About the Roundtable: The Middlesex Roundtable on Signs, Language and Communication is an annual conference launched in January 2019 to encourage discussion between three paradigms of language and communication theory: the Integrationism of Roy Harris and his followers, Biosemiotics and Philosophy of Communication. The Roundtable takes place at Middlesex University London. These areas of thought and scholarship share assumptions regarding the fundamental role played by communicative intera

Holocaust testimonies serve as a bridge between survivors and history’s darkest chapters, providing a connection to the profound experiences of the past. Testimonies stand as the primary source of information that describes the Holocaust, offering first-hand accounts and personal narratives of those who experienced it. The majority of testimonies are captured in an oral format, as survivors vividly explain and share their personal experiences and observations from that time period. Transforming

Each year, the Bonn Applied English Linguistics group hosts a conference aimed specifically at postgraduate, PhD, and post-doc students. This conference allows young linguists to showcase their empirical research projects in all areas of Applied Linguistics broadly defined. BAELc15 is a great opportunity to learn from each other, get feedback on your work and network with other researchers in the field. This year’s conference will focus on learner corpora, while maintaining its interdisciplin

2nd Call for Papers: The third edition of MMSYM continues the symposium series on multimodal communication previously held in Frankfurt am Main (2024) and Barcelona (2023). The symposium aims at gaining insights into the interaction and/or co-dependence of semiotic resources in spoken and signed language. To advance our understanding of communication, the symposium aims at further integrating multimodality as an integral part of linguistics and cognitive science. This overarching goal of the

Call for Papers: The conference serves as a platform for educators from around the world to share their experiences in teaching foreign languages to both young and adult learners across a variety of settings. This year’s online event focuses on inclusive practices that empower diverse learners and support equitable access to language education. Participants will gain practical strategies, discover innovative tools, and connect with a global community committed to creating welcoming learner-ce

2026. iii, 164 pp. Table of contents Articles More than a summarizing conjunction: Some emerging conversation interactional uses of Zongzhi ‘in sum’ in Mandarin Chinese Yingsheng Liu & Hongyin Tao pp. 1–35 中韩网络仇恨言论比较： 性别·种族·地域 [Comparing online hate speech in China and Korea: Gender, race, region] 朴敏浚 pp. 36–63 Rapport management in Chinese and English responses to online negative reviews Xiaoyu Lai pp. 64–85 Modeling scalar implicature processing in Mandarin: A study

2026. v, 177 pp. Table of Contents Introduction Dialogue in digital spaces Răzvan Săftoiu pp. 1–7 Articles Emoji in dialogue with images: A multimodal social semiotic approach Cecilia Lazzeretti pp. 8–29 Linguistic creativity on digital platforms: Exploring neologism motivation on social media Maria Szymańska pp. 30–48 English TikTok videos: ‘short lessons’ or just waffle? An analysis of the ‘comments’ section Paula Daniela Gambarotto & Maria Dolors Cañada Pujols

2025. iv, 211 pp. Table of Contents Editorial Editors’ notes pp. 149–150 Articles – Aufsätze The conjunction between coordination and subordination in missionary grammars of Aymara and Quechua Annamaria Bartolotta pp. 151–179 The many lives of a dictionary: An analysis of how Dutch lexicography was received and repurposed in Early Modern Japan Lorenzo Nespoli pp. 180–209 Germanic affixoids in Jacob Grimm Douglas Lightfoot pp. 210–241 Continu et Discontinu : Ant

2025. v, 151 pp. Table of Contents Introduction Researching Occitan in the 21st century: un dialòg interdisciplinari Marc Olivier & Anna Paradis pp. 1–4 Articles “Mais ça existe encore ça, l’occitan ?”: Exploring careers among new speakers of Occitan in the context of Calandreta immersion schools Grégoire Andreo Raynaud pp. 5–29 Framework to build and lemmatise an Occitan historical corpus Gilles G. Couffignal pp. 30–42 The curious case of an Occitan sonnet (BdT 96

