Our next Making Waves meeting will continue exploring the challenges related to the analysis of intonation. On December 10, Maria Francesca Ferin will give a talk titled “Analysing intonation: comparing perceptual annotations and acoustic measurements.” We look forward to seeing many of you there and to another lively discussion. Abstract: This talk addresses the advantages and disadvantages of adopting different methods of analysing intonation. I will compare the use perceptually based l

Call for Chapters (https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/9430) Proposals Submission Deadline: January 4, 2026 Full Chapters Due: May 10, 2026 Introduction Multilingual students in Canadian higher education institutions (HEIs) are a prominent demographic, with the number of international students attending postsecondary institutions increasing from 7% to 18% of enrolled students across Canada during the last decade (Statistics Canada, 2024). The increasing linguist

Other Specialties: Phonetics; Linguistic fieldwork, Linguistic theory and typology Description: The University of Edinburgh is advertising a postdoc position (fixed term) for a linguist with specialist expertise in descriptive linguistics, linguistic fieldwork, and language documentation, to work in the Description team within the wider ERC Synergy project NILOMORPH. The position starts March 1st, 2026, and runs for 5 years and 4 months. The research focus is on the Burun languages, a grou

Description: The Department of Linguistics at Seoul National University invites applications for an open-rank, tenure-track position in Computational Linguistics, with an expected start date of September 1, 2026. We seek candidates whose research connects strongly with other areas of linguistics and/or adjacent fields. We are particularly interested in scholars working at the intersection of language theory and computational technology, and who can contribute to both our general linguistics a

Description: The Department of Linguistics at Seoul National University invites applications for an open-rank, tenure-track position starting September 1, 2026. The appointment will be made in the area of Syntax/Syntax-Semantics interface. We seek applicants whose work connects strongly with other areas of linguistics and/or adjacent fields. We also encourage a range of focuses and methodological approaches, including (but by no means limited to) fieldwork, experimental studies, computational

Website: https://filcat.ub.edu/international-workshop-on-romance-se-si-constructions Room: Sala de Professors (Edifici Josep Carner, 5th floor) Facultat de Filologia i Comunicació Universitat de Barcelona Programme: Thursday, 22 January 2026 9:15-9:30 WELCOME 9:30-10:30 Invited talk: ALEXANDRA CORNILESCU On how dative clitics constrain SE in Romanian 10:30-11:00 IRIMIA, GUARDIANO, STALFIERI, LI DESTRI & LONGHIN DOM and agreement in SE constructions: the view from southern Italy

NLPerspectives Until recently, language resources supporting many tasks in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and other areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI) have been based on the assumption of a single ‘ground truth’ label sought via aggregation, adjudication, or statistical means. However, the field is increasingly focused on subjective and controversial tasks, such as quality estimation or abuse detection, in which multiple points of view may be equally valid (for a complete overview see F

The 33rd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference will be held at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, from August 7 to August 9, with a pre-conference workshop/tutorial planned for August 6, 2026. We welcome abstract submissions for 20-minute oral presentations, followed by 10 minutes for discussion, and for poster presentations. Contributions to any aspect of Japanese/Korean linguistics, or comparison of these languages with other languages welcome. We welcome abstracts showcasin

The 33rd annual conference of ICC–the International Language Association – will take place in Zürich, Switzerland, from 8 to 10 May 2026. The conference serves as a platform for the exchange of innovative ideas, the dissemination of research findings and discussions on the challenges and opportunities in language education. Scholars and practitioners will gather to explore the conference theme, fostering discourse on language teaching and learning. Multilingualism and Migrant Integration in

Call for Papers: Organizers: David Hernández-Coalla (Universidade de Vigo), david.hernandez@uvigo.gal Xulia Sánchez-Rodríguez (Universidade de Vigo), xulia.sanchez@uvigo.gal Description: Agreement has been at the center of linguistic debate for a long time. In the case of English, its reduced morphological system has possibly fostered research in subject-verb agreement from different perspectives: theoretical, geographical, cognitive-based, among others. In fact, a wide range of phenome

