The Canadian Society for the Study of Names (CSSN) will hold its 60th Annual Meeting virtually from Saturday, June 6 to Sunday, June 7, 2026. The 2026 CSSN conference will not be held in conjunction with the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS) of Canada and will take place entirely online. The general theme of this 2026 CSSN Conference is “Onomastics and Toponymy as reflections of our World”. Papers on any onomastic or toponymic topic are welcome, from any discipline, per

Digital transformations are profoundly affecting research practices in the humanities and social sciences (HSS). Massive access to heterogeneous corpora, the rise of computational methods and computing resources, the widespread use of data infrastructures, and the proliferation of collaborative tools are transforming the ways in which knowledge is captured, produced, analysed and shared. These transformations are enabling the development of new research methodologies and contributing to the deve

Digital transformations are profoundly affecting research practices in the humanities and social sciences (HSS). Massive access to heterogeneous corpora, the rise of computational methods and computing resources, the widespread use of data infrastructures, and the proliferation of collaborative tools are transforming the ways in which knowledge is captured, produced, analysed and shared. These transformations are enabling the development of new research methodologies and contributing to the deve

Please write or copy and paste your review of Love, Sex, and the Sacred here. SUMMARY Veronika Szelid’s Love, Sex, and the Sacred explores how ROMANTIC LOVE is conceptualized in the Hungarian love folk songs of a traditional religious community. The songs analyzed come from the Moldavian Csángós, a Roman Catholic Hungarian group that speaks one of the oldest Hungarian dialects. The book is organized into six chapters and includes an appendix containing the abbreviations used throughout, th

The following books are now available for review on the LINGUIST List. If you would like to become a reviewer for one of the books announced in the AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW posting, you will need to follow steps 1-4 explained below: Step 1: Go to https://linguistlist.org/reviews/request Step 2: You will be asked to log in or create an account. Step 3: Update your personal information and add reviewer specific information on why you would be a good reviewer for the books you wish to select. Step

SUMMARY “We look inward in order to fight forward” (p. 6). The edited collection Autoethnographic explorations of lived raciolinguistic experiences among multilingual scholars: Looking inward to move forward by Qianqian Zhang-Wu and Bridget Goodman is a unique and timely work that brings together deeply personal autoethnographic narratives of multilingual scholars from diverse cultural, linguistic, and ethnic backgrounds across the globe, spanning 14 institutions of higher education and 6

SUMMARY The idea of modeling language as a dynamical system is not new, but it has not caught on widely. With this entry in the Cambridge Elements series, Edgar W. Schneider draws attention to how concepts of complex dynamic systems theory can be used to better understand language, particularly the varieties of English spoken around the world. In keeping with the scope of the Elements series, the book is very short, only 85 pages including the references. It consists of six chapters: four

I teach an undergraduate course entitled “Indigenous languages: their past, present, and future,” with “future” referring to ongoing processes of revitalization, reclamation, and change. Since most of the Indigenous students at Syracuse University are from the United States or Canada and since I conduct my own research in Brazil, my syllabus focuses on the Indigenous peoples of the Americas and the languages that they speak (or spoke in the past). My students express interest in transnational p

SUMMARY The edited volume “Early Language Education in Instructed Contexts” offers a comprehensive, empirically grounded exploration of early additional-language learning for children aged approximately 5 to 12. Bringing together fourteen chapters from international scholars, the book surveys contemporary research on assessment, literacy development, classroom practices, teaching materials, teacher cognition, parental views, and transitional experiences between primary and secondary schooling

Dear Linguist Listers, Linguist List turns 36 years old this month! Our first issue was posted in December, 1990: https://linguistlist.org/issues/1/0/ We've come a long way since these humble beginnings. From a few dozen linguists on a new electronic mailing list -- to over 125,000 subscribers and followers worldwide! But with age, inevitably comes change… Linguist List's creators and its first moderators retired long ago. But before they did, they formed the eLinguistics Foundati

