AJL is committed to encouraging junior linguists to have opportunities to present their work at a formal academic conference. Junior linguists mainly include undergraduate students studying linguistics, but Master's and PhD level submissions will also be welcomed. Plenary speakers are: - Celeste Guillemot (Hosei University) "Perceptual biases in the acquisition of second language pronunciation" - Soo-Hwan Lee (Gyeongsang National University) "What Bantu languages tell us about nominalizatio

This academic conference is intended for young researchers: BA, MA and PhD students and postdocs. It is going to take place on 21 November 2025 in the New Conference Hall of Sofia University. The thematic areas of the conference include: - Languages of the unspoken - Whisper and cry in language and literature - Control and censorship - Context and subtext in language and literature - What is said between the lines - Working languages: Bulgarian and English.

Description: During the last years there has been a growing interest in the study of the morphosyntactic behaviour of proper names (Ackermann & Schlücker 2017; Dammel & Handschuh 2019; Caro Reina & Helmbrecht 2022; Stolz & Nintemann 2024). From a typological perspective, it has been shown that proper names can, to varying degrees, morphosyntactically differ from common nouns. As a consequence, some scholars speak of a special onymic grammar (Nübling et al. 2015) while others propose a special a

The Section for Sign Linguistics at the Faculty of Polish Studies of the University of Warsaw is proud to be holding the third edition of the Workshop on Cognitive and Functional Explorations in Sign Language Linguistics. You can register to participate in the conference at https://forms.gle/PcFvfZqEGiXXgowT9. Sign CAFÉ 3 will take place on September 18–19, 2025, at the University of Warsaw, Poland, in the Old University Library building, where our series of local conferences titled “Researc

We are pleased to invite participation in the First Workshop on Optimal Reliance and Accountability in Interaction with Generative Language Models (ORIGen) to be held in conjuction with the Conference on Language Modeling (COLM) in Montreal, Canada, on October 10, 2025! With the rapid integration of generative AI, exemplified by large language models (LLMs), into personal, educational, business, and even governmental workflows, such systems are increasingly being treated as “collaborators” wi

LabPhon 20 will be held in Montréal, Québec, Canada from June 26–28, 2026, with pre-conference workshops and a keynote lecture on June 25. This 20th anniversary meeting will take place at Coeur des Sciences at UQAM, located in downtown Montreal, and is being organized by a multi-university team from McGill University, Carleton University, and the University of Ottawa. As we mark the 20th LabPhon meeting, our theme, Looking Back and Looking Forward, invites reflection on the field’s foundational

Tagung B03 SFB 1391 Andere Ästhetik Brücken bauen Metaphern und Symbole an der Schnittstelle von Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik Tübingen, 24. – 26. September 2025 Metaphern und Symbole stellen seit jeher ein zentrales Gestaltungsmittel in der Alltagssprache und Literatur dar. Immer wieder stehen sie dabei auch im Kontext ästhetischer Ansp

Représenter l’écriture. Outils, techniques, exploitations. Journée d’études internationale co-financée par les universités de UQAM (Canada), HEC Montréal (Canada), Bordeaux (France), Turku (Finlande), Vendredi 17 octobre 2025 - Montréal (Canada) Lieu : Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) - Salle DR 200 / 10h00-16h00 Dans le champ des études sur l’écriture, on observe depuis un demi-siècle un déplacement de l’intérêt des chercheurs du produit (l’écrit terminé) vers le processus (le traje

We are pleased to invite submissions for Speech Prosody 2026, the 13th International Conference on Speech Prosody, to be held May 26–29, 2026, at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. https://www.speechprosody2026.org Speech Prosody is the largest international forum dedicated to prosody in all its forms. This year’s theme, Prosodic Encodings in Context: From Structure and Cognition to Technology, and Back, highlights our commitment to advancing interdisciplinary inquiry into the

WEDiSyn ist eine internationale Veranstaltungsreihe, die als Forschungsnetzwerk konzipiert ist und Wissenschaftler zusammenbringt, die sich mit syntaktischen Variationen in Dialekten, d. h. den geografischen Varietäten der Sprachen Westeuropas, befassen. Das Hauptziel dieses Forschungsnetzwerks ist es, den Austausch über die neuesten Entwicklungen und laufenden Forschungen auf dem Gebiet der (morpho-)syntaktischen Dialektologie zu fördern. Dazu gehören Diskussionen über: - Spezifische morphosy

