Our 7th GLOWing lecture will feature Athulya Aravind and Adriana Belletti, discussing about language acquisition. Join us on May 16, 15:00 CEST on Zoom. Slides: HERE
At GLOW47 we awarded 3 prizes to the best student presentations. The BEST POSTER went to Madhusmitha Venkatesan (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi) for her poster on Deriving Adjectives in Heritage Tamil: Stability and Change.
The BEST TALK was shared between Katie McCann (Leipzig University) for her presentation An illusory violation of the affix ordering generalisation in Tigrinya and Anna Laoide-Kemp (University of Edinburgh) for her presentation Preverbal d’ and its interactions with the initial consonant mutation system in Irish.
We congratulate the winners for their outstanding presentations!
We’re happy to welcome two new board members!
Radek Šimík and Andrew Nevins will leave the board – thanks for their many years of service and support!
With a majority of 98%, the GLOW community has agreed to hold GLOW48 at the University of Siena! The colloquium will take place in early spring 2026, exact dates follow soon.
Dear GLOW members,
our colleague Andras Kornai asked for help extending the list of machine readable grammars he collected HERE.
This list, while already representing considerable effort (Hans-Martin Gärtner is to be particularly thanked) is aimed at listing all ONLINE ACCESSIBLE grammars of any language or dialect. There are five columns: ISO code, Author, Title, Genre, and File type. Data is often missing, and sometimes is hard to determine without actually consulting the grammar. Second and later authors’ names are not always capitalized, and other typos may lurk. The file is editable, feel free to fix, emend, add.
Please add only metadata about those grammars that you actually have online or have online access to — physical copies of grammars on your bookshelf are of no interest for this project. Use the last column to denote the file format (pdf, doc, docx, djvu, epub, mobi, tif, ….) but don’t send the grammar itself, just add a new row to this catalog file. Column F is for other “Dublin core” catalog data (year of publication, ISBN, url, …) if you wish to add such, but this is not necessary.
Excluded are grammatical sketches and even monographs that address only a segment of the language “The system of tenses in L” “The nominal system of S” “The syntax of Z”. Only grammars written with the intention of providing a full grammatical description are of interest. There is no restriction on theoretical framework, the language the grammar is written in, and we all know that completeness is an unreachable ideal, but the grammar should aim at comprehensiveness (think of the LSA monographs of old, the Croom Helm Descriptive Grammar Series, or more recently, the LangSci Press Comprehensive Grammar Library).
The call for papers for GLOW 47 closes on November 10! Find all information HERE, submit an abstract and join us in Frankfurt am Main and Göttingen in March 2025!
We are happy to announce that we have two new GLOW board members. The two have been selected based on the online votes that took place last week and will be taking the positions of early career and semantic focus.
Laura Stigliano (Early career focus)
Daniel Altshuler (Semantic focus)
Welcome, Laura and Daniel!
The GLOWing lecture series is a part of GLOW’s efforts of community-building, outreach, and strengthening of the generative community. The goal of GLOWing lectures is to provide tools, insights, and puzzles that will bring out why generative linguistics is important, invigorating, and relevant.
This year’s GLOWing topic is “How do we learn about language?” Every lecture will feature a speaker and a discussant working with different methodologies on different subfields. The lecture series aims to present diverse perspectives on linguistic research, how different methodologies and foci guide our theories, and how all of them are important for generative grammar and our understanding of natural language.
The lectures will be held on zoom, a YouTube recording will be made available after each lecture. All GLOW members receive the zoom link via email. If you are not a GLOW member, sign up HERE to get free access to the lecture.
All lectures and further information can be found HERE.
Join us for our first lecture on October 11, featuring Andrew Nevins and Jonathan Bobaljik!
