[PLing] Linguistikstammtisch 8.7.

[Stela MANOVA]

Dear all,

The date of my talk, July 8, is approaching, and I am writing to provide some preliminary information. I will address the question: "What should a linguist know about LLMs / AI?" My answer will come not only from a linguistic but also from a computer science perspective — I will explain things such as tokenization, embeddings, high-dimensional vector space, and transformer architecture.

In other words, the focus will not be on whether linguists can annotate corpora with AI, but on how AI works, when and how linguistic information enters AI, and what an annotated corpus is good for if AI works with raw data and without grammar.

With the rapid development of AI, significant changes have happened in linguistics, in the sense that some theoretical views have been seriously challenged, if not outright denied (e.g., Chomsky and co-authors have argued that semantics is not part of grammar). The issues of Deficiency and Redundancy — central to the Austrian research program in linguistics of that name — do not arise for LLMs. Situating all languages in a shared high-dimensional vector space makes research on any type of borrowing not only difficult to justify but arguably beside the point. Overall, since LLMs do not work with words or morphemes and have no grammar in the traditional sense, all areas of linguistics built on word- and morpheme-based analysis will be seriously challenged in the coming years. You are welcome to use my talk as an opportunity to get informed about these unavoidable changes in linguistic research.

As some of you may know, I usually teach behind a paywall, and students and professors from all over the world have attended my workshops with hands-on sessions. On July 8, you will have the chance to listen to me for free. Do not miss it.

Please bring a device bigger than a phone if possible (laptop or tablet), so you can follow along with the visualizations I'll be showing to make mathematical and computer science concepts accessible for linguists.

Best,
Stela

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Dr. Stela MANOVA
CEO, MANOVA AI | PI, Gauss:AI Global
Registration number 655453b | Seitenstettengasse 5/37, 1010 Vienna, Austria
manova at manova-ai.com <mailto:manova at manova-ai.com> | manova at gaussaiglobal.com <mailto:manova at gaussaiglobal.com> | manova.stela at gmail.com <mailto:manova.stela at gmail.com>
www.manova-ai.com <http://www.manova-ai.com/> | www.gaussaiglobal.com <http://www.gaussaiglobal.com/> | www.stelamanova.com <http://www.stelamanova.com/>
CFP: First International Online Forum on Language, Mathematics, and Artificial Intelligence (LAMA-AI), November 21–22, 2026, https://gaussaiglobal.com/lama-ai-forum.


> On 21.06.2026, at 15:19, Anatol <stammtisch at emerginglinguists.org> wrote:
> 
> Dear Everyone,
> 
> on Wednesday July 8th (19:00, Café Merkur) the Stammtisch will host a talk by Stela Manova, who has reached out to me with this offer (as can you, regardless of academic degree)! She does research regarding morphology, and as of late LLMs (https://www.stelamanova.com/), and has also had a mathematics training beforehand. Her experiences might also be of interest for everyone doing academia outside their home-country, especially people with an Eastern European background.
> 
> Hope to see you there!
> Euer Anatol
> 

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