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Linguistische Forschung und Lehre an @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

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Dahlem Center for Linguistics @dclberlin.bsky.social · Oct 9
Das Wintersemester 2025/26 ist da und das beudeutet auch eine neue Serie von acht Dahlem Lectures in Linguistics zu diversen hochspannenden Themen der Linguistik 🤩

Weitere Infos: dcl.fu-berlin.de

#DahlemLecturesInLinguistics #DahlemCenterForLinguistics #Linguistics #Linguistik #Sprachwissenschaft
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#OTD 152 years ago, Matteo Giulio Bartoli (1873–1946) was born 🎂 A historical linguist and dialectologist, he is best known for his descriptions of the now-extinct Dalmatian language. He is also known as the founder of the linguistic school known as Neolinguistics.

#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
November 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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#OTD 238 years ago, Rasmus Rask (1787–1832) was born 🎉 A comparative historical linguist and author of a number of grammar books, he is today best known for showing the systematic links between the (North) Germanic languages and other Indo-European languages.

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November 22, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Das Wochenende wird kalt und trocken mit klaren Nächten durch das sich ausdehnende Hochdruckgebiet ZULEIKA. /MO
November 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Heute ist es zumeist stark bewölkt und zeitweise fällt leichter Regen oder Schneeregen, am Abend lockert die Bewölkung auf, dabei sind vereinzelt Schnee- oder Graupelschauer möglich. Der schwache Südwestwind erreicht in Spitzen Stärke 4 bis 5, die Höchsttemperatur beträgt 3°C.
November 20, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Die Aufzeichnung unserer Podiumsdiskussion mit Anke Haupt (BLiQ), Regina Ultze (@senbjf.bsky.social) und Barbara Schlücker (@bschluecker.bsky.social) ist online!

📺 www.fu-berlin.de/sites/dhc/vi...

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November 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Zur Erinnerung: Morgen, am 20, November findet der Thementag zur Lehre statt! Alle Infos: www.fu-berlin.de/campusleben/...
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❓Wie lernen Studierende zu #forschen?

Am 20. November lädt das Dahlem Center for Academic Teaching zum Thementag #Lehre ein!
Im Fokus: Lehrformate, die Studierende aktiv in den Forschungsprozess einbeziehen.
👉 www.fu-berlin.de/campusleben/...
Grafik: Thementag zur Lehre / 20. November 2025 9.15 bis 16 Uhr / Impulse. Austausch. Sichtbarkeit
November 18, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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We verwelkomen (synchrone en/of diachrone) studies naar (on)gelijkenissen tussen het Nederlands, Duits en Engels, evenals andere (West-)Germaanse talen zoals het Afrikaans en Fries.

blogs.fu-berlin.de/germanic-san...

🔗 neerlandistiek.nl/2025/11/opro...

Thx @neerlandistiek.bsky.social 🙏
Oproep tot bijdragen workshop a Germanic Sandwich 10
A Germanic Sandwich is een reeks workshops waarin het Nederlands wordt vergeleken met zijn naaste Germaanse buren, het Engels en het Duits.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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#OTD 212 years ago, Franz von Miklosich (1813–1891) was born 🎂 He was a pioneering scholar of historical-comparative Slavic linguistics. He also studied Romani dialects as well as the areal convergence between Slavic and Romance varieties in the Balkans.

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November 20, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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We’re thrilled to welcome Barış Kabak (@uni-wuerzburg.de) as our next speaker! He will discuss the importance of mismatches for our understanding of the structure and organisation of sound systems.

🔗 www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/dcl/veran...

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November 19, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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#OTD 89 years ago, Suzette Haden Elgin (1936–2015) was born 🎉 Best known for her work on verbal self-defence and for the conlang Láadan from her Native Tongue series. The Elgin Award for the best sci-fi poetry collection is named in her honour.

#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
November 18, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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World Linguistics Day is coming up on November 26th!

Have you made any plans yet to celebrate?
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World Linguistics Day is November 26th: what are you doing to celebrate?
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November 15, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Das war heute erstmal der letzte warme Tag, ab morgen sinken die Temperaturen auf 6-7°C bei regnerischem Wetter. /MJ
November 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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#OTD 223 years ago, August Friedrich Pott (1802-1887) was born 🥳 He started working as a schoolmaster in Celle, but would later become one of the pioneers of (historical comparative) linguistics as well as the leading scholar of Romani in the 19th century.

