Oliver Monghit

The Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI) database by CERL tracks copy-specific evidence in 15th-century books.

Freely accessible and continually expanding through international collaboration.

🔎 Explore MEI: data.cerl.org/mei/_search

📣 "Linguistic Knowledge and Language Use" (CUP, 2024) now in Paperback!

The book is Open Access & can be downloaded for free from CUP's website. But if you prefer physical copies, this might interest you as it is 4x cheaper than the Hardback format!

Here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

CALL FOR PAPERS: The 39th Paris Meeting on East Asian Linguistics

Organised by the Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l'Asie orientale (CRLAO), JLAO 39 will be held from June 17 to 18, 2026 at Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers and online.
Deadline for abstracts submission: 2026/3/31
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The Epstein Files remind me of the Burning Sun scandal in South Korea. Elites were exactly doing the same thing.

Summer Schools: 11th Naxos Summer School on Diachronic Linguistics: Theoretical and Computational Approaches to Diachronic Linguistics Focus: Participants will explore language evolution through a combination of theoretical courses, computational workshops, and master classes led by international experts. The summer school also features a dedicated workshop and poster session on the latest research in diachronic and computational linguistics. Up to 6 ECTS credits are available for successful participants. Apply here: https://forms.gle/xPBn15HdDjBiyknH9 The summer school covers a broad range of linguistic fields, including t

Summer Schools: 11th Naxos Summer School on Diachronic Linguistics: Theoretical and Computational Approaches to Diachronic Linguistics

📘 New chapter out! We look at how language documentation has evolved - from focusing on single languages to building multilingual corpora, with more collaboration and speaker involvement.
doi.org/10.1515/9783110443011-047

#Linguistics #LanguageDocumentation #LanguageContact #Multilingualism #Africa

Join us in Paris! :)

Out now! Rutten's Historical Sociolinguistics | With detailed explanations of core concepts, this is the first introduction to historical sociolinguistics based on multiple languages.
Find out more: ☑️ https://cup.org/4jg540r

See you :)

13th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL-13)
Paris-Aubervilliers, Campus Condorcet
September 2-4, 2026
→ Deadline for submission of abstracts: Febr. 28, 2026
Jointly organized by the EACL, the #CRLAO, the EHESS, the CNRS and the Inalco
eacl-13.sciencesconf.org?lang=en

📈 Listen up!
💡 There is a considerable gap in the field of historical linguistics re the diachronic study of tone.
💡 The latest SI of 𝘋𝘪𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢 brings together contributions from linguists specializing in different regions & language families who work on 𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲:
doi.org/10.1075/dia....

A global collection of conversations revealing how dictionaries have evolved and influenced language across twenty different traditions.

Conversations on Dictionaries edited by Ilan Stavans

Pre-Order today!

#Linguistics #LangSky 📚

https://cup.org/4mGjF6m

Happy to share the first version of my textbook "Quantitative Data Analysis for Linguists in R".

stefanocoretta.github.io/qdal/

Comments and suggestions welcome! (on the GitHub repo: github.com/stefanocoret...)

The textbook takes you from 0 to basic stat modelling with Bayesian regression.

Phonology in Language Documentation Cambridge Core - Phonetics and Phonology - Phonology in Language Documentation

🚨 New in the Cambridge Elements in Phonology series 🚨

'Phonology in Language Documentation' by Gabriela Caballero & Laura McPherson is out now and free to read until December 5th.

https://cup.org/4ptSdd8

#LangSky #Linguistics 🐦🐦

👩‍🎓 SOUTENANCE DE THÈSE de Younès M'GHARI, doctorant à l'EHESS-CRLAO:
"The Sino-Korean Lexicon in Fifteenth-Century Middle Korean: Morphology, Usages and Representativity: A study based on documents published between 1446 and 1499".
8 décembre 2025, 9h-13h, EHESS, salle A07_37, 54 bd Raspail, Paris 6e

What is a “copula”, and what is “predicative inflection”? This new blogpost continues the comparison between the comparative concepts of Creissels et al. (2026) (in Bertinetto et al. 2026) and those of Haspelmath (2025): dlc.hypotheses.org/3865

