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Does anyone have access to this article?
Bromham et al. (2025): Macroevolutionary analysis of polysynthesis shows that language complexity is more likely to evolve in small, isolated populations.
#papersplease #paper #Linguistics

Hier eine persönliche Auswahl von tatsächlich im #Korpus vorkommenden schönen Modifikationen von "langsam" (von oben nach unten nach Häufigkeit sortiert). Mit dabei: Viele Tiere!
- zeitlupenlangsam
- schneckenlangsam 🐌
- schnelllangsam (?!?)
- schildkrötenlangsam 🐢
- schweinelangsam 🐷
- hyperlangsam
- hundslangsam 🐕‍🦺
- rasendlangsam
- ameisenlangsam 🐜
- krötenlangsam 🐸
- lavalangsam
- tuckerlangsam
- zentimeterlangsam
(Quelle: DeReKoGram, #linguistics

To whom it may concern...
Kurzauszug aus aktueller #Korpus -Studie
"hin- und/oder herX"
X = finites Verb, Verb im Infinitiv oder Partizip Perfekt
Platz 1: hin- und hergerissen (duh!)
Platz 2: hin- und hergeschoben
Platz 3: hin- und herschieben (s. Platz 2)
Platz 4: hin- und herfahren
Platz 5: hin- und herpendeln
Platz 6: hin- und hergeschickt
Platz 7: hin- und hergefahren (s. Platz 4)
Platz 8: hin- und hergeworfen
Platz 9: hin- und herwechseln
Platz 10: hin- und herpendelt (s. Platz 5)
"hin- und hergerissen" ist dabei immer noch häufiger als Plätze 2 bis 10 zusammengenommen.
Wie gesagt: "und" kann in der obigen Liste auch immer "oder" sein.
Quelle: DeReKoGram (#linguistics

#linguistics
I vaguely recall from long ago studies the concept of #Register in describing and analyzing language usage, and how a given language has many registers, the use of which is prescribed by context.
There is, I think, a register that is used exclusively when narrating a History Ch…

German-English connections: "anecken" and "to egg on." These words don't mean exactly the same thing, but they are related. Etymologically, they seem closely related. English is a Germanic language. And phrasal verbs offer up interesting connections.
#language #linguistics

New #preprint by Alex Koplenig and me:
"Statistical errors undermine claims about the evolution of polysynthetic languages". (#PNAS (#Linguistics

#linguistics #archeology #Paleogenetics #bookstodon

🚨 #ESSLLI2025 - Last chance for early bird registration (May 31)!
👉 Logic
👉 Language
👉 Information
Really interesting courses and the Ruhr area is much more interesting than it is known for! ✨
#nlproc #logic #linguistics #summerschool
https://2025.esslli.eu/registration.html

🤩 We spent today recording video for a new professional short introduction into our ViCom project on #emojis 📹 It was fun trying to find the most photogenic public spots on campus (as emoji research consists mostly of us staring at computer screens all day long, and is not very... visually interesting)
Very excited to show you the results in a few weeks or months! #visualCommunication #linguistics #sciComm @… https://vicom.info/projects/semantics-and-pragmatics-of-emojis-in-digital-communication/

Just published:
Supplementing CEFR-graded vocabulary lists for language learners by leveraging information on dictionary views, corpus frequency, part-of-speech, and polysemy
A machine-learning method to suggest word candidates for CEFR-graded vocabulary lists.
#CEFR level of previously unlabeled words
#linguistics #CEFR #frequency #dictionary #LanguageLearning