Miriam Butt

Nice official summary of the honorary doctorate for Annie Zaenen: uni-konstanz.de/universitaet/a…

An eminent linguist has left us.

Last Thursday, scientists from the #UniKonstanz Clusters of Excellence @CBehav + @EXCInequality answered questions of the @Stadt_Konstanz citizens on the big issues of our time at "Exzellenz gefragt!". The citizens' dialog was supported by forum.konstanz: t1p.de/o0ksj

Summer Schools: Large Language Models for Linguists: A Practical Introduction: Instructor: Dr Tommi Buder-Gröndahl Dates: Thu Sept 5th & Fri Sept 6th @ 2-4 pm (Berlin, Rome, ...) for a total of 4 contact hours Location: Online (organised by LingLabs at… dlvr.it/TB1Mxk

Once again, the Women* in Computing Workshop has been a precious opportunity to connect over the topic of women in science. Thank you to our speakers, participants, program committee, admin team & our co-sponspors from @humaneainet for making this day such a great experience!

Weil das fossile Rechts-Deutschland wieder mit der französischen Atomstrom-Keule ☢️ kommt, hier von #Habeck einfach erklärt, warum wir nicht vom 🇫🇷 Strom abhängig sind. #Habeck4Kanzler

Interesting read on how young people actually voted in the recent German and European elections. More progressive than generally reported. suedkurier.de/ueberregional/…

@gwalkden Or, using a different adjective: this is a permanent position! Working in a great environment with great people!

(Apply to) Come and work with me! NB: yes, this really is an open-ended position. Some of the jargon/boilerplate may be confusing, so drop me an email or DM if you have questions.

Learning (more) about embedding verbs these days wuegaki.ppls.ed.ac.uk/mecore/program/

Very honored to have been part of the event honoring Hans Kamp's award of the Rolf Schock Prize at the University of Stuttgart. Lovely two days of remembering, walking, talking and understanding more about Dynamic Semantics. kva.se/en/prizes/rolf…

"As universities professionalized and followed the models of German universities, academic freedom expanded to become the right of university professors to research and report their findings without restraint" (Who killed Jane Stanford, p. 94). That's the ironic bit.

And coming across a discussion (p.94) in parallel in "Who killed Jane Stanford?" on how Jane Stanford got a famous professor fired from Stanford in 1900 because she didn't like his opinions. The right to academic freedom has apparently been contested in the US since 1870...

Irony at several levels. Following the news in Germany about our FDP education minister trying to follow the US example of firing people for exercising their rights of academic freedom and freedom of speech. daserste.ndr.de/panorama/Als-R…

Very pleased with our kick-off workshop in our DAAD Sustainable Development Goals project to develop NLP resources for South Asian languages.

@haspelmath The term converb is now applied so loosely so as to be almost completely uninformative. Clear syntactic tests as to the structure of the underlying clause are always a good idea and would have been here as well.

The definition of the term "converb" that I proposed in 1995 was a mistake. Here I explain in what way I erred, and how the mistake could be corrected. dlc.hypotheses.org/3503

@KonstanzLing @avzaagzonunaada

@gwalkden Exactly right. Or the endless anti-Islam covers Spiegel used to run.

In practice it's up to a given court to decide in a given case, and hence is Overton-window-based. So when Bild, Europe's best-selling newspaper, specifically incites hatred against immigrants from the Middle East, nobody cares.

Your periodic reminder that Germany does not have meaningful free speech laws.

What I find interesting about this is the rationale. The editors acknowledge the advantages of scholar-led diamond OA. But that wasn't the spark that lit the fire. (1/)

@gwalkden Interesting!

As an aside, it was interesting to stumble across this tweet from 2018 this morning! (6/6)