Focus: Foundational and advanced courses in frequentist and Bayesian statistics Description: Applications are now open for the Eleventh Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology to be held at the University of Potsdam, Germany. The summer school aims to fill a gap in statistics education, specifically within the fields of linguistics and psychology. One goal of the summer school is to provide comprehensive training in the theory and application of statistics, w

SUMMARY Raquel Montero Estebaranz’s “Mood alternations: A synchronic and diachronic study of negated complement clauses in Spanish” is a revised doctoral dissertation that reconstructs the history of polarity mood (PM) in Peninsular Spanish from the thirteenth to the twentieth century. PM is the alternation between indicative and subjunctive morphology in complement clauses selected by negated matrix predicates that ordinarily take the indicative in affirmative clauses. The book asks how this

The Word List Repository (https://wordlists.projects.unibz.it) is an online hub for researchers and teachers to discover and share empirically compiled word lists in any language and on any topic. It is possible to carry out a search for a list by name, language and category (e.g. academic, business, etc). It is also possible to search for individual words across all lists hosted on the site. We have recently added an AI-prompt generator, to allow teachers to quickly and easily generate an AI-pr

The Interactive Syntax Tree Editor is a free, browser-based tool designed to streamline the creation and modification of linguistic syntax trees for academic research, publications, and teaching. Unlike legacy tools that rely strictly on generating static images from bracketed text, this editor provides a modern dual-interface. Users can build trees using standard bracket notation or manipulate them visually through an intuitive drag-and-drop canvas. Key Features: Interactive Drag & Drop:

Description: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Applications are invited for: Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages Professor/Associate Professor/Assistant Professor (Language Acquisition) (Ref: 260001NZ) (Closing date: December 13, 2026) The Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages is a young and vibrant department devoted to the study of language as it serves as a bridge between the mind and society. It has established strengths in formal and experimental resea

Call for Papers: Abstract Submission Deadline Extended to October 18, 2026 Due to numerous requests from our international community, we are pleased to announce that the deadline for abstract and symposium submissions to IASCL 2027 has been extended to October 18, 2026. The XVIIth International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL 2027) will take place July 26–30, 2027, at the University of São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil. Under the theme “Language Acquisition Beyond Bo

Professor Vinesh Y. Hookoomsing, linguist at the University of Mauritius, passed away in Mauritius on 30 September 2O26 Professor V. Y. Hookoomsing has been a major contributor to the study, development, and promotion of Mauritian Creole. Amongst other works, he published in 1987, with Philip Baker, Diksyoner kreol morisien, Dictionary of Mauritian Creole, Dictionnaire du créole mauricien. Paris: L'Harmattan, and with Philip Baker and Guillaume Fon Sing in 2007, The Corpus of Mauritian Creole t

Monthly online ILFC Seminar: interactions between formal and computational linguistics https://gdr-lift.loria.fr/monthy-online-ilfc-seminar/ The LIFT2 research group is happy to announce the forthcoming sessions of the ILFC seminar on the interactions between formal and computational linguistics. The seminar is held on Zoom. To attend the seminar and get updates, please subscribe to our mailing list (we now only rarely communicate through other mailing lists): https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa

Gastherausgeberinnen: Barbara Schlücker und Aleksandra Uttenweiler, Freie Universität Berlin Das Themenheft untersucht für das Deutsche, wie Distanzierung durch sprachliche Mittel realisiert wird. Beleuchtet werden sollen sprachliche Formen der Distanzierung gegenüber Konzepten, Propositionen, Sprecherhaltungen und Referent*innen. Der Begriff Distanzierung wird in unterschiedlichen Bereichen der Sprachwissenschaft verwendet. Grundlegend ist Distanz als ein Abstand zwischen zwei räumlichen

Call for Papers: The ICAME48 will take place in Helsinki (Finland) on 18–22 May 2027. ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English) is an annual international conference and one of the longest-standing organisations of linguists and data scientists working with English language corpora. The conference theme is The Times They Are A-Changin’, honouring the University of Helsinki English Unit’s longstanding tradition of studying language change with corpus-based methods.

