We invite submissions for papers, posters, or panels focusing on, but not limited to: - Mother tongue/multilingual education strategies - Literacy development through first language instruction - Documentation and digitisation of endangered languages - Language endangerment and revitalisation practices - Linguistic diversity and social inclusion - Computational tools for low-resource language preservation - Policy, planning, and legal frameworks supporting multilingualism - Cross

Registration is now available for the UK Workshop on Generative Language Acquisition (UK-WGLA), to be held on 19-20 June at Ulster University in Belfast. Registration is free of charge, from https://blogs.ulster.ac.uk/language/wgla/registration/ This workshop provides a dedicated UK venue for theory-driven generative acquisition research, bringing together scholars working on syntax, semantics, morphology, phonology, and their interfaces in child language. Invited speaker: Professor Rus

Registration is now available for the UK Workshop on Generative Language Acquisition (UK-WGLA), to be held on 19-20 June at Ulster University in Belfast. Registration is free of charge, from https://blogs.ulster.ac.uk/language/wgla/registration/ This workshop provides a dedicated UK venue for theory-driven generative acquisition research, bringing together scholars working on syntax, semantics, morphology, phonology, and their interfaces in child language. Invited speaker: Professor Rus

This volume presents recent research in colour studies with a particular focus on language, offering both continuity and innovation within the field. All chapters are developed from papers first presented at the Progress in Colour Studies 2022 (PICS2022) conference, held at Tallinn University, Estonia. Building on the results of earlier PICS meetings and publications, this book continues the series’ tradition of offering fresh perspectives on colour across languages and cultures. The contribu

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the Dutch–French contact situation in the Early and Late Modern period, when the Dutch language and culture supposedly underwent frenchification in various spheres of life. Bringing together empirical approaches based on a wide range of datasets, this volume not only delves deeply into an intriguing case study in historical multilingualism and language contact but also offers detailed theoretical and methodological background information on ho

Zero elements are used by several theories in morphology and syntax as analytical tool, but the question of whether phonologically empty elements should be structurally present or not has been a controversial issue from the very beginning. In addition to analyses that work with zero, there are also a whole series of works that explicitly reject a description with zero or allow them only under restricted circumstances. This volume aims at getting a more complete picture of zero elements as a theo

54th Poznań Linguistic Meeting Thematic Session: Multimodal Dimensions of Metaphorical Cognition Organized by Tomasz Dyrmo This session aims to examine, highlighting the “beyond-language” thematic scope of the conference, how metaphorical cognition is made observable across multiple semiotic modalities. The session adopts, therefore, a focused multimodal perspective: it investigates how underlying conceptual mappings are realized and constrained within specific discourse domains through mu

Call for Papers: Ever since the beginning of the minimalist enterprise in the early 90-ies, the Program has been trying to reconcile the ambitious task of formulating a comprehensive, compact and streamlined theory of grammar with the need for broad empirical coverage and adequacy. In the process, the theory has impacted research on particular constructions and languages and, in turn, particularly successful empirical analyses fed theory-oriented proposals. For the past 35 years the Program h

54th Poznań Linguistic Meeting Thematic Session: Multimodal Dimensions of Metaphorical Cognition Organized by Tomasz Dyrmo This session aims to examine, highlighting the “beyond-language” thematic scope of the conference, how metaphorical cognition is made observable across multiple semiotic modalities. The session adopts, therefore, a focused multimodal perspective: it investigates how underlying conceptual mappings are realized and constrained within specific discourse domains through mu

Call for Papers: Deverbal nominalisations and participles are among the most intensively studied representatives of so-called mixed categories. At least since Chomsky (1970), they have played a central role in debates on how syntax, morphology, and semantics interact in word formation. They occupy a theoretical middle ground between verbs and nouns/adjectives: they may preserve argument structure, aspectual interpretation, and event semantics, while simultaneously exhibiting nominal or adject

