Close up shot of the Gherkin, London

Words as weapons. Powerful words from Kafka’s last surviving diary entry. Via @mervatim, translated by Ross Benjamin.

Drinking the sunshine Iffley Lock, Oxford

A lecturer position at Oxford in experimental linguistics/psycholinguistics -- area of speciality open, with special encouragement to those in phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics/pragmatics to apply. Deadline January 20th. More info here: jobs.ac.uk/job/CWE023/dep…

Flooded Christ Church Meadow

Associate Professorship (or Professorship) of Russophone Literature, Thought, and Culture, 1820-1945. Come work with me at Jesus College Oxford, while also joining colleagues at New College, Oxford and @MertonCollege. isw.changeworknow.co.uk/new_college_ox…

Frosty spider web at Magdalen College University of Oxford

Applications are invited for the post of Associate Professor (or Professor) in Logic to be held in the Faculty of Philosophy in association with the Sir Peter Strawson Tutorial Fellowship in Philosophy at University College, Oxford. jobs.ac.uk/job/CWU732/ass…

New paper with Kelsey Sasaki forthcoming in Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 27: "Clause-internal coherence: A look at deverbal adjectives". Comments most welcome. ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/007097 danielaltshuler.com

I've always been confused by GLOW. They welcome all, but then prioritize syntax. They welcome all, but can't guarantee access to all participants in the host country. GLOW seems to be a high quality syntax conference with an identity crisis. Kinda like a $100 t-shirt for hipsters

New article in L&P w/ Julian Schlöder offering an analysis of (i) how 2 represent the joint meaning of a multi-picture discourse, (ii) narrative sequencing in linguistic vs pictorial discourses, (iii) co-referencing across pictures. Springer Linguistics doi.org/10.1007/s10988…

We're happy to announce a Call for Applications for Yerevan Academy of Linguistics and Philosophy (YALP) 2023. Please spread the word! sites.google.com/view/yalp2017/…

Call for papers for LingO 2023 (‘Exploring the Diversity of Linguistic Research’) at University of Oxford, welcoming work by postgraduates and early-career researchers from all areas of linguistics. More information about the conference can be found here: ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/lingo.

Collecting examples of garden-path sentences in languages other than English. If you have an example (or a reference for examples), I'd be extremely grateful!

For those in the London area on May 12: Dr. Scott AnderBois will be giving an exciting public lecture at Jesus College Oxford: “Documenting A’ingae: an isolate language at the Andes-Amazon interface.” This talk is sponsored by the Astor Visiting Lectureship grant. Message me 4 details.

New paper with Scott AnderBois and Wilson Silva on the forms and functions of switch reference in A’ingae, an understudied isolate language from Amazonian Ecuador. Feedback most welcome! mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/2/…

The schedule for The Yerevan Academy for Linguistics and Philosophy (YALP) is now available here: sites.google.com/view/yalp2017/… Course descriptions are available here: sites.google.com/view/yalp2017/…

The Faculty of Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics at Oxford invites expressions of interest from postdocs and completing grads who wish to apply for the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme for entry in 2024. Deadline is 31 July. More info: ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2023/06/2…

Linguistic failure of the day

Kelsey Sasaki lecturing at Yerevan Academy of Linguistics and Philosophy (YALP) on language (non)diversity in psycholinguistics and how to approach fieldwork that addresses psycholinguistic questions. tinyurl.com/4r78n4n9