavírá 30. dubna 🚨 Posílejte nám svůj výzkum skrze OpenReview zde 👇 openreview.net/group?id=BCL...

Two weeks until submissions close! The conference call for the Biennial is closing on April 30 🚨 Keep sending us your research through our OpenReview page here 👇 openreview.net/group?id=BCL...

Appreciated this history of citation indices, though of course the alternative history where citation indices were never introduced does not seem non-ruinous. open.substack.com/pub/davidoks...

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition finally assigned our paper an issue, which is as good a reason as any to plug it here again! 🇨🇿 speakers show standard attraction effects in L2 English but not in the translation-equivalent L1 Czech sentences! And only when they did the English experiment first!

Made it to Boston 🇺🇸 yesterday! Excited to present my work at #HSP2026 starting on Thursday - look forward to new NPI (and NCI) illusion findings! Also, if anyone wants to hang out pre-conference-style today, ping me a message!

I would love submit to a journal like eLife if one existed in my field but I know I could not - I work in Czechia 🇨🇿 where impact factor and journal reputation (WoS or Scopus quartiles) still matter a great deal for researchers personally, but crucially also for their departments in budgetary terms.

Angelika Kiss and I organize a workshop on word order within this Biennial. There are so many factors competing for being expressed by word order. How does word order handle this request overload? See the workshop webpage for more information and, of course, submit! sites.google.com/view/bclword...

What do you do if a darling construct (conversational alignment) falls flat on psychometric reliability? 1) you examine the operationalization. Could you do better? We used common aggregated measures of similarity between utterances: 1/

“we are trapping 21st-century minds inside 19th-century academic hierarchies.” This essay gets a lot right about problems with German science. I would add that the hierarchies and precarious contracts lead also to systemic abuse and scientific misconduct. open.substack.com/pub/realimag...

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...

Spustili jsme odesílání příspěvků na Bienále! Očekáváme Vaše abstrakty v naší schránce 📮 na portálu OpenReview. Své příspěvky nám můžete zasílat až do 30. dubna! openreview.net/group?id=BCL...

Illusion alert 🚨 We looked at NPI and NCI illusions in 🇨🇿. We aimed to distinguish between them by using negation. In English, it can't cause NPI illusions, but with NCIs it might, because those are licensed in the syntax. Surprisingly, we found strong illusions with both! 1/2 osf.io/preprints/ps...

✅️ 🐋 have vowels ✅️ 🐣 have bouba/Kiki prefs ❓️ 🫎 pass Wug test ❓️ 🦙 do center embedding ❓️ 🐌 experience garden paths #linguistics

We're happy to announce our Call for Papers! You may submit to (1) one of the thematic workshops, (2) the general poster session, which is thematically unrestricted and (3) the student poster session which will also feature the Best Student Poster Award. Submissions open from March 2 to April 30.

S radostí oznamujeme výzvu k zaslání příspěvků na naše Bienále! Příspěvky bude možno zasílat do 1) tematických panelů, 2) obecné posterové sekce a 3) studentské posterové sekce, která bude spojena s Cenou za nejlepší poster. Portál OpenReview se otevře 2. března a sběr příspěvků uzavřeme 30. dubna.

This will include a word order workshop organized by Angelika Kiss and me, featuring an invited talk by Marieke Schouwstra (@uva.nl). We’re hoping for a rich and diverse program, the call will follow soon

Confs: Biennial of Czech Linguistics 2026

Just picked this up from our uni library, looking forward to reading and reviewing Dan Parker's new book on agreement attraction!

My project ProSync got funded! Together with Pavel Caha at @masarykuniversity.bsky.social 🇨🇿 and Jakub Dotlačil at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social 🇳🇱 , I will aim to integrate nanosyntax with experiments and computational modelling to figure out the role of syncretism in online agreement establishment!

