The typology of non-canonical subjects (ALT 2026, Lyon) Convenors: Pierre-Yves Modicom, Joren Somers & Jóhanna Barðdal Please submit your abstract of one page, excluding references, to pierre-yves.modicom (AT) univ-lyon3.fr before April 26th, 2025. At least since Keenan (1976), prototypical subjects have been defined in terms of coding and behavioral properties, such as case marking, clause-initial position, subject-verb inversion, conjunction reduction, raising, and control. These have

Conflict approached through a linguistic lens offers numerous possible levels of analysis, from language- and speaker-internal struggles to polarizing attitudes borne out of contextualized uses of language, and beyond humans, in interactions with other media such as technology, and now even more so, AI. Inquiry into both diachronic and synchronic linguistic displays, patterns, and behaviours within communication represents a challenge in itself, as the digital age increased the availability of r

Panel title: Multimodal forward-communication Organisers of the panel: Junfei Hu (UCLouvain), Geert Brône (KU Leuven) & Liesbeth Degand (UCLouvain) Background and questions of the panel In face-to-face conversation, interlocutors coordinate both verbal (lexical choices, syntactic structures, prosody) and non-verbal (posture, gestures, eye gaze, facial expressions) resources to perform communicative actions (Holler & Levinson, 2019). Notably, before the emergence of the utterance that verbal

Everyone is welcome to NATESOL's 41st Annual Conference, online and in person on 17th May at Manchester Metropolitan University. Join us for a day of interactive presentations and networking. Online attendance-Free Students/unwaged -£5 Members-£10 Non-members -£15 Free welcome goodie bag from Express Publishing and free buffet lunch and refreshments for in person attendees Please see below for more details and spread the word amongst your contacts. https://www.natesol.org/e

The International Conference on Phonetic Variation: Diversity within and across Languages (ICPhoV) will be held at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Granada (Spain) from Monday 19th until Wednesday 21st January 2026. This conference will provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of research on different issues related to phonetic variation within and across languages. The papers presented at the conference will cover a wide range of topics (e.g., dialectology, cross-linguis

On April 25-26, 2025, the Marco Institute for Medieval & Renaissance Studies and the Language Resource Center at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville are hosting a two-day symposium on "AI in the Humanities & Social Sciences: Ethics, Practice, and Pedagogies." The symposium is free (with breakfast and lunch provided on both days) thanks to the generous sponsorhip of the AI Tennessee Initiative. The event is also co-sponsored by the University of Tennessee College of Arts & Sciences Consortium

Journée d’étude : Communautés, milieux et cultures en anglais de spécialité Vendredi 16 janvier 2026 Maison de la recherche – Sorbonne Université 28 rue Serpente, Paris 6e arrondissement Journée organisée par le Centre de Linguistique en Sorbonne (CeLiSo, Sorbonne Université) & le Centre de Recherche en Linguistique Appliquée (CeRLA, Université Lumière Lyon 2) Appel à communications Cette journée d’étude s’inscrit dans la suite d’une série de manifestations scientifiques conduit

Langues africaines : Rapport aux nations et enjeux d’enseignement Organisé par l’Institut pour la Promotion et l’Enseignement des Langues Nationales (IPELAN) et le Groupe de Recherche en Linguistique et Didactique (GLIDA) - Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Université de Nouakchott . Nouakchott, les 12 et 13 novembre 2025 Appel à communications: Soixante ans après les indépendances, la majorité des États africains maintiennent les langues européennes comme vecteurs principaux d

Date: 21-22 November, 2025 Venue: Faculty of Letters, 5-7 Edgar Quinet St., Bucharest, Romania (and online) Conference languages: Romanian, English, French Convenors: Cristian Moroianu, Monica Vasileanu, Gabriela Stoica Registration fee: 300 RON/60 euro; for PhD students or online participation, 150 RON/30 euro. A neologism is generally understood as a new word, due to tradition and to its remote etymology of the term, whereby the Greek νέος “new” and λόγος “word” are still recognizable.

