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Kurt Erbach

@kerbach2@lingo.lol
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Post-doc researcher & lecturer in #linguistics; #semantics, #typology, #openscience, #evolution, #complexity, though I have yet to write anything on the latter two. (he/him)

Avatar: Pixel-art depiction of a person with short blond hair and a widow’s peak hairline, blue eyes and a dark green shirt with a dark grid-like pattern, all on an emerald green background.

Header: Photo brutalist concrete buildings behind a quadrilateral pond and green lawn, underneath an overcast sky.

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Kurt Erbach
@kerbach2@lingo.lol

Post-doc researcher & lecturer in # linguistics ; # semantics , # typology , # openscience , # evolution , # complexity , though I have yet to write anything on the latter two. (he/him) Avatar: Pixel-art depiction of a person with short blond hair and a widow’s peak hairline, blue eyes and a dark green shirt with a dark grid-like pattern, all on an emerald green background. Header: Photo brutalist concrete buildings behind a quadrilateral pond and green lawn, underneath an overcast sky.

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Kurt Erbach
Kurt Erbach
@kerbach2@lingo.lol

Post-doc researcher & lecturer in # linguistics ; # semantics , # typology , # openscience , # evolution , # complexity , though I have yet to write anything on the latter two. (he/him) Avatar: Pixel-art depiction of a person with short blond hair and a widow’s peak hairline, blue eyes and a dark green shirt with a dark grid-like pattern, all on an emerald green background. Header: Photo brutalist concrete buildings behind a quadrilateral pond and green lawn, underneath an overcast sky.

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@kerbach2@lingo.lol · Feb 26, 2026

Hoping to get some thoughts on the highest regarded #linguistics journals by #linguists regardless of rankings. Maybe drop the name of two or three in a reply?

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Kurt Erbach
@kerbach2@lingo.lol

Post-doc researcher & lecturer in # linguistics ; # semantics , # typology , # openscience , # evolution , # complexity , though I have yet to write anything on the latter two. (he/him) Avatar: Pixel-art depiction of a person with short blond hair and a widow’s peak hairline, blue eyes and a dark green shirt with a dark grid-like pattern, all on an emerald green background. Header: Photo brutalist concrete buildings behind a quadrilateral pond and green lawn, underneath an overcast sky.

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Kurt Erbach
Kurt Erbach
@kerbach2@lingo.lol

Post-doc researcher & lecturer in # linguistics ; # semantics , # typology , # openscience , # evolution , # complexity , though I have yet to write anything on the latter two. (he/him) Avatar: Pixel-art depiction of a person with short blond hair and a widow’s peak hairline, blue eyes and a dark green shirt with a dark grid-like pattern, all on an emerald green background. Header: Photo brutalist concrete buildings behind a quadrilateral pond and green lawn, underneath an overcast sky.

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@kerbach2@lingo.lol · Feb 24, 2026

A friend was suprised to see "bolt" in the category "eat voraciously" in yesterdays NYT Games' Connections, so I did a little corpus study:

Of 100 randomly selected occurences of "bolt" in COCA, 0 mean 'to eat'

Of the 123 occurrences of "bolted down" in COCA, 4 mean 'to eat' and 1 'to drink'.

So I'm not suprised he was suprised.

#appliedlinguistics #corpuslinguistics #linguistics

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Kurt Erbach
@kerbach2@lingo.lol

Post-doc researcher & lecturer in # linguistics ; # semantics , # typology , # openscience , # evolution , # complexity , though I have yet to write anything on the latter two. (he/him) Avatar: Pixel-art depiction of a person with short blond hair and a widow’s peak hairline, blue eyes and a dark green shirt with a dark grid-like pattern, all on an emerald green background. Header: Photo brutalist concrete buildings behind a quadrilateral pond and green lawn, underneath an overcast sky.

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Kurt Erbach
Kurt Erbach
@kerbach2@lingo.lol

Post-doc researcher & lecturer in # linguistics ; # semantics , # typology , # openscience , # evolution , # complexity , though I have yet to write anything on the latter two. (he/him) Avatar: Pixel-art depiction of a person with short blond hair and a widow’s peak hairline, blue eyes and a dark green shirt with a dark grid-like pattern, all on an emerald green background. Header: Photo brutalist concrete buildings behind a quadrilateral pond and green lawn, underneath an overcast sky.

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@kerbach2@lingo.lol · Feb 22, 2026

“leading AI models perform worse for users with lower English proficiency, less formal education, and non-US origins” -MIT Media Lab

https://news.mit.edu/2026/study-ai-chatbots-provide-less-accurate-information-vulnerable-users-0219

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Kurt Erbach
@kerbach2@lingo.lol

Post-doc researcher & lecturer in # linguistics ; # semantics , # typology , # openscience , # evolution , # complexity , though I have yet to write anything on the latter two. (he/him) Avatar: Pixel-art depiction of a person with short blond hair and a widow’s peak hairline, blue eyes and a dark green shirt with a dark grid-like pattern, all on an emerald green background. Header: Photo brutalist concrete buildings behind a quadrilateral pond and green lawn, underneath an overcast sky.

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Kurt Erbach
Kurt Erbach
@kerbach2@lingo.lol

Post-doc researcher & lecturer in # linguistics ; # semantics , # typology , # openscience , # evolution , # complexity , though I have yet to write anything on the latter two. (he/him) Avatar: Pixel-art depiction of a person with short blond hair and a widow’s peak hairline, blue eyes and a dark green shirt with a dark grid-like pattern, all on an emerald green background. Header: Photo brutalist concrete buildings behind a quadrilateral pond and green lawn, underneath an overcast sky.

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@kerbach2@lingo.lol · Feb 20, 2026

“if you want to boost the productivity of your scientists 10x, you have to be willing to increase their funding 10x (or something like that). Of course, this is much harder and much more expensive than simply buying them $20/month Claude subscriptions” Emin Orhan

https://severelytheoretical.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/no-agentic-ai-will-not-massively-boost-productivity-in-scientific-research-heres-how-to-actually-boost-scientific-productivity/

#science #AI

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Kurt Erbach
@kerbach2@lingo.lol

Post-doc researcher & lecturer in # linguistics ; # semantics , # typology , # openscience , # evolution , # complexity , though I have yet to write anything on the latter two. (he/him) Avatar: Pixel-art depiction of a person with short blond hair and a widow’s peak hairline, blue eyes and a dark green shirt with a dark grid-like pattern, all on an emerald green background. Header: Photo brutalist concrete buildings behind a quadrilateral pond and green lawn, underneath an overcast sky.

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Kurt Erbach
Kurt Erbach
@kerbach2@lingo.lol

Post-doc researcher & lecturer in # linguistics ; # semantics , # typology , # openscience , # evolution , # complexity , though I have yet to write anything on the latter two. (he/him) Avatar: Pixel-art depiction of a person with short blond hair and a widow’s peak hairline, blue eyes and a dark green shirt with a dark grid-like pattern, all on an emerald green background. Header: Photo brutalist concrete buildings behind a quadrilateral pond and green lawn, underneath an overcast sky.

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@kerbach2@lingo.lol · Jan 29, 2026

Happy to report that my paper, Transitioning developmental paths in modal flavors: an experimental pilot study, co-authored with Remus Gergel, has been accepted to Evolutionary Linguistic Theory.

In this paper we introduce a new experimental paradigm for testing pathways of diachronic development which shed light on the conditions necessary for semantic change.

Pre-final draft: https://www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/upload/lehrstuhl/gergel/publications_gergel/Modal_development_experiments.pdf

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Kurt Erbach
@kerbach2@lingo.lol

Post-doc researcher & lecturer in # linguistics ; # semantics , # typology , # openscience , # evolution , # complexity , though I have yet to write anything on the latter two. (he/him) Avatar: Pixel-art depiction of a person with short blond hair and a widow’s peak hairline, blue eyes and a dark green shirt with a dark grid-like pattern, all on an emerald green background. Header: Photo brutalist concrete buildings behind a quadrilateral pond and green lawn, underneath an overcast sky.

