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Martin Konvička
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Linguist(ician) 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈

Histor(y of linguistics|ical linguistics) @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

Posts for: @hiphilangsci.bsky.social & @izeusberlin.bsky.social
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Thrilled to have contributed to the new volume (@johnbenjamins.bsky.social) on Dutch and contact linguistics, edited by Christopher Joby and Nicoline van der Sijs 🤩

My chapter explores language contact online, specifically the case of Dutch "want X" constructions.

🔗 benjamins.com/catalog/impa...
Dutch and Contact Linguistics
This volume brings together scholars from across the globe to showcase the many varied outcomes of contact between Dutch and other languages in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
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World Linguistics Day is coming up on November 26th!

Have you made any plans yet to celebrate?
lingcomm.org/2025/10/26/w...
World Linguistics Day
World Linguistics Day is November 26th: what are you doing to celebrate?
lingcomm.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Episode no. 52 is out 🚲

James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) talks with Gereon Müller (@unileipzig.bsky.social) about his new book Lanes to Language, which unites the worlds of history of linguistics and cycling.

🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2025/11/15/p...

#Histlx
Podcast episode 52: Gereon Müller on Lanes to Language
In this interview, Gereon Müller discusses his new book Lanes to Language, which unites the worlds of history of linguistics and cycling.
hiphilangsci.net
November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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#OTD 223 years ago, August Friedrich Pott (1802-1887) was born 🥳 He started working as a schoolmaster in Celle, but would later become one of the pioneers of (historical comparative) linguistics as well as the leading scholar of Romani in the 19th century.

#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
November 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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1. Dne 5. listopadu zveřejnily @novinkycz článek s titulkem „V Kateřinské jeskyni našli tajemný úlomek břidlice s klínovým písmem“. Autor se ptá, zda jde o „fantastický nález“ či „geniální historický podvrh“. www.novinky.cz/clanek/veda-...
V Kateřinské jeskyni našli tajemný úlomek břidlice s klínovým písmem - Novinky
Drobný úlomek břidličné destičky s klínovým písmem objevili vědci při kontrole vykopaného materiálu v Kateřinské jeskyni v Moravském krasu na Blanensku. Patrně pochází z říše Chetitů, která se nacháze...
www.novinky.cz
November 13, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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#OTD 206 years ago, Daniel Sanders (1819–1897) was born 🎉 A lexicographer and poet, he is best known as the co-author of the Muret-Sanders English-German Dictionary and as a critic of Jacob Grimm’s dictionary. The German city of Neustrelitz awards a prize in his honour.

#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
November 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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#OTD 124 years ago, Dorothy Whitelock (1901–1982) was born 🥳 She was a leading scholar of Old English, best known today for her editions of Old English texts. She was the first woman to hold the Elrington and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon.

#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
November 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Joyeux anniversaire, cher Antoine 🎂

To celebrate, remember that "each language forms a system where everything hangs together".

#LinguisticQuotes #Histlx
November 11, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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#OTD 134 years ago, Ida Suter (1891–1974) was born 🎉 An expert dialectologist, she spent 30 years working on the Swiss German Dictionary (@ch-idiotikon.bsky.social) and contributed to the edition of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi’s (1746–1827) letters.

#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
November 10, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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The next Henry Sweet Society (@henrysweetsoc.bsky.social) Colloquium will be held on 2-4 September 2026 at the University of Nottingham (@uniofnottingham.bsky.social).

Thematic focus: (Non-)Native Speakers in the History of Linguistic Ideas

CfP: hiphilangsci.net/2025/11/08/c...

#Histlx
Cfp: Henry Sweet Society Colloquium 2026
The 2026 annual colloquium of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas will be held on 2–4 September 2026 at the University of Nottingham, UK. Confirmed plenary speaker: Cécile V…
hiphilangsci.net
November 10, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Hast du genug Rizz, um Algspeak-Meister*in zu werden?

Rizz or miss: Algospeak (@etymology.substack.com.web.brid.gy) Pubquiz 🤖

17. November 2025, 18:00 im Caledonian Café

Organisiert von Rosa Hesse und Arne Werfel (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social)

🔗 userpage.fu-berlin.de/~structeng/t...
November 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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#OTD 114 years ago, Ruth Klappenbach (1911-1977) was born 🎉 She focused on lexicography, became one of the co-founders and co-editors of the Dictionary of Contemporary German Language (Wörterbuch der deutschen Gegenwartssprache, 1952-1977).

#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
November 7, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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#OTD 191 years ago, Lucy C. Lloyd (1834-1914) was born 🥳 She was an ethnologist as well as a linguist, she collected an archive of ǀXam and ǃKung texts, who, in 1913, received an honorary doctorate for her work as the first woman in South Africa.

