We are pleased to invite submissions for ISLA2026: Isolated Languages Workshop, to be held at Ghent University on March 19-20, 2026. This conference aims to bring together scholars from various disciplines to explore the linguistic, sociocultural, and genetic aspects of speakers of languages that cannot be (straightforwardly) incorporated into larger genealogical units. Isolate languages and (small) language families with no connection to higher-order branches of known phyla offer limited possib

*** English version below*** Wanneer? Op vrijdag 31 oktober 2025 organiseert de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Fonetische Wetenschappen weer de jaarlijkse Dag van de Fonetiek. Call for papers We willen u van harte uitnodigen een bijdrage in te dienen voor een presentatie. Deze kan gaan over lopend of recent-afgerond fonetisch onderzoek binnen de empirisch-wetenschappelijke traditie, en/of demonstraties van nieuwe applicaties of methodes op het gebied van spraakonderzoek. Ingediende abstract

Law is interpreted and implemented by many hands. Some of them belong to judges, legislators, or lawyers—but many belong to nurses, teachers, municipal officials, or department heads: professionals who encounter law not in courtrooms or casebooks, but in institutional documents, contracts, checklists, and internal protocols. These actors do not interpret law as legal theorists or as abstract "laypeople," but as role-bound individuals embedded in specific organizational contexts. Their understand

We are pleased to announce a conference on Sociolinguistic Variation in Ancient Languages. Towards Third Wave approaches and beyond, which will take place at the University of Cambridge on 26-28 March 2026, at Jesus College and at the Faculty of Classics. The theme is how Third Wave approaches can enhance our understanding of variation in ancient languages, and how we can integrate such approaches with previous methodologies. We focus especially on new methodologies and new corpora, with languag

The 6th International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations To be held in Prague, Czechia, August 4-5, 2025, following ACL 2025 in Vienna, Austria. Registration for DMR 2025 is now open! Registration is FREE and includes access to all DMR 2025 events, including exciting keynotes from Roberto Navigli and Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, a free-form discussion on the role of meaning representations in the age of LLMs, and the social dinner on August 4. The registration form is available at https:/

We are delighted to announce that the 8th Prescriptivism Conference will be hosted by Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and will take place in Brussels on 24-26 June 2026. Building on the success of previous conferences held in Sheffield (2003), Ragusa (2006), Toronto (2009), Leiden (2013), Park City, Utah (2017), Vigo (2021), and Aix-en-Provence (2024), this edition continues the tradition of exploring prescriptivism in its many historical, cultural, and linguistic manifestations. The theme of the

We are pleased to announce the OCP23 Satellite Workshop on The Role of Representation in Computational Phonology to be held on 13 January at the University of Cambridge. Phonological representations minimally assume linearly ordered elements, and have been augmented to include hierarchical structure like prosodic categories and non-linear structure like autosegmental tiers. McCarthy’s (1988:84) often quoted adage, “if the representations are right, then the rules will follow” implies the anal

Migration has long been a defining force of globalization, but its impact is experienced unequally across different regions. The Global South, in particular, bears the brunt of migration’s complex social, economic, and linguistic ramifications. Whether driven by economic disparity, political unrest, or digital labor economies, migration reconfigures how language functions. It not only serves as a medium of communication, but it is used as a tool of power, negotiation, resistance, and identity fo

The Discourse Research Association of Ireland (DRAOI) is pleased to announce the full schedule for our fifth annual Summer Seminar Series, taking place online every Wednesday* at 15:00 Irish Standard Time during July and August 2025. All seminars are free and open to the public. Join us for a vibrant series of talks by researchers working across discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, multimodality, discourse theory, and more. July 9 July Liz Kiely, University College Cork ‘What about t

Description: The goal of this panel is to maintain the meeting space for linguists working on ellipsis that was initiated at the LII Simposio de la SEL, held in Madrid in 2024. Given that the panel was successful in 2024 (researchers from different universities and countries, such as Spain, Germany, the United States and Poland attended), we believe that the session can provide a fruitful meeting space at the LIV Simposio de la SEL. Ellipsis is the anaphoric phenomenon that has aroused mos

