Just out: Statistical Modeling for (Actual) Hypothesis Testing: Building Cumulative Knowledge in Corpus Linguistics (Larsson & Hancock, 2026) Download for free until August 11: doi.org/10.1017/9781... On methods for evaluating empirically informed hypotheses. @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org

Statistical Modeling for (Actual) Hypothesis Testing

Cambridge Core - Research Methods in Linguistics - Statistical Modeling for (Actual) Hypothesis Testing

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Looking for a cool spot to work in the woods #Italy #Umbria #Valsorda

Essendo un'apprendente di italiano, sono veramente felice di sentire questa notizia! Grazie mille @sspina.bsky.social e il suo gruppo per aver creato un dizionario delle collocazioni per gli apprendenti di italiano!

Stefania Spina@sspina.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I am happy to share that DICI-A – the Learner Dictionary of Italian Collocations – is now available online: dictionary.dici-a.it It is the first collocation dictionary designed for learners of Italian as an L2. 👇👇👇

I am happy to share that DICI-A – the Learner Dictionary of Italian Collocations – is now available online: dictionary.dici-a.it It is the first collocation dictionary designed for learners of Italian as an L2. 👇👇👇

The octopus conference is back! 🐙 "Influence, Manipulation & Seduction 3: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Persuasive Language", Nov 19-20, 2026, Tampere University, Finland #LanguageAndPersuasion #Linguistics #OctoConf

Daria Dayter@coocho.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The next octopus conference is coming to town 🐙 “Influence, Manipulation, Seduction” 3d edition at Tampere Uni, co-organised with @sofiaruediger.bsky.social and @domini.bsky.social - this time it is face to face! Send us your persuasive abstracts by July 1 🐦🐦 events.tuni.fi/persuasion20...

I am delighted to share our article "Developing a learner dictionary of #collocations: description and evaluation of a multi-method approach" published in Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. @ireneeffe.bsky.social Fabio Zanda #corpora #dictionary #corpuslinguistics doi.org/10.1515/cllt...

Happy that J.Benjamins has just published the volume "Applying Corpora in Teaching and Learning Romance Languages", which I had the honour of editing with Henry Tyne. It is the first volume dedicated to the use of corpora for teaching and learning Romance languages benjamins.com/catalog/scl....

Applying Corpora in Teaching and Learning Romance Languages

Applying Corpora in Teaching and Learning Romance Languages is the first major volume dedicated to the use of corpora in teaching and learning Romance languages.

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Hear What the Language Spoken by Our Ancestors 6,000 Years Ago Might Have Sounded Like: A Reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European Language

Hear What the Language Spoken by Our Ancestors 6,000 Years Ago Might Have Sounded Like: A Reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European Language

As scholars of ancient texts well know, the reconstruction of lost sources can be a matter of some controversy.

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17th International Teaching and Language Corpora (TALC) conference, University of Extremadura, Jarandilla de la Vera, Cáceres, Spain, 15-18 July 2026. Submission deadline is 18th January 2026 #corpuslinguistics #language #languagelearning #languageteaching ℹ️ ℹ️ eventos.unex.es/136933/detai...

Cortigiana a me? La necessità inderogabile di darsi un codice di comportamento (anche) linguistico nella comunicazione pubblica open.substack.com/pub/inparole...

"I feel a wave of affection.." "il sera fou de joie…" OUT NOW: Iva Novakova, Olivier Kraif, & Marion Gymnich's contrastive corpus analysis sheds light on the phraseological motifs observed in the French and English romance novel genre. #LiteraryGenre #CorpusStylistics doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...

lunedì #6ottobre per traduttori e altri professionisti delle lingue un workshop sul loro ruolo nel contesto dell’IA: italy.representation.ec.europa.eu/notizie-ed-e... (partecipazione gratuita da remoto) #TranslatingEurope 🇪🇺

#TranslatingEurope workshop “Il linguista del futuro: quale ruolo nel contesto dell’IA?”

Organizzato congiuntamente dalla Direzione Generale Traduzione della Commissione europea e da Federlingue, il convegno si propone di mettere in luce, il ruolo che i professionisti delle lingue, tra cu...

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So happy that our new eye-tracking study on word combinations is out! euroslajournal.org/articles/10....

Producing and processing word combinations in an L2: An eye-tracking study exploring the individual learner experience | Journal of the European Second Language Association

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#holiday #Italy

"Columbia’s capitulation has turned a university that was once a site of free inquiry and learning into a shadow of its former self, an-anti university" I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi

The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible

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Corpora & Discourse Conference 2026@corporadiscourse.bsky.social · last yr.

