This volume presents a series of studies and reviews that provide insights into grammatical variation and the development of code-switching in neurotypical speakers, as well as into language mixing practices among individuals with neurodevelopmental conditions. Across seven chapters, a range of themes is explored, including: community norms and language practices, the influence of caregivers on bilingual development, attitudes and ideologies surrounding bilingualism, code-switching as a communic

This book explores the application of Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies to teaching Persian as a foreign language, with particular focus on Arabic-speaking learners. Drawing on empirical data from the AZFA Persian Learner Corpus at Ilam University, it demonstrates how computational methods can address longstanding pedagogical challenges in Persian language instruction. The work examines learner corpus development and annotation frameworks, presenting systematic approaches to categor

This book presents a comprehensive framework for teaching Persian as a foreign language through culturally immersive digital games, specifically designed for Iraqi Arabic-speaking learners. Grounded in interactional linguistics, task-based language teaching, and sociocultural theory, the study develops and evaluates seven digital games that address critical challenges in Persian acquisition: pronunciation of difficult phonemes (/ʒ/, /x/, /ɢ/), vocabulary retention, grammatical accuracy (imperati

This book presents a comprehensive corpus-based pedagogical grammar of the Persian verbal system specifically designed for Iraqi Arabic-speaking learners. The Persian verb system constitutes one of the most challenging aspects of Persian grammar for second language learners, involving complex morphological structures, intricate semantic distinctions, and sophisticated discourse functions. For Iraqi Arabic speakers, whose first language organizes verbal information through fundamentally different

The field of Teaching Persian as a Foreign Language (TPFL) has long relied on materials that, while practical, rarely draw on systematic insights from generative linguistics, cognitive semantics, or second-language acquisition research. As a result, persistent transfer errors, particularly from Arabic, Turkish, and English, continue to fossilize, and complex features such as the ezafe construction, the particle râ, and the pragmatic system of taarof remain disproportionately difficult to acquire

The volume examines migration from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region to the German diaspora, offering a multifaceted perspective that combines historical and contemporary insights. It moves beyond viewing migration as a momentary event, instead situating it within a broader narrative that considers the impact of origin countries. By studying communities such as Georgians, Jews, Aramaic speakers, Kurds, Afghans and Berbers, the book explores how linguistic, social, and cultural facto

For 150 years there has been a question over how the Austronesian languages of eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste fit into the Austronesian world. The area is severely under-documented. There has been no consensus on the classification of these languages, and scholars admit to being perplexed. This is the first systematic attempt at subgrouping the whole region based on historical phonology, supplemented by morphosyntax and the lexicon. Insights from archaeology, DNA studies, and awareness of lon

Even is an endangered Northern Tungusic language spoken in numerous small settlements by formerly completely nomadic hunters and reindeer herders dispersed over northeastern Siberia, from the Lena-Yana watershed in the west to the Sea of Okhotsk and Kamchatka in the east. This geographical spread has led to considerable dialectal fragmentation, with substantial differences between the peripheral dialects, not least due to differential contact influence. This text collection contains a selecti

Final Call for Papers: Please scroll down for English version. 滑下查看標準漢語版本。 敬啟者： 第一屆粵語應用語言學研討會 × 第九屆粵語語言學論壇（CALA-1 × FoCaL-9）聯合會議會由香港粵語應用語言學學會（CALA）同香港語言學學會（LSHK）一齊主辦，香港理工大學專業及持續教育學院語文及傳意學部（LC, CPCE, PolyU）合辦，將於2026年7月4號（星期六）喺香港理工大學西九龍校園舉行。希望大家嚟分享最新研究進展，聽吓同儕意見，促進跨院校嘅交流同合作。 【特邀講者】（按姓氏英文排序） 林珮怡博士 （愛丁堡大學） 劉藴怡博士 （香港理工大學專業及持續進修學院） 梁慧敏教授 （香港理工大學） 【兩大主題】 - 粵語應用語言學 （例如語言獲得、人工智能與語言科技、語文或語言教育（教與學）、跨文化傳意與移民研究、流行文化中的語言、教學語言、語言評估、數碼人文等）；同埋 - 粵語理論語言學（例如語音學、音系學、形態學、句法學、語義學、心理語言學、神經語言學等）。 歡

Call for Papers: The 2026 annual conference of the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States will be held ONLINE, July 8-10, 2026, hosted by the Department of World Languages and Cultures, The University Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, with local hosts Gaby Semaan and Kasumi Yamazaki. Abstracts: While abstracts presenting empirically grounded investigations in any theoretical framework into aspects of the conference theme are especially welcome, LACUS invites abstracts representing a b

