Papers are invited dealing with the "Papuan" (ie. non-Austronesian) languages spoken in eastern Indonesia, the greater New Guinea region, and the Solomon Islands. Equally welcome are papers concerned with the Austronesian languages spoken in the same areas, including the contact varieties of Malay, as well as Tok Pisin and Solomon Islands Pidgin. Papers may be in any of the subfields of linguistics, and may represent variegated approaches and diverse theoretical persuasions. Papers are to be del

The conference will take place from 23 to 25 March 2026 at Université de Montpellier Paul Valéry (Montpellier, France). It is organized within the framework of the ChEDiL Project, funded by the French Research Agency (ANR-23-CE27-0008; https://chedil.hypotheses.org/), in collaboration with the ReSO research group of Université de Montpellier Paul Valéry. We welcome submissions on the history of lexicography, with a particular focus on dictionaries involving Asian languages. This includes both m

Meeting Description: We are pleased to announce the 17th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition conference (GALA 2025) to be held in Tours, France, at the City of Creation and Innovation (MAME) on 11-13 September 2025. GALA is a biennial conference that brings together researchers from across Europe and overseas, providing a forum for discussion of recent, high-quality research on all subfields of generative language acquisition, including, but not limited to, first and second langu

Formal Diachronic Semantics 10 (FoDS 10) will be hosted by the Linguistics Department at the University of Texas, Austin from October 16 to October 18 2025. In keeping with its tradition, FoDS brings together scholars interested in the exploration of the semantic and pragmatic aspects of diachronic processes in natural languages from a formal perspective. FoDS has been meeting yearly since 2016. It being the 10th Anniversary of FoDS, we will be marking it with presentations from some key resea

Symposium Announcement (Die deutsche Version finden Sie weiter unten / The German version is below.) Title: Teaching and Learning German Internationally – Dynamic Perspectives & Current Developments Date: 29 October 2025 Location: Festival Hall, City Hall St. Johann, Saarbrücken, Germany Address: Rathausplatz 1, 66111 Saarbrücken Website: www.saarbruecken.de/rathaus/rathaus_st_johann Event Description: As part of the 7th International Saarbrücken Foreign Language Conference (S

This short workshop (Kurz-AG) is organized as part of the 48th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS 2026, https://www.uni-trier.de/universitaet/fachbereiche-faecher/fachbereich-ii/forschung-und-zentren/dgfs2026). Workshop Description: Negation is a universal property of human language that allows us to express and to reason about what is not the case. Although negation is a ubiquitous phenomenon, experimental investigation has repeatedly shown that negative sentences are

La próxima edición de nuestro congreso tendrá lugar los días 22, 23 y 24 de abril de 2026 en la Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución de la Universidade de Vigo (UVigo). A continuación información útil: Fechas importantes: el congreso tendrá lugar los días 22, 23 y 24 de abril de 2026. Los envíos de propuestas se llevarán a cabo a través de la web del congreso www.maricorners.es Fecha límite envío de propuesta de paneles* (los paneles se explican más adelante): 30 de junio de 2025 Fecha l

This short workshop is organized as part of the 48th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS 2026). Organizers: - Julia Muschalik (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) - Dinah Baer-Henney (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf/Ruhr University Bochum) - Dominic Schmitz (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) Call for Papers: There is ever-growing evidence of a direct influence of central processing stages on the peripheral stages in language production across modaliti

A conference exploring new frontiers in dynamical models of speech. Registration: - Free registration before 27 June 2025 - Register at: https://lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0MV1PPHZ8izeNUO - More information at: https://samkirkham.github.io/dymos/ The event is co-located at the 2025 LSA Linguistics Institute. This two-day conference will bring together researchers in dynamical models of speech, featuring plenary talks from invited speakers, contributed talks, and open d

Organizers: Alessandro Capone (University of Messina), Roberto Graci (University of Messina) Introduction: Alessandro Capone Presentations: Yael Sharvit - UCLA (Los Angeles, USA) - “Tenselessness and modal particles”. Michael Nelson - UC-Riverside (Riverside, USA) - “An Ockhamist theory of the modal particle 'power’ in sentences of the form A has at t1 the power to F at t2” Nathan Salmon - UC-Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, USA) - “Modal discourse” Alessandra Giorgi - Ca'

The Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences announces the Fifth Conference on Uralic, Altaic and Paleo-Asiatic languages. The Conference will take place at the Institute for Linguistic Studies (St. Petersburg, Tuchkov per., 9), on November 24-26, 2025. This year the Conference will be held in a mixed format, offline and online. Here is a tentative list of topics that will be studied at the conference on the material of Uralic, Altaic and Paleo-Asiatic languages: 1

Linguistic Society of Nepal (LSN) organizes an annual conference on 26-27 November every year. The conference is one of the major activities of Society which provides a platform for those who have been working on different aspects of languages. LSN has been organizing the annual conferences since 1979 unfailingly bringing various linguists and practitioners together from home and abroad concentrating on the studies of Nepalese languages. This society would like to request all the linguists and

The conference also invites presentations on other topics relating to the field of linguistics. This year, we welcome in particular presentations addressing the following two themes: 1. Linguistic/Language in the Pacific region One of the purposes of the conference is to bring together language workers, researchers, linguists, anthropologists, creolists, translators and educators who are working on languages in the Pacific region and to promote collaboration and research in this area; as the

As part of the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Alicante and the 30th anniversary of the studies of Translation and Interpreting, the Department of Translation and Interpreting has the pleasure of convening the 9th International Lucentino Colloquium "30 years of Translation and Interpreting studies: Insights from didactics, professional practice and research" (January, 28-30, 2026). Also, 2025 marks the 15th anniversary of the

Call for Abstracts: Human communication is a multimodal system. Research on the contribution of the visual modality - in terms of gestures - to linguistics has grown in the last years. While aspects of gesture’s meaning and function have been intensively studied, less attention has been paid to visual and kinematic features, which nevertheless form the building blocks from which multimodal utterances constitute their meaning. To fully grasp the meaning and function of gestures and gradual var

We are delighted to welcome you to the Fourth International Language-for-All Conference (LFAC’25), organised in collaboration with Çukurova University and Hasan Kalyoncu University. LFAC’25 will take place on October 16-17, 2025, at Hasan Kalyoncu University in Gaziantep, Türkiye. This year’s conference theme, "Sustainable Learning, Global Impact," aims to foster meaningful discussions on innovative and sustainable approaches to language education. It is our privilege to gather with you in pu

Coexistence of borrowed and native word formation morphology is a widespread if not universal characteristic of languages (Matras & Sakel 2007; Gardani, Arkadiev & Amiridze 2015). In many cases, foreign derived morphemes occupy specific lexical strata or registers, reflecting a compartmentalisation into native and borrowed subsystems (Matras 2009). For example, English word formation features both native Germanic and borrowed Latinate suffixes (e.g., -ness vs. -ity, respectively), whereby some o

Join us for our last free webinar of the academic year. The Northern Association of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages presents; A special panel discussion "Revisiting ESOL Entry learners’ needs & our teaching approaches" Panelists: Robert Merrell & learners, Rabia and Lul Manchester Adult Education Service (MAES) Date: Thursday 19 June 2025 Time: 15:30 - 16:30 (UK time) Online via Zoom Free registration via NATESOL’s website here: https://www.natesol.org/ You