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Big plans for the website are underway!

Check out the SPE 12 / OASIS 3 schedule.

Linguist Anvita Abbi's Scientific American article tells about her work with Great Andamanese speakers.

Registration deadlines have been extended to June 16 for first session and four-week courses, and June 30 for second session courses.

What are those round colored stickers that everyone is wearing on their nametags?

What are the stickers on people's nametags?

OASIS returns to the UK for its 5th edition

See you at OASIS 5

OASIS 5 will be held at the University of Edinburgh December 3-5, 2025. Call deadline: August 15

See you in York: 15-17 January 2025

The program for OASIS 4, from 15 to 17 January, 2025 at the University of York.

Ontology As Structured with the Interfaces with Semantics 3 is to be held jointly with Semantics and Philosophy 12 on October 11-13, 2023 at the Université Côte d'Azur.

What do the invited speakers think will help linguists communicate with non-linguists? And other answers to burning questions....

Send us your abstracts by June 7

Continuing our series of interviews with OASIS 3 / SPE 12 invited speakers, today we're talking to Dr. Wataru Uegaki, a lecturer in semantics at the University of Edinburgh.

Kicking off our series of interviews with OASIS 3 / SPE 12 invited speakers, today we're talking to Dr. Julie Goncharov. Dr. Goncharov is a linguist, and is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Georg-August University in Göttingen. ‍

To continue our series of interviews with OASIS 3 / SPE 12 invited speakers, today we're talking to Professor Joshua Shepherd, a philosopher who works on issues in action theory and the philosophy of psychology.

Continuing our series of interviews with OASIS 3 / SPE 12 invited speakers, today we're talking to Dr. James Miller, an assistant professor in the Philosophy Department at Durham University.

Continuing our series of interviews with OASIS 3 / SPE 12 invited speakers, today we're talking to Professor Isabelle Roy (pronounced /ʁwa/), a linguist working on syntax and the interfaces with semantics at Nantes Université. 

Continuing our series of interviews with OASIS 3 / SPE 12 invited speakers, today we're talking to Professor Andrea Moro, a professor of linguistics at Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS - Pavia.

Looking at how goals are processed in the hippocampus

"The power of pos, or, How my MS diagnosis improved my life, or, Lexical semantics, relative adjectives, and resetting your baseline."

"There's a Dumpster Fire at the End of the Information Superhighway"

Hint: It's the people

Call deadline 31 May 2023.

Call deadline 25 April 2023.

"Not a backdrop, an illusion or an emergent phenomenon, time has a physical size that can be measured in laboratories"

The injunction to immerse yourself in the present might be psychologically potent, but is it metaphysically meaningful?

How do languages mark gender? How do people feel about it?