How do we communicate about and with children in healthcare settings? Join us for the workshop "Talking with tinies: Exploring pediatric communication", on Friday, 5th April, at the University of Lille. impact-2024.sciencesconf.org

Fun was had at and after my habilitation defense in Paris last Friday! On the committee, from left to right: Peter Lauwers, Agnès Celle, Ilse Depraetere, Dominique Legallois (my "garant"), and Hans Boas. (OWLs are, in Charles Fillmore's tradition, ordinary working linguists.)

We are very excited to announce our next seminar session! @STL_ULille Pernelle Lorette and Lucie Latouche will join us and give two promising talks! More information: stl.univ-lille.fr/agenda/agenda/… 📅Friday, March 8th ⏰ 14:00-17:00 📍 Salle D. Corbin (B1.661)

Exciting news: I can *finally* start running my experiment! So if you are or you know any singers (male, English and living in Paris) who may be interested, don't hesitate to contact me. RTs welcome too, I will need all the help I can get with this next step! 🎤👄

Out now & open access Cambridge Elements: Michael Pleyer and I explore the intersection of #CognitiveLinguistics and #LanguageEvolution research cambridge.org/core/elements/…

How do we communicate about and with children in healthcare settings? Join us for the workshop “Talking with tinies: Exploring pediatric communication” on Friday 5 April in Lille. Check out our line-up: impact-2024.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/… With Ilse Depraetere. @STL_ULille Faculté de Médecine de Lille - UFR3S

Native speakers of English needed for this PhD experiment (Univ. of Cambridge) on plural forms in a made-up language! app.gorilla.sc/task/10735903

#CELF 🔜Extended deadline: April 3 Applied Construction Grammar, Cognitive Grammar, Teaching Grammar, Focus on form... 🧑‍💼 Ares Llop Naya, Carmen Rodríguez and Ferran Suñer Call for papers: easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/CEL… Website: uv.es/celf

I received in my mailbox this delightfully written grammar by 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐬 𝐏𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝 & Romain. Concise yet complete, it keeps things simple without sacrificing linguistic sophistication.

Convocatoria UCLouvain para becas #postdoc específicamente para personas que vengan de fuera (ver web). Si quieres trabajar conmigo en un proyecto que incluya el español y alguno de mis campos de investigación, no dudes en escribirme. uclouvain.be/en/research/ne… #lingüística

It's my first day as an Associate Professor at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, and my first book, based on my doctoral research, is officially out! Published by Mouton de Gruyter in the Language Contact and Bilingualism series. Check it out here: degruyter.com/document/doi/1… #contactlinguistics

So what now? CxG is falsifiable and there might be meaningless/non-symbolic aspects of language - but that doesn't mean that an incredible amount of language isn't symbolic - so much more in fact than what was assumed before the rise of CxG - and this is a worthwhile enterprise

Coming soon! benjamins.com/downloads/cata…

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.

When we study variations within species, one of the first points which... (Broader context: instagram.com/p/DDe2FAFM8w8/…)

📣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