Reading with NARNiHS [reading group of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics https://narnihs.org/?page_id=3288 Join our online reading group to discuss hot-off-the-press publications in historical sociolinguistics with the authors! The fifth session of "Reading with NARNiHS" is taking place on Thursday, 24 September 2026, at 11:00 am US Eastern time / 5:00 pm European Central time and features Sandrine Tailleur with her recent historical morpho-syntactic work

This 2-volume set contains 70 papers presented at the 50th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, which took place in November 2025. The papers include the keynote from Jean Berko Gleason and writeups of the retrospective symposium from Jill de Villiers, Tom Roeper, William Snyder, and Virginia Valian.

June 24-29, LabPhon 20 was held in Montreal for the conference’s 40th anniversary, organized by McGill Linguistics members and colleagues in Ottawa. More than 300 people from around the world attended, including many current and former McGillians.

Edward Flemming (MIT) and Michael Wagner co-taught a class on Prosody at the The 7th Crete Summer School of Linguistics in Rethymno, Crete, July 18–31. Jessica Coon taught a class on Hierarchy Effects at the DGfS Summer School in Bielefeld, Germany, August 10–14th.

McLing is happy to welcome Samantha Prins, who is joining us for a two-year Canada Impact+ Research Training Award (CIRTA) postdoctoral fellowship, working with Jessica Coon. Sam’s research combines morphosyntactic theory, documentation, and (re)vitalization. Her theoretical work centers on formal models of inflection, agreement, and reference-tracking in Algonquian languages, particularly Blackfoot. Her documentary work focuses […]

Alex Zhai has accepted a two-year instructor position at the University of Manitoba –– congratulations Alex!

Several current and former McGill affiliates travelled to Argentina for Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 36, held July 29-31 at the University of Buenos Aires (https://saltconf.github.io/salt36/). Talks by current and former McGill affiliates included:

McGill linguists had a number of successful PhD defenses this summer. These included: Congratulations new doctors!

Description: This is a full time position at the Sociolinguistics Lab for 3 years. The successful candidate will contribute to an ongoing research project which investigates processes of language variation and change across the lifespan. The candidate will undertake the analysis of spoken English language data using cutting-edge research methods and be active in the advancement of ongoing research in the lab. The fellow will publish research in collaboration with members of the Sociolab team

Description: The Linguistics Department at the University of Maryland, College Park invites applications for an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) with an anticipated starting date of August 8, 2027. Applicants should be prepared to teach courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. We seek to hire someone with an active research program, who is prepared to work closely with graduate students, and whose research connects with existing strengths in linguistic theory, psycholinguistic

Concept: Human society is passing through a period of rapid technological change. Artificial intelligence, social media, machine learning, automated translation, digital publishing, virtual communication and other emerging technologies are changing how people communicate, learn, work, create knowledge and relate with one another. These technologies are also changing the ways languages are used, taught, documented, translated and preserved. Language is at the centre of these changes. New te

Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for the 48th annual SWPACA conference. One of the nation’s largest interdisciplinary academic conferences, SWPACA offers nearly 70 subject areas, each typically featuring multiple panels. For a full list of subject areas, area descriptions, and Area Chairs, please visit https://swpaca.org/subject-areas/. We are currently accepting individual papers for 15-minute presentations on general and applied linguistics, including but not limited t

(see German version below) The panel is a continuation of the panel Digital Slavic Studies, which took place in 2024 and 2025 as part of the 48th and 49th Österreichische Linguistik-Tagung and brought together scholars of Slavic languages from Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany, as well as different Austrian universities, with proceedings published in Scripta & e-Scripta 2025 and 2026. The panel aims to connect researchers working at the interface between digital human

Concept: Human society is passing through a period of rapid technological change. Artificial intelligence, social media, machine learning, automated translation, digital publishing, virtual communication and other emerging technologies are changing how people communicate, learn, work, create knowledge and relate with one another. These technologies are also changing the ways languages are used, taught, documented, translated and preserved. Language is at the centre of these changes. New te

Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for the 48th annual SWPACA conference. One of the nation’s largest interdisciplinary academic conferences, SWPACA offers nearly 70 subject areas, each typically featuring multiple panels. For a full list of subject areas, area descriptions, and Area Chairs, please visit https://swpaca.org/subject-areas/. We are currently accepting individual papers for 15-minute presentations on general and applied linguistics, including but not limited t

(see German version below) The panel is a continuation of the panel Digital Slavic Studies, which took place in 2024 and 2025 as part of the 48th and 49th Österreichische Linguistik-Tagung and brought together scholars of Slavic languages from Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany, as well as different Austrian universities, with proceedings published in Scripta & e-Scripta 2025 and 2026. The panel aims to connect researchers working at the interface between digital human

We are pleased to announce that the fourteenth international Corpus Linguistics conference will take place in Venice (Italy), 12-16 July 2027, and it will be jointly organised by "Ca' Foscari" University of Venice, The University of Liverpool and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The Call for Papers will follow shortly on Linguist List, and is already available on the conference's website: https://www.cl2027.info/call-for-papers. Deadline: 8th January 2027

The Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Linguistics (TRILL) is the first peer-reviewed venue for the sharing of high quality, evidence-based linguistics teaching resources. TRILL resources are, at their core, specific class activities and assignments used by the authors, but they are presented and annotated in such a way as to be useful in a broader variety of pedagogical contexts and to engage with core principles of the pedagogical and linguistic literature. Moreover, pedagogical re

Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL) is a forum for researchers and scholars to present their linguistic work and discuss issues related to the formal description of Slavic languages. It covers a wide range of disciplines, including phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and also including theoretical, experimental and corpus approaches. The main goal of FDSL is to provide a platform for the exchange of linguistic ideas and research results and to promote the developm

We are pleased to announce that the fourteenth international Corpus Linguistics conference will take place in Venice (Italy), 12-16 July 2027, and it will be jointly organised by "Ca' Foscari" University of Venice, The University of Liverpool and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The Call for Papers will follow shortly on Linguist List, and is already available on the conference's website: https://www.cl2027.info/call-for-papers. Deadline: 8th January 2027