Background: Migration into and within Africa has been increasingly motivated by social, political, educational and economic purposes. Movements of peoples in contemporary times, en-masse or in smaller groups have an impact on language practices in multilingual Africa. These movements raise a number of interesting questions such as; What changes are there in contexts where different languages come into contact as a result of different people mobility? How mobile are languages and how stable are

2nd Call for Papers: The conference will take place from September 30 to October 1, 2025, at Masaryk University (Czech Republic), under the framework of OP JAK “LangInLife” (https://www.muni.cz/en/research/projects/73477). The conference is intended to contribute to filling a gap in Second Language Acquisition, where research on adult immigrants developing additional languages is currently underrepresented (see Mocciaro & Young-Scholten 2025). After a fundamental research season in the 1

Call for Papers: The First Workshop on Gaze Data and Natural Language Processing (Gaze4NLP), co-located with RANLP 2025 in Varna, Bulgaria, invites papers of a theoretical or experimental nature describing research methodologies by employing interdisciplinary perspectives, including computer science and engineering perspectives and cognitive sciences, and identifying challenges to resolve in the intersection of the two domains: eye tracking and NLP. Gaze4NLP aims to bring together researchers

Achtung: Verlängerung der Einsendefrist bis zum 22.06.25 Call for Papers Workshop B03 SFB 1391 Andere Ästhetik Metaphern und Symbole stellen seit jeher ein zentrales Gestaltungsmittel in der Alltagssp

Papers are invited dealing with the "Papuan" (ie. non-Austronesian) languages spoken in eastern Indonesia, the greater New Guinea region, and the Solomon Islands. Equally welcome are papers concerned with the Austronesian languages spoken in the same areas, including the contact varieties of Malay, as well as Tok Pisin and Solomon Islands Pidgin. Papers may be in any of the subfields of linguistics, and may represent variegated approaches and diverse theoretical persuasions. Papers are to be del

The conference will take place from 23 to 25 March 2026 at Université de Montpellier Paul Valéry (Montpellier, France). It is organized within the framework of the ChEDiL Project, funded by the French Research Agency (ANR-23-CE27-0008; https://chedil.hypotheses.org/), in collaboration with the ReSO research group of Université de Montpellier Paul Valéry. We welcome submissions on the history of lexicography, with a particular focus on dictionaries involving Asian languages. This includes both m

Meeting Description: We are pleased to announce the 17th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition conference (GALA 2025) to be held in Tours, France, at the City of Creation and Innovation (MAME) on 11-13 September 2025. GALA is a biennial conference that brings together researchers from across Europe and overseas, providing a forum for discussion of recent, high-quality research on all subfields of generative language acquisition, including, but not limited to, first and second langu

2nd Call for Papers: The Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ILRAS) and the Institute for Bible Translation (IBT) are co-organizing an international conference in Moscow on the topic of "Linguistic Forum:2025. Bible Translation as a Way to Preserve and Develop Languages: Traditions and New Approaches" on October 16-18, 2025. The deadline has been extended to July 15, 2025 for submitting paper abstracts for presenting at the conference. This conference continue

Formal Diachronic Semantics 10 (FoDS 10) will be hosted by the Linguistics Department at the University of Texas, Austin from October 16 to October 18 2025. In keeping with its tradition, FoDS brings together scholars interested in the exploration of the semantic and pragmatic aspects of diachronic processes in natural languages from a formal perspective. FoDS has been meeting yearly since 2016. It being the 10th Anniversary of FoDS, we will be marking it with presentations from some key resea

Symposium Announcement (Die deutsche Version finden Sie weiter unten / The German version is below.) Title: Teaching and Learning German Internationally – Dynamic Perspectives & Current Developments Date: 29 October 2025 Location: Festival Hall, City Hall St. Johann, Saarbrücken, Germany Address: Rathausplatz 1, 66111 Saarbrücken Website: www.saarbruecken.de/rathaus/rathaus_st_johann Event Description: As part of the 7th International Saarbrücken Foreign Language Conference (S

