Temporary teaching job at my lab (paternity leave cover) Dear all, from 18.10.2026 to 31.07.2027 I have an opening for a high teaching load position (100% / TVL-13 / 18 SWS i.e. 8-9 courses per semester). #temporaryteachingjob #paternityleave #cognitivelinguistics
🚨Job alert🚨 Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben American Studies (100%, entfristet; Ernennung in das Beamtenverhältnis zur Akademischen Rätin / zum Akademischen Rat) @ KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt Weitere Infos zur Bewerbung hier: stellen.ku.de/jobposting/7...
Just signed the contract for the 2nd edn of my CUP textbook ‘Construction Grammar: The Structure of English’. Thank you to the 5 anonymous reviewers who supported my revision plan! And, of course, thank you so much to Helen Barton & the entire team at CUP for all their wonderful help & support!
📣 "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...
New Cambridge Element in Construction Grammar: Syntactic Variation from Individuals to Populations, by Jonathan Dunn, out now! Read for free for the next 2 weeks at cup.org/3L9VdMZ #cambridgeelements #constructiongrammar
Syntactic Variation from Individuals to Populations
Cambridge Core - Grammar and Syntax - Syntactic Variation from Individuals to Populations
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New Cambridge Element, Creative Construction Grammar, by Thomas Hoffmann and Mark Turner, out now! Read Open Access at https://cup.org/4pkd1np #languageandlinguistics #LangSky
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...
Creative Construction Grammar
Cambridge Core - Cognitive Linguistics - Creative Construction Grammar
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YouTube analysis with GenKI: No more tedious searching for linguistic phenomena for the analysis of language in multimodal contexts! #ConstructionGrammar #GenKI #linguistics #linguistik youtube.com/shorts/6bJrZ...
Youtube-Analyse und GenKI #Konstruktionsgrammatik
YouTube video by Alexander Lasch
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Coming soon - Turner & Hoffmann on Creative Construction Grammar. In this, we argue that the domain-general process of Conceptual Blending is the cognitive operation that combines constructions. BTW this will be published open access! www.cambridge.org/core/element...
#CfP alert! 🚨 The call for papers and theme sessions for the next International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Conference (Bielefeld, 31.08.-02.09.2026) is finally out 🎉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...
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Just finished reviewing @grambelli.bsky.social's book (available soon): a clear and engaging synthesis of the major strands of work on compositionality, analogy, and usage, while pushing #ConstructionGrammar toward a more explicit engagement with processing and computation. Highly recommended!
Giulia Rambelli@grambelli.bsky.social · 2y ago📣MY FIRST BOOK OUT!📣 Does language rely solely on rules, or is there more to it? 🔎Explore the interplay between compositionality and analogy from a constructionist view in this New Cambridge Element (Elements in #ConstructionGrammar) 👉Download for free: cup.org/41DP95c ⚠️Available just for 4 weeks!
"Edinburgh is one of the wealthiest universities in the UK" and, yet, here we are. How? Why? Staff/students did not create this problem-- they keep the uni running through endless crisis. It's time for "leaders" to accept they have failed and step down. www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/gacde2g...
The Academic Contribution Framework: a flawed, discriminatory response to a failure of management’s making — UCU Edinburgh
The ACF is the mechanism by which management will size up workers for redundancy targets that we already know are arbitrary. The ACF is obviously bad. It will be personally devastating for many collea...
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Have you seen our Forensic Linguistics elements series? Edited by @timgrant123.bsky.social & Tammy Gales, this series offers cutting-edge research, theoretical advancements, & discussions of historical development across all areas of language & law. https://cup.org/48Ah0ac #LangSky 🐦🐦 #CrimSky
Thank you to the organisers of 13th International Conference SLOVKO 2025 on Natural Language Processing and Corpus Linguistics for inviting me to talk about ‘Constructional Creativity - The Role of Corpus Data’ #creativity #CxG
just finished steve levinson's new book! it's a beautifully articulated argument for social interaction as the evolutionary niche which made language possible, rather than the other way around. progress in linguistics depends on a stronger science of interaction. www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...
The Interaction Engine
Cambridge Core - Semantics and Pragmatics - The Interaction Engine
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RIP Peter Eisenberg (1940-2025), syntactician of German, phonologist, orthography specialist, and very public linguist (who was not afraid of controversies). He was my second PhD advisor in 1990-93, and an important person in my life during those years at FU Berlin. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_E...
