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June 3, 2025
The future of OASIS
Big plans for the website are underway!
September 29, 2023
SPE 12 / OASIS 3 schedule
Check out the SPE 12 / OASIS 3 schedule.
June 17, 2023
Scientific American: This Ancient Language Has the Only Grammar Based Entirely on the Human Body
Linguist Anvita Abbi's Scientific American article tells about her work with Great Andamanese speakers.
May 17, 2023
Registration deadline extension for LSA Summer Institute 2023
Registration deadlines have been extended to June 16 for first session and four-week courses, and June 30 for second session courses.
December 3, 2025
OASIS "bubbles"
What are those round colored stickers that everyone is wearing on their nametags?
December 3, 2025
OASIS "bubbles"
What are the stickers on people's nametags?
December 2, 2025
OASIS 5 to be held at the University of Edinburgh, December 3-5, 2025
OASIS returns to the UK for its 5th edition
June 29, 2026
OASIS 5 program
See you at OASIS 5
December 3, 2025
OASIS 5 call for papers
OASIS 5 will be held at the University of Edinburgh December 3-5, 2025. Call deadline: August 15
April 23, 2025
OASIS 4 to be held at York University
See you in York: 15-17 January 2025
April 23, 2025
OASIS 4 program
The program for OASIS 4, from 15 to 17 January, 2025 at the University of York.
July 1, 2024
OASIS 3 to be held jointly with SPE 12: October 11-13, 2023
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.
February 28, 2024
OASIS 3 / SPE 12 invited speaker interviews
What do the invited speakers think will help linguists communicate with non-linguists? And other answers to burning questions....
July 1, 2024
OASIS 3 / SPE 12 call for papers deadline extended to June 7
Send us your abstracts by June 7
February 28, 2024
OASIS 3 interview: Wataru Uegaki
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.
February 28, 2024
OASIS 3 interview: Julie Goncharov
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.
February 28, 2024
OASIS 3 interview: Joshua Shepherd
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.
February 28, 2024
OASIS 3 interview: Josef Perner
February 28, 2024
OASIS 3 interview: James Miller
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.
May 25, 2023
OASIS 3 interview: Isabelle Roy
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.
February 28, 2024
OASIS 3 interview: Andrea Moro
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.
October 4, 2024
Hippocampus distinguishes urgent from future goals
Looking at how goals are processed in the hippocampus
May 21, 2023
Heidi Harley's blog
"The power of pos, or, How my MS diagnosis improved my life, or, Lexical semantics, relative adjectives, and resetting your baseline."
May 21, 2023
Gillian Ramchand's blog
"There's a Dumpster Fire at the End of the Information Superhighway"
July 1, 2024
Five reasons why OASIS 3 / SPE 12 was a success
Hint: It's the people
May 17, 2023
Call for papers: Workshop on the Semantics of Indefinites
Call deadline 31 May 2023.
June 5, 2025
Call for papers: OASIS 3 / SPE 12
May 17, 2023
Call for papers: ESSLLI 2023 Workshop: Internal and External Pressures Shaping Language
Call deadline 25 April 2023.
May 21, 2023
Aeon: Time is an object
"Not a backdrop, an illusion or an emergent phenomenon, time has a physical size that can be measured in laboratories"
September 5, 2023
Aeon: The problem of now
The injunction to immerse yourself in the present might be psychologically potent, but is it metaphysically meaningful?
March 4, 2024
A beautiful visualization of gender in language
How do languages mark gender? How do people feel about it?