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Big plans for the website are underway!
OASIS 4 program
The program for OASIS 4, from 15 to 17 January, 2025 at the University of York.
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
Five reasons why OASIS 3 / SPE 12 was a success
Hint: It's the people
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.
OASIS 3 / SPE 12 call for papers deadline extended to June 7
Send us your abstracts by June 7
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.