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Katja Politt
@lingucat.bsky.social
Linguist @Uni Rostock, also CRC 1646 Uni Bielefeld. Ex-LUH Hannover, Ex-FWO Vlaanderen fellow @UGent. I like paradigms, grammatical categories, CxG, teaching, and coffee. (she/her; sie/ihr). #linguistics #gamification #Syntagma #Tristaben - ['poːlɪt]
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Didaktisch wertvoller Quatsch™
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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!
Constructions and Compositionality
Cambridge Core - Grammar and Syntax - Constructions and Compositionality
cup.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Gerade schön absurde #Tristaben im Signalchat kreiert, ohne dass ich es wollte: "Eierkopppflicht" @lingucat.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Mit einem Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Stefan Hartmann der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, startete das Linguistische Kolloquium. In diesem Wintersemester werden mehrere Mitglieder der Kohorte II des #grk2700 ihre Projekte vorstellen. Die Vorträge finden mittwochs, 12:15-13:45 Uhr, im DSA statt.
November 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Only proper way to end a day where you received a rejection for a big thing is to make extra spicy tteokbokki 😋
a person is dipping a piece of cheese into a bowl of sauce with chopsticks
Alt: Bowl of Tteokbokki with cheese on top
media.tenor.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Amazing Leipzig postcard, 10/10, would buy
Like the raccoon, the nutria (or beaver-rat, Biberratte) is an American invasive that does well in many German cities, like Leipzig and its canals. The below is a postcard that I made to advertise Leipzig's urban fauna
November 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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See you in Koblenz! @sleuckert.bsky.social, Thomas Messerli and I are organising a pre-conference workshop "Corpus-Linguistic Approaches to Reddit" at #icame47 (copRe research group lives! copre.org)
November 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Opening your inbox excitedly to find a rejection, meh.
a man in a tuxedo and bow tie is making a face .
Alt: a man in a tuxedo and bow tie is sighing
media.tenor.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Weitere Informationen zu den Plenarvorträgen findet ihr auf unserer Website: staps.stuts.eu/plenarvortra...
Wir freuen uns weiterhin auf eure Einreichungen bis zum 15. November!
Plenarvorträge | STaPs
staps.stuts.eu
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Linguists! Write time Friday is hosted this Friday again by the stalwart Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social ! 10-12 ET -- come get some work done! www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...
Write Time Friday with Melissa Baese-Berk
About Write Time Friday This is a chance to log into a Zoom room, (optionally) set an explicit writing goal for the session, and then spend a focused two hours writing in the supportive virtual prese...
www.lsadc.org
November 12, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Our paper @sarabogels.bsky.social covering our pre-registered multi-year research is now finally out in Cognition. We show that in conversations people reduce their multimodal signals non-linearly; the steeper this non-linear drop-off the more communicative success.

www.wimpouw.com/files/Bogels...
November 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Pleidooi voor nutteloze beschaving doi.org/10.1075/nb.0...

Met voorzitters van Stutterheim tot Leufkens, sprekers van Jakobson tot Nissim, en onderwerpen van fonologie tot AI: de AVT heeft een roerige geschiedenis en een mooie toekomst — als we "nutteloze beschaving" op waarde blijven schatten
Pleidooi voor nutteloze beschaving | John Benjamins
Abstract In het vijfenzeventigste jaar van het bestaan van de Algemene Vereniging voor Taalwetenschap (AVT) waait er een fascistische wind in Nederland. Universiteiten gehoorzamen bij voorbaat door ge...
doi.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Do you even need visual social cues to trigger speech register effects? Imagining to address a friend vs a policeman is enough to change speaking style (f0 in this case).

Check out our new paper in which we present an analysis of speech data collected with the #Plapper app:
doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
November 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
In Graphematik haben wir heute über #Tristaben und deren Zusammenhang mit dem morphologischen Prinzip gesprochen. Ich habe die Studis gefragt, ob ihnen vokalische Tristaben einfallen: Megaaal, Kaffeeextraxt, Teeelefant (sehr kreativ), basierend darauf dann noch Teeei und Seeelefant 🤩
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Less than 3 weeks to submit an abstract for ICCG14! please pass it on: iccg14.oa-event.com June 4-7, 2026
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iccg14.oa-event.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Ich hatte schon bessere Ideen, als am 11.11. um kurz vor 11 einen Termin im Rathaus zu buchen😅
November 11, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Stadtcampus pro: Alles nah beieinander, viele nette Cafés drum herum, immer was los
Stadtcampus contra: immer was los (a.k.a. die Bühne auf dem Platz um die Ecke ist sehr laut ...)
November 11, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Heute war wirklich toll für die Beispiele-Sammlung, für Semantik dieser fröhliche und extra beschriftete Stuhl, der einfach eine kleine Version des Tisches ist
November 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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New publication on @ipragmatics.bsky.social, out now and available open access:

My work on the digital language ideologies of generative AI, in particular the "AI is here to stay" construction and its connections to presentism, techno-optimism, and tech bro culture
Presentism as a digital language ideology in generative AI discourse
This paper gives a critical discourse-analytical account of presentism as a digital language ideology. It outlines how this ahistorical understanding of sociotechnical change centering the here-and-no...
benjamins.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Behalve dat je in een voorraaddoos allerlei dingen op kunt bergen is het toch ook wel erg fijn dat er vijf dubbele letters achter elkaar in zitten!
November 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Join us for the next DH Colloquium: Prof. Dr. Uhrig (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) on Digital Linguistics & Big Data. His research spans cognitive linguistics, Construction Grammar, collocation, corpus & computational linguistics, lexicography, and large multimodal datasets with data science & ML methods.
November 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Meine Güte, heute ist ja ein wilder Tag was Blends angeht 😲 und Mjamburg ist wunderschön 🤩
November 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Nicoline van der Sijs: Op mijn vorige stukje over de cyperse kat kreeg ik boze ingezonden brieven van lapjeskatten en schildpadkatten, die de aandacht voor de cyperse zwaar overtrokken vonden.

neerlandistiek.nl/2025/11/etym...
Etymologica: Lapjeskat en schildpadkat
Op mijn vorige stukje over de cyperse kat kreeg ik een groot aantal boze ingezonden brieven van lapjeskatten en schildpadkatten, die de aandacht voor de cyperse zwaar overtrokken vonden en erop wez…
neerlandistiek.nl
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 AM
"Das ist hier kein Adventskalender, Sie dürfen mehr als eine Tür öffnen" / Cc @bahnansagen.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Flexionsklassenwechsel in the wild
November 10, 2025 at 7:41 AM