Heritage Language Syntax is a workshop initiated at the University of Utrecht within the Microcontact project funded by the ERC, with the aim of investigating the syntactic properties of heritage grammars. We are happy to host the sixth edition of Heritage Language Syntax at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. We welcome all scholars interested in heritage grammars, particularly of indigenous languages. Abstracts should be anonymous and no longer than two A4 pages, including references and example

The University of Artois (Arras, France) is organizing the 10th Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française (CMLF 2026) from July 6 to 10, 2026. The CMLF is organized into thematic sessions that cover a wide range of scientific fields: - Discourse, pragmatics, and interaction - Francophonie - History of French: diachronic and synchronic perspectives - History, Epistemology, Reflexivity - Lexicon - Written language linguistics, text linguistics, semiotics, stylistics - Linguistics

Pragmatic competence, the ability to interpret and produce language in context, lies at the heart of human communication. From implicature to speech act recognition, from reference resolution to conversational repair, pragmatic reasoning shapes how we use language to collaborate, negotiate meaning, and navigate everyday social interactions. How well do current large language models (LLMs) approximate human pragmatics, and what core pragmatic capacities remain beyond their reach? The 1st Works

We would like to remind you that registration for the Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research conference (VAR4LCR) is possible until 22 June 2025. The conference will take place on 7 and 8 July 2025 in Louvain-la-Neuve and will feature Prof. Douglas Biber (Northern Arizona University), Prof. Marije Michel (University of Groningen) and Prof. Shelley Staples (University of Arizona) as keynote speakers. A provisional programme as well as additional information (including a re

The LL16 Pre-Conference Workshop aims to provide doctoral students and postdocs with in-depth knowledge and practical skills related to the LL16 conference theme "Spaces of Collapse and Transformation". We are pleased to announce two hands-on workshop sessions facilitated by Dr. Sean P. Smith and Dr. Natalia Volvach, centering on the theme ‘“Does it fit here?” Disorienting encounters in/with semiotic landscapes'. The one-day event will conclude with a presentation and Q&A for ECRs on publishing

In a world that has increasingly become marked by tensions and divisions, breaking down silos and overcoming isolation is more important now than ever. Whether our work focuses on bridging boundaries, dismantling disciplinary silos, or fostering reciprocal relationships with others, a sense of belonging to the human community remains at the very core of all these endeavours, bringing us together in solidarity and resistance. The 6th Symposium of the Southern Ontario Universities (SSOU) invites s

We would like to warmly welcome you to the University of Queensland for this one-day symposium on “Bridging Pragmatic Competence and Interactional Competence” on Friday 20 June, 2025. Advancements in the conceptualisation of pragmatic competence and interactional competence, as well as the empirical studies conducted under these frameworks in the recent years, have significantly deepened our understanding of how L2 learners navigate the dynamic, multifaced, and fluid nature of talk-in-interactio

Queer Linguistics applies insights from Queer Theory to linguistics. More specifically, it seeks to explore the intersections of language and social identity informed by a non-binary, social constructionist and interactional perspective on gender and sexuality. Queer linguistic research investigates how speakers use language to subvert and reconfigure linguistic and socio-cultural hegemonies. As a growing area of inquiry, it critically explores variation, creativity, and the sociocultural embedd

We are pleased to announce the third edition of the 'Current issues in syntax, semantics, and pragmatics' workshop. Like in the previous years, the workshop will be part of the ÖLT (49th Austrian Linguistics Conference), which takes place December 5-8, 2025 in Klagenfurt, Austria. The workshop aims to create opportunities for researchers to discuss their original, unpublished work related to any of the fields mentioned in its title as well as at the interfaces. We invite submissions for oral pre

The main goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers who are interested in the morphological processing of bilingual and multilingual participants. We seek high-quality paper and poster presentations that contribute to the issues mentioned above. This workshop is the dissemination of the project entitled “Morphological Processing in L1 and L2 Speakers: A Psycholinguistic Approach on Turkish and English”, which was supported by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türki

