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Martin Haspelmath
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comparative linguist, MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig); https://www.eva.mpg.de/linguistic-and-cultural-evolution/staff/martin-haspelmath

Martin Haspelmath is a German linguist working in the field of linguistic typology. He is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, where he worked from 1998 to 2015 and again since 2020. Between 2015 and 2020, he worked at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. He is also an honorary professor of linguistics at the University of Leipzig. .. more

Communication & Media Studies 41%
Psychology 20%

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Look at my baby! ☺️

I reedited Modole folk stories published 110 years ago

Old journals and archives are full of story collections in underdocumented languages, often difficult or impossible to access for both linguists and the speaker community. Using legacy material is valuable and sustainable 🙌🏻

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Just published "A grammar of Hewramî" by Masoud Mohammadirad #cogl #openaccess langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

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Wer glaubt, bei OpenAi und ChatGPT auf der "guten" Seite zu stehen - das Unternehmen kooperiert eng mit den Geheimdiensten, hat sogar den ehem. Chef der NSA im Vorstand.
Toi toi toi!
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced the integration of Elon Musk's xAI platform, Grok, into military networks as part of a new "AI acceleration strategy" during a visit to SpaceX.

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Everybody, if you want #Burushaski news gracing your timeline, follow @langoinstitute.bsky.social, who is posting tidbits from our internal reconstruction project, and our friend @charismawafi.bsky.social, who is a Burusin sociolinguist working on ethnography & language-use in her home in Hunza.

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In this blogpost (on the occasion of reading Caha 2019), I make some comments on the "accidental vs. systematic syncretism" distinction, which seems to be unnecessary: dlc.hypotheses.org/4188
Is inflectional syncretism ever “systematic”? Some comments on Caha (2019)
Since Plank (1991), syncretic patterns in inflectional paradigms have been studied in a sustained way, fuelled also by the increasing popularity of Distributed Morphology (e.g. Siddiqi 2019) and nanos...
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