Summer Schools: 9th ILCB Summer School 2026

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Focus: The ILCB Summer School 2026 explores language and brain interactions, covering brain imaging, language development, computational modeling, and neural bases of communication. Description: The Institute of Language, Communication and the Brain (ILCB) brings together experts in linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, mathematics, and computer science to foster an interdisciplinary approach to the study of language and communication. Each year, we organize a Summer School that offers we

Summer Schools: 7th Pavia International Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics

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Focus: Indo-European comparative linguistics Description: We are pleased to announce that from September 7 to 12, 2026 we will organize the 7th Pavia Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics. The courses we offer this year are: Old Church Slavonic - Thomas Olander (Copenhagen) Germanic - Ludwig Rübekeil (Zürich) Sanskrit - Hans Heinrich Hock (Urbana-Champaign) Albanian - Giulio Imberciadori (Munich) The typology of Indo-European - Silvia Luraghi (Pavia) The Summer School will

Calls: 2nd International Workshop on Terminological Neologism Management

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Call for Papers: NeoTerm 2026 is the second International Workshop on Terminological Neologism Management, organized by the ENEOLI COST Action. The first edition (Neoterm 2025) was held in Thessaloniki (Greece) as a co-located event with MDTT 2025. This year, NeoTerm goes north and will be organized by the University of Bergen, Norway, on 3 September 2026. The 2nd NeoTerm workshop will be co-located with the Nordic/European event aimed at initiating joint Nordic–European collaboration o

Confs: Comparative Literature in the 21st Century

Conferences - Mon, 03/16/2026 - 14:05
The conference titled “Comparative Literature in the 21st Century” seeks to explore the dynamic transformations of literary studies in the interconnected, digital multicultural world. As literature transcends geographical, linguistic and cultural boundaries in the modern world, comparative literature has emerged as a vital field that fosters dialogue across traditions, disciplines and theoretical frameworks. This conference aims to bring together scholars, researchers, educators, translators,

Confs: Comparative Literature in the 21st Century

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The conference titled “Comparative Literature in the 21st Century” seeks to explore the dynamic transformations of literary studies in the interconnected, digital multicultural world. As literature transcends geographical, linguistic and cultural boundaries in the modern world, comparative literature has emerged as a vital field that fosters dialogue across traditions, disciplines and theoretical frameworks. This conference aims to bring together scholars, researchers, educators, translators,

Books: The New Cambridge History of the English Language (Vol 2): Kytö and Smitterberg (eds.) (2026)

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Various kinds of text which document the history of English form the focus of the current volume. Vernacular speech in writing and orality along with issues of literacy and manuscripts are highlighted. The value of text corpora in the collection and analysis of historical data is demonstrated in several chapters.

Books: The New Cambridge History of the English Language: Wright and Hickey (eds.) (2025)

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This volume investigates the Indo-European and Germanic background to the English language and then considers various kinds of contact involving the first speakers of English. It also examines the manner in which English developed and the structural changes which the language underwent in this early period.

Qs: A Study about the Comprehension of Idioms

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This study was created by Michelle Scholtes, a student of the seminar "LING 301 Semantics" at Trier University, under the supervision of linguistics lecturer Dr. Bettina Kraft. The goal of this survey is to investigate how idioms are perceived, focusing on the distinction between idioms and nonidioms. You can refuse to take part in the experiment without giving a reason, and can stop participating at any time. If you agree to participate, you will be asked to provide some personal informatio

FYI: New Online MA in Linguistics at the School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

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A new fully synchronous online MA Program in Linguistics is being launched at the School of English, beginning in fall 2026. The program language is English. International applicants are welcome! The program provides students with a robust background in theoretical linguistics and key skills that will enable them to conduct independent research in linguistics. Students will acquire an up-to-date knowledge on major theoretical frameworks and models as well as important methodological issues an

Summer Schools: ZAFieR Summer Research Week 2026

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Focus: - Field methods and glossing sessions - Team-based collaboration with native speakers of Tsova-Tush - Hands-on linguistic analysis, including morphosyntax, phonology, and semantics Description: Participants in the first ZAFieR (Zemo Alvani Field Research) Summer Research Program will be actively involved in fieldwork, linguistic analysis, and tutorials led by specialists in the field. Although the program focuses on a Caucasian language, it welcomes anyone interested in developin

Qs: Seeking Native English Speakers for a Short Online Survey on Preposition Usage

