This is to announce that the next Bilingualism Matters Symposium (BMS2026) will be hosted by the University of Milano-Bicocca from 28 to 30 April 2026! Submission deadline is on the 12th of October 2025. This year, BMS will feature a special in-person session on Bimodal Bilingualism. Interpretation will be provided in English–International Sign (IS) and Italian Sign Language (LIS). BMS26 welcomes contributions on bilingualism from a broad range of perspectives, including but not limited

We are pleased to announce that the 56th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS 55) will be hosted by New York University in New York, New York, from October 17 to October 19, 2025. The keynote speakers are: Sam Alxatib (The City University of New York) Tanya Bondarenko (Harvard University) Sharon Rose (UC San Diego) Jim Wood (Yale University) The full conference schedule is now up here: https://wp.nyu.edu/artsampscience-nels56/schedule/ The poster session inform

Zones of conflict are often at the center of multilingual creativity, since writers themselves are frequently in the midst of wars and migration chaos. Writing can serve as a crucial means of processing these experiences. Finding a suitable language for this endeavor might be challenging, given that many ethnic or military conflicts have a linguistic dimension: the language of the colonizer can become a target of attack during a struggle for national independence, aggressor states can question t

We are pleased to announce that the 56th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS 55) will be hosted by New York University in New York, New York, from October 17 to October 19, 2025. The keynote speakers are: Sam Alxatib (The City University of New York) Tanya Bondarenko (Harvard University) Sharon Rose (UC San Diego) Jim Wood (Yale University) The full conference schedule is now up here: https://wp.nyu.edu/artsampscience-nels56/schedule/ The poster session inform

Producing terminology resources requires a wide range of research and development skills. The design and implementation phases involve a thorough preliminary analysis of the information needs of potential users, as well as an accurate assessment of the structural requirements of the resource. In this context, the fifth international conference Multilingual Digital Terminology Today: Design, Representation Formats and Management Systems aims to bring together specialists in terminology, termin

As part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie ONISILOS COFUND project ‘Gradience in Polarity Morphology and Diglossia’ (GraPMoD, Agreement No. 101034403), we are pleased to announce a two-day symposium. The Symposium on Empirical Approaches to Meaning and Structure (SEAMS) will take place on site at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia on November 22–23, 2025. SEAMS will be a hybrid event, allowing participation and attendance from colleagues worldwide. It is designed as a forum for exchanging ideas a

Producing terminology resources requires a wide range of research and development skills. The design and implementation phases involve a thorough preliminary analysis of the information needs of potential users, as well as an accurate assessment of the structural requirements of the resource. In this context, the fifth international conference Multilingual Digital Terminology Today: Design, Representation Formats and Management Systems aims to bring together specialists in terminology, termin

Call for Papers Workshop: Aspiration in Language Part of the CRC 1252 Prominence in Language University of Cologne, 3-4 December 2025 Website: https://sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/en/veranstaltungen/internationale-tagungen-workshops/aspiration-in-language We invite abstracts for a two-day workshop on Aspiration in Language, which will take place on 3rd and 4th December 2025 at the University of Cologne within the framework of the Collaborative Research Centre 1252 Prominence in Language (CRC 12

As part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie ONISILOS COFUND project ‘Gradience in Polarity Morphology and Diglossia’ (GraPMoD, Agreement No. 101034403), we are pleased to announce a two-day symposium. The Symposium on Empirical Approaches to Meaning and Structure (SEAMS) will take place on site at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia on November 22–23, 2025. SEAMS will be a hybrid event, allowing participation and attendance from colleagues worldwide. It is designed as a forum for exchanging ideas a

We are delighted to announce the upcoming conference Phonetic Approaches to Under-Documented Languages (with a Special Emphasis on Tibeto-Burman Languages) which will be held on September 18–19, 2025. The event will take place in a hybrid format—both on-site at Campus Condorcet in Aubervilliers, France, and online, allowing broad participation from around the world. This conference explores how instrumental and experimental phonetics can contribute to the documentation, analysis, an