Dans un monde marqué par les changements sociaux, les inégalités croissantes dans l’éducation et les disruptions numériques, la relation entre numérisation et inclusion gagne en importance dans le contexte de l’enseignement des langues étrangères. Les processus de transformation numérique offrent non seulement la possibilité d’élargir les ressources dans l’enseignement des langues étrangères, mais aussi de repenser celles-ci en termes de participation et d’inclusion : « L’objectif central du sys

This book investigates adjectival inflections and the article ein in many different contexts in German including in various non-canonical contexts. It pursues two goals. On the one hand, it strives to provide a more comprehensive description and account of adjectival inflections and the article ein. This includes an examination of the interaction of these two elements. On the other hand, it seeks to identify similarities between these different types of elements to address certain theoretical qu

Les Journées de linguistique (JdL) sont un colloque étudiant d’envergure internationale organisé bénévolement par l’Association des étudiantes et étudiants diplômé(e)s inscrits en linguistique (AÉDIL) en collaboration avec le Département de langues, linguistique et traduction de l'Université Laval depuis 1987. Le comité organisateur des XXXIXes Journées de linguistique (JdL 2026), qui auront lieu les 3 et 4 mars 2026 en formule hybride (présentiel et en ligne), vous invite à soumettre une pro

Applications are invited for funded PhD studentships in Linguistics at Ulster University. We welcome research proposals for the following PhD projects: 1. Children’s Language in Northern Ireland: a comprehensive profile and needs analysis This project aims to develop a comprehensive language profile for children in Northern Ireland: how children’s language varies throughout primary school, which factors predict variation in children’s language, and how these factors are distributed throug

Call for Papers: Michigan State University is pleased to host the 56th Linguistic Symposium in Romance Languages in East Lansing, MI, May 14-16th 2026. Invited speakers: - Andrés Saab (Universidad de Buenos Aires / Conicet) - Karen Miller (Penn State University) - Miquel Simonet (University of Arizona) - Patrícia Amaral (Indiana University) LSRL provides a forum for all aspects of Romance linguistics. We invite abstracts for consideration as twenty-minute talks (plus 10 minutes

Call for Papers: OSUHALLS is an annual symposium on Hispanic and Lusophone Literary and Cultural Studies. The conference, organized entirely by graduate students in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The Ohio State University, aims to bring together a wide variety of scholars working within distinct disciplines and many different aspects of literature and cultures in the Luso-Hispanic speaking world. The graduate students in the Spanish and Portuguese Department at The Ohio State

Overview: Research Internships at Microsoft provide a dynamic environment for research careers with a network of world-class research labs led by globally-recognized scientists and engineers, who pursue innovation in a range of scientific and technical disciplines to help solve complex challenges in diverse fields, including computing, healthcare, economics, and the environment. The Sociotechnical Alignment Center (STAC) is a team of researchers, applied scientists, and linguists in Microsof

We invite you to submit your papers for the WRAPP workshop, to be held in Göttingen from April 8 to 10, 2026, organized by Marco Coniglio, Eric Fuß, Svenja Hauerstein and Alberto Valiera. The workshop aims to bring together perspectives on wh-elements in relative and adverbial clauses, their origin and development, as well as their polyfunctionality. In many Germanic languages, the functions of wh-words have increased diachronically, especially as elements introducing subordinate clauses. Wh

2nd Call for Papers: After earlier installments in Paris (2022), Tours (2024) and Lille (2025), we are happy to announce that the fourth workshop ‘Des Langues Pas Si Mortes’ (DELPASIMO 4) will take place at the Côte d’Azur University (Nice, France) on March 13-14, 2026. The event is hosted by the lab ‘Bases, Corpus, Langage’ (BCL, UMR 7320). The workshop series DELPASIMO is devoted to the formal grammar of historical languages, primarily from a synchronic (rather than diachronic) perspecti

Call for Papers: OSUCHiLL is one of the premier graduate student conferences on Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics hosted in the US. The conference, organized entirely by graduate students in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The Ohio State University, aims to bring together a wide variety of scholars working within distinct disciplines and on many different aspects of Spanish, Portuguese, Quechua, or any other indigenous language. For this conference, we welcome papers in Englis