Description: General Description: The Empirical Foundations of Linguistics (EFL) project is seeking to hire a postdoctoral fellow to work within Workpackage 5 “Linguistic diversity as a testing ground for theories of language”. Employment is for 1 year renewable once, with a start date between September 1st and December 1st, 2026. EFL is an inIdEx project funded by Université Paris Cité within the framework of its 2025-2030 programme. It coordinates the work of more than 180 permanent r

NFEAP this year is a chance to think about the many mythologies of EAP, academic writing, higher education pedagogy and the idea of a university itself. We could think about at least two dimensions of myth – first the idea of transcendence, an act or event that takes us to a reality deeper than the everyday; and against that, the story or idea that is pernicious but durable, misleading but stubborn. Sometimes we need to make myths; sometimes we need to bust myths. What are the myths in higher

A one-day conference ‘The role of semantics in syntax’, is to be held at Magdalen College, Oxford, on 20 June 2026. The aim of the conference is to explore ways in which the syntax of a sentence might be influenced by its semantics, in opposition to the traditional Chomskyan conception of the autonomy of syntax. The conference is inspired by two recent speculative developments: the revival of the architecture of the grammar proposed by the Generative Semanticists, which is seen in the ‘Meaning F

From 18 to 20 November 2026, the second Biennial of Czech Linguistics will take place at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno. The aim of the Biennial is to cover Czech linguistics in its full methodological and thematic breadth. We welcome contributions and participants from all linguistic disciplines and philologies, representing a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches. The conference is structured around thematic workshops and will also include a general pos

Registration for SAIL 2026 is now open! Interested participants may register through Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/symposium-on-american-indian-languages-2026-tickets-1983024009193?aff=oddtdtcreator The program may be found on our website: https://sites.google.com/view/sail-uofa/program Our special session theme for 2026 is Innovative Pedagogies. Education lies at the core of language revitalization. Passing on our ancestral languages is done by fostering a relationship betwee

A one-day conference ‘The role of semantics in syntax’, is to be held at Magdalen College, Oxford, on 20 June 2026. The aim of the conference is to explore ways in which the syntax of a sentence might be influenced by its semantics, in opposition to the traditional Chomskyan conception of the autonomy of syntax. The conference is inspired by two recent speculative developments: the revival of the architecture of the grammar proposed by the Generative Semanticists, which is seen in the ‘Meaning F

From 18 to 20 November 2026, the second Biennial of Czech Linguistics will take place at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno. The aim of the Biennial is to cover Czech linguistics in its full methodological and thematic breadth. We welcome contributions and participants from all linguistic disciplines and philologies, representing a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches. The conference is structured around thematic workshops and will also include a general pos

Registration for SAIL 2026 is now open! Interested participants may register through Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/symposium-on-american-indian-languages-2026-tickets-1983024009193?aff=oddtdtcreator The program may be found on our website: https://sites.google.com/view/sail-uofa/program Our special session theme for 2026 is Innovative Pedagogies. Education lies at the core of language revitalization. Passing on our ancestral languages is done by fostering a relationship betwee

SUMMARY “The Literary Lifeline. Bibliotherapy and the Transforming Power of Reading” is a brief autobiographic book about the influence of literature along the varied stages of the individual’s life. In the preface Harvey anticipates the restorative role of the reading activity, which leads into questions about its power, its impact on patients who suffer dementia and other mental illnesses, and its healing effect on people in moments of grief, sickness, and death. Moreover, the author offer

SUMMARY The volume The Grammar of Impoliteness, edited by Daniel Van Olmen, Marta Andersson, Jonathan Culpeper and Riccardo Giomi, explores the grammatical dimension of linguistic impoliteness. The central hypothesis that unites the contributions is that impoliteness is not an exclusively socio-pragmatic and contextual phenomenon, but can be encoded in specific linguistic forms and constructions. To examine this thesis, the volume brings together contributions that adopt diverse theoretical,

