The Semantics and Philosophy in Europe (SPE) colloquia provides a forum for presenting research in the interface between linguistic semantics and various areas of philosophy (philosophy of language, philosophy of mind/cognition, metaphysics, and philosophy of mathematics). This year's colloquium Semantics and Philosophy in Europe (SPE13) wants to foster in particular the dialogue between applied ontology, as a semantic technology in computer science, and linguistics and philosophy. Confirmed

This conference seeks to refine our understanding of the relationship between form and meaning in exclamative structures. It aims to provide as comprehensive an account as possible of form-meaning correspondences in exclamative structures by bringing together scholarly contributions on a broad range of languages and corpora. A key challenge lies in the terminological ambiguity of the term exclamation as it applies to different levels of language and to a variety of meanings. This issue, which

The research group Pragmatics. Discourse. Cognition (PraDiC), from the Centre for Humanistic Studies of the University of Minho (CEHUM), will organize an in-person international congress on Everyday Discourses on July 9–10, 2026. Everyday life is fundamentally made up of discourses. As beings of language, discourse sustains social experience. It encompasses varied ways of expression—oral, written, imagetic, and multimodal—typically formed through brief interactions that are spontaneous and in

Building on the success of the first Convergence conference in 2023, which explored the responsible and intelligent integration of human and machine capabilities in translation and interpreting, the Centre for Translation Studies is proud to announce Convergence 2026: Human-AI Integration for Multilingual and Accessible Communication. The second edition of the Convergence conference will create an opportunity to bring together innovative research on the evolving landscape of AI in the context of

The YAR (ANR) and Cais (B-Monde/Agile Cymru) projects are co-organizing a workshop on tools for minority languages with a focus on teaching contexts. The workshop will take place on 5 May 2026 in Brittany (France), at Technopôle Brest-Iroise in Plouzane, on the premises of the Institut National Polytechnique de Bretagne. The aim of the workshop is to discuss the digital practices of teachers, learners, and speakers of minoritized languages and “non-standard” variants. How can we integrate

Workshop Theme: Effective and widely available reading assessments are fundamental for educational and clinical settings, as they are instrumental for early diagnosis of reading difficulties, enabling timely and targeted intervention. In this workshop, we explore how eye-tracking combined with machine learning technologies can enhance reading assessments. Our goal is to bring together researchers from various relevant fields, including educational science, cognitive psychology, psycholinguist

SVAL Registration Final Reminder (Both in Person/online) We are pleased to announce the programme for and to open registration for the upcoming conference SVAL - Sociolinguistic Variation in Ancient Languages, held at the University of Cambridge from 26-28 March 2026. The registration deadline is February 28 2026, for both in person and online attendance. Please find the link for registration below. The registration is free but necessary for us to confirm catering numbers and register ema

The 2026 Irish Association for Applied Linguistics (IRAAL) Annual Conference welcomes abstracts (max. 250 words) for theoretical and empirical presentations in any area of Applied Linguistics, broadly defined, including, but not confined to the following: - Bilingualism - Multilingualism & Plurilingualism - Translanguaging - Interculturality - Language Policy & Language Planning - Language Education & Language Teaching, Learning and Assessment - Second Language Acquisition - Ps

NFEAP this year is a chance to think about the many mythologies of EAP, academic writing, higher education pedagogy and the idea of a university itself. We could think about at least two dimensions of myth – first the idea of transcendence, an act or event that takes us to a reality deeper than the everyday; and against that, the story or idea that is pernicious but durable, misleading but stubborn. Sometimes we need to make myths; sometimes we need to bust myths. What are the myths in higher

A one-day conference ‘The role of semantics in syntax’, is to be held at Magdalen College, Oxford, on 20 June 2026. The aim of the conference is to explore ways in which the syntax of a sentence might be influenced by its semantics, in opposition to the traditional Chomskyan conception of the autonomy of syntax. The conference is inspired by two recent speculative developments: the revival of the architecture of the grammar proposed by the Generative Semanticists, which is seen in the ‘Meaning F

