Martin Haspelmath

Leider hat sie die Ausgrenzung der Ungeimpften gerechtfertigt, ohne sich um die wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse zu kümmern.

Call for papers for Evolang 2026 is now out! evolang2026.org. @cogscisociety.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social

Mein Blogbeitrag im August, via @dehypotheses befasst sich mit Ambiguitäten von bestimmten sprachlichen Konstruktionen.

Von subjektiven und objektiven Fällen

https://wub.hypotheses.org/?p=2928

09.08. #Berlin: 80 Jahre nach #Hiroshima und #Nagasaki. Das Ensemble Incendo Berlin spielt Werke von Ludwig van Beethoven, Dmitri Schostakowitsch, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn, Erwin Schulhoff, Samuel Barber und Johann Sebastian Bach: ippnw.de/termine

What's a word? Quid verbum st? Flavio Cecchini on Latin "words" for UD (Universal Dependencies), inspired by Haspelmath (2023): aclanthology.org/anthology-fi...

Robin Lakoff

My Berkeley colleagues & I are saddened by the death of our colleague Robin Lakoff. Her 1972 book Language & Women's Place created the modern field of language & gender. She also wrote articulately, passionately & impactfully about Latin linguistics (Abstract Syntax & Latin Complementation, 1968) 1/

Why is Ted Gibson listed?

Happy 15th anniversary, Retraction Watch Once upon a time, a long time ago, two science journalists had an idea for a blog about retractions. And on Aug. 3, 2010, Retraction Watch launched, detailing in the first post why retractions matt…

Once upon a time, two science journalists had an idea for a blog about retractions. And on Aug. 3, 2010, Retraction Watch launched.

And now, 15 years and 6,700 posts later, that work seems more important than ever.

Happy 15th anniversary, Retraction Watch.

Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships: Expressions of interest can be submitted until 31 October 2025.

Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️ mpg.de/directors - Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.

Development developing - Biology & Philosophy Lala et al.’s (2024) Evolution Evolving is an excellent book. It offers a compelling case for the relevance of development to the study of evolution. It takes a pluralistic stance on the forms of unde...

Thanks to Tim Lewens for a wonderful review of our 'Evolution Evolving' book.

"In this exceptionally ambitious and impressive book, Lala and collaborators... show how an understanding of development is essential to an understanding of evolution"

Read it here: shorturl.at/mgGEm

#evolution #evodevo

The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology and Language Abstract. Linguists have long described their findings in an archaeological context, while archaeologists have been interested in what language can tell th

New volume on the interface between languages, human history, anthropology, archaeology and (a bit of) genetics, curated by M. Robbeets and M. Hudson. A very rich table of content for everyone interested in these multidisciplinary studies of the human past. I contributed two chapters:

If you're not WEIRD, you're WILD? Hmmm...

Language Evolution

Happy to contribute an article on #LanguageEvolution to the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science @oecs-bot.bsky.social

Everything you ever wanted to know about language evolution in ~1K words—well just scratching the surface 😉 dig into the references for more info

oecs.mit.edu/pub/18miikqb...

Durational differences between homophonous va affixes and non-morphemic va in Bora (Northwest Amazon) Acoustic differences between homophonous morphemes raise concerns for mainstream models of language production. But evidence for such differences so far comes a

/va/ and /va/ are not homophonous: New study shows durational differences between—presumably—homophonous forms in Amazonian Bora, based partially on DoReCo time-alignment: doi.org/10.1121/10.0...

Podcast episode 46: Philip Kraut on Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm In this interview, we talk to Philip Kraut about the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, their scholarly contributions and political engagement.

Mein Gespräch mit @jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social ist nun erschienen!

Podcast episode 46: Philip Kraut on Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
auf dem Blog:
"History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences" (@hiphilangsci.bsky.social )

open.spotify.com/episode/5UzW...

oder

hiphilangsci.net/2025/05/01/p...

Exciting new opening @nccrlanguage.bsky.social with the option of permanent extension. If you work in cutting-edge stats and are interested in joining a highly inter-disciplinary, vibrant community, don't hesitate to apply at tinyurl.com/3fxwjk8e

At moderate doses, it might have fuelled the spread of languages too. Could that have contributed to the complexification, I wonder? @vaclavhrncir.bsky.social and @kirrallina.bsky.social

Wehret den Anfängen!

New episode!! 🎙️📣

A chat w/ @sheinalew.bsky.social & @dorsaamir.bsky.social about childhood across cultures.

Humans everywhere go through childhood—a time of learning, growth, and play. But this universal stage of life can look very different in different places.

Listen: disi.org/varieties-of...

To appear soon (I hope)!

AFLiCo (the French Association for Cognitive Linguistics) is now on Bluesky! We’re here to share updates about AFLiCo, our journal @cognitextes.bsky.social , and highlights from our members' research in cognitive linguistics.
Follow us here—and on LinkedIn—for news, publications, and more.

Maybe the URL is not quite correct? It should be OA.

Congratulations to Thomas Stolz on the festschrift on the occasion of his 68th birthday (in open access): www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

My alternative home for over 16 years, @globalvoices.org, is running a donation drive in the face of a difficult funding environment. You all know why: the obliteration of foreign aid. They need your help. GV is a precious resource in today's media ecosystem: community powered, local expression.

Mark Walport begins conference by stating plainly that pre-pub peer review cannot reasonably be expected to assess quality of papers with 100 page supplements and terabytes of data

The abstracts for the upcoming SLE conference in Bordeaux are now available – over 600 talks, with abstracts on 1150 pages: societaslinguistica.eu/sle2025/sche...

Cool new @PeerCommunityIn.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy recommendation by @alexmesoudi.com of an article on melodic evolution by @johnmcbride4lyf.bsky.social et al.
evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...

An interesting exhibit at Leipzig University on Wilhelm Wundt, the founder of modern psychology (in Leipzig between 1875 and 1920). Alas, in 1914 he gave full support to the war, so he does not reach the height of true science heroes like Einstein. www.ub.uni-leipzig.de/aktuelle-aus...

Beitrag "Fußball und Frauenfußball? (Bezeichnungs-)Ungleichheiten im Fußball" von Karina Frick

Cover des Buches: Meier-Vieracker, S. (Ed.). (2024). Reingegrätscht! Eine kleine Linguistik des Fußballs.

Aus Anlass der Fußballeuropameisterschaft der Frauen sei allen dieser Beitrag von @karinafrick.bsky.social und eigentlich gleich der ganze Band sehr herzlich empfohlen.

Meier-Vieracker, S. (Ed.). (2024). Reingegrätscht! Eine kleine Linguistik des Fußballs. Narr. doi.org/10.24053/978...

Which Kind of Science Reform What hope is there for science reform, if we can't agree on what to reform? Right now, principles are more important than practices.

How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...