Martin Konvička
@teapotlinguist.bsky.social
Linguist(ician) 🇪🇺🏳️🌈
Histor(y of linguistics|ical linguistics) @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
Posts for: @hiphilangsci.bsky.social & @izeusberlin.bsky.social
Histor(y of linguistics|ical linguistics) @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
Posts for: @hiphilangsci.bsky.social & @izeusberlin.bsky.social
Pinned
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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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.
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My chapter explores language contact online, specifically the case of Dutch "want X" constructions.
🔗 benjamins.com/catalog/impa...
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Matthias Hüning (@mhuening.bsky.social), Professor für niederländische Sprachwissenschaft, fasste zusammen: „In Forschung und Lehre sollten wir die Möglichkeiten der KI nutzen, aber den Umgang mit diesen Tools kritisch hinterfragen. Hier sehe ich noch Nachholbedarf.“
KI als Chance - und Risiko für die Wissenschaft? Beim "Tag der guten wissenschaftlichen Praxis" diskutierten Forschende über "kognitive Schulden", Transparenz und neue Bewertungsmaßstäbe. / Rosalind-Franklin-Preis für Karina Kriegesmann.
Zum Artikel ➡️ www.fu-berlin.de/campusleben/...
📸: M. Fahrig
Zum Artikel ➡️ www.fu-berlin.de/campusleben/...
📸: M. Fahrig
December 19, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Matthias Hüning (@mhuening.bsky.social), Professor für niederländische Sprachwissenschaft, fasste zusammen: „In Forschung und Lehre sollten wir die Möglichkeiten der KI nutzen, aber den Umgang mit diesen Tools kritisch hinterfragen. Hier sehe ich noch Nachholbedarf.“
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Archaeology of Language
For centuries #Jewish #communities living in Iraq cultivated a multitude of distinct dialects. Israeli linguist Assaf Bar-Moshe wants to preserve them for posterity.
www.fu-berlin.de/en/featured-...
via @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
#langsky
For centuries #Jewish #communities living in Iraq cultivated a multitude of distinct dialects. Israeli linguist Assaf Bar-Moshe wants to preserve them for posterity.
www.fu-berlin.de/en/featured-...
via @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
#langsky
Archaeology of Language
For centuries Jewish communities living in Iraq cultivated a multitude of distinct dialects. Israeli linguist Assaf Bar-Moshe wants to preserve them for posterity.
www.fu-berlin.de
December 17, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Archaeology of Language
For centuries #Jewish #communities living in Iraq cultivated a multitude of distinct dialects. Israeli linguist Assaf Bar-Moshe wants to preserve them for posterity.
www.fu-berlin.de/en/featured-...
via @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
#langsky
For centuries #Jewish #communities living in Iraq cultivated a multitude of distinct dialects. Israeli linguist Assaf Bar-Moshe wants to preserve them for posterity.
www.fu-berlin.de/en/featured-...
via @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
#langsky
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#OTD 160 years ago, Hermann Hirt (1865–1936) was born 🥳 Hirt was one of the most influential Indo-Europeanists and he specialized in Proto-Indo-European (PIE) stress and ablaut. He supported the claim that the PIE homeland was located in Northern Europe.
#Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays
#Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays
December 19, 2025 at 9:02 AM
#OTD 160 years ago, Hermann Hirt (1865–1936) was born 🥳 Hirt was one of the most influential Indo-Europeanists and he specialized in Proto-Indo-European (PIE) stress and ablaut. He supported the claim that the PIE homeland was located in Northern Europe.
#Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays
#Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays
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Sto lat! 🎉
Episode 15 of our podcast explores the development of modern phonology, focusing primarily on the work of Roman Jakobson and Nikolai Trubetzkoy, while also highlighting the crucial role played by Mikołaj Kruszewski.
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/06/01/p...
#Histlx
Episode 15 of our podcast explores the development of modern phonology, focusing primarily on the work of Roman Jakobson and Nikolai Trubetzkoy, while also highlighting the crucial role played by Mikołaj Kruszewski.
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/06/01/p...
#Histlx
December 18, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Sto lat! 🎉
Episode 15 of our podcast explores the development of modern phonology, focusing primarily on the work of Roman Jakobson and Nikolai Trubetzkoy, while also highlighting the crucial role played by Mikołaj Kruszewski.
