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Confs: American Association for Corpus Linguistics Conference 2026

Fri, 09/19/2025 - 06:05
The American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL) conference will take place 18-19 April 2026 at the University of Florida. The extended deadline for abstract submissions for oral presentations, posters, or workshops is 30 September 2025. Our plenary speakers are Paul Baker (Lancaster University, UK), Kristopher Kyle (University of Oregon), Kenji Sagae (UC Davis), and Sali Tagliamonte (University of Toronto). More information, including a link for abstract submission, is here: h

Calls: AFLiCo 10: Interaction and Discourse

Fri, 09/19/2025 - 06:05
Call for Papers: The French Cognitive Linguistics Association (AFLiCo) is pleased to announce its 10th international conference (AFLiCo10), to be held in Paris from June 22nd to June 24th 2026. The theme of the conference will be Interaction and Discourse. Going back to Clark’s (1996) joint action hypothesis, language is seen as a joint activity, which draws on a common ground shared among speakers, who have to constantly coordinate with each other in order to make their intentions known

Calls: Panel at LIV Simposio de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística: "Ellipsis and the Architecture of Language: When and Why Can an Element Be Elided(2nd ed.)"

Fri, 09/19/2025 - 06:05
2nd Call for Papers: Description: The goal of this panel is to maintain the meeting space for linguists working on ellipsis that was initiated at the LII Simposio de la SEL, held in Madrid in 2024. Given that the panel was successful in 2024 (researchers from different universities and countries, such as Spain, Germany, the United States and Poland attended), we believe that the session can provide a fruitful meeting space at the LIV Simposio de la SEL. Ellipsis is the anaphoric phenome

Confs: Workshop at SLE 2026: The New Arabic (Semitic) Lexicon: Old and New Themes and Perspectives

Fri, 09/19/2025 - 05:05
Convenors: Abdelkader Fassi Fehri (Mohammed V University & Linguistic Society of Morocco) Peter Hallman (Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence) Key words: Arabic/Semitic lexicon, root/template morphosyntax, allosemy, acquisition Meeting Description: In light of the enthusiastic and successful reception of the first SLE Workshop on the Arabic (Semitic) Lexicon, held at the 57th SLE Meeting at Helsinki, 2024, and sustained interest in developing descriptive, typologi

Confs: Language of the Third Millennium XIV

Fri, 09/19/2025 - 05:05
We are pleased to announce the upcoming 14th edition of our conference Language of the Third Millennium, to be held on 18-20 March 2026.The conference aims to create a forum dedicated to the exploration of the interplay of modes—linguistic, visual, gestural, spatial, aural, and beyond—in meaning-making processes across a wide range of communicative contexts The importance of multimodality becomes evident in everyday life, strongly tied to dynamic media contexts and influenced by the online en

Confs: 5th Interactional Competences and Practices in a Second Language Conference

Fri, 09/19/2025 - 05:05
Interactional Competences and Practices in a Second Language (ICOP-L2) conferences bring together researchers sharing a socially and interactionally situated view of language use, L2 learning and L2 interactional competence development. We hereby invite researchers at all career levels who draw on the principles of ethnomethodology, (multimodal) conversation analysis, membership categorization analysis, usage-based linguistics and related approaches to present their research on how L2/multilingu

TOC: Himalayan Linguistics Vol. 24, No. 1 (2025)

Thu, 09/18/2025 - 13:05
2025. 87 pp. Articles The Category of Engagement in Chhitkul-Rākchham (West-Himalayish): The Post-Verbal Clitic =niŋ Philippe Antoine Martinez | pp. 1-35 A little known past tense marker of the northern Changthang dialects of Ladakh Bettina Zeisler | pp. 36-57 A sketch grammar of Igu, the Shamanic language of the Kera’a Uta Reinöhl; Pachu Pulu, Usha Wallner | pp. 58-87 Himalayan Linguistics is a free peer-reviewed web journal and archive devoted to the study of the languages

Books: Understanding the Language of Virtual Interaction: Reyes and Ross (2025)

Thu, 09/18/2025 - 10:05
Since the advent of Web 2.0, the interaction of user-generated content on participatory platforms has democratized content creation and reshaped communication, identity, authority, and knowledge across various fields, from health to politics, amid the post-truth phenomena. This timely book provides essential insights into the transformative effects of the evolving digital landscape. It gives a comprehensive analysis of how areas such as health, politics, and language ideology have been influence

Books: Continuing Syntax: Roberts (2025)

Thu, 09/18/2025 - 10:05
A logical and clear exposition of hierarchy and locality by a leading figure in the field, Continuing Syntax takes students from an introductory level of syntactic theory to an understanding of cutting-edge research in the field. A comprehensive range of topics is covered, including configurationality, head-movement, clause structure, nominal structure, subjacency, barriers and phases, ensuring that students have a thorough understanding of all the main components of contemporary theory. The man

Books: World Englishes as Components of a Complex Dynamic System: Schneider (2025)

Thu, 09/18/2025 - 10:05
This Element proposes to view World Englishes as components of an overarching Complex Dynamic System of Englishes, against the conventional view of regarding them as discrete, rule-governed, categorial systems. After outlining this basic idea and setting it off from mainstream linguistic theories, it introduces the theory of Complex Dynamic Systems and the main properties of such systems (systemness, complexity, perpetual dynamics, network relationships, the interplay of order and chaos, emergen

