During the past decade, the ancient DNA revolution has had a massive impact on the scholarly debates on the origins and dispersals of language families. Now, linguists are asking the question: does linguistic and genetic evidence paint the same picture of the human past? This book sheds new light on an old hypothesis on the relatedness of Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic languages, by studying unique lexical correspondences of these branches. It argues that their common Indo-Slavic origin su

The DFG-funded Research Training Group Dimensions of Constructional Space at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg is seeking to appoint a doctoral researcher for project 7: Subject-inversion throughout Early Modern English: changing relations in individual and communal constructicons. The PhD researchers will be employed on a 65% basis on an TV-L13 scale for three years, starting 1 October 2025. More details about the project can be found on https://www.cxg.phil.fau.eu/proje

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) is one of the largest universities in Germany. Thanks to its location in the Rhine-Main science region, the university can unfold to its full potential and showcase its innovative power and dynamism. Its status as a comprehensive university allows for multidisciplinary learning and teaching and has great potential for internationally renowned, interdisciplinary research. Almost all of its institutes are located on a single campus close to the Mainz city

The V Summer School of Catalan Linguistics will take place at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin from 2nd to 5th September 2025. In this year’s edition, the invited speaker will be Teresa Cabré Monné (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and the courses will be taught by: ·      Laia Mayol (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) ·      Claus D. Pusch (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) ·      James Hawkey (University of Bristol) ·      Georgina Alvarez-Morera (University of Oxford) In addition, the call f

As a sequel to the successful International Workshop on the Syntax of Predication and Modification 2024, the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics will host the 2nd International Workshop on the Syntax of Predication and Modification (IWSPM2025) in Budapest, Hungary, on 1–2 September 2025. IWSPM2025 will be an in-person-only event. Like its predecessor, this workshop seeks to foster fruitful dialogue between researchers through syntactic analyses of construction types involving predi

As a sequel to the successful International Workshop on the Syntax of Predication and Modification 2024, the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics will host the 2nd International Workshop on the Syntax of Predication and Modification (IWSPM2025) in Budapest, Hungary, on 1–2 September 2025. IWSPM2025 will be an in-person-only event. Like its predecessor, this workshop seeks to foster fruitful dialogue between researchers through syntactic analyses of construction types involving predi

Meeting Description: The sixth edition of the South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and Processing of Language (SAFAL) 2025 will be held at the University of Colorado Boulder between 17-19 November 2025. We are advertising the 2025 SAFAL conference well in advance due to lengthy visa processing times for international scholars. Abstracts will be reviewed on a rolling basis until 31 August 2025. Further details can be found at the SAFAL conference website: https://www.colorado.edu/conference/safa

Call for Papers: The concept of syncretism can broadly define all those phenomena of cultural mixing resulting from the encounter – or clash – between different cultures and civilizations. This process affects transversally and in a bidirectional way the societies involved, usually modifying their beliefs, memories, value systems and artistic productions. In the history of the Germanic peoples, episodes of syncretism occur constantly. From the first contacts with Rome (2nd century BC), throu

Other Specialties: Literature Description: What Awaits You: 1. Vibrant Living Environment Yangzhou, a UN Habitat city, is renowned for its culinary delights, historical landmarks along the Grand Canal, and rich cultural heritage. 2. Excellent Work Environment Yangzhou University, jointly supported by the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and Jiangsu Province, is situated in China's second-largest economic and intellectual hub. The university offers cutti

Zlata Odribets and Laurestine Bradford have been awarded a Jacobs Research Fund grant for Tlingit fieldwork this summer! The grant will fund a two-week trip to Teslin, Yukon this August. The students will work together in intensive sessions with local elders. Zlata will investigate indefiniteness, while Laurestine will focus on lexical aspectual distinctions. Laurestine has […]

The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) has decided to hold its next annual winter meeting with two options: - In-person jointly with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) at the Marriott New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana on January 8 to 11, 2026, and - An auxiliary online meeting via Zoom on January 17 to 18, 2026. Due to the unknowns currently associated with traveling to, from, and within the United States for many of our members, presenters

The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) has decided to hold its next annual winter meeting with two options: - In-person jointly with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) at the Marriott New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana on January 8 to 11, 2026, and - An auxiliary online meeting via Zoom on January 17 to 18, 2026. Due to the unknowns currently associated with traveling to, from, and within the United States for many of our members, presenters

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

SUMMARY The oldest attested Germanic language, Gothic, has been the focus of countless research projects since the advent of Indo-European Studies in the nineteenth century. In the past few decades, however, it seems that the number of publications delving into some facet of the Gothic language has been ever growing. It has become the fodder for several scholars studying the language through different lenses, from theoretical syntax to pragmatics to semantics to paleography to traditional Ind

Cover Story Article: Linguistic Diversity in German Youth Media—The Use of English in Professionally Produced Instagram Memes and Reels Sarah Josefine Schaefer Languages 2025, 10(5), 96; DOI: 10.3390/languages10050096 General Article: The Influence of Language Experience on Speech Perception: Heritage Spanish Speaker Perception of Contrastive and Allophonic Consonants Amanda Boomershine and Keith Johnson Languages 2025, 10(5), 86; DOI: 10.3390/languages10050086 Article: Exploring Ide

Desde la Cátedra global Nebrija del Español como lengua de migrantes y refugiados, nos complace anunciaros que el día 25 de junio de 17h a 18.30h (hora de Madrid) podremos asistir a un taller de formación a cargo de Patricia Alcaide Álvarez titulado: Retos y oportunidades en la enseñanza de español y alfabetización para personas migrantes y refugiadas Esta formación gratuita se impartirá en modalidad online a través de nuestra plataforma de Blackboard. Si queréis asistir, tan solo debé

The Edinburgh Circle on the Promotion of African Languages (ECPAL), in collaboration with Initiative Afrique (University of Bern, Switzerland), is pleased to announce the launch of Language Policy in Africa (LPIA), an open-access, peer-reviewed academic journal. Language Policy in Africa emerges from the conviction that African languages are central to the continent’s development, also in the context of decolonisation. While widely used across the continent, African languages remain largely

Call for Papers: The 1st Latin American Conference on Eye Movements (LACEM 2025) will take place in Viña del Mar, Chile, from December 10th to 12th, 2025. Organized by the Language & Cognition Laboratory at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, LACEM aims to establish an international platform for knowledge exchange and collaboration. The conference invites researchers from diverse basic and applied fields using eye-tracking, including psychology, linguistics, neurophysiology, comput

We are thrilled to announce the 2025 edition of the Complexity in Language CompℹLa workshop, a satellite of the Conference on Complex Systems to be held in Siena (Italy). Our event will take place on September 4 and will be devoted to complex sytems approaches to language, ranging from statistical properties of language to the application of mathematical methods and data analysis to language variation and change. The scope of the meeting also emcompasses syntax and cognitive linguistics. F

We welcome contributions dealing with literary works featuring phenomena of syncretism between Germanic elements and other European traditions. In particular, we invite to submit studies on the reciprocal influences between Germanic cultures and other literary traditions of the European Middle Ages and the modalities in which they have shaped new symbolic, narrative and poetic languages. We encourage submissions that highlight dynamics of cultural exchange, transformations of identities and p