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Stefan Müller

@StefanMuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy
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I am a linguist working at the @HumboldtUni. My main topics are German syntax and morphology. I am cofounder of @langscipress, a community-run open access […] [bridged from lingo.lol/@StefanMuelller on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026
3/ There are lexical approaches in CxG as well. Sign-Based Construction is lexical. Paul Kay suggested a lexical approach in 2005. The SBCG volume from 2012 explains why a lexical approach is needed. So authors and reviewers might know this.
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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026
2/ The situation is rather funny: All other theories in the book can do what CxG does. But #GPSG and phrasal #CxG fail on getting partial verb phrase fronting right and morphology like -bar `able' derivation. This is lexical rule vs. CxG coercion. Lexical rules […] [Original post on lingo.lol]
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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026
1/ So disappointing. I wrote paper after paper about #ConstructionGrammar and lexical models. The authors of this paper cite my book and claim that Construction Grammar is the only grammar that can deal with argument structure constructions. The book contains a […] [Original post on lingo.lol]
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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
2/ Now the fun part. It also added that I am a member of the Academia Europaea, which is true. But the year is wrong. I never got an ECR grant and I also did not get a Heisenberg grant. I was about to sent off an application in 2003. The letter was ready and I […] [Original post on lingo.lol]
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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 · 07/10/2026
9/ I swear that this was the only prompt. It came up with this GUI, where I can choose the number of processors, it updates the numbers of passed items and failed ones. It is just crazy!
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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
8/ Today I asked: "Kennst du [incr tsdb()] von Steaphan Oepen? Das ist eine Datenbank, die die Ergebnisse von Testläufen speichert. Man kann sie dann systematisch vergleichen. Unter ERG/tsdb liegen Beispieldaten. Unter skeletons sind die Datenbankschemata […] [Original post on lingo.lol]
Test GUI for TRALE
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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
7/ Have been working on parallelizing test suite runs yesterday and today. TRALE can be configured to use X processors and take all memory but some reserve amount. So I can make maximal use of my hardware. Some years ago I had to use a virtual machine since the system did not run natively on the […]
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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
6/ Then I continued to work on the grammars and on the #TRALE system itself. I got bug after bug fixed and I always asked for the optimum. Thinks I would not dare asking with human partners. The graphical diff works now for chart debugging. Macros with delayed […] [Original post on lingo.lol]
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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
5/ The next thing to ask for was to process the full #ERG grammar. This is the English Resource Grammar developed by Dan Flickinger. This works as well now. I can read the whole ERG and parse with it and inspect the structures. Amazing! #TRALE
Syntax tree with AVM produced with TRALE from the ERG
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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
4/ So, I asked the system whether it could write code for processing #TDL files. It did and this means I can keep my TDL specifications and work with the format that I consider better for the task. \o/ #TRALE #HPSG
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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
3/ and discovered that the format does not work for me. TRALE specifies a type together with all its subtypes. However, what one needs is the definition of a type via all its supertypes. This is what people do nowadays with large type hierarchies. It is a "is a" […] [Original post on lingo.lol]
Part of a type hierarchy
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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
2/ computed a type hierarchy including glb types. I wanted to continue working on the grammars, but the LKB system did not run any longer on my computer due to a OS update. Since I started playing with AI already I thought it would be great to have a non-Lisp/LKB based system that converts the […]
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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
2/ We particularly welcome candidates whose research engages with one or more of the following areas: multilingual language technology; computational approaches to speech, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics; language variation, processing, or learning; and language technology for […]
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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
2/ It is too bad that his book may be used as training material for #LLMs. This way it will not just confuse readers it will also confuse #AI systems.
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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 · 18/09/2026
Gosse Bouma died in a bicycle crash. He was a great colleague! #RIP www.condoleance.nl/19800
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Gosse Bouma - Hét nationaal condoleanceregister
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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 · 16/09/2026
Finally out our paper about #reduplication in #MandarinChinese: doi.org/10.1017/S0022226725101047 Have fun! #Chinese #Syntax #Morphology #Linguistics #Language #Grammar #HPSG
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Deliminative verbal reduplication in Mandarin Chinese | Journal of Linguistics | Cambridge Core
Deliminative verbal reduplication in Mandarin Chinese - Volume 62 Issue 3
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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
@stekopf Cool oder gruselig! Erinnert mich an #LucSteels, der vor langer, langer Zeit Agenten Vokabulare aushandeln lassen hat. Klassisches Beispiel sind Wörter für Farben. Hier ist ein Vortrag von ihm auch mit humanoiden Robotern. Von 2015. Luc Steels war der Chef von Sony #Robotics in Paris. […]
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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
2/ There is a noticeable difference between the authors. The difference between authors is bigger than the difference between individual authors and the LLMs. The good news is that LLM-generated text is recognizable. Zamaraeva, Olga, Dan Flickinger, Francis Bond & Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez. 2025 […]
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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 · 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 · 08/09/2026
3/ The example is all over the place:
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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
2/ Google explained: (I did not want AI but the strings but you get this anyway)
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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!
Google Scholar profile of Haj Ross with citation count of 13.000 and hindex of 10.
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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026
2/ Pulvermüller wrote about correlates in brains in 2003. Pulvermüller, Friedemann. 2003. The neuroscience of language: On brain circuits of words and serial order (none). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511615528.
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The Neuroscience of Language
Cambridge Core - Neurosciences - The Neuroscience of Language
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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
2/ #ClaudeAI provided me with references that made these distinctions, but they made it in the theory. Chomsky, LFG, HPSG. What was needed was the motivation for this. #AIfail
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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 · 03/08/2026
@christaduerscheid.bsky.social Wieso vorlesen? Das kann doch der Bot gleich miterledigen. /s
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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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Functional Consciousness — A Measurable Property of Mind
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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 · 06/06/2026
In terms of search engine optimization, #Minimalism was a failure. #Syntax #grammar #linguistics
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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 · 30/05/2026
@pabloredux.bsky.social Yes, Mülller with three l is my pseudonym.
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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2026
@christaduerscheid.bsky.social Dieser automatische Übersetzung war nicht gut.
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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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