Diaries at the ready... the next Corpora & Discourse International Conference will take place from 23-25 June 2026, at Lancaster University. We are also very excited to launch our website, with plenary speaker info, key dates, and much more besides: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/. Please share widely!

I titoli dei giornali di qualche decennio fa usavano aggettivi accurati, misurati e originali. Oggi nei titoli domina la ripetitività, l'omologazione e la ricerca a tutti i costi della sensazione e dell’effetto. #giornali #titoli #aggettivi #newspapers open.substack.com/pub/inparole...

Cari, vecchi aggettivi che i giornali non usano più

I bellissimi archivi storici de La Stampa e di qualche altro quotidiano virtuoso mi consentono, quando ho un po’ di tempo, di scorrere le pagine dei giornali del giorno, di qualche decennio indietro n...

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Scientist è una parola inglese creata per essere #inclusiva, e per riferirsi a una donna. open.substack.com/pub/inparole...

Scientist

Una parola nata per essere inclusiva

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Occultare parte della realtà dando nomi evocativi alle leggi, non solo negli USA: dalla Salva Italia alla Buona scuola open.substack.com/pub/inparole...

Una legge magnifica

Tecniche di dissimulazione nei nomi delle leggi

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Fabio Zanda presenting our #corpus-based work for a Learner Dictionary of Italian Collocations at #CL2025 in Birmingham

Very sad to miss #CL2025 this year, but... our DICI-A (Learner #Dictionary of Italian #Collocations) will be presented by Fabio Zanda in the Tuesday poster session:

The PEC24, a new reference #corpus of Italian, is now available via Search-it, a CQPweb-based platform 👇 lt.eurac.edu/cqpweb/ A paper where PEC24 is described (English) 👇 doi.org/10.54103/203... A short introduction (Italian) 👇 open.substack.com/pub/inparole...

Un nuovo corpus linguistico: il PEC24

Chiedere informazioni ai testi per analizzare l'italiano

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The CARLA (Corpus Approaches to Research on Language) research group will be at the #EuroSLA 34 conference in Tromsø, Norway, with this poster that will be presented tomorrow by Irene Fioravanti. @eurosla.bsky.social

Very happy and proud to have presented our Learner Dictionary of Italian Collocations at Vocab@Maryland with my colleagues @lucianaforti.bsky.social

We are pleased to announce this year’s Sinclair Lecture by @jwgrieve.bsky.social, titled “Corpus linguistics is all you need: Large language models and the legacy of John Sinclair”, on 7 July. Open to the public and live-streamed. Details and registration below. www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edac...

Il prologo di Charlie di questa settimana è uno dei motivi per essere abbonati al @ilpost.it

Happy to share my paper “A Different View of Phraseological Complexity: The Role of Density, Diversity and Distance” published on the Journal of the Europ. Second Language Association in the collection “Multiple views on #phraseology in second language acquisition” euroslajournal.org/articles/10....

A Different View of Phraseological Complexity: The Role of Density, Diversity and Distance | Journal of the European Second Language Association

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📣 BREAKING NEWS: Harvard sues Trump administration over foreign student ban, calling move unconstitutional and a threat to academic freedom. “Harvard is not Harvard without its international students,” the university writes. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Harvard sues Trump administration for blocking university’s ability to enroll international students – live

In a complaint filed in Boston federal court, Harvard called the revocation a ‘blatant violation of the US constitution’s first amendment

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Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · last yr.

International students upend their lives to join American science, bringing their novel insights that drive innovation. Now, they are being illegally targeted by Trump, because Harvard won't back down. Classic bully behavior. We Stand Up for International Students. www.npr.org/2025/05/22/n...

Due diverse rappresentazioni giornalistiche di uno stesso evento: una sobria e istituzionale, l'altra emotiva e patetica. Ecco come #ChatGPT le trasforma in immagini (ah, la rappresentazione patetica ovviamente è di un giornale italiano) #AI #LLM open.substack.com/pub/inparole...

Sobrietà contro emotività: le lacrime di Obama viste da GPT

Come l'IA rappresenta in immagini le diverse narrazioni contenute in due titoli di giornale

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Yes, I totally agree. And it is not even helpful to talk of "playing cards"(inparolepovere.substack.com/p/pace-e-met...) or to talk of peace with the words of war (inparolepovere.substack.com/p/parlare-di...; in Italian)

Parlare di pace con le parole della guerra

Alcune metafore ricorrenti nei titoli dei giornali

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Tony Thorne@tonythorne007.bsky.social · last yr.

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