Seeking help to update information on South American languages for The Catalogue of Endangered Languages (ELCat), at www.endangeredlanguages.com. Recent references, definitely after 2012, are needed that supply, where possible, speaker numbers, vitality status, and location, though information via personal communication is also welcome. I’ve updated the information on most of the Indigenous languages of South America (though it will not appear in the catalogue for some time yet). It

Other Specialties: Philosophy / History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas Description: The School of Philosophy, Linguistics and Science Studies at Tel-Aviv University invites applications for an open-rank, tenure-track position beginning March or October 2026. We seek candidates with a record of excellence in research and teaching in one or more of the following areas: - Philosophy - Linguistics - History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas Applicants with demonstrated expe

2nd Call for Papers: Invited speakers: Kriszta Szécsényi (University of Deusto) and Stefan Keine (UCLA) Subproject A01 “Creativity in morphosyntax: The role of analogy” of the Bielefeld University Collaborative Research Centre 1646 “Linguistic Creativity in Communication” is organising a three day workshop (Wednesday afternoon to Friday midday) on long-distance dependencies in October 2025. A01 studies long-distance movement (in particular islands) and long-distance agreement phenomena and

The Discourse Research Association of Ireland (DRAOI) is pleased to announce the full schedule for our fifth annual Summer Seminar Series, taking place online every Wednesday* at 15:00 Irish Standard Time during July and August 2025. All seminars are free and open to the public. Join us for a vibrant series of talks by researchers working across discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, multimodality, discourse theory, and more. July 9 July Liz Kiely, University College Cork ‘What about t

Description: The goal of this panel is to maintain the meeting space for linguists working on ellipsis that was initiated at the LII Simposio de la SEL, held in Madrid in 2024. Given that the panel was successful in 2024 (researchers from different universities and countries, such as Spain, Germany, the United States and Poland attended), we believe that the session can provide a fruitful meeting space at the LIV Simposio de la SEL. Ellipsis is the anaphoric phenomenon that has aroused mos

The dialect of Lesbos is one of the major dialects still spoken in Greece. It belongs to the group of Νorthern Greek Dialects, featuring, among other things, two phonological traits missing from the varieties of the south: high-vowel deletion and mid-vowel raising in unstressed position. The dialect of Lesbos displays an interesting vocabulary and a number of intriguing phenomena that reveal aspects of the diachronic evolution of Greek and contact with Turkish and Italo-Romance. For the Modern

An essential resource for understanding linguistic landscapes and their role in multilingual contexts worldwide The Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes and Multilingualism provides an in-depth exploration of linguistic landscapes as a tool to understand multilingualism across diverse global contexts. Edited by leading scholars Durk Gorter and Jasone Cenoz, this authoritative volume brings together pioneering research on the evolving interactions between language, place, space, and society. A

A field-defining survey of research in the rapidly growing field of English for Specific Purposes, now in its second edition The Handbook of English for Specific Purposes provides an up-to-date account of the origins, development, current state, and future directions in the study of English as used in its specific contexts, including medical English, business English, and academic English. Featuring research from leading authorities, this comprehensive volume addresses all key aspects of ESP,

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Written by internationally recognized researchers and educators, Understanding Multilingualism: An Introduction provides detailed coverage of the various dimensions of modern multilingualism. It highlights the interdisciplinary nature of the field by exploring the broad spectrum of different sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic, and neurocognitive approaches to the study of multilingualism. The text begins by defining and clarifying the scope of multilingualism studies as a distinctive, interdis

Una herramienta pedagógica integral y basada en evidencia para la formación del profesorado de español Un recurso innovador escrito específicamente para cursos de formación docente, Manual para la formación de profesores de español se propone desarrollar el conocimiento de los docentes de lengua sobre conceptos y temas pedagógicos clave, así como su capacidad para diseñar los objetivos de un currículo y evaluar los resultados . Escrito íntegramente en español, este volumen indispensable prepa

Dear Linguist List community, I am conducting a survey as part of my research on emotions. If your first language is English or Japanese, please consider taking less than 10 minutes to answer it. It’s anonymous and there’s a small gift at the end! You can find the English survey here https://tinyurl.com/3amdd6pc and the Japanese survey here https://tinyurl.com/y3xua6t7 THANK YOU!

