Call for Papers: We are pleased to announce the fourth edition of the 'Current Issues in Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics' workshop. As in the previous years, the workshop will be part of the ÖLT (50th Austrian Linguistics Conference), which takes place November 20-21 in Salzburg, Austria. The workshop aims to create opportunities for researchers to discuss their original, unpublished work related to any of the fields mentioned in its title as well as at the interfaces. We invite submissi

Call for Papers: The key role that pragmatic markers (PMs) such as English actually, well, you know, and I mean play in social interaction, collaborative meaning-making, and successful communication is well known in a range of different languages (Fischer 2006, Degand et al. 2022, inter alia). PMs are essential to achieving communicative goals such as managing interaction or expressing attitudes. What is far less well understood is how language learners acquire and use PMs in an L2 or additio

Call for Papers: Submission Deadline: 15-Sep-2026 Date: 01-Dec-2026 – 02-Dec-2026 Location: Frankfurt am Main, Germany Contact: neglab.crc1629@gmail.com The Collaborative Research Center 1629 "Negation in Language and Beyond" (NegLaB) at the Universities of Frankfurt, Tübingen and Göttingen reminds interested colleagues that the submission deadline for NegLaB III is approaching. The workshop will be held at the University of Frankfurt on 1–2 December 2026. NegLaB III aims to advance

The University of Piemonte Orientale will host the International Conference REINVENT – Representing Ecolinguistic Identity through Narratives: Voices for ENvironmental Transition (Vercelli, 20–21 May 2027). Drawing on a multidisciplinary approach, the conference aims to highlight the fundamental role that linguistic choices and narrative models play in shaping our attitudes towards environmental issues, influencing perceptions of individual and collective responsibility, and encouraging – or

Description: Teaching Faculty Position in Instructional Arabic, Open Rank Georgetown University: Main Campus: Walsh School of Foreign Service: Georgetown University in Qatar Location: Qatar Open Date: Aug 23, 2026 Deadline: Oct 03, 2026 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time Description: Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) invites applications for one (1) open-rank teaching faculty position in Instructional Arabic. The successful candidate will hold an M.A. or Ph.D. in applied linguistics,

The University of Piemonte Orientale will host the International Conference REINVENT – Representing Ecolinguistic Identity through Narratives: Voices for ENvironmental Transition (Vercelli, 20–21 May 2027). Drawing on a multidisciplinary approach, the conference aims to highlight the fundamental role that linguistic choices and narrative models play in shaping our attitudes towards environmental issues, influencing perceptions of individual and collective responsibility, and encouraging – or

The present volume addresses the way in which multiword expression resources are used in real-life downstream Natural Language Processing applications, how they interact with neural architectures and generative pre-trained language models and, more broadly, how linguistic theory and computational modeling can inform each other. It critically examines the properties of multiword expression resources and their integration into – or exclusion from – contemporary Natural Language Processing systems

The lexicalization of property concepts (PCs) — basic adjectival states such as big, small, hard, soft, black, white, fast, quick — has long been a central concern of both typology and linguistic theory. In historical Indo-European linguistics, PCs are most often examined through the lens of the “Caland System”, a complex derivational network of suffixes that structure the expression of such concepts. Yet while the nominal and adjectival exponents of this system have been intensively studied, th

Many people use several languages and dialects in their daily lives. What are the current scholarly models for and insights into this stunning capacity of the human mind? The book discusses research into multilingual practices and multiple language learning, from both cognitive and sociolinguistic angles. Discussion focuses on the repertoires of multilinguals and the processes of cross-linguistic influence, transfer and convergence that are typically observed on the levels of linguistic patterns

Call for Chapters The Handbook of Boredom in Modern Literature Editors: Mariusz Finkielsztein (University of Gdańsk) mariusz.finkielsztein@gmail.com Josefa Ros Velasco (Complutense University of Madrid) josros@ucm.es The Handbook of Boredom in Modern Literature is to be a comprehensive monographic study examining boredom as a central aesthetic, philosophical, psychological, and socio-cultural category in the history of modern literature. Rather than relying purely on abstract theory, th

Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA) developed as a refocusing of Harvey Sacks’ original analyses of categories, devices, and sequence in talk-in-interaction. In building empirically an understanding of membership categorisation practices as ‘culture-in-action’, MCA, and this collection, opens up an attention to categorisation practices, in all their forms, as means of doing ethnomethodology and sociology. Indeed, MCA has become a prominent methodological and analytic approach across the soc

Dictionaries are complex, many-layered works: not only are they shaped by the cultural discourses of their time; they also actively shape the ways in which we perceive the world. Tracing a historical journey from eighteenth-century Europe to the present day, the contributions in this volume examine a rich variety of English and Romance dictionaries. Whether monolingual or bilingual, general-purpose or specialised, dictionaries emerge as indispensable components of the dominant discourses that we

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

The Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Delaware invites submissions to the workshop Morphology as Syntax 5 to be held at the University of Delaware on the 16th of April, 2027. The goal of the Morphology as Syntax workshop series is to explore the possibility of accounting for morphological phenomena within the phrasal syntax. The question is whether it is feasible to have a model of grammar with no separate component for morphology and no levels or mechanisms

The Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Delaware invites submissions to the workshop Morphology as Syntax 5 to be held at the University of Delaware on the 16th of April, 2027. The goal of the Morphology as Syntax workshop series is to explore the possibility of accounting for morphological phenomena within the phrasal syntax. The question is whether it is feasible to have a model of grammar with no separate component for morphology and no levels or mechanisms

Call for Papers: Deadline Extended The abstract submission deadline has been extended to September 15th, 2026 (previously September 1st). The outcome of the review process will now be communicated by October 19th, 2026 (previously October 2nd). The PhD students of the Doctoral Program in Literary and Philological Cultures at Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna are pleased to announce the third edition of the Doctoral Conference of the Department of Classical Philology and Ita

Other Specialties: Sociolinguistics Description: With the sponsorship of the Society for the Humanities, the Department of Linguistics invites applications for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship position beginning August 1, 2027. The fellowship carries a stipend of $68,000/year. The Department of Linguistics seeks applications for a postdoctoral fellow from scholars who take a linguistic approach to problems of broad humanistic significance. Applicants might have expertise in any

The Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Austrian Geographical Society cordially invite you to the XXIX International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, Vienna [Wien], Austria, 16-20 August 2027, organized under the auspices of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences (ICOS). The Congress theme "Names as condensed narratives" aims to highlight the importance and relevance of names and naming while leaving enough space for the whole variety of onomastic topics and scientific approaches. N

The ethnographic and the semiotic are indelibly linked in linguistic anthropology. Foundational voices in the engagement between linguistic anthropology and semiotics make abundantly clear that we must ground our analysis in actual events, in what we describe as “the ethnographic” (Silverstein 1975, Silverstein and Urban 1996, Irvine and Gal 2000, Agha 2007). And yet, ethnographers encounter a tension when our analysis is of material from a culture other than our own. This tension also requires

Call for Papers: We’re excited to open the call for papers for the 8th Laughter and Non-Verbal Vocalisations Workshop (LW2027), which will take place on April 2nd and 3rd 2027 in Saarbrücken. We welcome submission of extended abstracts (2 pages for text + 1 for references and figures) of completed studies and/or substantial work-in-progress in any of the areas outlined in the workshop description. Themes: Research themes include, but are not restricted to, these aspects pertaining to