Humans Who Read Grammars

If you work in language description and you want people to know about your work, a great way to increase visibility is to make a contribution to Glottolog.org. That's the first place many people go to to check out what's been done on a particular language. Glottolog catalogues language description, but it's not exhaustive. Glottolog aims to minimally include the most extensive description per language (i.e. for example a full grammar if available). If your work is currently not indexed in Glottolog, it is probably not an intentional oversight - the reference just hasn't reached the editing team yet. You can change that!  https://glottolog.org/meta/contact You can also contribute to Glottolog if you don't work in language description, if you just noticed some missing references that sure is welcome too. In the background, all references in Glottolog are formatted in bibTeX style. This is a popular format for reference mangement, besides being a part of the TeX-univer...

The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, is looking for a director to head a new department there. They've done something novel, had an open call and an open workshop series with invited speakers related to this director search. Below is the list of invited speakers and talks they've given in the workshop series which has now come to an end. Looking at the invitees and talk titles is a nice way to see how the institute sees the future of the field of psychology of language. As this blog started at this institute, I figured I'd share this here in case it's interesting for people following this account. From MPI-Nijmegen website: __________________________ The Max Planck Society is about to start the process of finding a new director for a new department at the MPI for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen. The directors of the institute have identified that the field of Psychology of Language remains a core area that distinctly and uniquely co...