Philippe Schlenker
@phschlenker.bsky.social
Senior Researcher, Institut Jean-Nicod, CNRS, Paris
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First session on Monday, February 2, 2026 on Zoom. Please register below if you wish to receive the link. Thanks!
*** Online course on Multimodal Semantics in February-March 2026***
How should semantics and pragmatics look like after the “multimodal revolution”, which unearthed multiple new data from sign langages and from gestures? This course will offer partial answers.
How should semantics and pragmatics look like after the “multimodal revolution”, which unearthed multiple new data from sign langages and from gestures? This course will offer partial answers.
January 26, 2026 at 11:59 AM
First session on Monday, February 2, 2026 on Zoom. Please register below if you wish to receive the link. Thanks!
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The next session of the Animal Linguistics seminar will take place on Wed., Jan. 28, 5pm Paris, on Zoom only, world-wide. Speaker: Christoph Grüter: Bee talk - Communication in an unpredictable world.
All are welcome!
All are welcome!
January 23, 2026 at 8:54 AM
The next session of the Animal Linguistics seminar will take place on Wed., Jan. 28, 5pm Paris, on Zoom only, world-wide. Speaker: Christoph Grüter: Bee talk - Communication in an unpredictable world.
All are welcome!
All are welcome!
New manuscript: "Animal Linguistics as an Integrative Framework for Animal Communication", with E. Chemla, and N. Mathevon, M. Hagiwara, O. Pietquin.
We argue that animal linguistics offers a unifying framework for animal communication.
lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009...
We argue that animal linguistics offers a unifying framework for animal communication.
lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009...
Animal Linguistics as an Integrative Framework for Animal Communication - lingbuzz/009693
Interest in animal communication has arguably reached an all-time high, with two very visible projects—the search for the animal roots of human language and the development of methods and technologies...
lingbuzz.net
January 22, 2026 at 7:54 PM
New manuscript: "Animal Linguistics as an Integrative Framework for Animal Communication", with E. Chemla, and N. Mathevon, M. Hagiwara, O. Pietquin.
We argue that animal linguistics offers a unifying framework for animal communication.
lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009...
We argue that animal linguistics offers a unifying framework for animal communication.
lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009...
*** Online course on Multimodal Semantics in February-March 2026***
How should semantics and pragmatics look like after the “multimodal revolution”, which unearthed multiple new data from sign langages and from gestures? This course will offer partial answers.
How should semantics and pragmatics look like after the “multimodal revolution”, which unearthed multiple new data from sign langages and from gestures? This course will offer partial answers.
January 21, 2026 at 11:11 AM
*** Online course on Multimodal Semantics in February-March 2026***
How should semantics and pragmatics look like after the “multimodal revolution”, which unearthed multiple new data from sign langages and from gestures? This course will offer partial answers.
How should semantics and pragmatics look like after the “multimodal revolution”, which unearthed multiple new data from sign langages and from gestures? This course will offer partial answers.
Emar Maier's survey article on Super Linguistics:
lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009...
lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009...
Superlinguistics - lingbuzz/009677
Theoretical linguistics has made great strides towards a proper science of language, building on solid foundations in logic and analytical philosophy, and, more recently, joining forces with empirical...
lingbuzz.net
January 19, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Emar Maier's survey article on Super Linguistics:
lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009...
lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009...
Reposted by Philippe Schlenker
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📢 Come study cognitive science in Paris!
The Master’s program in Cognitive Science at @ENS_ULM, @psl_univ, and @EHESS_fr is now accepting applications for the next academic year.
🗓 Deadline: February 24, 2026
💻 Apply here: master-cognitive-science.ens.psl.eu/en/applicati...
📢 Come study cognitive science in Paris!
The Master’s program in Cognitive Science at @ENS_ULM, @psl_univ, and @EHESS_fr is now accepting applications for the next academic year.
🗓 Deadline: February 24, 2026
💻 Apply here: master-cognitive-science.ens.psl.eu/en/applicati...
January 19, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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📢 Come study cognitive science in Paris!
The Master’s program in Cognitive Science at @ENS_ULM, @psl_univ, and @EHESS_fr is now accepting applications for the next academic year.
🗓 Deadline: February 24, 2026
💻 Apply here: master-cognitive-science.ens.psl.eu/en/applicati...
📢 Come study cognitive science in Paris!
The Master’s program in Cognitive Science at @ENS_ULM, @psl_univ, and @EHESS_fr is now accepting applications for the next academic year.
🗓 Deadline: February 24, 2026
💻 Apply here: master-cognitive-science.ens.psl.eu/en/applicati...
Reposted by Philippe Schlenker
The next session of the Animal Linguistics seminar will take place on Wed., Nov. 26, 5pm Paris, on Zoom only, world-wide. Speakers: C. Crockford & C. Girard-Buttoz, Chimpanzee Vocal Utterances: Flexible and combinatorial with protracted development
All are welcome!
All are welcome!
