On September 19, a workshop intitled “Exclamatives in sign languages” will be held in Paris. The two invited speakers for are Elena Castroviejo (University of the Basque Country) Raffaella Zanuttini (Yale University) A limited number of presentations will complete the program. Anyone interested in presenting ongoing research on the grammar of exclamative sentences in sign language can send an email with a maximum one-page abstract to the following address. carlo.cecchetto123@gmail.com

We are pleased to inform you that the Comparative Niger-Congo workshop will take place on May 22nd-23rd, 2025 in Villejuif (near Paris). The program and abstracts are available at the conference website: https://niger-congo2025.sciencesconf.org. LOCATION: LLACAN (Langage, Langues et Cultures d’Afrique) Campus CNRS de Villejuif 7 rue Guy Môquet 94801 Villejuif, France TIMETABLE: Deadline for registration: May 15th 2025 Workshop: May 22nd-23rd, 2025 REGISTRATION: The works

IcoLL2026 is the joint conference of the 4th Iconicity Seminar (IcoSem) and the 15th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (ILL). For the first time, the two international conferences on iconicity will take place together, on 21-23 February 2026 at Nagoya University (Nagoya, Japan). Invited speakers Mutsumi Imai Noburo Saji Pamela Perniss TBA Call for papers Theme: Variations and Dynamics in Iconicity We invite abstracts of any academic

We are pleased to inform you that the Comparative Niger-Congo workshop will take place on May 22nd-23rd, 2025 in Villejuif (near Paris). The program and abstracts are available at the conference website: https://niger-congo2025.sciencesconf.org. LOCATION: LLACAN (Langage, Langues et Cultures d’Afrique) Campus CNRS de Villejuif 7 rue Guy Môquet 94801 Villejuif, France TIMETABLE: Deadline for registration: May 15th 2025 Workshop: May 22nd-23rd, 2025 REGISTRATION: The works

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

Theme: Research and (Re)action The LISO conference promotes interdisciplinary research and discussion in the analysis of naturally occurring human interaction. Papers will be presented by national and international scholars on a variety of topics in the study of language, interaction, and culture. The conference will feature plenary presentations by Dr. Lynnette Arnold (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Dr. Shannon Ward (University of British Columbia, Okanagan), and Dr. Kevin Whitehe

*LexiVault Workshop: Developing Annotated Corpora tools for Under-resourced Languages* Where: Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Campus When: 10 AM – 4PM, 12–13 June 2025 Sign-up/EOI: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfGgEQZGXM2EwZF9-EASYNRQHafphNNfyU-dv1jN5c2vb0iSA/viewform?pli=1 Join us for a two day hands-on workshop exploring LexiVault, a user-friendly, open-source web tool developed by Samantha Wray, Hind Saddiki and Daisy Li as part of the SAVANT project for queryi

We invite educators, researchers, practitioners, and students to our online conference focused on critical antiracism in language teaching. This event provides a platform for participants to explore strategies for integrating antiracist pedagogies into language education, share experiences, and discuss the challenges educators and teacher educators face. Teachers play a crucial role in challenging and dismantling racist ideologies, but they must also confront their own entanglement in systems

Theme: Research and (Re)action The LISO conference promotes interdisciplinary research and discussion in the analysis of naturally occurring human interaction. Papers will be presented by national and international scholars on a variety of topics in the study of language, interaction, and culture. The conference will feature plenary presentations by Dr. Lynnette Arnold (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Dr. Shannon Ward (University of British Columbia, Okanagan), and Dr. Kevin Whitehe

*LexiVault Workshop: Developing Annotated Corpora tools for Under-resourced Languages* Where: Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Campus When: 10 AM – 4PM, 12–13 June 2025 Sign-up/EOI: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfGgEQZGXM2EwZF9-EASYNRQHafphNNfyU-dv1jN5c2vb0iSA/viewform?pli=1 Join us for a two day hands-on workshop exploring LexiVault, a user-friendly, open-source web tool developed by Samantha Wray, Hind Saddiki and Daisy Li as part of the SAVANT project for queryi