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/06/01/p...
#Histlx
Episode 15 of our podcast explores the development of modern phonology, focusing primarily on the work of Roman Jakobson and Nikolai Trubetzkoy, while also highlighting the crucial role played by Mikołaj Kruszewski.
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/06/01/p...
#Histlx
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Confs: Linguistics Prague 2026
Confs: Linguistics Prague 2026
Linguistics Prague is a conference aimed at graduate students of linguistics and related fields. Successfully running since 2013, the conference will be opened to international audience for the sixth time in 2026 with English as the language of the conference. Having become a well established event in Czech academia, the conference is set to welcome international researchers to improve the diversity and quality of the contributions even further. The conference aims at young researchers to provid
dlvr.it
December 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Confs: Linguistics Prague 2026
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Books: Wirkungsgeschichte der Soziolinguistik des Deutschen: Dittmar and Neuland (eds.) (2025)
Books: Wirkungsgeschichte der Soziolinguistik des Deutschen: Dittmar and Neuland (eds.) (2025)
Diese Darstellung der Entwicklungs- und Wirkungsgeschichte der Soziolinguistik im deutschsprachigen Raum füllt mit ihrer Berücksichtigung der DDR-Soziolinguistik und der Leistungen bereits verstorbener Fachvertreter:innen eine wichtige Lücke in der Forschungsgeschichte auch im internationalen Kontext. Den Hauptteil bilden teils autobiographische Rückblicke prominenter Fachvertreter:innen in Form von Originalbeiträgen und Interviews sowie biographischen Darstellungen im Falle verstorbener Kolleg:
dlvr.it
December 16, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Books: Wirkungsgeschichte der Soziolinguistik des Deutschen: Dittmar and Neuland (eds.) (2025)
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Feliĉan naskiĝtagon, dear Dr Esperanto! 🎉
If you ever find yourself in Berlin, be sure to visit Esperantoplatz (Esperanto Square) in the hip neighbourhood of Neukölln.
#Histlx #Esperanto
If you ever find yourself in Berlin, be sure to visit Esperantoplatz (Esperanto Square) in the hip neighbourhood of Neukölln.
#Histlx #Esperanto
December 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Feliĉan naskiĝtagon, dear Dr Esperanto! 🎉
If you ever find yourself in Berlin, be sure to visit Esperantoplatz (Esperanto Square) in the hip neighbourhood of Neukölln.
#Histlx #Esperanto
If you ever find yourself in Berlin, be sure to visit Esperantoplatz (Esperanto Square) in the hip neighbourhood of Neukölln.
#Histlx #Esperanto
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CfP: 4e Online Colloquium Digitale Neerlandistiek, CoDiNeer, op 5 februari 2026
Keynote: @mhuening.bsky.social
Gezocht: 10-minuten bijdragen van neerlandici uit de Duitstalige landen
Meer info:
▶️ www.fid-benelux.de/2025/12/09/c...
#DigitaleNeerlandistiek #Neerlandistiek #Niederlandistik
Keynote: @mhuening.bsky.social
Gezocht: 10-minuten bijdragen van neerlandici uit de Duitstalige landen
Meer info:
▶️ www.fid-benelux.de/2025/12/09/c...
#DigitaleNeerlandistiek #Neerlandistiek #Niederlandistik
CfP: Colloquium Digitale Neerlandistiek op 05.02.2026 | FID Benelux
Bis zum 06.01.2026 können Kurzbeiträge aus der Niederlandistik in den deutschsprachigen Ländern eingereicht werden.
www.fid-benelux.de
December 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
CfP: 4e Online Colloquium Digitale Neerlandistiek, CoDiNeer, op 5 februari 2026
Keynote: @mhuening.bsky.social
Gezocht: 10-minuten bijdragen van neerlandici uit de Duitstalige landen
Meer info:
▶️ www.fid-benelux.de/2025/12/09/c...
#DigitaleNeerlandistiek #Neerlandistiek #Niederlandistik
Keynote: @mhuening.bsky.social
Gezocht: 10-minuten bijdragen van neerlandici uit de Duitstalige landen
Meer info:
▶️ www.fid-benelux.de/2025/12/09/c...
