The next Acquisition Sketch Project Meeting is on "An in-progress look at the Georgian Acquisition Sketch”, presented by Nino Tsintsadze, Tinatin Chincharauli, Tamara Kalkhitashvili, and Teona Damenia. It will be held on Wednesday December 10 as follows: Berlin = 9 am Tbilisi = 12 pm Delhi = 13:30 pm Tokyo = 5 pm Melbourne = 7 pm Zoom link = https://uni-kl-de.zoom-x.de/j/64017142968?pwd=cvUwbsvmMNL0CQQ3LrOpqWHbawKs4U.1 Meeting ID = 640 1714 2968 Passcode = 8NSu6jn@ Check htt

We are pleased to announce the new Version 2 of the Reference Corpus of Middle High German (ReM), which is available for download via the project website: https://linguistics.rub.de/rem The Reference Corpus of Middle High German (1050–1350) consists of more than two million tokens, providing a mostly complete collection of written records from Early Middle High German (1050–1200) as well as a careful selection of Middle High German texts from 1200 to 1350. The corpus was compiled in the

The Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) network (https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/home), an international and interdisciplinary network whose primary aim is to promote work on slurs, pejoratives, expressives and evaluative terms from less studied languages, invites you to the third talk of the 2025-2026 academic year. The invited speaker is Xavier Villalba (Autonomous University of Barcelona), who will give a talk entitled "Expressivity cross-linguistically: A corpus study of express

The Mind, Language and Action Group (MLAG), a research unit of the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Porto, invites you to the second event of the new MLAG Seminar Series featuring talks by international researchers on topics of interest to the group. The talk, given by Bianca Cepollaro (University Vita-Salute San Raffaele) and entitled "Are Reclaimed Slurs Offensive?" (joint work with Alessandra Zappoli, Nicolò D’Agruma, Giulia Giunta, Simone Sulpizio and Filippo Domaneschi). will ta

Description: The University of Cologne is one of the oldest and largest universities in Germany. With its six Faculties covering a broad spectrum of disciplines and its internationally outstanding research profile areas, it enjoys an excellent reputation for its academic achievements. The Department of Linguistics combines typological, historical-comparative and phonetic approaches in the study of communicative interaction and plays a leading role in all collaborative initiatives across the C

Recent advances in social media and communication technologies are expanding the scope of computer-mediated communication (CMC) research. New platforms and formats, from short video apps like TikTok to community platforms like Discord, are generating massive volumes of user-generated content and multimodal interactions. Due to their unprecedented popularity, “the question of how meaning is produced in these videos is becoming increasingly important… However, systematic approaches to the analysis

Call for Papers: The 15th Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN) Conference will take place at the University of Salzburg (Austria) from 28 – 30 September 2026. Confirmed plenary speakers are: Prof Joseph Salmons (University of Wisconsin, Madison, US) Prof Michał Głuszkowski (Toruń University, Poland) Prof Sybille Große (Heidelberg University, Germany) The 2026 conference theme is "Spoken and written discourse in historical sources". Historical sociolinguistics naturally draw

The fourth Semmelweis Medical Linguistics Conference (SMLC 2026) will take place on 5–6 June 2026 in Budapest, Hungary, in a hybrid format. This conference series aims to bring together researchers, educators, and professionals working in the field of healthcare communication and medical linguistics. The thematic scope includes, among others, patient-centred communication, medical translation and interpreting, terminology, pragmatics, artificial intelligence, metaphors, speech analysis, medical

2nd Call for Papers: The First International Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health (HeaLing’26) will be held as a half-day workshop at EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco, March 24-29, 2026. Scope & Aims: Language-oriented approaches—such as discourse and conversation analysis, narrative medicine, and linguistic ethnography—have long been central to understanding how medical knowledge is produced, communicated, and experienced. Advances in NLP and AI now enable these approaches to scale acro

Die Tagung möchte den Fokus auf Fremdsprachenunterricht und Lehrkräftebildung im sich seit der Frühen Neuzeit abzeichnenden öffentlichen, später auch staatlichen Schulwesen lenken. Seit der Frühen Neuzeit finden sich etwa in den städtischen Latein-, Bürger- und Handelsschulen Vorläufer heutiger öffentlicher Schulen, die weiteren Kreisen zugänglich waren, bis hin zu einer sich seit dem 18. Jahrhundert in regional unterschiedlichen Ausprägungen entwickelnden Unterrichts- und später Schulpflicht. I

