@tschfflr@fediscience.org2025-11-26 13:04:37
Hello Bielefeld 👋 #linguistics #crc #networking
@tschfflr@fediscience.org2025-11-26 13:04:37
@sascha_wolfer@fediscience.org2026-01-25 10:15:21
I built a #bot that posts 10 new German words once per day: @…
The bot uses a few RSS feeds of German news media to look for new words.
'New' means that they're not on a list of approx. 39 million old words and have not yet been discovered by the bot itself. More info in the bot's bio. ... and please feel free to ask me anything.
#linguistics
@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 🥰 @…
@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.org2025-11-21 08:27:08
On my way to the U Cologne & the SFB „Prominence in Language“ - thanks to @… 😊 See you soon! #rstats #udpipe #linguistics
@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.org2025-11-28 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
@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.org2025-12-04 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
@sascha_wolfer@fediscience.org2026-01-22 08:35:08
What‘s your go-to #python or #rstats tool(chain) for splitting #German compounds? I‘ve tried a few but was not really satisfied. Maybe I missed something. #NLP #linguistics
@tschfflr@fediscience.org2026-01-07 11:36:04
Short-term fellowships available for international PhD candidates at the University of Potsdam around "Limits of Variability in Language"! If you're a linguist interested in this opportunity, please contact me or one of the other PIs for more information! #linguistics #fellowship #funding #phd
https://linguistlist.org/issues/36/3850/
@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/