We are excited to announce LinPin 2025, the next edition of our annual conference for Ph.D. students in linguistics across Nordrhein-Westfalen! This year, we are delighted to welcome you to Münster – a vibrant university city with a rich academic heritage and a lively atmosphere for collaboration and exchange. The event will take place on September 2nd, 2025. LinPin is all about connecting early-career researchers, fostering networking opportunities, and sharing cutting-edge research. Follow

Call for Papers: We are excited to announce the call for the Workshop on Individual Differences in Reading (IndiREAD, https://www.uni-saarland.de/indiread), to take place at Saarland University, in Saarbrücken, Germany, 26-27 November 2025. IndiREAD is a workshop jointly organized by the ERC Project “Individualized Interaction in Discourse” IDDISC and the MultiplEYE COST action “Enabling multilingual eye-tracking data collection for human and machine language processing research”. Whi

O Congresso “Sociolinguística: variação e interfaces” diz respeito a estudos sobre variação linguística nas diferentes propostas da Sociolinguística, em suas múltiplas versões: Sociolinguística Variacionista, Sociolinguística Funcional, Sociolinguística Cognitiva, Sociolinguística Paramétrica, Sociolinguística Histórica, Sociofonética e Dialetologia Pluridimensional. Cada uma dessas áreas trabalha com a noção de variação. Mas será que a noção trabalhada envolve a definição proposta por William L

O Congresso “Sociolinguística: variação e interfaces” diz respeito a estudos sobre variação linguística nas diferentes propostas da Sociolinguística, em suas múltiplas versões: Sociolinguística Variacionista, Sociolinguística Funcional, Sociolinguística Cognitiva, Sociolinguística Paramétrica, Sociolinguística Histórica, Sociofonética e Dialetologia Pluridimensional. Cada uma dessas áreas trabalha com a noção de variação. Mas será que a noção trabalhada envolve a definição proposta por William L

Call for Papers: Open Qualitative L2 Research: From Tensions to Transformative Opportunities (Special Issue of SSLA) Guest Editors: Meng Liu (Beijing Foreign Studies University); Ali H. Al-Hoorie (Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu); Phil Hiver (Florida State University) Despite the growing momentum for open scholarship (also known as “open science” or “open research”) in L2 research, discussions of open scholarship have primarily focused on quantitative methods. Qualitative research

Call for Papers: The Department of French and Italian at the University of Texas at Austin invites submissions for our annual symposium, to be held on November 14th, 2025. This year’s theme, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Power, seeks to explore the dynamics of hegemony, oppression, and resistance across various fields of study. We follow Stuart Hall's definition of power, bringing together Gramsci, Foucault, and Said’s perspectives to argue that power takes many forms, from coercion t

Call for Papers: We are organizing a special issue entitled “The syntax of child language”. Children’s acquisition of syntax is an amazing feat. How children, exposed to a relatively small sample of language input, come to acquire the complex structures of their language has been a central topic both in theoretical linguistics and in psycholinguistics. This question has been extensively investigated in the past 50 years or so. However, research findings on children’s acquisition of sentence s

IcoLL2026 is the joint conference of the 4th Iconicity Seminar (IcoSem) and the 15th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (ILL). For the first time, the two international conferences on iconicity will take place together, on 21-23 February 2026 at Nagoya University (Nagoya, Japan). Invited speakers Mutsumi Imai Noburo Saji TBA

IcoLL2026 is the joint conference of the 4th Iconicity Seminar (IcoSem) and the 15th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (ILL). For the first time, the two international conferences on iconicity will take place together, on 21-23 February 2026 at Nagoya University (Nagoya, Japan). Invited speakers Mutsumi Imai Noburo Saji TBA

This volume presents the most comprehensive overview in English of the languages of the Central Andes, spoken primarily in Peru and Bolivia. Efforts to describe and document Central Andean languages, as well as philological research into colonial documentation and texts, have blossomed in recent decades; here, the major protagonists and drivers of these exciting developments are given the opportunity to showcase their research achievements in one volume. Following an introductory part providi

