T Hoffmann
@linguistur.bsky.social
Family, football, linguistics
Coming soon - Turner & Hoffmann on Creative Construction Grammar. In this, we argue that the domain-general process of Conceptual Blending is the cognitive operation that combines constructions. BTW this will be published open access!
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
November 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Coming soon - Turner & Hoffmann on Creative Construction Grammar. In this, we argue that the domain-general process of Conceptual Blending is the cognitive operation that combines constructions. BTW this will be published open access!
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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#CfP alert! 🚨 The call for papers and theme sessions for the next International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Conference (Bielefeld, 31.08.-02.09.2026) is finally out 🎉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...
www.uni-bielefeld.de
November 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM
#CfP alert! 🚨 The call for papers and theme sessions for the next International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Conference (Bielefeld, 31.08.-02.09.2026) is finally out 🎉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...
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Just finished reviewing @grambelli.bsky.social's book (available soon): a clear and engaging synthesis of the major strands of work on compositionality, analogy, and usage, while pushing #ConstructionGrammar toward a more explicit engagement with processing and computation. Highly recommended!
📣MY FIRST 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 this New Cambridge Element (Elements in #ConstructionGrammar)
👉Download for free: cup.org/41DP95c
⚠️Available just for 4 weeks!
Does language rely solely on rules, or is there more to it?
🔎Explore the interplay between compositionality and analogy from a constructionist view in this New Cambridge Element (Elements in #ConstructionGrammar)
👉Download for free: cup.org/41DP95c
⚠️Available just for 4 weeks!
Constructions and Compositionality
Cambridge Core - Grammar and Syntax - Constructions and Compositionality
cup.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Just finished reviewing @grambelli.bsky.social's book (available soon): a clear and engaging synthesis of the major strands of work on compositionality, analogy, and usage, while pushing #ConstructionGrammar toward a more explicit engagement with processing and computation. Highly recommended!
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"Edinburgh is one of the wealthiest universities in the UK" and, yet, here we are. How? Why? Staff/students did not create this problem-- they keep the uni running through endless crisis. It's time for "leaders" to accept they have failed and step down.
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/gacde2g...
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/gacde2g...
The Academic Contribution Framework: a flawed, discriminatory response to a failure of management’s making — UCU Edinburgh
The ACF is the mechanism by which management will size up workers for redundancy targets that we already know are arbitrary. The ACF is obviously bad. It will be personally devastating for many collea...
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk
October 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
"Edinburgh is one of the wealthiest universities in the UK" and, yet, here we are. How? Why? Staff/students did not create this problem-- they keep the uni running through endless crisis. It's time for "leaders" to accept they have failed and step down.
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/gacde2g...
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/gacde2g...
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Have you seen our Forensic Linguistics elements series? Edited by @timgrant123.bsky.social & Tammy Gales, this series offers cutting-edge research, theoretical advancements, & discussions of historical development across all areas of language & law.
https://cup.org/48Ah0ac
#LangSky 🐦🐦 #CrimSky
https://cup.org/48Ah0ac
#LangSky 🐦🐦 #CrimSky
October 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Have you seen our Forensic Linguistics elements series? Edited by @timgrant123.bsky.social & Tammy Gales, this series offers cutting-edge research, theoretical advancements, & discussions of historical development across all areas of language & law.
https://cup.org/48Ah0ac
#LangSky 🐦🐦 #CrimSky
https://cup.org/48Ah0ac
#LangSky 🐦🐦 #CrimSky
Thank you to the organisers of 13th International Conference SLOVKO 2025 on Natural Language Processing and Corpus Linguistics for inviting me to talk about ‘Constructional Creativity - The Role of Corpus Data’ #creativity #CxG
October 17, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Thank you to the organisers of 13th International Conference SLOVKO 2025 on Natural Language Processing and Corpus Linguistics for inviting me to talk about ‘Constructional Creativity - The Role of Corpus Data’ #creativity #CxG
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just finished steve levinson's new book! it's a beautifully articulated argument for social interaction as the evolutionary niche which made language possible, rather than the other way around. progress in linguistics depends on a stronger science of interaction.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...
The Interaction Engine
Cambridge Core - Semantics and Pragmatics - The Interaction Engine
www.cambridge.org
October 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
just finished steve levinson's new book! it's a beautifully articulated argument for social interaction as the evolutionary niche which made language possible, rather than the other way around. progress in linguistics depends on a stronger science of interaction.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...
