Program and abstracts: https://tinyurl.com/2025-tms-conference There has recently been a growing interest in truthmaker semantics as an alternative to the standard possible-worlds approach in philosophical and formal semantics. Following a successful initial meeting in 2023, the second Advances in Truthmaker Semantics conference will take place in:  Munich, July 28–30, 2025, at Carl-Friedrich-von-Siemens Foundation, Südliches Schlossrondell 23, 80638 Munich, Germany The aim of the confere

The conference KogWis 2025, which will take place 01.09. - 03.09. at Ruhr-University Bochum, will provide a platform for discussing the most recent developments in Cognitive Science. It will feature contributed papers, symposia, and posters covering all subfields of cognitive science, bringing together a large number of experts from Europe and overseas. The conference program is now online: https://kogwis2025.philosophy-cognition.com/program/ Call for Registration: Early Bird registration i

This book is concerned with the licensing and usage of the elliptical construction topic drop in German. The term topic drop refers to the omission of the preverbal constituent in declarative verb-second sentences, for example, the omission of the subject ich (‘I’) in the sentence Bin gleich zurück (‘Am right back’). Topic drop exists in most of the Germanic verb-second languages and typically occurs in spoken language and text types such as SMS, chats, notes, etc. While much of the previous

This book is composed of four studies that all investigate different aspects of word stress in Papuan Malay, an Austronesian language spoken in eastern Indonesia. These aspects, in order of presentation, include acoustic realisation, auditory perception, lexical analyses and word disambiguation. The introduction provides the theoretical background against which the studies are undertaken. All studies are empirical in nature; they either report acoustic analyses, production or perception experime

Fillers are non-silent linguistic devices used in disfluencies to gain time while searching for words. In addition, they are frequently used intentionally to avoid words for reasons of politeness, ‘conspirational’ motivations, or rhetorical purposes. Two syntactically distinct types of conventionalized fillers can be distinguished: placeholders and hesitatives (also called hesitators). Placeholders are referential and morphosyntactically integrated, while hesitatives are neither. Strikingly, eve

The book Universality of semantic frames and language specific Bulgarian data is devoted to the principles of data organisation in the Bulgarian FrameNet, which has been in development for more than 20 years and has gone through various phases. Originally it was developed as an independent resource, but for about fifteen years it has been correlated with the Berkeley FrameNet, observing the following basic principles: The information in the FrameNet that is relevant for the description of Bulgar

Presenters: Dr Patrick Sibanda and Dr Chrismi Loth (University of the Free State, South Africa) 26 November 14:00-15:30 R1 000 (or R1 200 for both workshops) Protea Hotel, Clarens (South Africa) Face-to-face event More information: https://www.ufs.ac.za/conferences/conference/2025-ispn-home Programme Outline: The presenters will share and discuss insights developed from a project on signed toponymy. The session is envisioned as an interactive session, with the presenters leading the di

Presenter: Prof Frédéric Giraut (Geneva University, Switzerland), UNESCO Chair in Inclusive Toponymy “Naming the World” 26 November 10:30-12:30 Protea Hotel, Clarens (South Africa) Face-to-face event R1 000 (or R1 200 for both workshops) More information: https://www.ufs.ac.za/conferences/conference/2025-ispn-home Programme Outline: The presenter will share and discuss elements of a resolution at the UN Forum on Minorities Issues. In a nutshell, the proposal is to take advantage of co

2025. iii, 201 pp. Table of Contents Obituary: Jeffrey Alan Siegel 3 November 1945–8 March 2025 Felicity Meakins & Cindy Schneider pp. 1–6 Articles Adjective phrase fronting in the Malacca Creole Portuguese noun phrase: A vestige of South Asian substrate? Alan N Baxter pp. 7–34 A multidimensional perspective on the acquisition of subject-verb dependencies by Haitian-Creole speaking children: Insights from comprehension and production Isabelle Barrière, Blandine Joseph, Katsi

2025. v, 145 pp. Introduction Historical linguistics at school: Theory, practices and challenges Theodore Markopoulos & Brian D. Joseph pp. 109–112 Articles Linguistics is for everyone: Cross-curricular approaches to historical linguistics in secondary education Jessica DeLisi pp. 113–133 On opportunities to study historical linguistics in schools in the United Kingdom Benjamin Goddard, Francesca Iezzi, Pavel Iosad, Will Reynolds & Graeme Trousdale pp. 134–154 Historical

