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Martin Haspelmath
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comparative linguist, MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig); https://www.eva.mpg.de/linguistic-and-cultural-evolution/staff/martin-haspelmath

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Martin Haspelmath is a German linguist working in the field of linguistic typology. He is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, where he worked from 1998 to 2015 and again since 2020. Between 2015 and 2020, he worked at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. He is also an honorary professor of linguistics at the University of Leipzig. .. more

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Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath.bsky.social · 13h
In this blogpost (on the occasion of reading Caha 2019), I make some comments on the "accidental vs. systematic syncretism" distinction, which seems to be unnecessary: dlc.hypotheses.org/4188
Is inflectional syncretism ever “systematic”? Some comments on Caha (2019)
Since Plank (1991), syncretic patterns in inflectional paradigms have been studied in a sustained way, fuelled also by the increasing popularity of Distributed Morphology (e.g. Siddiqi 2019) and nanos...
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Lameen Souag @lameensouag.bsky.social · 3d
Hey, did you know that Greek lost the phoneme /h/ because of secularism? You see, /h/ intrinsically symbolises the Creator. And hydrogen.

This journal is published by @springernature.com , and is hosted by @nature.com. How did this incoherent nonsense make it into print?

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Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath.bsky.social · 4d
Biases are everywhere. We really need to work hard to avoid them – not only our political biases, but also our biases toward a particular favoured theory. www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

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Cadernos de Linguística @cadlin.bsky.social · 4d
Two people in a sentence, one “he” later. André Luiz da Silva and Jan Edson Rodrigues Leite show conjunctions can tilt the guess: “but” tends to favor the nearer name, “therefore/so” the earlier one, and conclusive links get faster average responses. #langsky #linguistics doi.org/10.25189/267...
A vertically oriented academic poster on a light beige background. At the very top, a thin horizontal line separates a small header that reads: “NEW ARTICLE | RESEARCH REPORT”. Below it, in large dark gray text, the title fills most of the page: “Cognition and Reading Comprehension: an Analysis on the Influence of Logical Information of Conjunctions for the Resolution of Pronominal Anaphora”. Under the title, two author entries are listed, each preceded by a small pale yellow circular bullet: First: “ANDRÉ LUIZ DA SILVA”, followed by “Universidade Federal da Paraíba”. Second: “JAN EDSON RODRIGUES LEITE”, followed by “Universidade Federal da Paraíba”. The layout is clean and minimalist, with generous white space and no images or charts. In the bottom left corner, there is a small abstract graphic resembling short radiating lines, like a subtle logo or decorative mark.

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 4d
These photos on my institute's news page about the study are real value added. Would you like to sit in a precise laser-measured pit all day? Archaeology may be for you! (It's essential work but I would go insane.)

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