The study of dialectal variation in phonology, morphology, and syntax has received increasing attention in recent decades. The result is an important body of work on dialect syntax with diverse approaches, methodologies, and scopes, including formal approaches (e.g. Bayer 1984, Haegeman 1992, Hoekstra 1993, Poletto 2000, Benincà and Poletto 2004, Van Craenenbroeck 2010), computational-quantitative analyses (e.g. Nerbonne 2009, 2010, Heeringa and Nerbonne 2013, Wieling and Nerbonne 2015), and soc

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. Keynote speakers will be announced at a later date. We invite abstracts for 20-minute talks and posters on any theoretical or formal aspect of natural language, including but not limited to phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and their interfaces. There will be a special sessi

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. Keynote speakers will be announced at a later date. We invite abstracts for 20-minute talks and posters on any theoretical or formal aspect of natural language, including but not limited to phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and their interfaces. There will be a special sessi

The Faculty of Humanities and the Centre for Sociocultural and Ethnolinguistic Studies of the HSE University are pleased to announce an interdisciplinary conference on “Managing language diversity through Societies, States and History” to be held online on June 06, 2025. The conference aims to bring together scholars, researchers, and professionals from various disciplines to explore the historical, legal, and social dynamics related to language diversity. We invite the submission of papers tha

The Faculty of Humanities and the Centre for Sociocultural and Ethnolinguistic Studies of the HSE University are pleased to announce an interdisciplinary conference on “Managing language diversity through Societies, States and History” to be held online on June 06, 2025. The conference aims to bring together scholars, researchers, and professionals from various disciplines to explore the historical, legal, and social dynamics related to language diversity. We invite the submission of papers tha

Call for Proposals The Texts in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas series is an annual supplement to the International Journal of American Linguistics dedicated to the presentation of analyzed oral texts from the indigenous languages of the Americas. TILA volumes are guest-edited, thematically-organized collections of texts published as a supplement to the April issue of IJAL and online on the IJAL website. Issues in the series may be single-authored or edited multi-contributor colle

The eighth workshop on Universal Dependencies Part of SyntaxFest 2025, Ljubljana, August 26-29 2nd Call for Papers: Universal Dependencies (UD) is a framework for cross-linguistically consistent treebank annotation that has so far been applied to over 150 languages (https://universaldependencies.org ). The framework is aiming to capture similarities as well as idiosyncrasies among typologically different languages (e.g., morphologically rich languages, pro-drop languages, and languages f

Deadline Extension: Call for Papers and Posters The conference KogWis 2025, which will take place 01.09. - 03.09. at Ruhr-University Bochum aims at providing a platform for discussing the most recent developments in Cognitive Science. It will feature contributed papers, symposia, and posters covering all subfields of cognitive science, bringing together a large number of experts from Europe and overseas. We invite paper and poster contributions on recent research in any subfield of cogni

An interview with James Crippen on his work with the Tlingit language was just published on the Stikine River Radio –– listen here!

After a bit of a pause, meetings of the Montreal Underdocumented Languages Linguistics (MULL) Lab are back! Starting with a special kick-off event in May, and then continuing in the new school year, MULL meetings will be returning with a slightly updated schedule and focus. Going forward, MULL meetings will be monthly and provide opportunities for a mix of […]

Two JournalLing (the McGill linguistics undergraduate journal) volumes, the 2023-2024 edition (Volume 3) and the 2024-2025 edition (Volume 4), were released this past Friday at the undergraduate Wine and Cheese social event. Jackson Corfield served as the Editor-in-Chief on the 2023-2024 JournalLing Team, and Allison McFarlane and Sophia Flaim served as Co-Editors-in-Chief on the 2024-2025 […]

*Short-term scholarships in fall 2025 for (prospective) PhD students, HU Berlin and ZAS* Are you an MA graduate planning to do or already pursuing a PhD in linguistics or a related field? Would you like to spend a few months doing linguistic research with us in Berlin? Do you have an idea for a small project, a short study or an interesting collaboration related to the CRC? Apply for a short-term grant! The CRC (Collaborative Research Center) 1412 “Register: Language Users’ Knowledge of Si

Editor's Note: The following reply addresses content in the review for The Philosophy of Theoretical Linguistics: A Contemporary Outlook (Nefdt, 2024; Cambridge University Press) which can be read in its entirety here: https://linguistlist.org/issues/36/243/. As a writer of a monograph and a scholar in general, it is always pleasing to see someone engage thoroughly with your work. This feeling holds whether or not that person was particularly laudatory or critical. In fact, critical reviews h

SUMMARY In “Econarratives”, Arran Stibbe shows the many ways in which econarratives, narratives involving humans, other species and the physical environment, can be analysed using linguistic, rhetorical and narratological methods. The book focuses on how these narratives can influence how people think, talk and act by either reinforcing or resisting pre-existing narratives about how people interact with the ecosystem. The book aims to highlight the importance of finding new stories to live by

3 Bernard Comrie & Raoul Zamponi Akabea (Great Andamanese) as an anumeric language and the problem of Akabea ordinals Special Section Comparative approaches towards the diachronic behavior of subordinate clauses co-edited by: Iker Salaberri, Annemarie Verkerk & Anne Wolfsgruber 29 Iker Salaberri, Anne Wolfsgruber & Annemarie Verkerk Subordinate and independent clauses in diachrony 53 Luigi Talamo, Annemarie Verkerk & Iker Salaberri A quantitative approach to clause type and syntactic c

These articles have now been included in issue 17. Check them out! Adecuaciones curriculares de Lengua Española para estudiantes con autismo: propuesta de la unidad de aprendizaje "Presentaciones personales" (Curricular adaptations in Spanish Language for students with autism: Proposal for the learning unit 'Personal Introductions') María Laura Grosso https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/didacticae/article/view/45205 La lengua materna y la traducción en las aulas de idiomas del siglo X

The Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution (University of Zurich) invites applications for 2 x funded PhD positions in Typological Linguistics, to join a project investigating semantic patterns in geographic regions. You have a background in typological linguistics, with a Masters or Honours degree on a related topic. Candidates with an interest in Papuan or Australian Aboriginal languages are particularly encouraged to apply, though other geographic regions will also be

Description: The University of Manchester Faculty of Humanities is advertising for a cluster of permanent positions at the Lecturer and Senior Lecturer level in "AI Trust and Security” broadly defined. People appointed will be placed into a department in whichever of the four schools across the Faculty of Humanities best suits their expertise. As noted in the formal advertisement linked to below, one highlighted area of expertise is "the analysis of large language models", and we would very m

The Syntax-Semantics Group will be meeting on Monday, April 14 at 3pm in Room 117 of the McGill linguistics department. This meeting is the final regularly scheduled meeting of McGill’s Winter 2025 term. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/16ZiB1ATRMGSUxbkGOJGvw. Professor James Crippen (McGill) will be giving a presentation with the title “Optional ergative is subject focus in […]

SUMMARY Goulart begins by justifying her study of university student writing with the significance of written expression in academia, which is why most liberal arts institutions include a two-course sequence in first-year writing as a prerequisite in the core curriculum. The corpus under examination here consists of over 900 assignments from undergraduates taking courses beyond the first year in the humanities and in both the physical and social sciences. While first-year and L2 writing st