Fund: Staff Letter: Justin Fuller
Dear Linguists,
My name is Justin Fuller, and I’m writing to you to say THANK YOU!
I have been with the LINGUIST List for nearly one year; and as I reflect on that time, I feel privileged and honored to be a part of such a generous and spirited community.
I am a PhD student in Linguistics at Indiana University Bloomington; and it is no exaggeration to say that without YOU, I--like so many others now and in years past--could not afford to be here. The LINGUIST List literally allows me and othe
Calls: Translation / Espaces Linguistiques (Jrnl)
Call for Papers:
Localizing videogame corpus
Special issue directed by Alice Ray and Joseph Ciaudo
The video game industry has now gone global. The success is indisputable: $155 billion in revenues in 2021 and over a billion gamers worldwide, according to the Statista website. Yet the increasingly international audience of the videogame industry have been calling for a stronger link between the industry and the translation sector. Indeed, localization has become one of the criteria guaranteein
Calls: Sociolinguistics / Journal of Language and Discrimination (Jrnl)
Call for Papers:
The Journal of Language and Discrimination is currently considering proposals for book reviews which fall within the scope of the journal (https://journal.equinoxpub.com/JLD/about). Book review requests should be sent by April 7, 2024. Please send all inquiries or proposals to stojicicviki@gmail.com.
Book review editor Dr. Violeta Stojičić.
Summer Schools: Institute on Collaborative Language Research 2024 (CoLang 2024) / USA
The Institute on Collaborative Language Research, known as CoLang, is an international biennial gathering for indigenous activists, educators, and linguists to learn about the documentation, maintenance, and revitalization of the world’s indigenous languages – most of which are critically endangered. The Institute emphasizes community-based approaches to language work and collaboration at all stages of this work – from developing documentation or teaching projects to activism or archiving materi
Summer Schools: Corpus Linguistics Summer School 2024 / UK
The Centre for Corpus Research at the University of Birmingham is pleased to announce that our Corpus Linguistics Summer School will take place fully online this year on 15–18 July, 2024.
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/englishlanguage/events/2024/corpus-linguistics-summer-school-2024
Attendance is open to all on a first-come-first-served basis upon completion of the registration process (including payment) through the university’s online shop linked from the above websit
Summer Schools: Climate Change Theories, Narrations and Discourse: Sharing Methods, Knowledges and Practices / Italy
The summer school in “Climate Change Theories, Narrations and Discourse: Sharing Knowledges and Practices” is aimed at students and researchers from different disciplines who seek to share their methods, knowledge and good practices in regard to climate change critical theories, narrations and discourse.
It will provide a collaborative space for students and researchers who aim to investigate how climate change is communicated, narrated, and socially constructed. It will therefore provide theor
Confs: Adverbial Clauses in Argument Positions
April 5 (Friday)
09:45–10:00: Łukasz Jędrzejowski (University of Cologne) & Andreas Pankau (FU Berlin)
Welcome and opening remarks
Chair: Andreas Pankau
10:00–11:00: Susanne Wurmbrand (University of Salzburg) – invited speaker
A syntactic approach to tense in complementation and beyond
11:00–11:30: Refreshment break
Chair: Frank Sode
11:30–12:30: Andreas Blümel (University of Göttingen) & Nobu Goto (Toyo University)
Adjunct = External Merge of XP right
Confs: Adverbial Clauses in Argument Positions
April 5 (Friday)
09:45–10:00: Łukasz Jędrzejowski (University of Cologne) & Andreas Pankau (FU Berlin)
Welcome and opening remarks
Chair: Andreas Pankau
10:00–11:00: Susanne Wurmbrand (University of Salzburg) – invited speaker
A syntactic approach to tense in complementation and beyond
11:00–11:30: Refreshment break
Chair: Frank Sode
11:30–12:30: Andreas Blümel (University of Göttingen) & Nobu Goto (Toyo University)
Adjunct = External Merge of XP right
Confs: Mood Alternation in Adverbial Clauses
09:15–09:30: Łukasz Jędrzejowski (University of Cologne) & Andreas Pankau (FU Berlin)
Welcome and opening remarks
Chair: Łukasz Jędrzejowski
09:30–10:30: Josep Quer (ICREA-Pompeu Fabra University) – invited speaker
The limits of argument-fulfilling adverbial clauses and mood marking
10:30–11:00: Refreshment break
Chair: Marco Coniglio
11:00–12:00: Rui Marques (University of Lisbon)
Mood alternation in concessive clauses of Portuguese
12:00–13:00: Martin Beck
Confs: Mood Alternation in Adverbial Clauses
09:15–09:30: Łukasz Jędrzejowski (University of Cologne) & Andreas Pankau (FU Berlin)
Welcome and opening remarks
Chair: Łukasz Jędrzejowski
09:30–10:30: Josep Quer (ICREA-Pompeu Fabra University) – invited speaker
The limits of argument-fulfilling adverbial clauses and mood marking
10:30–11:00: Refreshment break
Chair: Marco Coniglio
11:00–12:00: Rui Marques (University of Lisbon)
Mood alternation in concessive clauses of Portuguese
12:00–13:00: Martin Beck
Calls: DAGPap24: Detecting Automatically Generated Scientific Papers | Collocated with the 4th Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing -- SDP@ACL 2024
Call for Papers:
You are invited to participate in the shared task "DAGPap24: Detecting automatically generated scientific papers" collocated with the 4th Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing (SDP 2024) to be held at ACL 2024. The competition will be held on CodaBench, launching on April 2nd, 2024. Participants are also invited to submit papers describing their findings.
