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New Cambridge Element, Creative Construction Grammar, by Thomas Hoffmann and Mark Turner, out now! Read Open Access at
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Describing English Constructions: An Introduction Article Describing English Constructions: An Introduction was published on September 1, 2025 in the journal Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (volume 73, issue 3).

Many thanks to Barthe Bloom and Thomas Herbst for putting this special issue together! You can read their introduction here

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Your backstage pass to how #StandUpComedy really works! 🎟️

Discover author Oliver Double’s favourite sentences from his book, ‘The Cambridge Companion to Stand-Up Comedy’🎤

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A copy of "Mereological Syntax: Phrase Structure, Cyclicity, and Islands" by David Adger.

@davidadger.bsky.social's "Mereological Syntax" presents an argument for replacing Chomsky’s set-theoretic Merge view of syntax with a theory of syntax based on mereological objects. Available #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255327...

Reminder: Please join us tomorrow (Friday) for the third talk of the 2025-2026 University of Calgary Linguistics Speaker Series: “External possession and multitransitivity” by University of Toronto Professor María Cristina Cuervo

This is an article about reduplication in Madarin Chinese. By Yanru Lu and me. It grew out of Ynaru Lu's masther thesis and will appear in 2027 in the Journal of Linguistics.

Have fun.

https://lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009505

#linguistics #language #Chinese #syntax #morphology #semantics #HPSG

New Insights into Theoretical Syntax from Asian Languages This book brings together some of the most prominent linguists working in the field of East and Southeast Asian syntax to create a special collection of papers which highlight new developments in the ...

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Chimpanzees are natural scientists Humans and chimpanzees share the potential to rationally revise their beliefs

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Explore the intersections of #literarytheory, #linguistics and #artificialintelligence in Cambridge’s new collection of chapters and articles: 🤖📚 https://cup.org/42HqvR8

Free to read (where not already #openaccess) until 30 Nov. @modernlanguage.bsky.social

Books: The Lexico-Semantic Representation of Words in the Mental Lexicon: Wang (2025) Speech production is a core component of human communication, allowing individuals to express meaning and engage with others seamlessly. This thesis explores the mechanisms underlying language production in native Mandarin Chinese, with a particular focus on semantic and lexico-syntactic features involved in word production. The investigation is structured around three key studies. First, a picture-word interference (PWI) experiment examines the influence of animacy—a semantic feature—on lang

Books: The Lexico-Semantic Representation of Words in the Mental Lexicon: Wang (2025)

Our special issue on ‘Parallelism in the Architecture of Language’ is now published! Huge thanks to all contributing authors, reviewers, Eva, Neil, and the topiCS journal team for their excellent work 📚🗣️🧠🤖🙏🏻
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Confs: GLOW Syntax Workshop Less documented languages is an umbrella term meant to cover a vast variety of languages that are more difficult for scholars to access for a variety of reasons. Some of them concern the lack of written attestations or of an official status in education or administration, the small size of the speech community, the limited transmission from one generation to another – conditions that generally go together with minority or endangered status. However, it is possible to consider under the same head

Confs: GLOW Syntax Workshop

The LSA Bloomfield Book Award Committee is pleased to announce that Norbert Hornstein has been selected as the winner of the Leonard Bloomfield Book Award in 2026 for his book, The Merge hypothesis: A theory of aspects of syntax (Cambridge University Press, 2024)! #LSA2026 #NewOrleans #Bloomfield

Today, the #INNSightForum welcomes its second external speaker, Liina Pylkkänen (@liinapy.bsky.social)!

Join us as we explore language processing to take a glance into the brain’s temporal dynamics at 11:15 a.m. in the Suddath Seminar Room (IBB 1128) or online | 🗓️ neuro.gatech.edu/innsight-for...

Confucius would say:"If terminology is not corrected, then what is said cannot be followed. If what is said cannot be followed, then work cannot be accomplished." 名不正则言不顺，言不顺则事不成.

Out Now!

Reflections on English Word-Formation by Laurie Bauer of @vicuniwgtn.bsky.social

#Linguistics #LangSky 🐦🐦

Calls: 38th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics Call for Papers: The 38th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-38) will be held from May 8–10, 2026 at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., USA. Launched in 1989, the NACCL conference series has become a major academic platform for Chinese language and linguistics research in North America and beyond. Conference Dates: May 8–10, 2026 Location: Washington, D.C., USA Website: https://eall.columbian.gwu.edu/naccl-38 Email: naccl-38@gwu.edu Co-chairs:

Calls: 38th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics

Cover of Genes, Brains, Evolution and Language

Like its prequel, this book examines the 'nature/nurture' debate in language, while also asking how language came to be part of our human nature in the course of evolution.

Genes, Brains, Evolution and Language by Harry van der Hulst, Coming Soon

#LangSky #Linguistics 💙📚 🐦🐦

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Look it’s published! 😍
Thank you to the three editors and my co-authors, and now it’s there for all of you (and your students) to read up about comparative syntax 🤓 📖

Only by knowing where we come from can we understand how we stand right now and see where we will go in the future. Great paper to read!

The Cambridge History of Linguistics Cambridge Core - English Language and Linguistics: General Interest - The Cambridge History of Linguistics

"Surveys the fascinating history of the study of language, from its beginnings in ancient Mesopotamia & Egypt to the diversification of the language sciences in the past 50 years."

The Cambridge History of Linguistics eds. Linda R. Waugh, Monique Monville-Burston, & John E. Joseph

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"A compelling and thought-provoking analysis of human sociality and the origins of language."

The Interaction Engine by Stephen C. Levinson (@mpi-nl.bsky.social), Out Now & #OpenAccess

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#OA #Linguistics #LangSky 🐦🐦

Construction Grammar analysis of phrasal compounds in English

The CASA notations would make an interesting contrast with SBCG

国际中国语言学学会第 32 届年会（IACL-32）征稿启事 会议地点：中国 广东省 广州市

国际中国语言学学会第 32 届年会（IACL-32）征稿启事 mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=Mzg5...

TOC: Constructions and Frames Vol. 17, No. 2 (2025) 2025. iii, 138 pp. Table of Contents Articles Exploring the form of Italian diminutives: Alternation patterns and constructional schemas M. Silvia Micheli & Matteo Pellegrini | pp. 175–210 Complex verbs in English: The relationship between verb-forming suffix schemas and argument structure constructions Jacqueline Laws & Geert Booij | pp. 211–235 The manner of cutting revisited Seizi Iwata | pp. 236–277 Definite null instantiation in English(es): A Usage-based Construction

TOC: Constructions and Frames Vol. 17, No. 2 (2025)

Calls: Social Meaning and Grammar

excellent case for Sociolinguistic study

Are you considering grad school in linguistics, or already in a program?

Come join the virtual release of “Surviving linguistics: A guide for graduate students” this Friday, September 26!

Looks like China's Monkey King