SUMMARY (ENGLISH) Morirse, salirse, comerse y otros pseudorreflexivos sin motivación argumental, by Martha Guzmán, is a relevant contribution to the field of Romance linguistics, as it provides a comprehensive approach to the phenomenon of pseudo‐reflexivity in French and Spanish verbs. Researchers working on contrastive grammar of Spanish and French will see this text as a useful and complete analysis of these constructions from both a synchronic and a diachronic angle, since the book is pre

Guest Editors: Todor Koev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, tkoev@scarletmail.rutgers.edu Maria Esipova, Bar-Ilan University, masha.esipova@nyu.edu Special Issue Information: The concept of at-issueness revolves around the intuition that the information conveyed by an utterance is segmented into main (at-issue) content and peripheral/background (not-at-issue) content. This distinction has played a key role in understanding various linguistic phenomena, like presupposition (e.g., Kartt

When you have finished your review, please go to https://linguistlist.org/reviews/submit and click the button under this book title. SUMMARY “Logic for Everyone: From Proof to Paradox” (henceforth, “Logic for Everyone”), written by Jason Decker (2025), Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science in Carleton College, is an academic textbook designed for undergraduate students who seek a rigorous yet accessible introduction to formal logic. It can also be intended for a broader interdiscip

SUMMARY In 2025, the researcher Lauren Gawne published "Gesture: A slim guide" (Oxford). This book is a significant addition to the communication field, providing a necessary and substantial resource for a wide range of communication enthusiasts. It is a valuable asset for interested readers, including those who have not received formal education in languages, as well as postgraduate students and researchers. The primary objective of this publication is the provision and introduction of resea

How are invented languages created? Artificially constructed languages ('conlangs') shed light on how we can apply the universal principles of language to produce whole new languages. Grounded on world building and linguistic typology, this engaging book provides a step-by-step guide to language invention, introducing the basic blocks of language building (such as sounds, morphemes and sentence structure) and demonstrating their use in both natural languages from English to Swahili, and invented

Australian languages form a large genetic group with many interesting and distinctive phonological and morphological properties. Written by two experts in the field, this is the first book-length treatment of this topic, providing an in-depth discussion of a wealth of little-known data on the sound systems and word structures of Australian Indigenous languages. It includes a critical evaluation of theoretical approaches from the 1950s up to the current day, including recent experimental, psychol

Many children and adults experience significant breakdown in the use of language. The resulting pragmatic disorders present a considerable barrier to effective communication. This book is the first critical examination of the current state of our knowledge of pragmatic disorders and provides a comprehensive overview of the main concepts and theories in pragmatics. It examines the full range of pragmatic disorders that occur in children and adults and discusses how they are assessed and treated b

This Element introduces the study of forensic linguistics, particularly in southern Africa, but also in Africa more generally. In the past six decades, there has been clear evidence that the discipline of forensic linguistics is, or was, unknown to general linguists, legal linguists, and applied linguists on the African continent. Now, however, the situation is rapidly changing, with forensic linguistics studies gaining momentum in various parts of Africa. In this Element the authors introduce t

This Element deals with the relationship between cognition, understood as the process of acquiring and developing knowledge, and diverse types of conspiracy theories, or short, 'CTs'. Section 1 lays the groundwork for the analysis by determining four components of narrative argumentative framing in CTs, of which the first three are constitutive for all CTs, with a fourth representing the 'optional' collective action-guiding “scenario” component. Section 2 exemplifies manifestations of these comp

Uniformitarianism is the widely held assumption that, in the case of languages, structural and other changes in the past must have been triggered and constrained by the same ecological factors as changes in the present. This volume, led by two of the most eminent scholars in language contact, brings together an international team of authors to shed new light on Uniformitarianism in historical linguistics. Applying the Uniformitarian Principle to creoles and pidgins, as well as other languages, t