We are pleased to announce the 38th annual conference of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics (IATL), which will take place at Bar-Ilan University on October 18 and 19, 2026 (or a week later). We aim to hold the conference during the Israeli Science and Academia Week. The conference will consist of a general session and a special session on Computational Models for Linguistic Processing. Talks will be 30-minute long with 10 additional minutes for discussion. The conference will als

Call for Papers: Confirmed Speakers: Anna Papafragou (University of Pennsylvania) Devyani Sharma (University of Oxford) Sandrine Zufferey (University of Bern) After the successful workshop Social Meaning and Grammar, which took place in Zürich in March 2026 (https://www.ds.uzh.ch/de/tagungen/social-meaning-and-grammar.html), we are now moving on to the second round. The term ‘social’ plays a central role in the acquisition and learning literature in general (e.g., in broad topics such

We are pleased to announce that the second conference on Formal Models in Linguistics (FML 2026) will take place on November 11-12, 2026, hosted by the Faculty of Humanities at HSE University. The conference focuses on the study of natural language within both generative and non-generative formal approaches, using any methodological tools (experimental, corpus-based, etc.). We invite submissions of original work focusing on formal analysis of natural language data. Submitted abstracts will un

Aspects offer a fast and contemporary alternative to publish cutting-edge research in a wide variety of areas in Linguistics and related fields. They present original, insightful subjects with a focus on emerging topics. More compact than a monograph, less limited than a regular journal article, Aspects offer authors a new way of publishing their work. Aspects are peer-reviewed under the aegis of existing book series with John Benjamins. The books are between 65 and 80 typeset pages long and are

Whether you're supporting literacy in a school, a community center, or at home, this book is for you. Designed for children and adults alike, it can be used anywhere from bustling cities to remote villages. Inside are participatory, low-tech games built from simple materials you can make or gather locally. Each one includes clear, step-by-step instructions, creative variations, and tips for adapting to different group sizes, languages, and scripts. These games are more than just fun. They are po

We are pleased to announce that the 12th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-12) will be organised by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia, and will be held on 21–23 October 2027. The ICLC conference series, running since 1998, aims to promote fine-grained cross-linguistic research involving two or more languages from a broad range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. Following the successful editions in Mannheim and Prague

We are pleased to invite submissions for the 3rd Tunisian Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference (TSFLC 3). This edition focuses on the role of SFL in understanding and shaping social change, particularly through perspectives emerging from the margins and peripheries in diverse semiotic and social practices. Systemic Functional Linguistics sees language as a social semiotic act that not only maintains and supports the existing eco-social order, but also “nudg[es] it in the directions in w

We are pleased to announce that the 12th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-12) will be organised by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia, and will be held on 21–23 October 2027. The ICLC conference series, running since 1998, aims to promote fine-grained cross-linguistic research involving two or more languages from a broad range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. Following the successful editions in Mannheim and Prague

We are pleased to invite submissions for the 3rd Tunisian Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference (TSFLC 3). This edition focuses on the role of SFL in understanding and shaping social change, particularly through perspectives emerging from the margins and peripheries in diverse semiotic and social practices. Systemic Functional Linguistics sees language as a social semiotic act that not only maintains and supports the existing eco-social order, but also “nudg[es] it in the directions in w

A common distinction in linguistics is between transactional uses of language, which serve the communication of information, and interactional uses, which express attitudes and social relationships (Jakobson 1971; Brown and Yule 1983; Hyland 2005). Within the latter domain, Heine (2023) identifies a range of interactional expressions, including attention signals (Hey!), directives (Look!), evaluatives (Great!), interjections (Oh), response elicitors (What?), response signals (Yes), social formul

Abstract Submission Dates: July 2, 2026 - November 30, 2026 Conference website: https://events.polyu.edu.hk/isgs2027/home Abstract Submission Link: https://cems.polyu.edu.hk/abstract-submission?id=68&eventId=2DC9D9A1-D4F9-4BD9-9B8C-D5E229D92760 We cordially invite abstracts on topics related to Futures for Gestures within the following thematic areas: “Theory, Practice, Technology, Ecology” and their subthemes. Theory: - Mind, embodiment, and cognition - Perception and social unde