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The submitter is looking for native English speakers who can cooperate with an informant survey project concerning the prepositions 'between' and 'among'. I am wanting for informants to specify (a) suitable preposition(s) while taking the contexts into consideration. Informants are required to insert (a) suitable preposition(s) into parentheses. Informats who can participate in this project, please enter the Google Form from the following URL: https://forms.gle/uhHz2osrQ6mvwYV38 where

FYI: Call for Book Chapters: Pathology and Impairment in Language and Literature

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Scope and goals of the volume: Language impacts human cognition, communication, and identity. Language disorders and impairments, such as aphasia, dyslexia, developmental language disorder, and hearing impairment, call into question established notions of linguistic competence and communication practices. Disorders of speech and/or language rank among the most prevalent developmental challenges in young children. These issues are referred to as "primary" if their cause is unknown and "seconda

Summer Schools: 1st International Summer School on Language: Health and Education

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Focus: A one-week school focusing on a) the value of linguistic research for educational settings and b) the role of language skills in monolingual and bilingual school children with neurotypical and neurodivergent development Description: The Interdisciplinary Lab "Linguistics and Grammar Teaching", National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece (https://grammar-en.uoa.gr/) and the Cambridge Centre for Greek Studies, University of Cambridge, UK (https://www.ccgs.csah.cam.ac.uk/) a

Confs: Giornate Italiane di Linguistica Sperimentale

Conferences - Mon, 03/16/2026 - 11:05
The Giornate Italiane di Linguistica Sperimentale, organized by the Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali Comparati (DSLCC) at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, aims to create a new forum for the discussion and dissermination of experimentla research in Italy in the fields of theoretical and applied linguistics, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics and articficial intelligence applied to language, language acquisition, sociolinguistics and historical linguistics.

Calls: Crowdsourced Speech and Automatic Alignment: New Frontiers for Laboratory Phonology Workshop @ LabPhon20

The LINGUIST List - Mon, 03/16/2026 - 11:05
Final Call for Papers: The submission deadline for the “Crowdsourced Speech and Automatic Alignment: New Frontiers for Laboratory Phonology” workshop @LabPhon 20 has been extended. New deadline:
Sunday, March 22, 2026, 11:59 PM (Anywhere on Earth – AoE) Notification of acceptance date is therefore extended as well: April 8, 2026. This workshop explores the shift from controlled laboratory recordings to crowdsourced and automatically aligned speech data. Advances in speech technology and an

Confs: Giornate Italiane di Linguistica Sperimentale

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The Giornate Italiane di Linguistica Sperimentale, organized by the Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali Comparati (DSLCC) at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, aims to create a new forum for the discussion and dissermination of experimentla research in Italy in the fields of theoretical and applied linguistics, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics and articficial intelligence applied to language, language acquisition, sociolinguistics and historical linguistics.

Calls: 15th International Conference on Language and Literary Studies

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Call for Papers: Faculty of Foreign Languages is pleased to announce two confirmed keynote speakers: Prof. Danimir Mandić (Faculty of Education, University of Belgrade) and Prof. Jozef Štefčik (Bratislava University of Economics and Business). Our 15th International Conference on Language and Literary Studies will be held on 29 and 30 May 2026. The topic for this edition of our annual conference is "Language, Literature, and Artifical Intelligence". Artificial Intelligence has rapidly r

Confs: AATT 19th Graduate Student Conference

Conferences - Mon, 03/16/2026 - 10:05
This conference aims to support and promote research that significantly utilizes sources in Turkish or other Turkic languages by graduate students from fields including but not limited to literature, history, linguistics, language education, and related fields at North American academic institutions. It also offers a collaborative platform for the student presenters to share their work and exchange research ideas with their peers and the colleagues in attendance from the field. The AATT is d

Confs: Panel at DGKL/GCLA11 - Language as Human Behaviour: The Legacy of William Diver and Érica García

Conferences - Mon, 03/16/2026 - 10:05
This panel is a continuation of the first panel “Language as Human Behaviour: The Legacy of William Diver and Érica García”, which took place in 2025 as part of the 17th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and brought together scholars from all over the world. The panel is dedicated to the functionally-oriented linguistic framework initiated by William Diver, Érica García and their students at Columbia University in the 1960s has come to be known as Columb

Confs: AATT 19th Graduate Student Conference

The LINGUIST List - Mon, 03/16/2026 - 10:05
This conference aims to support and promote research that significantly utilizes sources in Turkish or other Turkic languages by graduate students from fields including but not limited to literature, history, linguistics, language education, and related fields at North American academic institutions. It also offers a collaborative platform for the student presenters to share their work and exchange research ideas with their peers and the colleagues in attendance from the field. The AATT is d

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