2026. iii, 129 pp. Table of Contents Articles English as a lingua franca in Greek language courses: Views and attitudes from study abroad participants in the Erasmus+ program Aretousa Giannakou & Ellie Zampiaki pp. 1–39 Voices from the periphery: A qualitative study of international students’ experiences in multicultural classrooms in higher education in the United Kingdom Ismael Louber, Mayez Almayez, Karmand Hamad & Amira Benabdelkader pp. 40–67 The manifestation of globa

2026. v, 136 pp. Table of Contents Articles Labeling theory in language and sexuality studies Heiko Motschenbacher pp. 1–22 In their own words: Exploring the linguistic strategies of queer women in Lebanon Dana El Sammak pp. 23–49 Labeling gender across and beyond the binary: Introduction of the gender-neutral pronoun hen in Norwegian standard language Edit Bugge, Trude Bukve & Hege Myklebust pp. 50–72 Sex/gender labels in EU directives in English: A queer linguistics

SUMMARY Lost in Automatic Translation is for anyone interested in language, language learning, automatic translators, chatbots and other language-based AIs. For non-experts, it is an easy-to-understand introduction to the issues surrounding translation; and for experts, it is a very readable take with fresh examples and a deviation from the staid formality of conventional academic texts. The focus here is on English, but the issues raised are relevant for any other language. Author Vered S

2nd Call for Papers: Deadline Extended: The French Phonology Network (Réseau Français de Phonologie) is launching a call for abstracts for its 2026 annual conference, the twenty-third in its history. The 2026 edition will be held from July 1st to 3rd in Paris, France. The conference is sponsored by the research laboratories HTL (UMR 7597, Université Paris Cité / Université Sorbonne Nouvelle & CNRS), LLF (UMR 7110, Université Paris Cité & CNRS), CRLAO (UMR 8563, EHESS & CNRS) and the projec

Episode 4 of HELLO Lab Presents has just been released — How Does My Baby Learn Words? (https://youtu.be/jJCP69FkNWM) — which is the second of two episodes related to word learning. More information about HELLO Lab Presents below. ​________________________ I’m excited to announce a fun project that students in my lab and I have been developing this year — A YouTube channel called HELLO Lab Presents. Our goal is to provide parents with evidence-based ‘edutainment’ on language development

The Syntax-Semantics Group will hold its next meeting on Thursday, February 12th, at 2-3pm in Room 002 of the McGill linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/84180431566 Jessica Coon and Michael Wagner (McGill) will be presenting “Reconsidering animacy hierarchy effects in Mayan:Experimental evidence from Ch’ol” (joint work with Stefan Keine (UCLA) and Juan Vázquez Álvarez (CIMSUR-UNAM)) Here […]

We’re delighted to announce that Tal Linzen will be giving a colloquium this Thurs (Feb 12th) at 11:45 over zoom: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/86483387308?pwd=2NXkhS1itsS4uYvJIS3tAy3pd9ZE0d.1 All linguistics faculty and graduate students are welcome to attend. Cognitive science for, and using, large language models For decades, the fields of artificial intelligence and cognitive science have aimed to create systems that learn […]

Die Sommerschule „Mehrsprachigkeit, früher oder später“ widmet sich der Rolle der Mehrsprachigkeit in der Spracherwerbsforschung – ein hochrelevantes Thema in gegenwärtigen Gesellschaften. Aktuelle Studien leisten einen zentralen Beitrag dazu, Erwerbsmuster, Entwicklungsverläufe und zugrunde liegende Prozesse differenziert zu beschreiben. Sowohl aus theoretischer als auch aus anwendungsbezogener Perspektive rückt dabei die Frage in den Vordergrund, welche Faktoren die Mehrsprachigkeit im Individ

2nd Call for Papers: Description: The second edition of the DM meets Nano workshop, to be held at the Masaryk University (Brno) on July 7-9, 2026, aims to bring together researchers working within Distributed Morphology and Nanosyntax, inviting them to share recent developments and findings in their respective frameworks and/or to examine (key) phenomena from a comparative perspective, highlighting both the similarities and differences between the two approaches. This way, the conference wan

2nd Call for Papers: Interactional Competences and Practices in a Second Language Conference 2026: Newcastle University This is a friendly reminder that the deadline for submitting abstracts for the 2026 ICOP‑L2 Conference is coming up very soon. Submission deadline is now 27th February (note the slightly extended deadline) If you’re planning to submit, we’d be very glad to receive your abstract. Please use the submission portal: https://forms.gle/rz7KruELWrzjVrFY6 The ICOP‑L2 C

Die Sommerschule „Mehrsprachigkeit, früher oder später“ widmet sich der Rolle der Mehrsprachigkeit in der Spracherwerbsforschung – ein hochrelevantes Thema in gegenwärtigen Gesellschaften. Aktuelle Studien leisten einen zentralen Beitrag dazu, Erwerbsmuster, Entwicklungsverläufe und zugrunde liegende Prozesse differenziert zu beschreiben. Sowohl aus theoretischer als auch aus anwendungsbezogener Perspektive rückt dabei die Frage in den Vordergrund, welche Faktoren die Mehrsprachigkeit im Individ

We are delighted to be organizing the 8th edition of the 2026 Second-Language Learning & Disabilities International Conference again this year. We are cordially inviting proposals for the eigth edition of the Second Language Learning & Disabilities Conference, scheduled for April 24 & 25, 2026, in a hybrid format. We welcome submissions. Please send a title, a concise abstract (50 words), and a comprehensive proposal (300 words) outlining your presentation in this form: https://tinyurl.com

Final Call for Papers: Workshop Description: We are delighted to announce that the 8th edition of Experimental and Corpus-Based Approaches to Ellipsis (ECBAE) will take at the Hohentübingen Castle, Tübingen, Germany, on 19-20 August 2026. The workshop brings together researchers using empirical methods to investigate ellipsis and related phenomena across languages. It will provide an opportunity to discuss how corpus-based and experimental approaches can advance our understanding of how vari

Final Call for Papers: Due to numerous requests we are extending the submission period for sign-lang@LREC 2026 to Friday, 20 February. The submission page is https://softconf.com/lrec2026/signlang2026/ Submissions are invited for a full day workshop on sign language resources and technologies, to take place on 16 May 2026 as a satellite event of LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. As in the previous four years, the workshop will be a hybrid event. The extended submission deadline is Fri

We are delighted to be organizing the 8th edition of the 2026 Second-Language Learning & Disabilities International Conference again this year. We are cordially inviting proposals for the eigth edition of the Second Language Learning & Disabilities Conference, scheduled for April 24 & 25, 2026, in a hybrid format. We welcome submissions. Please send a title, a concise abstract (50 words), and a comprehensive proposal (300 words) outlining your presentation in this form: https://tinyurl.com

Computational approaches to language dynamics: Cognitive and constructional perspectives Theme session at the 11th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, 31.08.-02.09.2026 Convenors: Bastian Bunzeck, University of Bielefeld, bastian.bunzeck@uni-bielefeld.de Stefan Hartmann, HHU Düsseldorf, hartmast@hhu.de Cognitive linguistics conceives of language as a complex adaptive system (Beckner et al. 2009). Modelling the intricacies of this system entails num

The XI Conference on Linguistics and Cognition (CLC) will be held as part of the activities of the Linguistics and Cognition Working Group of ANPOLL (Brazilian National Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Letters and Linguistics). The XI CLC aims to promote scientific dialogue and exchange of research exploring the interfaces between language and cognition, bringing together researchers, faculty members, and students from different Brazilian institutions; foster critical reflectio

Note: The following call is being posted on The LINGUIST List because the conference will include sociolinguistics sessions exploring queer linguistics, and featuring prominent linguists as speakers. Starting Point: Concepts of in/visibility have played an important role in queer activism and gender studies for a long time. Being seen and being heard, having a voice and a place at the table have been manifest political goals but also powerful metaphors of representation through decades of fe

Computational approaches to language dynamics: Cognitive and constructional perspectives Theme session at the 11th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, 31.08.-02.09.2026 Convenors: Bastian Bunzeck, University of Bielefeld, bastian.bunzeck@uni-bielefeld.de Stefan Hartmann, HHU Düsseldorf, hartmast@hhu.de Cognitive linguistics conceives of language as a complex adaptive system (Beckner et al. 2009). Modelling the intricacies of this system entails num

The XI Conference on Linguistics and Cognition (CLC) will be held as part of the activities of the Linguistics and Cognition Working Group of ANPOLL (Brazilian National Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Letters and Linguistics). The XI CLC aims to promote scientific dialogue and exchange of research exploring the interfaces between language and cognition, bringing together researchers, faculty members, and students from different Brazilian institutions; foster critical reflectio