#DigitaleNeerlandistiek #Neerlandistiek #Niederlandistik
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🧑🔬I’m recruiting PhD students in Natural Language Processing @unileipzig.bsky.social Computer Science, together with @scadsai.bsky.social!
Topics include, but aren’t limited to:
🔎Linguistic Interpretability
🌍Multilingual Evaluation
📖Computational Typology
Please share!
#NLProc #NLP
Topics include, but aren’t limited to:
🔎Linguistic Interpretability
🌍Multilingual Evaluation
📖Computational Typology
Please share!
#NLProc #NLP
December 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
🧑🔬I’m recruiting PhD students in Natural Language Processing @unileipzig.bsky.social Computer Science, together with @scadsai.bsky.social!
Topics include, but aren’t limited to:
🔎Linguistic Interpretability
🌍Multilingual Evaluation
📖Computational Typology
Please share!
#NLProc #NLP
Topics include, but aren’t limited to:
🔎Linguistic Interpretability
🌍Multilingual Evaluation
📖Computational Typology
Please share!
#NLProc #NLP
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@linguacene.bsky.social and I are hosting a reading group in Feb and March 2026 to examine the keywords for our new multi-year research project titled "Linguaphobia, Linguistic Indifference, and the Monolingual University." If you are up for it, join us.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Linguaphobia, Linguistic Indifference, and the Monolingual University – A Reading Group
Linguaphobia, Linguistic Indifference, and the Monolingual University – A Reading Group Hosts: David Gramling & Ervin Malakaj The “Linguaphobia, Linguistic Indifference, and the Monolingual Universi...
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December 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
@linguacene.bsky.social and I are hosting a reading group in Feb and March 2026 to examine the keywords for our new multi-year research project titled "Linguaphobia, Linguistic Indifference, and the Monolingual University." If you are up for it, join us.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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#OTD 172 years ago, Jacob Wackernagel (1853–1938) was born 🎂 He was an Indo-Europeanist, specializing in Greek and Sanskrit. He formulated the so-called Wackernagel’s Law, describing the positional constraints on clitics in Indo-European, which is named after him.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
December 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM
#OTD 172 years ago, Jacob Wackernagel (1853–1938) was born 🎂 He was an Indo-Europeanist, specializing in Greek and Sanskrit. He formulated the so-called Wackernagel’s Law, describing the positional constraints on clitics in Indo-European, which is named after him.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
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#OTD 96 years ago, Lila R. Gleitman (1929–2021) was born 🎉 A pioneer of cognitive science focusing on language acquisition, working also on the theory of syntactic bootstrapping. She served as president of the Linguistic Society of America in 1993.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics
December 10, 2025 at 8:49 AM
#OTD 96 years ago, Lila R. Gleitman (1929–2021) was born 🎉 A pioneer of cognitive science focusing on language acquisition, working also on the theory of syntactic bootstrapping. She served as president of the Linguistic Society of America in 1993.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics
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#OTD 306 years ago, Ann Fisher (1719–1778) was born 🥳 She was an entrepreneur, a school director, and an author of several works on language. Her "A New Grammar", printed in 1750, was the first grammar book of contemporary English written by a woman.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics
December 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
#OTD 306 years ago, Ann Fisher (1719–1778) was born 🥳 She was an entrepreneur, a school director, and an author of several works on language. Her "A New Grammar", printed in 1750, was the first grammar book of contemporary English written by a woman.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics
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Sepsal recenzi na popularizační knihu The Language Game od Chatera a Christiansena @mh-christiansen.bsky.social. Je zdařilý úvod, který bere náhled evoluce a komunikace a kontrastuje s chomskyánským Jazykovým instinktem od Pinkera. Doporučuji pro výuku úvodů!
digilib.phil.muni.cz/sites/defaul...
digilib.phil.muni.cz/sites/defaul...
digilib.phil.muni.cz
December 8, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Sepsal recenzi na popularizační knihu The Language Game od Chatera a Christiansena @mh-christiansen.bsky.social. Je zdařilý úvod, který bere náhled evoluce a komunikace a kontrastuje s chomskyánským Jazykovým instinktem od Pinkera. Doporučuji pro výuku úvodů!
digilib.phil.muni.cz/sites/defaul...
digilib.phil.muni.cz/sites/defaul...
