2nd Call for Papers: Extended Deadline: Please note that the deadline for abstract submission has been extended to 15 October 2025. The axis “Lexique” at the research unit “Analyse et Traitement Automatique de la Langue Française” (ATILF - CNRS/UL - UMR 7118) is organizing an international conference on the topic of lexicons from December 16 to 18, 2026 at the ATILF laboratory in Nancy (France). The aim of this scientific event is to bring together junior and experienced researchers to d

We are happy to announce that as of 2026 the editorial team of the John Benjamins journal Chinese Language and Discourse will be expanded with Executive Editor Xiaoting Li (University of Alberta), Associate Editor Shuangyun Yao (Central China Normal University), Assistant Editor Xiaoyun Wang (University of Alberta), and Review Editor Wei Wang (University of Houston), replacing Ni Eng Lim. A peer-reviewed journal which seeks to publish original work on Chinese and related languages, with a foc

As of Volume 60 (2025) Julio Jensen (University of Copenhagen) will succeed Steen Bille Jorgensen (University of Aarhus), and join Richard Waltereit (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) as editor of the John Benjamins journal Revue Romane. Revue Romane publishes studies about Romance languages and literature as well as reviews of linguistic and literary works. Revue Romane is especially interested in articles that focus on methodological and/or theoretical arguments of the treated topic. A multi

We are pleased to announce that Maria González-Davies (Universitat Ramon Llull) and Silvia Melo-Pfeifer (University of Hamburg) will succeed Sara Laviosa (University of Bari 'Aldo Moro') as editors of the John Benjamins journal Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts, as of volume 12 (2026). We also welcome Lisa Marie Brinkmann (University of Hamburg) as Review Editor and Editorial Assistant. We are greatly indebted to Sara Laviosa who started the journal and under whose exce

2nd Call for Papers: We are pleased to invite submissions for AnatoLinks, a PhD / early career two-day conference dedicated to the study of Ancient Anatolia through the lenses of Linguistics, Philology, History, and Archaeology, to be held at the University of Oxford on 4–5 December 2025. The conference aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and encourage meaningful exchange between different approaches to the ancient Anatolian world. We particularly welcome joint presentations by resea

Meeting Description: Null Objects from a Crosslinguistic and Developmental Perspective 2025 will be hosted by the Universitat de les Illes Balears and will take place in Palma de Mallorca (Spain). It aims to gather colleagues to present and discuss new empirical and theoretical insights on null objects from a crosslinguistic and developmental perspective. Invited speakers: Prof. Dr. Maia Duguine (CNRS-IKER) Prof. Dr. Ianthi Tsimpli (University of Cambridge) Program: The program of NoCr

2nd Call for Papers: The performance of food has become ubiquitous in the digital realm, where we find content saturated with all things culinary, gustatory, and gastronomic. From food porn images to restaurant reviews, from what-I-eat-in-a-day-videos to cooking shows, from mukbang to forum posts with food advice – people negotiate and display their food practices online, to be consumed and regurgitated by others via their digital devices. This is often based on co-occurring linguistic perfor

Date: 21-22 November, 2025 Venue: Faculty of Letters, 5-7 Edgar Quinet St., Bucharest, Romania (and online) Conference languages: Romanian, English, French Convenors: Cristian Moroianu, Monica Vasileanu, Gabriela Stoica Registration fee: 300 RON/60 euro; for PhD students or online participation, 150 RON/30 euro. 2nd Call for Papers: A neologism is generally understood as a new word, due to tradition and to its remote etymology of the term, whereby the Greek νέος “new” and λόγος “word”

Date: 21-22 November 2025 Location: Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest Keynote speaker: Prof. Luis Javier Pentón Herrera (Akademia Ekonomiczno-Humanistyczna in Warsaw, Poland) 2nd Call for Papers: We invite researchers, educators, PhD students, and specialists in teaching foreign languages or Romanian as a foreign language (RFL) to contribute with papers exploring the impact and interaction between Large Language Models (LLMs) and the teaching and learning process of foreign lan

