New paper on back-formation and "forward-formation": If one takes the right view of the inventorium (or "extended lexicon"), there is no distinction between "potential words" and "existing words", and the problems with "back-formation" disappear. www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...

I did my homework.
Very informative.
Thanks ! @randyallenharris.bsky.social @hiphilangsci.bsky.social

hiphilangsci.net/2024/11/01/p...

Episode no. 51 is out 🤩

Martin Haspelmath (@haspelmath.bsky.social) talks about how he got started in linguistics, the rise of large-scale areal typology in the 1990s, language description vs language comparison, and the current state of the field.

🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2025/11/01/p...

#Histlx

One of the great mysteries of #language is how it finds a balance between robust stability and endless flexibility. I believe this requires us to rethink #linguistic structures. In this article, I propose dynamic #tensegrity as a novel architectural metaphor
aclanthology.org/2025.cxgsnlp...

Our special issue on ‘Parallelism in the Architecture of Language’ is now published! Huge thanks to all contributing authors, reviewers, Eva, Neil, and the topiCS journal team for their excellent work 📚🗣️🧠🤖🙏🏻
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17568765...

Look it’s published! 😍
Thank you to the three editors and my co-authors, and now it’s there for all of you (and your students) to read up about comparative syntax 🤓 📖

STAR's first issue is out! (STAR is an open-access journal publishing syntactic research from the same editorial team that brought us Syntax) #Linguistics

star-linguistics.org

UC Berkeley researchers say large language models have gained "metalinguistic ability," a hallmark of human language and cognition no other animal has displayed. news.berkeley.edu/2025/07/14/a...

Enjoying the best Linguistic Institute ever in Eugene @lsa2025uo.bsky.social Giving the Forum Lecture as Fillmore Professor in honor of dear Chuck, Weds July 16, 6-7pm, Straub 156. Introduced by my friend (and Chuck's) the wonderful @adelegoldberg.bsky.social

Thanks for the opportunity, Because Language! 👇

Hey graduate student esp in #linguistics but also everywhere: The third edition of Monica Macaulay’s guide to surviving graduate school is out! www.cascadilla.com/surviving.html

Bresnan (1991) journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/...

There’s still time to register for the 2025 LSA summer institute in Oregon! I’m looking forward to co-teaching a course with @congramqueen.bsky.social Laura Michaelis! Congrats to her on being named the Fillmore Professor as she carries on her advisor’s amazing legacy! center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/

Thanks to Evan Kidd, @mcxfrank.bsky.social & @asifamajid.bsky.social (Eds) for organizing the awesome *Open* Encyc. of Cog. Sci. and entrusting me with/ the honor of penning the entry on "Language" (in < 3500 words, so do see other entries for much, MUCH more!)
oecs.mit.edu/pub/ho9e9c80...