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November 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Denkt dran: Morgen ist die Deadline für die 23. Sprachwissenschaftliche Tagung für Promotionsstudierende in Osnabrück! Noch nichts eingereicht? Hier geht's zum CfP: staps.stuts.eu/call-for-pap...
Call for Papers | STaPs
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November 14, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Heute ist es zunächst heiter, ab dem Abend nimmt die Bewölkung zu, doch bleibt es zunächst noch niederschlagsfrei. Der schwache Südwestwind erreicht in Spitzen Stärke 5, vereinzelt sind auch Böen der Stärke 6 nicht ausgeschlossen, die Temperatur steigt auf 17°C.
November 13, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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#OTD 206 years ago, Daniel Sanders (1819–1897) was born 🎉 A lexicographer and poet, he is best known as the co-author of the Muret-Sanders English-German Dictionary and as a critic of Jacob Grimm’s dictionary. The German city of Neustrelitz awards a prize in his honour.

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November 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Heute ist es abgesehen von meist dünnen Schleierwolken heiter und niederschlagsfrei. Dazu weht schwacher Südwind mit Spitzen der Stärke 4, die Höchsttemperatur liegt bei 12°C.
November 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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And Meillet's /Altarmenisches Elementarbuch/ (1913) is a go-to, easy-to-find-stuff-in, concise grammar.
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#OTD 159 years ago, Antoine Meillet (1866–1936) was born 🎉 He was one of the most influential historical linguists of the twentieth century, who formulated the so-called Meillet’s Law on Proto-Slavic accents and in 1912 coined the term “grammaticalisation.”

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November 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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#OTD 124 years ago, Dorothy Whitelock (1901–1982) was born 🥳 She was a leading scholar of Old English, best known today for her editions of Old English texts. She was the first woman to hold the Elrington and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon.

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November 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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#OTD 159 years ago, Antoine Meillet (1866–1936) was born 🎉 He was one of the most influential historical linguists of the twentieth century, who formulated the so-called Meillet’s Law on Proto-Slavic accents and in 1912 coined the term “grammaticalisation.”

#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
November 11, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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looking forward to the Life and Afterlife of Excess workshop at the University of Bern today (turns out I took the right train after all 😉), followed by a guest lecture on Foodfluencers and the Discursive Construction of Overconsumption #LanguageAndFood #CarnivalesqueConsumption #Excess
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November 11, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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📚 From Manuscript to Monograph

Workshop on academic publishing

🗓️ Nov 20 | 16–18 h

📍 FU Berlin
Learn how to turn your dissertation into a book w/ T.O. Haakenson & L. Greenberg.
Open to any students and faculty of #FUBerlin
Registration by Nov 15 ➡️ www.fu-berlin.de/en/sites/bpr...
Schwarzer Text auf grünem Hintergrund: FROM MANUSCRIPT TO MONOGRAPH: A WORKSHOP ON ACADEMIC PUBLISHING What does it take to turn a dissertation into a book? How do you approach a publisher? What does the publication process entail? This workshop, hosted by the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, is devoted to helping rising scholars navigate the world of Englishlanguage academic publishing. We will discuss how to prepare your work for publication and feature a manuscript-inprogress as a case in point. WHEN: Thu, Nov 20, 2025, 4-6 PM WHERE: Ehrenbergstr. 26/28, Room 009, 14195 Berlin LANGUAGE: English REGISTRATION: Via bprogram@zedat.fu-berlin.de by Nov 15, 2025 The session will be hosted by Thomas O. Haakenson (professor, California College of the Arts, and series editor for Visual Cultures in German Contexts, Bloomsbury Academic) and Lea Greenberg (commissioning editor, Central European University Press). After a discussion of publishing more generally, we will focus on Haakenson’s current project Love in the Time of Fascism: Salomo Friedländer and Avant-Garde Resistance in Berlin. *The event is open to any students and faculty of the Freie Universität Berlin. By attending, you consent to the possibility of appearing in publicity materials distributed through the GSA and FUB outlets.
November 11, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Die #FUBerlin setzt mit Aktionstagen vom 18. Nov. bis 2. Dez. ein Zeichen gegen sexualisierte Belästigung, Diskriminierung und Gewalt – anlässlich des Internationalen Tags zur Beseitigung von Gewalt gegen Frauen - u.a. mit einem Vortag von Gina Sissoko der @yale.edu
Alle Infos: tinyurl.com/3zkbubkh
Die Illustration zeigt die Silhouetten dreier Frauen mit verschränkten Armen. Nachweis: Gösta Röver/Cedis
November 10, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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#OTD 134 years ago, Ida Suter (1891–1974) was born 🎉 An expert dialectologist, she spent 30 years working on the Swiss German Dictionary (@ch-idiotikon.bsky.social) and contributed to the edition of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi’s (1746–1827) letters.

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November 10, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Hast du genug Rizz, um Algspeak-Meister*in zu werden?

Rizz or miss: Algospeak (@etymology.substack.com.web.brid.gy) Pubquiz 🤖

17. November 2025, 18:00 im Caledonian Café

Organisiert von Rosa Hesse und Arne Werfel (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social)

🔗 userpage.fu-berlin.de/~structeng/t...
November 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM