Calls: The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Translation (Revised Edition, 2027) (Jrnl)

The LINGUIST List - Mon, 04/28/2025 - 23:05
The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Translation (Revised Edition, 2027) - Call for Chapters Editors: Weixiao Wei, Zhaoming Gao and Chris Shei We are pleased to announce the call for chapters for the revised edition of The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Translation, scheduled for publication in 2027. Building on the foundation of the 2017 edition, the revised volume aims to reflect the latest developments, research trends, and innovations in Chinese translation studies. We particularly welcome c

Calls: Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics - "First and Second Language Limited Literacy" (Jrnl)

The LINGUIST List - Mon, 04/28/2025 - 23:05
The Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics invites submissions for a special issue focusing on First and Second Language Limited Print Literacy among children, adolescents, and adults. We welcome contributions that explore limited print literacy among (i) displaced children and adolescents in conflict zones and (ii) refugees and immigrant adults in the Western world and expatriates in the Middle East. Limited print literacy is defined here as the difficulty individuals experience in decoding or

Confs: Abstract and Item-Specific Knowledge Across Domains and Frameworks

Conferences - Mon, 04/28/2025 - 22:05
The organizers of the workshop “Abstract and Item-Specific Knowledge Across Domains and Frameworks” are pleased to announce a call for abstracts for a student poster session, and a call for student participation scholarship applications for the LSA Institute. The workshop, which is funded by the National Science Foundation, will take place at the University of Oregon on July 26-27, and will be co-located with the 2025 LSA Summer Institute. Please see the workshop website (https://sites.google.co

Confs: International Conference on Language Variation in Europe 13

Conferences - Mon, 04/28/2025 - 22:05
The 13th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 13), co-organized by the University of Bern and the University of Lausanne, will be held at the University of Lausanne from 29 June – 2 July 2026. We are delighted to announce the following invited plenary speakers: • Andrea Ender (Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg) • Inés Fernández-Ordóñez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) • Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh (University of Edinburgh) • Sadie Ryan (University of Glasgow) IC

Calls: The 3rd Conference on Evidentiality and Its Related Categories

The LINGUIST List - Mon, 04/28/2025 - 22:05
Dates: 15 Nov 2025 – 16 Nov 2025 Venue: University of Macau, Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macao SAR, China Working Language: English Contact Person: Wenjiang Yang Meeting Email: jap.conference@um.edu.mo Meeting Description: Following the success of the first conference hosted by Sun Yat-sen University in 2018 and the second conference hosted by Beijing Normal University in 2023, the 3rd Conference on Evidentiality and Its Related Categories is scheduled to take place on 15-16 November

Confs: Abstract and Item-Specific Knowledge Across Domains and Frameworks

The LINGUIST List - Mon, 04/28/2025 - 22:05
The organizers of the workshop “Abstract and Item-Specific Knowledge Across Domains and Frameworks” are pleased to announce a call for abstracts for a student poster session, and a call for student participation scholarship applications for the LSA Institute. The workshop, which is funded by the National Science Foundation, will take place at the University of Oregon on July 26-27, and will be co-located with the 2025 LSA Summer Institute. Please see the workshop website (https://sites.google.co

Confs: International Conference on Language Variation in Europe 13

The LINGUIST List - Mon, 04/28/2025 - 22:05
The 13th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 13), co-organized by the University of Bern and the University of Lausanne, will be held at the University of Lausanne from 29 June – 2 July 2026. We are delighted to announce the following invited plenary speakers: • Andrea Ender (Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg) • Inés Fernández-Ordóñez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) • Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh (University of Edinburgh) • Sadie Ryan (University of Glasgow) IC

Confs: The 34th Colloquium on Generative Grammar

Conferences - Mon, 04/28/2025 - 21:05
The Colloquium on Generative Grammar (CGG) is an annual conference held in the Iberian peninsula since 1991. It provides a platform for linguists working in Generative grammar all over the world to come together and discuss current trends and topics in syntax, morphology, semantics, phonology and their interfaces. The 34th Colloquium on Generative Grammar (CGG34) will be organized by the National University of Distance Education (UNED) and will take place as an in-person meeting from May 7 to Ma

Confs: Saarbrücken Round Table of Dialect Syntax / Saarbrücker Runder Tisch für Dialektsyntax

Conferences - Mon, 04/28/2025 - 21:05
In the last years, theoretically informed research on syntax of different varieties of German has gained momentum. In this symposium, which is held on a regular basis, we want to bring together researchers in this field and offer a forum for this line of research. The papers will appear in printed form in a special issue of the journal ZDL, as in the last years. The conference languages will be German and English. We invite contributions on syntactic research on dialects or other varieties o

Confs: The 34th Colloquium on Generative Grammar

The LINGUIST List - Mon, 04/28/2025 - 21:05
The Colloquium on Generative Grammar (CGG) is an annual conference held in the Iberian peninsula since 1991. It provides a platform for linguists working in Generative grammar all over the world to come together and discuss current trends and topics in syntax, morphology, semantics, phonology and their interfaces. The 34th Colloquium on Generative Grammar (CGG34) will be organized by the National University of Distance Education (UNED) and will take place as an in-person meeting from May 7 to Ma

Confs: Saarbrücken Round Table of Dialect Syntax / Saarbrücker Runder Tisch für Dialektsyntax

The LINGUIST List - Mon, 04/28/2025 - 21:05
In the last years, theoretically informed research on syntax of different varieties of German has gained momentum. In this symposium, which is held on a regular basis, we want to bring together researchers in this field and offer a forum for this line of research. The papers will appear in printed form in a special issue of the journal ZDL, as in the last years. The conference languages will be German and English. We invite contributions on syntactic research on dialects or other varieties o

Calls: Experimental and Corpus-Based Approaches to Ellipsis (ECBAE) 2025

The LINGUIST List - Mon, 04/28/2025 - 21:05
Final Call for Papers: The submission deadline has been extended to May 9, 2025. We are delighted to announce that the 7th edition of Experimental and Corpus-Based Approaches to Ellipsis (ECBAE) will take place on site at Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, on September 8-9, 2025. Conference website: https://www.uni-saarland.de/fakultaet-p/nds/ecbae2025.html Invited speakers Gabriela Bîlbîie (University of Bucharest) Masaya Yoshida (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

McGill @ WCCFL 43

McLing Newsletter - Mon, 04/28/2025 - 08:49
McGill linguists presented work at the 43rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 43), held last weekend at the University of Washington. Presentations by current McGill affiliates included: McGill linguists of past and present gathered for a picture:

Support: Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Language, Semantics, Syntax: MA / MSc, Department of German Studies, University of Graz

The LINGUIST List - Mon, 04/28/2025 - 08:05
Position: Support for PhD student (30 H/ Week, 2 Years) Deadline: 13 May 2025 Further information and job portal: https://jobs.uni-graz.at/de/jobs/aa2c4fec-23fb-b340-1847-67e70b8e82b7 Your responsibilities - Independent and cooperative research in connection with the SFB project “Language between Redundancy and Deficiency” (https://sfb-redundancy-deficiency.uni-graz.at/) in the subproject “Philosophical implications of binding effects” - Intention to complete a dissertation related to

FYI: Looking for participants who are native speakers of Dutch for an online experiment

The LINGUIST List - Sat, 04/26/2025 - 00:05
Hello all I am currently working on my master's thesis, which investigates visual word processing in adult native speakers of Dutch. I am looking for Dutch speakers who want to participate in a short (5-10 minutes) online lexical decision task. You can participate by clicking on the following link: https://forms.office.com/e/jiRLPhek7i . Thanks in advance for your assistance! Xander Van Tilburg Umeå University

FYI: Call for applications for Co-Editor of Bilingualism: Language and Cognition

The LINGUIST List - Sat, 04/26/2025 - 00:05
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition seeks a new Editor-in-Chief from 2026. We are looking for a candidate with expertise in experimental linguistics and psycholinguistics and a focus on the linguistic side of bilingualism research. Learn more and apply via the link below: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bilingualism-language-and-cognition/announcements/call-for-papers/call-for-applications-for-co-editor-of-bilingualism-language-and-cognition

Confs: The 3rd Conference on Evidentiality and Its Related Categories

Conferences - Fri, 04/25/2025 - 23:05
Dates: 15 Nov 2025 – 16 Nov 2025 Venue: University of Macau, Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macao SAR, China Working Language: English Contact Person: Wenjiang Yang Meeting Email: jap.conference@um.edu.mo Meeting Description: Following the success of the first conference hosted by Sun Yat-sen University in 2018 and the second conference hosted by Beijing Normal University in 2023, the 3rd Conference on Evidentiality and Its Related Categories is scheduled to take place on 15-16 November

Summer Schools: Seshegopuo Linguistics Winter School 2025

The LINGUIST List - Fri, 04/25/2025 - 23:05
Focus: This school is aimed at postgraduate students who are interested in working with linguistics data in some form -- especially morphosyntactic and/or phonological data -- using corpus, experimental or theoretical approaches. You do not need to have a background or already be using these methods or theories to participate in the classes but you need to have a solid basis in General Linguistics and ideally some experience of collecting and working with linguistic data. Description: The Sesh

FYI: FYI: Editorial change JB journal Gesture

The LINGUIST List - Fri, 04/25/2025 - 23:05
Starting with volume 23 (2024), Olivier Le Guen (CIESAS, Mexico) will join Ruth Breckinridge Church (Northeastern Illinois University) as editor of the John Benjamins journal Gesture. Gesture publishes articles reporting original research, as well as survey and review articles, on all aspects of gesture. The journal aims to stimulate and facilitate scholarly communication between the different disciplines within which work on gesture is conducted. For this reason papers written in the spirit

Confs: The 3rd Conference on Evidentiality and Its Related Categories

The LINGUIST List - Fri, 04/25/2025 - 23:05
Dates: 15 Nov 2025 – 16 Nov 2025 Venue: University of Macau, Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macao SAR, China Working Language: English Contact Person: Wenjiang Yang Meeting Email: jap.conference@um.edu.mo Meeting Description: Following the success of the first conference hosted by Sun Yat-sen University in 2018 and the second conference hosted by Beijing Normal University in 2023, the 3rd Conference on Evidentiality and Its Related Categories is scheduled to take place on 15-16 November

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