The ninth talk of the Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series 2025 will take place remotely on Monday 12th May 2025 at 5pm BST. Minyue Wang (Lancaster University) will present on “A Corpus-Based Study on the Grammaticalization Paths of the Chinese Classifier— 枚 méi”. Registration for this talk will close at midnight on Friday 9th May and the link for this can be accessed here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfBatMxbT5jTyRuTz3BD-_P5XYmWpFE8lniyUruelqgi0oSVQ/viewform Partici

Some readers may find the latest issue (vol. 37, no. 1) of the journal Parallèles of interest. It is a special issue devoted to the role of gesture in interpreting. It features nine papers covering a range of topics and language combinations, as well as theoretical, methodological, and practical considerations related to the use of gesture in spoken-to-spoken and signed-to-spoken language interpreting. The journal is open access and the articles can be found here: https://www.paralleles.unige.ch

Linguists and language enthusiasts in the Washington DC area may be interested in attending this upcoming free event at Planet Word museum in Washington DC. The Language Science Fair is an event for the general public featuring activities, talks, puzzles, crafts, and prizes, all about language science! Hosted by the Language Science Station at Planet Word, the Fair brings together scientists and curious minds to celebrate how language works, from the way we produce and perceive language, to how

Morrobolam is a Lamalamic (Paman < Pama-Nyungan) language of Cape York Peninsula in north-eastern Australia. Like other languages in the region, it has unusual sound and word structures by Australian standards. This dictionary provides a detailed analysis of the forms, meanings and uses of Morrobolam words, generously illustrated with example sentences from texts. It is of interest to linguists, anthropologists and other scientists, but can also be used as a practical guide to the language, for

Description: The Center for Language Science (CLS) in the College of the Liberal Arts at Penn State seeks a Human Research Technologist to assist in the operations and research of the labs within CLS. The CLS is an interdisciplinary group of linguists, psycholinguists, applied linguists, speech-language pathologists, speech scientists, and cognitive neuroscientists who share an interest in language acquisition and bilingualism. CLS researchers employ a variety of methods including behavioral

Other Specialties: Humanities, Social Sciences, Computer Science or related fields Description: We are happy to announce that the University of Tartu Faculty of Arts and Humanities is launching a call for applications for 3 postdoctoral research fellows in Digital Humanities, at the Center for Digital Text Scholarship (DigiTS), funded by the European Union. DigiTS is aimed at carrying out cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research using modern digital methods applied to textual data in Humani

Description: As an Associate Linguist, you will provide linguistic expertise for developing NLP tools for the target language. You will be involved in annotation, creating grammar rules, formulating language templates, finding patterns, and evaluating existing data. Full training on tools and processes will be provided. RESPONSIBILITIES - Annotation - Creating grammar rules - Formulating language templates - Finding patterns - Evaluating existing data REQUIREMENTS - We are loo

The following books are now available for review on the LINGUIST List. If you would like to become a reviewer for one of the books announced in the AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW posting, you will need to follow steps 1-4 explained below: Step 1: Go to https://linguistlist.org/reviews/request Step 2: You will be asked to log in or create an account. Step 3: Update your personal information and add reviewer specific information on why you would be a good reviewer for the books you wish to select. Step

Other Specialties: Multilingualism Description: Starting from October 1, 2025, the section of English Linguistics in English and American Studies at TU Braunschweig is looking for a Postdoc in English Linguistics (m/f/d) (part-time 50%-75% - German pay scale TV-L EG 13) The Postdoc position is for a period of 3 years initially, subject to a successful evaluation of progress at the end of the first year. The successful applicant will pursue further academic qualifications, e.g., a

Description: Position Start Date: August 1, 2026 Required Degree: PhD or its foreign equivalent The required degree must be completed by the start date. Experience: Experience teaching Spanish at the university level and performing scholarly research. Fluency in written and spoken Spanish and English is also required. Duties/Expectations: The successful candidate will be expected to: 1. Teach six courses per year. These include service courses that are required for a va