November 24, 2025 at 7:37 AM
The next session of the Animal Linguistics seminar will take place on Wed., Nov. 26, 5pm Paris, on Zoom only, world-wide. Speakers: C. Crockford & C. Girard-Buttoz, Chimpanzee Vocal Utterances: Flexible and combinatorial with protracted development
All are welcome!
All are welcome!
Reposted by Philippe Schlenker
First session of the Multimodal Semantics seminar this coming Tuesday, October 21, on Zoom only, with Lyn Tieu:
On an experimental basis, the LINGUAE team is organizing an online seminar on multimodal semantics, with a special (but non-exhaustive) focus on sign language and gesture semantics:
sites.google.com/site/philipp...
sites.google.com/site/philipp...
philippeschlenker/teaching - LINGUAE-MM-Multimodality Seminar
FORMAT
On an experimental basis, we are organizing an online seminar on multimodal semantics, with two primary (but non-exclusive) foci: sign language semantics, and gesture semantics. The seminar wil...
sites.google.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
First session of the Multimodal Semantics seminar this coming Tuesday, October 21, on Zoom only, with Lyn Tieu:
First session of our new online seminar on multimodal semantics: Tue October 21 with Lyn Tieu
On an experimental basis, the LINGUAE team is organizing an online seminar on multimodal semantics, with a special (but non-exhaustive) focus on sign language and gesture semantics:
sites.google.com/site/philipp...
sites.google.com/site/philipp...
philippeschlenker/teaching - LINGUAE-MM-Multimodality Seminar
FORMAT
On an experimental basis, we are organizing an online seminar on multimodal semantics, with two primary (but non-exclusive) foci: sign language semantics, and gesture semantics. The seminar wil...
sites.google.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
First session of our new online seminar on multimodal semantics: Tue October 21 with Lyn Tieu
New paper with Jason Lamberton and Jonathan Lamberton: “Traveling Shots in Language: Towards an Analysis of Dynamic Viewpoints in ASL”, to appear in Linguistic Inquiry. ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/008...
Traveling Shots in Language: Towards an Analysis of Dynamic Viewpoints in ASL - lingbuzz/008921
In sign language, classifier predicates have a highly iconic semantics, which has motivated the development of a formal framework ('Iconological Semantics') with a pictorial component evaluated relati...
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September 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
New paper with Jason Lamberton and Jonathan Lamberton: “Traveling Shots in Language: Towards an Analysis of Dynamic Viewpoints in ASL”, to appear in Linguistic Inquiry. ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/008...
Reposted by Philippe Schlenker
Our online Animal Linguistics Seminar starts this coming Wednesday, September 24:
September 22, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Our online Animal Linguistics Seminar starts this coming Wednesday, September 24:
Recent manuscript on “Context Shift and Viewpoint Shift”, with Jason Lamberton and Jonathan Lamberton:
ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/009...
The philosophy of language of the 1970’s claimed that natural language lacks operators that can shift the context of evaluation of indexicals.
ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/009...
The philosophy of language of the 1970’s claimed that natural language lacks operators that can shift the context of evaluation of indexicals.
Context Shift and Viewpoint Shift: Super Monsters Revisited - lingbuzz/009174
While Kaplan's classic theory of indexicals took them to be rigidly anchored to the context of the actual speech act, more recent research has found multiple cases in which an indexical depends on the...
ling.auf.net
September 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Recent manuscript on “Context Shift and Viewpoint Shift”, with Jason Lamberton and Jonathan Lamberton:
ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/009...
The philosophy of language of the 1970’s claimed that natural language lacks operators that can shift the context of evaluation of indexicals.
ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/009...
The philosophy of language of the 1970’s claimed that natural language lacks operators that can shift the context of evaluation of indexicals.
After a successful trial session in July, the Animal Linguistics seminar is continuing:
September 12, 2025 at 8:28 AM
After a successful trial session in July, the Animal Linguistics seminar is continuing:
Reminder: Gallot on olive colobus grammar in the Online Seminar on Animal Linguistics on Tuesday, July 22, 5pm Paris. Please register here if you wish to attend: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
July 21, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Reminder: Gallot on olive colobus grammar in the Online Seminar on Animal Linguistics on Tuesday, July 22, 5pm Paris. Please register here if you wish to attend: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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📢 Join the online Animal Linguistics Seminar on the 22nd of July, at 5 PM CET! Quentin Gallot will discuss the alarm call sequences in olive colobus.
Links for registration and more information here:
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@cogcompneuch.bsky.social @phschlenker.bsky.social
Links for registration and more information here:
sites.google.com/site/philipp...
@cogcompneuch.bsky.social @phschlenker.bsky.social
philippeschlenker/teaching - LINGUAE-AL-Animal Linguistics Seminar
FORMAT
On an experimental basis, we will try an online seminar on animal linguistics, entirely on Zoom, open world-wide: 1 hour including questions followed by 15 minutes of individual Q&A (optional, ...
sites.google.com
July 16, 2025 at 8:40 AM
📢 Join the online Animal Linguistics Seminar on the 22nd of July, at 5 PM CET! Quentin Gallot will discuss the alarm call sequences in olive colobus.
Links for registration and more information here:
sites.google.com/site/philipp...
