Dear all, We warmly welcome you to the 2025 seminar series of the Consortium on Language Variation in Input Environments Around the World (LangVIEW). The first talk in the series is “Acquiring Hindi-Urdu Causatives” by Parul Bhardwaj and Sakshi Bhatia. The talk abstract can be found at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TS9Aa10BjUcOKQeIicvMi0C0czopxU2r/view?usp=sharing. Time: May 15, 2025, 02:30 PM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna Zoom Meeting link: https://hu-berlin.zoom

Dear all, We’re thrilled to announce a new attempt to launch our groundbreaking Master’s programme in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) — often called “Complutense University” in English! This programme is designed for a global audience, delivered entirely online with instruction in English, making it accessible to learners worldwide. Why Choose This Programme? This programme is unique, being the first Master’s programme entirely focusse

The MA in Multilingualism is a 2-year programme (4 semesters, 120 ECTS-points) and provides training in multilingualism across the lifespan. The programme is taught in English by world leading experts in linguistics and multilingualism and suits students who have a background in linguistics, education, psychology, cognitive science, speech & language therapy or related fields and have a strong interest in how language develops across different types of bilingual and multilingual groups. With

The next online Acquisition Sketch Project Meeting will focus on Gesture in Child and Child-Directed Language. It will be held on Tuesday 13th May (Americas) and Wednesday 14th May (elsewhere) at two times: Time 1: Los Angeles = 4 pm Tuesday May 13 New York = 7 pm Tuesday May 13 Melbourne = 9 am Wednesday May 14 https://anu.zoom.us/j/83926267244?pwd=5OYBF683aNlTAaIwhaG36L3WDSkBlJ.1 Meeting ID: 839 2626 7244 Password: 779000 Time 2: Berlin = 9 am Wednesday May 14 Delhi = 12

The Executive Committee of CIPL, Comité International Permanent des Linguistes, decided to select Leiden as the venue for the 2028 International Congress of Linguists. The proposed title is: World of Languages. Please note the dates: 23-29 July 2028! We hope to meet you all at the celebrations of the centenary of CIPL (1928-2028) in Leiden.

The Center of Linguistics of the University of Lisbon (CLUL, https://www.clul.ulisboa.pt/en) is calling for statements of interest from researchers working in any of CLUL's areas of research (http://www.clul.ulisboa.pt/en/research) who fulfil the conditions to apply to the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA PF) 2025 call. As host institution, CLUL welcomes applications for both European Fellowships and Global Fellowships. More information on these fellowships is found at https

Continuing an established series of meetings that have taken the study of multilingual acquisition, processing and use around the globe (Stockholm, Iowa City, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Tromsø, Poznań, Konstanz, London, and Tokyo), Nebrija University is proud to announce that the ninth L3 Workshop, as it is affectionately known, will take place in Madrid on 3-4 October, 2025. The main goal of the Workshop is to bring together researchers who are interested in multilingual acquisition, processing and la

Continuing an established series of meetings that have taken the study of multilingual acquisition, processing and use around the globe (Stockholm, Iowa City, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Tromsø, Poznań, Konstanz, London, and Tokyo), Nebrija University is proud to announce that the ninth L3 Workshop, as it is affectionately known, will take place in Madrid on 3-4 October, 2025. The main goal of the Workshop is to bring together researchers who are interested in multilingual acquisition, processing and la

Deadline for Abstracts: June 15, 2025 The Organizing Committee of New Ways of Analyz(s)ing Variation 53 (NWAV 53), invites abstract submissions for the conference, which will be held at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, November 6-8, 2025. The theme for this year’s conference is Sociolinguistics, Conflict, Justice and Peace. New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) originated at Georgetown University in October of 1972 as a site for the young field of sociolinguistics to explore the stu

We are pleased to announce the second Reframing Our Language Experience (ROLE) Symposium, taking place online on May 19, 2025 from 11am to 4pm EDT. Learn more and register for this FREE, ONLINE conference at https://www.rolecollective.org/events/2nd-role-symposium. More information about the ROLE Collective and details about the conference are below. Conference details: The Reframing Our Language Experience (ROLE) Collective was established in 2022 with the intent of bringing together resear