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RIP Peter Eisenberg (1940-2025), syntactician of German, phonologist, orthography specialist, and very public linguist (who was not afraid of controversies). He was my second PhD advisor in 1990-93, and an important person in my life during those years at FU Berlin. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_E...
September 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
RIP Peter Eisenberg (1940-2025), syntactician of German, phonologist, orthography specialist, and very public linguist (who was not afraid of controversies). He was my second PhD advisor in 1990-93, and an important person in my life during those years at FU Berlin. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_E...
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And... here's another brilliant Element! Congrats to Elisabeth! Come and get it while it's hot (and free). (Waves Hands Enthusiastically)
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Multimodal Construction Grammar
Cambridge Core - Semantics and Pragmatics - Multimodal Construction Grammar
www.cambridge.org
August 29, 2025 at 9:06 AM
And... here's another brilliant Element! Congrats to Elisabeth! Come and get it while it's hot (and free). (Waves Hands Enthusiastically)
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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UPDATE: Abstract deadline: Nov 1, 25! Invited speakers: Corrine Occhino, Dagmar Divjak, Idan Blank, Randy Allen Harris, Gary Lupyan, Laura Michaelis, Kanishka Misra !
@dagmardivjak.bsky.social @randyallenharris.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social @kanishka.bsky.social
@dagmardivjak.bsky.social @randyallenharris.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social @kanishka.bsky.social
📌 👉 The 14th International Construction Grammar conference will be held at Princeton, June 4-7, 2026
Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods
Stay tuned for updates!
Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods
Stay tuned for updates!
August 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
UPDATE: Abstract deadline: Nov 1, 25! Invited speakers: Corrine Occhino, Dagmar Divjak, Idan Blank, Randy Allen Harris, Gary Lupyan, Laura Michaelis, Kanishka Misra !
@dagmardivjak.bsky.social @randyallenharris.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social @kanishka.bsky.social
@dagmardivjak.bsky.social @randyallenharris.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social @kanishka.bsky.social
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A brilliant linguist and sociolinguist, RIP
Gift article from NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...
Gift article from NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...
Robin Lakoff, Expert on Language and Gender, Is Dead at 82
www.nytimes.com
August 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
A brilliant linguist and sociolinguist, RIP
Gift article from NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...
Gift article from NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...
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📌 👉 The 14th International Construction Grammar conference will be held at Princeton, June 4-7, 2026
Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods
Stay tuned for updates!
Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods
Stay tuned for updates!
August 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
📌 👉 The 14th International Construction Grammar conference will be held at Princeton, June 4-7, 2026
Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods
Stay tuned for updates!
Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods
Stay tuned for updates!
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Check it out - the corpus MOOC is back (15th September) on a new platform (edX) exploring new topics, including AI. One thing has not changed - it is still free to access 😁 Find out more here: www.edx.org/learn/social...
lancasteruniversity: Corpus linguistics and new technologies: data, language and society | edX
In an era of AI and big data, understanding language through data is essential. This hands-on course from Lancaster University—a global leader in corpus linguistics—teaches you to build, query, and an...
www.edx.org
August 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Check it out - the corpus MOOC is back (15th September) on a new platform (edX) exploring new topics, including AI. One thing has not changed - it is still free to access 😁 Find out more here: www.edx.org/learn/social...
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Call for incoming researchers for 2026: Come to #Bielefeld and #CRC1646 on a scholarship and work with us on linguistic creativity! All details can be found here: www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/...
#BLinguistik #linguistics
#BLinguistik #linguistics
RTG - Universität Bielefeld
Der SFB setzt sich für eine qualitativ hochwertige Ausbildung von Doktoranden und Postdoktoranden ein und bietet Nachwuchswissenschaftlern ein Umfeld, das es ihnen ermöglicht, ihr Potenzial voll zu en...
www.uni-bielefeld.de
July 28, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Call for incoming researchers for 2026: Come to #Bielefeld and #CRC1646 on a scholarship and work with us on linguistic creativity! All details can be found here: www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/...
#BLinguistik #linguistics
#BLinguistik #linguistics
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Support: New Funding Opportunity for Students, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Support: New Funding Opportunity for Students, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
The DFG-funded Research Training Group Dimensions of Constructional Space at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg is seeking to appoint a doctoral researcher for project 7: Subject-inversion throughout Early Modern English: changing relations in individual and communal constructicons.
