It is our pleasure to invite you to the next Onomastics Online lecture (International Council of Onomastic Sciences): Onomastics Online 10 April 2025 18:00 (GMT+2) Microsoft Teams Speakers: Dariusz Gierczak: Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe (Germany) Francis Harvey: Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (Germany) Eric Losang: Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (Germany) Moderator: Peter Jordan: Austrian Academy of Sciences (Austria) Study

Is the language in comics particularly simple? Which words from Star Wars have already become part of everyday language? And does the German afternoon last as long as the English afternoon? The new podcast “Linguistics Behind the Scenes” answers these questions and many more in an entertaining and accessible way. Join German professor of English and Digital Linguistics Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer and American language enthusiast Dominic Piazza as they chat about all the many fun and interes

The Syntax-Semantics Group will be meeting on Monday, March 24 at 3 pm in Room 117 of the McGill linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/16ZiB1ATRMGSUxbkGOJGvw. Emma Custer (McGill) will be discussing “Causee-less causatives in Wolof.” Here is Emma’s abstract: In this talk, I investigate argument structure in Wolof causative constructions, focusing on the relationship […]

We are pleased to announce that the abstract submission for the first Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 is now open! The meeting will take place on December 18–19, 2025, in Utrecht, the Netherlands. It aims to connect researchers using (neuro-)symbolic, Bayesian, deep-learning, connectionist, and mechanistic models (e.g., ACT-R) in studying human language production, perception, and processing. Keynote Speakers: Stefan Frank (Radboud University), Vera Demberg (Saarland Universit

LxGr2025: Call for Papers The theme of LxGr2025 is: Conceptions of Lexicogrammar: How can corpus linguistics shed light on its nature? Deadline for abstract submission: 4 April 2025 The symposium will take place online on Friday 11 and Saturday 12 July 2025. LxGr primarily welcomes papers reporting on corpus-based research on any aspect of the interaction of lexis and grammar -- particularly studies that interrogate the system lexicogrammatically to get lexicogrammatical answers. How

The large bulk of research in syntax and sentential semantics focuses on assertive declarative clauses, information seeking interrogative clauses, and, to a much lesser extent, imperatives. A key concept for the understanding of word order variation and prosodic prominence was introduced by Roberts (2012) and Ginzburg (1996) in form of the Question Under Discussion (QUD). As has been shown on vari- ous occasions, different word order permutations and stress patterns express different focus p

Background Over the past three decades, the official stance on the Amazigh language (Tamazight) and culture in North Africa has undergone significant transformations. Political upheavals, coupled with the rise of linguistic human rights, have contributed to a shift in attitudes towards Tamazight in the region. In Morocco, the ascension of King Mohamed VI in 1999 marked a pivotal moment in state policies towards the Amazigh language and culture. In 2001, the language was recognized as a national

Background Over the past three decades, the official stance on the Amazigh language (Tamazight) and culture in North Africa has undergone significant transformations. Political upheavals, coupled with the rise of linguistic human rights, have contributed to a shift in attitudes towards Tamazight in the region. In Morocco, the ascension of King Mohamed VI in 1999 marked a pivotal moment in state policies towards the Amazigh language and culture. In 2001, the language was recognized as a national

Dear all, Greetings from ETHL - Edinburgh Theoretical Historical Linguistics! We are excited to invite you to our 2025 Seminar, which will run on 16th and 17th of April 2025 in Edinburgh. ETHL is a summer school style seminar focusing on the role of theory in historical linguistics and the relevance of historical linguistics to linguistic theory and is open to any linguist interested in the intersection of historical and theoretical work. ETHL 2025 Seminar will run with four discursive

Dear all, Greetings from ETHL - Edinburgh Theoretical Historical Linguistics! We are excited to invite you to our 2025 Seminar, which will run on 16th and 17th of April 2025 in Edinburgh. ETHL is a summer school style seminar focusing on the role of theory in historical linguistics and the relevance of historical linguistics to linguistic theory and is open to any linguist interested in the intersection of historical and theoretical work. ETHL 2025 Seminar will run with four discursive

The Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG) is an annual conference bringing together generative linguistics from East Asia and around the world to present and discuss current research related to generative syntax and its interfaces. Each year, SICOGG invites a keynote speaker to deliver a series of lectures on a special topic related to the speaker’s current research. SICOGG 27 will take place at Sogang University in Seoul, Korea, from August 14 - 16, 2025. The conference

The Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG) is an annual conference bringing together generative linguistics from East Asia and around the world to present and discuss current research related to generative syntax and its interfaces. Each year, SICOGG invites a keynote speaker to deliver a series of lectures on a special topic related to the speaker’s current research. SICOGG 27 will take place at Sogang University in Seoul, Korea, from August 14 - 16, 2025. The conference

In recent years, Bayesian approaches that model communicative processes through the computation of probabilities by rational agents have achieved significant success in explaining language use in simple domains with limited sets of alternatives. Traditionally, linguistic semantics has relied on logical analysis to represent sentence meaning. The challenge now is to integrate these symbolic representations with probabilistic frameworks that account for context, uncertainty, and interlocutors’ goa

In recent years, Bayesian approaches that model communicative processes through the computation of probabilities by rational agents have achieved significant success in explaining language use in simple domains with limited sets of alternatives. Traditionally, linguistic semantics has relied on logical analysis to represent sentence meaning. The challenge now is to integrate these symbolic representations with probabilistic frameworks that account for context, uncertainty, and interlocutors’ goa

We are delighted to announce the program for ATFLY2025 - Advances in Teaching Foreign Languages to Young Learners, which takes place ONLINE on June 19-20, 2025. Registration is free of charge and open until June 9. Detailed Information on program and registration: https://atfly.sciencesconf.org/. We welcome the following plenary speakers at the conference: - Yolanda Ruiz de Zarobe (University of the Basque Country, Spain): Transforming Multilingual Classrooms: An Analysis of Content an

We are delighted to announce the program for ATFLY2025 - Advances in Teaching Foreign Languages to Young Learners, which takes place ONLINE on June 19-20, 2025. Registration is free of charge and open until June 9. Detailed Information on program and registration: https://atfly.sciencesconf.org/. We welcome the following plenary speakers at the conference: - Yolanda Ruiz de Zarobe (University of the Basque Country, Spain): Transforming Multilingual Classrooms: An Analysis of Content an

Our next meeting will be Tuesday March 25th at 10am in room 117. Ray will be presenting his thesis research titled “Moving from Compensatory Lengthening to Partial Assimilation in Chilean Spanish.” This is in part in preparation for his talk at CLA, so there will be a discussion afterwards about the research. Here is the abstract: […]

Sociolinguistica: European Journal of Sociolinguistics is a peer-reviewed journal comprising two issues per year and covering a broad range of topics related to individual and societal language use, the social conditions of language use and the impact of language on social structures. Building on the 35-year strong history of Sociolinguistica: International Yearbook of European Sociolinguistics, it seeks to spearhead debates on the future of macrosociolinguistics in contexts worldwide, and now w

(English version below) Langues et Parole https://revistes.uab.cat/languesparole/ Appel à Contributions – Numéro Spécial: Lisibilité et Complexité Textuelle La revue Langues et Parole invite les chercheurs à soumettre leurs contributions pour un numéro spécial consacré à la lisibilité et la complexité textuelle. Ce numéro vise à explorer des approches théoriques et méthodologiques, ainsi que des applications pratiques, dans un domaine crucial pour l’analyse des compétences en lecture

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