Lise Fontaine

I’m looking forward to reading this!

A mint-green background with a centered white box containing text from Cadernos de Linguística. The header reads “OPEN REVIEW | CADERNOS DE LINGUÍSTICA.” Below, the title “EXCERPT FROM PUBLIC REVIEW¹” appears, followed by the reviewer’s name, Arabie Bezri Hermont. The main paragraph states that research like this is important for understanding the emergence of ergative structures and the verbal category of aspect, concepts still little known among most basic education teachers. A note at the bottom cites the article The state as a derived aspect: a syntactic–semantic analysis, by L. Meirelles (2025).

Ergative structures show how languages organize meaning — not every sentence needs someone “doing” the action.
Studies like this help us understand how verbs express states and events, a topic still little known outside linguistics classrooms.
doi.org/10.25189/267...
#linguistics #langsky

A for effort!!

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.

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Ma publication dans "the Conversation" sur l'écriture inclusive (theconversation.com/lecriture-in...) m'a valu ma première qualification de "wokiste" ("immonde wokiste"). L'ironie, c'est que le mot "wokiste" est lui-même une forme d'écriture inclusive (forme neutre). "Wokard" serait plus adapté.

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

Planning my intro to linguistics course at UQTR is more fun this year with this little gem!!

Assistant Professor - Language Revitalization - Linguistics University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

Assistant Professor - Language Revitalization - Linguistics, UC Berkeley: research interests or skills in "..language documentation, description, and analysis; sociolinguistics; anthropological linguistics; language acquisition; language education; areal and language-family expertise" (Oct 31)

Wow! That’s fantastic! Huge congratulations Maite!

I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus

❤️ Out in paperback! It has a lovely feel !!

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I’m very happy to have received this today! 4th edition

Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"

How do you decide whether or not to use AI tools in your research? One approach is to judge the extent to which they align with the values that underpin your research - in this open access paper we look at this question of alignment. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

OK, here is the site for live by-election results at Battle River-Crowfoot.

enr.elections.ca/ElectoralDis...

Let's hope Poilievre gets at least a bit spanked from the shoe-in riding. Results starting after 8 PM.

The kids are calling it “Quebecmaxxing”: two anglos in Montreal having an entire interaction in French without realizing they’re both anglos

No concessions, no ceasefire: how Putin outplayed Trump in Anchorage Russia’s leader seems to have drawn the US president closer to Moscow’s position on the Ukraine war

This is a good and quite detailed summary. It sets out clearly just how badly Trump performed in this summit. He lost absolutely everything and has actually managed to make backwards progress in the interests of Ukraine, European security and enforcing international law.

www.ft.com/content/2866...

Florent Moncomble’s corpus tools A collection of tools for collecting and analysing corpora of online media discourse

#Linguistics
2 new additions in my #corpus toolbox, geared towards the study of the meta-discourse of press coverage: the Guardian and Figaro Comments Corpus Builders can be used to collect corpora of article comments from those two online newspapers.
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Amber Rynearson and I presented today at @raammetaphor.bsky.social, on our work trying to integrate different frameworks for metaphor identification.
What a great conference and so well run. Thank you, Hamad @al-azary.bsky.social and team!

'Donald Trump’s Nobel Prize delusion is both embarrassing and frankly dangerous' As Donald Trump prepares to meet Vladimir Putin, renewed claims from his camp that he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize have sparked outrage and ridicule.

Good aggressive journalism.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news...

🚨Here’s Mark Carney just now, announcing Canada’s (conditional) intent to recognize a Palestinian state in September:

Quantitative Diachronic Linguistics and Cultural Analytics: Data-Driven Insights into Language and Cultural Change We invite submissions for the conference Quantitative Diachronic Linguistics and Cultural Analytics: Data-Driven Insights into Language and Cultural Change, to be held at King’s College London on 15–1...

Call for papers: Quantitative Diachronic Linguistics and Cultural Analytics, 15-16 January 2026 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/quant...

For followers from China - Tsinghua University Press is publishing an edition of my CUP book, Corpus Linguistics (written with Andrew Hardie) next year. The book includes explanatory notes in Chinese and quite a bit of text from the original version which was lost due to space constraints.

Très fier d’annoncer que notre nouveau certificat en études et expressions autochtones est maintenant ouvert!

La France reconnaît officiellement l’État de Palestine. Qu’est-ce que ça veut dire? Question encore complexe, mais parlons-en. #Québec #polqc #FarnellMorisset

A message from a New Yorker who was arrested while blockading ICE's headquarters.

(PDF) Chapter 1: On the Nature of Linguistics and its Transdisciplinary Potential PDF | This chapter is the introduction to the volume The Routledge Handbook of Transdisciplinary Functional Linguistics, edited by Wegener, R., McCabe,... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

‘On the nature of linguistics and its transdisciplinary potential’. Our new volume of transdisciplinary research in linguistics will be out in the autumn. If this is of interest to you, the pre-print of the introduction is available here : bit.ly/4eZDlih