We are looking to recruit new General Editors for Language & Cognition Language & Cognition Journal and are open for self-nominations by March 1, including from people with no previous experience as editor: surveys.phil.hhu.de/umfrage/index.…

Es ist der Wahnsinn meine Dame

Mit Silvester werde ich fertig
ich habe meine Methode
ich gehe mit meiner Affenmaske ins Bett
und warte
mit der Maske auf dem Gesicht auf dem Kopf
die ganze Champagnerflasche in einem Zug
Das ist schon das dritte Jahr
daß ich Silvester auf diese Art praktiziere

Nouns. Verbs. Adjectives. Adverbs.

Unerhört
unerhört

Register now: 4th edition of the LiZZ-Gespräch on Inclusion and Diversity
 📅20.11.2023 University of Zurich
Moderator: eva zehentner. W/ T. Haug, S. Kempe-Preti, Nathalie Giroud & Simone Pfenninger we look at the efforts made in education, technology, politics and more🔗linguistik.uzh.ch/en/whatsup/liz….

Österreich, dieses mißverstandenste Land auf der Welt, dieses Land mit dem größten Schwierigkeitsgrad in der Weltgeschichte

In this weekend's The Wall Street Journal Review section: The word 'kayfabe,' for fakery that people agree to treat as genuine, has moved from pro wrestling to politics and has finally landed in Merriam-Webster's dictionary. But its origins remain shrouded in mystery. on.wsj.com/3ZLhZ0G

you guys ever think about how weird language is?

accidentally deleted two paragraphs from an email and just send an undergrad an email that read, in its entirety, 'language is complicated. hope this helps!'

Last talk in this session of the #ichl26 ambiguity workshop is by Anne Wolfsgruber, “Text-type specific conventions, subordinate environments and ambiguity (avoidance) in Medieval Spanish passive se-constructions”.

Third talk in the ambiguity workshop at #ichl26 is by Claudia Felser, “Structural ambiguity in language comprehension and production”.

Next talk in the ambiguity session at #ichl26 is by Hilke Ceuppens & Hendrik De Smet, “Losing one’s senses: Causes of semantic obsolescence”.

Now at #ichl26 in the workshop “Ambiguity (avoidance) as a factor in language change” it’s Elena Smirnova, speaking on “The role of ambiguity at different stages of diachronic change”.

Great workshop on ambiguity (avoidance) in language change at ICHL 2023 (Heidelberg) – thanks to Eva Zehentner and Ilaria De Cesare for organizing it! The handout of my talk is here: zenodo.org/record/8318311

really enjoyed our workshop on ambiguity and ambiguity avoidance as a factor in language change at #ichl26 , thank you to all our contributors! slav.uni-heidelberg.de/md/slav/forsch…

just back from a great #sle2023 , thankfully they didn't notice i'm actually in linguistics

We're still open for self-nominations for a new Editor-in-Chief Language & Cognition Journal.

See more detail in the link below, but I also wanted to add a few personal comments in the thread below to give some context ⬇️

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eva zehentner MRöthlisberger @johnbenjamins Hurray!

Just got back from an amazing #ICLC16 . Held one talk on lectal contamination and another one on redundancy with eva zehentner, and talked to a lot of great people!

For lectal contamination, see: orbi.uliege.be/bitstream/2268…
and for redundancy: glossa-journal.org/article/id/876…