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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 · 1d
Bernd Kortmann's adverbial-subordinator data from his 1997 book are now part of the CrossGram database: all 2063 adverbial subordinators from 52 European languages (crossgram.clld.org/contribution...) plus 32 core meanings treated as language parameters + maps (crossgram.clld.org/contribution...)

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Claire @chirila.bsky.social · 4d
Evolution of differential object marking in Macedonian dialects benjamins.com/catalog/dia....
Evolution of differential object marking in Macedonian dialects
By the late Middle Ages, a part of South Slavic, including Macedonian and Bulgarian, had lost nominal case inflection, leading to the disappearance of the old Slavic differential object marking (DOM) ...
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Akademienunion @akademienunion.bsky.social · 5d
Das Altuigurische spielt für die Turkvölker dieselbe Rolle, wie Latein für die romanischen Sprachen. Ein aktuelles wissenschaftliches Wörterbuch, gibt es jedoch nicht. Das Akademieprojekt „Wörterbuch des Altuigurischen“ um Jens Peter Laut ändert das nun und trägt zum Erhalt dieser Kultur bei.

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Kevin Lala @kevinlala.bsky.social · 9d
I am happy to share this article, entitled "The importance of Biological Theory". It is my inaugural editorial as the new Editor-in-Chief of @biologicaltheory.bsky.social . In these complex and challenging times, theory is more important now than ever. Enjoy!

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The Importance of Biological Theory - Biological Theory
Biological Theory -
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Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath.bsky.social · 9d
Bonmann, Riesberg and Himmelmann (2025) on DOM in Western Malayo-Polynesian (www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/lingty-2024-0002/html) – the dataset is now available in CrossGram: crossgram.clld.org/contribution...

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Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath.bsky.social · 10d
A wonderful new resource: "The Balkan Linguistic Area" (ed. by E. Adamou & A. Sobolev: www.degruyterbrill.com/.../10.../97...) – dozens of linguistic features with areal maps. Inspired by our APiCS database (balcanica.rs/index.php/jo...), and also available as an online database: abla.cnrs.fr

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De Gruyter Brill Linguistics @dgb-linguistics.bsky.social · 11d
💡Learn about the use of gender-inclusive language across 14 European languages in this new book edited by Falco Pfalzgraf: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111701608/html#overview

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Book cover of the collection entitled "Gender-inclusive language: Findings from 14 languages and open research questions", edited by Falco Pfalzgraf.

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 14d
I had an awesome conversation with Yascha Mounk. We talked about how our perspective on language, animals, consciousness, AI is changing. Have a listen:

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Gašper Beguš on Why Language Doesn’t Make Humans Special
Yascha Mounk and Gašper Beguš also talk about what whale communication and the recent progress on AI tell us about the human brain.
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