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Semantics of Natural Languages @semnatlangs.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

We're thrilled to announce the launch of Semantics of Natural Languages, a new diamond open access journal - the scholar-owned and -led successor to Natural Language Semantics, published with OLH under the auspices of LingOA. snl-journal.org The Editors Amy Rose Deal, Clemens Mayr, Florian Schwarz

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Kate Davidson @kathryndavidson.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

New out in Language: an experimental and theoretical study of the pragmatics of spatial loci with Dorothy Ahn and Annemarie Kocab. Maybe you're not supposed to have favorite collaborations, but I'll just say I feel a deep gratitude for the opportunity to work with these two! doi.org/10.1017/S009...

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Pragmatics of spatial descriptions: Sign language loci | Language | Cambridge Core

Pragmatics of spatial descriptions: Sign language loci

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Kate Davidson @kathryndavidson.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

We are hiring next year in semantics- one year positions of course less exciting and good for the field than straight up tenure track postings, but on the other hand hiring in something that isn’t computational feels like a win anymore in linguistics. Come bring some innovative takes on meaning!

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Lecturer in Linguistics (Semantics)

The Department of Linguistics seeks applications for a lecturer in linguistics, with a focus on teaching and advising in formal semantics. The ability to teach and advise students in another area in a...

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Kate Davidson @kathryndavidson.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

New paper with @romanfeiman.bsky.social's lab, special to me given the inspiration from a parenting observation, when my then-2yo would regularly (and sensibly) confuse "anything" with "nothing"; turns out she was not alone and we can learn something about negative concord and semantic variation too

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Kate Davidson @kathryndavidson.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Linguists, encourage potential postdocs who are AI/computationally focused to apply to these fellowships at the Kempner Institute!

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Isabel Papadimitriou @isabelpapad.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Why can’t LMs solve puzzles about the number systems of languages, when they can solve really complex math problems? Our new paper, led by @antararb.bsky.social looks at why this intersection of language and math is difficult, and what this means for LM reasoning! arxiv.org/abs/2506.13886

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Semantics and Linguistic Theory @saltconf.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

We are super excited to be hosting SALT 35 next week! Whether or not you can make it to the Harvard campus in Cambridge MA next week, you can preview the full program (with links to OSF repositories with abstracts, etc) here: saltconf.github.io/salt35/confe...

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Semantics and Linguistic Theory @saltconf.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Hi semantics friends, this is the SALT 35 organizers at Harvard taking over from our SALT 34 at Rochester colleagues! We begin with the hopefully welcome news that this year's abstract submission deadline is now this Friday (Dec. 20), extended from this Wed Dec. 18: saltconf.github.io/salt35/

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SALT35

The 35th meeting of Semantics and Linguistic Theory

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