The 4th of June 2026 marks the 500th anniversary of the birth of one of the most influential figures in the history of European and worldwide grammar: Father Manuel Álvares, S.J. (1526–1583), a native of Ribeira Brava, on the island of Madeira. Author of the famous Latin-Portuguese grammar De institutione grammatica libri tres, first printed in Lisbon in 1572, Álvares is recognized as the most important Latin grammarian of the Modern Age, his work having been adopted as a normative model in Jesu

Call for Papers: The 8th Learner Corpus Research Conference to be held in Prague 16–19 September, 2026. Organizers: Tomáš Gráf, Barbora Bulantová, Kryštof Buchal, Alexandr Rosen, Radek Skarnitzl, Lanfen Huang, Kristián Centek, Daniela Marková, Iva Hubáčková Key Dates: Submission deadline: 16 January 2026 Notification of acceptance: 16 March 2026 Conference dates: 17–19 September 2026 Pre-conference workshops and PhD programme: 16 September 2026 The Learner Corpus Research Confe

Call for Papers: We are delighted to share with you the Third Circular for the 23rd International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL-23), which will take place at the University of Milan from 15 to 18 June 2026. We are now inviting proposals for: - Individual papers and posters Abstracts should not exceed 300 words (excluding references) and should clearly outline the research question, methodology, and main findings. Abstract proposals should be uploaded using the l

Call for Papers: We are happy to announce that the 6th edition of the Linguistics Prague conference will be held from June 4 to June 5 2026 at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in the historical center of Prague. The conference will take place in person. The aim of the conference is to bring together graduate students and early career researchers whose research addresses any topics relevant to linguistics and is grounded in empirical methods. We invite contributions employing q

2nd Call for Papers: We are living in a transformative era, characterised by technological innovation, social change, and widespread uncertainty. Global transformations and digital acceleration are affecting education and communication, opening new pathways for language teaching, learning, and intercultural engagement. In these complex times, Language Centres face growing demands: providing learners with effective communication skills, supporting inclusive education, and fostering intercultur

This conference offers a unified framework bringing together two complementary perspectives. The Literature and Media section examines how conflict takes shape in narrative, from classical epic to modern anti-epics and audiovisual representations, focusing on the narrative devices and aesthetic strategies that construct meaning around wars, crises and traumas. The Linguistics section considers language as a site of conflict, analyzing how political and media discourse, multilingual practices, la

Call for Papes: The deadline for submitting paper proposals (long papers of 10 to 15 pages) has been extended to January 6, 2026 The University of Artois (Arras, France) is organizing the 10th Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française (CMLF 2026) from July 6 to 10, 2026. The CMLF is organized into thematic sessions that cover a wide range of scientific fields: - Discourse, pragmatics, and interaction - Francophonie - History of French: diachronic and synchronic perspectives - Hi

Ce colloque s’inscrit dans le cadre de la 10e édition des rencontres scientifiques Montpellier-Sherbrooke, qui se tiendront à l’Université de Montpellier du 3 au 5 juin 2026. Dans la réflexion sur le changement linguistique, le cas des périphrases verbales fait figure d’exemple prototypique. Meillet fait ainsi de la formation du futur en français par la périphrase infinitif + habeo l’illustration par excellence de la « grammaticalisation », « changement d’un mot en élément grammatical » ([19

Description: The Program in Linguistics at Princeton University invites applications for one or more Postdoctoral Research Associate (or more senior) research position(s) in linguistics. The ideal candidate(s) will have a strong background in theoretical morphology and/or syntax. Research areas of particular interest include (i) the featural/structural representation of tense, aspect, modality, and related categories, (ii) syncretism, and (iii) non-concatenative morphology (broadly constru

We invite submissions to the first Workshop on Computational Affective Science (CAS 2026), co-located with LREC 2026, on research related to the understanding of affect and emotions through language and computation. CAS will accept archival long and short paper submissions, featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research. We also encourage submissions of extended abstracts from researchers in the broader Affective Science community, with up to two pages of content featuring the researc

The fellows will work alongside the PIs and scientific staff of one of our 15 research projects on a short-term project.

