We organised a new online 'Methods @ LingLabs Konstanz
' workshop on automatic parsing of (historical) texts. Feel free to share this with your colleagues and students, all are welcome! More information and registration here: eventbrite.com/e/from-parser-… Please share widely!

„Dass Festanstellungen zu Nichtstun, Unkreativität und Stillstand führen, ist wissenschaftlich längst widerlegt. ... Es sind nicht zu gute, sondern zu schlechte Arbeitsbedingungen, die dem europäischen Forschungs- und Wirtschaftsraum schaden.“

An insane level of self sabotage: the SMG at University of Surrey are internationally renowned and attract massive external funding. When is The Labour Party going to articulate a position on the implosion of UK HE? LAGB LinguisticsUK - UCGAL Times Higher Education

Just got rejected for an ERC Consolidator Grant. 🎉

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Oh snap, I see that linguistics twitter is doing Discourse again. Is it too late for me to jump in and post an oversimplificatory hot take on the discipline, thus cementing my status as a Thought Leader, or has that ship already sailed?

Was verstehen Sie/versteht ihr unter ‘Systemlinguistik’?

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British libel law consistently functions as a means for rich people to squelch the dissent of those poorer. It's the biggest free speech issue in our country by a mile.

I just read 'internal examiner' as 'infernal examiner'

brb, rolling up a tiefling academic

This was fun to be involved in! youtu.be/uyrD_demYP4?si…

Today doctoral student Chiara Riegger is giving a talk on ‘The prosody of the prefix ge- in (Early) West Germanic’ at the Forum for Germanic Language Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK (presenting joint work with Tina Bögel and George Wⓐlkden). fgls.ac.uk/events/program…

This is an excellent paper, and I wish linguistics had more of this sort of thinking.