This short workshop (Kurz-AG) is organized as part of the 48th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS 2026, https://www.uni-trier.de/universitaet/fachbereiche-faecher/fachbereich-ii/forschung-und-zentren/dgfs2026). Workshop Description: Negation is a universal property of human language that allows us to express and to reason about what is not the case. Although negation is a ubiquitous phenomenon, experimental investigation has repeatedly shown that negative sentences are

La próxima edición de nuestro congreso tendrá lugar los días 22, 23 y 24 de abril de 2026 en la Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución de la Universidade de Vigo (UVigo). A continuación información útil: Fechas importantes: el congreso tendrá lugar los días 22, 23 y 24 de abril de 2026. Los envíos de propuestas se llevarán a cabo a través de la web del congreso www.maricorners.es Fecha límite envío de propuesta de paneles* (los paneles se explican más adelante): 30 de junio de 2025 Fecha l

Call for Papers: Tbilisi State University (Georgia), Samtskhe-Javakheti State University (Georgia), and Institute of Foreign Languages of the Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University (Lithuania) and CCIIR (Georgia) are pleased to announce the sixth international conference on Second Language Teaching/Acquisition in the Context of Multilingual Education (SeLTAME 2025). The conference will be held in a hybrid format, with the in-person sessions taking place at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi Sta

This short workshop is organized as part of the 48th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS 2026). Organizers: - Julia Muschalik (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) - Dinah Baer-Henney (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf/Ruhr University Bochum) - Dominic Schmitz (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) Call for Papers: There is ever-growing evidence of a direct influence of central processing stages on the peripheral stages in language production across modaliti

Call for Papers: The Center for Research in Syntax, Semantics, and Phonology (CRISSP) of KU Leuven invites abstracts for the 2nd edition of the NanoDays, to be held on 30–31 October 2025. The conference has no specific theme, but it is open to any submissions that work either within the framework of Nanosyntax, or that engage with that framework in any way. Invited Speakers: - Karen De Clercq (CNRS/LLF/Université Paris Cité) - Fenna Bergsma (Fryske Akademy)

A day of talks and discussion on aspects of English grammar Are you sat down or sitting down while reading this? Have you got or do you have a preference for one form over the other? English has a number of ways of expressing the same concept, and with approximately 400 million mother-tongue speakers and an estimated 1.4 billion non-native speakers it has become a diverse, flexible language that continues to adapt, evolve – and provoke strong reactions. You only need to search for #grammar on

La dernière séance du cycle de conférences organisé par le Germanopôle lorrain, de la MSH Lorraine (‘Recherches linguistiques sur le genre : perspectives croisées Allemagne – France – Luxembourg’) se déroulera lundi 23 juin de 14h à 17h30 à la MSH Lorraine à Nancy (23-25 rue Baron Louis) et pourra être suivie à distance sur Teams. Die letzte Veranstaltung der vom Germanopôle lorrain (Maison des Sciences sociales et des Humanités de Lorraine) organisierten Vortragsreihe wird am 23. Juni 2025,

Public Talk: Human Language Technology for SASL English/SASL interpreting provided When Friday, June 20, 2025 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Where MS Teams About this event The Interdisciplinary Centre for Digital Futures (ICDF) invites all staff and students to an exciting brownbag session titled ‘Human Language Technology for SASL at the University of the Free State’ featuring Dr Herkulaas Combrink, the Co-Director of the ICDF, and a Senior Lecturer at the UFS in Economic and Management Scie

Speakers of Dyirbal in North Queensland, Australia, have an everyday language style which has been well described. They also have an avoidance style, called Jalnguy, which must be used in the presence of certain ‘tabooed kin’ such as the mother-in-law. Jalnguy has the same grammar and phonology as the everyday style, but the vocabularies are entirely different. Jalnguy has only about one-sixth as many lexemes as the everyday style, with various techniques used to create a Jalnguy correspondent f

Language and place are intimately connected: depending on where we are, what the context is and what our aims are, we will adjust our language accordingly. Yet linguistics defines itself by a framework that determines which kind of language is worth investigating. Within that framework, linguistics constructs both language and place in multiple ways: language as a sequestered thing belongs to the field site or the classroom; language as fluid practice is associated with the street; language as r