And G4 member Giuseppe Magistro has now publicly defended his PhD thesis! Here he is with two very proud supervisors (Anne Breitbarth and Claudia Crocco) after the event last week.

We accepted "Noun phrases in early Germanic languages" edited by Kristin Bech & Alexander Pfaff langsci-press.org/catalog/book/4…

A publication to watch out for with two chapters from G4 member Hannah Booth !

Did you know that our webpage has links to useful resources for each Early Germanic text we do? Take a look! athg.ugent.be/resources/ #Medieval #GermanicPhilology

Looking forward to hearing what you found, Bernat Bardagil !

A great new open access handbook on all things LFG, including a chapter on historical linguistics and LFG from Miriam Butt and G4’s Hannah Booth !

A new semester @UGent means new Germanic meetings! This time we'll be taking in Middle Low German, Middle Norwegian, Middle English, Middle High German and Middle Dutch, as well as hearing the latest research from our members. Full details here: athg.ugent.be

New publication on Early Germanic noun phrases featuring two contributions from G4 member Hannah Booth !

G4 talk this Thursday! Anne Breitbarth will present "You are what you is: Verbal agreement variation and change in Early Modern Dutch" Details and full programme for Spring 2024 on our website: g4.ugent.be/programme/

G4 members gathered earlier this sunny spring afternoon to hear a talk from Anne Breitbarth titled: ''You are what you is: Verbal agreement variation and change in Early Modern Dutch" Always great when you manage to work a song title into an academic talk!

At G4 we are pleased to have members ranging from MA-Students to Emeritus Professors and everything in between! Tomorrow, Morris Callens will present his current MA work: "A phasal approach to the adverbial articular infinitive in Post-Classical Greek". g4.ugent.be/programme/

I’m filling out a medical form online and I’m curious who’s out there speaking Old English.

Syntax in the wild on The Chase!

Next week (8/4/24) we will host a talk by G4 member Bernat Bardagil on "Internal and external pressures in the emergence of Panará polysynthesis". g4.ugent.be/programme/ Here's a photo from his recent fieldwork in the Amazon to get you in the mood!

Introducing a new research network set up by G4 member Bernat Bardagil with Sara Pacchiarotti (UGent) and An Van linden (ULiège)! GILIAB will bring together researchers of indigenous languages of the Americas working in Belgium sites.google.com/view/giliab

This Thursday (13th) G4 member Giuseppe Magistro will present his and Claudia Croco's newly developed tool Pyrlato here @UGent! Pyrlato is designed for creating corpora of real-world spoken data from the web or your own files within a few hours, and will be available very soon!

And another new post! open.substack.com/pub/northseane…

I wrote about the previous exploits of my fellow Northumbrians in the Low Countries

New open access article out with @kagroothuis where we discuss the phenomenon of discourse-related expletives and their challenges/opportunities for theoretical linguistics doi.org/10.1515/opli-2…