We look for participants with Norwegian, Danish, or Icelandic as their mothertongue for an experiment on numerical cognition for the project: “Quantitative and semantic components in numerical cognition.” - Age 18–35 - The language of the experiment is the participant’s first language, i.e., the first language acquired in childhood (native language / L1) - The language of the experiment is the participant’s primary language, i.e, the participant’s primary daily language at the time of the s

Description: Head of the Division of Humanities Hong Kong University of Science and Technology: Academic: School of Humanities and Social Science Description HKUST Founded in 1991, HKUST is a publicly funded international university dedicated to undergraduate and postgraduate education and research in science, engineering, business & management, and humanities & social science. We seek to nurture students with entrepreneurial spirit, innovative thinking, and global outlook and st

Call for Papers: VII Jornadas Antroponomásticas Del 11 al 13 de noviembre de 2026 Areas Tematicas: - Antroponomástica / antroponimia ficcional. - Socioantroponomástica. - Antroponómástica sincrónica. - Antroponomástica diacrónica. - Etnonimia y antroponimia nativa. - Antroponomástica/antroponimia en contextos de migración e inmigración. - Antroponomástica/antroponimia y cruces con la toponimia / toponomástica. - Antroponomástica/antroponimia y tecnologías digitales. - Ot

Many Jewish languages or language varieties today are minoritized or endangered and in need of various types of support. The Journal of Jewish Languages is preparing a special issue focused on the revitalization or reclamation of these languages or varieties. While much work has been done to document and describe at least some of these languages, this issue focuses on the more applied aspects of supporting minoritized Jewish language communities. We welcome papers discussing recent initiatives o

Call for Papers: The Collaborative Research Center 1629 “Negation in Language and Beyond” (NegLaB) at the Universities of Frankfurt, Tübingen and Göttingen invites linguists and psychologists to submit papers to the 3rd NegLaB Workshop (NegLaB III) to be held at the University of Frankfurt on the 1st and 2nd of December 2026. The NegLaB III Workshop aims to advance our understanding of how the expression of negation is cross-linguistically associated with grammatical and non-linguistic cog

This monograph provides the first large-scale comparative study of how verbal morphology encodes directionality across Chadic languages. Drawing on a database of 91 languages spoken in Nigeria, Cameroon, and Chad, the book analyzes ventive, itive, vertical, and boundary-crossing extensions. The quantitative study examines where directional extensions occur and what meanings they can co-express, highlighting issues of multifunctionality and efficiency in grammar, as well as providing initial insi

This collection of ten texts in Uruangnirin offers insights into the language and culture of the inhabitants of the Karas Islands in eastern Indonesia. All stories relate to life and death. They range from narratives about important life events such as circumcision, engagement and burial to accounts of natural and supernatural threats to the environment of the Uruangnirin speakers. The presentation of the texts are as follows: first, the complete text in Uruangnirin with a free translation in

The last talks of the Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series 2026 will take place remotely on Monday 8th June 2026 at 5pm BST. We are delighted to host a special panel session on phylogenetics, featuring two back-to-back talks, followed by a joint Q&A session. Artin Nasirpour (University of Georgia, USA) will open the panel and present on “Middle Iranian Evidence and the ‘Problem’ of East Iranian: A Comparative and Quantitative Reassessment”. Emma Kopp (Université Paris-Dauphine, Fr

The Department of Languages and Literature of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Nicosia invites you to a webinar held as part of the Master in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) programme. The webinar will take place on Monday, 8 June 2026, from 19:00-20:00 EEST. Speaker Dr Georgios P. Georgiou Assistant Professor of Linguistics Associate Head, Department of Languages and Literature University of Nicosia georgiou.georg@unic.ac.cy | htt

Starting with volume 23 (2026), Barbara de Cock (Université Catholique de Louvain) will succeed Rosina Márquez Reiter (The Open University) as Co-Editor of the John Benjamins journal Spanish in Context, joining Executive Editor Francisco Moreno-Fernández (Universidad de Alcalá & Heidelberg University) and Co-Editors Lucía Cantamutto (Universidad Nacional de Río Negro) & Andrew Lynch (University of Miami). We are greatly indebted to Rosina Márquez Reiter who started the journal and under whos

