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Hippocampus distinguishes urgent from future goals

Looking at how goals are processed in the hippocampus

A beautiful visualization of gender in language

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

The future of OASIS

Big plans for the website are underway!

OASIS 4 to be held at York University

See you in York: 15-17 January 2025

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....

OASIS "bubbles"

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

SPE 12 / OASIS 3 schedule

Check out the SPE 12 / OASIS 3 schedule.

Aeon: The problem of now

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

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.

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"

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. 

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."

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.

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.