The aim of this conference is to bring together scholars working on modal particles in a variety of approaches, with a special focus on comparative and multimodal perspectives. With modal particles (henceforth: MPs) we refer to words such as Germ. "ja", in "Das ist ja klasse" 'this is ja great'; It. "mai" in modal (non-temporal) usages such as: "Cosa vorrà mai?" 'What does he want?', which express the speaker’s attitude towards the proposition in a similar fashion to epistemic usages of modal v

Deadline for Abstracts: June 15, 2025 The Organizing Committee of New Ways of Analyz(s)ing Variation 53 (NWAV 53), invites abstract submissions for the conference, which will be held at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, November 6-8, 2025. The theme for this year’s conference is Sociolinguistics, Conflict, Justice and Peace. New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) originated at Georgetown University in October of 1972 as a site for the young field of sociolinguistics to explore the stu

We are pleased to announce the second Reframing Our Language Experience (ROLE) Symposium, taking place online on May 19, 2025 from 11am to 4pm EDT. Learn more and register for this FREE, ONLINE conference at https://www.rolecollective.org/events/2nd-role-symposium. More information about the ROLE Collective and details about the conference are below. Conference details: The Reframing Our Language Experience (ROLE) Collective was established in 2022 with the intent of bringing together resear

The aim of this conference is to bring together scholars working on modal particles in a variety of approaches, with a special focus on comparative and multimodal perspectives. With modal particles (henceforth: MPs) we refer to words such as Germ. "ja", in "Das ist ja klasse" 'this is ja great'; It. "mai" in modal (non-temporal) usages such as: "Cosa vorrà mai?" 'What does he want?', which express the speaker’s attitude towards the proposition in a similar fashion to epistemic usages of modal v

The papers presented at the interdisciplinary conference on Marketing Linguistics will focus on the intersections between marketing and linguistics. The conference aims to find common ground between the two disciplines, outlining current trends and laying the foundations for the interdisciplinary research field of Marketing Linguistics in Hungary. The intersection of the two disciplines is inevitable: We gather information about products, brands, and services primarily through language. Conse

Le terme "ressource" occupe une place centrale dans les débats publics et scientifiques, qu’il soit abordé dans le cadre de la crise économique, des discussions sur le développement durable et l’inclusion sociale, où il est perçu comme un bien précieux et limité, ou qu’il soit considéré depuis des siècles comme la « source » du savoir, et, en tant que « source des muses », métaphore de l’inspiration artistique. Il désigne l’utilisation des ressources disponibles pour atteindre un objectif, qu’il

The papers presented at the interdisciplinary conference on Marketing Linguistics will focus on the intersections between marketing and linguistics. The conference aims to find common ground between the two disciplines, outlining current trends and laying the foundations for the interdisciplinary research field of Marketing Linguistics in Hungary. The intersection of the two disciplines is inevitable: We gather information about products, brands, and services primarily through language. Conse

Le terme "ressource" occupe une place centrale dans les débats publics et scientifiques, qu’il soit abordé dans le cadre de la crise économique, des discussions sur le développement durable et l’inclusion sociale, où il est perçu comme un bien précieux et limité, ou qu’il soit considéré depuis des siècles comme la « source » du savoir, et, en tant que « source des muses », métaphore de l’inspiration artistique. Il désigne l’utilisation des ressources disponibles pour atteindre un objectif, qu’il

Call for Papers: We’re pleased to announce that the deadline for the 2025 Discourse Research Association of Ireland (DRAOI) Summer Seminar Series has been extended to 31 May 2025! There’s still time to submit your proposal for this year’s series, which runs weekly throughout July and August. We welcome contributions from researchers: -- Based in Ireland (north or south) -- With personal or professional ties to Ireland -- Or working on discourse within the Irish context As always,

La 7e édition du congrès du Réseau francophone de sociolinguistique (RFS) cherchera à discuter différentes problématiques et différents courants des approches sociales du langage, dans leur diversité. Cette édition du congrès s’inscrit ainsi dans la continuité et le prolongement des problèmes et questions posés par les éditions antérieures du colloque, en ce qui concerne : - la diversité et la pluralités des problématiques, des terrains, des langues, des locuteurices, des espaces sociaux en s