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Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Version 1.1. of the Grammaticon is now online. I keep working on it, but finding good definitions is often hard. For 138 of the 516 concepts, the definition is still preliminary (indicated by [[...]]). Suggestions are welcome! grammaticon.clld.org/concepts
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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
FYI: Metagram Seminar Series on Grammar Writing
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FYI: Metagram Seminar Series on Grammar Writing
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
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
LINGUISTICS INSTITUTE 2027 back at U of Oregon!
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Kevin C @somelinguist.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
@mikeaubrey.bsky.social Do you know of any helpful resources about non-restrictive relative clauses in Ancient/NT Greek?
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Joey Lovestrand @joeylovestrand.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Anyone know to make a world map in R (ggplot) that is centered around the Pacific?
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alexbergs.bsky.social @alexbergs.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
New International Construction Grammar Association (ICGA)! icgaonline.wpcomstaging.com announced at ICCG14 thanks to @adelegoldberg.bsky.social Sign up forms.gle/gXYDKC6xavkU... @alexbergs.bsky.social H Boas M Fried, @stefanhartmann.bsky.social Th Hoffmann F Masini B Nir @remivantrijp.bsky.social
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International Construction Grammar Association
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Stefan Hartmann @stefanhartmann.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
At #ICCG14 in Princeton (huge thanks to @adelegoldberg.bsky.social & team for a brilliant conference!) we announced our plans for the International #ConstructionGrammar Association (ICGA), to be officially founded at #ICCG15 in Kiel in 2028. See here for more information: construction-grammar.org
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International Construction Grammar Association
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Stefan Hartmann @stefanhartmann.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
We are organizing the 11th edition of the Grammar & Corpora conference #GaC2027 at @hhu.de - check out our new website and our call for papers and theme sessions!
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Grammar and Corpora 2027 @gac2027.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Our website is now online! gac2027.phil.hhu.de Deadline for theme session submissions: July 12 Deadline for paper submissions: October 15
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Grammar and Corpora 2027
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romain-deneau.bsky.social @romain-deneau.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Most languages let you pattern-match on what data IS. #FSharp lets you pattern-match on what data MEANS. Active Patterns reshape data so you can match on business concepts instead of raw structure. And they compose. 🔗 rdeneau.gitbook.io/safe-clean-a... #DotNet #PatternMatching #FuncProg
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What if your pattern matching could call functions? | Safe Clean Architecture
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Marianne Hundt @hundtmariann.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Great new Cambridge Element out: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Constructions, Networks and Linguistic Change
Cambridge Core - Semantics and Pragmatics - Constructions, Networks and Linguistic Change
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Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Version 1.0 of the Grammaticon is now online! This has been in the making for over eight years. Quite a few of the entries are still preliminary, but I hope to expand and improve it over the coming months and years. Comments are welcome! An intro text is here: dlc.hypotheses.org/4316
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Benoît Leclercq @benoitleclercq.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
📣 "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...
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Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
My indefinite-pronoun data from 1997 are now part of the CrossGram database – not the well-known "implicational maps" (as CrossGram does not store images), but all 140 indefinite pronoun markers from the core set of 40 languages (crossgram.clld.org/contribution...), plus all 433 glossed examples.
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Remi van Trijp @remivantrijp.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Excited to share that our book "History of Ideas in the Science of AI" (co-authored with Luc Steels and Ann Dooms) is now freely available as #OpenAccess! #OpenScience, #AIResearch, #HistoryOfAI doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
History of Ideas in the Science of AI
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Thom Scott-Phillips @thomscottphillips.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
No question, this is the most original paper I have ever written It says that something that seems plain and obvious - humans have an intuitive sense of what is and is not grammatical - and describes how this apparent common sense is actually misleading Thread coming soon!
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Remi van Trijp @remivantrijp.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
I believe #ConstructionGrammar has outgrown some of its founding metaphors (slot-fillers; inheritance networks). In this #OpenAccess paper I propose two frame shifts in constructional thought: doi.org/10.1515/zaa-...
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Moving Past Slot-Fillers: Balancing English Argument Structure with Fluid Construction Grammar
Constructional approaches view argument structure constructions as grammatical templates with open slots to be filled by verbs and their arguments, organized in an inheritance network. This paper argu...
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T Hoffmann @linguistur.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
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...
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Creative Construction Grammar
Cambridge Core - Cognitive Linguistics - Creative Construction Grammar
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Cambridge University Press - Linguistics @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · 06/12/2025
New Cambridge Element, Creative Construction Grammar, by Thomas Hoffmann and Mark Turner, out now! Read Open Access at cup.org/4pkd1np #languageandlinguistics #LangSky
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Joey Lovestrand @joeylovestrand.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Forthcoming from Language Science Press... langsci-press.org/catalog/book...
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Directional extensions in Chadic languages | Language Science Press
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Benoît Leclercq @benoitleclercq.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
📙 '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... 🔁 Feel free to share!
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Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
New draft paper: ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/008...
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Laura A. Michaelis @congramqueen.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Register now for the LSA Linguistic Institute in Eugene, OR: over 80 courses over two 2.5-week terms (July 7-22::July 24-August 8). I'm teaching Constructions & the Grammar of Context with E Francis in session 1! center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/
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Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute
Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute
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Benoît Leclercq @benoitleclercq.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
✨LLcD workshop - "Experimental Approaches to Construction Grammar" With Mégane Lesuisse, our workshop proposal for LLcD 2025 has just been accepted! 📢 Submit your abstracts before March 30th. (Submission details: llcd2025.sciencesconf.org?forward-acti...) 📜 Full workshop description:
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Benoît Leclercq @benoitleclercq.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
📢 *Open Access* Thrilled to announce that my book "Linguistic Knowledge and Language Use" has just been flipped open access! Thanks to @helenbarton2004.bsky.social from @cambup-linguistics.bsky.social. The book & individual chapters can be downloaded here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
This might be the best Linguistic Institute (summer camp for linguists) ever! and I hosted one and have taught at half a dozen They're always great, but this one...😘 center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/pro...
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Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Need a stylesheet to recommend to your students for their papers? Try the Generic Style Rules for Linguistics: www.eva.mpg.de/linguistics/...
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Generic Style Rules - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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Matt Eason @matteason.me · 19/01/2025
It's cool how AI has made the maths machines incapable of doing maths
Google search for "300 pixels per inch in mm per pixel"

