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Martin Haspelmath is a German linguist working in the field of linguistic typology. He is a researcher at the Max… more

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langscipress.bsky.social
Just published "Notes on the grammar of Andakí" by Jelien Moens and Matthias Pache #openaccess #ela langsci-press.org/catalog/book...
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Yes!
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Bertinetto, Ciucci and Creissels just published a fantastic new cross-linguistic handbook. But I have some critical comments on their introductory chapter. It turns out that it's not so easy to say what exactly is "nonverbal predication". dlc.hypotheses.org/3832
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patrickesavage.bsky.social
Good to be back home after a week-long trip to Germany for a symposium at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology on "What Makes Us Human?" (www.eva.mpg.de/events/2025-...).

I spent about the same amount of time traveling as I did at the symposium, but it was worth it.
Guests at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology symposium on "What Makes Us Human?" Me with Nobel Prize laureate Svante Pääbo Me with legendary cognitive scientist Mike Tomasello Me with my good buddy, legendary composer J. S. Bach
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kilinguistics.bsky.social
Because I think better in pictures, here is a visualisation of languages according to documentation and endangerment status (I'm calling it glottocloud).

glottolog.org/langdoc/status
Graphic distribution of languages represented as dots in a two-dimensional space. X: AES (endangerment level, ranging from "extinct" to "not endangered" Y: MED (documentation level, ranging from "wordlist or less" to "long grammar"
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simongerman600.bsky.social
A bit of linguistic cartography to brighten your day. This map shows how the words for camel 🐫 spread across the Old World.
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remivantrijp.bsky.social
Thrilled to announce the publication of my paper "A Modern Synthesis: The Fillmorean Construction and its Hidden Lineage" in Constructions! The article digs into the prehistory of #ConstructionGrammar and is based on the first chapter of my upcoming book
constructions.journals.hhu.de/article/view...
A Modern Synthesis: The Fillmorean Construction and its Hidden Lineage | Constructions
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What the Helen of Troy Does this Sign Mean? www.popville.com/2025/10/what...
What the Helen of Troy Does this Sign Mean? - PoPville
Is it related to the pay parking? All I can think of is playing tetris...
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linguistlist.bsky.social
Confs: 4th International Conference "Prominence in Language"
Confs: 4th International Conference "Prominence in Language"
Prominence relations establish a ranking between linguistic units, such as prosodic units, arguments of a verb, and discourse referents. Prominence is one of the key notions in language and communication: it accounts, for instance, for prosodic highlighting and for the building of linguistic structure and discourse representations. The CRC 1252 Prominence in Language (University of Cologne) investigates the role of prominence from an interdisciplinary linguistic perspective, involving phonology
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“It is precisely because social media has democratised the public sphere that it has contributed to trends liberals (including myself) are so worried about.” 👏
www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/is-social-...
Is Social Media Destroying Democracy—Or Giving It To Us Good And Hard?
It’s easier to blame the algorithm than the bewildered herd.
www.conspicuouscognition.com
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linguistlist.bsky.social
Confs: Workshop at the 22nd International Morphology Meeting: Morphology in Context
Confs: Workshop at the 22nd International Morphology Meeting: Morphology in Context
Convenors: Sabine Arndt-Lappe (Trier) Barbara Schlücker (FU Berlin) Complex words are produced, understood, and also coined in context, and a by now large, but diverse body of literature has explored different facets of the role of context. By ‘context’ we mean the linguistic context, both immediate (e.g. preceding and following words) and with a larger scope (e.g. text types), and the extralinguistic context such as the speaker and the listener or the situation of speaking and the discours
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haspelmath.bsky.social
Deine und meine Optionen sind ziemlich gut, oder? Ja, Lateinamerika ist weit weg vom europäischen Kriegsschauplatz, deshalb wäre es die erste Wahl.

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Ich habe auch genug geopfert. Meine Optionen sind nicht so gut, aber in Lateinamerika würde ich mich wohl deutlich sicherer fühlen (vor dem drohenden Krieg in Europa).
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