A friend was suprised to see "bolt" in the category "eat voraciously" in yesterdays NYT Games' Connections, so I did a little corpus study:

Of 100 randomly selected occurences of "bolt" in COCA, 0 mean 'to eat'

Of the 123 occurrences of "bolted down" in COCA, 4 mean 'to eat' and 1 'to drink'.

So I'm not suprised he was suprised.

#appliedlinguistics #corpuslinguistics #linguistics

TIL: If you're speaking German, you're choosing grammatical cases based on how the object you're talking about moves in relation to a search domain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVMvFxdSzmU (14 min, high-density information)

If you're a native speaker like me, you're doing this intuitively, and I find consciously thinking about it really fascinating (and also super weird).

#German #linguistics

Love Replications Week is next week: 2-6 March 2026! 🩷

There are short lunchtime talks and longer talks and workshops. I'll be presenting on "Reproducibility in the language sciences: What, why and how" together with Mara van der Ploeg from TROLLing on Monday 2 March 10:00 - 11:30 CET.

More information and registration link: https://forrt.org/LoveReplicationsWeek/

#reproducibiliTea #reproducibility #OpenScience #linguistics

RE: https://fediscience.org/@tschfflr/116124799617540823

Come work with us! You’ll be the #ComputationalLinguistics specialist (with @tschfflr, who is a great supervisor) in our interdisciplinary #Linguistics/#DigitalHumanities/#ReligiousStudies team.

Endonyme und Exonnyme sind die Begriffe, die sich auf die Bezeichnungen, zum Beispiel für Orte, Sprache, Personen und Personengruppen beziehen.

Endonyme sind die Namen, die in den Gebieten oder von den Bevölkerungsgruppen selbst verwendet werden, also die Eigenbezeichnung.

Exonyme hingegen bezeichnet die Namensgebung von Gebieten oder Gruppen außerhalb des zu bezeichneten Gebietes oder Bevölkerungsgruppen.
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#uniinnsbruck #uibk #philkultuibk #sprawiuibk #sprawi #linguistics

The Chinese party-state's campaign to erase "minority languages" continues

"A years-long trend of replacing Mongolian-, Tibetan-, and Uyghur-medium instruction with Mandarin Chinese-medium instruction is now codified in law. Students in these communities will now only be taught their mother tongue as a single, standalone class; all other classes will be taught in Chinese."

https://www.nchrd.org/2026/02/chinas-erasure-of-ethnic-minority-languages/

#China #Tibet #Uyghur #linguistics #language #HumanRights