2025. iii, 103 pp. Table of Contents The case of Sydney universities: Embracing multilingualism or preserving English-only practices in the Australian context? Rodrigo Arellano & Luis Torres-Vásquez pp. 513–545 Representation of the Spanish language in the virtual linguistic landscape of university websites in Australia Luis Torres-Vásquez & Rodrigo Arellano pp. 546–581 Who says men can never change? A corpus-based study of recent changes in the use of the Chinese plural suffix

2025. iii, 159 pp. Table of Contents Articles A contrastive analysis of English deverbal -er synthetic compounds and their Italian equivalents Elisa Mattiello pp. 157–184 A contrastive analysis of (-)ish in English and Swedish blogs Karin Aijmer pp. 185–208 Academic voice in the rhetorical construction of author identity: An intercultural rhetorical perspective Congjun Mu pp. 209–236 Reflexivity patterns in West-Slavic languages: Between introversion, extroversion, and m

2025. vi, 326 pp. Table of Contents Special issue articles Introduction: Aspects of metaphor Maria Theodoropoulou pp. 1–9 Metaphor clusters in political discourse Angeliki Athanasiadou pp. 10–34 A look at, inside, and outside metaphors: The multitudinal interactions of metaphorical meaning Herbert L. Colston pp. 35–58 An inclusive case study of multimodal metaphor: Embodied, cultural and ideological contexts of a labyrinth in the contemporary art discourse on refugee mig

2025. iii, 113 pp. Table of Contents Articles Voices in the Linguistic Landscape: Anthropomorphization of artifacts and the pronominal construction of speakerhood Theresa Heyd & Jana Pithan pp. 211–232 « Nana sacs plastiques »: Discourses of minority language vitality in Tahiti, French Polynesia Will Amos pp. 233–264 The tempo and presence of university students’ learning across schoolscapes Aaron Joshua Peltoniemi, Tamás Péter Szabó & Raija Hämäläinen pp. 265–288 Munici

Language Learning is inviting proposals for a 2027 special issue from prospective guest editors. We welcome proposals that will engage Language Learning’s international readership and advance scholarly understanding of language learning. We are especially interested in special issue themes that highlight work in areas of inquiry, theoretical approaches, and methodological tools in language learning that are underrepresented and/or represent cutting-edge developments in the wider interdiscipli

The GReLA research group and the Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Germanística at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain is pleased to announce the 2nd ELLRA (Early Language Learning Research Association) Conference to be held at the UAB from 3 to 5 June 2026 https://webs.uab.cat/ellra-conference-2026/ The theme of the conference is Exploring Multilingualism and Diversity in Formal Early Language Learning Contexts, and we invite proposals for oral presentations, posters and organize

AG7 of the Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society: https://www.uni-trier.de/universitaet/fachbereiche-faecher/fachbereich-ii/forschung-und-zentren/dgfs2026 Organized by: Jana Häussler (Uni Bielefeld), Thomas Weskott (Uni Göttingen), Sarah Zobel (Uni Hannover / HU Berlin) Linguistic acceptability is one of the major tools to detect patterns in language: our intuitions about whether a sentence is "good" or "bad" are a source of evidence that is readily accessible and easy to communica

We are delighted to announce that the 4th International Conference on Discourse Pragmatics will take place online from October 17 to 19, 2025. This year’s theme, “Discourse Pragmatics, Online Interaction, and the Age of AI,” responds to the urgent need to understand how digital technologies and algorithmic mediation are reshaping the conditions of human communication in profound ways. As digital platforms, social media, and AI-driven interfaces become central to everyday interaction, question

2025. iii, 116 pp. Table of Contents Articles Redefining faculty preparedness in English-medium instruction: Impact from an innovative professional development initiative in Taiwan Meredith Doran, Jacob Rieker & Yunhua Yang pp. 145–165 Importance marking in EMI and L1 lectures: A case of similarities and idiolect Katrien L. B. Deroey & Jane Helen Johnson pp. 166–188 Ideological tensions in identity construction of Chinese medical teachers and students in EMI Paiwei Qin, Mai

2025. iii, 169 pp. Table of Contents Articles International players’ perceptions of localization in their gameplay experiences: An explorative study with Steam user game reviews Hao Hsu & Minako O’Hagan pp. 1–24 Narratives in film title translation: A study of films by Zhang Yimou and Jia Zhangke Qi Zhang & Caitríona Osborne pp. 25–49 Agile working and job satisfaction for localization language agents Madiha Kassawat pp. 50–73 Exploring the ethical perspectives of transl