#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
November 7, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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#OTD 127 years ago, Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain (1898-1975) was born 🎂 During her anthropological and linguistic career, she investigated the origins of Haitian Creole and conducted field research in Haiti, but also in Congo, Togo, and Nigeria.

#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
November 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Wozu noch Grammatik in der Schule?

Am 6. November 2025 um 18:15 sprechen genau darüber Anke Haupt (BLiQ), Barbara Schlücker (@bschluecker.bsky.social) und Regina Ultze (@senbjf.bsky.social) 🤩

🔗 www.fu-berlin.de/sites/dhc/pr...

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October 15, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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"Mamdani" as a crash course in English phonotactics with sociolinguistics on the side, all in 101 seconds) 🐦🐦
This is good. On the linguistic roots why, people say Mandami and why it's not just linguistics (i.e. the impulse is linguistic but at this point for certain people it's deliberate)
November 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Studentin such Proband:innen für ein Experiment 🕵

- einsprachig aufgewachsene Deutsch-Muttersprachler:innen
- Italienischkenntnisse B1/B2
- keine neurologischen/sprachlichen/auditiven Beeinträchtigungen

Vergütung 25€ 🤩

emma.mensching ät fu-berlin.de

#BLinguistik #Experiment #Sprachwissenschaft
November 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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#OTD 134 years ago, Yuen Ren Chao (1892-1982) was born 🎉 He was an expert on Chinese grammar and phonology and the author of the Gwoyeu Romatzyh, a Latinised spelling system for Standard Chinese. He served as the president of the Linguistic Society of America in 1945.

#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
November 3, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Ihr fandet Grammatik in der Schule immer doof? Nun denn - am Donnerstag (6.11. um 18.15 Uhr) moderiere ich eine Diskussion zum Thema "Wozu noch Grammatik in der Schule?" Ihr seid herzlich willkommen!
@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @senbjf.bsky.social @berlinscienceweek.bsky.social
Wozu noch Grammatik in der Schule?

Am 6. November 2025 um 18:15 sprechen genau darüber Anke Haupt (BLiQ), Barbara Schlücker (@bschluecker.bsky.social) und Regina Ultze (@senbjf.bsky.social) 🤩

🔗 www.fu-berlin.de/sites/dhc/pr...

@berlinscienceweek.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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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
Podcast episode 51: Martin Haspelmath
In this interview, Martin Haspelmath 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…
hiphilangsci.net
October 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Nicht ganz korrekt: "KI" "erfindet" _alle_ Antworten, manche sind nur zufällig korrekt (und du weißt nie, welche).
October 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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The October 2025 edition of our regular update on recently published works in the history and philosophy of the language sciences is now available 🤩

📚 hiphilangsci.net/2025/10/30/p...

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Recent publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences – October 2025
Histoire Epistémologie Langage 47(1). 2025. Grammaticalisation : histoire et perspectives, dossier thématique sous la direction de Benjamin Fagard. Paris: SHESL. 340 p. ISSN:  0750-8069Publisher’s …
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October 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Die nächste Vortragende der #DahlemLecturesInLinguistics ist Anna Havinga (@germanatbristol.bsky.social). Sie analysiert den spätmittelalterlichen Wechsel von Latein zu den Vernakularsprachen in Schottland und Norddeutschland 🤩

Mehr Info: www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/dcl/veran...
October 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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#OTD 86 years ago, Jane H. Hill (1939–2018) was born 🎉 A linguistic anthropologist who studied Uto-Aztecan languages in the US and in her sociolinguistic work analysed strategies behind racist language, including Mock Spanish.

#WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays
October 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Ihr möchtet eine Tagung oder einen Workshop organisieren, wisst aber nicht wirklich, wie?

Dann müsst ihr die Texte von Annika Schiefner (@uva.nl) und Pauline Sander (@unistuttgart.bsky.social) auf dem StuBS-Blog (@jungesprawi.bsky.social) lesen 😉

🔗 blog.junge-sprachwissenschaft.de/2025/10/18/K...
Wie organisiert man eigentlich eine Konferenz? (Teil 1 von 7)
Konferenzen, Tagungen, Workshops… Egal wie ihr das Event nennt, Austausch ist wichtig, um in der Wissenschaft voranzukommen, und es macht doch irgendwie auch Spaß, sich mit Gleichgesinnten über die Fe...
blog.junge-sprachwissenschaft.de
October 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Gegentuul Baioud (Uppsala): Linguistic Hauntings at the Margins of China

30 October 2025, 16:00

Via Zoom (registration needed): unive.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Organised by Giulia Cabras (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) together with Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
October 24, 2025 at 10:29 AM