SUMMARY This book, “The COLT Observation Scheme,” was written by Nina Spada and edited by Nina Spada and Laura Gurzynski-Weiss. It is the second edition of the original book about the COLT Observation Scheme, published in 1995. The second edition is supplemented with a new chapter on digital COLT and updated research applications of COLT in different L2 contexts. The first chapter introduces the Communicative Orientation of Language Teaching (COLT) Observation Scheme as an instrument for t

For the first time in five years, LingUA is hosting the 11th edition of the McGill Canadian Conference for Linguistics Undergraduates (McCCLU). The conference will take place April 5-6th, showcasing the work of linguistics undergraduates at McGill and elsewhere. All members of the department are invited to attend! The full schedule of the conference is as […]

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 book titled English as a Lingua Franca in Latin American Education by Sonia Morán Panero, Maritza M. Martínez-Sánchez and Gloria J. Ronzón Montiel is a welcome addition to the field of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) study. In Chapter 1, the authors justify the relevance of the book by contextualizing it within the literature on the topic, tracing the evolution of ELF and proving the necessity for more ELF research with a focus on Latin America (LA). They outline the aims of t

SUMMARY In her book “Changing discursive trends in the online review genre: a cross-linguistic study of BlaBlaCar” María de la O Hernández-López examines the discursive practices of online reviews in two different countries: Spain and Great Britain. The author argues that a cross-cultural or cross-linguistic study of the online review context is necessary, as the affordances of digital communication may have blurred some communicative differences between language and culture. The book underta

The Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society will be held at Griffith University's Gold Coast Campus in Southport, Queensland between 2-5th December 2025. For more information, please visit the official conference website.

The Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society will be held at Griffith University's Gold Coast Campus in Southport, Queensland between 2-5th December 2025. For more information, please visit the official conference website.

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to invite submissions for the special issue "Advancements in Early Communicative Development: Coordination, Synchrony, and Material Engagement", to be published in Infancy. Early communication emerges through rich multimodal interactions—gaze, gestures, vocal prosody, and material engagement—providing infants with opportunities to coordinate actions, understand social cues, and explore their surroundings. This special issue seeks to bring together research t

We would like to submit a workshop proposal for the ALT 2026 conference (Lyon, France, July 1-3, 2026). Below you’ll find a first draft of the call, which we will use as the basis for the final proposal. If anyone is interested in participating, we kindly ask you to send a title and, possibly, a short abstract (up to 300 words) to the following addresses by April 25: Caterina Mauri: caterina.mauri@unibo.it Andrea Sansò: asanso@unisa.it Many thanks in advance! "Disentangling literacy ef

We would like to submit a workshop proposal for the ALT 2026 conference (Lyon, France, July 1-3, 2026). Below you’ll find a first draft of the call, which we will use as the basis for the final proposal. If anyone is interested in participating, we kindly ask you to send a title and, possibly, a short abstract (up to 300 words) to the following addresses by April 25: Caterina Mauri: caterina.mauri@unibo.it Andrea Sansò: asanso@unisa.it Many thanks in advance! "Disentangling literacy ef

The Editorial Board of REDIS: Revista de Estudos do Discurso (University of Porto, Portugal) is pleased to announce the call for papers for Issue No. 16, scheduled for publication in July 2025. We cordially invite researchers to submit original works in the field of Discourse Studies. Welcoming contributions from various theoretical perspectives, the journal prioritizes submissions that emphasize the linguistic dimensions of discourse. Key Dates: - Submission deadline: May 5, 2025 - Expecte

Language development is fundamental to successful and effective education as it enables the comprehension and mastery of academic content. Moreover, the development of language skills is closely tied to the growth of communicative competence - one of the key skills for lifelong learning. Since language acquisition and learning are deeply intertwined with cognitive, emotional, and social development, studying children’s speech, reading, and writing provides valuable insights into the cognitive, a

Language development is fundamental to successful and effective education as it enables the comprehension and mastery of academic content. Moreover, the development of language skills is closely tied to the growth of communicative competence - one of the key skills for lifelong learning. Since language acquisition and learning are deeply intertwined with cognitive, emotional, and social development, studying children’s speech, reading, and writing provides valuable insights into the cognitive, a

Meeting Description: The aim of this conference is to examine the notion of possession and its various forms (alienable/inalienable possession, part-whole relationships), with a focus on corpus linguistics. Given the advent of the theoretical framework of Construction Grammar (Goldberg 1995), and in the era of digital humanities, new statistical methods (calculations of sparsity, density of occurrences, productivity, visualisations with decision trees, etc.) have emerged (cf. among others Van

Topics: The 2025 SECOL Conference is open to all fields and topics in applied and theoretical linguistics. Proposal types Conference sessions: One speaker - 30-minute total time - 20-minute presentations with 10 minutes for discussion. Conference Panels: Multiple speakers - 60-minute total time. Proposal Deadlines Round l: Expedited review - Due Oct. 19th - decision: Nov. 1st Round 2: Early submission - Due Nov. 1st - decision: Dec. 1st Round 3: Regular submission - Due Jan. 6th - deci

Topics: The 2025 SECOL Conference is open to all fields and topics in applied and theoretical linguistics. Proposal types Conference sessions: One speaker - 30-minute total time - 20-minute presentations with 10 minutes for discussion. Conference Panels: Multiple speakers - 60-minute total time. Proposal Deadlines Round l: Expedited review - Due Oct. 19th - decision: Nov. 1st Round 2: Early submission - Due Nov. 1st - decision: Dec. 1st Round 3: Regular submission - Due Jan. 6th - deci

Sank's Glossary of Linguistics now announces its new, convenient domain name, purchased on March 28. Hitherto, we have all been typing the longer and clunkier: studylove.org/ling/jpsgloss.html Effective immediately, we now merely type or tap exactly nine (9) keystrokes including Enter: sgol.org The new name is just a quick redirect to the same old location. The longer address will keep functioning. Other SGOL news items: * SGOL will soon reach the milestone of expansion t

Starting with volume 32 (2025), Elena Smirnova (University of Hannover) will succeed Martin Hilpert (University of Neuchâtel) and join J. Lachlan Mackenzie (VU University Amsterdam) and Sumin Zhao (University of Edinburgh) as Editor of the John Benjamins journal Functions of Language. The FoL editorial team furthermore consists of Book Review Editor Mark Nartey (University of the West of England) and Managing Editor Caroline Gentens (KU Leuven). Functions of Language is an international journ

This manuscript represents a comprehensive analysis of non-finite causal constructions in English, German, Dutch, and Czech. Based on a corpus of social media posts, the study provides an analysis of the formal and functional aspects of these constructions, their development, and their cross-linguistic similarities and differences. The study follows the principles of (Diasystematic) Construction Grammar. Formally, these constructions differ from both causal clauses and causal prepositional const

At this week’s MCQLL meeting, Austin Kraft will present “Motivating morphology in semi-supervised tokenization.” We will be meeting this Wednesday, April 2, at 10 AM. Meetings are held in person in room 117 of the McGill Linguistics department and on zoom at https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/89609376104. Abstract: Tokenization is fundamental for computational linguistics and NLP. An input text is […]