Call for Papers: Clitics are a highly prominent category in Slavic languages, which raises fundamental questions about the interfaces between syntax, morphology, phonology, and information structure. They occupy a theoretical middle ground between words and affixes, and their placement often reflects complex interactions among syntactic position, prosodic structure, and discourse-related constraints (Franks & King 2000; Bošković 2001, 2008, 2016; Milićević 2023, a.m.o.). Slavic languages, wit

Call for Papers: SinFonIJA is a traveling conference that covers topics from all areas of theoretical linguistics, comparative linguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, and language acquisition. It was first organised in Nova Gorica in 2008 (you can still visit its website here) and got its name from the Slovenian SINtaksa FONologija In Jezikovna Analiza ‘Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis’. Over the past 16 years it has been been organised in Brno, Udine, Novi Sad, Budapest, Kr

Final Call for Papers: El Colegio de México A. C., Escuela Nacional de Lenguas, Lingüística y Traducción UNAM, and Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas UNAM, invite presentation proposals for the VII Formal Linguistics Meeting in Mexico (ELF) to be held on September 1, 2, and 3, 2026 at El Colegio de México, Mexico City. The Formal Linguistics Meeting aims to bring together researchers who consider formal approaches to the study of language in order to foster the exchange and discus

Multilingual corpora have been used in cross-linguistic research for 30 years. New technologies have dramatically changed the processes of compilation and exploitation of tailor-made corpora for linguistic research. The studies included in this volume showcase current cross-linguistic research utilising parallel, comparable, and novel types of corpora beyond this traditional two-fold distinction. The first part of the volume draws on specialised comparable corpora of newspaper opinion articles,

Intralingual Translation: Beyond language and text offers an innovative, wide-ranging exploration of translation within the same language, bringing together leading international scholars from diverse linguistic and disciplinary backgrounds. Spanning theoretical reflections, empirical studies, and historical analyses, the volume addresses the rich spectrum of intralingual practices, from plain language and accessibility adaptations to diachronic rewritings of historical texts. The first s

A current trend in contrastive corpus linguistics is to take register variation as a point of departure for identifying similarities and differences across languages. This volume looks back at central previous contributions in this area, and adds to our store of knowledge in the form of nine studies comparing English to five other languages in a wide variety of registers representing written, spoken, and written-to-be-spoken modes of communication. The volume starts with a semi-systematic review

For sixty years, applied linguistics has stood at the crossroads of language and society, by meeting real-world needs. 60 Years of Applied Linguistics: Toward more engaged research offers a compelling reflection on the field’s evolution while calling for a renewed commitment to socially responsive, ethically grounded scholarship. Inspired by the momentum of the 2023 AILA World Congress in France, this collective volume brings together leading international applied linguists to examine how

The source text is an unescapable part of any translation or translation process. Without source text, no translation. Yet it is only recently that scholars in the field of translation studies have begun exploring, theorizing, and conceptualizing the source text in a more systematic fashion. The present volume builds on and expands this work, exposing how source texts are never merely given but always constructed by translators and used for various purposes. The seven case studies, by researcher

Toponymy is the branch of Onomastics that studies place names. From among the subfields in Toponymy, in this work we focus on standardized toponymic repositories: toponymic lexical data bases. An adequate standardization of the major toponymy in the CPLP area assumes special relevance, as it embodies a normalizing function and is characterized by its enlarged scope. The Vocabulário Toponímico (VT – toponymic wordlist), studied here, is a digital toponymic resource, a specialized vocabulary that

2026. iii, 186 pp. Table of Contents Articles Proto-Tibetic *mbras ‘1grain; 2rice’: Comparative reconstruction and dialect subgrouping Joanna Bialek pp. 175–227 The associative plural in Cantonese Pun Ho Lui pp. 228–256 Applying popular arguments for and against an independent egophoric grammatical category to Thewo Tibetan Abe Powell pp. 257–301 Dynamics of L3 lexical representations of Dutch-English-Mandarin trilinguals Xiaowen Ji & Niels Olaf Schiller pp. 302–32