Nations all have stories about themselves--where they came from, what it means to be a citizen of that nation, what its values are. In 'Myths and Sanctioned Ignorance in British Immigration Discourse', Samuel Bennett looks at British national myths about immigration and the country's colonial history. Combining Critical Discourse Studies with decolonial and postcolonial theories, Bennett offers an in-depth, methodologically rigorous analysis of a wide range of material to show how current

This book demonstrates that the grammatical systems of individual languages encode unique semantic structures. Zygmunt Frajzyngier examines these semantic structures with particular reference to how languages convey information about the location of an entity or an event and the movements of an entity in space, drawing on data from eight typologically distinct languages that belong to three branches of the Chadic family. These languages were chosen because some display locative expressions with

The languages of the world make use of a variety of techniques for describing events and putting sentences together. This volume takes a typological approach to clause chaining, a fascinating feature of the grammar of hundreds of languages outside Europe, especially in the Asia-Pacific region, East Africa, across Central Asia, and the Americas. Clause chains consist of several dependent clauses and one main clause, and are used to organize discourse and to foreground or background events and par

Focus: The LDSS 2025 programme will involve discussions of the theory and practice of language documentation, with a particular focus on the methods and practices of dialectological research. The LDSS 2025 programme also includes a practical training session during which participants will learn about and work with the main tools and software used for the analysis and storage of linguistic data. They will have the opportunity to engage in the collection of linguistic data with native speakers. D

Focus: The workshops, taught in English and for one in French, are bringing together specialists from all over the world. They will be completed by lectures and other cultural events. https://esudh.github.io/WorkshopsandLectures/ For those interested into improving their knowledge of French, it will be possible to attend French classes for 2 to 4 weeks in August, following the ESU https://esudh.github.io/esubesancon/#french-for-dh Description: The European Summer University in Digital Human

*What is this course about?* When people communicate, they not only exchange information, but they also indicate how the speaker’s and addressee’s knowledge relate to that information. What is the source of the information, how certain is the speaker of it, is it unexpected for the speaker or addressee? All these aspects fall under epistemicity – the expression of the speaker’s and addressee’s knowledge in grammar. In this online masterclass, you will become familiar with the whole area of epi

Focus: The main focus of the Summer School is in applied knowledge about experimental methodologies to study voice, speech, language and behaviour, following a hands-on approach. Description: This is the ninth edition of STEM (Summer Training in Experimental Methods), a week long training program in current methods in experimental linguistics, phonetics and psycholinguistics, organized by the Phonetics and Phonology Laboratory and Lisbon Baby Lab (Center of Linguistics, University of Lisbon).

Dear all, We warmly welcome you to the Language Culture Matters Seminar Series for Term 3 of the 2024-25 academic year. The seminars will take place each Wednesday from 30th April 2025 until 18th June 2025, at 16:00-17:00 (British Summer Time; UTC+1). They are hybrid sessions, held in A0.23 (Social Sciences Building, University of Warwick) and online (Microsoft Teams). Please check the website for joining information and details of the upcoming talks. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc

Jessica Coon and Morgan Sonderegger participated as discussants in a Q&A after a showing of the film Arrival organized by the Centre for Research on the Brain, Language, and Mind (CRBLM) at the Cinémathèque Québécoise on April 15th. They consulted on the film in 2015.

PhD position in child language socialization (involves fieldwork: West Papua, Indonesia) A PhD candidate is sought for the Documenting Languages and Ethnobiological Knowledge (DocuLEK) project, funded jointly by the French and German research agencies (ANR-DFG). The project will be headed by an international team of researchers, including Sonja Riesberg (LaCiTO CNRS, Paris), Birgit Hellwig (University of Cologne) and Aung Si (University of Cologne). This interdisciplinary project has a number