The research group “Intercultural pragmatic studies (English-Spanish): Pragmatic and discourse issues” is pleased to announce the upcoming 12th International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics (EPICS XII, after the Spanish abbreviation for “Encuentros de Pragmática Intercultural, Cognitiva y Social”). Under the aegis of the PATDISC research project (“Discourse pathologisation in Twitter, Instagram and TikTok”, grant PID2022-136840O, MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and ER

In null instantiation (NI) an optionally unexpressed argument receives either anaphoric or existential interpretation. One cannot accurately predict a predicator's NI potential based either on semantic factors (e.g., Aktionsart class of the verb) or pragmatic factors (e.g., relative discourse prominence of arguments), but NI potential, while highly constrained, is not simply lexical idiosyncrasy. It is instead the product of both lexical and constructional licensing. In the latter case, a constr

Construction Grammar and Systemic Functional Grammar take different approaches to the study of lexico-grammar, based on language as a cognitive and as a social phenomenon respectively. This is the first book to bring the two approaches together, using corpus-based Pattern Grammar as an underlying descriptive framework, in order to present a comprehensive and original treatment of verb-based patterns in English. It describes in detail two processes: deriving over 800 verb argument constructions f

Communication is central to the experience of illness and the provision of healthcare. This book showcases the insights that can be gained into health communication by means of corpus linguistics – the computer-aided linguistic analysis of large datasets of naturally occurring language use known as 'corpora'. The book takes readers through the stages that they must go through to carry out corpus linguistic research on health communication, from formulating research questions to disseminating fin

Emotion plays a critical role in every human interaction and permeates all social activity. Displaying, responding to, and talking about emotions is thus central to human language, communication, and social interaction. However, emotions are multidimensional, indeterminate, and inherently situated phenomena, which makes studying them in contextualised settings challenging for researchers. This groundbreaking book illustrates what a sociopragmatic perspective brings to the broader scholarly under

This Element in Construction Grammar addresses one of its hottest topics and asks: is the unimodal conception of Construction Grammar as a model of linguistic knowledge at odds with the usage-based thesis and the multimodality of language use? Are constructions verbal, i.e. unimodal form-meaning pairings, or are they, or at least are some of them, multimodal in nature? And, more fundamentally, how do we know? These questions have been debated quite controversially over the past few years. This E

The University of British Columbia is pleased to host a joint conference bringing together SULA (Semantics of Under-represented Languages in the Americas) and TripleA (Semantics of Languages of Africa, Asia, Australia and Oceania) on May 12 -15, 2026. This will be the first time that these conferences will be combined into one joint event. The conference also marks the 25th Anniversary of SULA, which took place for the first time in 2001. The goal of the conference is to bring together resear

Workshop: Artificial Languages in the Linguist’s Toolbox We are delighted to invite you to attend the second workshop of the EXREAN project* at the Freie Universität Berlin which will explore the application of artificial languages as a tool in linguistic research. Artificial language learning experiments test how far language users can extract rule-like generalizations from structured input (Culbertson, 2023). Since Reber’s (1967) seminal artificial grammar (AG) study, which aimed at inve

Abstracts (max. 300 words, excluding references) should be sent to Natalia Levshina (natalia.levshina@ru.nl) and Nicole Katzir (nicole.katzir@gmail.com) by November 10th. Large Language Models (LLMs) are models with billions of parameters, trained on vast amounts of text data to learn statistical patterns in language, and able to generate, process, and predict human(-like) text. As discussions at the recent SLE meeting and other venues demonstrate, the rise of LLMs has major consequences for

Final Call for Papers: Deadline extended to 1 October 2025 No wonder sugar is on everyone’s lips (pun intended): it is just an omnipresent item and a hotly debated topic. But there are many facets to it: sugar is an agricultural product, a food item, a nutrient, and a biochemical component of our bodies. The meanings of sugar are thus constructed in many different discourses, with different aspects being foregrounded. Many of these aspects are problematic and controversial, whether the rol

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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