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Celebrate by listening to Episode 15 of our podcast, in which we discuss the phonological research of Nikolai S. Trubetzkoy and his collaboration with Roman Jakobson and other members of the Prague Linguistic Circle.

🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/06/01/p...

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Release for the @langscipress.bsky.social book Negation in the world's languages (edited by @matmies.bsky.social and Ljuba Veselinova), with talks by Ljuba on the editorial process and on Bulgarian, by Henrik Liljegren on Pashto, and by me on Lule Saami
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Calls: 7th Saami Linguistics Symposium 2nd Call for Papers: The deadline for submitting abstracts to the 7th Saami Linguistics Symposium (SAALS 7) is coming up on 10 April! On 4–5 November 2026, the 7th Saami Linguistics Symposium will be held at Nord University in Bodø, Norway. The symposium is the continuation of a series of international symposia previously held in Tromsø 2006 and 2009, in Freiburg 2017, in Uppsala 2019, in Tartu 2022, and in Helsinki 2024. The purpose of the symposium is to give scholars an opportunity to

Calls: 7th Saami Linguistics Symposium

Book release: Negation in the world's languages, Stockholm University, April 16

Miestamo, Matti & Veselinova, Ljuba (eds.). 2025. Negation in the world's languages II: Eurasia. (Research on Comparative Grammar 8). Berlin: Language Science Press. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

New paper refuting the Saami loan etymology for Swedish sumla ‘female reindeer’ publicera.kb.se/svlm/article...

Kejonen, Olle. 2026. Ett påstått samiskt lånord i svenskan. Svenska landsmål och svenskt folkliv 2024–25 (147–148). 209–214. doi.org/10.69824/svl...

Interesting for any colleagues working on Uralic linguistc

Now also in print!

The Nordic Journal of Linguistics is curating a special issue dedicated to the past, present, and future of the Saami languages.
We invite contributions on Saami languages and Saami linguistics. We also welcome studies with varied linguistic methodologies, topics and more.
📚 https://cup.org/4ra4eFe

#OTD 90 years ago, Renate Steinitz (1936–2019) was born 🥳 She was a member of the East German Academy of Sciences and worked on German grammar. She also edited several of her father’s works on the Khanty language and wrote about her family history.

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Just published:
Kejonen, Olle. 2025. Verb inflection in Forest Lule Saami. In Blokland, Rogier & Rießler, Michael & Söder, Torbjörn (eds.), Saami linguistics in Uppsala (Studia Uralica Upsaliensia 42), 39–97. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis.
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Very happy to see this in real life!

Jussi Ylikoski & Olle Kejonen. 2025. Negation in Lule Saami. In Matti Miestamo & Ljuba Veselinova (eds.), Negation in the world’s languages II: Eurasia, 171–203. Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.18233960

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The Nordic Journal of Linguistics is curating a special issue dedicated to the past, present, and future of the Saami languages.
We invite contributions on Saami languages and Saami linguistics. We also welcome studies with varied linguistic methodologies, topics and more.
📚 https://cup.org/45wzW7l

book cover vol III

book cover vol II

book cover vol I

Just published "Negation in the worlds languages" (3 vols) edited by Matti Miestamo & Ljuba Veselinova with Héloïse Calame. #rcg #openaccess langsci-press.org/catalog/book...