Pro aktuální vydání časopisu Heroine (6/2025) jsem se s Viktorem Elšíkem (@ff.unikarlova.cuni.cz) bavil o romštině. Jednak obecně o jejím rozšíření, o její historii, ale také o konkrétní sociolingvistické situaci romštiny v Česku.
December 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Pro aktuální vydání časopisu Heroine (6/2025) jsem se s Viktorem Elšíkem (@ff.unikarlova.cuni.cz) bavil o romštině. Jednak obecně o jejím rozšíření, o její historii, ale také o konkrétní sociolingvistické situaci romštiny v Česku.
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Why, look at that: Graeme Trousdale (Edinburgh) is our next speaker! He’ll discuss the grammaticalisation of mirativity in English from a Word Grammar perspective, with the mirative "why" as his example.
🔗 www.dcl.fu-berlin.de
#DahlemLecturesInLinguistics
🔗 www.dcl.fu-berlin.de
#DahlemLecturesInLinguistics
December 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Why, look at that: Graeme Trousdale (Edinburgh) is our next speaker! He’ll discuss the grammaticalisation of mirativity in English from a Word Grammar perspective, with the mirative "why" as his example.
🔗 www.dcl.fu-berlin.de
#DahlemLecturesInLinguistics
🔗 www.dcl.fu-berlin.de
#DahlemLecturesInLinguistics
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#OTD 202 years ago, Max Müller (1823–1900) was born 🎉 He was an expert on Sanskrit and the study of religion, as well as a scholar of language evolution and a translator. Müller later became the first Professor of Comparative Philology at Oxford.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
December 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
#OTD 202 years ago, Max Müller (1823–1900) was born 🎉 He was an expert on Sanskrit and the study of religion, as well as a scholar of language evolution and a translator. Müller later became the first Professor of Comparative Philology at Oxford.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
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Finally out & open access: Hoffmann & Turner on Creative Construction Grammar. How do we communicate complex meanings? How do we combine words into sentences?
#creativity #language #linguistics #Construction Grammar
Find out at
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
#creativity #language #linguistics #Construction Grammar
Find out at
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Creative Construction Grammar
Cambridge Core - Cognitive Linguistics - Creative Construction Grammar
www.cambridge.org
December 5, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Finally out & open access: Hoffmann & Turner on Creative Construction Grammar. How do we communicate complex meanings? How do we combine words into sentences?
#creativity #language #linguistics #Construction Grammar
Find out at
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
#creativity #language #linguistics #Construction Grammar
Find out at
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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#OTD 98 years ago, William Labov (1927-2024) was born 🥳 He was a pioneering sociolinguist studying language variation, dialectology, but also AAVE. In 1966, Labov published his landmark study "The Social Stratification of English in New York City".
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
December 4, 2025 at 9:07 AM
#OTD 98 years ago, William Labov (1927-2024) was born 🥳 He was a pioneering sociolinguist studying language variation, dialectology, but also AAVE. In 1966, Labov published his landmark study "The Social Stratification of English in New York City".
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
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#OTD 100 years ago, Joseph R. Applegate (1925–2003) was born 🎉 He was, among other things, a specialist in Tashelhit, a Berber language spoken in Morocco, as well as an expert in machine translation. In 1955, Applegate became the first Black faculty member at MIT.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
December 4, 2025 at 9:06 AM
#OTD 100 years ago, Joseph R. Applegate (1925–2003) was born 🎉 He was, among other things, a specialist in Tashelhit, a Berber language spoken in Morocco, as well as an expert in machine translation. In 1955, Applegate became the first Black faculty member at MIT.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
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Sprechen ist Handeln, es muss sich deshalb an moralischen Standards orientieren. Wo unser Sprachgebrauch an solchen Standards scheitert, müssen wir ihn und unser sprachliches Selbstverständnis infrage stellen.
Mit Anatol Stefanowitsch, moderiert von Rosa Hesse
userpage.fu-berlin.de/~structeng/t...
Mit Anatol Stefanowitsch, moderiert von Rosa Hesse
userpage.fu-berlin.de/~structeng/t...
