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Martin Konvička
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Linguist(ician) 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈

Histor(y of linguistics|ical linguistics) @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

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Martin Konvička @teapotlinguist.bsky.social · Jul 7
Thrilled to have contributed to the new volume (@johnbenjamins.bsky.social) on Dutch and contact linguistics, edited by Christopher Joby and Nicoline van der Sijs 🤩

My chapter explores language contact online, specifically the case of Dutch "want X" constructions.

🔗 benjamins.com/catalog/impa...
Dutch and Contact Linguistics
This volume brings together scholars from across the globe to showcase the many varied outcomes of contact between Dutch and other languages in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
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dclberlin.bsky.social
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.
neerlandistiek.nl
November 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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dclberlin.bsky.social
#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.

#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
November 20, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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dclberlin.bsky.social
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...

#DahlemLecturesInLinguistics
November 19, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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lingvojazyce.bsky.social
1/4 Po listopadu 1989 ještě chvilku trvalo, než na změnu zareagoval i jazykovědný časopis Naše řeč.

Ještě v 1. čísle v roce 1990 je recenzován sborník jazykovědných textů, v recenzi je násobné ujištění, že texty vycházejí z učení marxistické filozofie a marxistické dialektiky. Jak se patří.
November 17, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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queerlinguistik.bsky.social
Conference alert: Falco Pfalzgraf
@qmul.bsky.social is organizing an online conference on the resistance to gender-inclusive language. The program looks amazing, including a talk by our member Samira Ochs with Aline Siegenthaler. Register until March 23!

www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguis...
Backlash Conference - Gender inclusive language
www.qmul.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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amreibahr.bsky.social
Es geht wieder los mit der Reform des #WissZeitVG! Der letzte Versuch ist geplatzt, weil die 🚦 auseinandergeflogen ist. Aber: Seitdem liegen aussichtsreiche Lösungen für das Kernproblem Postdoc-Phase auf dem Tisch! Wie lassen sich Befristungen in dieser Phase eindämmen? 5 Instrumente: ⬇️ #IchBinHanna
Wird Zeit fürs WissZeitVG: Auf ein Neues!
Die Reform-Debatte nimmt wieder an Fahrt auf -- Grund genug, uns aussichtsreiche Lösungen für die Kernproblematik der Postdoc-Phase ins Gedächtnis zu rufen!
steady.page
November 18, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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dclberlin.bsky.social
#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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lingcomm.bsky.social
World Linguistics Day is coming up on November 26th!

Have you made any plans yet to celebrate?
lingcomm.org/2025/10/26/w...
World Linguistics Day
World Linguistics Day is November 26th: what are you doing to celebrate?
lingcomm.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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hiphilangsci.bsky.social
Episode no. 52 is out 🚲

James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) talks with Gereon Müller (@unileipzig.bsky.social) about his new book Lanes to Language, which unites the worlds of history of linguistics and cycling.

🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2025/11/15/p...

#Histlx
Podcast episode 52: Gereon Müller on Lanes to Language
In this interview, Gereon Müller discusses his new book Lanes to Language, which unites the worlds of history of linguistics and cycling.
hiphilangsci.net
November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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dclberlin.bsky.social
#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.

#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
November 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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pudukhepa.bsky.social
1. Dne 5. listopadu zveřejnily @novinkycz článek s titulkem „V Kateřinské jeskyni našli tajemný úlomek břidlice s klínovým písmem“. Autor se ptá, zda jde o „fantastický nález“ či „geniální historický podvrh“. www.novinky.cz/clanek/veda-...
V Kateřinské jeskyni našli tajemný úlomek břidlice s klínovým písmem - Novinky
Drobný úlomek břidličné destičky s klínovým písmem objevili vědci při kontrole vykopaného materiálu v Kateřinské jeskyni v Moravském krasu na Blanensku. Patrně pochází z říše Chetitů, která se nacháze...
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November 13, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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dclberlin.bsky.social
#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.

#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
November 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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dclberlin.bsky.social
#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.

#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
November 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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hiphilangsci.bsky.social
Joyeux anniversaire, cher Antoine 🎂

To celebrate, remember that "each language forms a system where everything hangs together".