From 18 to 20 November 2026, the second Biennial of Czech Linguistics will take place at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno. The aim of the Biennial is to cover Czech linguistics in its full methodological and thematic breadth. We welcome contributions and participants from all linguistic disciplines and philologies, representing a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches. The conference is structured around thematic workshops and will also include a general pos

Registration for SAIL 2026 is now open! Interested participants may register through Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/symposium-on-american-indian-languages-2026-tickets-1983024009193?aff=oddtdtcreator The program may be found on our website: https://sites.google.com/view/sail-uofa/program Our special session theme for 2026 is Innovative Pedagogies. Education lies at the core of language revitalization. Passing on our ancestral languages is done by fostering a relationship betwee

Research on young second language (L2) learners, as well as young learner (inter-)language specifically, has gained increasing attention in recent years, driven by calls for greater diversity and representativeness in both Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and Learner Corpus Research (LCR). Although a growing number of learner corpora are available (Fernández & Davis, 2021), corpora representing young learner language, broadly defined, remain comparatively rare. While empirical findings from you

Since 2018, the UNED Language and Society Research Group has organised a series of biennial international conferences that have become a consolidated forum for scholarly debate on bilingualism and bilingual education. Building on previous editions that explored bilingualism and interculturality (2018), the relationship between bilingualism and migration (2020), the interplay between bilingualism, bilingual education, and their social contexts (2022), and how bilingualism and bilingual education

2026 NARNiHS Research Incubator North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics 8th edition 07-09 May 2026 -- entirely online! Abstract Submission Deadline 23 March 2026, 11:59 PM (U.S. Eastern Time) The 2026 NARNiHS Research Incubator is an entirely online event (**with free registration**). This event offers an opportunity for scholars in historical sociolinguistics from all over the world to participate in discussions of cutting-edge research without the limitations

We are pleased to announce that the International Congress of the International Society for Applied Linguistics (ISAPL) 2026 will take place in person at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto (FLUP), Portugal, from June 11 to 13, 2026. As part of the scientific programme, the ISAPL Program Committee is now accepting, until February 25 proposals for Organized Symposia, to be held during the Congress. Organized symposia offer an excellent opportunity for individual re

We are pleased to announce that the 15th Workshop Formal Linguistics will be held at Federal University of Minas Gerais from May 25 to May 29. In its fifteenth edition, Workshop on Formal Linguistics is by now a consolidated event on Theoretical Linguistics in Brazil and abroad. In this edition, we aim this event to continue being a forum of discussion for high quality research in progress about natural languages using formal frameworks. This edition will also feature a special section abou

Across cultures, historical periods, and media, islands have functioned as privileged sites of myth-making and imagination. Often perceived as bounded worlds, islands have generated narratives of origin and apocalypse, utopia and dystopia, exile and belonging, isolation and connection. From ancient mythologies to contemporary cultural production, from oral traditions to visual and digital media, and from colonial imaginaries to ecological discourses, islands have operated as narrative laboratori

Les marqueurs discursifs non (dé)verbaux : approche comparée français/anglais/espagnol Non-(de)verbal Discourse Markers in French, English and Spanish Journée d’étude – Vendredi 20 mars 2026 à l’Université de Paris-Est Créteil. Salle des thèses P2-019. One-day conference - Friday March 20th 2026 - Universiry of Paris-Est Créteil - Salle des thèses P2-019. Organisation : Fabiana Alvarez-Ejzenberg (CEHA, Université de Picardie Jules Verne & IMAGER, Université Paris-Est Créteil) Valérie

As one of the dominant languages of the Roman Empire, Greek Koiné continues to play a very important role during the Roman period and shows a big deal of diatopic and diastratal (social and political) variation. One such example is Atticism: the classical language came to be considered as “the ideal variety” as opposed to the administrative Koiné that is dissociated from any literary tradition (inter alia, Swain 1996; Schmitz 1997; Silk 2009; Strobel 2009; Rafiyenko & Seržant 2022). Imitating th