Focus: Subtitles, cinema, cinema communication Description: Cinema, linguaggi, comunicazione è la Summer School dell’Università degli Studi di Trieste dedicata al cinema come spazio di incontro tra linguaggi, pratiche comunicative e competenze professionali. In programma dal 21 al 25 settembre 2026 a Trieste, la scuola propone 32 ore di lezioni, visite e laboratori pratici, con particolare attenzione ai linguaggi audiovisivi, alla comunicazione e alla sottotitolazione. Il percorso si conc

We are excited to invite everyone to join Dr. Ahmad Izadi's inspiring webinar on "Power in Healthcare Communication," part of the VIZJA series in Frontiers in Language Studies & Research. This initiative is organised by VIZJA University and will be held online on June 11, 2026, at 10:00 AM. Use the following link for registration: https://form.jotform.com/261352711717050

Merlin's Syntax Studio is a free, browser-based syntax tree generator designed for linguists, syntax instructors, and students. It converts bracketed expressions into clean syntactic tree diagrams and supports commonly needed notation for phrase-structure trees, including multiline labels, visible and hidden movement indices, strikethrough traces/copies, italic text, outline text, Greek letters, triangle/roof notation, and customizable movement links. The tool provides an interactive workspac

Join our online reading group to discuss hot-off-the-press publications in historical sociolinguistics with the authors! The fourth session of "Reading with NARNiHS" is taking place on Monday, 29 June 2026, at 10:00 am US Eastern time / 4:00 pm European Central time and features Christine Wallis with her recent work in historical pragmatics, politeness, and identity work using intriguing material culture data from postal practices in 18th-century England. Reading with NARNiHS is a vibrant

The functional domain of apprehensionality encompasses grammatical markers or constructions which conventionally encode or pragmatically implicate that the situation described by the clause is an undesirable possibility. Its main manifestations discussed in this volume are (i) apprehensives, which are modal markers which can occur in main clauses, and thus could serve to translate English might in Don't go near this dog, it might bite (but also add a component of undesirability), and (ii) precau

What do people mean when they talk about the sound pattern of a language—what linguists call phonology? This book explores that question in a hands-on way, with a focus on applying the knowledge in language revitalization and community language work. The book introduces basic ideas and analytic strategies using examples from Indigenous languages across North and South America. Short comprehension checks invite you to test your understanding, and language explorations encourage you to apply what

Despite decades of scholarship on lexical borrowing in post-Conquest England, the vocabulary of the medieval countryside has remained largely outside the lens of contact linguistics — an oversight shaped by the long-standing assumption that French influence was confined to elite domains. At the same time, the multilingual reality of medieval England has made monolingual lexicography an increasingly inadequate tool: the Anglo-French, Medieval Latin, and Middle English lexicons of the period canno

2025. v, 207 pp. Table of Contents Obituary In memoriam p. 1 Introduction The Nature of Modality: Werner Abraham’s Perspective Ermenegildo Bidese & Manuela Caterina Moroni pp. 2–9 Articles From Needing to Wanting: Taking a Deep Dive into Abraham’s Modal Protosoup Jakob Maché pp. 10–50 Perspectival Mechanisms of Modality: Semantic Shifts of Modal Verb sollen (‘shall’) + inf. in German Stefan Hinterwimmer & Sonja Zeman pp. 51–79 Modality and Illocutionary Force:

This dissertation investigates how Mandarin Chinese encodes definiteness and indefiniteness in the absence of a dedicated article system. It addresses the “alternation challenge,” a tension between the functionalist observation that Mandarin bare nouns alternate with overt markers (numeral-yi and demonstratives) and the formal semantic generalization that Mandarin bare nouns do not require determiners to function as arguments. Adopting a data-driven translation corpus methodology based on Harry

Languages constantly change, especially when they are spoken across generations and in contact with other languages. One striking site of such change is Differential Object Marking (DOM), the phenomenon whereby only some direct objects are overtly marked, typically depending on properties such as animacy, definiteness, or discourse prominence. In Romance languages, DOM has a long and complex history, often realised through the preposition a. Yet little is known about how these systems evolve wh