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📣 "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...

Syntactic Variation from Individuals to Populations Cambridge Core - Grammar and Syntax - Syntactic Variation from Individuals to Populations

New Cambridge Element in Construction Grammar: Syntactic Variation from Individuals to Populations, by Jonathan Dunn, out now! Read for free for the next 2 weeks at
cup.org/3L9VdMZ
#cambridgeelements #constructiongrammar

New Cambridge Element, Creative Construction Grammar, by Thomas Hoffmann and Mark Turner, out now! Read Open Access at
https://cup.org/4pkd1np
#languageandlinguistics #LangSky

Creative Construction Grammar Cambridge Core - Cognitive Linguistics - Creative Construction Grammar

Finally out & open access: Hoffmann & Turner on Creative Construction Grammar. How do we communicate complex meanings? How do we combine words into sentences?

#creativity #language #linguistics #Construction Grammar

Find out at

www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Youtube-Analyse und GenKI #Konstruktionsgrammatik YouTube video by Alexander Lasch

YouTube analysis with GenKI: No more tedious searching for linguistic phenomena for the analysis of language in multimodal contexts!

#ConstructionGrammar #GenKI #linguistics #linguistik

youtube.com/shorts/6bJrZ...

Coming soon - Turner & Hoffmann on Creative Construction Grammar. In this, we argue that the domain-general process of Conceptual Blending is the cognitive operation that combines constructions. BTW this will be published open access!

www.cambridge.org/core/element...

#CfP alert! 🚨 The call for papers and theme sessions for the next International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Conference (Bielefeld, 31.08.-02.09.2026) is finally out 🎉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...

Just finished reviewing @grambelli.bsky.social's book (available soon): a clear and engaging synthesis of the major strands of work on compositionality, analogy, and usage, while pushing #ConstructionGrammar toward a more explicit engagement with processing and computation. Highly recommended!

The Academic Contribution Framework: a flawed, discriminatory response to a failure of management’s making — UCU Edinburgh The ACF is the mechanism by which management will size up workers for redundancy targets that we already know are arbitrary. The ACF is obviously bad. It will be personally devastating for many collea...

"Edinburgh is one of the wealthiest universities in the UK" and, yet, here we are. How? Why? Staff/students did not create this problem-- they keep the uni running through endless crisis. It's time for "leaders" to accept they have failed and step down.

www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/gacde2g...

Image of Forensic Linguistics Elements series

Have you seen our Forensic Linguistics elements series? Edited by @timgrant123.bsky.social & Tammy Gales, this series offers cutting-edge research, theoretical advancements, & discussions of historical development across all areas of language & law.

https://cup.org/48Ah0ac

#LangSky 🐦🐦 #CrimSky

Thank you to the organisers of 13th International Conference SLOVKO 2025 on Natural Language Processing and Corpus Linguistics for inviting me to talk about ‘Constructional Creativity - The Role of Corpus Data’ #creativity #CxG

The Interaction Engine Cambridge Core - Semantics and Pragmatics - The Interaction Engine

just finished steve levinson's new book! it's a beautifully articulated argument for social interaction as the evolutionary niche which made language possible, rather than the other way around. progress in linguistics depends on a stronger science of interaction.

www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...

RIP Peter Eisenberg (1940-2025), syntactician of German, phonologist, orthography specialist, and very public linguist (who was not afraid of controversies). He was my second PhD advisor in 1990-93, and an important person in my life during those years at FU Berlin. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_E...

PS: und mit Trikotkauf, Ticketkauf, Sky- & DAZN-Abos, Rekordeinschaltquoten bei ARD/ZDF & Co, etc. unterstützt man das System.