Books: Conspiracy as Genre: Tebaldi, Plum, and Purschke (eds.) (2025)

Thu, 09/18/2025 - 09:05
From anti-vaccine politics to aliens, this volume explores diverse critical approaches to conspiracy narratives representing them as playful stories with serious ideologies and effects. It examines conspiracy in relation to social power and authority, moving beyond either disinformation or revelation. In addition, it looks at how the genre of conspiracy is the performance of questioning authority to produce new forms of expertise which frequently stabilize existing power hierarchies. Acros

Confs: Workshop at 22nd International Morphology Meeting: How Atypical is Non-Concatenation

Thu, 09/18/2025 - 07:05
According to Natural Morphology (e.g., Dressler 2005), the most natural morphological constructions are those based on constructional iconicity, i.e.,constructions in which more meaning is represented by more form. From this point of view, concatenative morphology is natural and typical, while non-concatenative morphology can be perceived as atypical, deviating from the standard types of word-formation in the languages of the world (see also Štekauer, Valera, and Körtvélyessy 2012). The types of

Calls: 78th Student Conference on Linguistics / 78. Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft

Thu, 09/18/2025 - 07:05
About the conference: The StuTS (Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft) is a three-day student conference on linguistics held biannually. Organized by volunteer linguistics students, it is hosted usually but not exclusively, by German-speaking universities. Since its inauguration in Hamburg in 1987, StuTS has brought together thousands of enthusiastic linguistics students to present their work, learn about exciting new topics in inspiring keynote addresses, talks, and workshops, and me

Confs: 6th Biennial University of Michigan International Conference on Arabic Applied Linguistics

Thu, 09/18/2025 - 06:05
The conference is an open forum for scholars interested in exploring empirically topics and issues in Arabic applied linguistics. The topics of the conference cover three main strands: I. Topics which deal with Arabic second language acquisition (SLA). Current approaches for investigating the different aspects (phonology, vocabulary, morphology, syntax, morphosyntax, semantics, pragmatics, etc.) of Arabic SLA include but not limited to: - Formal (generative, functional, typological) - Cog

Confs: Pushing the Boundaries of Linguistic Categorisation

Thu, 09/18/2025 - 06:05
We are delighted to announce that we are now receiving submissions for our symposium entitled “Pushing the boundaries of linguistic categorisation”. This symposium is organised by both the CELISO, Sorbonne University and the CREA, Paris Nanterre University. It will take place on Friday the 10th of April 2026 starting at 9 AM at the Maison de la Recherche, Sorbonne University, 28 rue Serpente, 75006 Paris (room D323). The importance of categorisation as a cognitive operation cannot be overstat

Confs: Emerging Linguists Workshop @ÖLT49

Thu, 09/18/2025 - 06:05
[German underneath] The Association of Emerging Linguists invites young and/or student linguists to participate in the Emerging Linguists Workshop at the 49th Austrian Linguistics Conference. This year, the Emerging Linguists Workshop is being organised as part of a course at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt (but attendance at the course is not a prerequisite for participation in the workshop!). The Association of Emerging Linguists (EL) consists of students, graduates and those int

Confs: 30th Symposium About Language and Society at Austin

Thu, 09/18/2025 - 05:05
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Luke Fleming (University of Montreal) The Symposium About Language and Society, Austin (SALSA) is an annual conference that brings together scholars from around the world who study the social life of language. We are now accepting submissions for SALSA XXX, which will take place January 16-17, 2026. The deadline for submissions is October 6, 2025. One panel at this year’s conference will be devoted to the theme “Taboo and Transgression.” For the other panels, we welcome

Jobs: Morphology, Phonology, Psycholinguistics: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Oxford

Thu, 09/18/2025 - 05:05
Description: Overview of the Role: Professor Aditi Lahiri has been awarded an ERC Synergy Grant for her project PAAL, in collaboration with the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway and Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. The overall role of the post is to experimentally investigate phonological and morphological representation and cognisance in a variety of languages. Responsibilities/duties: To work alongside with the PI and the other postdoctoral fellows within the PI's

Confs: Workshop at SLE 2026: Rethinking Argument Structure Interactionally - Deviations From Who Does What to Whom Across the Languages

Thu, 09/18/2025 - 05:05
Convenors: Vladimir Panov, Vilnius University (vladimir.panov@flf.vu.lt); Maria Khachaturyan, CNRS/University of Helsinki (maria.khachaturyan@helsinki.fi); Pavel Ozerov, University of Innsbruck (pavel.ozerov@uibk.ac.at) Workshop Description: The goal of this workshop is to lay the groundwork for an utterance/TCU-oriented typology. Departing from the traditional clause-based model of cross-linguistic variation, we aim to uncover the fundamental syntactic patterns of spoken discourse and the t

Books: Workable Accents: Ramjattan (2025)

Wed, 09/17/2025 - 12:05
An in-depth exploration of how international teaching assistants (ITAs) make their accents workable to fulfill their duties as academic laborers. In this book, “workable” refers not only to manipulating an accent, but also to ensuring that an accent achieves certain objectives such as being perceived as an intelligible speaker, an expert educator, and an acceptable worker. Drawing on commentaries from ITAs working in Canadian universities, Vijay A. Ramjattan highlights how crafting a workable

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