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The Metagram seminar is a monthly seminar on questions of grammaticography and metagrammaticography. The seminar takes place the second Tuesday of each month, Feb-May and Sept-Dec, in hybrid mode. Linguists who have written significant reference grammars are invited to discuss their grammaticographical practices and experiences. They are asked to address a list of topics, covering questions such as structuring schemes, influences, use of exemplification, integration of the corpus into the gramm

Clause-embedding predicates alternating between a complement expressing a belief and a complement expressing an intention seem to be quite widespread both inside and across languages. The two differen...

In the following interview, Annemarie Verkerk and Russell Gray answer Martin Haspelmath's questions about their paper "Enduring constraints on grammar revealed by Bayesian spatiophylogenetic analyses"...

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A hands-on, accessible guide for investigating the meaning of noun phrases.Why do many languages have definite and indefinite articles, while many others d

Thinking about language structures is made difficult not only by their incredible complexity, but also by entrenched ways of thinking about grammatical and lexical patterns. Linguists do not investiga...

In this interview, we talk to Penny Lee about her research into Whorf and linguistic relativity.

Participants at the first phonological conference, organized by the CLP in December 1930 in Prague organised to celebrate the centenary of the Prague Linguistic Circle (1926-2026)by the Europe-Eura…

In early April 1989, the international “Cognitive Linguistics” movement was born. Probably not everyone knows that it has a precise birthday, so let me recount the event here from my own perspective –...

The family tree remains the main metaphor for describing the evolutionary history and relationships of languages. Languages, like biological species, evolve following processes such as descent with m...