2025. iii, 152 pp. Table of Contents Articles Development of aspect in children’s narrations in German Sign Language Vera Kolbe pp. 183–207 The use of constructed action and its relationship with age and sign language development among children acquiring Finnish Sign Language Laura Kanto, Anna Puupponen & Doris Hernández pp. 208–262 Researcher’s resources Sign language adaptation of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales — 21 (DASS-21) Rose Stamp, Svetlana Dachkovsky, Vered

2025. iii, 233 pp. Table of Contents Articles ‘It runs in the family’: Reconstructing the kinship terminology of Tugu Creole Portuguese Raan-Hann Tan & Silvio Moreira De Sousa pp. 203–261 Pacific transformations of the ‘Country of Babel’: The legacy of a colonial language myth in nationalist discourses on Hawai‘i Creole and Tok Pisin Christoph Neuenschwander pp. 262–301 Remarks on the syntax of bare nouns in Papiamentu Luis López, Rodi Laanen, Charlotte Pouw & M. Carmen Pa

Focus: Linguistic Diversity, Language Documentation, Under-resourced Languages, Typology Description: The Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR), the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (HU-Berlin) Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik, and the Leibniz-Zentrums Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) are offering an in person summer school in Linguistic Diversity and Language Science from Monday, August 31st through Friday, September 4th, 2026. The training will take place in person in Berlin,

TraductAL is a multilingual, multimodal translation system, still under development, that runs entirely offline. It uses two free and open source translation engines: 1. NLLB-200 (Meta) for neural machine translation of 50 mainstream (European, African and Asian) languages 2. Apertus-8B for 15 low-resource languages (e.g., dialectal variations of Swiss-German) The web interface and command line tools provide optional speech-to-text, audio transcription, text-to-speech, translate-and-spe

This dataset was collected for the following 1997 monograph: Kortmann, Bernd. 1997. Adverbial subordination: A typology and history of adverbial subordinators based on European languages. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110812428/html) Thirty years after the completion of the book manuscript Adverbial subordination, the bulk of the database forming the empirical foundation for this monograph is made available to the research community. So most

Episode 3 of HELLO Lab Presents (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxdTrF457qO7PAtDiSAJfEg) has just been released — When will my kid say their first word? (https://youtu.be/7Uv8kLz_Xq4)— which is the first of two episodes related to word learning. Spanish dubbed versions of episodes coming soon, thanks to Irene de la Cruz-Pavía at Universidad de Deusto. More information about HELLO Lab Presents below. Thanks again for your words of encouragement, input, and idea — and for liking, subscrib

2nd Call for Papers: Description du colloque : La bande dessinée de langue française présente une diversité socioculturelle et linguistique qui suscite un intérêt croissant depuis quelques années, tant dans la recherche que dans l’enseignement du français. Ce colloque vise à explorer de manière transdisciplinaire – à travers les prismes de la linguistique, de la littérature et de la didactique – cette diversité dans les albums de bande dessinée, le roman graphique et les webtoons contempora

Second and Final Call for Papers We invite applications for a 'seminar' (i.e. a theme session or workshop, in ESSE parlance) at the next conference of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), to be held in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The general conference website is at https://www.esse2026.com. The website with further information (including illustrations of the theme) and submission platform for this seminar is at https://metasocial.unamur.be. The convenors are Lieven Vandel

The 2026 annual conference of the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States will be held ONLINE, July 8-10, 2026, hosted by the Department of World Languages and Cultures, The University Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, with local hosts Gaby Semaan and Kasumi Yamazaki. Abstracts: While abstracts presenting empirically grounded investigations in any theoretical framework into aspects of the conference theme are especially welcome, LACUS invites abstracts representing a broad range of approa

Call for Papers: Organisation: Irina Shakhovskaya-Thomières (U. of Paris – la Sorbonne), Marc Ruiz-Zorrilla Cruzate (U. of Barcelona) This conference will focus on one of the central topics in linguistics: the verbal domain. Building on a substantial body of work in this area (Vendler, Dowty, Levin, Pustejovsky, Jackendoff, Pottier, among others), it aims both to take stock of existing research and to explore new directions for analysis. The proposed themes – a non-exhaustive selection