Confs: 18th International Conference on Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics APLL is a conference for the presentation of research on any aspect of the linguistics of Austronesian and Papuan languages. Invited Speakers: - Mary Walworth - Yusuf Sawaki We invite you to present at APLL18 on any aspect of the linguistics of Austronesian and Papuan languages. Talks will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of discussion. To apply for a timeslot for your talk, please send us an abstract of your topic. Abstracts can be up to one A4 page, including everything excep

Confs: 18th International Conference on Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics

Books: New Immigrants and Multilingual Linguistic Landscape in Taiwan: Na and Coronel-Molina (2025) This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the multilingual linguistic landscape in Taoyuan City, Taiwan, focusing on the impact of new immigrants and the diverse range of languages they speak, across urban and peripheral areas. It examines the city's transition from a predominantly monolingual or bilingual Chinese–English signage environment to a vibrant multilingual one shaped by Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean and Southeast Asian languages. Employing ethnographic methods and geosemiot

Books: New Immigrants and Multilingual Linguistic Landscape in Taiwan: Na and Coronel-Molina (2025)

Books: The Emergence of Pragmatic Markers from Chinese Compounds in Chinese, Japanese and Korean: Higashiizumi and Shibasaki (eds.) (2025)

The effects of contextual tonal variation on Cantonese tone merging Previous studies on Cantonese tone merging have examined monosyllabic materials so far, yet disyllabic words are common in daily conversation. Sound change often originates from a pool of synchronic v...

Q: How does tonal coarticulation in disyllabic words of #Cantonese contribute to tone merging and inform research on #soundchange? A: The two interact dynamically, with carryover effects in extreme tonal contexts emerging as an important source of change. #LabPhon #openaccess doi.org/10.16995/lab...

Happy 3 years to me here in Germany! Some reflections about my PhD journey so far. ☺️

Planned Research Projects Here you can find an overview of all research projects and the corresponding job vacancies in the Cross-Cultural Philology Cluster of Excellence.

12 Phd/ 17 Postdoc positions (fully funded) in the new Cross-Cultural Philology Cluster at LMU Munich: www.lmu.de/crosscultura... (apply by Oct 21).

Database of Historical Sino-Japanese Readings | 資料横断的な漢字音・漢語音データベース
【2025.9.3 「70-054-01_和仏小辞典_神戸大学20250810」と「30-024-01_平家物語大東急記念文庫延慶本20250903」を追加しました。】

dhsjr.w.waseda.jp

Two random etymological realizations:

Tagalog tsitsirya is from Spanish chuchería

Tagalog Maja Blanca is probably from Spanish manjar

Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860–1960 Cambridge Core - History of Ideas and Intellectual History - Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860–1960

@dgtam86.bsky.social has written an excellent book on the former topic: Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860-1960 (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

www.cambridge.org/core/books/d...

Five Ph.D. positions at the Swedish Academy, for work on philology, textual criticism, linguistics, literary and source studies, language history etc. with possible areal focus on Chinese, among many other (apply by Sep 1). tinyurl.com/yc7pazec

I just started this bold attempt to transcribe the 1000+ page Dictionario Hispanico-Sinicum, a Chinese (Hokkien and Mandarin) - Spanish dictionary written in the 17th century. I spend around an hour per page. I should have started this earlier, but I get better at understanding it now than before.

Cover of "Research in Heritage Speaker Bilingualism"

Congrats to Profs. Amelia Tseng, @cbchang.bsky.social, Tania Leal, Jin Sook Lee, & Belem G. López on the publication of their book 📕 "Research in Heritage Speaker Bilingualism: Theories, Methods, and Designs" w/ @tandfresearch.bsky.social! 🤩🤩

#langsky 🐦🐦

www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

Call for Papers: Workshop on Queer Linguistics, Klagenfurt/Austria, December 2025, co-organized by Vroni Zieglmeier (Heidelberg)
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Books: Linguistic Dynamics in Heritage Speakers: Allen, Keller, Alexiadou, Wiese (eds.) (2025)