The performance of food has become ubiquitous in the digital realm, where we find content saturated with all things culinary, gustatory, and gastronomic. From food porn images to restaurant reviews, from what-I-eat-in-a-day-videos to cooking shows, from mukbang to forum posts with food advice – people negotiate and display their food practices online, to be consumed and regurgitated by others via their digital devices. This is often based on co-occurring linguistic performances, interweaving foo

ACCENT VARIATION AND CHANGE 'Accents' is an annual conference organized by the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics at University of Lodz, Poland. It brings together researchers and teachers interested in native and non-native accents of English, approached from a variety of theoretical and/or practical perspectives. The key issues discussed each year include individual accent characteristics, the dynamism of accent usage, accent teaching and learning, and the methods and to

This hybrid event will bring together cutting-edge research, innovative practices, and theoretical perspectives on the ethical and responsible integration of AI in the learning and teaching of languages and cultures and applied linguistics. The conference theme draws inspiration from the Shifting Power project which itself was inspired by the thinking of Pratyusha Kalluri of the Radical AI Network. Asking whether AI is good or fair is not the right question, she holds. Instead, we should seek to

Genitives and Possession in Contact Online workshop - 13th June 2025 Much has been written on the topic of possession in general (Heine, 1997; Nichols, 1988, among others), in the last 15 years there have also been several publications that have discussed the influence of language contact on possession-related phenomena, such as on split possession in European languages (Stolz, et al. 2008), predicative possession in Slavic (McAnallen, 2011) or attributive possession in Tunisian Arabic (Saya

Call for Papers Workshop B03 SFB 1391 Andere Ästhetik Brücken bauen Metaphern und Symbole an der Schnittstelle von Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik Tübingen, 24. – 26. September 2025 Metaph

A doctoral research fellowships in Swedish linguistics (with a focus on semantics and historical linguistics) is available at Ghent University. The research will be conducted under supervision of prof. dr. Andreas Widoff. The doctoral student will be part of the Scandinavian section of the Department of linguistics. We offer a full-time position as a doctoral fellow, consisting of an initial period of 12 months, which after a positive evaluation, will be extended to a total maximum of 48 mont

Starting from October 1, 2025, the section of English Linguistics in English and American Studies at TU Braunschweig is looking for a PhD candidate in English Linguistics (m/f/d) (part-time 50- German pay scale TV-L EG 13) The position is for a period of 3 years initially, subject to a successful evaluation of progress at the end of the first year. Salary ranges from 27k to 32k Euros per year depending on the applicant’s experience. The successful applicant will pursue a Ph.D. degree.

Hello, I am currently working on my Bachelor's Thesis, in which I am researching compliment responses in English. Part of the thesis is a survey, where I am trying to analyse possible differences in responses from German and British English participants. If you are either an L1 German or L1 British English speaker, I would appreciate your participation in my survey. Please make sure to answer everything in English. You can find my survey here: https://ee-eu.kobotoolbox.org/x/FtEch4YM

How do brains of multilingual speakers process native and non-native languages in speaking? This thesis has attempted to characterize the multilingual experience in late language learners, focusing on the processing of two distinct but similar lexico-syntactic features: classifiers in Chinese and grammatical gender in Dutch, across different populations. The thesis investigated whether and how lexico-syntactic features are processed during non-native language (L2) speech production and compared

There is space in our open-access grammar book series Grammars of World and Minority Languages (UCL Press) for one high-quality grammar book manuscript next academic year. Previous publications in the series include A Grammar of Elfdalian by Yair Sapir and Olof Lundgren, A Grammar of Paraguayan Guarani by Bruno Estigarribia, and A Grammar of Akajeru by Raoul Zamponi and Bernard Comrie. Please get in touch with the series editors Lily Kahn l.kahn@ucl.ac.uk or Riitta Valijarvi r.valijarvi@