GramAdapt

GramAdapt Project general introduction! Kaius Sinnemäki and his ERC funded research group develop new methods for comparing the world’s languages in their social contexts to better understand global linguistic diversity and its development. flamma.helsinki.fi/en/group/ajank…

Our first team paper "Concepts and methods for integrating language typology and sociolinguistics" is out! Here we outline the GramAdapt project rationale and design in brief. Thank you to the Societa di Linguistica Italiana Proceedsings: bit.ly/3nyEwMZ

Off to a great start today with #ssml2! Foundational, biographical, and inspiring points from @RuthJSinger and Pierpaolo Di Carlo.

Phenomenal keynote by @AnneliesKusters calling for more ethnolinguistic research to better understand how signers (deaf and hearing) use multilingual resources in real settings. Important lessons for us Psycholinguists who tend to use native monolinguals as baseline #ssml2

Conference “Typology of Small-scale multilingualism” 2 rego still open! bit.ly/3qFFRkA My area is that of vernacular multiling in PNG, so looking forward to learning more about sign languages as part of multilingualism, as well as ssml vitality, policies and ideologies

Very happy to have been part of this special issue on "Comparative sociolinguistic perspectives on the rate of linguistic change". Huge thanks to the editors and other authors for great discussions and comments along the way! @TanjaSaily @GramAdapt

Our interview with the EU Research magazine is now available in a shiny article! A simple explanation for non-linguists about out research project and design concerning linguistic adaptation (we are on p.64) @EU_RESEARCH issuu.com/euresearcher/d…

Hyviä uutisia: uusi kirjamme on nyt painossa, ja pian saatavilla! Juhlamieli, kun tämäkin on nyt maalissa.

Grazie mille Società di Linguistica Italiana! Yesterday Francesca Di Garbo and I gave our first @GramAdapt presentation at the SLI Workshop, an opportunity to share and receive some questions about the conceptual and methodological approaches we've been developing in the project

Database of Semantic Shifts in languages of the world: datsemshift.ru

Last week at the #SLE2020 Ricardo Napoleão de & Souz Kaius Sinnemäki: Suprasegmental variables provide fertile ground for inspecting contact induced increases in linguistic complexity. View recording here: osf.io/78xvg/

Last week at the #SLE2020 Kaius Sinnemäki & Francesca Di Garbo: Word order and sociolinguistic factors both affect the probability that a language does or does not have case, but not the number of case distinctions. The recording can be viewed here: osf.io/7ahp9/

***Linguistic diversity in a time of crisis*** All the papers in the special issue of Multilingua devoted to #language challenges of #COVID19 are now available online. Free access degruyter.com/view/journals/…

This lecture introduces the area of phonological typology, and how it can contribute to the field of linguistics at large.

Our very own Ricardo Napoleão de Souza will be giving an @abralin_oficial talk this Saturday (Jul 18), 16:00 Helsinki time, on the topic of phonological typology. aovivo.abralin.org/lives/ricardo-…

Great blog post by @yammering_on and Francesca Di Garbo: How a workshop cancelled because of COVID-19 was turned into digital feed­back ses­sions. @GramAdapt @HYhumtdk helsinki.fi/en/news/langua…

The @_ELProject has compiled an extensive list of COVID-19 information in various languages. See the link below to access this info. If you have public health information in additional languages, please contact anna@endangeredlanguages.com docs.google.com/document/d/1Dy…

@AdamCSchembri Yes, I suspected as much 😓 I'm pondering ways to make this actually open to the public (Eri here btw! 👋)

@GramAdapt Oh this is on your university’s intranet? I can’t seem to access it.

GramAdapt Project general introduction! Kaius Sinnemäki and his ERC funded research group develop new methods for comparing the world’s languages in their social contexts to better understand global linguistic diversity and its development. flamma.helsinki.fi/en/group/ajank…

Bernhard Wälchli presenting a new definition for grammatical gender in the book launch event for Grammatical Gender and Linguistic Complexity. langsci-press.org/catalog/book/2… @helsinkiuni @LangSciPress @GramAdapt

Harald Hammarström visiting the @GramAdapt team at @helsinkiuni with an update on the global state and coverage of grammatical description. Despite the challenges in the face of mass language endangerment, levels of documentation are much better than prior guesstimates