Registration for AFLiCo10 is now open! We are pleased to offer a rich program, featuring four keynote talks by Gaëtanelle Gilquin (UCLouvain, Belgium), Geert Brône (KU Leuven, Belgium), Elisabeth Zima (University of Freiburg, Germany), and Charles Forceville (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands), as well as enjoyable social events throughout the conference. The detailed program is available at: https://aflico10.sciencesconf.org/ We encourage you to take advantage of the early bird rat

Registration for AFLiCo10 is now open! We are pleased to offer a rich program, featuring four keynote talks by Gaëtanelle Gilquin (UCLouvain, Belgium), Geert Brône (KU Leuven, Belgium), Elisabeth Zima (University of Freiburg, Germany), and Charles Forceville (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands), as well as enjoyable social events throughout the conference. The detailed program is available at: https://aflico10.sciencesconf.org/ We encourage you to take advantage of the early bird rat

Focus: Tentative topics include: - Basics in corpus analysis in R – building and preparing text corpora and carrying out fundamental computational analyses using R. - Analysing texts using Large Language Models – using modern AI tools to extract information, classify text, and support large-scale textual analysis. - Text mining – identifying patterns, frequencies, and meaningful structures within large collections of text. - Topic modelling – uncovering hidden thematic structures across larg

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Educational Linguistics program at the University of New Mexico, researching adult second language acquisition. I encourage German professors to share this study information with students. I am seeking graduate and senior students in German language programs to participate in a study in which we will learn and evaluate German metaphors. Participants must have B2-C1 or C2 proficiency in German. Participants will take on online survey in which they will r

The Center for Language Acquisition at Penn State is offering the third in its free professional development webinar series Advances in World Language Pedagogy. In the next webinar, Dr. Akiko Imamura (University of Michigan), Dr. Innhwa Park (West Chester University), and Dr. Stephen Looney (Penn State) will be presenting on the topic of “Video-based resources for teaching storytelling as social practice in Japanese-as-a-foreign language” See the session description here. https://calper.la.psu.

Since next Monday is Easter Monday, our meeting will be temporally moved to Wednesday, April 8, 12-1pm in room 117 and on Zoom.  Naomi Sacks will be presenting her study Vowel Hiatus Resolution in Mora-Timed Languages: Determining the Syllabicity of Adjacent Vowels in Japanese. Abstract: Vowel hiatus, or adjacent, heterosyllabic vowels, are a crosslinguistically dispreferred phenomenon. Vowel hiatus may be resolved in […]

The Syntax-Semantics Group will hold its next meeting on Thursday, April 9th, at 2-3pm in Room 002 of the McGill linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/84180431566 Brandon Chaperon will be presenting “Generic argument-structure head in the Wolof causative-benefactive syncretism.” Here is the abstract: This work provides an account for the crosslinguistically […]

The Montréal Underdocumented Languages Linguistics Lab (MULL-Lab) will meet on Thursday, April 9th at 4PM in room 406 of Thomson House. There will be three talks followed by a social hour. Talks include: This event is open to all linguists across Montréal. Please email emma.custer@mail.mcgill.ca if you’d like to be added to the mailing list.

Several McGillians, past and present, attended MOThQ Phonology and Phonetics Workshop in Quebec City on March 27-28. The program can be found here: https://mothq2026.netlify.app/program.html

SUMMARY Samuel J. Evans’s The Elements of Welsh Grammar is a classic Welsh grammar, first published in 1908 and reissued in a 2025 edition. Evans was a prominent figure in Welsh education in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a period when the Welsh language held an uncertain status within the formal education system. The grammar was intended to provide a concise and accessible description of the language for a wide range of learners, including school pupils, trainee teachers,

Focus: - Field methods & glossing sessions - Team-based work with native speakers of Abkhaz - Hands-on linguistic analysis (morphosyntax, phonology, semantics) Description: The CauLaGe Summer Fieldwork Program is an intensive linguistic expedition. Participants will engage in fieldwork on Abkhaz, linguistic analysis, and workshops led by experts in the field. While it is focused on a Caucasian language, the program is open to anyone who wants to gain hands-on experience in language docum

Call for Papers: 1st International conference in Linguistic Discrimination https://proyectoestigma.es/congreso/ We are pleased to inform you that the program for Keynotes has now been finalized. The details are provided below, and we hope you find it as interesting and engaging as we do. Colloquium: Carla Amorós Negre, Maite Moret Oliver, Elixabete Pérez Gaztelu and Luisa Martín Rojo: Stigma versus privilege. Keynote Lectures: Philippe Blanchet: Proposal for a typology of the diffe

Call for Papers: Language variation and change has been a major focus of linguistic research for decades, and empirical approaches to language variation can strongly benefit from systematic manipulation of variables. The goal of ExAPP is to gather scholars employing experimental methods to investigate linguistic variation. We welcome abstracts for posters and papers that cover aspects of variation on all linguistic levels, and the perception as well as the production thereof. These include, b

We warmly invite colleagues and researchers to the 2026 Joint ALAA–ALANZ–ALTAANZ Conference, hosted at The University of Queensland in Brisbane. Keynote speakers: - Prof Joseph Lo Bianco - Prof Rawinia Higgins - Prof Ute Knoch and Principal Fellow (Emerita) Cathie Elder - Dr Carly Steele This special joint conference marks the 50th anniversary of ALAA, bringing together scholars from Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Asia, and across the globe to reflect on the evolving trajectori

Focus: Main Theme: Climate change challenges Disciplines: Strongly inter/transdisciplinary - Linguistics - Media studies - Sociology - Philosophy - Geography - Political Studies - Psychology Description: This Summer School is designed to foster dialogue across disciplines and explore how climate change is addressed in different academic and social contexts. Over four days of insightful lectures and workshops, participants will engage with scholars from the fields of geography, lin

We warmly invite colleagues and researchers to the 2026 Joint ALAA–ALANZ–ALTAANZ Conference, hosted at The University of Queensland in Brisbane. Keynote speakers: - Prof Joseph Lo Bianco - Prof Rawinia Higgins - Prof Ute Knoch and Principal Fellow (Emerita) Cathie Elder - Dr Carly Steele This special joint conference marks the 50th anniversary of ALAA, bringing together scholars from Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Asia, and across the globe to reflect on the evolving trajectori

Focus: The summer school will focus on experimental methods in Second Language Acquisition. It will offer a non-exhaustive overview of some of the most commonly used contemporary experimental methods in SLA. Description: This year, the REAL 2 Network summer school will focus on experimental methods in Second Language Acquisition. It will offer a non-exhaustive overview of some of the most commonly used contemporary experimental methods in SLA. It is aimed at PhD students, researchers and p

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. ICLaVE is the premiere forum for research on language variation in Europe. It brings together scholars of languages and language varieties in Europe and elsewhere to discuss current empirical, methodological, and theoretical issues related to the study of language variation a

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. ICLaVE is the premiere forum for research on language variation in Europe. It brings together scholars of languages and language varieties in Europe and elsewhere to discuss current empirical, methodological, and theoretical issues related to the study of language variation a

We are pleased to invite you to the forthcoming seminar series From the Perspective of the Addressee, which will be held in English and take place entirely online. The next session will take place on Friday, 10 April 2026, at 3:00 p.m. (CET). We will have the pleasure of hearing Anke Grutschus (University of Bonn), Adèle Jatteau (University of Lille) & Paolo Mairano (University of Tours), who will give a talk entitled Sociophonetics from the Addressee’s Perspective: A Case Study. Program