Description: The following position is available at the Department of Linguistics of the Faculty of Humanities for the period of April 1st 2026 to March 31st 2027. Substitute Professorship in Computational Linguistics (m/f/d, salary scale W3, 100%) The employment will be on a non-tariff contractual basis. Remuneration will follow the W3-salary scale (as for regular professorships). The teaching load is 9 contact hours per week (German: 9 Semesterwochenstunden). Duties: Representation

Other Specialties: morphology, phonetics, phonology, pragmatics, prosody, semantics, sign/speech perception, syntax, or typology Description: The Department of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University seeks candidates for a tenured / tenure-track faculty position in language using approaches such as theoretical linguistics, language development/acquisition, fieldwork, psycholinguistics, and neurobiology of language. The department seeks candidates with cutting-edge research programs i

Description: The following position is available at the Chair of General Linguistics (Prof. Gerhard Jäger), Department of Linguistics of the Faculty of Humanities for the period of April 1st 2026 to September 30th 2027. Substitute Professorship in General Linguistics (m/f/d, salary scale W3, 100%) The employment will be on a non-tariff contractual basis. Remuneration will follow the W3-salary scale (as for regular professorships). The teaching load is 9 contact hours per week (German: 9

Dieser Band greift das Desiderat einer germanistischen Variationspragmatik auf. Dazu versammelt er Beiträge, die sich pragmatischer Variation im Deutschen insbesondere aus diatopischer und diaphasischer Perspektive widmen. Berücksichtigung finden sowohl klassische Bereiche der Pragmatik (z. B. Deixis, Sprechakte, pragmatische Marker) wie auch Ansätze einer weit gefassten Pragmatik (z. B. Schreibregister, Text- und Wissensorganisation, Metapragmatik). Hierbei kommen vielfältige Methoden zum Einsa

In this newsletter: LDC 2026 membership discounts now available LDC’s 1000th corpus Approaching deadline for Spring 2026 data scholarship applications LDC closed for Winter Break December 25 – January 2 New publications: 2021 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation Development and Test Set LORELEI Sinhala Incident Language Pack ________________________________________ LDC 2026 membership discounts now available Now through March 2, 2026, any organization that joins the Consortium o

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Lars Johanson (born March 8, 1936) of Turcology sadly passed away in Mainz, Germany on November 24, 2025. Lars Johanson, Swedish-born linguist, played a crucial role in establishing the study of Turkic languages as a modern linguistic discipline. In addition to his significant work on Turkic linguistics, his studies in general linguistics, primarily language typology, are of great importance. His theoretical models for the study of verbal aspect systems, evidentiality, and

Title: Language as Hope Subtitle: - Series Title: - Publication Year: 2025 Publisher: Cambridge University Press ( http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics ) Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/language-as-hope/D50E18AB271F1A401C7FF69297AB2600 Author(s): Daniel N. Silva & Jerry Won Lee Reviewer: Merijn Benning SUMMARY Written by Daniel N. Silva and Jerry W. Lee, Language as Hope (Cambridge University Press, 2025, 185 pages) consists of seven parts: an introducti

Focus: ACT-R Teachers: Jelmer Borst & Stephen Jones (University of Groningen) Website: http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/ ACT-R is a high-level cognitive theory and simulation system for developing cognitive models for tasks that vary from simple reaction time experiments to driving a car, learning algebra, and air traffic control. ACT-R can be used to develop process models of a task at a symbolic level. Participants will follow a compressed five-day version of the traditional summer school cu

This workshop will take a corpus- and computational-linguistics perspective on fake news and related phenomena, where fake news is defined along the axes of veracity and honesty, giving rise to three types: 1) false but honest news, such as errors, which corresponds to misinformation; 2) false and dishonest news, such as lies; and 3) true but dishonest news, in which crucial pieces of information may be omitted (so as to fit a certain narrative, as seen, arguably, in propaganda), or in which tru