The dialect of Lesbos is one of the major dialects still spoken in Greece. It belongs to the group of Νorthern Greek Dialects, featuring, among other things, two phonological traits missing from the varieties of the south: high-vowel deletion and mid-vowel raising in unstressed position. The dialect of Lesbos displays an interesting vocabulary and a number of intriguing phenomena that reveal aspects of the diachronic evolution of Greek and contact with Turkish and Italo-Romance. For the Modern

We invite contributions to the upcoming workshop Acquaintance, Familiarity & Value, to take place at the University of Barcelona on November 6-7th, 2025. Invited speakers include: - Natasha Korotkova (Utrecht University) - Justin Khoo (MIT) - Nils Franzén (University of Umeå) - Carla Umbach (University of Cologne). We will explore topics surrounding the phenomenon of the “acquaintance inference" of aesthetic language. The use of aesthetic language to describe an object (e.g., predicates

For English please scroll down Titel des Workshops: Marketinglinguistik Thema: Sprache als Schlüsselressource der Marketingkommunikation Kurzbeschreibung: Tagtäglich sind wir von einer Vielzahl sprachlicher Botschaften aus der Marketingkommunikation umgeben – sei es durch Markennamen, Slogans, Werbetexte, Produktbeschreibungen oder Verpackungsaufschriften. Diese Botschaften begegnen uns sowohl in der analogen als auch in der digitalen Welt und prägen unser Konsumverhalten. Die gezielte spra

The laboratoire de linguistique formelle (CNRS & Université Paris Cité) will host this year's meeting of the French national research network LIFT2 (=linguistique informatique, formelle et de terrain), which brings together computational, formal and field linguists. The meeting will be held on October 16-17 2025 at Halle aux farines on Campus Rive Gauche in the 13th arrondissement of Paris (near Bibliothèque Nationale and INALCO). See the workshop web page at https://lift2-2025.sciencesconf.or

In 2024, the first conference Interdisciplinary perspectives on landscapes in language, society, and cognition (ILANSCO 2024) took place at the University of Zürich in Switzerland. This unique encounter brought together researchers from various disciplines - linguistics, anthropology, history, geography, psychology and others - who shared their passion for landscape perception and presented their frontier research on the role of language and other factors in this process. In 2026, we would like

Meeting Description: Conference Website: https://dkaramasov.github.io/hpsg2025/ The 32nd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar will be held in a hybrid format on 2 September - 4 September 2025 at Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. The conference addresses linguistic, foundational, or computational issues relating to or in the spirit of the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. The conference will consist of a two-day main confer

We are pleased to announce the First Call for Papers for the upcoming workshop: LLMs4All: LLMs, Big Data, and Multilinguality for All - First Call for Papers - To be held at IEEE BigData 2025, Macau, China | December 8–11, 2025 - Our page for more details: https://vinnlp.com/llms4all Workshop Scope: LLMs4All workshop addresses the intersection of LLMs, Big Data, and Multilinguality, with a focus on equitable access and global inclusivity. It explores how large-scale data pipelines and ad

Program: (updated version online: https://dkaramasov.github.io/hpsg2025/#program) 9:15–9:30 Introduction Jakob Maché (Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa) 9:45–10:45 Plenary talk by Jonathan Ginzburg (LLF, Université Paris Cité) Non-Canonical Questions 10:45–11:15 Coffee break 11:15–11:55 Felix Frühauf and Berry Claus (Leibniz Universität Hannover) Responsive "sowieso" 11:55–12:15 Oleg Belyaev (Moskovskiy Gosudarstvenny Universitet Lomonosov) Sentence-final con

SAMWOP is an annual event that brings together linguists working in the area of Southern African microlinguistics (broadly defined as linguistics which focuses on the structure of language as opposed to, for example, its sociological or educational role in society). This includes researchers based in Southern Africa working in various areas of theoretical and general linguistics, including phonetics, phonology, morphology and syntax, as well as those based elsewhere working on e.g. South African

This conference, which will take place at the Université d’Artois in Arras, France on 24-26 September 2025, aims at exploring the manifold nature and uses of ‘fuck’—‘the most important and powerful word in the English language’ (Sheidlower 2009)—from the viewpoints of linguistics, translation studies and culture. Programme: Wednesday 24 9.00: Welcome 9.30: Opening Remarks by Anne Besson, Head of ‘Textes & Cultures’ 9.45: Keynote Address - Jesse SHEIDLOWER, writer and lexicographer, Col