Bonjour Wim! J'aimerais aussi être ajouté, merci beaucoup!
Bonjour Wim! J'aimerais aussi être ajouté, merci beaucoup!
Yes! We'd be delighted to see you in Toulouse!
The medieval room in Musée des Augustins, with fake columns suporting medieval capitels.
A medieval sculpture showing an angel leading people out of hell
The grand stairs at Musée des Augustins
An 18th century painting showing two philosophers
In the recently reopened Musée des Augustins in Toulouse today. The medieval room is such a delight!
Transalpine Typology Meeting is coming to Munich this year (26–28 November)! We invite submissions for presentations on topics related to linguistic typology and comparative linguistics. The deadline for abstract submission is 15 April 2026. Spread the word! sites.google.com/unipv.it/tra...
Hauser, Chomsky and Fitch 2002 is one of the most cited papers in linguistics. Hauser has since been found guilty of research misconduct. Chomsky told his racist, slave-trading, child-raping friend that he thought MeToo had gone too far.
Maybe it‘s time for better role models.
After more than ten years of preparation, our Manual of French-based Creoles is finally available for download.
What better place to announce this publication than during a visit to Martinique?
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Fok zot kouri gadé-y !
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Just published "Negation in the worlds languages" (3 vols) edited by Matti Miestamo & Ljuba Veselinova with Héloïse Calame. #rcg #openaccess langsci-press.org/catalog/book...
#OTD 100 years ago, Luise Hercus (1926–2018) was born 🎉 She initially focused on Middle Indo-Aryan languages, but later turned to fieldwork, documenting a number of Australian Indigenous languages such as Paakantyi, Wirangu, and Diyari.
#WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays
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Just published "A grammar of Hewramî" by Masoud Mohammadirad #cogl #openaccess langsci-press.org/catalog/book...
Validation par le droit du fait que l'écriture inclusive est bien du français. Cette décision a été prise en 2023 (voir ci-dessous) et entérinée par le Conseil d’État récemment.
Bon, c'est juste du bon sens, l'usage du point médian en français peut difficilement être autre chose que du français.
Ma langue natale, a documentary about some of the last speakers of #normand
www.france.tv/france-3_nor...
#Oïl #normaund #GalloRomance
📖 ‘To be or not to be?’ That’s just the beginning of a linguistic mystery
The linguist Dr Luca Ciucci is among the editors of a new 1,300-page work exploring how the world's languages handle ‘to be’. Here, he reveals more about his research 👇
@lingulist.de #linguistics 🧪
A curated global dataset of social contact between diverse language communities
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🐺 L'occitan a una regularitat dins la formacion de d'unes mots. Atal per "far los pichons", mas sonque se siètz un mamifèr ! Emai pel lop doncas, que coneis son fais de derivats, çò explica Xavier Bach... 🧑🏫
5-year (!) postdoc opportunity: Join our Edinburgh team and do fieldwork on the Burun languages!
Deadline for application: 17 December.
Position starts March 1st, 2025
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
A special issue on Occitan literature in the 17th century, with a contribution with colleagues on early traces of dance music in Occitan for the violin, and so much more (Christmas carols in Toulouse, Gascon in Canada, polyphony in Provence...)
New publication, open access:
De la marchandise au consulat : accès à une littératie vernaculaire à Montpellier au xiiie siècle
Xavier Bach et Pierre-Joan Bernard
doi.org/10.4000/156pz
#medievalsky #linguistics #Occitan #Montpellier
This just in from #Cornwall on #Kernewek #linguistics
Who wants to be the new professor for general #linguistics in Cologne? 👀
ifl.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/sites/lingui...
solidarity with all colleagues and students at Nottingham who are having their jobs and degrees destroyed by management. the relentless annihilation of language provision in UKHE is something that *every* academic should be calling out and pushing back against.
Le livre de Philippe Blanchet sur la glottophobie est désormais disponible gratuitement sur internet. À lire pour vous faire une idée sur les discriminations liées aux langues et à nos manières de nous exprimer.
www.lambert-lucas.com/livre/discri...
Interesting Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. B theme issue: "A solid base for scaling up: the structure of numeration systems". Edited by Andrea Bender, Jean-Charles Pelland, @simongreenhill.bsky.social, & @coollinguist.bsky.social
royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
My paper "Base structures across lexical and notational numeral modalities" (PhilTransB) addresses a whole class of questions around the role that semiotic modality, and specifically number words vs. number symbols, plays in the structure of numerical systems.
C'est déjà fait avec Adam Raine, non?
Excited to see Gender Linguistics officially launched during LILG 2025 here at @hhu.de – and to share this moment with so many colleagues passionate about language and gender.
Looking forward to your submissions!
#linguistics
In Turin to work on the unpublished morphological data collected for the Atlante linguistico italiano. The city is great, and the data wonderful! #RomanceLinguistics #ALI #Torino
This year's #cilfr has been a wonderful week: lots of colleagues, plenty of linguistics, real scientific discussion. A beautiful celebration for 100 years of #slr Plus Lecce is an absolutely beautiful city!
📖📢PARUTION "LE CARTULAIRE DES TRENCAVEL" PAR @htldv.bsky.social (ÉD.)
📚Le dernier ouvrage paru dans la collection des documents inédits sur l'histoire de France est disponible dès aujourd'hui.
➡️ Se procurer l'ouvrage : cths.fr/ed/edition.p...
➡️ En savoir plus sur nos éditions : cths.fr/ed/index.php