This newly-expanded book of ABCs for our youngest linguists introduces an alphabet of phonetic and phonological concepts through rhyming couplets. How did we expand a book of ABCs? By adding four new characters from the IPA, of course! Linguists young and old will be charmed by this educational and slightly irreverent take on linguistics. We guarantee zero footnotes or citations. Note: "An ABC for Baby Linguists" is not tear-proof, and should not be ingested. Please supervise your baby linguists

This dissertation aims to extend our understanding of the production and processing of coarticulation from the segmental to the suprasegmental domain by focusing on tonal coarticulation in Standard Chinese (SC) bisyllabic nonce words. Through a detailed acoustic study, it presents evidence that a less-studied second language (L2) learner group in L2 tone research, namely Indonesian learners of SC, can acquire SC bitonal coarticulation patterns to some extent. Their patterns also exhibit a develo

Uttarakāṇḍa, an Old Javanese prose literary work from the 10th century, was composed during the reign of Dharmawangśa. At least two text traditions have been identified: the Balinese tradition and the Javanese tradition, more precisely the one found in the Mount Merapi and Mount Merbabu area of Central Java. Three editions have been published, yet none have included manuscripts from the Javanese tradition, even though it may be assumed that each tradition possesses its distinct characteristics.

This dissertation presents a comprehensive analysis of the complex case-marking patterns as found in the Ecuadorian variety of Siona language, a Tukanoan language belonging to the western branch. This endangered language is spoken today by roughly 350 individuals in the Upper Napo-Aguarico watershed in northwestern Amazonia. The aim of this work is to investigate the mechanisms of differential case-marking (DCM), the phenomenon whereby not all subject, object, or certain spatial arguments be

SUMMARY Linguistics is a vast multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary field, and research methods used to obtain new knowledge have always been and will be of interest to scholars, students, and investigators who study linguistic data. The most important specific feature of this book is that it does not concentrate on a separate subfield of linguistics offering the descriptions of some techniques that can be applied in different subfields of study. The book comprises an Introduction and 13

We would like to draw your attention to the panel that we are organising as part of the 20th International Pragmatics Conference (IPC20), which will take place at the University of Helsinki in June 2027: Official parliamentary transcripts and video recordings as research data in pragmatics   During the past few decades, there has been increasing interest in the research on parliamentary debates from pragmatic and discourse perspectives. Most past studies on the pragmatics of parliamentary d

The European Journal of Education and Language Review (EJELR) invites submissions on a rolling basis. EJELR is a diamond open-access journal which publishes critical scholarship at the intersection of language, education, identity and power. We are interested in work that asks not only how languages are taught and learned, but whose languages count, in whose interests educational language policies operate, and what is made possible (or lost) when those arrangements are contested. We are a you

Intercultural Pragmatics in the new Millennium. Messina May 15th-19th, COSPECS, via Concezione 6. Workshop organized by Alessandro Capone and Chusni Hadiati. acapone@unime.it This is part of Pragmasophia 2028, 15th-19th May, COSPECS, University of Messina. This workshop will also include cultural pragmatics. We are especially interested in African languages, Asiatic languages, the languages of South America and of American Indians. We are also interested in all remaining languages

We invite all students of linguistics and related disciplines to participate in the 80th StuTS in Cologne! StuTS stands for Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft, Student Conference on Linguistics (https://fs-lup.uni-koeln.de/en/stuts-80). The conference takes place once per semester and is organized independently by students. We will be hosting this semester's 80th StuTS during the 2026–27 winter semester (18–22 November) at the University of Cologne. All participants are warmly invited to

Call for Papers: - Working on a research project that would benefit from feedback before you present it at a conference? - Looking for a collaborative, low-stakes venue to talk about your and others’ research? Check out the new American Dialect Society Research Incubator (ADSRI1)! Online September 18–19, 2026, a half-day on Friday, Sept. 18, and most of Saturday, Sept. 19. Registration is free and open to all. https://uwmadison.zoom.us/meeting/register/pMrcMEtwTTSOemm5RAFlrw We are