#LinguisticQuotes #Histlx
A picture of Antoine Meillet next to one of his famous quotes. In French, the text reads: "...chaque langue forme un système où tout se tient..." The English translation would be the following: "...each language forms a system where everything hangs together..." Antoine Meillet (1903: 407)
November 11, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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dclberlin.bsky.social
#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.

#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
November 10, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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hiphilangsci.bsky.social
The next Henry Sweet Society (@henrysweetsoc.bsky.social) Colloquium will be held on 2-4 September 2026 at the University of Nottingham (@uniofnottingham.bsky.social).

Thematic focus: (Non-)Native Speakers in the History of Linguistic Ideas

CfP: hiphilangsci.net/2025/11/08/c...

#Histlx
Cfp: Henry Sweet Society Colloquium 2026
The 2026 annual colloquium of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas will be held on 2–4 September 2026 at the University of Nottingham, UK. Confirmed plenary speaker: Cécile V…
hiphilangsci.net
November 10, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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dclberlin.bsky.social
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
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dclberlin.bsky.social
#OTD 114 years ago, Ruth Klappenbach (1911-1977) was born 🎉 She focused on lexicography, became one of the co-founders and co-editors of the Dictionary of Contemporary German Language (Wörterbuch der deutschen Gegenwartssprache, 1952-1977).

#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
November 7, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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dclberlin.bsky.social
#OTD 191 years ago, Lucy C. Lloyd (1834-1914) was born 🥳 She was an ethnologist as well as a linguist, she collected an archive of ǀXam and ǃKung texts, who, in 1913, received an honorary doctorate for her work as the first woman in South Africa.

#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
November 7, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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dclberlin.bsky.social
#OTD 127 years ago, Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain (1898-1975) was born 🎂 During her anthropological and linguistic career, she investigated the origins of Haitian Creole and conducted field research in Haiti, but also in Congo, Togo, and Nigeria.

#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
November 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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dclberlin.bsky.social
Wozu noch Grammatik in der Schule?

Am 6. November 2025 um 18:15 sprechen genau darüber Anke Haupt (BLiQ), Barbara Schlücker (@bschluecker.bsky.social) und Regina Ultze (@senbjf.bsky.social) 🤩

🔗 www.fu-berlin.de/sites/dhc/pr...

@berlinscienceweek.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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stancarey.bsky.social
"Mamdani" as a crash course in English phonotactics with sociolinguistics on the side, all in 101 seconds) 🐦🐦
kendrawrites.com Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 16d
This is good. On the linguistic roots why, people say Mandami and why it's not just linguistics (i.e. the impulse is linguistic but at this point for certain people it's deliberate)
November 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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dclberlin.bsky.social
Studentin such Proband:innen für ein Experiment 🕵

- einsprachig aufgewachsene Deutsch-Muttersprachler:innen
- Italienischkenntnisse B1/B2
- keine neurologischen/sprachlichen/auditiven Beeinträchtigungen

Vergütung 25€ 🤩

emma.mensching ät fu-berlin.de

#BLinguistik #Experiment #Sprachwissenschaft
November 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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dclberlin.bsky.social
#OTD 134 years ago, Yuen Ren Chao (1892-1982) was born 🎉 He was an expert on Chinese grammar and phonology and the author of the Gwoyeu Romatzyh, a Latinised spelling system for Standard Chinese. He served as the president of the Linguistic Society of America in 1945.

#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
November 3, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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mhuening.bsky.social
Ihr fandet Grammatik in der Schule immer doof? Nun denn - am Donnerstag (6.11. um 18.15 Uhr) moderiere ich eine Diskussion zum Thema "Wozu noch Grammatik in der Schule?" Ihr seid herzlich willkommen!
@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @senbjf.bsky.social @berlinscienceweek.bsky.social
dclberlin.bsky.social Dahlem Center for Linguistics @dclberlin.bsky.social · Oct 15
Wozu noch Grammatik in der Schule?

Am 6. November 2025 um 18:15 sprechen genau darüber Anke Haupt (BLiQ), Barbara Schlücker (@bschluecker.bsky.social) und Regina Ultze (@senbjf.bsky.social) 🤩

🔗 www.fu-berlin.de/sites/dhc/pr...

@berlinscienceweek.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 12:29 PM