2024. iii, 139 pp. Table of Contents Articles Morphological optionality in Arabic informal reading aloud Andreas Hallberg & Magnus Wennerholm pp. 127–152 Perception and production of a feature correlation in Chinese characters James Myers pp. 153–177 Pragmatic writing in contemporary German: Toward a typology of context-sensitive written devices Mailin Antomo, Nathalie Staratschek & Sonja Taigel pp. 178–217 A reappraisal of the development of the Mayan Syllabary Davi

2025. iii, 149 pp. Table of Contents Articles Refugee languages and the right to interpretation: Local language policies of ‘tolerance’ of Belgian asylum lawyers Katrijn Maryns & Marie Jacobs pp. 329–351 Power dynamics in collaborative translation: A case study of the Yangs’ solo and co-translation Jing Yu & Xiaoli Liu pp. 352–376 The manifestation of affordances: A case of Dutch retranslations of Lu Xun’s short stories Audrey Heijns pp. 377–390 Language proficiency i

This book is about serial predicate constructions (SPCs) in Kiswahili, traditionally auxiliary and main verbs. They are popularly called "compound tenses" consisting of two verbs, each with its Tense-Aspect-Mood (TAM) marker. The term has drawbacks. The book distinguishes between TAM-taking verbs and non-TAM-taking verbs, which regularly combine to form auxiliary-main verb phrases or SPCs. Unlike Indo-European languages, all verbs that can function as auxiliary verbs can also function as main ve

This workbook has a number of distinctive features among which are the following: The content is carefully selected so as to keep the subject matter highly relevant to students’ scope of study. It is progressively graded in order for students to progress with their study at ease and with no challenges or obstacles. It is rich in knowledge and contains plenty of exercises and activities so as to help students master target concepts and notions. It matches students’ learning capabilities at unive

Urdu, a major South Asian language with over 100 million speakers, is known for its rich literary tradition and linguistic complexity, shaped by Perso-Arabic, Sanskrit, and Turkic influences. The present book, provides a comprehensive and systematic analysis of Urdu’s grammatical structure, serving as an authoritative resource for linguists, educators, language learners, and scholars. This grammar provides an exhaustive and systematic exploration of Urdu’s phonological system. Additionally, th

Almost all of the languages of the world have some noun categorization devices in their grammar. The most widespread is linguistic genders — grammatical classes of nouns based on core semantic properties such as sex (female and male), animacy, humanness, and also shape and size. Numeral classifiers categorise the noun referent in terms of its inherent nature, animacy, shape and form, and occur with a number word or a quantifier. Further types of noun categorization include noun classifiers, poss

Machine Translation (MT) models knowingly suffer from gender bias, especially for genders beyond the binary. Since issues of non-binary representation and language use are still often neglected in both Translation Studies (TS) and MT, this book investigates the translation and post-editing of gender-fair language beyond the binary in a process and product-oriented study. Twelve language professionals were recruited and asked to either translate or post-edit three brief English texts into German.

The three-volume work Negation in the world's languages constitutes a major step forward in the comparative study of negation. It includes 43 chapters describing the negation system of one language each, following a typologically and functionally oriented questionnaire. The questionnaire is a comparative tool organized according to functional subdomains of negation. It highlights aspects of negation that have been found salient in typological research, such as standard negation, negation in non-

The three-volume work Negation in the world's languages constitutes a major step forward in the comparative study of negation. It includes 43 chapters describing the negation system of one language each, following a typologically and functionally oriented questionnaire. The questionnaire is a comparative tool organized according to functional subdomains of negation. It highlights aspects of negation that have been found salient in typological research, such as standard negation, negation in non-

The three-volume work Negation in the world's languages constitutes a major step forward in the comparative study of negation. It includes 43 chapters describing the negation system of one language each, following a typologically and functionally oriented questionnaire. The questionnaire is a comparative tool organized according to functional subdomains of negation. It highlights aspects of negation that have been found salient in typological research, such as standard negation, negation in non-

2026 Call for publications in the UVigo series ‘Lingua’ 1. Justification The Lingua Research Institute (iLingua) opens the series ‘Lingua’ in the Publications Service of the University of Vigo, with the aim of creating an editorial space for the publication of monographs and collective works on research in languages and linguistics. Priority will be given to publication proposals that fall within iLingua’s lines of research (https://ilingua.uvigo.gal/investigacion/), although original pro