Call for Papers: Organiser: Costas Gabrielatos (Edge Hill University) Invited Speakers: - Stefan Gries (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) - Martin Hilpert (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland) - Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK) The focus of LxGr is the interaction of lexis and grammar. It is influenced by Halliday’s view of lexis and grammar as “complementary perspectives” (1991: 32), and his conception of the two as notional ends of a continuum (lexicogrammar)

Die Arbeitsgemeinschaft "Sprache in der Politik" veranstaltet ihr viertes politolinguistisches Nachwuchskolloquium. Promovierende, deren Forschungsgegenstand Sprache und Kommunikation in der Politik im engeren oder linguistische Gesellschaftsforschung im weiteren Sinne darstellt, sind eingeladen, ihre Dissertationsprojekte vorzustellen. Neben langjährigen Mitgliedern der Arbeitsgemeinschaft wird das Kolloquium von weiteren Expert*innen begleitet, die entsprechend der ausgewählten Projekte eingel

Call for Papers: The University of Wisconsin-Madison Language Sciences Program & Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders invite submissions for papers to be presented at the 47th Annual International Child Phonology Conference, to be held in-person May 27-29, 2026, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The conference brings together researchers from across disciplines to discuss theoretical, empirical, and clinical perspectives on children’s phonology. The conference supports

Final Call for Papers: The Information Disorder Workshop Collocated with LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain https://information-disorder-workshop.github.io/ - March 3: Paper submission (extension) - March 17: Notification of acceptance - March 30: Camera-ready submission - May 12, 2026: InDor at LREC! Online disinformation is a pressing challenge for our societies. Its role in influencing elections (Allcott & Gentzkow, 2017) and behaviours (van der Linden et al., 2020) has

Die Arbeitsgemeinschaft "Sprache in der Politik" veranstaltet ihr viertes politolinguistisches Nachwuchskolloquium. Promovierende, deren Forschungsgegenstand Sprache und Kommunikation in der Politik im engeren oder linguistische Gesellschaftsforschung im weiteren Sinne darstellt, sind eingeladen, ihre Dissertationsprojekte vorzustellen. Neben langjährigen Mitgliedern der Arbeitsgemeinschaft wird das Kolloquium von weiteren Expert*innen begleitet, die entsprechend der ausgewählten Projekte eingel

SUMMARY (xxvii, 843 pp.) Another ample Oxford typological anthology has arrived, joining a set of volumes that focus on such previously under-researched topics as serial verb constructions, evidentiality, and body-part expressions. In that spirit, Sarvasy and Aikhenvald have organized numerous contributions here investigating a syntactic structure that is unfamiliar in standard Indo-European languages, and is consequently seldom taught in linguistics courses: clause chaining. This is a senten

Congratulations to Siva Reddy who has won a prestigious 2026 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship for early-career researchers! You can read all about it here.

The next P* group presentation will be on Monday, Feb 23, 12-1pm in room 117 and on Zoom. Natalia will be presenting her Honours Thesis (attached), Impoverished Nuclei in Lushootseed: A CVC Analysis.

SUMMARY Research Methods in Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies (CTIS) consists of an introduction by the editors, fourteen chapters, each with its own list of references and suggestions for further reading, and a subject index. The volume is intended to provide the CTIS community, which “is diversifying its areas of interest but also getting populated fast,” with much needed “more solid conceptual frameworks and better, up-to-date methodological guidelines” (p. 4). It “aims to pro

SUMMARY The book Ideologies of Communication in Japan: Speakers, Interaction and the Creation of Difference is an edited volume by Florian Grosser, Patrick Heinrich, and Saana Santalahti that brings together twelve chapters (in addition to the introductory and concluding ones) analyzing circulating ideologies of communication as lived in contemporary Japan, highlighting the sociolinguistic transformations the country has undergone. The book is divided into three major parts: Part 1, Internati

2026. v, 219 pp. Table of Contents Articles Pedagogical construction grammar — the fashion of the day? Thomas Herbst & Thorsten Piske pp. 1–16 A comprehensive grammar of spoken and written French as the first fully corpus-informed grammar of French Dirk Siepmann & Christoph Bürgel pp. 17–37 Constructicons as resources for language pedagogy — and vice versa : Experiences from Swedish Benjamin Lyngfelt, Julia Prentice & Azizah Lenté Degez pp. 38–66 Implications of cross

2025. iii, 106 pp. Articles The many things that thing can become: A story of discourse and grammar in Sà’án Sàvǐ ñà Ñuù Xnúvíkó (Mixtepec Mixtec) Guillem Belmar Viernes & Jeremías Salazar pp. 285–313 A computational approach to mapping replacement processes in language change Malte Rosemeyer pp. 314–338 The link between syntax, semantics, discourse, and lexicon in counteridenticals: A multivariate extension of co-varying collexeme analysis Jesús Olguín Martínez & Stefan Th.

