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Das wunderbare #Trafilatura ❤️💕 erblickt Version 2.0.0 - Ein tolles und unersetzliches Tool zum #WebScraping. Gratulation und Dank an Adrien Barbaresi github.com/adbar/trafilat…

Super honoured that my project proposal "Paths to Polysemy: Integrating Approaches to the Role of Polysemy in the Evolutionary Dynamics of Language" was selected for funding by the Polish National Science Center Narodowe Centrum Nauki in the #OPUS27 grant competition

What happens if you lock up linguists for three days somewhere in the outskirts of Gothenburg? You end up with great project ideas and a ridiculously silly unofficial title for the retreat… Thanks to everyone involved for this excellent event!

If you've been #whammed this week and need an antidote, this song will definitely stick in your head... Chapeau to my Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf colleague Christian Uffmann, who puts the fun back in phonology youtube.com/watch?v=pSOlRU…

Philosophie kann ja bekanntlich fast alles, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf also vermutlich auch…

Exited this short article on language evolution for a general audience by Slawek Wacewicz and me is now out. It's part of a Theme Issue of "ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences" on Evolution

New paper with Paul Ibboston, Antje Quick & Nikolas Koch: #Frequency, #redundancy, and #context in bilingual #LanguageAcquisition doi.org/10.1017/S03050…

Some sequences of words are produced word by word, e.g. 'my aunt likes milk', others as larger chunks, e.g. 'needless to say'. If you want to contribute to research in this field, please complete this short questionnaire survey.ifkw.lmu.de/schmid_LMU/ and retweet this post.

Happy to be part of this edited volume on #evolutionary #pragmatics - another great collaboration with Michael Pleyer

RIP Bill Labov, a true giant in the field.

📣MY 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 my book, now in Elements on #ConstructionGrammar! You can freely download it ⤵️ people I have to thank: 1/4

Out now: Tolles #OpenAccess Themenheft zu #Quantifizierung von Katja Politt Katja Politt, mit einem Beitrag von Jakob Neels, Tobias Ungerer und mir sowie einer Ausleitung (sic) von Alexander Willich! gm.winter-verlag.de/issue/GM/2024/…

Einleitungen waren gestern, Ausleitungen sind der neue Trend! Ich habe da was zu Quantifizierung geschrieben... 🤓

Mein letzter Tag auf dem Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf-Campus für dieses Jahr - daher allen, die feiern, schon einmal frohe #Heinachten und einen guten Start ins Jubiläumsjahr!

Just in time for Christmas, the #snowclones are back! In our new #OpenAccess paper, part of a cool special issue on new approaches to #ConstructionGrammar, Tobias Ungerer and I compare the [X is the new Y] construction in English, German and Spanish turia.uv.es/index.php/qfil…

Euer Sprachgefühl ist gefragt - gerne teilnehmen und/oder teilen: surveys.phil.hhu.de/umfrage/index.…

We are looking for a short-term postdoc for 3-10 months here at the Center for Language Evolution, NCU Toruń. Super cool work environment and lovely people. Please share!

📄✨ Happy New Year’s! Have you submitted your abstract for the 17th ICLC yet? Don’t miss the deadline—January 30! Submit yours here: easychair.org/conferences/?c…

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Noch wenige Stunden, dann gehen die Uhren womöglich auch in 🇩🇪 rückwärts. Oder doch nicht? Noch haben wir es in der Hand. Falls ihr noch nicht wisst, ob ihr wählen geht: tut es! Eure Stimme ist wichtiger denn je. Let‘s vote the shit out of this (im besten Fall im Wortsinn) #btw25