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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

1/ I had to prepare a CV for the upcoming SFB proposal for the next phase. I thought I ask our university LLM to fill in the data about my career steps from my webpage and it did this. In addition it completed the major works section by just guessing. The guesses […] [Original post on lingo.lol]

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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

RE: climatejustice.social/@stefanmuelll… 1/ I reported here a bit about my adventure with AI coding. I am porting 18 grammars for the new edition of my textbook. The new edition is already published, but I had not finished grammars 15 to 18. HPSG uses large type […]

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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

1/ #Jobs #Job Rob Malouf Professor of Linguistics Chair, Department of Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages San Diego State University The #Sa Diego State University Department of #Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages seeks to hire a tenure-track assistant professor with […]

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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

1/ Do you want to know what I did in the summer of 2020? And 2021? And 2023? I read a manuscript by Jong-Bok Kim. For two publishers. He did not fix the problematic aspects but just went on tho the second publisher. They asked me again for a review. No he finally published the book with […]

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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

1/ This is a draft of the sixth edition of my Grammatical theory textbook: hpsg.hu-berlin.de/~stefan/Pub/gramm… There is a new (brief) chapter on #LLMs. (Chapter 24) It deals with the question whether the whole book is pointless now since we have so great theories […]

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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

A thought: I am not one of those who go shopping to get kicks. Maybe I do not need this since I search research papers in the web and I get my kicks this way. Happy to have found this Xerox report from 1980 by Martin Kay.

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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Alexander Koller programmed a new version of #Utool. A cool software to compute scopings from underspecified representations and for visualizing. This is now integrated into #TRALE. Here is how to install TRALE and Utool: hpsg.hu-berlin.de/Software/Trale The new version of my HPSG […]

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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

1/ Dan Flickinger pointed me to this paper about LLMs. The authors used #LLMs to generate NYT style text and compared the results with texts written by humans. They parsed the samples with the #ERG, a large-scale #HPSG grammar for #English, written by Dan. They could show that the text by humans […]

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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Just checked whether Davd Perlmutter has a #GoogleScholar profile. He does not. But he discovered unaccusativity and this seems to be acknowledged more in recent times. Maybe Pullum's rant about citation etiquette had some effect after all. www.jstor.org/stable/4047595

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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

1/ Well, „She sneezed the foam off the cappucino“ may seem unusual/unheard for non-linguists, but it is the standard example in the Construction Grammar literature and of course AI models read about it. So, no surprise that ChatGPT could say something about it.

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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Wow! This is a case with a huge difference in perceived fame, actual influence, citation count and #hindex: Haj Ross! One of my favorite linguists!

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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

1/ Ok. Interesting. Adele Goldberg gave up on #grammar. I think there should be symbols representing something we also find within brains and that there should be weighted constraints. Pulvermüller wrote about correlates in brains in 2003. #ConstructionGrammar […] [Original post on lingo.lol]

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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

1/ Fun: I asked #ClaudeAI for help concerning the issue of part of speech, grammatical function and argument/adjunct. I wanted to convince somebody that these are independent dimensions without pointing to my work. Claude failed in the same way as students asked for parts of speech in […]

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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Does anybody know what happened to the web server of Cambridge University Press? It is down for days now. #CUP

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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

How do you recognize AI generated code? It is well-documented. I never commented in a signature … #TRALE #HPSG

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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

Frank Bergmann, an old friend of mine, is giving a talk at #AGI2026. About AI and conciousness. We did parallel #Prolog back in 1995. This is #symbolicAI He is a Buddhist and a philosopher and an AI person. Cool mix. #GeneralAI #AI functional-consciousness.com

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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

I just realized that #AI will really help solving the #climatecrisis. Since conferences will be overwhelmed by junk submissions, reviewing will be given up. Nobody can do this any longer and nobody is willing to read the junk. As a result, we will meet our few buddies locally and at least the […]

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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

Nice workshop about #LLMs with the Constraint-based Grammar gang. #GALL: Grammar in the Age of Large Language Models www.cs.toronto.edu/~gpenn/gall/prog…

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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

Ted Gibson wrote a paper with the title "Dependency syntax is the simplest theory of grammar". I think the first mistake is the title: #grammar is much more than syntax. The problem of the simplicity claim is that other areas of grammar are simply ignored. And other parts of #syntax. This is my […]

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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2026

1/ Good morning. Or evening, wherever you are. =:-) I started an international platform for #climateprotection. It is not just about your individual footprint, but about political action, which is much more important. It combines a permanent petition to our governments with action oriented […]

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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2026

Please see the links below for the details of talks that will take place at ZAS on June 3rd and 4th: Luigi Rizzi will give talks on both days, and on the 4th, there is a locality workshop that will feature, in addition to Rizzi, talks by Gereon Müller, Uli Sauerland, Sten Vikner , and Adriana […]

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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2026

After some complaints the OA version of Ted Gisbons book on Dependency Syntax is available as #OpenAccess. direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/6… I do not agree that #DependencyGrammar is the simplest theory of grammar, but I do agree that the notion of […]

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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026

Oh, a paper citing me is hostet on cyberleninka. At least it is not cyberputinka …

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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2026

Yes, sir. I will submit immediately. But did you notice that 1) the paper is already published 2) it is about LLMs and not about Business Information Systems? Maybe #AI will improve the #SPAM that we get.

