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Stefan Müller
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I am a linguist working at the @HumboldtUni. My main topics are German syntax and morphology. I am cofounder of @langscipress, a community-run open access […]

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When I retire, I will start a collection of versions of the Argument Realization Principle in HPSG.

This one (wrongly) predicts that only elements that are final in the ARG-ST can be extracted.
AVM for the Argument Realization Principle
December 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy
It is fun to read papers from around 2000 and be absolutely sure that this must have been written with #chatgpt, since it does not make any sense at all.

But this must have been #NaturalFoolishness.
December 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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I find it strange that one has to supply a list of societies in which one is a member for CVs. One can be a member of a lot of societies by just paying money without doing anything.
November 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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This is an article about reduplication in Madarin Chinese. By Yanru Lu and me. It grew out of Ynaru Lu's masther thesis and will appear in 2027 in the Journal of Linguistics.

Have fun.

https://lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009505

#linguistics #language #chinese #syntax #morphology #semantics #HPSG
November 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy
Hm. So #ConstructionGrammar is about #LLMs now? I think this is the wrong way to go.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MnyaPhopxCGZgH7iWAwbmx4X4N7xY759/view

#cxg
Schedule - CxGsNLP2.pdf
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November 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Reposted by Stefan Müller
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ht @MMantscheffAu
Screenshot of a post: This is a week when arts degrees are worthless but asking the AI industry to pay for the products of that would kill the whole industry
October 9, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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New version of my paper on phrasal constructions in TAG.

https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/009130

#grammatik #linguistik #argumentstruktur #cxg #konstruktionsgrammatik #ConstructionGrammar #HPSG #lexikalismus
Analysis of [dass] er ihm den Teich leer fischt ‘that he fishes the pond empty for him’, an example in which the benefactive and the resultative construction interact
October 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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The #HPSG website from Tübingen has been archived by Frank Richter, who is in Frankfurt/Main now.

It is over 20 years old:

https://www.english-linguistics.de/archives/hpsg/starten.html

If you want to have a glimps of the design back then …
HPSG in Tübingen
www.english-linguistics.de
September 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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This is the result of an #OpenAccess and #OpenSource publication in the Grammars and dictionaries series. A #Dagaare-#English Dictionary Web Application.

Thanks to @langscipress! And to Adams Bodomo and to Omar Zintan Mwinila-Yuori.

https://zintan.pythonanywhere.com/
LanguageSpace
zintan.pythonanywhere.com
September 8, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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Just found another way to derive my #erdosnumber of 4:

0 Paul Erdős
1 Patrick Eugene O'Neill
2 Gerhard Weikum
3 Ulrich Schäfer/Hans Uszkoreit
4 Stefan Müller (An Integrated Archictecture for Shallow and Deep Processing)
September 3, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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100.000 downloads. Robots excluded. This is what authors want: to be read. The do not want prohibitively high book prices.

#grammar #syntax #linguistics #OpenAccess #diamondoa

https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/380
Grammatical theory: From transformational grammar to constraint-based approaches | Language Science Press
langsci-press.org
August 31, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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tmalsburg.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy
3+1 years fully funded PhD position in Experimental and/or Computational Psycholinguistics. Official application deadline today, but applications submitted until August 25 will receive full consideration.

https://tmalsburg.github.io/job_ad_2025_phd.html
Fully Funded PhD Position in Experimental and/or Computational Psycholinguistics
tmalsburg.github.io
August 15, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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1/ How to detect #spam? It started with journal spam and now we have conference spam. They offered me to give a keynote talk.

https://linguistic-society.com/event/syntax-2026-online/

The description says:
„Syntax 2026 brings together international voices in syntactic theory, experimental […]
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August 5, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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This is really funny. In Chomskyan times, Chomsky revised his framework every three years so that all computational linguists got frustrated since it takes about three years to develop a computational system with certain basic assumptions. (talk to Ed Stabler or […]

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In Lakretz, Hupkes, et al. (2021), we proceeded to test the prediction both in LSTMs and with human subjects. We did indeed find the predicted inner/outer agreement asymmetry both in machines and (more weakly) in humans. This suggests that agreement might be implemented by means of sparse feature-carrying mechanisms in humans as well. Lakretz’ study took about four years to run. By the time it was completed, it presented a detailed analysis of a model, the LSTM, that many in NLP would find obsolete. Its focus on a single grammatical construction might look quaint, now that
July 31, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Two sad things I learned during the #lfg2025 conference:

1) #hajross died this year.

