Books: Giving Gifts and Doing Favours: Fendel (2025)

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Support-verb constructions, like 'to make a suggestion' or 'to take heart', are verbal multi-word expressions. They are lexically, morphosyntactically, semantically, and pragmatically versatile and thus form an integral, enriching, and natural part of the classical Greek lexicon grammar. Taking heart does not involve barbarism and taking a picture does not involve theft, yet how does one know that for a corpus language like classical literary Attic Greek? This book embraces the diversity of this

Books: Contemporary Linguistics: Bradley, Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, Hamans, Lee, Steurs, Hu and Warren (eds.) (2025)

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The International Congress of Linguists, ICL, takes place every five years. It is the meeting where the world's leading linguists present their research and discuss the progress of their work and the state of their profession. 21st ICL Poznań 2024 is a highlight in this series. In twelve plenary lectures, eighteen extensive sections and twelve focus streams, two special panels and numerous workshops, all theories and schools, new developments and emerging sub-disciplines of linguistics are d

Confs: Law's Many Users - Legal Interpretation Within and Beyond Legal Institutions

Conferences - Wed, 07/02/2025 - 07:05
Law is interpreted and implemented by many hands. Some of them belong to judges, legislators, or lawyers—but many belong to nurses, teachers, municipal officials, or department heads: professionals who encounter law not in courtrooms or casebooks, but in institutional documents, contracts, checklists, and internal protocols. These actors do not interpret law as legal theorists or as abstract "laypeople," but as role-bound individuals embedded in specific organizational contexts. Their understand

Confs: Law's Many Users - Legal Interpretation Within and Beyond Legal Institutions

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Law is interpreted and implemented by many hands. Some of them belong to judges, legislators, or lawyers—but many belong to nurses, teachers, municipal officials, or department heads: professionals who encounter law not in courtrooms or casebooks, but in institutional documents, contracts, checklists, and internal protocols. These actors do not interpret law as legal theorists or as abstract "laypeople," but as role-bound individuals embedded in specific organizational contexts. Their understand

Confs: Sociolinguistic Variation in Ancient Languages

Conferences - Wed, 07/02/2025 - 06:05
We are pleased to announce a conference on Sociolinguistic Variation in Ancient Languages. Towards Third Wave approaches and beyond, which will take place at the University of Cambridge on 26-28 March 2026, at Jesus College and at the Faculty of Classics. The theme is how Third Wave approaches can enhance our understanding of variation in ancient languages, and how we can integrate such approaches with previous methodologies. We focus especially on new methodologies and new corpora, with languag

Confs: Sociolinguistic Variation in Ancient Languages

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We are pleased to announce a conference on Sociolinguistic Variation in Ancient Languages. Towards Third Wave approaches and beyond, which will take place at the University of Cambridge on 26-28 March 2026, at Jesus College and at the Faculty of Classics. The theme is how Third Wave approaches can enhance our understanding of variation in ancient languages, and how we can integrate such approaches with previous methodologies. We focus especially on new methodologies and new corpora, with languag

Confs: 6th International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations

Conferences - Wed, 07/02/2025 - 06:05
The 6th International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations To be held in Prague, Czechia, August 4-5, 2025, following ACL 2025 in Vienna, Austria. Registration for DMR 2025 is now open! Registration is FREE and includes access to all DMR 2025 events, including exciting keynotes from Roberto Navigli and Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, a free-form discussion on the role of meaning representations in the age of LLMs, and the social dinner on August 4. The registration form is available at https:/

Confs: 8th Prescriptivism Conference

Conferences - Wed, 07/02/2025 - 06:05
We are delighted to announce that the 8th Prescriptivism Conference will be hosted by Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and will take place in Brussels on 24-26 June 2026. Building on the success of previous conferences held in Sheffield (2003), Ragusa (2006), Toronto (2009), Leiden (2013), Park City, Utah (2017), Vigo (2021), and Aix-en-Provence (2024), this edition continues the tradition of exploring prescriptivism in its many historical, cultural, and linguistic manifestations. The theme of the

Confs: 6th International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations

The LINGUIST List - Wed, 07/02/2025 - 06:05
The 6th International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations To be held in Prague, Czechia, August 4-5, 2025, following ACL 2025 in Vienna, Austria. Registration for DMR 2025 is now open! Registration is FREE and includes access to all DMR 2025 events, including exciting keynotes from Roberto Navigli and Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, a free-form discussion on the role of meaning representations in the age of LLMs, and the social dinner on August 4. The registration form is available at https:/

Confs: 8th Prescriptivism Conference

The LINGUIST List - Wed, 07/02/2025 - 06:05
We are delighted to announce that the 8th Prescriptivism Conference will be hosted by Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and will take place in Brussels on 24-26 June 2026. Building on the success of previous conferences held in Sheffield (2003), Ragusa (2006), Toronto (2009), Leiden (2013), Park City, Utah (2017), Vigo (2021), and Aix-en-Provence (2024), this edition continues the tradition of exploring prescriptivism in its many historical, cultural, and linguistic manifestations. The theme of the