Aber zum Thema - und das muss man nüchtern sehen: Im Männerfußball ist viel Geld, weil Sponsoren (und Scheichs, Oligarchen und Co.) Unsummen reinpumpen. Die würden das alle nicht machen, wenn es sich für sie nicht irgendwie rechnen würde 3/3

Alleine, dass die Karten für das letzte Länderspiel über 100€ kosteten ist ein Hohn. Nicht mal, weil sie nicht gut spielen. Aber da sollen Kinder und Jugendliche Unsummen zahlen, um die Mannschaft eines gemeinnützigen Vereins zu sehen! 2/3

Vorab: Ich finde das auch nicht gut. Aber der Profi-Männerfußball ist reines Big Business. Die ganze Fanromantik ist da schöne Selbsttäuschung. Wenn ich ein Buch drüber schreiben würde, wäre der Titel ‚You already walk alone‘. 1/3

Multimodal Construction Grammar Cambridge Core - Semantics and Pragmatics - Multimodal Construction Grammar

And... here's another brilliant Element! Congrats to Elisabeth! Come and get it while it's hot (and free). (Waves Hands Enthusiastically)

www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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

Robin Lakoff, Expert on Language and Gender, Is Dead at 82

A brilliant linguist and sociolinguist, RIP
Gift article from NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...

📌 👉 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!

lancasteruniversity: Corpus linguistics and new technologies: data, language and society | edX In an era of AI and big data, understanding language through data is essential. This hands-on course from Lancaster University—a global leader in corpus linguistics—teaches you to build, query, and an...

Check it out - the corpus MOOC is back (15th September) on a new platform (edX) exploring new topics, including AI. One thing has not changed - it is still free to access 😁 Find out more here: www.edx.org/learn/social...

RTG - Universität Bielefeld Der SFB setzt sich für eine qualitativ hochwertige Ausbildung von Doktoranden und Postdoktoranden ein und bietet Nachwuchswissenschaftlern ein Umfeld, das es ihnen ermöglicht, ihr Potenzial voll zu en...

Call for incoming researchers for 2026: Come to #Bielefeld and #CRC1646 on a scholarship and work with us on linguistic creativity! All details can be found here: www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/...

#BLinguistik #linguistics

Support: New Funding Opportunity for Students, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg The DFG-funded Research Training Group Dimensions of Constructional Space at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg is seeking to appoint a doctoral researcher for project 7: Subject-inversion throughout Early Modern English: changing relations in individual and communal constructicons. The PhD researchers will be employed on a 65% basis on an TV-L13 scale for three years, starting 1 October 2025. More details about the project can be found on https://www.cxg.phil.fau.eu/proje

Support: New Funding Opportunity for Students, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

📙 'The Meaning of Constructions' is out now!
A short book on how meaning works in Construction Grammar - covering semantic, pragmatic & social dimensions.
🔓 Open access for two weeks. Download from: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
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FYI: FYI: Editorial change JB bookseries CAL As of Volume 41 Remi van Trijp (Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris) will succeed Kyoko Ohara (Keio University, Japan) and Jan-Ola Östman (University of Helsinki, Finland), and join Mirjam Fried (Charles University, Czech Republic) as editor of the bookseries Constructional Approaches to Language. Kyoko Ohara and Jan-Ola Östman will remain member of the Advisory Board. The Constructional Approaches to Language (CAL) series brings together research conducted within different constructional

FYI: FYI: Editorial change JB bookseries CAL

Summer School 2025 - Universität Bielefeld Die Sommerschule 2025 des Sonderforschungsbereichs (SFB 1646: „Linguistische Kreativität“) der Universität Bielefeld. Alle Termine und Informationen finden Sie hier.

Exciting news! ✨ Do you want to ...
👩‍💻... work on linguistic creativity
🌄 ... get to know #Bielefeld
Here is your chance: The 1st Summer School on Linguistic Creativity, hosted by CRC 1646, from July 21st-25th 2025. More info here: www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/...

#linguistics #BLinguistik

We have some, well 13(!), amazing PhD-positions on construction grammar. Grab your chance & join us in Erlangen! www.cxg.phil.fau.eu/projects/new...

We are disappointed but not surprised that Meta has used millions of pirated books to develop its AI systems.

As a matter of urgency, Meta needs to compensate the rightsholders of all the works it has been exploiting.

But what can authors do? Read here:
societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...

Hype, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, the podcasters who love him — and how the New York Times’ commentary on AI has degenerated into industry cheerleading Real journalists do due diligence

Have truly lost patience with the New York Times’ editorial coverage of AI, which has basically degenerated into industry cheerleading.

They are completely misrepresenting what most academics believe about AGI.

I detail some blunders here:

open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...