Our next meeting will be Tuesday April 1st at 10am in room 117. There will be practice talks and feedback sessions for MOTh. Massimo and Irene will be doing presentations. There will also be a Zoom link open for this meeting at the following link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/84127437214?pwd=3U6LIdUJyJi6TnacFR1OwPRetKNAAN.1 Meeting ID: 841 2743 7214 Passcode: 674595

The Syntax-Semantics Group will be meeting on Monday, March 31 at 3pm in Room 117 of the McGill linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/16ZiB1ATRMGSUxbkGOJGvw. Jonny Palucci (McGill) will be discussing “Functional relative clauses and pseudo-scope.” Here is Jonny’s abstract: Sentences where a definite DP is modified by a relative clause containing a universal quantifier (relativized […]

Description: The working group Phonetics has a vacancy for a PostDoc position within the DFG-funded project "Laughter in Conversation: Form, Function and Multimodality" is available. The research builds on the work of a previous project and focuses on the study of laughter in spontaneous conversations, with a focus on the acoustic, articulatory and multimodal realisation, the frequency of occurrence of certain types of laughter in conversations and the interplay between smiles and laughter.

SUMMARY This book, “The COLT Observation Scheme,” was written by Nina Spada and edited by Nina Spada and Laura Gurzynski-Weiss. It is the second edition of the original book about the COLT Observation Scheme, published in 1995. The second edition is supplemented with a new chapter on digital COLT and updated research applications of COLT in different L2 contexts. The first chapter introduces the Communicative Orientation of Language Teaching (COLT) Observation Scheme as an instrument for t

SUMMARY (Non)referentiality in Conversation is a useful compendium of some of the latest studies in interactional linguistics and (multimodal) conversation analysis on referentiality in everyday conversations. Referentiality (or the lack thereof) is a concept that refers to the use of grammatical resources (nouns, pronouns, etc.) to indicate the specificity, generality or indefiniteness of what these resources denote. This volume investigates how conversationalists use various grammatical res

SUMMARY Migrationslinguistik provides an introduction to the linguistic issues associated with the phenomenon of migration. It is a handbook aimed primarily at students (and at “interested colleagues”, as the authors write in their preface [11]) at German universities and therefore presents the topic using the example of migration movements and their consequences in this country. The fourteen chapters of the book attempt to cover the broad thematic spectrum of this research field, ranging fro

SUMMARY "Modern Standard Arabic: Advanced to Superior" is an updated version of the book that was first released in 1971 by the Center for Middle Eastern and North Africa Studies at the University of Michigan. In addition to the 20 lessons in the book, there is a free online companion that contains lexical and grammar notes, as well as listening comprehension and reading passages in the lessons. Each lesson is also broken up into seven main sections. Part 1, Preliminaries, includes pre-readin

Ph.D. positions in Linguistics The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and the University of Verona have activated a joint PhD program in Linguistics for the academic year 2025/26. They have issued a call for 6 fully funded PhD positions. PhD candidates which are selected will receive a 3-year fellowship. Successful applicants will be committed to conducting independent and original scientific research and participating in local, national, and international training activities to develop the

We're excited to launch and share the free and interactive "KorPLUS" OER self-learning package, tailored to the needs of advanced students and teachers of English as well as anyone interested in the English language. It is based on the widely-used www.English-Corpora.org interface and endorsed by the platform's host, Mark Davies (https://www.English-Corpora.org/thirdPartyMaterials.asp). https://www.uni-bamberg.de/KorPLUS/ Make your students corpus-literate (https://youtu.be/72ZQiluCbgA), r

SWANSEA UNIVERSITY LANGUAGE RESEARCH CENTRE SEMINAR SERIES Wednesday, 2nd April, 13:00-14:00 UK time (BST/ GMT+1) Zoom Link: https://swanseauniversity.zoom.us/j/96688743280?pwd=AWZa1tmmRtaIeWLmcHGS9GpzzwJM8b.1 Creating and evaluating corpus-informed word lists for adolescent, beginner-to-low-intermediate learners of French, German, and Spanish Professor Emma Marsden (University of York) & Dr Natalie Finlayson We describe recent changes to the lexical content of G