The PhD researchers will be employed on a 65% basis on an TV-L13 scale for three years, starting 1 October 2025.
More details about the project can be found on https://www.cxg.phil.fau.eu/proje
dlvr.it
June 3, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Support: New Funding Opportunity for Students, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
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📙 'The Meaning of Constructions' is out now!
A short book on how meaning works in Construction Grammar - covering semantic, pragmatic & social dimensions.
🔓 Open access for two weeks. Download from: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
🔁 Feel free to share!
A short book on how meaning works in Construction Grammar - covering semantic, pragmatic & social dimensions.
🔓 Open access for two weeks. Download from: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
🔁 Feel free to share!
May 20, 2025 at 6:09 AM
📙 'The Meaning of Constructions' is out now!
A short book on how meaning works in Construction Grammar - covering semantic, pragmatic & social dimensions.
🔓 Open access for two weeks. Download from: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
🔁 Feel free to share!
A short book on how meaning works in Construction Grammar - covering semantic, pragmatic & social dimensions.
🔓 Open access for two weeks. Download from: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
🔁 Feel free to share!
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FYI: FYI: Editorial change JB bookseries CAL
FYI: FYI: Editorial change JB bookseries CAL
As of Volume 41 Remi van Trijp (Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris) will succeed Kyoko Ohara (Keio University, Japan) and Jan-Ola Östman (University of Helsinki, Finland), and join Mirjam Fried (Charles University, Czech Republic) as editor of the bookseries Constructional Approaches to Language. Kyoko Ohara and Jan-Ola Östman will remain member of the Advisory Board.
The Constructional Approaches to Language (CAL) series brings together research conducted within different constructional
dlvr.it
May 2, 2025 at 1:14 AM
FYI: FYI: Editorial change JB bookseries CAL
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Exciting news! ✨ Do you want to ...
👩💻... work on linguistic creativity
🌄 ... get to know #Bielefeld
Here is your chance: The 1st Summer School on Linguistic Creativity, hosted by CRC 1646, from July 21st-25th 2025. More info here: www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/...
#linguistics #BLinguistik
👩💻... work on linguistic creativity
🌄 ... get to know #Bielefeld
Here is your chance: The 1st Summer School on Linguistic Creativity, hosted by CRC 1646, from July 21st-25th 2025. More info here: www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/...
#linguistics #BLinguistik
Summer School 2025 - Universität Bielefeld
Die Sommerschule 2025 des Sonderforschungsbereichs (SFB 1646: „Linguistische Kreativität“) der Universität Bielefeld. Alle Termine und Informationen finden Sie hier.
www.uni-bielefeld.de
April 16, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Exciting news! ✨ Do you want to ...
👩💻... work on linguistic creativity
🌄 ... get to know #Bielefeld
Here is your chance: The 1st Summer School on Linguistic Creativity, hosted by CRC 1646, from July 21st-25th 2025. More info here: www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/...
#linguistics #BLinguistik
👩💻... work on linguistic creativity
🌄 ... get to know #Bielefeld
Here is your chance: The 1st Summer School on Linguistic Creativity, hosted by CRC 1646, from July 21st-25th 2025. More info here: www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/...
#linguistics #BLinguistik
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We have some, well 13(!), amazing PhD-positions on construction grammar. Grab your chance & join us in Erlangen! www.cxg.phil.fau.eu/projects/new...
Call for Applications for 13 Doctoral Positions
The DFG-funded Research Training Group Dimensions of Constructional Space at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg is seeking to appoint 13 doctoral researchers to work on a variety of...
www.cxg.phil.fau.eu
April 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM
We have some, well 13(!), amazing PhD-positions on construction grammar. Grab your chance & join us in Erlangen! www.cxg.phil.fau.eu/projects/new...
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We are disappointed but not surprised that Meta has used millions of pirated books to develop its AI systems.
As a matter of urgency, Meta needs to compensate the rightsholders of all the works it has been exploiting.
But what can authors do? Read here:
societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...
As a matter of urgency, Meta needs to compensate the rightsholders of all the works it has been exploiting.
But what can authors do? Read here:
societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...
March 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
We are disappointed but not surprised that Meta has used millions of pirated books to develop its AI systems.
As a matter of urgency, Meta needs to compensate the rightsholders of all the works it has been exploiting.
But what can authors do? Read here:
societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...