Table of Contents Introduction Anna Kisiel, Hélène Vassiliadou, Valentina Benigni, Beatrice Bernasconi, Lieselotte Brems & Dejan Stosic pp. 179–188 Articles The syntax of similative clauses: Insights from Germanic Marta Massaia pp. 189–220 ‘Wellness’ equatives and their extensions in English as well as in Dutch and German Daniel Van Olmen & Johan van der Auwera pp. 221–249 Equative and similative constructions in two Walser German linguistic islands of North-Western Ital

2026. iii, 158 pp. Table of Contents Articles De-intensifying intensifiers in North Khiamniungan Keen Thaam & Kellen Parker van Dam pp. 1–17 Direction and associated motion in Barpak Ghale Shigeki Yoshida pp. 18–60 The expression of negation in southern Tujia: A diachronic perspective Man Lu, Jeroen van de Weijer & Ziyi Huang pp. 61–82 An interlinear glossed text in Thebo Tibetan: The story of Gser.mo.’tsho and Dngul.mo.’tsho Sangsrgyas Tshering (Sangji Cili), Erin L

2025. v, 160 pp. Table of Contents Introduction Register and professional discourse Shelley Staples & Gavin Brookes pp. 1–10 Articles A register approach to specialized word list creation: Using keywords to supplement the Contracts Word List Kyra Larsen, McKayla Lindman, Brett Hashimoto, Elizabeth Hanks & Jesse Egbert pp. 11–41 Evaluative expression in architectural practice: An analysis of UK Design and Access Statements Sara Lahlouhi & Hilary Nesi pp. 42–74 One hu

2026. v, 120 pp. Table of Contents Articles Racialised vocabularies of resilience: Inequality, body and mind, refusal Marjo Lindroth, Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen & Claes Tängh Wrangel pp. 175–193 ‘A resilient Europe’? The representation of European society in the national recovery and resilience plans Monica Colombo pp. 194–214 Embodied resilience and political resistance: Transformative voices from today’s social justice movements Susanna Jussila pp. 215–234 Resilience

2025. iii, 123 pp. Table of Contents Articles A multi-corpus approach to the placement of however : Nativeness vs expertise Maïté Dupont & Sylviane Granger pp. 161–183 Interactive roles of L1 properties and L2 textbook input for constructing L2 knowledge: Evidence from Korean subject−predicate honorific agreement Boo Kyung Jung, Gyu-Ho Shin & Chanyoung Lee pp. 184–218 Trainee EFL teachers’ development and implementation of tasks in young learner classrooms Sima Khezrlou

2025. iii, 96 pp. Table of Contents Forum Forging a path for in-situ Chinese learning through eight decades of shifting US-China relations, with a focus on IUP Vivian Ling pp. 175–187 中美合作国际中文教育的一个案例：普北班 (Princeton-in-Beijing) 成立三十年 周质平 pp. 188–192 The Hopkins-Nanjing center: Pioneer in U.S.-China joint ventures in higher education Cornelius C. Kubler pp. 193–204 中美关系对汉语二语教学的影响：以香港中文大学雅礼中国语文研习所为例 吴伟平 pp. 205–216 Article Locating Chinese L2 interactional compe

2026. iii, 152 pp. Table of Contents Articles To speak or not to speak Urdu: A Bihari dilemma in Bangladesh Mohammad Sajjad Hossen & Paul J. Moore pp. 1–30 Identity dynamics of ESP teachers from English vs. non-English departments at Indonesian universities Noni Mia Rahmawati, Yansyah Yansyah, Yohanis Nurak Siwa & Bambang Yudi Cahyono pp. 31–57 Compiling the first spoken corpus for Turkish youth talk: Overview of the corpus and methodological issues Esranur Efeoğlu-Özcan &

We are pleased to announce that the materials of the Corpus Oral de Madrid (CORMA) have been released and are now available for online consultation via the official website: https://www.corma.ugent.be. CORMA is a reference resource for the study of spontaneous conversational Spanish in present-day Madrid. Its aim is to document through explicit methodological criteria the pragmatic, discursive, and sociolinguistic variation of colloquial speech across different interactional settings, providing