Great work by Rahel Oppliger on vagueness morphemes -ish and -(e)y and their role in referential communication. Love how they can also be used together (greenishy) and stack with other vagueness markers (kinda, sort of...). #ISLE6

Listening to Keiko Hirano's immensely interesting talk on the use of have (got) among American expats in Japan right now. #isle6

Welp, all good things, as they say, and thus it is that we're coming to the end of the final day of #ISLE6 ! All that's left now is a Coffee Zoom, and then at 1pm FI time we have the final plenary by Terttu Nevalainen, followed by the conference closing – involving more music!

Great plenary by Terttu Nevalainen at #ISLE6. Fantastic how this made us consider historical roads and waterways. Check out goughmap.org/map/?mapID=274 and geog.cam.ac.uk/research/proje… (links shared from the zoom chat). If you missed the plenary, have a look at doi.org/10.1515/jhsl-2…

Thanks #ISLE6 team: Mikko Laitinen, @PaulaRaut, @HPaulasto & everyone else! #ISLE6 was my first full online conference and your organization was splendid! 🌟I do miss chatting to people in real coffee breaks, but other than that: it's been a great conference experience!

Speaking of Finland: This is a real photo of Finns covid-protesting against culture restrictions this week. Photo taken by a Natl Coalition parliament employee.

To an excellent #ISLE6! Cheers and many thanks to all of the #ISLE6 team!

@HPaulasto #ISLE6 @PaulaRaut Thanks, Heli! Happy to hear that😊 In general, I felt that the quality of #ISLE6 papers was excellent! All sessions I attended were rather rich, with lots of inspiration and input, esp. concerning (digital) data and methodology 👍 incl. your analyses of ELF in the 'dance' CfP 🙂

Presentation video now available at: youtu.be/RoJN7CdCiL8 #ISLE6

Very happy to announce my new paper is officially out in Linguistics! Observation, Experimentation and Replication in Linguistics 🔒 doi.org/10.1515/ling-2… 🔓⬇️ A brief thread... 1/n

My argument is that language is a social phenomena and so (1) Experiments will often fail to replicate because we cannot fully control variation in social context (2) We must rely on observation to pursue many basic research questions in linguistics 3/n

Timo Roettger has also responded to my paper 🔓🇳🇴 doi.org/10.1515/ling-2… Which was published first since I was so slow w proofs lol And of course I’d really welcome hearing what other people think! 6/n

Anyway thanks for reading the thread and hopefully the paper! Here it is if you don’t have a Linguistics subscription: 🔓 tinyurl.com/29hp3wj5 I hope people find it convincing — but if not at least thought provoking! 7/n

CFP for edited volume: English Language Contacts and Change in the Digital Age Abstracts 15.8.2022 Full drafts 31.12.2022 See pics for full #cfp. #linguistics #CallForContributions #EditedVolume (Once the call is published on LINGUIST List I will add a link to this thread.)

FYI: Call for Book Chapters: English Language Contacts and Change in the Digital Age: Call for Book Chapters: English Language Contacts and Change in the Digital Age PLANNED SERIES Language and Computers: Studies in Digital Linguistics, Brill… dlvr.it/STwLcn

Hey, the next ISLE conference has a Twitter account: follow isle7 for everything related to next year's conference. #linguistics #conferences #PassesBaton #ISLE7