Biolinguistics

First paper of the year published in @biolinguistics: A Forum contribution by José-Luis Mendívil-Giró on "On the Limits of Functionalism: A Reply to Bierl (2025)". Read/download here for free: doi.org/10.5964/biolin… #OpenAccess

🆕📙🔍 New book review out in @biolinguistics: Elliot Murphy discusses @GregoryHickok's new book "Wired for Words: The Neural Architecture of Language". Read/download here for free (#openAccess): doi.org/10.5964/biolin…

🆕📰New paper in @biolinguistics by Siaka Sangaré and Carlo Cecchetto: "Are Languages Context-Sensitive in Their Syntax or in Their Morphology? Revisiting the Case of Bambara" Read/download here for free (#openAccess): doi.org/10.5964/biolin…

Happy Holidays from the Editorial Team at @biolinguistics. We've just posted the End-of-Year Notice in which we take stock, present some download and usage statistics, and preview what 2026 will bring for the journal. Read/Download here for free: doi.org/10.5964/biolin…

🆕📰New paper (the last one for this year) in our Forum section: "Toward a Bio-Ethological 4E Linguistics: Language as Life in Mind and Behavior" by Bernd Bierl. Read/download for free here: doi.org/10.5964/biolin… #OpenAccess

🆕📰New paper out in @biolinguistics by Murphy et al.: "Fundamental Principles of Linguistic Structure Are Not Represented by ChatGPT" Read/Download now for free: doi.org/10.5964/biolin…

New paper out in @biolinguistics: "Smuggling and Labeling Theory" by Andreas Blümel and Chris Collins. Read/download here for free: doi.org/10.5964/biolin…

What have we learned about language (and not speech) from sign languages? Join the workshop “Sign Language Grammars, Parsing Models, & the Brain”. Call for papers and details: …uage-grammars-parsers-brain.github.io/call-for-paper… @biolinguistics will be publishing the proceedings as a special issue in 2026!

@alexandersclark We’ve been trying to commission reviews from several people to gather a number of perspectives, so stay tuned!

Is anyone writing a proper review of this ?

🆕📰New Forum contribution by José-Luis Mendívil-Giró out in @biolinguistics: "The Number Sense and the Language Instinct: Relating Syntax and Arithmetic in Human Cognition" Read/download now for free: doi.org/10.5964/biolin…

The year is coming to an end, so is another volume of @biolinguistics. The Editorial Team takes this as an opportunity to reflect on the journal’s performance and discuss current and future issues. Read/Download the end-of-year notice: doi.org/10.5964/biolin… #OpenAccess

New paper out in @biolinguistics (last one for this volume/year): Jason Ginsburg: "Constraining Free Merge" Read/download here for free: doi.org/10.5964/biolin… #OpenAccess

New #BookReview of Ryan Nefdt’s "The Philosophy of Theoretical Linguistics: A Contemporary Outlook" (2024) just published in @biolinguistics: Konstantinos Voudouris & Niall Roe - "Metatheoretical Linguistics: A Philosopher’s Guide" Read/download here: doi.org/10.5964/biolin…

@j_carchidi - @jeffreywatumull: "Language Is a “Quite Useless” Tool: A Rejoinder to Fedorenko, Piantadosi, and Gibson’s “Language Is Primarily a Tool for Communication Rather Than Thought” Read/download full text here for free: doi.org/10.5964/biolin… #OpenAccess

- @j_carchidi: "Creative Minds Like Ours? Large Language Models and the Creative Aspect of Language Use" Read/download full text here for free: doi.org/10.5964/biolin… #OpenAccess

2 new papers out in @biolinguistics:

🆕📰 New paper by Edward Ruoyang Shi just published in @biolinguistics: "Across the Boundary: The Formalization of the Interface Between Episodic Memory and Narrow Syntax Computation of Human Language" Read/download here for free: doi.org/10.5964/biolin… (#OpenAccess)

🆕📰New paper in @biolinguistics by Chenchen Song: "On Hilbert’s Epsilon Operator in FormSequence" Read/download here for free (#OpenAccess): doi.org/10.5964/biolin… #linguistics #biolinguistics #minimalism #merge

🆕📘 New book review by Elly van Gelderen just published in @biolinguistics: "Review of Merge and the Strong Minimalist Thesis (Chomsky et al., 2023)" Read/download here for free (#openaccess): doi.org/10.5964/biolin…