The Professional Committee of Translation and Interpreting of CACSEC, in cooperation with the Translation Research and Teaching journal and the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland, invites scholars and professionals to an international conference in Katowice, Poland. The aim of the conference is to: - serve as a vehicle for enhancing the global influence of the China Association for Comparative Studies of English and Chinese (CACSEC) in these fields; - foster the exchange of academi

The Professional Committee of Translation and Interpreting of CACSEC, in cooperation with the Translation Research and Teaching journal and the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland, invites scholars and professionals to an international conference in Katowice, Poland. The aim of the conference is to: - serve as a vehicle for enhancing the global influence of the China Association for Comparative Studies of English and Chinese (CACSEC) in these fields; - foster the exchange of academi

Meeting Description: The fourth meeting of the Princeton Phonology Forum (PɸF 2025) will be held at Princeton University on April 18-19, 2025. The theme for PɸF 2025 is “Sound Patterns and Human History”. The program of the workshop is now posted on https://linguistics.princeton.edu/pphf/pphf-2022/pphf-2025-schedule/ . Registration is free, but we would appreciate it if those who are planning to attend would complete the following registration form, ideally by by April 1, 2025: https:

Meeting Description: The fourth meeting of the Princeton Phonology Forum (PɸF 2025) will be held at Princeton University on April 18-19, 2025. The theme for PɸF 2025 is “Sound Patterns and Human History”. The program of the workshop is now posted on https://linguistics.princeton.edu/pphf/pphf-2022/pphf-2025-schedule/ . Registration is free, but we would appreciate it if those who are planning to attend would complete the following registration form, ideally by by April 1, 2025: https:

Graduate Conference for PhD candidates and early-career researchers organised by the Doctoral Programme “Forms of cultural exchange and textuality” of the University of Trento. The conference will explore the concept of otherness in its historical, social, linguistic and literary dimensions. Call for Papers can be found here: https://www.lettere.unitn.it/news/257

Graduate Conference for PhD candidates and early-career researchers organised by the Doctoral Programme “Forms of cultural exchange and textuality” of the University of Trento. The conference will explore the concept of otherness in its historical, social, linguistic and literary dimensions. Call for Papers can be found here: https://www.lettere.unitn.it/news/257

Multipic is a newly developed database of naming norms and familiarity scores of 500 coloured pictures of concrete everyday objects; this is currently provided in over 30 different languages/language varieties from around the world, ensuring linguistic and cultural diversity, and making it the first dataset to provide reliable translation equivalents across such a variety of languages. More details can be found here: https://research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab/the-multilingual-picture-dataset-m

Multipic is a newly developed database of naming norms and familiarity scores of 500 coloured pictures of concrete everyday objects; this is currently provided in over 30 different languages/language varieties from around the world, ensuring linguistic and cultural diversity, and making it the first dataset to provide reliable translation equivalents across such a variety of languages. More details can be found here: https://research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab/the-multilingual-picture-dataset-m

We are pleased to announce that the 10th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS 2025) is now open for registration! Register before May 31 to get the best (early bird) rates at https://www.isgs10.nl/registration The theme of the ISGS2025 is 'Motion to meaning: Innovations in multimodal language research'. Recent technological advances have launched us into a new era of multimodal language research. Innovations in computer vision, virtual reality, motion capture, ey

We are pleased to announce that the 10th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS 2025) is now open for registration! Register before May 31 to get the best (early bird) rates at https://www.isgs10.nl/registration The theme of the ISGS2025 is 'Motion to meaning: Innovations in multimodal language research'. Recent technological advances have launched us into a new era of multimodal language research. Innovations in computer vision, virtual reality, motion capture, ey