We are glad to announce that Innovations in Linguistics Education, a journal devoted to teaching linguistics in higher education, has been re-launched and is officially open to new submissions as of January 2026. The first five volumes of the journal were published by editor Daniel Dinnsen at the Indiana University Linguistics Club from 1979 to 1990 and re-issued in 2017 by editor Ann Bunger. Volumes 6 onwards will be published on the University of Edinburgh's open access online platform, Edinbu

After the success of our initial two workshops focused on meaning and form, we are excited to launch a third POQAL meeting, this time without subject limitations. We hope to welcome your research on polar(-like) questions, especially in lesser studied languages and dimensions of form and meaning. As before, the aim is to discuss the phenomenon across subdisciplines and we will do everything we can to curate a program to facilitate the inclusion of a diversity of approaches. Join us in Göttingen

Final Call for Papers: Over the past years, interactions between humans and artificial interlocutors have increasingly become part of everyday life. AIs such as ChatGPT, Woebot, and Replika are perceived not merely as tools, but as helpers, confidants, or even romantic partners. These encounters compel us to rethink the linguistic, social, and epistemic foundations of concepts such as “(social) interaction,” and furthermore to reconsider the boundaries of subjectivity and identity. This inter

Discursive Approaches to Semantic Change in the History of the English Language Panel at the 23rd International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 23) Milan, 15-18 June 2026 Convenors: Susan Fitzmaurice & Catherine Wong, The University of Sheffield The panel is an opportunity for English historical linguists to share theoretical and methodological insights based upon the idea that semantic change is rooted in pragmatic meaning and discursive context. The principle und

Call for Papers: From September 10 to 12, 2026, the conference "Deutsche Comics im interkulturellen Dialog - zwischen Translation und Adaption" will take place at the University of Turin. The main conference language will be German. The full call for papers can be found at https://www.comic-tagung.unito.it/call-for-papers. We invite interested researchers to submit their proposals to comic-tagung@unito.it by February 1, 2026.

ACL 2026 Industry Track in San Diego, CA, United States Conference: July 2 - 7, 2026 Paper submission deadline: February 14, 2026 Background: Language technologies are an integral and critical part of our daily lives. Many of these applications have their roots in academic and industrial research laboratories where researchers invented a plethora of algorithms, benchmarked them against shared datasets and perfected their performance to provide plausible solutions to real-world applicatio

Call for Papers: Important Dates: Abstract submission: 31 January 2026 Notification of acceptance: 25 March 2026 Registration: until 13 April 2026 Conference dates: 24-26 June 2026 University of Naples "L'Orientale" and the NooJ association organize the 20th NooJ Conference in Naples, Italy from 24-26 June, 2026. NooJ is a linguistic development environment that allows linguists to formalize several levels of linguistic phenomena: orthography and spelling; lexicons of simple words

This theme session continues the discussion that began in various events and lately in the online workshop, 4-5 October 2025, entitled “The Figure of Irony revisited” in which the multifaceted and varied nature of irony was reestablished, its pervasive character in thought and language was reconfirmed, though, as expected, more facets were deemed necessary for further theoretical and empirical investigation. The present theme session once again aims to extend the discussion of irony in figur

Call for Papers: The call for abstracts for the Edinburgh Linguistics and English Postgraduate Conference (LELPGC) is now open! The conference will be held in Edinburgh from the 1st–3rd June 2026. Postgraduates and recent PG grads are invited to submit abstracts in any subfield of linguistics, philosophy of language, and linguistic anthropology (except language pedagogy) for both oral and poster presentations. Please ensure that your presentation is accessible to a general linguistics aud

Call for Papers: LFG26 welcomes work within the formal architecture of Lexical-Functional Grammar as well as typological, formal, and computational work within the 'spirit of LFG' as a lexicalist approach to language employing a parallel, constraint-based framework. The conference aims to promote interaction and collaboration among researchers interested in non-derivational approaches to grammar, where grammar is seen as the interaction of (perhaps violable) constraints from multiple levels o