Lise Fontaine
@e2lise.bsky.social
Linguist living and working in Québec after many years in Cardiff 🇨🇦🇫🇷🏴🍁. Now at UQTR working primarily in lexical semantics and functional approaches to language.
CFP extended deadline for abstract submission : December 8 2025
Join us in Trois-Rivières!
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NAMED 2026
Neglected Aspects of Motion-Event Description
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November 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
CFP extended deadline for abstract submission : December 8 2025
Join us in Trois-Rivières!
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Join us in Trois-Rivières!
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Today and tomorrow colleagues and I are organising a two-day workshop on the use of LLMs for linguistics research at @UniKoeln: https://sfb1252.github.io/llm-workshop/. This is largely a university-internal event and we found that there is a lot of interest […]
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[Original post on fediscience.org]
November 24, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Today and tomorrow colleagues and I are organising a two-day workshop on the use of LLMs for linguistics research at @UniKoeln: https://sfb1252.github.io/llm-workshop/. This is largely a university-internal event and we found that there is a lot of interest […]
[Original post on fediscience.org]
[Original post on fediscience.org]
Une journée inspirante au Musée Pop! Merci @museepop.bsky.social pour l’accueil incroyable réservé à mes étudiant·e·s. Nous avons exploré les concepts linguistiques à travers l’exposition « Attache ta tuque »… et c’était passionnant (et amusant) !
November 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Une journée inspirante au Musée Pop! Merci @museepop.bsky.social pour l’accueil incroyable réservé à mes étudiant·e·s. Nous avons exploré les concepts linguistiques à travers l’exposition « Attache ta tuque »… et c’était passionnant (et amusant) !
I’m looking forward to reading this!
November 6, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I’m looking forward to reading this!
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Ergative structures show how languages organize meaning — not every sentence needs someone “doing” the action.
Studies like this help us understand how verbs express states and events, a topic still little known outside linguistics classrooms.
doi.org/10.25189/267...
#linguistics #langsky
Studies like this help us understand how verbs express states and events, a topic still little known outside linguistics classrooms.
doi.org/10.25189/267...
#linguistics #langsky
October 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Ergative structures show how languages organize meaning — not every sentence needs someone “doing” the action.
Studies like this help us understand how verbs express states and events, a topic still little known outside linguistics classrooms.
doi.org/10.25189/267...
#linguistics #langsky
Studies like this help us understand how verbs express states and events, a topic still little known outside linguistics classrooms.
doi.org/10.25189/267...
#linguistics #langsky
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NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
October 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
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We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.
October 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.
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Ma publication dans "the Conversation" sur l'écriture inclusive (theconversation.com/lecriture-in...) m'a valu ma première qualification de "wokiste" ("immonde wokiste"). L'ironie, c'est que le mot "wokiste" est lui-même une forme d'écriture inclusive (forme neutre). "Wokard" serait plus adapté.
September 27, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Ma publication dans "the Conversation" sur l'écriture inclusive (theconversation.com/lecriture-in...) m'a valu ma première qualification de "wokiste" ("immonde wokiste"). L'ironie, c'est que le mot "wokiste" est lui-même une forme d'écriture inclusive (forme neutre). "Wokard" serait plus adapté.
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Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:
September 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:
Planning my intro to linguistics course at UQTR is more fun this year with this little gem!!
September 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Planning my intro to linguistics course at UQTR is more fun this year with this little gem!!
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Assistant Professor - Language Revitalization - Linguistics, UC Berkeley: research interests or skills in "..language documentation, description, and analysis; sociolinguistics; anthropological linguistics; language acquisition; language education; areal and language-family expertise" (Oct 31)
Assistant Professor - Language Revitalization - Linguistics
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
September 6, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Assistant Professor - Language Revitalization - Linguistics, UC Berkeley: research interests or skills in "..language documentation, description, and analysis; sociolinguistics; anthropological linguistics; language acquisition; language education; areal and language-family expertise" (Oct 31)
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I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus
I love this idea and also want a list of academic murder books. Please reply with recs
Hear me out: a dark academia murder book that opens at a department beginning-of-the-year celebration on a boat (I know a department that does this) and a professor goes overboard. The intrepid department chair must figure out who did it. Everyone is a suspect, including the chair herself.
August 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus
❤️ Out in paperback! It has a lovely feel !!
August 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
❤️ Out in paperback! It has a lovely feel !!