A common distinction in linguistics is between transactional uses of language, which serve the communication of information, and interactional uses, which express attitudes and social relationships (Jakobson 1971; Brown and Yule 1983; Hyland 2005). Within the latter domain, Heine (2023) identifies a range of interactional expressions, including attention signals (Hey!), directives (Look!), evaluatives (Great!), interjections (Oh), response elicitors (What?), response signals (Yes), social formul

Abstract Submission Dates: July 2, 2026 - November 30, 2026 Conference website: https://events.polyu.edu.hk/isgs2027/home Abstract Submission Link: https://cems.polyu.edu.hk/abstract-submission?id=68&eventId=2DC9D9A1-D4F9-4BD9-9B8C-D5E229D92760 We cordially invite abstracts on topics related to Futures for Gestures within the following thematic areas: “Theory, Practice, Technology, Ecology” and their subthemes. Theory: - Mind, embodiment, and cognition - Perception and social unde

Whether spoken or signed, linguistic behaviour reflects physiological properties of the body. Previous research has shown that the bodily architecture, e.g. vocal tract morphology and strength of muscle activation, as well as interacting physiological processes such as breathing, motion, and posture and their timing, shape the way we produce speech (Blasi et al. 2019, Fuchs and Rochet-Capellan 2021, Pouw et al. 2025). Importantly, the body continues to change nonlinearly across the entire lifesp

Whether spoken or signed, linguistic behaviour reflects physiological properties of the body. Previous research has shown that the bodily architecture, e.g. vocal tract morphology and strength of muscle activation, as well as interacting physiological processes such as breathing, motion, and posture and their timing, shape the way we produce speech (Blasi et al. 2019, Fuchs and Rochet-Capellan 2021, Pouw et al. 2025). Importantly, the body continues to change nonlinearly across the entire lifesp

We are pleased to announce the second international conference of ARDAA (Association for Research in English Language Teaching and Acquisition), TeachLEng 2027, which will take place on 25, 26, and 27 June 2027 at the INSPE de l’Académie de Paris – Molitor Campus. In a rapidly changing educational and socio-professional landscape that is oriented towards improving economic productivity and the internationalisation of individual trajectories, English language teaching and learning is being ca

We are pleased to announce the second international conference of ARDAA (Association for Research in English Language Teaching and Acquisition), TeachLEng 2027, which will take place on 25, 26, and 27 June 2027 at the INSPE de l’Académie de Paris – Molitor Campus. In a rapidly changing educational and socio-professional landscape that is oriented towards improving economic productivity and the internationalisation of individual trajectories, English language teaching and learning is being ca

Description: VIZJA University, based in Warsaw, is one of Poland’s leading non-public universities, recognized for the excellence of its research and its significant contributions to contemporary scholarship. The University also hosts VISION – the European Center for Multilingualism in Teacher Education, an international center that brings together scholars from around the world to advance research and innovation in multilingualism and to promote excellence in teacher education across diverse

The focus of this dissertation is nasality and nasalization in Atchan, a Potou language of the Kwa branch of Niger-Congo spoken in and around Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Unlike most of the world’s languages, Atchan lacks a phonemic contrast for nasality in consonants. Nasality nonetheless plays an important role in Atchan, at multiple levels of grammar. Drawing on data collected over years of documentation work with Atchan speakers, I propose that surface nasality in the language is attributable to

2026. v, 191 pp. Table of Contents Introduction How much is too much? The one-new-idea constraint and the information–intonation interface Uta Reinöhl & Naomi Peck | pp. 1–9 Articles The ‘idea’ in the one-new-idea constraint Uta Reinöhl & Naomi Peck | pp. 10–42 Joint attention, interaction-management, and other factors: The one-new-idea tendency as an emergent phenomenon Pavel Ozerov | pp. 43–79 Verbalisation and the One-New-Idea Constraint Naomi Peck | pp. 80–109 The