This international workshop convened by DIASCO-TIB aims to reflect on names and naming practices in the context of migration from a variety of disciplines of the humanities and social sciences, tackling present or historical situations analyzed through empirical case studies. Dates: November 20-21, 2025. Venue: Auditorium Dumézil, Maison de la Recherche, Inalco (2, rue de Lille, 75007 Paris), and online No registration required, in-person or online. The conference programme with abstract

The Computational Resources for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL) language archive will hold its IX annual meeting Dec 11th and 12th 2025 from 10:00am-6:00pm IST.  Join us via ZOOM. Link provided upon registration.   Register at: https://go.iu.edu/8vPg The goal of the event is to (1) create awareness in India of the CoRSAL digital language archive and (2) to explore avenues of research and (3) academic collaboration between IU and Indian partners.   The event brings together CoRSAL

The Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM) is delighted to announce that the 6th International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC 2026) will be held on June 18th-19th, 2026 at the University of Reading, UK. ISBPAC brings together researchers who investigate bi-/multilingualism from various disciplines, including linguistics, cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, multimodal communication, and language pedagogy, addressing language acquisition and

The SynTeach team (Laura Bailey, Bronwyn Bjorkman, Caitl Light, Kirby Conrod) is getting ready for our next phase of research on how syntax is taught in higher ed. Our next phase will be focus group interviews, where we want to get together people with experience teaching and learning syntax. We’re hoping to gather people with a variety of experiences, so whether you loved or hated syntax, we’d really like to hear from you! This link is to an interest form – if you’d like us to contact you w

Call for Papers: The 18th international conference on Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics is calling for abstracts. Place: Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Time: July 22-24, 2026 Invited speakers: Mary Walworth, Yusuf Sawaki Local organizers: Cat Butz, Kilu von Prince Abstract submission is now open. Time slots will be 30 minutes: 20 for presentation, 10 for discussion. Any aspect of the linguistics of Austronesian and Papuan languages is relevant to this conference

The Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) promotes the study of Austronesian languages from a formal perspective. Since 1994, AFLA has served internationally as the most prominent and influential venue for presentation and discussion of recent research on Austronesian languages. Research disseminated at AFLA spans all subfields of linguistics (syntax, semantics, phonology, morphology, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, historical linguistics, etc). AFLA has a

2nd Call for Papers: Focus of the Conference: This conference invites contributions that explore the communicative practices through which specialized knowledge is disseminated by experts in and across digitally-mediated contexts. Particular attention is given to proposals which examine the processes of recontextualization involved in adapting specialized knowledge so that it is accessible, understandable and acceptable to multiple audiences. Contributions may approach recontextualization an

Workshop at the EVOLANG conference, 7-10 April 2026 Conveners: Judith Verstegen, Sietze Norder, Nicholas Q. Emlen, Derek Karssenberg & Rik van Gijn Linguistic diversity is unevenly distributed across the globe: hotspots of language, genealogical, and structural diversity are surrounded by large areas with a low linguistic variation. This non-random spatial distribution suggests that, mediated through cultural behavior, the biophysical environment plays a key role in the evolution of linguist

Call for Papers: Exploring contemporary English(es) using the BSLVC database Thematic session at BICLCE11 Manfred Krug (University of Bamberg) manfred.krug@uni-bamberg.de Lukas Sönning (University of Bamberg) lukas.soenning@uni-bamberg.de Fabian Vetter (University of Bamberg) fabian.vetter@uni-bamberg.de In the past two decades, corpora have become a (if not the) primary source of evidence for research on contemporary English(es) (see Palacios Martínez 2020; Kortmann 2021). This

SUMMARY The book under review provides a typology of noun categorization devices – covering both grammatical gender and various types of classifiers – in the languages of the world. Its scope is comprehensive in terms of both the languages and the topics that it covers. First, it is based on data from a sample of over 2,500 languages (p. 19). Second, it provides information on morphology, (morpho)syntax, and semantics, as well as discourse functions, sociocultural aspects, diachrony, and the

The second webinar of the 'Conversations on Language Policy in Africa' series will take place on Friday, 7 November 2025, at 4 pm CET. The format will be a short talk, followed by the opportunity for dialogue – approximately one hour in total. The webinar will be hosted by Initiative Afrique of the University of Bern (Switzerland) and will use MS Teams. Prior registration is required. Speaker is Menzi Thango of Wits - University of the Witwatersrand. He will speak on Workplace Communication -

