As of volume 50 (2026) Editor Michele Gazzola (Ulster University) will succeed François Grin (Université de Genève) as Editor-in-Chief of the John Benjamins journal Language Problems & Language Planning. François Grin will remain member of the board. LPLP also welcomes Antonio Leoni de León (University of Costa Rica) as new Editor. Language Problems and Language Planning (LPLP) is a peer-reviewed international and multilingual journal which focuses on language issues and the challenges they r

The Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) network (https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/home) an international and interdisciplinary network whose primary aim is to promote work on slurs, pejoratives, expressives and evaluative terms from less studied languages, invites you to the fifth talk of the 2025-2026 academic year. The invited speaker is Elisabeth Camp (Rutgers University), who will give a talk entitled "Why Do Mantras Move Us?" (see the abstract below). The event will take place o

Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching: The Case of the Nordics Edited by Pia Sundqvist, Liss Kerstin Sylvén, and Hayo Reinders In Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching: The Case of the Nordics, the aim is to shed light on this region with its fascinating linguistic landscape and long tradition of language learning and teaching research. People from the Nordics—Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, including relevant territories—have always needed to be knowledgeable in ot

Upcoming webinar: Enacting translanguaging in a Ghanaian multilingual classroom - Code choices in minority language classrooms. Friday, 6 February 2026, 15:00 - 16:00 GMT. Presenters: David Dankwa-Apawu, University of Media, Arts and Communication, Accra; Yvonne Agbetsoamedo, University of Ghana, Legon; Elvis ResCue, University of Birmingham, UK Register via https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/5158c609-2abc-4ef6-88fb-2efa28d061b9@d400387a-212f-43ea-ac7f-77aa12d7977e In the multilingual cl

I am running a 15-minute survey on the acceptability of alternative constructions for German nouns as part of my undergraduate dissertation. The survey is entirely in German and open to any adult speakers whether they consider themselves native speakers or not. I am particularly interested in more repsonses from men, as the current sample is quite biased right now. At the end of the task, you may optionally supply your age (in bins), gender, and first language. You may also enter a raffle

The Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) is conducting a survey to map linguistics outreach activities across Europe and to reflect on the future role of the SLE in this area. This short questionnaire is open to all colleagues involved or interested in linguistics outreach, whether or not they are SLE members. All responses will be used for research and planning purposes only. The questionnaire, which takes about 5 minutes to complete (or more if you want to share your thoughts), is available

Especially those of you working with West African languages, but anyone can chime in: I'm looking at a tone process in Kusuntu (bqg) of central Togo called HLH plateauing and wondering if it is an aerial phenomenon. Plateauing occurs where there is an underlying HLH pattern across a morpheme- or word-boundary. The singly-linked L tone delinks and floats. The unassociated segment takes a H (because of H-spreading), but the floating L causes it to downstep so the resulting surface pattern i

Focus: Indo-European Linguistics Historical Linguistics Typology Sanskrit Germanic Albanian Old Church Slavonic Hittite Description: Dear Colleagues and Friends of the Pavia Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics, we are pleased to announce that from September 7 to 12, 2026 we will organize the 7th Pavia Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics. The courses we offer this year are: Old Church Slavonic - Thomas Olander (Copenhagen) Germanic - Ludwig Rübekeil (Züric

As of volume 17 (2026), Xiaoting Li (University of Alberta) will succeed Zhuo Jing-Schmidt (University of Oregon) and join Editors K.K. Luke (Nanyang Technological University), Hongyin Tao (University of California, Los Angeles) and Li Wei (UCL IOE, UK) as Executive Editor of the John Benjamins journal Chinese Language and Discourse. Zhuo Jing-Schmidt will remain member of the board. Furthermore, we welcome on board Associate Editor Shuangyun Yao (Central China Normal University), Assistant Edit

Este volumen reúne los trabajos de especialistas en lingüística románica, que analizan la variación desde diversas perspectivas (fonético-fonológica, léxico-semántica y morfosintáctica) a partir de los datos de atlas lingüísticos y corpus textuales y orales de las lenguas romances. Los resultados constituyen una muestra ilustrativa de la complementariedad de la geolingüística y la lingüística de corpus.

