Call for Papers: We are soliciting abstracts for 45-minute talks (plus 15 minutes for questions) on topics related to formal semantics. Any topic related to formal semantics is acceptable. The conference will be held at Keio University, Mita campus (Tokyo). Abstracts will be reviewed by the organizing committee and the invited speakers. Invited Speakers: Veneeta Dayal, Yale Viola Schmitt, Humbolt University / MIT Organizing Committee: Ikumi Imani, David Oshima, Junri Sh

Summary Lynette Arnold’s book is organized into eight (8) principal chapters. It provides a multipronged, fairly in-depth investigation into how traditional familial ties continue to be endorsed and further solidified across territorial borders through transnational communication gestures and mechanisms in El Salvadorean diaspora communities in different parts of the contemporary world. The Prologue section of the book - (p. xix) is mostly devoted introducing, defining and justifying the

SUMMARY With The Bloomsbury Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes R. Blackwood, S. Tufi and W. Amos have collected an outstanding display of academics and topics and managed to concisely assemble a truly multi-purpose book. The volume consists of 29 chapters, including two introductory chapters, divided into three parts. The main body of the volume is comprised of Part II showcasing 19 different topics and lenses for the study of Linguistic Landscapes (LL). Each chapter consists of small introduc

In Memoriam Miriam R.L. Petruck (1952-2025) It is with great sadness that we share the news that our colleague Dr. Miriam R. L. Petruck died April 1, 2025, after a brief hospitalization. A memorial service was held for her two days later at Congregation Beth Israel in Berkeley, California, where she had been a member for many decades, followed by interment at Gan Shalom Cemetery in Briones, California. Dr. Petruck was born April 11, 1952. She received her B.A. in Linguistics from Stony B

Call for Papers: Organization: Nathalie Elsässer 1, Hendrik Behrens-Zemek 1, Lukas Nemestothy 2, Dragana Rakocevic 3, Jan Luttenberger 1 Contact E-Mail: phonetik.workshop.oelt@gmail.com 1 Acoustics Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences 2 Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna 3 Department of German Studies, University of Graz Phonetics as a discipline and research area not only connects a number of different academic fields but, because of its requirements for data

The International Conference on Conversation Analysis and Language Teacher Education (icCALTE) will be held at TED University, Ankara, Türkiye on 13-15 February, 2026. The icCALTE aims to bring together researchers broadly interested in language teacher education, professional development, classroom discourse, classroom interactional competence, L2 interactional practices and competences, and L2 learning/teaching/assessment. The conference welcomes contributions drawing on ethnomethodology, c

2nd Call for Papers: The International Linguistic Society is delighted to invite you to participate in the 16th International Conference of Linguistic Research and Applications, Linguistics 2025 Paris, to be held on 22-24 October 2025 in Paris, France. The primary aim of the conference is to advance key areas of contemporary linguistics, while also welcoming innovative approaches to linguistic research and applications. The Linguistics 2025 Paris conference envisions a vibrant platform for

Description: registration number: fb09-0014-wmz-2025 Entry date: 2025-10-01 Application deadline: 2025-07-06 Salary: E 13 TV-H Duration: 2029-09-30 Volume of employment: part-time (65 %) The University of Marburg, founded in 1527, offers a variety of excellent programs of study for around 22,000 students and confronts the important topics of our time through excellent research across a broad spectrum of sciences. The Department of German Studies and Arts, Institute

Description: registration number: fb09-0013-wmz-2025 Entry date: 2025-10-01 Application deadline: 2025-07-06 Salary: E 13 TV-H Duration: 2029-09-30 Volume of employment: part-time (65 %) The University of Marburg, founded in 1527, offers a variety of excellent programs of study for around 22,000 students and confronts the important topics of our time through excellent research across a broad spectrum of sciences. The Department of German Studies and Arts, Institute

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