Polysemy in the Evalutive Sphere is a seminar pertaining to the project Slurs and the Lexicon: A Rich-Lexicon Approach to Slurs and Other Evaluative Expressions - LEXISLUR (https://danzeman.weebly.com/lexislur.html) featuring monthly talks by specialists in polysemy. We cordially invite you to the first talk of the seminar series, to be given by Michelle Liu (Monash University) and entitled "Ad Hoc Concepts, Polysemy, and Verbal Disputes" (see the abstract below). The event takes place online on

You are warmly invited to submit an abstract for a symposium organised by the BAAL Research Synthesis in Applied Linguistics Special Interest Group. Date: 4th December 2025 (Thu) Time: 9.30 am - 5 pm UK time Platform: MS Teams Keynote speaker: Prof James Thomas, UCL Tentative title: How to select and evaluate AI tools for evidence syntheses? The symposium will begin with an opening keynote (1 hour), followed by (parallel) paper presentation sessions throughout the day. Each paper prese

Description: The New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour is seeking a Post-Doctoral Fellow to join the team of researchers working on a project funded by the Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund, entitled "Ngā Rōpū Kupu o Te Reo Māori / The Word Categories of Te Reo Māori." The research team comprises Dr Forrest Panther, Professor Jen Hay, Dr Heeju Hwang (all University of Canterbury) and Dr Gianna Leoni (Te Hiku Media). In this project, we will look into the evidence o

This PhD thesis arises from the lack of an in-depth study about Corrective Feedback (CF) in the Foreign Language (FL) classroom in Portugal. The research reported in this thesis, which is part of the field of linguistics and language teaching, aimed at investigating learners and teachers’ beliefs on oral CF, the several types of CF provided by English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers and the effects of CF on the learners’ linguistic knowledge. The present research seeks to provide a signific

La geografía lingüística es un método de investigación dialectal que florece a finales del siglo XIX con el fin de servir de apoyo para comprobar las hipótesis sobre la evolución del cambio lingüístico a partir de la representación de la lengua en mapas. Desde su surgimiento son muchos los cambios acaecidos en la investigación de la variación lingüística y en la elaboración de los atlas lingüísticos. Los más notables se han producido en las últimas décadas gracias a la aplicación de las nuevas t

We are delighted to announce that the Gallo-Romance Advances in Morphology & Syntax (GRAMS) workshop will be held in Trinity College Dublin on 25-26 May 2026. GRAMS embraces the full diversity of the Gallo‑Romance continuum, such as French and its regional varieties, the lesser-studied Oïl dialects (e.g., Gallo, Picard, Franc-Comtois), and the Oc varieties of southern France (e.g., Provençal, Auvergnat, Languedocien). Other indigenous Gallo-Romance languages include Gascon, Francoprovençal, a

This issue of Status Quaestionis seeks to investigate contemporary political communication from a sociolinguistic perspective, with particular attention to the phenomena of post-truth and populist discourse. In recent years, the relationship between language, politics, and society has been profoundly reshaped by the impact of social media, the spread of polarizing narratives, and the erosion of the traditional link between factual truth and public credibility. In this context, where “fake news”,

Call for Papers: We are very excited to announce the call for abstract for the Young Researchers' Conference on Negation, taking place in Frankfurt am Main, 7–8 May 2026! The conference has two main goals: - to foster exchange among doctoral and postdoctoral researchers working on negation, - and to explore negation from a wide range of theoretical and empirical perspectives. Call for Abstracts: We are pleased to open the call for talks and posters, inviting young researchers to s

Angesichts der tiefgreifenden Wandlungsprozesse, die die heutige Geisteswissenschaft allgemein und die Romanistik im Besonderen prägen, lohnt es sich, den Begriff des Kontinuums neu zu beleuchten. Die Systematisierung von Forschungsgegenständen, Daten, Texten, Erfahrungen… stellt einen zentralen Aspekt wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens dar. In diesem Zusammenhang kommen wir für die Beschreibung von zueinander in Relation stehenden Entitäten immer wieder auf die Idee des Kontinuums zurück. Dabei ge