Papers must follow the ACL format and conform to the ACL 2024 Submission Guidelines. Paper submission has to be done th
Calls: Language Documentation and Archiving 2024
2nd Call for Papers:
The deadline for submissions to Language Documentation & Archiving 2024 has been extended to April 15th, 2024.
We invite submissions for both 20 minute conference presentations (15+5 format) and posters. Please note that the poster session will be online-only. Authors may submit only one abstract as the first author, but they may be collaborators on more than one abstract submission.
Abstracts may be submitted at https://lda2024.sciencesconf.org/
We especially invite sub
Calls: International Conference on New Culture of Signs and Media
2nd Call for Papers:
We welcome abstract submissions on various themes including, but not limited to:
Artificial intelligence (AI) and human-machine communication
Artificial intelligence (AI) language learning and teaching
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine translation
Artificial intelligence (AI) narratives
Digital discourse
Internet memes as a cultural discourse
Internet and language change
Internet, global culture and local culture
Metaphor and metonymy in the digital
Confs: Linguistic Association of the Southwest
Deadline for single-paper submissions is May 31, 2024
Deadline for panel submissions is May 15, 2024
Confs: Linguistic Association of the Southwest
Deadline for single-paper submissions is May 31, 2024
Deadline for panel submissions is May 15, 2024
Confs: Coherence and Fragmentation: The Languages of the Nordic Countries and their Interrelations Today
www.nordlang24.unifi.it
Key dates:
- The deadline for abstract submission is 15 May 2024 (via email to: nordlang24@forlilpsi.unifi.it)
- Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent out by 15 June 2024.
- Registration will begin on 15 June 2024. The participation fee is 60 €, while the conference dinner (optional) costs 40 €. The participation fee for students is 25 €.
Confs: Coherence and Fragmentation: The Languages of the Nordic Countries and their Interrelations Today
www.nordlang24.unifi.it
Key dates:
- The deadline for abstract submission is 15 May 2024 (via email to: nordlang24@forlilpsi.unifi.it)
- Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent out by 15 June 2024.
- Registration will begin on 15 June 2024. The participation fee is 60 €, while the conference dinner (optional) costs 40 €. The participation fee for students is 25 €.
Calls: Coherence and Fragmentation: The Languages of the Nordic Countries and their Interrelations Today
Call for Papers:
While on the one side the Nordic countries have a common history and are considered by sociologists and historians to represent a “cluster”, on the other side they are quite heterogenous from a linguistic point of view. This heterogeneity can be observed in various ways. First, receptive multilingualism is a common way of communicating between speakers of Danish, Norwegian and Swedish. However, the mutual intelligibility between the languages is asymmetrical, and many young Sca
Calls: On Marginal Figures Again
Proposals for short abstracts (not more than 300 words) on the margins of figurative thought and language are encouraged. Presentations will be no longer than 15 min. The workshop is meant primarily as a discussion forum that would motivate research on the margins of figuration and their link to central figurative mechanisms. The presentations may constitute the first step for the organization of a theme session in the upcoming FTL 8 conference.
There is no registration fee.
Let me know if you
Confs: 2nd Interdisciplinary Conference on Voice Identity
Please find our programme here: https://www.uni-marburg.de/en/fb09/institutes/german-linguistics/phonetics/voiceid2024/programme