The volume explores the ongoing transformation of mass communication in the digital era, shaped by platformization, multimodality, and changing patterns of audience participation. Bringing together interdisciplinary perspectives, it examines how contemporary media environments reconfigure the production, circulation, and interpretation of meaning. The contributors address both emerging phenomena and enduring structures, including the evolving role of legacy media, the dynamics of participation,

This volume contains contributions on sociolinguistics that stress the variety of ways in which language is intertwined with the social aspect of human existence. It also addresses translation studies, as well as foreign language teaching and learning, and the possibilities for improving these fields of linguistic endeavour. The volume concludes with studies in formal linguistics, focusing primarily on morphology and phonetics. As a result, the volume offers a comprehensive collection of texts c

The series “Open Linguistic Debates of the 21st Century” was created to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the University of Szczecin and is intended as a platform for discussions on the latest trends in linguistics. Volume 1 starts with contributions addressing the most innovative future-oriented issues influencing human functioning and cognition like quantum cognition and AI tools followed by a contribution focusing on the origins of concepts and language crucial for understanding human mind an

The International Conference on Amazonian Languages, AMAZONICAS, was conceived in 2007 as a biennial event, to be held alternately in different Amazonian countries, with the main goal of serving as a platform for the exchange of ideas and collaboration in the research on Amazonian languages. The series of conferences have greatly contributed to highlight the importance of Amazonian languages for better understanding human language in all of its diversity, producing strong academic outputs and st

Call for Papers: Extended deadline: Sunday, 11 October, 23:59 (any time zone) The 35th edition of the Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE) will be held 27-29 January 2027 at the University of the Basque Country (EHU) in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. ConSOLE is an annual conference for graduate (Master, PhD) and advanced undergraduate (Bachelor) students of Linguistics. It aims to provide students worldwide with the opportunity to present their research to

Call for Papers: Deadline Extension: We are pleased to announce a second and final call for abstracts with an extended deadline to 15 October 2026. The panel seeks to advance our understanding of the nature of information that is ‘taken for granted’ in an utterance. Linguistic phenomena related to such information, most prominently presuppositions and conventional implicatures, received different analyses, e.g. as projective or not-at-issue content. Current debates center around the ques

The International Conference on Amazonian Languages, AMAZONICAS, was conceived in 2007 as a biennial event, to be held alternately in different Amazonian countries, with the main goal of serving as a platform for the exchange of ideas and collaboration in the research on Amazonian languages. The series of conferences have greatly contributed to highlight the importance of Amazonian languages for better understanding human language in all of its diversity, producing strong academic outputs and st

The research group HUM-1131 MAIFILIT is pleased to announce the 4th International Conference on Digital Linguistics, Shaping the Future of Discourse in the Digital Age, co-organised by the University of Granada, the University of Alicante, and the Universitat Politècnica de València. The conference will be held in person on 3, 4 and 5 February 2027 at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting, University of Granada. The conference will bring together researchers and doctoral candidates — wi

The Annual Meeting on Phonology 2026 will take place at the University of Maryland, College Park, on October 9-11, 2026. AMP hosts research in all areas that bear on the central questions of our discipline, including work based on consultant data, phonological theory, computational phonology, corpus phonology, experimental phonology, neurobiology of language, diachronic change, acquisition, sign language phonology, and the interface of phonology with neighboring disciplines. This year, we are al

Building on iMean’s longstanding focus on meaning in social interaction, iMean8 turns its attention to Language and Care, bringing together researchers interested in the many ways in which language and interaction shape, and are shaped, by: systems, contexts, languages and ideologies of care. The conference takes a broad and interdisciplinary understanding of care and caring, encompassing primary and secondary healthcare, community and social care, emergency and critical response, as well as