ZFAL Volume 2024, Issue 80 https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/zfal/2024/80/html Wortschatzerwerb – Wortschatzdidaktik – Wortschatzarbeit Ein Umsetzungsvorschlag von linguistischem und didaktischem Wissen in einem Deutschschweizer Kindergarten-Lehrmittel Sinja Ballmer, Britta Juska-Bacher Agensdemotion und gesprochene Wissenschaftssprache: Eine Studie zu (un-)persönlicher Selbstreferenz in erstsprachigen und fremdsprachigen Fachvorträgen Jochen Matthies Enregistering ‘Austrian German’ on Yo

2024. iii, 149 pp. Table of Contents ARTICLES Proficiency in a second language influences processing of print-to-sound mappings Mona Roxana Botezatu, Maya Misra & Judith F. Kroll pp. 285–309 Subject pronouns in Spanish-English code-switching: A test of two models Amy Bustin, Antje Muntendam & Gretchen Sunderman pp. 310–339 Syntactic outcomes of socially (un)restricted bilingualism in Spain: Word order with unergative and unaccusative verbs across two generations of Basque speakers Ager Gon

2023. iii, 91 pp. Table of Contents ARTICLES Pragmatics in the Minimalist framework: Evidence from the study of emotional language Alessandra Giorgi pp. 103–127 Raising to object: A graph-theoretic analysis Diego Gabriel Krivochen pp. 128–161 Reconsidering linguistic nativism from an interdisciplinary, emergentist perspective Michael Breyl pp. 162–193

Dear All, In the European H2021 project MuseIT, we are developing a benchmark dataset for analysing and describing semantic shifts in the discourse on disabilities, particularly in scientific publications. In this context, we are running a questionnaire and request for your participation. The survey is here - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfdOCyCUH6MyHprVfHzfcFt3MXFLPZAOWTyPbP4cOp5FnlgqQ/viewform It includes 13 questions and should not take more than 5 minutes to complete. We would

In this newsletter: New publications: LoReHLT Hausa Representative Language Pack AIDA Scenario 2 Practice Topic Source Data ________________________________________ New publications: LoReHLT Hausa Representative Language Pack was developed by LDC and is comprised of approximately 4.4 million words of Hausa monolingual text, 86,000 Hausa words translated from English data, and 30 minutes of Hausa audio recordings. Approximately 96,000 words were annotated for named entities and over 13,000 words

Dear colleagues, The Nordic Speech Research Forum's webinar series continues with the following talk on Friday, April 19th at 13:00–14:00 Finnish time: Understanding the multilingual nature of prominence: On the coordination of gestures and pitch accents Associate Professor Gilbert Ambrazaitis Linnaeus University Please join us for the talk and discussion in a relaxed atmosphere at https://jyufi.zoom.us/j/61656736999. You will find this event and the upcoming ones at https://jyu.fi/nsrf. Ho

Dear all, We are currently seeking contributions for an edited volume on interdisciplinary issues in sexual communication, which will be under consideration with Palgrave Macmillan. We are keen to receive contributions exploring how sexuality and desire manifest, along with their potential biases and resulting knowledge gaps, through practical methods and lived-experience testimonies from diverse backgrounds, such as: the translation of sexual terms across several loci of expression (e.g. audi

Institute of Linguistics 01 September 2024 or by agreement Employment is fixed for 4 years (2.5 years plus 1.5 years). As part of the SNF-funded project “Uncovering the dynamics of person marking: A construction-based approach in historical microtypology”, PI Prof.Dr. Linda Konnerth (Institute of Linguistics), we are seeking to hire one PhD student. Tasks: - Carry out descriptive linguistic research on a Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan) language of the South-Central (a.k.a. “Kuki-Chin”) branch

Founded in 1994 and awarded the University title in 2016, The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) is a publicly funded university, dedicated to the advancement of teacher education and related disciplines through a diverse offering of academic, professional and research programmes.  Approaching its 30th anniversary, the University aspires to become a leading university in the Asia Pacific region and beyond, with a focus on educational and multidisciplinary research, development and innovat

Greetings, linguists! I come to you bearing another update about the doing of the WebDev team in the last year. In my last update, I described some of the things we added (various EasyAbs features). Today I wish to describe some of the things we've removed. One year ago, the WebDev team (all 2 of us) were maintaining 17 websites and 10 databases across 5 different servers. Recognizing that this was far too much for such a small team, we set about pruning old projects in the interest of being a

FieldLing is an introduction to linguistic fieldwork. It aims primarily at Master and doctoral students in General Linguistics, but may also be interesting to students in anthropology and other social sciences planning to do fieldwork.

The Malta Centre at the University of Bremen offers two one-week practical language courses in Maltese. One course for beginners and one course for advanced learners, which can be attended after the first course. The courses are aimed at anyone who wants to gain an insight into the Maltese language and acquire practical language skills. The courses are taught in English.

Mark your calendars for October 10-11. We look forward to your submissions! The submission portal will open on April 29. For access to the portal and for additional information, please visit the conference website. If you have any further questions about the conference, please contact us at swecog2024@gmail.com.

Call for Papers: The Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, hosted by the Fryske Akademy, invites you to participate in the 1st Mercator International Conference on the theme of Shaping Policy for Minority Languages and Multilingualism. The aim of this conference is to provide a platform for and to stimulate critical discussions on policy development for minority languages and multilingualism in various contexts, from the home to education. We invite presen

2nd Call for Papers: DEADLINE EXTENDED to Friday 19 April! website: https://sub29.unime.it

Call for Papers: We invite contributions with an empirical and/or theoretical focus that present original research addressing the issues outlined above (regarding scope and theoretical implications of nonuniformity) and related issues. Crucially, contributions should be accessible to an audience coming from different frameworks. Important dates 31.05.2024, Anywhere on Earth Deadline for the submission of abstracts (info cf. below) 15.06.2024 Notification of acceptance 10.-11.10.2024 Conferen

Call for Papers: Conference Theme: Teaching French as a Foreign Language and Related Issues: Breaking Down Barriers / Enseignement du français langue étrangère et réalités connexes : décloisonnement - Accommodation and support for students - Regional varieties of French - Artificial intelligence (AI) in language teaching The organizing committee of the FLE 2025 conference is seeking abstracts for presentations in its upcoming biennial conference. This conference is aimed at specialists in the T

2nd Call for Papers: Workshop topics We invite contributions on any aspect of the grammar of habituals and habitual auxiliaries, including but not limited to the following questions: (i) Is habitual aspect a unified category or can it be split up into different subcategories? (Boneh & Doron 2008, 2013) (ii) what are the relations in terms of formal expression with genericity, multiplicativity, and other categories of event quantification? (iii) what is the source and destination of habitual mar

Call for Papers: We welcome abstracts (max. 250 words) for conceptual and empirical presentations in any area of Applied Linguistics, broadly defined, including, but not confined to the following: Bilingualism Multilingualism Plurilingualism and/or Translanguaging Corpus Linguistics Language Policy and Language Planning Language Teaching, Learning & Assessment Historical Linguistics Language Acquisition (L1, L2 & additional languages) Translation Studies Interculturality (Critical) Discourse An

Invited speakers: Anne Christophe (CNRS–Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique) Irene de la Cruz-Pavía (Ikerbasque–University of Deusto) Judit Gervain (University of Padua) Jean-Remy Hochmann (CNRS–Laboratory of Cognitive Neuropsychology and Development) Marina Kalashnikova (Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language) María Clemencia Ortiz-Barajas (CNRS–IKER) Núria Sebastián-Gallés (Pompeu Fabra University) The event is in person only, and registration is free of charge, b