Less than 3 weeks to submit an abstract for ICCG14! please pass it on: iccg14.oa-event.com June 4-7, 2026

Does anyone have a good way to add meaningful alt text for syntactic trees, phylogenetic trees, and typological maps (like those on WALS)? 🐦🐦

The citizen app in Phoenix-Tempe keeps producing the gold standard of syntactic ambiguity: from “police in pursuit of pickup truck with three wheels” to “report of man with gun inside bag making threats”. I’m sad I’m not teaching syntax this year.

UPDATE: Abstract deadline: Nov 1, 25! Invited speakers: Corrine Occhino, Dagmar Divjak, Idan Blank, Randy Allen Harris, Gary Lupyan, Laura Michaelis, Kanishka Misra !
@dagmardivjak.bsky.social @randyallenharris.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social @kanishka.bsky.social

📌 👉 The 14th International Construction Grammar conference will be held at Princeton, June 4-7, 2026

Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods

Stay tuned for updates!

This was my first time at an lsa summer institute. It was a lot of fun. Will go again

The Oregon Institute was an incredible experience. Do it again, Volya! #LSA2027

Snapshots from the LSA 2025 Summer Institute!
Here’s a look into a few incredible courses this week ✨

🌐 Linguistic Variation and Social Networks – Robin Dodsworth
🧒 Child Language Acquisition – Zara Harmon & @carorowland.bsky.social
🧠 The Relationship Between Language and Thought – Idan A. Blank

Join us this summer — 80+ courses, 8 conferences, and linguists surrounded by Oregon’s nature. Don’t miss it!

📅 Sign up now: bit.ly/3CSbbHC
🔗 More info: center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025
📧 Questions? LSAinstitute@uoregon.edu

#LSA2025 #Linguistics #SummerInstitute #UOregon

Usually plots are a one of the night before tasks

With more than a week to spare, I finished stats and plots for a talk in the trans alpine typology thing next week. It’s the first Tibeto-Burman languages talk I’m on.The main author is giving the talk, which explains the week to spare part…

This is really cool. Thanks Amos

Any one knows of and wants to recommend good LATEX 94 Overleaf intros / tutorials specifically for linguists? I learned by trial and too many errors, but it doesn’t have to be that way

Sad news. Thank you for sharing.

It’s a cool museum, on a cool campus, where a cool institute will be held. It is also in a cool city in a beautiful, often cool, area of the world.

You should also take my and Jordan’s class, and probably some others while you’re at it.

We count our blessings, I guess

I know a place that does observe daylights savings, btw

Something about relative clause constructions that are under specified for the head (internal, headless, rarely but sometimes external). The pun is there I’m sure

I’m trying to come up with a pun for a paper title and nothing really sticks and I am frustrated

I filled it up (I think) and so should you

📣 We still need participants for our survey! 📣

Please help us understand how linguists develop as educators!

We are recruiting current or recent graduate students in linguistics or related fields to participate in a survey about their experiences developing as educators!
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My usage? Based!

Personally I like this, fwiw

Hazy aerial view of Eugene Oregon

🚨 🚨 Last call for abstracts: Usage-based Approaches to Phonology welcomes papers using diverse methods to explore the emergence of phonological patterns from language use. Plenary by Joan Bybee (U of New Mexico). Come hang with us at U. of Oregon, July 12 & 13. sites.google.com/view/usage-b... 🐦🐦

I’ll be there, at least for the first half, and it will be fun

To get to Miami university in Oxford Ohio you fly to an airport in Hebron Kentucky and drive through Indiana

Tried to have an llm solve a hw problem set I wanted to assign (like the ones in 435 / 451). The result calmed me down.

SSILA this year was both online and fun

I am biased about this paper. It was fun to work on and write, at least for me (not sure about Becky).

I’m co-organizing this. It will be fun. Let me know if you want to participate!