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Sofia Rüdiger @sofiaruediger.bsky.social · 19d

oops, I did it again 🎶
Call for papers for Corpus Pragmatics special issue "Speech Acts in English: Corpus Insights from Past to Present", ed. by @racheledf.bsky.social, Christine Elsweiler & me.
Abstract submissions due: 1 November 2025
link.springer.com/collections/...
#Pragmatics #Linguistics

Speech Acts in English: Corpus Insights from Past to Present

In recent decades, speech act use in English has received considerable attention, producing a substantial body of research drawing on both historical and ...

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Vaclav Brezina @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social · 23d

Week 1 on #CorpusMOOC: key techniques of data analysis #concordance #frequency

👉 Join us today for free!

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · 27d

Online lecture, 26 September:

Prof. Stefan Dollinger: The #Dictionary of #Canadianisms on Historical Principles, Third Edition (2025): non-dominant varieties and the national-identification angle in the 2020s

Details & free registration: blogs.helsinki.fi/hellex-socie...

#hellexsoc #lexicography

Events | Suomen historiallisen leksikografian seura ry

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · Sep 1

Our special issue on "Constructional approaches to creativity and productivity in English" has been published in English Language & Linguistics! All of the research articles are #openaccess, and the introduction is freely available to read as well: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#cxg

English Language & Linguistics: Volume 29 - Constructional approaches to creativity and productivity in English | Cambridge Core

Cambridge Core - English Language & Linguistics - Volume 29 - Constructional approaches to creativity and productivity in English

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University of Helsinki @helsinki.fi · Aug 7

"Esitys yliopistojen rahoituksen leikkaamisesta on täysin käsittämätön ajassa, jossa talouskasvu sakkaa jo valmiiksi”, sanoo rehtorimme Sari Lindblom valtionvarainministeriön ehdotuksesta. www.helsinki.fi/fi/uutiset/k...

Rehtori Sari Lindblom: “Satojen miljoonien yliopistoleikkauksilla Suomi uppoaisi vain syvemmälle suohon” | Helsingin yliopisto

Valtiovarainministeriön ehdotus valtion vuoden 2026 budjetiksi julkaistiin 6. elokuuta. Esitys sisältää mittavia, satojen miljoonien leikkauksia yliopistojen, tutkimuksen ja innovaatioiden rahoituksee...

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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · Aug 13

Five days left to apply! TT or full professorship in English linguistics here in Tampere, Finland #AcademicJobs

Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · Jul 24

Don’t forget to send in your application before the summer hols! Deadline August 18

tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...

Open rank professorship in Tampere, English linguistics. We will be working side by side

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Jukka Suomela @jukkasuomela.fi · Jul 20

Recommended reading on neural vs. symbolic AI: open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

How o3 and Grok 4 Accidentally Vindicated Neurosymbolic AI

Neurosymbolic AI is quietly winning. Here’s what that means – and why it took so long

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · Jul 18

If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from your device without comment

A large tardigrade puppet hanging from the ceiling

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Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · Jul 11

Probably not a good strategy to post this late at night, but I'm very happy that updated slides and complete R notebooks for my ICAME46 and CL2025 talks on Bootstrapping Keywords and Collocations are finally available on OSF. Share and enjoy! osf.io/x82cz/ @cl2025.co.uk #ICAME46

Bootstrapping keywords and collocations

Code, data, and slides from conference presentations on bootstrapping keywords and collocations in R Hosted on the Open Science Framework

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Desmond Elliott @delliott.bsky.social · Jul 7

📢I am hiring a Postdoc to work on post-training methods for low-resource languages. Apply by August 15 employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho....
Let's talk at #ACL2025NLP in Vienna if you want to know more about the position and life in Denmark.

Postdoc in Natural Language Processing

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Emma Newman @emmanewman.bsky.social · Jul 4

If you'd like to run away to the 1660s and have an adventure featuring sapphic romance, sword fights, pirates, werewolves, and vampires, instead of thinking about... [gestures widely], the ebook of THE VENGEANCE is currently on sale for 99p! geni.us/Solarissale Any boosts gratefully received!

A picture of THE VENGEANCE, a novel by Emma Newman, on an ereader with a rainbow background. 99p website exclusive, ends 23:57 14th July '25. DRM free. Titles available will vary by country.