As a matter of urgency, Meta needs to compensate the rightsholders of all the works it has been exploiting.
But what can authors do? Read here:
societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...
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Have truly lost patience with the New York Times’ editorial coverage of AI, which has basically degenerated into industry cheerleading.
They are completely misrepresenting what most academics believe about AGI.
I detail some blunders here:
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
They are completely misrepresenting what most academics believe about AGI.
I detail some blunders here:
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
Hype, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, the podcasters who love him — and how the New York Times’ commentary on AI has degenerated into industry cheerleading
Real journalists do due diligence
open.substack.com
March 14, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Have truly lost patience with the New York Times’ editorial coverage of AI, which has basically degenerated into industry cheerleading.
They are completely misrepresenting what most academics believe about AGI.
I detail some blunders here:
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
They are completely misrepresenting what most academics believe about AGI.
I detail some blunders here:
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
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@FrankBruni's Best Sentences of 2024 😂
from A.O. Scott: “If our brains are foundries, they are also warehouses, crammed full of clichés, advertising slogans, movie catchphrases, song lyrics, garbled proverbs and jokes we heard on the playground at recess in third grade... 1/3 link below
from A.O. Scott: “If our brains are foundries, they are also warehouses, crammed full of clichés, advertising slogans, movie catchphrases, song lyrics, garbled proverbs and jokes we heard on the playground at recess in third grade... 1/3 link below
December 26, 2024 at 10:02 PM
@FrankBruni's Best Sentences of 2024 😂
from A.O. Scott: “If our brains are foundries, they are also warehouses, crammed full of clichés, advertising slogans, movie catchphrases, song lyrics, garbled proverbs and jokes we heard on the playground at recess in third grade... 1/3 link below
from A.O. Scott: “If our brains are foundries, they are also warehouses, crammed full of clichés, advertising slogans, movie catchphrases, song lyrics, garbled proverbs and jokes we heard on the playground at recess in third grade... 1/3 link below
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📣MY FIRST 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 this New Cambridge Element (Elements in #ConstructionGrammar)
👉Download for free: cup.org/41DP95c
⚠️Available just for 4 weeks!
Does language rely solely on rules, or is there more to it?
🔎Explore the interplay between compositionality and analogy from a constructionist view in this New Cambridge Element (Elements in #ConstructionGrammar)
👉Download for free: cup.org/41DP95c
⚠️Available just for 4 weeks!
Constructions and Compositionality
Cambridge Core - Grammar and Syntax - Constructions and Compositionality
cup.org
December 18, 2024 at 9:37 PM
📣MY FIRST 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 this New Cambridge Element (Elements in #ConstructionGrammar)
👉Download for free: cup.org/41DP95c
⚠️Available just for 4 weeks!
Does language rely solely on rules, or is there more to it?
🔎Explore the interplay between compositionality and analogy from a constructionist view in this New Cambridge Element (Elements in #ConstructionGrammar)
👉Download for free: cup.org/41DP95c
⚠️Available just for 4 weeks!
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🤓 Yet another new paper alert: @hartmast.bsky.social and I tried to bring together collostructional analysis and my ideas on construction semantics, a frame-semantic extension of construction grammar. Check it out: www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
Collostructional Analysis Meets Construction Semantics: Revisiting the English Way-Construction and Its German Equivalents
The English way -construction has been investigated time and again in Construction Grammar from various different perspectives. The way -construction is a prototypical example of an argument-structure...
www.degruyter.com
November 21, 2024 at 8:14 PM
🤓 Yet another new paper alert: @hartmast.bsky.social and I tried to bring together collostructional analysis and my ideas on construction semantics, a frame-semantic extension of construction grammar. Check it out: www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
#AI chatbots 🤖 are a hot topic 🔥 But what if we shift the conversation from what they can do with language to what they can do for the Linguist? That’s the topic of our new @CambUP_LangLing book Copilots for Linguists: AI, Constructions, and Frames.
DOWNLOAD FOR FREE 🧵👇
DOWNLOAD FOR FREE 🧵👇
December 28, 2023 at 10:37 AM
#AI chatbots 🤖 are a hot topic 🔥 But what if we shift the conversation from what they can do with language to what they can do for the Linguist? That’s the topic of our new @CambUP_LangLing book Copilots for Linguists: AI, Constructions, and Frames.
DOWNLOAD FOR FREE 🧵👇
DOWNLOAD FOR FREE 🧵👇