Date: 21-22 November 2025 Location: Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest Keynote speaker: Prof. Luis Javier Pentón Herrera (Akademia Ekonomiczno-Humanistyczna in Warsaw, Poland) We invite researchers, educators, PhD students, and specialists in teaching foreign languages or Romanian as a foreign language (RFL) to contribute with papers exploring the impact and interaction between Large Language Models (LLMs) and the teaching and learning process of foreign languages/Romanian by non-n

Convenors: Andrei Mărășoiu, Sandra Brânzaru (Faculty of Philosophy), Alexandru Nicolae (Faculty of Letters) We invite submissions to a workshop to be held within the 25th International Conference of the Department of Linguistics of the Faculty of Letters. Questions we aim to explore: • Do LLMs have metalinguistic abilities (do they have the ability to generate analyses of language data/theoretical linguistic abilities of language samples so as to identify whether a sentence is syntactic

We invite submissions to a workshop on integrating skills in teaching and learning L1 to be held within the 25th International Conference of the Department of Linguistics of the Faculty of Letters. Date: November 21-22, 2025 Venue: University of Bucharest, Faculty of Letters, 5-7 Edgar Quinet St., Bucharest, Romania Format: in-person Languages of the workshop: English and Romanian Keynote speaker: Professor Emeritus Debra Myhill (University of Exeter, UK) Convenors: Florentina Sâmi

The community of linguists at the Faculty of Letters celebrates 25 years of academic meetings with researchers from Romania and abroad at the University of Bucharest. As in the previous years, we intend to cover a wide range of topics, comprising various domains and directions of research in the study of Romanian and theoretical linguistics. We encourage presentations in, but not restricted to the following topics: - morphology, syntax, phonetics, and phonology; - pragmatics and stylistics

On behalf of the ITAP team I'm glad to inform the L2 pragmatics community that the registration period for the ITAP Annual Conference 2025, "Resources for L2 pragmatics teaching across instructional contexts", is now open. This year's conference will be a two-day hybrid event that will take place June 26-27, 2025 at the University of La Laguna, Tenerife, and online. Attendance, both in person and online, is free, but registration is required. You will find the registration form, the pr

After the success of our first workshop Polar Question Meaning[s] Across Languages, we are launching a second POQAL meeting, this time focusing on form. How are polar questions expressed in syntax, morphology, intonation? How do components of the grammar of each language constrain and determine these ways, e.g. in the inventory of functional categories, the expression of negation, focus, polarity, intonational characteristics, pragmatic division of labor among forms? How do fine grammatical com

The Call for Abstracts for the 26th Warwick International Conference in Applied Linguistics (WICAL) is now open. Sumittion Link: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/research/conferences/wical/2025/submission_2025/ This year’s Conference will be held in a hybrid mode, from 17th to 19th June 2025. WICAL is the biggest student-led academic conference at University of Warwick, offering dialogic and inclusive spaces to foster research excellence across disciplines. Each year, WICAL hosts talks

BACKGROUND: Migration into and within Africa has been increasingly motivated by social, political, educational and economic purposes. Movements of peoples in contemporary times, en-masse or in smaller groups have an impact on language practices in multilingual Africa. These movements raise a number of interesting questions such as; What changes are there in contexts where different languages come into contact as a result of different people mobility? How mobile are languages and how stable ar

The PhD students of the Doctoral Program in Literary and Philological Cultures at Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna are pleased to announce the second edition of the Doctoral Conference of the Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies. The conference invites participation from both PhD candidates and early-career researchers. This edition focuses on variation and change across the fields of Classical Studies, Italian Studies, Linguistics, and Book Cultures. Contributions m

THE 50th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT We are pleased to announce that the student-run annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) will be held on November 6-9, 2025. We are honored to have Dr. Jean Berko Gleason as our keynote presenter for BUCLD 50. *****CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS****** Conference submission details: BUCLD 50 will also feature regular talks and poster sessions. There are two kinds of submissions: Abstracts for

Event Description: The project "Semantics and Pragmatics of Emojis in Digital Communication (EmDiCom)" (funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG) and the Super Linguistics research group are hosting a one-day workshop on the linguistics of emojis at the University of Oslo, on 29th August 2025. Invited Plenary Speakers: Barbara Hemforth (Université Paris Cité) Elsi Kaiser (University of Southern California) Special Panel Session: "Emoji meaning: stability and variation" The worksho