Call for Papers: We invite contributions with an empirical and/or theoretical focus that present original research addressing the issues outlined above (regarding scope and theoretical implications of nonuniformity) and related issues. Crucially, contributions should be accessible to an audience coming from different frameworks. Important dates 31.05.2024, Anywhere on Earth Deadline for the submission of abstracts (info cf. below) 15.06.2024 Notification of acceptance 10.-11.10.2024 Conferen

Call for Papers: Conference Theme: Teaching French as a Foreign Language and Related Issues: Breaking Down Barriers / Enseignement du français langue étrangère et réalités connexes : décloisonnement - Accommodation and support for students - Regional varieties of French - Artificial intelligence (AI) in language teaching The organizing committee of the FLE 2025 conference is seeking abstracts for presentations in its upcoming biennial conference. This conference is aimed at specialists in the T

2nd Call for Papers: Workshop topics We invite contributions on any aspect of the grammar of habituals and habitual auxiliaries, including but not limited to the following questions: (i) Is habitual aspect a unified category or can it be split up into different subcategories? (Boneh & Doron 2008, 2013) (ii) what are the relations in terms of formal expression with genericity, multiplicativity, and other categories of event quantification? (iii) what is the source and destination of habitual mar

Call for Papers: We welcome abstracts (max. 250 words) for conceptual and empirical presentations in any area of Applied Linguistics, broadly defined, including, but not confined to the following: Bilingualism Multilingualism Plurilingualism and/or Translanguaging Corpus Linguistics Language Policy and Language Planning Language Teaching, Learning & Assessment Historical Linguistics Language Acquisition (L1, L2 & additional languages) Translation Studies Interculturality (Critical) Discourse An

Invited speakers: Anne Christophe (CNRS–Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique) Irene de la Cruz-Pavía (Ikerbasque–University of Deusto) Judit Gervain (University of Padua) Jean-Remy Hochmann (CNRS–Laboratory of Cognitive Neuropsychology and Development) Marina Kalashnikova (Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language) María Clemencia Ortiz-Barajas (CNRS–IKER) Núria Sebastián-Gallés (Pompeu Fabra University) The event is in person only, and registration is free of charge, b

Invited speakers: Anne Christophe (CNRS–Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique) Irene de la Cruz-Pavía (Ikerbasque–University of Deusto) Judit Gervain (University of Padua) Jean-Remy Hochmann (CNRS–Laboratory of Cognitive Neuropsychology and Development) Marina Kalashnikova (Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language) María Clemencia Ortiz-Barajas (CNRS–IKER) Núria Sebastián-Gallés (Pompeu Fabra University) The event is in person only, and registration is free of charge, b

Call for Papers: PhD students are invited to send their proposals on the following subjects (or similar/related themes): - Literature: individual/collective memory, explicit/implicit memory, prospective memory and post-memory, Trauma studies, autobiographical, biographical and historical/documentary writing, reconstructive memory and identity. - Linguistics: the mechanisms of memory and the structures of language from a synchronic and diachronic perspective; writing and metalinguistic canons;

Call for Papers: This is a last reminder about the deadline on the 15th!

The Syntax-Semantics reading group will be meeting for the last time this semester on Thursday, April 18th at 1pm in Rm. 117 of the McGill Linguistics department, with a Zoom room open for those unable to join in person. This week, Luis and Bernhard will be presenting a talk entitled: ‘Quantity DPs: Decoupling quantities from entities’. The abstract is below: In […]

Congratulations to Yanran Mou who was awarded Most Outstanding Departmental President at the 2024 McGill Arts Undergraduate Society Awards.

The P* reading group will be meeting for the final time this semester this Monday, 15 April from 10:00 to 12:00 in room 117 (and on Zoom, at the following link). Please note the change in time/location. This week, students will be giving practice talks in preparation for [moth]. Relevant documents will be available on the Google Drive. The full schedule for the […]

McGill linguists of past and present attended the 42nd annual West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 42), held April 12–14th at UC Berkeley. McGill presentations included:

The program of LabPhon 19 to be held from June 27 to 29 2024 (HIPCS, Hanyang University, Seoul) is now live on our official website: https://labphon.org/labphon19/full-program The caliber of papers set to be presented is nothing short of remarkable, spanning a diverse range of captivating topics and inquiries across various sub-disciplines within LabPhon, with many of them in alignment with the theme of LabPhon 19. The program includes 5 invited talks and 5 discussant commentaries across five t

The program of LabPhon 19 to be held from June 27 to 29 2024 (HIPCS, Hanyang University, Seoul) is now live on our official website: https://labphon.org/labphon19/full-program The caliber of papers set to be presented is nothing short of remarkable, spanning a diverse range of captivating topics and inquiries across various sub-disciplines within LabPhon, with many of them in alignment with the theme of LabPhon 19. The program includes 5 invited talks and 5 discussant commentaries across five t

Call for Papers: Submission of Abstracts 1) Each presentation will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of discussion. 2) Abstracts can be written in English or Chinese. Each abstract is limited to one single-spaced A4 page, including examples and (selected) references, with 1-inch margins all around. For English abstracts, please use New Times Roman 12pt. For Chinese abstracts, please use SimSun 12pt. 3) Abstracts must be submitted in two versions: (a) anonymous and (b) with author(s)’ name(

Call for Papers: Colleagues interested in presenting should submit abstracts of no more than 250 words (in English, German, or Italian) completing this form by 1 July: https://eu.surveymonkey.com/r/TeacherResearch2024 All submissions will undergo double blind review. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by 1 August. Accepted presentations will be considered for publication in the conference proceedings. There are no conference fees or publication fees for this event. Please send inquir

Call for Papers: We invite submission of abstracts for 45-minute presentations. Abstracts should be anonymous, of max. 1000 words (excluding references). Each accepted paper will have a commentator, selected from the participants (who will be asked to serve as commentators), with ample time for discussion (90 minutes/slot). 12 to 16 abstracts will be selected for presentation. Abstracts are due before May 15, 2024 and should be submitted via e-mail to both taci@uw.edu.pl and danczeman@gmail.com

Call for Papers: For details of the call for papers see www.carla-umbach.de/ESSLLI2024

Call for Papers: The 23rd Biennial Conference of the American Council for Québec Studies will take place at the Hôtel Le Concorde, in Québec City. The American Council for Québec Studies invites proposals for papers and panels related to any aspect of Québec studies, including Québec’s diasporas and the Francophone presence in the Americas. We are open to a wide range of approaches across the Social Sciences and Humanities and welcome submissions in linguistics and related fields. For more info

Institute of Linguistics 01 September 2024 or by agreement Employment is fixed for 4 years (2.5 years plus 1.5 years). As part of the SNF-funded project “Uncovering the dynamics of person marking: A construction-based approach in historical microtypology”, PI Prof.Dr. Linda Konnerth (Institute of Linguistics), we are seeking to hire one PhD student. Tasks: - Carry out corpus research on a Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan) language of the South-Central (a.k.a. “Kuki-Chin”) branch spoken in Northe