Other Specialties: English for Academic Purposes, Education, Rhetoric and Composition Description: School of Humanities Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Lecturer in Language and Communication Centre Young, research intensive, and outward-looking Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) is ranked among the world’s top universities. The School of Humanities (SoH) at NTU Singapore combines the highest quality research and teaching with practical engagem

Liebe LINGUIST List, ich bin Paula und mache gerade meinen Bachelor in Sprache und Gesellschaft an der FU Berlin. Für meine Abschlussarbeit suche ich noch Teilnehmer*innen für meine Umfrage. Dabei untersuche ich, wie Nutzer*innen sprachlich auf Instagrams algorithmische Content Moderation reagieren. Zeitaufwand: Die Teilnahme an der Umfrage dauert ca. 10 Minuten. Datenschutz: Alle Daten werden anonymisiert und nur im Rahmen der Bachelorarbeit ausgewertet. Wen suche ich?/ Who am I

The Nordic Speech Research Forum convenes on Thu, Dec 11th at 10:00 - 11:00 (Helsinki/Eastern European Time EET; UCT+2). You are warmly welcome to join the webinar via our website https://www.jyu.fi/nsrf. Taking back Kven – Quantity differences in L1 and L2 speech Antti Saloranta & Leena Maria Heikkola, The Arctic University of Norway News: - The webinars continue on Jan 26, 2026 with a special guest talk by Professor Okim Kang (Northern Arizona University). You will find the details and

Este estudio indaga en la variación pragmática, socioindexical e interindividual del vocativo en el español coloquial actual, desde una perspectiva empírica multidimensional. El análisis cualitativo-cuantitativo se fundamenta en las premisas y herramientas cognitivas aportadas por la gramática de construcciones y la sociolingüística cognitiva de la tercera ola, en la que desempeña un papel central la noción de la indexicalidad social. Adoptando esta perspectiva conciliadora, esta monografía s

Scope: CL4Health fills the gap among the different biomedical language processing workshops by providing a general venue for a broad spectrum of patient-oriented language processing research. The third workshop on patient-oriented language processing follows the successful CL4Health workshops (co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 and NAACL 2025), which clearly demonstrated the need for a computational linguistics venue focused on language related to public health. CL4Health is concerned with t

The conference Contemporary Horizons in English Studies casts a wide net, encompassing diverse areas and perspectives within the field of English Studies. As we reflect on decades of growth in English studies and the 70-year history of our department, we also look toward the new horizons that continue to expand the boundaries of our discipline. Inspired by our department’s interdisciplinary spirit, the theme highlights a variety of research, teaching, and creative work taking place across Englis

The Association of Graduate Students in Hispanic Studies at University of California, Riverside welcomes abstract and panel proposals submissions to for the XVI Annual Graduate Student Conference April 16th and 17th - In person modality Submission deadline: January 31st Potential areas of interest and topics include, but are not limited to: - Linguistics and Language Studies: includes applied linguistics, second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, syntax/semantics, phonetics, her

The Colloquium on Generative Grammar (CGG) is an annual conference held in the Iberian peninsula since 1991. It provides a platform for linguists working in Generative grammar all over the world to come together and discuss current trends and topics in syntax, morphology, semantics, phonology and their interfaces. The 35th Colloquium on Generative Grammar (CGG35) will be organized by Universitat de Barcelona (UB) and will take place as an in-person meeting from May 27 to May 29, 2026 in Barcelon

The Department of Slavic Studies at Vilnius University is delighted to invite young researchers – undergraduate students, Master's Degree students, and postgraduate students – to participate in The International Student Readings. The Readings are aimed at participants focused on innovation and further development of the field of Slavic and Russian Studies. The Readings will take place at the Faculty of Philology of Vilnius University on May 22-23, 2026. The participation in the Readings is

SUMMARY Linguistic Dynamics in Heritage Speakers: Insights from the RUEG Group, edited by Shanley E. M. Allen, Mareike Keller, Artemis Alexiadou, and Heike Wiese, brings together fifteen papers from the DFG Research Unit Emerging Grammars in Language Contact Situations (RUEG). The papers examine the language use of heritage speakers of German, Greek, Russian, and Turkish with either English or German as their majority language, alongside comparison data from monolingual speakers of each langu