@cogcompneuch.bsky.social @phschlenker.bsky.social
Links for registration and more information here:
sites.google.com/site/philipp...
@cogcompneuch.bsky.social @phschlenker.bsky.social
Online Seminar on Animal Linguistics on Tuesday, July 22, 5pm Paris: On an experimental basis, we are organizing a seminar on Animal Linguistics, on Zoom only, world-wide.
Speaker: Q. Gallot, Alarm call sequences in olive colobus: a primate grammar enabling incremental processing
Speaker: Q. Gallot, Alarm call sequences in olive colobus: a primate grammar enabling incremental processing
philippeschlenker/teaching - LINGUAE-AL-Animal Linguistics Seminar
FORMAT
On an experimental basis, we will try an online seminar on animal linguistics, entirely on Zoom, open world-wide: 1 hour including questions followed by 15 minutes of individual Q&A (optional, ...
sites.google.com
July 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Online Seminar on Animal Linguistics on Tuesday, July 22, 5pm Paris: On an experimental basis, we are organizing a seminar on Animal Linguistics, on Zoom only, world-wide.
Speaker: Q. Gallot, Alarm call sequences in olive colobus: a primate grammar enabling incremental processing
Speaker: Q. Gallot, Alarm call sequences in olive colobus: a primate grammar enabling incremental processing
MIT on Haj Ross, a great, great linguist who died in May 2025:
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John R. Ross 1938-2025 (“Haj Ross”)
Sad and momentous news has reached us of the passing of alum and former faculty member John R. Ross (PhD 1967) at the age of 87. Known to one and all as “Haj Ross”, his dissertation and subsequent pap...
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July 6, 2025 at 11:18 AM
MIT on Haj Ross, a great, great linguist who died in May 2025:
whamit.mit.edu/2025/05/19/j...
whamit.mit.edu/2025/05/19/j...
An excellent semantics/pragmatics group is advertising positions - including for work on great ape communication and the evolution of language:
We are hiring! Two PhD positions for interdisciplinary work on great ape communication and language evolution in a joint project with @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social & @elmanubohn.bsky.social.
🎯 evolutionary or probabilistic modeling
🗓️ deadline: Aug 13
🔗 tinyurl.com/2cnzwakj
🎯 evolutionary or probabilistic modeling
🗓️ deadline: Aug 13
🔗 tinyurl.com/2cnzwakj
July 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
An excellent semantics/pragmatics group is advertising positions - including for work on great ape communication and the evolution of language:
An excellent semantics/pragmatics group is advertising positions - including for work on great ape communication and the evolution of language:
PostDoc position (3.5y) available in interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Center "Common Ground".
🎯 Topic: Pragmatic reasoning about Common Ground
🎓 linguistics | philosophy of language | cognitive science
📅 Deadline: July 14
tinyurl.com/3vd9wa6p
Please share!
@toddthelinguist.bsky.social
🎯 Topic: Pragmatic reasoning about Common Ground
🎓 linguistics | philosophy of language | cognitive science
📅 Deadline: July 14
tinyurl.com/3vd9wa6p
Please share!
@toddthelinguist.bsky.social
Post-Doctoral Researcher (m/f/d, E13 TV-L, 100%)
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July 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
An excellent semantics/pragmatics group is advertising positions - including for work on great ape communication and the evolution of language:
Incroyable dérive d'une ministre:
www.huffingtonpost.fr/politique/ar...
www.huffingtonpost.fr/politique/ar...
« Le trumpisme, c’est ça » : la gauche dénonce les méthodes « glaçantes » de Dati
Interrogée par Patrick Cohen sur ses démêlés avec la justice, notamment, la ministre de la Culture a menacé le journaliste de poursuites, en invoquant un article de Mediapart.
www.huffingtonpost.fr
June 19, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Incroyable dérive d'une ministre:
www.huffingtonpost.fr/politique/ar...
www.huffingtonpost.fr/politique/ar...
An important petition regarding the future of research in Europe:
bit.ly/4kzL4pi
bit.ly/4kzL4pi
Open Letter of scientists and entrepreneurs regarding MFF and FP10
June 10, 2025
After the presentation of the European Competitiveness Fund, there has been much uncertainty regarding the positioning and funding for Research and Innovation in the next European Multia...
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June 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
An important petition regarding the future of research in Europe:
bit.ly/4kzL4pi
bit.ly/4kzL4pi
Reposted by Philippe Schlenker
The AERG expresses grave concern over the future of fundamental research in Europe in a statement urging European leaders to protect fundamental science by reaffirming the autonomy of the @erc.europa.eu
aerg.eu/news/new-sta...
Read the full statement 👇
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aerg.eu/news/new-sta...
Read the full statement 👇
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June 2, 2025 at 8:49 AM
The AERG expresses grave concern over the future of fundamental research in Europe in a statement urging European leaders to protect fundamental science by reaffirming the autonomy of the @erc.europa.eu
aerg.eu/news/new-sta...
Read the full statement 👇
aerg.eu/storage/AERG...
aerg.eu/news/new-sta...
Read the full statement 👇
aerg.eu/storage/AERG...