We are pleased to invite you to participate in the international scientific and practical conference “Linguistics, Literature, Translation and Teaching Languages in Times of War” which will be held on June 12–13, 2025, organized by the Department of Theory, Practice, and Translation of English, Faculty of Linguistics, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (Kyiv, Beresteiskyi Avenue, 37, H. I. Denysenko Scientific and Technical Library). The conference will feature sessions in the followin

This workshop aims to bring together people working on Universal Dependencies (UD) (https://universaldependencies.org ) treebanks for Turkic languages. The workshop will be held in a hybrid format as a half-day session at SyntaxFest 2025 in Ljubljana on August 26, 2025 (https://syntaxfest.github.io/syntaxfest25/index.html). Call for Abstracts: We invite submissions for short presentations (10 minutes) on topics concerning UD Turkic treebanks. The maintainers of existing treebanks, as well

We invite abstracts for the fifth international conference on Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone world (BHL), hosted by the University of Reading and King’s College London, which will take place at University of Reading between January 12-14, 2026. BHL is a biennial international conference (Leiden University, The Netherlands, 2015, 2019; Florida State University, USA, 2017; Puebla, Mexico, 2024) that brings together researchers working on different aspects of bilingualism/multilingua

Workshop Programme: All times are Central European Summer Time (CEST). Friday, 30 May 2025 14.15–14.30 Introduction 14.30–15.00 Daniel Kölligan (JMU Würzburg): Wordplay and exclusion in ancient Greek epic and the magical papyri 15.00–15.30 Haoran Liu (Université de Lorraine, Metz): Wordplay as a tool of building an online community on X founded on connivence 15.30–16.00 Matthias Hausmann (JMU Würzburg): Words that (should not!) exclude: Scientific explanations in science fiction and i

The First International Conference on Continuing Education in Philological and Related Studies in the English Language invites academics, researchers, educators, and postgraduate students to come together to explore English philology in all its dimensions. This event will be held entirely online and aims to foster dialogue and intellectual exchange on the dynamic linguistic, literary, and cultural landscapes of the English language. The conference, covering a wide range of academic perspectives,

The symposium aims to bring to the fore the most pressing and engaging problems in comparative Germanic linguistics within a variety of research domains, including but not limited to linguistic reconstruction, runology, poetics, and phylogeny (conference hompage: http://www.uu.se/tpcgl25) Organizing committee: Matteo Tarsi, Eric T. Lander, John Ankarström Call for Papers: The deadline for abstracts has passed. Deadline for registration: Please register before the 1 of September 2025. Con

We are pleased to announce the call for the 11th International Conference on Language, Literature & Culture (LLC2025), jointly organized by Batman University, Çankaya University, the University of Prešov (Slovakia), and Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland). This year’s conference will be hosted by Batman University as a hybrid conference under the theme: “Humanities in the Digital Age”. We kindly invite you to submit your abstract proposals (for 20-minute presentations) to llc2025

Workshop: Artificial Languages in the Linguist’s Toolbox We are delighted to invite you to attend the second workshop of the EXREAN project* at the Freie Universität Berlin which will explore the application of artificial languages as a tool in linguistic research. Artificial language learning experiments test how far language users can extract rule-like generalizations from structured input (Culbertson, 2023). Since Reber’s (1967) seminal artificial grammar (AG) study, which aimed at inve

Panel at XIX ASIAC Annual Conference with the title "Archives, Fieldnotes, and Legacy: Researching Central Asia and the Caucasus through Personal and Scholarly Archives" We invite paper proposals for a panel we are organizing as part of the XIX ASIAC Annual Conference, to be held at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice from 15-17 December 2025. This panel brings together scholars working on or with archival materials related to Central Asia and the Caucasus, with a particular interest in the p

We welcome submissions covering diverse aspects of signing, speech and language research methodology as described in the scope of MaTiPS. Please note that the scope includes not only measurements and analysis but also among other topics outreach, community work and teaching methods. See website for more details. The conference will be held in Edmonton, at University of Alberta, Canada, 17-19 October 2025. MaTiPS schedule will be coordinated with Acoustics Week Canada 2025 (in neighbouring Cal