Call for fellowship applications 2027 Are you an MA graduate or PhD candidate in linguistics interested in register research? The CRC 1412 (Humboldt-Universität Berlin & ZAS) invites applications for short-term visiting fellowships of 3-12 months in 2027. The program supports: - MA graduates pursuing or planning a PhD - Research related to register and situational-functional variation - Fellowships worth €1,468/month (tax-free) - Integration with one of 18 CRC sub-projects Requiremen

A Call for Book Chapter Proposals on Names, Crime, and the Law One of the most fascinating areas of interdisciplinary research involving onomastics, criminology, and the law is forensic onomastics. The current call for book chapter proposals is for an upcoming publication in the Bloomsbury book series, “Names and Naming in the Social Sciences and Humanities”. Possible topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: 1.) Names of crimes, criminals, victims, and/or law enf

The next Acquisition Sketch Project Meeting is on "An in-progress look at the Bangla Acquisition Sketch” presented by Asifa Sultana and team It will be held on Wednesday August 12 as follows: Berlin = 9 am Tbilisi = 11 am Delhi = 12:30 pm Tokyo = 4 pm Melbourne = 5 pm Los Angeles = midnight (end of Tuesday August 11) Zoom link = https://anu.zoom.us/j/82749880138?pwd=zYltVQGj4XQVZV5LaTWbDRbuJmPpJw.1 Meeting ID = 827 4988 0138 Password = 417807 Check https://www.worldtime

Interpreting in Armed Conflict: Lessons from the field offers a comprehensive analysis of interpreting across diverse conflict settings, including humanitarian missions, military operations, war journalism, human rights missions, and international fact-finding missions. Adopting a cross-contextual perspective, the book examines key dimensions such as communicative constraints, interpreters’ positionality and agency, trust and distrust, intercultural communication, training, ethical challenges, a

This book brings together cutting-edge research on grammatical variation and change in English, showcasing the state of the art in contemporary corpus linguistics. The studies apply corpus-based and variationist methods to a wide range of grammatical categories (nominal, adjectival, verbal, adverbial, prepositional) across synchronic and diachronic perspectives. Its central aim is to demonstrate how empirical corpus evidence can enhance grammatical theory, especially within usage-based, cognitiv

This monograph presents the first book-length study to focus on formulaic humor and humorous formulae , situated at the crossroads of Pragmatics, Phraseology, and Conversational Humor Studies. Based upon a self-compiled corpus of 34 television series (4,214 episodes; 19.4 million words), it adopts a corpus-assisted, exploratory, mixed-method approach to analyze 13 types of humorous formulae across 146 samples. A conversation-analytical lens reveals how these formulaic patterns are systematically

Exploring Dialogue is a collection of essays on argumentation, authored or coauthored by Erik C.W. Krabbe, which take a philosopher's or even a logician's point of view. For this collection, Krabbe selected twenty of what, in his opinion, were his best philosophical essays about argumentation. Four of them were written with Jan Albert van Laar. All of these essays are, in one way or another, concerned with argumentative dialogue. Their focus is sometimes on particular kinds of fallacious reasoni

The documentarist turn, i.e., the growing impact of documentary concepts and practices within general linguistics, has increased awareness of the empirical foundations of our discipline, accompanied by an appreciation of the value of observable linguistic behaviour. Today, there exist well-annotated, audiovisual data collections for many—if still far from enough—endangered or un(der)described languages across the world, each striving to present a “lasting, multipurpose record of a language” (Him

Join us for the free New Frontiers in Corpus Linguistics Symposium, organised by the Department of English and Communication at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, from 16 to 17 September 2026. Zoom participation is available. Please register here: https://cems.polyu.edu.hk/register?id=D70672EF-AEEA-4657-9419-41AC3B3DF122 Format: Hybrid Symposium (16–17 September) In-person Workshop: 16 September (afternoon) Venue: PolyU Hung Hom Bay Campus, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 16 Sept

Language Disorders 2026 Online International Thematic Conference on Language Disorders Research and Applications Special session: Language Disorder Corpora Organizing committee Nicola Bessell, University College Cork, Ireland Henk van den Heuvel, Radboud University, the Netherlands Alice Lee, University College Cork, Ireland Katarzyna Klessa, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, Poland Satu Saalasti, University of Eastern Finland, Finland Keynote speaker Iris Nowenstein Progra