2026. v, 100 pp. Table of Contents Article What returnee bilinguals may teach us about language attrition, language stabilization, and individual variation Cristina Flores & Neal Snape pp. 1–25 Commentaries What returnee international adoptees may teach us about language attrition, language stabilization, and individual variation Mirjam Broersma pp. 26–30 The other side of the coin matters too: What changes in the former heritage language of returnees may reveal about the

2026. iii, 152 pp. Table of Contents Articles Both responsiveness and standardization: Constructing institutional realities in intermediate labor markets Sanni Tiitinen, Kirsi Juhila & Tea Lempiälä pp. 1–23 Reciprocity and epistemicity on screen-based interactions: The case of MOOCs Ana Larissa Adorno Marciotto Oliveira pp. 24–44 Conflict, gender, and amount of talk: Gender differences in Spanish role play data Gloria Uclés-Ramada, Sven Kachel & Pekka Posio pp. 45–65

Chipewyan, an Athapascan language in Canada, is found particularly along the Athabaska River and Lake, and the lakes and the streams draining into the Churchill River. The Athabaskan languages of the North are commonly referred to as Déné, after the word that in many dialects denotes a man who speaks that tongue. It is the phonetic changes that makes the language almost unintelligible to one knowing only southern dialects. The main difference is in the presence of surd, sonant, and glottally af

This book shows through an extensive cross-linguistic investigation of 1051 languages that there are at least three distinct functions associated with the binary realis-irrealis distinction in the languages of the world, one more common one denoting event status (as in Elliot [2000], Foley and van Valin [1984]), another less common one denoting propositional modality (as in Givón [1994], Nordström [2010]) and a third, rare one involving speech act modality (as in Bybee and Fleichmann [1995], Pal

Description: Tasks: - further academic qualification (with the aim of obtaining a habilitation) - participation in teaching at the Department of Linguistics (2 courses per semester) - collaboration in research of the Applied Linguistics/Psycholinguistics lab - participation in administrative activities of the Applied Linguistics/Psycholinguistics lab What we expect: - completed university degree at MA level and an excellent doctorate in psycholinguistics or related subjects - ability

Description: Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben (m/w/d), EG 13 TV-H, unbefristet, Teilzeit (derzeit 20 Wochenstunden) Das Fachgebiet befasst sich auf der Grundlage des Englischen als empirischer Referenzsprache mit kognitionswissenschaftlichen Fragestellungen der theoretischen Linguistik, insbesondere an der Semantik-Pragmatik-Schnittstelle, sowie mit anwendungsbezogenen Kontexten, u. a. in der Sprachlernforschung oder der Nachhaltigkeits- und Geschlechterforschung. Gesucht wird eine eng

Technologies related to languages have never been this close to our daily lives. This development is leading the way to novel perspectives of language learning and understanding, shaped by contributions from linguists and non-linguists. Innovative research and technology are emerging alongside recent advances in model structures. While AI-related methodologies are having noticeable impacts on human language research, what crucial roles does linguistics play? As linguists, we are witnessing profo

About the Roundtable: The Middlesex Roundtable on Signs, Language and Communication is an annual conference launched in January 2019 to encourage discussion between three paradigms of language and communication theory: the Integrationism of Roy Harris and his followers, Biosemiotics and Philosophy of Communication. The Roundtable takes place at Middlesex University London. These areas of thought and scholarship share assumptions regarding the fundamental role played by communicative intera

Technologies related to languages have never been this close to our daily lives. This development is leading the way to novel perspectives of language learning and understanding, shaped by contributions from linguists and non-linguists. Innovative research and technology are emerging alongside recent advances in model structures. While AI-related methodologies are having noticeable impacts on human language research, what crucial roles does linguistics play? As linguists, we are witnessing profo

Call for Papers: The submission deadline for abstracts for the 10th International Working Conference “Romance–German and Intra-Romance Language Comparison”, which will take place from 2 to 5 September 2026 at the University of Innsbruck, has been extended to 15 February 2026. Abstract submission link: https://www.conftool.com/kontrastivelinguistik2026 Full Cal for Papers can be found here: http://www.uibk.ac.at/de/congress/kontrastivelinguistik2026/ Wir ersuchen um Themenvorschläge