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · Jul 3

The Corpus of Women’s Instructive Texts in English (CoWITE; 1550–1899) has been added to CoRD:
varieng.helsinki.fi/CoRD/corpora...
#corpusresources

CoRD | Corpus of Women's Instructive Texts in English

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · Jul 2

Would this be of interest to DR-LIB? varieng.helsinki.fi/CoRD/

Corpus Resource Database (CoRD)

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · Jul 1

Great, thanks! If you need any help with types3, just let me know. I haven't seen Florent in person since the SLE conference last August, but we do have a few ongoing writing projects!

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · Jun 30

Jacqueline Laws uses types3 in her #CL2025 talk on "Neologizing in American and British spoken English: The case of complex verb formation"! Tuesday at 1:30 pm, session 5.2.

Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · Jun 26

We also introduce the new types3 tool for analysing textual diversity, richness, and productivity in text corpora and other data sets: github.com/suomela/type...
#corpuslinguistics

GitHub - suomela/types3: types3: Type accumulation curves

types3: Type accumulation curves. Contribute to suomela/types3 development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · Jun 29

Olen miettinyt pörniskän etymologiaa! Kainuussa käytetty sana lakritsista. En löytänyt esim. vanhoista sanomalehtiaineistoista.

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · Jun 26

We also introduce the new types3 tool for analysing textual diversity, richness, and productivity in text corpora and other data sets: github.com/suomela/type...
#corpuslinguistics

GitHub - suomela/types3: types3: Type accumulation curves

types3: Type accumulation curves. Contribute to suomela/types3 development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · Jun 26

Our paper combines #HistoricalSociolinguistics with #ConstructionGrammar, analysing the role of gender in the productivity of the cx. While men use a greater number of different verbs in the cx, women lead the host-class expansion, so they might have different representations of the cx over time.

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · Jun 25

All papers in the special issue on Creativity & Productivity in #CxG:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Trousdale & @nordemuriel.bsky.social; Bergs & Pentrel; Laws; Flach; Ceuppens & De Smet; @ollisilv.bsky.social; Säily et al.; Vartiainen, Callies & @aatuliimatta.net

Ed. by me & T. Vartiainen 😊

FirstView articles | English Language & Linguistics | Cambridge Core

English Language & Linguistics - Professor Laurel J. Brinton, Professor Bernd Kortmann, Professor Warren Maguire

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Olli Silvennoinen @ollisilv.bsky.social · Jun 24

Some years ago, I started to notice the phrase 'going forward' in the sense 'in the future, from now on'. When @tanjasaily.fi and Turo Vartiainen organised a workshop on constructional creativity and innovation and asked me to join, I decided to take a closer look. Here is the result:

Going forward as an adverb | English Language & Linguistics | Cambridge Core

Going forward as an adverb

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · Jun 25

📣 New paper with Florent Perek & @jukkasuomela.fi! 📣

Variation and change in the productivity of BE going to V in the Corpus of Historical American English, 1810–2009
doi.org/10.1017/S136...

Part of our ELL special issue on "Constructional approaches to creativity and productivity in English" #cxg

Variation and change in the productivity of be going to V in the Corpus of Historical American English, 1810–2009 | English Language & Linguistics | Cambridge Core

Variation and change in the productivity of be going to V in the Corpus of Historical American English, 1810–2009

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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · Jun 25

The word is out! Next IPrA is in our (Finnish) neck of the woods, in Helsinki 🇫🇮 Pragmaticians, converge!

Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · Jun 25

IPrA in 2027 - Helsinki

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FINSSE @finsse.bsky.social · Jun 23

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Tampere University is seeking an Assistant professor, Associate professor or Professor in the field of English linguistics.

The closing date for applications is August 18th.

Tenure track position in English linguistics (Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Professor) / tenure track -tehtävä, englannin kielen tutkimus (Apulaisprofessori tai Professori)

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Sofia Rüdiger @sofiaruediger.bsky.social · Jun 21

Conference website already up and running:
wp.uni-koblenz.de/icame47/
#ICAME46 to #ICAME47

ICAME47 - ICAME47

Home CFP Venue Programme Registration Committees Contact We are pleased to announce that ICAME47 will take place in Koblenz (Germany) on 26-30 May 2026. ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern...

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Tanja Säily @tanjasaily.fi · Jun 21

Of course, the most prominent embodied site for love is the heart, even in the BNC #ICAME46

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