The Programme Committee has selected the workshop for this year's Biennial! We're looking forward to all the great submissions you'll surely be sending to be presented there. We thank all the organisers as well as the workshop reviewers 👏 sites.google.com/mail.muni.cz...

Programový výbor vybral panely na letošní Bienále! Těšíme se na skvělé příspěvky, které do nich pošlete. Děkujeme všem jejich organizátorům i posuzovatelům 👏 Seznam panelů najdete zde: sites.google.com/mail.muni.cz...

Just out in Language & Cognition! An exploration into the activation of both proper alternatives as well as antonyms in implicature derivation. We focus on how negation as an implicature-cancelling environment impacts what alternatives are activated! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I just thought everyone should see this

A very nice piece of work! It's puzzled me for a long time why Russian shows attraction from "pluralless" genitives, especially since we didn't find the same effect in Czech. @utkuturk.com here provides a neat explanation!

"At the symbolic (and allegorical) level, /h/ is a reference to the creator who breathes into his creation." Damn, I've been doing linguistics wrong the whole time!

Hey, did you know that Greek lost the phoneme /h/ because of secularism? You see, /h/ intrinsically symbolises the Creator. And hydrogen. This journal is published by @springernature.com , and is hosted by @nature.com. How did this incoherent nonsense make it into print?

Short-term fellowships available for international PhD candidates at the University of Potsdam around "Limits of Variability in Language"! If you're a linguist interested in this opportunity, please contact me or one of the other PIs for more information! #linguistics #fellowship #funding #phd […]

Depending on how you count, this announcement has been two plus or 25 years in the making.

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...

Psychologists use tons of questionnaires. The medium is unavoidably language, but until recently, their semantic and pragmatic side has not received much attention. Very happy to lead the linguistic side of Dr Hynek Cígler's new GAČR project on reverse-coded (negated or antonymic) items!

Termín odevzdání návrhů panelů už je za námi a návrhy už jsou v rukou Programového výboru na odborné posouzení 🔍. Těšíme se na jejich recenze a na to, až budeme moct oznámit, na jaká témata se na našem Bienále budete moct těšit!

A great opportunity to work on an exciting topic in picturesque Tübingen!

When people respond "two" to the question "How many animals did Moses take on the ark?" do they actually accommodate a false presupposition that Moses took animals on the ark? Apply for a Ph.D. position to work on presuppositions, deadline 20.12.2025. More info at linguistlist.org/issues/36-3553

This is a really great new resource! Happy to have helped (a very tiny bit) with stimuli selection!

Opportunity for early career researchers to spend 3 years working with us in Oxford. Cool surroundings, interesting people. Eligibility: need some UK academic connection. Get in touch if interested! Details: www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2025/11...

Prague is now the capital of a normal country – alas! My latest commentary… www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My interview with @grammargirl.bsky.social was released yesterday, and I'm pretty chuffed that they created some snippets to share. Here's me retelling how the whole alphabet got started – in book terms, the first part of the first chapter (Chapter A) of 'Why Q Needs U'! pod.link/grammargirl/...

Brno, náměstí Svobody 12:50 několik málo dnů před volbami, u stánku nikde nikdo, všechny ostatní obsazeny. Už podruhé jsem se s Vámi chtěl jít pobavit a nebyli jste tu. Vy chcete ty volby prohrát? @piratskastrana.bsky.social

Today at #AMLaP2025: In 🇨🇿, sentential negation causes both NPI and NCI (negative concord) illusions, contrary to the predictions of active scope and scalar theories. This is me saying my money is on feature percolation. Check out the poster here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Melvyn Bragg has been one of the last standard-bearers for a really important, and unfashionable, idea: that good conversation, between people who really know their stuff, on complex or difficult subjects, can be fantastic radio - and that the national broadcaster should do this. I hope it endures.

Very excited to teach my first semester as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Czech Language 🇨🇿 at @masarykuniversity.bsky.social! Taking over Intro to Ling is a big responsibility, but I hope to inspire at least a few to start thinking about language scientifically 🧪