We invite educators, researchers, practitioners, and students to our online conference focused on critical antiracism in language teaching. This event provides a platform for participants to explore strategies for integrating antiracist pedagogies into language education, share experiences, and discuss the challenges educators and teacher educators face. Teachers play a crucial role in challenging and dismantling racist ideologies, but they must also confront their own entanglement in systems

Autonomous University of Querétaro, National School of Anthropology and History and the Permanent Seminar of Phonological Analysis International Symposium of Indoamerican Phonology (SINFONIA I) The symposium will take place in The Autonomous University of Querétaro, México on October 23 and 24. Plenary talks by: Florian Lionnet-Princeton University Esther Herrera-El Colegio de México Francisco Arellanes-IIF, UNAM The goal of SInFonIA is to convene a gr

Call for Participation: We invite you to participate in the 36th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI), taking place from 28 July - 8 August, 2025 at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. https://2025.esslli.eu/ Registration: Registration for attendees is open. *The early-bird registration deadline is Saturday, 31st May.* https://2025.esslli.eu/registration/registration.html Overview: The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI

Autonomous University of Querétaro, National School of Anthropology and History and the Permanent Seminar of Phonological Analysis International Symposium of Indoamerican Phonology (SINFONIA I) The symposium will take place in The Autonomous University of Querétaro, México on October 23 and 24. Plenary talks by: Florian Lionnet-Princeton University Esther Herrera-El Colegio de México Francisco Arellanes-IIF, UNAM The goal of SInFonIA is to convene a gr

Call for Participation: We invite you to participate in the 36th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI), taking place from 28 July - 8 August, 2025 at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. https://2025.esslli.eu/ Registration: Registration for attendees is open. *The early-bird registration deadline is Saturday, 31st May.* https://2025.esslli.eu/registration/registration.html Overview: The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI

Call for Papers: One of the pivotal elements contributing to effective second language acquisition (SLA) is exposure to authentic instances of language use (O’Keeffe, 2021). Authentic language samples afford learners the opportunity to engage with the kind of language used in real-life contexts, thereby enhancing their understanding of language structure and use. Given that corpora furnish learners with authentic language data and opportunities to analyze language patterns and structures, the

The 17th Toronto-Ottawa-Montréal Semantics Conference took place on May 10 at the University of Ottawa. McGill was well represented by PhD students Laurestine Bradford (Cumulative Closure vs. Iterativity in Tinglit) and Austin Kraft (Accounting for Javanese Numerals’ Dual Roles), MA student Sama’a Salama (Decomposing the Definite Article) and alumni Zahur Ashrafuzzaman (Toward a Formalization of […]

The Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution (ISLE) at the University of Zurich (UZH) offers a PhD training and research position in the statistical modeling of linguistic evolution under varied conditions. The work will be tightly integrated with the Diversification project of the NCCR Evolving Language (https://evolvinglanguage.ch/diversification-project/). The successful applicant will acquire and/or deepen knowledge in the theory and methods of linguistic evolution

Description: At the Institute of English and American Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Sciences, University of Kassel, we are seeking to fill the following position: Research Assistant (m/f/d) (part-time, 50%) Reference number: 38389 The position is initially limited to three years, with the possibility of extension for an additional two years. The position offers the opportunity to pursue a doctoral degree (PhD). Responsibilities: - Academic support in research and tea

Other Specialties: de-DE, es-419, fr-FR, it-IT, pl-PL, pt-BR Description: RUSSIAN Linguistic Consultant, Side Side are in need of remote freelance native-speaking formally trained linguists who are able to do orthographic transcription and other speech linguistic tasks in Russian. (Other) languages sought: Russian Polish Brazilian Portuguese Italian French (France) Spanish (Latin America) German Please send your CV to micaela.bester@side.inc if interested. Successful candi