Join us for a two-day hybrid summer school with Prof. Antony Unwin, co-editor of the Handbook of Data Visualization (Springer 2008) and author of Graphical Data Analysis with R (Routledge 2015) and Getting (more out of) Graphics: Practice and Principles of Data Visualisation (Routledge 2024). In this summer school, you will learn what graphics are best suited for the visualisation of particular types of linguistic data, and you will learn how to produce such graphics yourself using the free s

We invite contributions to the upcoming workshop Acquaintance, Familiarity & Value, to take place at the University of Barcelona on November 6-7th, 2025. Invited speakers include: - Natasha Korotkova (Utrecht University) - Justin Khoo (MIT) - Nils Franzén (University of Umeå) - Carla Umbach (University of Cologne). We will explore topics surrounding the phenomenon of the “acquaintance inference" of aesthetic language. The use of aesthetic language to describe an object (e.g., predicates

We invite contributions to the upcoming workshop Acquaintance, Familiarity & Value, to take place at the University of Barcelona on November 6-7th, 2025. Invited speakers include: - Natasha Korotkova (Utrecht University) - Justin Khoo (MIT) - Nils Franzén (University of Umeå) - Carla Umbach (University of Cologne). We will explore topics surrounding the phenomenon of the “acquaintance inference" of aesthetic language. The use of aesthetic language to describe an object (e.g., predicates

For English please scroll down Titel des Workshops: Marketinglinguistik Thema: Sprache als Schlüsselressource der Marketingkommunikation Kurzbeschreibung: Tagtäglich sind wir von einer Vielzahl sprachlicher Botschaften aus der Marketingkommunikation umgeben – sei es durch Markennamen, Slogans, Werbetexte, Produktbeschreibungen oder Verpackungsaufschriften. Diese Botschaften begegnen uns sowohl in der analogen als auch in der digitalen Welt und prägen unser Konsumverhalten. Die gezielte spra

The laboratoire de linguistique formelle (CNRS & Université Paris Cité) will host this year's meeting of the French national research network LIFT2 (=linguistique informatique, formelle et de terrain), which brings together computational, formal and field linguists. The meeting will be held on October 16-17 2025 at Halle aux farines on Campus Rive Gauche in the 13th arrondissement of Paris (near Bibliothèque Nationale and INALCO). See the workshop web page at https://lift2-2025.sciencesconf.or

For English please scroll down Titel des Workshops: Marketinglinguistik Thema: Sprache als Schlüsselressource der Marketingkommunikation Kurzbeschreibung: Tagtäglich sind wir von einer Vielzahl sprachlicher Botschaften aus der Marketingkommunikation umgeben – sei es durch Markennamen, Slogans, Werbetexte, Produktbeschreibungen oder Verpackungsaufschriften. Diese Botschaften begegnen uns sowohl in der analogen als auch in der digitalen Welt und prägen unser Konsumverhalten. Die gezielte spra

The following position is available in the newly established Collaborative Research Center 1718 “Common Ground: Cognition – Grammar – Communication” (funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG) PhD Researcher in Semantics and Pragmatics (m/f/d, E13 TV-L, 75%) (The salary corresponding to a 75%, TV-L 13 scale, position is approximately €3.400 per month before taxes and obligatory insurances for career starters). The position is associated with project B2 Common Ground Management Inte

The laboratoire de linguistique formelle (CNRS & Université Paris Cité) will host this year's meeting of the French national research network LIFT2 (=linguistique informatique, formelle et de terrain), which brings together computational, formal and field linguists. The meeting will be held on October 16-17 2025 at Halle aux farines on Campus Rive Gauche in the 13th arrondissement of Paris (near Bibliothèque Nationale and INALCO). See the workshop web page at https://lift2-2025.sciencesconf.or