I’m very happy to have received this today! 4th edition
August 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I’m very happy to have received this today! 4th edition
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Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...
Speech and Language Processing
Speech and Language Processing
web.stanford.edu
August 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...
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Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"
August 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"
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How do you decide whether or not to use AI tools in your research? One approach is to judge the extent to which they align with the values that underpin your research - in this open access paper we look at this question of alignment. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org
August 20, 2025 at 8:18 AM
How do you decide whether or not to use AI tools in your research? One approach is to judge the extent to which they align with the values that underpin your research - in this open access paper we look at this question of alignment. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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OK, here is the site for live by-election results at Battle River-Crowfoot.
enr.elections.ca/ElectoralDis...
Let's hope Poilievre gets at least a bit spanked from the shoe-in riding. Results starting after 8 PM.
enr.elections.ca/ElectoralDis...
Let's hope Poilievre gets at least a bit spanked from the shoe-in riding. Results starting after 8 PM.
Election Night Results - Electoral Districts
Election results by electoral district, for federal elections in Canada.
enr.elections.ca
August 19, 2025 at 12:49 AM
OK, here is the site for live by-election results at Battle River-Crowfoot.
enr.elections.ca/ElectoralDis...
Let's hope Poilievre gets at least a bit spanked from the shoe-in riding. Results starting after 8 PM.
enr.elections.ca/ElectoralDis...
Let's hope Poilievre gets at least a bit spanked from the shoe-in riding. Results starting after 8 PM.
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The kids are calling it “Quebecmaxxing”: two anglos in Montreal having an entire interaction in French without realizing they’re both anglos
August 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The kids are calling it “Quebecmaxxing”: two anglos in Montreal having an entire interaction in French without realizing they’re both anglos
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This is a good and quite detailed summary. It sets out clearly just how badly Trump performed in this summit. He lost absolutely everything and has actually managed to make backwards progress in the interests of Ukraine, European security and enforcing international law.
www.ft.com/content/2866...
www.ft.com/content/2866...
No concessions, no ceasefire: how Putin outplayed Trump in Anchorage
Russia’s leader seems to have drawn the US president closer to Moscow’s position on the Ukraine war
www.ft.com
August 16, 2025 at 11:52 PM
This is a good and quite detailed summary. It sets out clearly just how badly Trump performed in this summit. He lost absolutely everything and has actually managed to make backwards progress in the interests of Ukraine, European security and enforcing international law.
www.ft.com/content/2866...
www.ft.com/content/2866...
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#Linguistics
2 new additions in my #corpus toolbox, geared towards the study of the meta-discourse of press coverage: the Guardian and Figaro Comments Corpus Builders can be used to collect corpora of article comments from those two online newspapers.
1/3
2 new additions in my #corpus toolbox, geared towards the study of the meta-discourse of press coverage: the Guardian and Figaro Comments Corpus Builders can be used to collect corpora of article comments from those two online newspapers.
1/3
Florent Moncomble’s corpus tools
A collection of tools for collecting and analysing corpora of online media discourse
corpustools.prendrelangue.fr
August 16, 2025 at 10:34 AM
#Linguistics
2 new additions in my #corpus toolbox, geared towards the study of the meta-discourse of press coverage: the Guardian and Figaro Comments Corpus Builders can be used to collect corpora of article comments from those two online newspapers.
1/3
2 new additions in my #corpus toolbox, geared towards the study of the meta-discourse of press coverage: the Guardian and Figaro Comments Corpus Builders can be used to collect corpora of article comments from those two online newspapers.
1/3
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Amber Rynearson and I presented today at @raammetaphor.bsky.social, on our work trying to integrate different frameworks for metaphor identification.
What a great conference and so well run. Thank you, Hamad @al-azary.bsky.social and team!
What a great conference and so well run. Thank you, Hamad @al-azary.bsky.social and team!
August 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Amber Rynearson and I presented today at @raammetaphor.bsky.social, on our work trying to integrate different frameworks for metaphor identification.
What a great conference and so well run. Thank you, Hamad @al-azary.bsky.social and team!
What a great conference and so well run. Thank you, Hamad @al-azary.bsky.social and team!
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Reposted by Lise Fontaine
🚨Here’s Mark Carney just now, announcing Canada’s (conditional) intent to recognize a Palestinian state in September:
July 30, 2025 at 9:29 PM
🚨Here’s Mark Carney just now, announcing Canada’s (conditional) intent to recognize a Palestinian state in September: