Greetings, Linguist List! We are here with your midweek challenge update and the race is just getting started! We have reached $8,459 but we must keep pushing towards our $30,000 goal. Keep those donations coming so that we can continue to serve you! Now let us turn to the challenges, where we have seen quite some change! In our Subfield Challenge, Phonology has been dethroned! Syntax, with $1,175 has overtaken our two-week leaders, who are now in second place with $946. Nearly tied for third

Today's Fun Fact was contributed by Corentin Mazet. Verlan is a famous French mirror language game found mostly in European Frenches. It originated in the 1970s in and around Paris and then spread to other cities in France, but traces of language games like Verlan have been recorded as early as the 12th century (!) in French texts. Some of the words have become so common that speakers might not realize that they were originally Verlan words, but new words are still regularly created. Like most

Dear readers, I extend my heartfelt gratitude to each subscriber of the Linguist List. I was once an avid reader and subscriber myself before having the privilege of becoming an editor. Reflecting on my first year in graduate school at Indiana University, I can't help but acknowledge the profound impact of the Linguist List community's generosity on my journey. As an editor, I oversee managing the Jobs, Supports, and Internships announcements while also creating and managing social media campa

SUMMARY Adrian Blackledge and Angela Creese’s “Essays in Linguistic Ethnography: Ethics, Aesthetics, Encounters” investigates novel pathways that add depth to comprehending the intricacies of social encounters between distinct groups of people. The authors advocate for an approach in linguistic ethnography that shifts away from the viewpoint of the researcher. Instead, the authors seek to balance accounts of the complexities of people’s lives by amplifying the voices of collaborators, participa

This is the first online/open access issue of the International Journal of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest. We are currently accepting submissions in all areas of linguistics, with special emphasis on Spanish in the US, Spanish around the World, Native American Languages, and American Dialects off English. Contents Volume 42, Number 1 2023 Editorial Note Presidential Address-LASSO 2022 Northwestern Amazonian Spanish as a Macro-region: Current Research and Future Directions Margar

Open Access Volume 42, Issue 3 (2024) Introduction special issue: marking the truth: a cross-linguistic approach to verum Izabela Jordanoska, Anna Kocher, Raúl Bendezú-Araujo pp. 429-442 Indirect truth marking via backgrounding: evidence from Bantu Elisabeth J. Kerr, Jenneke Van der Wal pp. 443-492 Verum in Xhosa and Zulu (Nguni) Eva-Marie Bloom Ström, Jochen Zeller pp. 493-524 Clausal doubling and verum marking in Spanish Carlos Muñoz Pérez, Matías Verdecchia pp. 525-548 Whether-exclamativ

We want to understand better how and when interlinearization of language data is done and what tools are used. If you have any experience with annotating language data, please fill out the survey linked below. Your responses will contribute to research related to linguistic fieldwork, software design, or the application of artificial intelligence (AI) for natural language processing (NLP) to language documentation. The survey will take about 10 minutes to complete. Responses are anonymous. Int

Duolingo (https://www.duolingo.com/) is excited to announce a new call for research proposals. The project will focus on English learners' real-life communication skills. Proposals are due May 31, 2024. For more information, please see the proposal submission guidelines: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11Z1kr-LSR2n9Si_MQseUMxIHAagM45qH/view?usp=sharing Please direct any questions to Dr. Audrey Kittredge (audrey@duolingo.com).

NEXT MEETING The next online Acquisition Sketch Project Meeting will focus on Data Processing 2 - transcription, translation, deciphering and interpreting child utterances, and annotation. It will be held on Wednesday the 17th of April at two times: Time 1: 9 am Berlin time / 5 pm Melbourne time https://anu.zoom.us/j/89753505399?pwd=UklBKzJHaEc1K25EMUZHeHlGMWhuQT09 Meeting ID: 897 5350 5399 Password: 390325 Time 2: 4 pm Los Angeles time / 7 pm New York time / 9 am Melbourne time (April 18) h

Call for Papers: E-JournALL is now accepting submissions for the Special Issue to be published in 2025. Special Issue Title: Multimodality and the digital turn in teaching business discourse Guest Editors: Judith Ainsworth, McGill University (Canada) Virginia Pulcini, University of Torino (Italy) A growing number of university students, both native and non-native speakers of English, expect to acquire high-level digital communication skills and competences to successfully handle business c

Participants will: 1. Demonstrate an awareness of sociocultural aspects of language learning and teaching. 2. Develop or refine the ability to identify intercultural similarities and differences in pragmatic language use in at least two languages/cultures. 3. Enhance their ability to identify learners’ needs in intercultural communication. 4. Become familiar with current approaches to the teaching of L2 pragmatics. 5. Develop a pragmatics-focused lesson plan which incorporates research-based inf

As in previous years, we invite students (Bachelor’s and Master’s) as well as graduate students and postdocs from Linguistics (and its sub-disciplines), Phonetics and Phonology, Law/Legal Studies, and related fields to apply for this international interdisciplinary program. All sessions will be conducted in English. The FLsc is taught by Dr Isabel Picornell and Dr Krzysztof Kredens and will take place on 3 – 6 September 2024. For the first time, the FLsc will span four instead of three days, as

The linguistic analysis of the relation between language and politics is a well-established field of research. One focus is on how words and other lexical constructions are used strategically in the context of rhetorical practices. In their book "The Politics of Language" (2023) the linguist David Beaver and the philosopher Jason Stanley develop a radically new approach for this field, starting from a formal-semantic background, which they adapt to the specific topic. In doing so, they reconcep

This summer program is a joint effort of CNRS (France) and Ilia State University (Georgia) as part of the CAUcasian LAnguages in GEorgia network (aka CauLaGe). It has two sides: courses in the mornings, research in the afternoons. Its goals are to: introduce students to formal methods of language description and documentation give students hands-on onsite training in linguistic fieldwork on an understudied language foster linguistic work on (Tsova) Tush (East Caucasian) this year foster end

To get the program, visit the conference webpage: www.bit/ly/povt2024

To get the program, visit the conference webpage: www.bit/ly/povt2024

The conference program (including the abstracts) can be found on the conference website: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2024/05/leiden-bielefeld-workshop-on-comparative-syntax-leibiecos To attend the conference, please register using this form https://fd24.formdesk.com/universiteitleiden/LeiBieCos2024 The registration is open until Friday 10 May.

The conference program (including the abstracts) can be found on the conference website: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2024/05/leiden-bielefeld-workshop-on-comparative-syntax-leibiecos To attend the conference, please register using this form https://fd24.formdesk.com/universiteitleiden/LeiBieCos2024 The registration is open until Friday 10 May.

Call for Papers: The 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism - The Different Faces of Bilingualism - featuring The Bilingual Brain Day We are currently inviting proposals for symposia. Symposia are 120-minute blocks that allow for extended, interactive discussion on a specific topic, focusing on a cluster of independent yet related papers. Each symposium consists of four slots, and should consist either of four presentations, or of three presentations and a discussion. Proposals cannot

During our annual Fund Drive, we like to feature undergraduate and early-career graduate students who have gone above and beyond the classroom to participate in the wider field of linguistics. Selected nominees exemplify a commitment to not only academic performance, but also to the field of linguistics and principles of scientific inquiry. Since this year’s Fund Drive theme is Mirrors and Reflections, we are especially excited to recognize those Rising Stars whose bright light is sure to refle