The English Department of Politeknik Negeri Malang is delighted to invite you to participate in the 3rd International Conference on Applied Linguistics and Communication (ICALCom), which will be held on November 1, 2025. This year’s theme is: “From the Classroom to the World: English, Employability, and Intercultural Readiness.” Venue: Politeknik Negeri Malang, Indonesia and Online (Hybrid) Visit https://icalcom.or.id for more details Abstract Submission: August 4 - 31, 2025 The con

The Department of Translation and Interpretation Studies at the Faculty of Philology of Vilnius University cordially invites you to the international conference Translation at the Crossroads of Ideologies and Cultures to discuss a multilevel role and complex positionality of translation and translators in changing historical, social, political, and communicational settings. Throughout the course of history, translation has been seen as both, dangerous and necessary. Like two-faced Janus, it

The purpose of IWCLUL is to bring together researchers working on computational approaches to Uralic languages (e.g. Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian, Võro, the Sámi languages, Komi (Zyrian, Permyak), Mordvin (Erzya, Moksha), Mari (Hill, Meadow), Udmurt, Nenets (Tundra, Forest), Enets, Nganasan, Selkup, Mansi, Khanty, Veps, Karelian (Olonets), Karelian, Ingrian (Izhorian), Votic, Livonian and Ludic). All Uralic languages exhibit rich morphological structure, which makes processing them challenging f

We are happy to announce that The English Linguistic Society of Japan 19th Spring Forum is to be held as described below. All presentations and discussions will be conducted in English. All abstracts must be written in English. Forum Dates: 23-May-2026 - 24-May-2026 Location: Shimane University (Matsue Campus), Shimane, 1060 Nishikawatsu-cho, Matsue-shi, Shimane-ken, 690-8504, Japan Contact: forum-elsj@kaitakusha.co.jp We invite abstracts for (A) oral presentations (each a 20-minute talk

It is with great enthusiasm and pleasure that we invite you to the upcoming 7th edition of the conference Dialectal Syntax in Westernmost Europe. WEDiSyn is an international series conceived as a research network bringing together scholars studying syntactic variation in the dialects, i.e. the geographic varieties of the languages of westernmost Europe. The primary aim of this research network is to facilitate the exchange of the latest developments and ongoing research in the field of (morph

Panel on “The Pragmatics of Online Public Shaming” 4th International Conference on Discourse Pragmatics (ICDP-4) 17-19 October 2025 Pilar Blitvich Garces-Conejos (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) Michael Haugh (University of Queensland) Public shaming and public denunciation rituals have a long history in maintaining moral order in many societies around the world (Garfinkel 1956; Braithwate 1989). However, following widespread uptake of social media platforms and the ready acc

Meeting Description: The Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP), founded in 2013, is held every Fall, and showcases high quality research in all areas of phonology. The main AMP 2025 session will be held September 25-26, 2025 at UC Berkeley, followed by a special session on "Deep Phonology: Doing phonology with deep learning" on September 27. Invited speakers: - Florian Lionnet (Princeton) - Kate Mooney (Maryland) - Jason Shaw (Yale) Program: The program is available on the AMP webs

The Valence Asymmetries ERC team is happy to announce that it will be organizing the first VALENCE ASYMMETRIES conference on March 19th-20th 2026 at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain. The event is funded by Isidora Stojanovic’s ERC Advanced Grant “Valence Asymmetries: the positive, the negative, the good and the bad in language, mind and morality” (GA n° 101142133). This interdisciplinary event will discuss themes which are central to the Valence Asymmetries project, including t

The English version of this call for papers is available at the following link: https://www.lukasz-jedrzejowski.eu/organizing/punctuation/ Tagungsbeschreibung: Interpunktionszeichen sind die stillen Organisatoren der geschriebenen Sprache – oft übersehen, aber unverzichtbar für die Strukturierung der Syntax, für die Lesesteuerung, die Verarbeitung und Interpretation sowie für die Darstellung diskursiver Beziehungen. Bredel (2008, 2020), Dürscheid (2016) sowie Kirchhoff & Primus (2016) beto

The goal of the Young Africanists’ Research Network (YARN) is to highlight linguistic research being done on African languages and the early-career scholars behind this work. We also seek to foster collaboration and discussion surrounding theoretical and methodological issues in our field. To meet this aim, we are hosting our inaugural workshop on March 19th-20th, 2026 at the University of Göttingen. Invited Speakers: Mary Amaechi -University of Ilorin (Nigeria) / University of Bielefeld