2nd Call for Papers: Convenors: Andrei Mărășoiu, Sandra Brânzaru (Faculty of Philosophy), Alexandru Nicolae (Faculty of Letters) We invite submissions to a workshop to be held within the 25th International Conference of the Department of Linguistics of the Faculty of Letters. Questions we aim to explore: - Do LLMs have metalinguistic abilities (do they have the ability to generate analyses of language data/theoretical linguistic abilities of language samples so as to identify whether

The following books are now available for review on the LINGUIST List. If you would like to become a reviewer for one of the books announced in the AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW posting, you will need to follow steps 1-4 explained below: Step 1: Go to https://linguistlist.org/reviews/request Step 2: You will be asked to log in or create an account. Step 3: Update your personal information and add reviewer specific information on why you would be a good reviewer for the books you wish to select. Step

Call for Papers: The Linguistics Department at the University of Florida is excited to announce that the Call for Abstracts for the Florida Linguistics Yearly Meeting (FLYM) 2025 is now open. FLYM 2025 will take place on Friday October 10th and Saturday October 11th. This year's theme is Language in Context: Theory and Community. We welcome submissions in sociolinguistics, theoretical, and computational linguistics, and, in the spirit of the theme, we particularly welcome submissions focu

West Virginia Foreign Language Teachers Association (WV FLTA) is inviting everyone to attend our annual conference in Lewisburg, WV on October 3-4, 2026. At the conference, you can expect to: 1) Receive high-quality professional development designed for World Languages & Cultures teachers. 2) Attend multiple sessions with ideas to enrich the language classroom. 3) Participate in two workshops that will demonstrate activities to enhance learning both in and beyond the classroom. 4) Interact

This panel comprises a collection of 6 contributions and 2 general discussions. Our talks focus on the specific relationship between music and language. The first 3 papers report new findings in textsetting. These talks collectively argue that musical settings actively shape and expose hidden linguistic structures. The analysis of right-headed constituents in Italian pop songs (Talk 1) challenges the traditional trochaic model by showing how iambic patterns emerge under musical prominence. Simil

Doctoral researcher in Descriptive Linguistics for ERC project “Lo-Rig" The School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, is seeking to recruit a highly motivated and outstanding doctoral researcher for a period of 4 years (48 months). Candidates are given the opportunity to work on a structured PhD in descriptive linguistics, writing a grammatical description of the Mönpa language of Bhutan based on a corpus of natural speech and elicitation. We are seeking

El pensamiento filosófico está presente, implícita o explícitamente, en la construcción, el desarrollo y la argumentación de las ciencias humanas y sociales. No son pocos los trabajos sobre filosofía en la tradición del estudio de las lenguas: la lingüística, como ciencia, participa del criterio ontológico y epistemológico en la mayor parte de los conceptos con los que opera; dentro de esta necesidad, son urgentes trabajos que estudien los fenómenos lingüísticos desde esta mirada. Las coordin

Session 9 – Phonetics, Phonology and Interfaces Chair: Michela Russo (Université de Lyon & UMR 7023 SFL/Université Paris 8) Vice-Chair: Rudolph Sock (Université de Strasbourg) Other committee members: Nicolas Audibert (Sorbonne Nouvelle University), Marie-Hélène Côté (Université de Lausanne, Switzerland), Ivana Didirková (Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry), Heather Goad (McGill University, Montreal, Canada), Bernard Harmegnies (Université de Mons, Belgium), Haike Jacobs (Radboud Univers

Final Call for Papers: IcoLL2026 is the joint conference of the 4th Iconicity Seminar (IcoSem) and the 15th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (ILL). For the first time, the two international conferences on iconicity will take place together on 21-23 February 2026 hosted by the Nagoya University Graduate School of Humanities. The deadline has been extended till 15 September 2025. Please send a 2-page abstract (including everything) in the following format:

SUMMARY This book, “Negation in English and Other Languages” (henceforth “Negation”), written by Otto Jespersen and edited by Brett Reynolds and Peter Evans with an introduction by Olli O. Silvennoinen, is a newly second edition of Jespersen’s 1917 classic. This edition makes this work more accessible, preserving its historical significance and enhancing its usability and applicability for contemporary readers. The editors’ contributions are significant. The new edition is supplemented wit