Confs: Workshop on The Role of Representation in Computational Phonology

Conferences - Wed, 07/02/2025 - 05:05
We are pleased to announce the OCP23 Satellite Workshop on The Role of Representation in Computational Phonology to be held on 13 January at the University of Cambridge. Phonological representations minimally assume linearly ordered elements, and have been augmented to include hierarchical structure like prosodic categories and non-linear structure like autosegmental tiers. McCarthy’s (1988:84) often quoted adage, “if the representations are right, then the rules will follow” implies the anal

Confs: Workshop on The Role of Representation in Computational Phonology

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We are pleased to announce the OCP23 Satellite Workshop on The Role of Representation in Computational Phonology to be held on 13 January at the University of Cambridge. Phonological representations minimally assume linearly ordered elements, and have been augmented to include hierarchical structure like prosodic categories and non-linear structure like autosegmental tiers. McCarthy’s (1988:84) often quoted adage, “if the representations are right, then the rules will follow” implies the anal

Jobs: Malay; Applied Linguistics: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Malay Language/Linguistics Education, National Institute of Education

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Description: The National Institute of Education (NIE) is among the world’s top education institutes, recognised for its excellence in teacher education and educational research. NIE has played a key and pivotal role in shaping and developing Singapore’s teaching profession and landscape through evidence-informed, practice-focused and values-based programmes and initiatives. An autonomous institute situated within the research-intensive Nanyang Technological University, NIE is consistent

Jobs: Applied Linguistics, Language Acquisition: Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Chinese Language/Linguistics Education, National Institute of Education

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Description: The National Institute of Education (NIE) is among the world’s top education institutes, recognised for its excellence in teacher education and educational research. NIE has played a key and pivotal role in shaping and developing Singapore’s teaching profession and landscape through evidence-informed, practice-focused and values-based programmes and initiatives. An autonomous institute situated within the research-intensive Nanyang Technological University, NIE is consistent

FYI: Call for Chapters: Content and Language Integrated Learning in Physical Education

The LINGUIST List - Tue, 07/01/2025 - 11:05
We invite chapter proposals for a new edited volume exploring Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in Physical Education (CLIL-PE) (De Gruyter) across pre-primary, primary, secondary, and tertiary contexts. This volume aims to bring together foundational theoretical, empirical, and practice-based perspectives, as well as insights into Initial Teacher Education (ITE) and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for educators working in CLIL-PE. CLIL is understood here in its broade

Calls: International Workshop on Romance SE/SI Constructions

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Meeting Description: Venue: The International Workshop on Romance SE/SI Construction will be held at the Universitat de Barcelona, at the Facultat de Filologia i Comunicació, located in the very heart of the city. Dates 22-23 January 2026 Organisers: Anna Pineda (Universitat de Barcelona) and Monica Irimia (Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia) Invited Speakers: Michela Cennamo (Università di Napoli Federico II) Alexandra Cornilescu (Universitatea din București) Javier

Confs: 2nd International Conference on Migration Linguistics

Conferences - Tue, 07/01/2025 - 04:05
Migration has long been a defining force of globalization, but its impact is experienced unequally across different regions. The Global South, in particular, bears the brunt of migration’s complex social, economic, and linguistic ramifications. Whether driven by economic disparity, political unrest, or digital labor economies, migration reconfigures how language functions. It not only serves as a medium of communication, but it is used as a tool of power, negotiation, resistance, and identity fo

Confs: 2nd International Conference on Migration Linguistics

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Migration has long been a defining force of globalization, but its impact is experienced unequally across different regions. The Global South, in particular, bears the brunt of migration’s complex social, economic, and linguistic ramifications. Whether driven by economic disparity, political unrest, or digital labor economies, migration reconfigures how language functions. It not only serves as a medium of communication, but it is used as a tool of power, negotiation, resistance, and identity fo

Calls: Digital Studies in Language and Literature - Special Issue “Beyond Automation: Writer Identity in the GenAI Era” (Jrnl)

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This Digital Studies in Language and Literature Special Issue invites work that explores how writer identity is shaped, challenged, or reclaimed in the GenAI era. We particularly highlight the impact of GenAI on how identity is expressed in written discourse across academic, creative, multilingual, and educational contexts. This includes how generative tools influence features such as authorial voice, stylistic idiosyncrasy, and linguistic diversity as elements often overwritten by the standardi

Calls: Language and Mobility in Africa

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2nd Call for Papers: Background: Migration into and within Africa has been increasingly motivated by social, political, educational and economic purposes. Movements of peoples in contemporary times, en-masse or in smaller groups have an impact on language practices in multilingual Africa. These movements raise a number of interesting questions such as; What changes are there in contexts where different languages come into contact as a result of different people mobility? How mobile are langu

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