El Instituto de investigación Lingua (iLingua) de la Universidade de Vigo, con el objetivo de contribuir al reconoecimiento de la investigación en el ámbito de las lenguas y apoyar su visibilidad, publica la convocatoria de premios iLingua 2026. La presente convocatoria pretende reconocer y premiar la excelencia en la investigación científica en las líneas del iLingua: https://ilingua.uvigo.gal/gl/il/investigacion/linas/ Para este fin, se convocan los premios: - premio a la trayectoria inv

This dissertation investigates the syntax of clausal prefixes in Tigrinya, an Ethio-Semitic language which, despite its head-finality, exhibits clause-initial complementizers that attach as prefixes to embedded verbs (clausal prefixes). It challenges the view that prefixes in head-final languages have an intrinsic morphological property, proposing instead that their surface position results from specific syntactic constraints. Four main clausal prefixes are analyzed. Z(ɨ)-, found in relative cla

Series: Proposal will be made to “Advances in Sociolinguistics” (Bloomsbury) Editor: Brian W. King (The University of Hong Kong) Volume Focus: This edited collection explores how language mediates, sustains, and contests the biopolitical governance of sexed and gendered life. Bringing together sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, discourse and conversation analysis, and queer/trans and feminist scholarship, the volume asks how linguistic practices, interactional orders, and language i

Other Specialties: English as a Lingua Franca Description: A position as Professor in English linguistics with a focus on English as a lingua franca in the digital age is to be filled at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Basel beginning on February 1, 2027 or by appointment with the successful applicant. Depending on the qualifications of the person to be appointed, the position is filled as a Tenure Track Assistant Professor (TTAP), an Associate Profess

Replication Studies in Learner Corpus Research Special Issue of International Journal of Learner Corpus Research, Issue 2, 2028 Call for Proposals: Guest Editors: Kevin McManus, University of Pittsburgh (kevin.mcmanus@pitt.edu) Yingying Liu, Ocean University of China (lynnliu430@outlook.com) Learner corpus research (LCR) continues to generate important insights about the learning and use of additional languages in several ways, including the creation and development of rich learne

Call for Papers: Language documentation and archiving are key activities in the effort to preserve and support linguistic and cultural diversity globally. As new technologies emerge and evolve, new opportunities and challenges present themselves for how we record, curate, preserve, and disseminate linguistic and cultural materials. This conference invites documenters, scholars, activists, technologists, and others engaged in language documentation and archiving to present papers and posters e

Research on young second language (L2) learners, as well as young learner (inter-)language specifically, has gained increasing attention in recent years, driven by calls for greater diversity and representativeness in both Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and Learner Corpus Research (LCR). Although a growing number of learner corpora are available (Fernández & Davis, 2021), corpora representing young learner language, broadly defined, remain comparatively rare. While empirical findings from you

Research on young second language (L2) learners, as well as young learner (inter-)language specifically, has gained increasing attention in recent years, driven by calls for greater diversity and representativeness in both Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and Learner Corpus Research (LCR). Although a growing number of learner corpora are available (Fernández & Davis, 2021), corpora representing young learner language, broadly defined, remain comparatively rare. While empirical findings from you

Since 2018, the UNED Language and Society Research Group has organised a series of biennial international conferences that have become a consolidated forum for scholarly debate on bilingualism and bilingual education. Building on previous editions that explored bilingualism and interculturality (2018), the relationship between bilingualism and migration (2020), the interplay between bilingualism, bilingual education, and their social contexts (2022), and how bilingualism and bilingual education

2026 NARNiHS Research Incubator North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics 8th edition 07-09 May 2026 -- entirely online! Abstract Submission Deadline 23 March 2026, 11:59 PM (U.S. Eastern Time) The 2026 NARNiHS Research Incubator is an entirely online event (**with free registration**). This event offers an opportunity for scholars in historical sociolinguistics from all over the world to participate in discussions of cutting-edge research without the limitations