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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2026

Linguists saved money for graphic design. Or may be they did not even know that such a thing exists.

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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2026

1/ „Every campaign gets a minimum of 100,000 impressions. Your paper is recent and that counts for a lot. Would 15 minutes work to talk through what we could do with it? P.S. I know you probably get a lot of automated email. This isn’t that. I’ve looked at your paper.“ I guess one can end an […]

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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2026

1/ What is the job of publishers? The organize reviewing (well, this is what we scientists do in the end), they organize typesetting (well, depending on the subject, this is what we scientists do. Otherwise they mess up everything in India and we have to fix things in multiple rounds of […]

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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2026

Just a hint to editors. Do not send Microsoft documents on to reviewers as you receive them. They may give lots and lots of information away. Printed at, last saved by, created by.

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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 13/04/2026

1/ “The results based on the multi-feature Mismatch Negativity (MMN) design indicated that phrasal verbs are considered as lexical units. It is evident that the increased level of activation observed for real phrasal verbs, in contrast to pseudo-verb-particle combinations, implies that a verb […]

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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2026

Did somebody tell you that German is a V2 language. Well, it is. Except sometimes. Well, maybe even then. =:-) Look at this: [Das erste Mal] [mit dem Thema] [in Kontakt] kam sie während ihres Studiums zu Ökolandbau und Vermarktung in Eberswalde. These apparent multiple frontings are described […]

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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026

Love the Dutch title of the paper: Theoretische Aspekten van Partikelvooropplaatsing For me it sound like Platzen, like exploding particle verbs. Sorry.

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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2026

I am recording an installation tutorial for the #TRALE system. It uses homebrew and I need some time to bridge during the downloads. I had the idea of telling jokes. Do you know any #linguistics related #jokes? I know just one. #joke

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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2026

You know that you are a nerd, when you spent half an hour to get the page number of the index entry for recursion into the displayed pages of the #recursion entry. #texlive

Index entry for recursion referring to itself and listing the page number on which it appears.

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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 12/03/2026

My most favorite table of contents. By one of my most favorite linguists. =:-)

TOC that lists tons of subsections but most without a section title. So the author obviously considered the subsections units, but did not tell us why.

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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

Why are they doing this to us? I want this book! Why do I have to download 15 files instead of the book? Did these publishers ever talk to their costumers? #OUP

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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 13/02/2026

Hi, there are still people out there believing in parameters being in our genes? Is there a recent paper setting that straight for non-biologists? I have the following: Elman, Jeffrey L., Elizabeth A. Bates, Mark H. Johnson, Annette Karmiloff-Smith, Domenico Parisi & Kim Plunkett. 1996 […]

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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026

This is what profit-oriented publishers with several hundreds of years of experience give you. What you see there should be an AVM. But it is just gibberish. #DeGruyter

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2026

Job offer: full-time postdoctoral position – Digitality of Historical Research – to start on 1st of July 2026. The contract is fixed-term and limited to a maximum of five years. Salary: German pay grade TV-L EG 13. Please send your application by 09.03.2026 […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

Graphic withe the words „We are hiring“ on it.

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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2026

This is a proof that one does not need #MicrosoftWord to get the kerning wrong. The paper is from 1937. Bill Gates was not even born back then. #layout #typography

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Mike Prior-Jones @drmikepj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2026

I know this is pretty small beer in the light of world events, but I was not expecting to have to write “risk of invasion by the USA” into the risk assessment for my fieldwork in Greenland in June.

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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 19/12/2025

„Sign-Based Construction Grammar is an extension of Berkeley Construction Grammar.“ But can there be an extension of something inconsistent? Logically you can infer everything from inconsistent stuff. If you add things it does not get better. Or worse. I would […] [Original post on lingo.lol]

These conundrums are addressed by Sign-Based Construction Grammar (SBCG; Sag 2012; Michaelis 2012, 2015; Sag et al 2012), an extension of BCG that embodies lexicalist commitments common to HPSG (Miiller and Wechsler 2014). SBCG expands the canon of

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