2) #csli died this year.

Joan Bresnan told me that they are dissolving the CSLI. Those that are still around get offices elsewhere.

I met Hai Ross several times in 2011 and 2012.

Some pictures are at […]
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July 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Pictures from a more peaceful time. 2013 in #israel.

This was a workshop near Haifa in a conference center. With Mark Steedman and the #HPSG crowd working on grammar implementation.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/lingphot/albums/72177720327520476/

#lingphot
2015-06-23 Haifa Workshop on grammar development
Explore this photo album by Stefan Müller (LingPhoto) on Flickr!
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July 26, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Hi everybody, is the following good in English? And if so, are there papers dealing with this?

(1) He fished her the pond empty.

(2) He sneezed her the napkin of the table.

This is possible in German. It is an interaction of the benefactive construction (adding a dative) and the resultative […]
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July 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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At this years #lfg conference, I will talk about #TAG and what it shows us for the old phrasal vs. lexical discussion:

https://lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009130

I think valence information has to be encoded lexically and lexical rules or empty heads or transformations should be used to derive […]
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July 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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1/ I am proud to announce that my paper on Generative approaches to Germanic syntax is published:

https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.1073

You may often have asked yourself what we need publishers for. Well, there was peer review and a good editorial process, but my main partner […]
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June 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Looking forward to reading a couple of chapters from this up-coming book @langscipress this weekend (on the deckchair)! ☀️

Being a volunteer proofreader means that I regularly have a good excuse to read #linguistics stuff that I'm interested in, but that […]

[Original post on fediscience.org]
View of proofreading platform PaperHive showing Chapter 14 White supremacists’ weaponization of Celtic heritage languages and language revitalization John Powell University of Arizona Foundational approaches to Celtic linguistics LangSciPress
April 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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I do not get it. Why should I (or my institution) pay for this? Why isn't it possible to read the normal PDFs online? Why do they put the cut out figures into their PDFs? Why this small font?

I guess the idea is that they want to sell the physical book to me. But […]

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May 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Published online 1986. You are a lair!
April 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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1/ I wonder why I wrote all my papers. Ok, at least they are cited, but then: why is all the content ignored. I developed a lexical analysis of Persian complex predicates in my paper. This can deal with all the cases that are cited in the piece below. There is no […]

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A long-lasting question has been whether Persian CPs are generated as lexical units or as phrases (Goldberg 1996, 2003; Folli et al. 2005; Müller 2010); in other words, whether they are the outcome of morphological or syntactic rules. If CPs are single lexical units, the internal structure of CPs should be inaccessible to syntactic rules (Steele 1989; Bresnan & Mchombo 1995; Booij 2007: 67), meaning that other elements should not separate the parts of a compound. This assumption, however, is in apparent contradiction with Persian CPs which can be easily separated by words belonging to various parts of speech (Megerdoomian 2012), such as the adverb in example (1), as well as adjectives, noun phrases, and prepositional phrases. Some scholars have argued, therefore, that CPs are in fact phrases (Karimi-Doostan 1997; Megerdoomian 2002, 2012). Karimi-Doostan (2011) claims that the morphosyntactic properties of the NVE are mainly responsible for CP separability and argues that only NVEs that are predicative nouns (e.g., komak‘help’ vs. non-predicative nouns like guš‘ ear’) can be separated from the verb. However, this argument fails according to Fleischhauer & Neisani (2020) who claim that separation is related to compositionality. They, however, limit their arguments to adjectives, suggesting that Persian CPs that are compositional (termed “light verb constructions ”) can be internally modified by adjectives.
April 3, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Wow. I am impressed by nolingsel.sty a #texlive package that deals with ligatures. Did not know how many ligatures are possible in principle.

I am quite good in spotting misplaced ligatures in German, but some effects in English are rather minimal. Do you see […]

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March 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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#HPSG proceedings are out now:

https://proceedings.hpsg.xyz/issue/view/52
2024: Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar | Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
proceedings.hpsg.xyz
March 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM