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[September 2024] We have learned with great sorrow that Jean-Pierre Gautier has died. A highly influential primatologist internationally (see here), he had published numerous pioneering studies of primates (including on the reconstruction of phylogenies using call similarity), and a remarkably pedagogical textbook on the evolutionary biology of African guenons. He had also played a key role in our own team's initial efforts to reconstruct the evolutionary history of some primate calls. A workshop in his honor had been organized in 2014 by  Lucie Ravaux and Robin Ryder.

[May 2024]  Paul Egré's ANR team HYBRINFOX (ANR Astrid AI) came in 1st place on an automated language classification task concerning subjectivity at the CheckThat! 2024 competition.

[May 2024] Nur Lan defended his broad and deep PhD Dissertation; the thesis is entitled "Simplicity-Based Language Modeling Using Artificial Neural Networks".

[March 2024] Semanticist Uli Sauerland (ZAS) is one of eight internationally renowned figures to join the CNRS as “fellow-ambassadors” in 2024.

[March 2024] Semanticists Irene Heim and Hans Kamp have been awarded the 2024 Rolf Schock prize in logic and philosophy (perhaps the closest thing the field has to a Nobel Prize) for their (mutually independent) development of dynamic semantics for natural language.

[February 2024] Carlo Geraci's project (with N. Abner and others) on sign language phylogeny has been published in Science. Read more about the article in English here and in French here.

[January 2024] Jeremy Kuhn defended his Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) with aplomb; the HDR is entitled "Sign language semantics: iconicity and the grammar."