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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 1d

Confs: Language Documentation & Archiving 2026

Language documentation and archiving are key activities in the effort to preserve and support linguistic and cultural diversity globally. As new technologies emerge and evolve, new opportunities and challenges present themselves for how we record, curate, preserve, and disseminate linguistic and cultural materials. This conference invites documenters, scholars, activists, technologists, and others engaged in language documentation and archiving to present papers and posters exploring new approac

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Elisabeth J. Kerr @elisabethjkerr.bsky.social · 1d

Helaas pindakaas!

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Elisabeth J. Kerr @elisabethjkerr.bsky.social · 1d

*anders gaat hij 😉 (you only drop -t in inversion contexts for 2SG)

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Elisabeth J. Kerr @elisabethjkerr.bsky.social · 5d

I vote gazine!

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Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 5d

CALL FOR COLLABORATORS
The MapLE project is looking for 5 collaborators working on African languages, to collect and analyse data on the speaker’s and addressee’s knowledge in grammar. Will you join our project?
See the website for details:
epistemicity.net/call-collabo...

Call collaborators

Call for collaborators MapLE project The NWO Vici project ‘Mapping Linguistic Epistemicity’ (MapLE) invites 5 collaborators to help with data collection and analysis. Come join the MapLE team! Desc…

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 9d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Elisabeth J. Kerr @elisabethjkerr.bsky.social · 9d

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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 9d

Confs: 11th International Conference on Bantu Languages

Please see the conference website (https://www.bantugent.ugent.be/bantu11/) for versions of this announcement in Kiswahili, Lingála, français, português, and español. The BantUGent team is happy to welcome you to the city of Ghent (Belgium) for the 11th International Conference on Bantu Languages (Bantu11). It will take place from August 18 to August 21, 2026, just before the 55th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics (CALL 2026) in Leiden (the Netherlands) from August 24th till Aug

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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 9d

Confs: 11th International Conference on Bantu Languages

Please see the conference website (https://www.bantugent.ugent.be/bantu11/) for versions of this announcement in Kiswahili, Lingála, français, português, and español. The BantUGent team is happy to welcome you to the city of Ghent (Belgium) for the 11th International Conference on Bantu Languages (Bantu11). It will take place from August 18 to August 21, 2026, just before the 55th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics (CALL 2026) in Leiden (the Netherlands) from August 24th till Aug

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 13d

this really works!

Grigory Lukin ✨️is on sub✨️ @grigorylukin.bsky.social · 13d

Free pro tip: when using Google Translate from English to French, if you want to switch from informal-you to formal-you, end the sentence with "sir." To achieve the opposite, end it with "you bastard."

E.g., "You had one job, you bastard." (I'm rehearsing my lines en route to meet my landlord. 🫠)

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Elisabeth J. Kerr @elisabethjkerr.bsky.social · 15d

If you happen to be working on stem size restrictions / prosodic prominence on verbs, let me know! Planning a workshop on that ☺️

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Elisabeth J. Kerr @elisabethjkerr.bsky.social · 15d

For anyone working on verbs (also in non-Bantu Bantoid!), Mark Van de Velde and I are putting together a workshop proposal on the effect of maximality constraints on verb structure, i.e. the relationship between stem size restrictions, extensions, analytic morphosyntax, and stem-initial prominence

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Elisabeth J. Kerr @elisabethjkerr.bsky.social · 15d

Come join us in Ghent next year for #Bantu11! The first cfp is out, with workshop proposals due October 15th (the next deadline will be December 1st for abstract submissions, which can be to a workshop or the general session)

www.bantugent.ugent.be/bantu11/

Bantu 11 Conference – BantUGent – UGent Centre for Bantu Studies

www.bantugent.ugent.be

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Elisabeth J. Kerr @elisabethjkerr.bsky.social · 20d

Today in linguistic example sentences:

m̀m'ǎ:bǎ:kɔ̌bá gwa:kɛ́ ḿbǐ:bé bɔkala
"Mum hit me because I stole a doughnut"

(Gunu (Bantu A62, Cameroon); Rekanga 1989:41)

Gunu example with intonation traced and french translation "Maman m'a frappé parce que j'ai volé un beignet"

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 21d

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 21d

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Elisabeth J. Kerr @elisabethjkerr.bsky.social · 22d

A framed photo of yourself, so they remember your contributions?

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I first parsed #10 as a ditransitive (buy souvenirs for KU Leuven)

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Elisabeth J. Kerr @elisabethjkerr.bsky.social · 23d

Home home for a couple of days

English countryside scene with two people walking on windy path of a green field with hedgerows, wooden fence, and thatched cottages in the distance

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Guillaume @gguitang.bsky.social · 23d

Our faculty is holding an online Graduate Open Day via Teams on 25th September, 1-2pm (British Summer Time); an opportunity to ask questions about the Linguistics graduate courses on offer at Oxford and the admissions process.
www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2025/07...

Graduate Linguistics Online Open Day

The Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics will be holding an online Graduate Open Day via Microsoft Teams for all prospective graduate applicants on Thursday 25th September 2025 from 1-2pm (...

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Elisabeth J. Kerr @elisabethjkerr.bsky.social · 27d

Looking at the stats reported in the MSCA news articles from the last 5 years - massive increase in number of applicants for the postdoc fellowship, with very small increase in number of funded projects. Applicants this year have much lower odds of success.

Stats for year, number of applications, number of funded projects, success rate
2021 8356 1200 14.4%
2022 7044 1230 17.5%
2023 8039 1250 15.5%
2024 10360 1700 16.4%
2025 17058 1650 9.7%

Bar chart showing number of applications Vs number of funded projects over the past 5 years

Elisabeth J. Kerr @elisabethjkerr.bsky.social · 27d

Would be nice 🥲. Ultimately though, we (as international research community) cannot absorb the impact of all the slashing of research funding going on e.g. with the NSF. It's just plain bad news for everybody

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Elisabeth J. Kerr @elisabethjkerr.bsky.social · 27d

Wow. The number of Marie-Curie postdoc fellowship applications rose from 10,360 last year to 17,058 this year (with only enough in the pot to fund 9.7% of projects). 47.8% of applicants are based in the US.

Good luck to anyone in the lottery 🥲

marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/node/1463