December 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Sprechen ist Handeln, es muss sich deshalb an moralischen Standards orientieren. Wo unser Sprachgebrauch an solchen Standards scheitert, müssen wir ihn und unser sprachliches Selbstverständnis infrage stellen.
Mit Anatol Stefanowitsch, moderiert von Rosa Hesse
userpage.fu-berlin.de/~structeng/t...
Mit Anatol Stefanowitsch, moderiert von Rosa Hesse
userpage.fu-berlin.de/~structeng/t...
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#OTD 213 years ago, Matthias Castrén (1813–1852) was born 🥳 He undertook several journeys through Lapland, Karelia, and Siberia, and became an expert in the Finnic, Ugric, and Samoyedic languages. In 1841, he also translated the Finnish epic poem Kalevala into Swedish.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
December 2, 2025 at 7:02 AM
#OTD 213 years ago, Matthias Castrén (1813–1852) was born 🥳 He undertook several journeys through Lapland, Karelia, and Siberia, and became an expert in the Finnic, Ugric, and Samoyedic languages. In 1841, he also translated the Finnish epic poem Kalevala into Swedish.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
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Britta Schneider (@viadrina.eu) is our next speaker!
In her talk, she shows how large language models contribute
to new language assemblages, which entail new possibilities for global social order and new forms of imperial exploitation.
#DahlemLecturesInLinguistics
In her talk, she shows how large language models contribute
to new language assemblages, which entail new possibilities for global social order and new forms of imperial exploitation.
#DahlemLecturesInLinguistics
December 1, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Britta Schneider (@viadrina.eu) is our next speaker!
In her talk, she shows how large language models contribute
to new language assemblages, which entail new possibilities for global social order and new forms of imperial exploitation.
#DahlemLecturesInLinguistics
In her talk, she shows how large language models contribute
to new language assemblages, which entail new possibilities for global social order and new forms of imperial exploitation.
#DahlemLecturesInLinguistics
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New episode (no. 53) alert 🚨
James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) talks to Paul Kiparsky about the ancient Indian grammarian Pāṇini and the philosophical significance of his grammatical description of Sanskrit.
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2025/12/01/p...
#Histlx #Panini #Sanskrit
James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) talks to Paul Kiparsky about the ancient Indian grammarian Pāṇini and the philosophical significance of his grammatical description of Sanskrit.
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2025/12/01/p...
#Histlx #Panini #Sanskrit
Podcast episode 53: Paul Kiparsky on Pāṇini
In this interview, Paul Kiparsky introduces us to the ancient Indian grammarian Pāṇini and the philosophical significance of his grammatical description of Sanskrit.
hiphilangsci.net
December 1, 2025 at 6:38 AM
New episode (no. 53) alert 🚨
James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) talks to Paul Kiparsky about the ancient Indian grammarian Pāṇini and the philosophical significance of his grammatical description of Sanskrit.
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2025/12/01/p...
#Histlx #Panini #Sanskrit
James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) talks to Paul Kiparsky about the ancient Indian grammarian Pāṇini and the philosophical significance of his grammatical description of Sanskrit.
🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2025/12/01/p...
#Histlx #Panini #Sanskrit
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🚨 Great news 🚨 The #CfP for the 11th DGKL/GCLA conference in Bielefeld has been published!
Deadline for both theme sessions proposals and abstracts for presentations/posters is Jan. 15th 2026
See the conference website for more information tinyurl.com/dgkl2026
#langsky #BLinguistik #linguistics
Deadline for both theme sessions proposals and abstracts for presentations/posters is Jan. 15th 2026
See the conference website for more information tinyurl.com/dgkl2026
#langsky #BLinguistik #linguistics
DGKL2026 - Universität Bielefeld
This is the webpage of the DGKL conference 2026
tinyurl.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
🚨 Great news 🚨 The #CfP for the 11th DGKL/GCLA conference in Bielefeld has been published!
Deadline for both theme sessions proposals and abstracts for presentations/posters is Jan. 15th 2026
See the conference website for more information tinyurl.com/dgkl2026
#langsky #BLinguistik #linguistics
Deadline for both theme sessions proposals and abstracts for presentations/posters is Jan. 15th 2026
See the conference website for more information tinyurl.com/dgkl2026
#langsky #BLinguistik #linguistics