Robin Meyer

🚨 We are recruiting!

5-year post-doc in Computational Humanities at the University of Lausanne

Working language: French

Details: www.unil.ch/news/1743431...
Deadline: 22 April 2025

I'm happy to (informally) answer any questions.

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Historical linguist and linguistic typologist here – would be v. happy to be on the list, too. ☺️

… and whether morphology (in the sense that Meillet uses in his 1925 treatise) is actually a meaningful contributor (as opposed to, let's say, morphophonology).
And that's what, I hope, the workshop will do 😊

Thanks for this! A simple answer: the abstract had a word limit 😅, so the phrase "(and, to a lesser extent, morphology and lexis)" was cut.
One might discuss to what extent Bopp's approach is already exactly that of the later Neogrammarians (in method and goal), …

ICHL27 Comparative Method Background

V. excited that we got the 🟢 light for our workshop on the Comparative Method – its history, challenges, and the way forward – at the next International Conference on Historical Linguistics in Santiago de Chile. 🥳

The 12 papers sound very interesting; have a look:
sites.google.com/view/ichl27cm

🚨 New publication (in Open Access)!
"Language Pedagogy from Memphis to Tokyo:
Current Perspectives on Teaching Ancient and Modern Languages of Asia and Beyond" (Cahiers du CLSL 68)
www.cahiers-clsl.ch/issue/view/604

Have 10 minutes to spare?
My wife is writing her Master's thesis in psychology on the correlation between inner experience and autobiographical memory and would be very grateful for your answers to her survey questions!
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Figure incontournable de la discipline linguistique, de renommée internationale, Antoine Meillet a marqué la recherche par ses nombreux ouvrages théoriques. ... Antoine Meillet, un linguiste toujours à la page

Pour ceux et celles parmi vous qui n'ont pas encore eu le temps de parcourir le livre sur Antoine Meillet que j'ai eu le plaisir de coéditer avec Sébastien Moret, voici un tout petit résumé en format d'interview.

Le livre: journals.openedition.org/edl/6438

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A Greek Grammar in Armenian ROBIN MEYER What could possibly go wrong?

I have had great fun writing about my research into the ancient grammatical tradition and its reception for Antigone, an open forum for Classics. If you're interested in reading about "A Greek Grammar in Armenian – What could possibly go wrong?" in an accessible fashion, head over and have a look!

Two full-time open ended positions in linguistics at Cardiff for September 2024. Please share! #linguistics
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Closing date 18 Feb

Table of contents of the Transactions of the Philological Society special issue on contact-induced morphosyntactic change.

🚨 New publication: the special issue of the Transactions of the Philological Society on contact-induced morphosyntactic change, guest-edited by Michele Bianconi and me, has now been published.

All 11 papers, many of which in Open Access, can be found here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1467968x...

🚨 Job Alert:
Maître d'enseignement et recherche 1 en Histoire et philologie des langues de l'Antiquité classique

Where: Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
Deadline: 12 February 2024

Details:
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🚨Call for Papers: Language and Identity in Antiquity

Where: Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
When: 19–20 July 2024
Deadline: 1 March 2024
Languages: English, French
Details: unil.ch/languageiden...

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Merci 😊

322 | 2023 Antoine Meillet Professeur à l’École pratique des hautes études et au Collège de France, célèbre comparatiste et spécialiste de quasiment toutes les langues indo-européennes, le Français Antoine Meillet (1...

It's a publication-rich December!

Just published, in Open Access (and in French to boot):
"Antoine Meillet. Regards linguistiques et historiques sur sa vie et son œuvre", edited by Sébastien Moret and myself.

journals.openedition.org/edl/6438

Thank you 😊

I'm pleased to announce the publication in Open Access of:
Iranian Syntax in Classical Armenian. The Armenian Perfect and Other Cases of Pattern Replication

All relevant details, including an abstract and the PDF of the book, can be found on the Publisher's Website.
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"Emerging Topics in Typology", conference for PhD students (Stockholm, June 2024): ett2024.github.io

Another testament to our non-religious household: 5yo, singing "Go tell it on the Mountain" (learnt for a Christmas concert), explains the line "...where cheese and rice was borne" to his 3yo sibling, saying: "That's all the food they have up there."
We explained it all – after uproarious laughter 😂

Academic jobs:

Am Anglistischen Seminar der Universität Heidelberg sind zwei Qualifikationsstellen (Predoc/Postdoc, 100% E13) im Bereich Englische Soziolinguistik zum 1.4.2024 zu vergeben.

Details in der Ausschreibung unten. Auskunft erteile ich gerne.
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view across Heidelberg and the Neckar; dramating sunset with pink and blue skies

Are you interested in joining my team and doing research in English sociolinguistics, with a focus on digital practice, language and gender, and/or English as a global resource?

Job openings for pre and postdoc positions in beautiful Heidelberg will be forthcoming soon!

Call for papers ‒ bitte teilen!

Am 23. und 24. September 2024 findet unsere Tagung "Stabilität und Dynamik in der regionalen (Morpho-)Syntax des Deutschen. Standortbestimmungen und Zukunftsperspektiven" im Haus der Universität der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf statt.

Beiträge willkommen!

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🚨 Another new open-access paper, this time on an unusual agreement feature in Classical Armenian that resembles (but is not exactly) Suffixaufnahme.

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🚨 New open-access publication:
"Towards a Typology of Contact-Induced Change Questions, Problems and the Path Ahead"

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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On my to Washington DC to speak at the Dumbarton Oaks Fall Colloquium about Byzantine commentaries on the Armenian version of Dionysios Thrax.

Then northwards for a guest lecture at Harvard about my research on Iranian-Armenian language contact in Late Antiquity.

Join me there if you like and can!

🚨 Job opportunity @ Université de Lausanne!

5-year doctoral position (80%FTE) in language variation and change.

Deadline: 20 November !!!
Language: French
Details: news.unil.ch/display/1698...

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Sprechen ist strafbar. Geschichte, Prozesse, Aussichten Prof. Dr. Thomas Seibert (Frankfurt) 24.11.2023, 16:15 Uhr Praktiken strategischer Kommunikation in digitalen Medien. Ein Überblick mit Beispielen Prof. Dr. Friedemann Vogel (Siegen) 13.12.2023, 16:15 Uhr Topoi und Narrativ. Zur Verbindung zweier Konzepte linguistischer Diskursanalyse Prof. Dr. Dorothee Meer (Bochum) 17.01.2024, 16:15 Uhr Der erste und letzte Vortrag finden hybrid statt, der zweite Vortrag nur online. Die Angaben zu Raum und Webex-Sitzung finden Sie im Anhang - die Webex-URLs erst 3 Tage vor Termin auf unserer Website (https://diskurslinguistik.net). Bei Interesse schalten Sie sich gerne dazu - auch Studierende sind herzlich willkommen!

Offene & herzliche Einladung auch an die #BlueLinguisitik (sowie alle Studierenden und Interessierten) zu unserer kleinen Vortragsreihe zur ling. Diskursforschung in diesem WiSe! Alle Vorträge sind digital zugänglich.
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