This ERC-funded project aims to combine typological and sociolinguistic approaches to language variation
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16 Mar 2020
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/…
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15 Sep 2021
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
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16 Aug 2021
Off to a great start today with #ssml2! Foundational, biographical, and inspiring points from @RuthJSinger and Pierpaolo Di Carlo.
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17 Aug 2021
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
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5 Aug 2021
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
Registration | Small-scale multilingualism conference 2 - SSML2 | University of Helsinki
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20 Oct 2020
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
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30 Sep 2020
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
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15 Sep 2020
Hyviä uutisia: uusi kirjamme on nyt painossa, ja pian saatavilla! Juhlamieli, kun tämäkin on nyt maalissa.
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11 Sep 2020
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
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2 Sep 2020
Database of Semantic Shifts in languages of the world: datsemshift.ru/
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31 Aug 2020
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/
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31 Aug 2020
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/
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28 Aug 2020
***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
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15 Jul 2020
This lecture introduces the area of phonological typology, and how it can contribute to the field of linguistics at large.
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15 Jul 2020
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.
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1 Jun 2020
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/language…
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25 Mar 2020
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/1…
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21 Jan 2020
Bernhard Wälchli presenting a new definition for grammatical gender in the book launch event for Grammatical Gender and Linguistic Complexity. langsci-press.org/catalog/bo… @helsinkiuni @LangSciPress @GramAdapt
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16 Jan 2020
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
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