VII Jornadas Antroponomásticas Del 11 al 13 de noviembre de 2026 Areas Tematicas: - Antroponomástica / antroponimia ficcional. - Socioantroponomástica. - Antroponómástica sincrónica. - Antroponomástica diacrónica. - Etnonimia y antroponimia nativa. - Antroponomástica/antroponimia en contextos de migración e inmigración. - Antroponomástica/antroponimia y cruces con la toponimia / toponomástica. - Antroponomástica/antroponimia y tecnologías digitales. - Otros temas relacionad

Workshop Description: Over the past 20 years, the NLP community has given steadily-increasing attention to the idea of regarding human annotation disagreement not as a nuisance but as a potential asset that can be exploited for understanding the respective task better. In practice, this means that multiple annotations are not just adjudicated or averaged (and the individual annotations then thrown away) but taken as a spectrum that constitutes a "complex ground truth", for instance in the for

You are invited to submit an abstract for a poster presentation during ISC’s 2026 Summer School on Knowledge, Reasoning, and Decision-Making organized by University of Quebec in Montreal’s Institute of Cognitive Sciences (ISC). This event will take place from May 27 to June 10 2026 (poster presentation date TBD). Knowledge plays a determinant role in effective decision-making. This is why humans use a considerable amount of cognitive energy to reason and make decisions by mobilizing and tran

Following the success of the inaugural edition last year, the Linguistics & Language Variation group at the Meertens Institute in Amsterdam (LiME), is pleased to announce the second edition of the LiME Conference on Language Variation (LiCLA 2). The conference aims to promote work in socio-syntax—the intersection of syntax and sociolinguistics—as a venue not only for worked-out interdisciplinary socio-syntactic contributions but also contributions from one of these subdisciplines which are seeki

The Diversity in Linguistics Talk Day is a one-day online event that brings together linguists from diverse social and linguistic backgrounds to present their work across all areas of linguistics. Contributions from all subfields and theoretical perspectives are welcome. The event will take place on 11 August 2026 and will be held via Zoom. Talks will be grouped thematically, with regular breaks, and we will make every effort to accommodate different time zones. Participation is free of charg

SUMMARY Joanna Wall’s (2024) dissertation is assuredly a contribution to Minimalist theorizing and forges ahead in the true spirit of how that program was envisioned. That is, it fulfills the goal handed to us by Chomsky (2021), i.e., to always be sharpening the Strong Minimalist Thesis (SMT), and she undertakes this by innovating and pointing us “Towards a Label-less Grammar”. Having said that, if you are a person who is inclined to believe that the success of a research work in linguistics

Final Call for Papers: The Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS) will host the 27th Annual International Conference. Dates: Sep. 19 (Sat) – 20 (Sun), 2026 Venue: Ochanomizu University (2-1-1, Otsuka Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan) Plenary Lecturer: Dr. Kamil Deen (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa) Submission Deadline: April 7 (Tue), 2026, by 23:59 JST (extended from March 31) For more information, please check the following sites. CFP English Version: https://jslsweb.sakura.ne.jp/w

2nd Call for Papers: The deadline for submitting abstracts to the 7th Saami Linguistics Symposium (SAALS 7) is coming up on 10 April! On 4–5 November 2026, the 7th Saami Linguistics Symposium will be held at Nord University in Bodø, Norway. The symposium is the continuation of a series of international symposia previously held in Tromsø 2006 and 2009, in Freiburg 2017, in Uppsala 2019, in Tartu 2022, and in Helsinki 2024. The purpose of the symposium is to give scholars an opportunity to

English: The linguistic landscape (LL), comprised of items displaying written language in the public space, is the product of linguistic choices that are executed by a myriad of actors who are guided by numerous pragmatic or symbolic motivations. Written language in the public space has unique semiotic properties that extend beyond its communicative function. It indexes power relations and identities, and, as such, is utilised to impose or negotiate these. The LL is thus a symbolic construct fin

Linguistic landscape (LL) research is a recent development in the field of sociolinguistics. The LL is written language in the public space; and the study thereof focuses on the linguistic choices in the LL and the motivations behind these choices. Language in the LL has unique semiotic properties and the LL hence offers a new approach to investigate sociolinguistic themes. The themes most commonly addressed are language policy and linguistic diversity. As a result of the bidirectional relati