At the top is an AI overview which reads:

300 pixels per inch (PPI) is equal to 25.4 millimeters per pixel. 
Explanation

    1 inch is equal to 25.4 millimeters 

To convert pixels per inch to millimeters per pixel, divide the number of pixels by the number of pixels per inch, then multiply by 25.4
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Stefan Hartmann @stefanhartmann.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
First #Constructions paper in 2025: "ConstructiCon-based description: A nominal modification case study" by Shahar Shirtz & Rebecca Paterson doi.org/10.24338/con...
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ConstructiCon-based description: A nominal modification case study | Constructions
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Katrien Beuls @katbeuls.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Humans learn language from situated communicative interactions. And that makes all the difference! Find out why in our latest article in Computational Linguistics: doi.org/10.1162/coli... #CompLing #CxG #LLMs #NLProc
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Humans Learn Language from Situated Communicative Interactions. What about Machines?
Abstract. Humans acquire their native languages by taking part in communicative interactions with their caregivers. These interactions are meaningful, intentional, and situated in their everyday envir...
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
SRCD#2 @relbelluck.bsky.social again! After exclusions to determine they understand the task, 3-5 yr old autistic children are found to recognize the importance of shape. The few that don't can learn it via a simple intervention: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/s0lw0...
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Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
"Why are universals of grammar easier to explain than geographical patterns?" Talk presented at EACL-1: zenodo.org/records/1447...
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Why are universals of grammar easier to explain than geographical patterns?
Since the 1920s, geographical patterns of grammatical properties have been discussed occasionally, and since the 1990s, the discussion of large-scale areality has become an important part of comparati...
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 16/12/2024
Wrote up some notes on Microsoft's new Phi-4 LLM. They trained it on a LOT of synthetic data, and the details of how and why they did that are really interesting. simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/15/...
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Phi-4 Technical Report
Phi-4 is the latest LLM from Microsoft Research. It has 14B parameters and claims to be a big leap forward in the overall Phi series. From [Introducing Phi-4: Microsoft’s Newest …
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Katharina Pabst (she/her) 🟥 @kpabst.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
This promises to be such an exciting contribution to the field of sociolinguistics - cannot wait to read it! Really grateful it will be published open access so my students and I can access it right away...
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
The "when phrases act as words" paper ⬇️ documents & motivates the coerced familiarity, (mild) wittiness & sarcasm of 'phrasal compounds' @shaharshirtz. Seinfeld quote is a bonus To appear, Language www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/pehxt...
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Cadernos de Linguística @cadlin.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath.bsky.social examines linguistic universals, typology, and the links between language diversity, culture, AI, and education in this Abralin talk. Learn how interdisciplinary work advances our understanding of languages.
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Martin Haspelmath
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Elisabeth Norcliffe @enorcliffe.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Thrilled that our paper "Verbs of perception: A quantitative typological study", with @asifamajid.bsky.social has been awarded Best Paper in Language! Very grateful to @lingsocam.bsky.social
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2025 LSA Award Winners
2025 LSA Award Winners
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Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
🐦🐦 Join us this summer for the Usage-based Approaches to Phonology Conference July 12-13 at the University of Oregon. The conference is open to diverse methodologies investigating the effects of use on phonology! Abstracts due Feb. 15, 2025 #linguistics #langsky sites.google.com/view/usage-b...
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The Usage-based Approaches to Phonology Conference will take place July 12-13, 2025 at the University of Oregon. This is co-located conference held during the Summer Institute of the Linguistic Societ...
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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 15/11/2024
Are you interested in islands? This is a very carefully written book about #islands describing many experiments and debunking some myths about them. A must read for everybody working in Generative Grammar. langsci-press.org/catalog/book/362 #syntax #grammar
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Gareth Roberts @garicgymro.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Optimist: the cup is half full. Pessimist: the cup is half empty Linguist: could you say "cup" again? Where did you grow up?
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Remi van Trijp @remivantrijp.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
A brief teaser on Fluid Construction Grammar #ConstructionGrammar #Linguistics #ComputationalLinguistics youtu.be/a2zCYb7kE1A?...
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Fluid Construction Grammar
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Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
My draft paper on biverbal constructions proposes retro-definitions of "converb", "auxiliary", and "grammaticalization" (which is defined narrowly so it doesn't include monoclausalization). Can these definitions be improved upon? www.academia.edu/123995829/Bi...
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Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Introducing the CrossGram collection of typological databases: dlc.hypotheses.org/3690
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