comparative linguist, MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig); https://www.eva.mpg.de/linguistic-and-cultural-evolution/staff/martin-haspelmath
Martin Haspelmath
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Thanks to Ryan Nefdt for inviting me to contribute to this work on "philosophy of linguistics"! global.oup.com/academic/pro... In this paper, I note that in generative as well as in other work, most of the progress seems to have been made by adding breadth, not depth: ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/008...
Excellent piece from Tom that gave us a lot to think about in our response!
we ran the numbers-- they are bad
At #ICCG14 in Princeton (huge thanks to @adelegoldberg.bsky.social & team for a brilliant conference!) we announced our plans for the International #ConstructionGrammar Association (ICGA), to be officially founded at #ICCG15 in Kiel in 2028. See here for more information: construction-grammar.org
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New chapter w/ @jonrbrennan.bsky.social and @andreaeyleen.bsky.social in the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Linguistics. Explanation can help us integrate linguistics and neuroscience, if we exploit the diversity of directions and types of explanations available 🧵👇
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This is a clear tendency: While the 1990s saw the peak of generative comparative syntax (or g-syntax), the last two decades have been dominated by analyses of particular phenomena in individual languages (p-syntax) – with limited repercussions on general theories. sites.google.com/view/salzbur...
"CLDF Meta" (meta.clld.org) links to data from over 800 CLDF datasets that have been released on Zenodo (e.g. WALS, APiCS and Grambank). There are links to data on over 9000 languoids, e.g. 98 entries on Ambulas (to take a random language). Great work by my colleague Johannes Englisch!
Maybe one of the biggest obstacles for progress in science comes from entrenched stereotypes? In linguistics, we have, for example, (1) the word stereotype, (2) the grammar/dictionary stereotype, (3) the building-block stereotype, and (4) the speaker directionality stereotype dlc.hypotheses.org/4343
Human hands have partnered with tools for millions of years, allowing us to do things we otherwise could not. Is this a case of brain "plasticity"? Or perhaps "motor abstraction"?
Just one of the topics discussed in our latest episode, w/ @mattlongo.bsky.social!
Listen: disi.org/the-inner-li...
This Handbook presents cutting edge articles on the present state-of-the-art in the philosophy of linguistics. It features prominent linguists, philosophers, and cognitive scientists investigating fou...
Thinking about language structures is made difficult not only by their incredible complexity, but also by entrenched ways of thinking about grammatical and lexical patterns. Linguists do not investiga...
A hands-on, accessible guide for investigating the meaning of noun phrases.Why do many languages have definite and indefinite articles, while many others d
🤖🧠New commentary 🧠🤖
What role should large language models (LLMs) play in linguistics?
I reflect on this question in a commentary now on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2605.10061
To appear in BBS as a commentary on @futrell.bsky.social and @kmahowald.bsky.social's excellent piece on LLMs & Linguistics!
