@tschfflr@fediscience.org2025-12-04 07:32:36
@tschfflr@fediscience.org2025-12-04 07:32:36
@tschfflr@fediscience.org2025-12-04 08:04:43
Content warning: spoiler, explaining a joke
The headline "The Bundeswehr is now investigating, with the help of local police, who could be behind the theft." can have two syntactic structures:
1. The Bundeswehr, with the help of local police, is investigating who (= interrogative pronoun) is behind the theft.
2. The Bundeswehr is investigating (the theft), with the help of local police, who (= relative pronoun) are the persons who might be behind the theft.
#linguistics #ambiguity
@vrandecic@mas.to2025-09-25 08:44:30
Mixing languages can be confusing
#linguistics #languages #language
@sascha_wolfer@fediscience.org2025-11-21 08:27:08
On my way to the U Cologne & the SFB „Prominence in Language“ - thanks to @… 😊 See you soon! #rstats #udpipe #linguistics
@trochee@dair-community.social2025-09-12 02:26:05
My kid made this for me at camp
He says "this is what a real #wug looks like, dad."
#linguistics
@light@noc.social2025-09-20 16:18:57
@tschfflr@fediscience.org2025-11-26 13:04:37
Hello Bielefeld 👋 #linguistics #crc #networking
@spamless@mastodon.social2025-09-09 21:17:24
I like this. #linguistics
@tschfflr@fediscience.org2025-09-26 07:29:49
Nodding and gestures on the telephone - is that pure muscle memory? 🤔 #linguistics
@vrandecic@mas.to2025-11-13 06:48:54
"Doom scrolling" heißt auf Deutsch Dummscrollen, and I think that's beautiful.
#linguistics #translation #engdeu
@sascha_wolfer@fediscience.org2025-11-18 16:06:22
I recently researched the etymology of two interesting German words:
- "nonchalant" (informal, relaxed, casual, carefree, easy-going): I found that interesting because it's obviously a negation and I never read the non-negated form "chalant". Turns out that the non-negated form goes back to latin "calēre" (warm, to be hot, to be alarmed, to be fired up)
- "verschollen" (lost, missing, nothing has been known about the whereabouts of sth. or sb. for a long time). I found it weird because I couldn't make any sense of "schollen". This might be related to "verschallen" (stop making noise) and might go back to old high German "skellan" (which is also related to German "Schelle", a small bell). So, "verschollen" can be seen as a euphemistic expression because stop making noise is used to refer to being lost (and maybe dead).
#etymology #linguistics #German
@tschfflr@fediscience.org2025-11-21 08:54:40
CONGRATULATIONS 💪 also to the other funded clusters, in particular Konstanz with the 8th (!!!) #linguistics related CRC in Germany. I love love love to be part of such an active research community 🥰 @…
@tschfflr@fediscience.org2025-11-21 08:52:38
Super proud that our research cluster "Limits of Variability in Language" can go into the third and final round! 🥳 Excited to keep working on this with fantastic colleagues from Potsdam! @… @… #crc1287 #linguistics
https://www.dfg.de/de/service/presse/pressemitteilungen/2025/pressemitteilung-nr-37
@sascha_wolfer@fediscience.org2025-10-10 06:05:01
Out now in PNAS: Statistical errors undermine claims about the evolution of #polysynthetic #languages by Alex Koplenig and me: #linguistics 🧶 coming up...
@tschfflr@fediscience.org2025-10-30 09:06:14
🚨 Yesterday, I received official notification that our #emoji project EmDiCom is being funded for another three years! 🥳
I'm looking forward to a lot more 🤩 emoji research 🤩 together with Patrick Grosz and Lea Fricke! #linguistics #dfg #vicom @… https://vicom.info/projects/semantics-and-pragmatics-of-emojis-in-digital-communication/
@sascha_wolfer@fediscience.org2025-11-28 10:11:02
Eine Frage für Euer Sprachgefühl:
"Schule" hat manchmal die Lesart als "andauerndes Geschehen", die im DWDS am ehesten unter den Bedeutungen 2b) [#linguistics #semantik