And... here's another brilliant Element! Congrats to Elisabeth! Come and get it while it's hot (and free). (Waves Hands Enthusiastically) www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Multimodal Construction Grammar
Cambridge Core - Semantics and Pragmatics - Multimodal Construction Grammar
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UPDATE: Abstract deadline: Nov 1, 25! Invited speakers: Corrine Occhino, Dagmar Divjak, Idan Blank, Randy Allen Harris, Gary Lupyan, Laura Michaelis, Kanishka Misra ! @dagmardivjak.bsky.social @randyallenharris.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social @kanishka.bsky.social
Adele Goldberg@adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 12mo ago📌 👉 The 14th International Construction Grammar conference will be held at Princeton, June 4-7, 2026 Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods Stay tuned for updates!
A brilliant linguist and sociolinguist, RIP Gift article from NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...
Robin Lakoff, Expert on Language and Gender, Is Dead at 82
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📌 👉 The 14th International Construction Grammar conference will be held at Princeton, June 4-7, 2026 Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods Stay tuned for updates!
Check it out - the corpus MOOC is back (15th September) on a new platform (edX) exploring new topics, including AI. One thing has not changed - it is still free to access 😁 Find out more here: www.edx.org/learn/social...
lancasteruniversity: Corpus linguistics and new technologies: data, language and society | edX
In an era of AI and big data, understanding language through data is essential. This hands-on course from Lancaster University—a global leader in corpus linguistics—teaches you to build, query, and an...
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Call for incoming researchers for 2026: Come to #Bielefeld and #CRC1646 on a scholarship and work with us on linguistic creativity! All details can be found here: www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/... #BLinguistik #linguistics
RTG - Universität Bielefeld
Der SFB setzt sich für eine qualitativ hochwertige Ausbildung von Doktoranden und Postdoktoranden ein und bietet Nachwuchswissenschaftlern ein Umfeld, das es ihnen ermöglicht, ihr Potenzial voll zu en...
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Support: New Funding Opportunity for Students, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Support: New Funding Opportunity for Students, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
The DFG-funded Research Training Group Dimensions of Constructional Space at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg is seeking to appoint a doctoral researcher for project 7: Subject-inversion throughout Early Modern English: changing relations in individual and communal constructicons. The PhD researchers will be employed on a 65% basis on an TV-L13 scale for three years, starting 1 October 2025. More details about the project can be found on https://www.cxg.phil.fau.eu/proje
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📙 '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!
Exciting news! ✨ Do you want to ... 👩💻... work on linguistic creativity 🌄 ... get to know #Bielefeld Here is your chance: The 1st Summer School on Linguistic Creativity, hosted by CRC 1646, from July 21st-25th 2025. More info here: www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/... #linguistics #BLinguistik
Summer School 2025 - Universität Bielefeld
Die Sommerschule 2025 des Sonderforschungsbereichs (SFB 1646: „Linguistische Kreativität“) der Universität Bielefeld. Alle Termine und Informationen finden Sie hier.
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We have some, well 13(!), amazing PhD-positions on construction grammar. Grab your chance & join us in Erlangen! www.cxg.phil.fau.eu/projects/new...
Call for Applications for 13 Doctoral Positions
The DFG-funded Research Training Group Dimensions of Constructional Space at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg is seeking to appoint 13 doctoral researchers to work on a variety of...
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We are disappointed but not surprised that Meta has used millions of pirated books to develop its AI systems. As a matter of urgency, Meta needs to compensate the rightsholders of all the works it has been exploiting. But what can authors do? Read here: societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...
Have truly lost patience with the New York Times’ editorial coverage of AI, which has basically degenerated into industry cheerleading. They are completely misrepresenting what most academics believe about AGI. I detail some blunders here: open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
Hype, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, the podcasters who love him — and how the New York Times’ commentary on AI has degenerated into industry cheerleading
Real journalists do due diligence
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@FrankBruni's Best Sentences of 2024 😂 from A.O. Scott: “If our brains are foundries, they are also warehouses, crammed full of clichés, advertising slogans, movie catchphrases, song lyrics, garbled proverbs and jokes we heard on the playground at recess in third grade... 1/3 link below