PhD Position in English Linguistics General: The FAU seeks to appoint a PhD researcher for 3 years in English linguistics employed on a 65% basis on a TV-L13 scale (which amounts to a starting salary of about €3000 per month before tax). The researcher will be part of an international team headed by Prof. Dr. Lotte Sommerer starting 1st of January (or 1st of February 2026 at the latest). The candidate will also be a member of the DFG Research Training Group (RTG) Dimensions of Constructional

We are delighted to announce the upcoming conference Phonetic Approaches to Under-Documented Languages (with a Special Emphasis on Tibeto-Burman Languages) which will be held on September 18–19, 2025. The event will take place in a hybrid format—both on-site at Campus Condorcet in Aubervilliers, France, and online, allowing broad participation from around the world. This conference explores how instrumental and experimental phonetics can contribute to the documentation, analysis, an

You are warmly welcome to attend the season launch of the Nordic Speech Research Forum. The webinar is open to everyone and can be accessed through our website www.jyu.fi/nsrf which lists all upcoming events of this webinar series. Simply click on the event to join! Friday, September 12th at 13:00–14:00 Helsinki time (EEST, UCT+3) L2 Accent in Icelandic: Folk Ideas and Attitudes Stefanie Bade, University of Iceland The season is full of interesting webinars with a wide range of topics wi

Workshop at the University of Bamberg, Germany, 17 to 18 September 2025 as part of the project "Young German Learner English" (funded by the German Research Foundation; grant DFG 515774206) Organized by Anna Rosen (University of Freiburg), Robert Fuchs (University of Bonn) & Valentin Werner (University of Bamberg) In research on Second Language Acquisition (SLA), and in the domain of Learner Corpus Research (LCR) specifically, there has been a tendency to rely on material from advanced le

The Japanese Society for Digital Communication Studies is a research group focusing on language and interaction in digital media. We are pleased to announce a special online guest lecture to be held at 8:00 p.m. (EST) on Saturday, 15 November 2025. *EST: Eastern Standard Time (GMT-05:00) Speaker: Susan C. Herring (Professor, Indiana University Bloomington) Title: Recent Trends in Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis We look forward to your participation, and would appreciate it if you s

Workshop at the University of Bamberg, Germany, 17 to 18 September 2025 as part of the project "Young German Learner English" (funded by the German Research Foundation; grant DFG 515774206) Organized by Anna Rosen (University of Freiburg), Robert Fuchs (University of Bonn) & Valentin Werner (University of Bamberg) In research on Second Language Acquisition (SLA), and in the domain of Learner Corpus Research (LCR) specifically, there has been a tendency to rely on material from advanced le

1 Björn Wiemer, 2 Haiping Long, 3 Giulia Mazzola 1 JGU Mainz (wiemerb@uni-mainz.de), 2 Sun Yat-sen University (lhpszpt@126.com), 3 Newcastle University (Giulia.Mazzola@newcastle.ac.uk) Until now, research on the pragmatics-syntax interface of discourse, on the one hand, and on clausal complementation, on the other, have been developing rather independently. This workshop aims at bringing these two strands together, with a focus on delimitation problems between asyndetic complementation, qu

1 Björn Wiemer, 2 Haiping Long, 3 Giulia Mazzola 1 JGU Mainz (wiemerb@uni-mainz.de), 2 Sun Yat-sen University (lhpszpt@126.com), 3 Newcastle University (Giulia.Mazzola@newcastle.ac.uk) Until now, research on the pragmatics-syntax interface of discourse, on the one hand, and on clausal complementation, on the other, have been developing rather independently. This workshop aims at bringing these two strands together, with a focus on delimitation problems between asyndetic complementation, qu

Speech perception seems to be rather effortless, yet a number of neural and cognitive processes are involved in mapping the acoustics of spoken language to meaning. These processes have been investigated extensively to date, but little is known about how they differ across individuals in clinical and non-clinical populations. Research on variability in speech perception provides important insights into our understanding of normal and impaired language processing and is critical for planning inte

The University of Gloucestershire and the CLADES project are pleased to announce the launch of a new free online course called "The Search for New Stories to Live By". The course follows on from the successful “Stories We Live By: a course in ecolinguistics”, and explores linguistic and narratological features that are useful in sustainability communication. The course is available here: www.storiescourse.org/new CLADES is an Erasmus+ project funded by the European Commission.