“Iconicity and semantic transparency in Hong Kong Sign Language: Evidence from ratings and three guessing paradigms” published in Language and Cognition
“Iconicity and semantic transparency in Hong Kong Sign Language: Evidence from ratings and three guessing paradigms” published in Language and Cognition By HKU Linguistics Post date 2026-04-02 We are pleased to announce the publication [...]
[Linguistics Seminar on 9 Apr] Thoughts on morphological spread
Thoughts on morphological spread Date: 9 Apr 2026 (Thu) Time: 4:00 pm Venue: CPD LG.08 Centennial Campus
[Linguistics Seminar on 26 Mar] Big questions, little data: exploiting NLP methods for language variation and change
Big questions, little data: exploiting NLP methods for language variation and change Date: 26 Mar 2026 (Thu) Time: 4:00 pm Venue: CPD LG.08 Centennial Campus
[Linguistics Seminar on 12 Mar] Outermost wins in Dinka and the theory of nonconcatenative morphology
Outermost wins in Dinka and the theory of nonconcatenative morphology Date: 12 Mar 2026 (Thu) Time: 4:00 pm Zoom: https://hku.zoom.us/j/97684494584?pwd=beh8mFIFjrVVB2DMaSTj57UlveXCub.1 Meeting ID: 976 8449 4584 Password: 899952
[Linguistics Seminar on 5 Mar] Leveraging large language models to understand real-world language use
Leveraging large language models to understand real-world language use Date: 5 Mar 2026 (Thu) Time: 4:00 pm Venue: CPD LG.08 Centennial Campus
[Linguistics Seminar on 26 Feb] A new method for the analysis of language contact situations
A new method for the analysis of language contact situations Date: 26 Feb 2026 (Thu) Time: 4:00 pm Venue: CPD LG.08 Centennial Campus
Syntax in Social Interaction: Syntax, Conversation, Discourse-Pragmatics, Lexicon, and Mode in if you ask me Constructions – Jesús Olguín-Martinez
Olguín Martínez, Jesús & Stefan Th. Gries. 2026. Syntax in Social Interaction: Syntax, Conversation, Discourse-Pragmatics, Lexicon, and Mode in if you ask me Constructions. Corpus-based studies across humanities (published online). https://doi.org/10.1515/csh-2025-0025 The study analyzes [...]
The link between syntax, semantics, discourse, and lexicon in counteridenticals: A multivariate extension of co-varying collexeme analysis – Jesús Olguín-Martinez
Olguín Martínez, Jesús & Stefan Th. Gries. 2026. The link between syntax, semantics, discourse, and lexicon in counteridenticals: A multivariate extension of co-varying collexeme analysis. Functions of Language (published online). https://doi.org/10.1075/fol.24101.olg The present study [...]
Filler-slot relations in language contact: Lexico-syntactic transference from a usage-based perspective – Jesús Olguín-Martinez
Filler-slot relations in language contact: Lexico-syntactic transference from a usage-based perspective – Jesús Olguín-Martinez Olguín Martínez, Jesús & Stefan Th. Gries. 2026. Filler-slot relations in language contact: Lexico-syntactic transference from a usage-based perspective. Review [...]
Talk for A’ingae nasality always floats (Dr. Maksymilian Dąbkowski)
A'ingae nasality always floats Abstract: The phonology of nasality in A'ingae (or Cofán, ISO 639-3: con) is complex and has received several treatments in the previous literature (e.g. Bennett et al., t.a.; Sanker, 2025; [...]