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Kurt Erbach
Kurt Erbach
@kerbach2@lingo.lol

Post-doc researcher & lecturer in # linguistics ; # semantics , # typology , # openscience , # evolution , # complexity , though I have yet to write anything on the latter two. (he/him) Avatar: Pixel-art depiction of a person with short blond hair and a widow’s peak hairline, blue eyes and a dark green shirt with a dark grid-like pattern, all on an emerald green background. Header: Photo brutalist concrete buildings behind a quadrilateral pond and green lawn, underneath an overcast sky.

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@kerbach2@lingo.lol · Jan 07, 2026

2x small grants won (1 rejected),
2x large grants submitted (1 rejected)
3x journal papers published,
3x proceedings papers published,
4x invited talks given,
5x conference presentations given (1 rejected),
5x reviewer of jounal papers
3x classes taught,
1x conference co-organizer

infinitely on the job market #IchBinHanna

links to my work at https://kerbach2.github.io/

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Kurt Erbach
@kerbach2@lingo.lol

Post-doc researcher & lecturer in # linguistics ; # semantics , # typology , # openscience , # evolution , # complexity , though I have yet to write anything on the latter two. (he/him) Avatar: Pixel-art depiction of a person with short blond hair and a widow’s peak hairline, blue eyes and a dark green shirt with a dark grid-like pattern, all on an emerald green background. Header: Photo brutalist concrete buildings behind a quadrilateral pond and green lawn, underneath an overcast sky.

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Kurt Erbach
Kurt Erbach
@kerbach2@lingo.lol

Post-doc researcher & lecturer in # linguistics ; # semantics , # typology , # openscience , # evolution , # complexity , though I have yet to write anything on the latter two. (he/him) Avatar: Pixel-art depiction of a person with short blond hair and a widow’s peak hairline, blue eyes and a dark green shirt with a dark grid-like pattern, all on an emerald green background. Header: Photo brutalist concrete buildings behind a quadrilateral pond and green lawn, underneath an overcast sky.

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@kerbach2@lingo.lol · Oct 16, 2025

Just read:

The material making of language as practice of global domination and control: continuations from European colonialism to AI

By Bettina Migge & Britta Schneider

TLDR: the sorts of rhetoric and ideology seen in enterprises in the european colonial era (1400-1960), are seen in the AI-pushing tech industry today

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-025-02389-5

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Kurt Erbach
@kerbach2@lingo.lol

Post-doc researcher & lecturer in # linguistics ; # semantics , # typology , # openscience , # evolution , # complexity , though I have yet to write anything on the latter two. (he/him) Avatar: Pixel-art depiction of a person with short blond hair and a widow’s peak hairline, blue eyes and a dark green shirt with a dark grid-like pattern, all on an emerald green background. Header: Photo brutalist concrete buildings behind a quadrilateral pond and green lawn, underneath an overcast sky.

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Kurt Erbach
Kurt Erbach
@kerbach2@lingo.lol

Post-doc researcher & lecturer in # linguistics ; # semantics , # typology , # openscience , # evolution , # complexity , though I have yet to write anything on the latter two. (he/him) Avatar: Pixel-art depiction of a person with short blond hair and a widow’s peak hairline, blue eyes and a dark green shirt with a dark grid-like pattern, all on an emerald green background. Header: Photo brutalist concrete buildings behind a quadrilateral pond and green lawn, underneath an overcast sky.

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@kerbach2@lingo.lol · Oct 02, 2025

here recommending The Vocal Fries podcast episode Algospeak (Ep 142).

They discuss the topic of how people adjust their language to get around or harness the algorithms with Adam Aleksic, author of a recent book on the topic.

Edit: check it out here! https://www.buzzsprout.com/1930383/episodes/17650624-algospeak

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