SUMMARY The technological boom and the proliferation of large multilingual corpora have greatly expanded the breadth and depth of current linguistic inquiry. These developments have, in turn, made it possible to investigate language use across typologically and culturally diverse languages. Contrastive Corpus Linguistics: Patterns in Lexicogrammar and Discourse capitalises on this methodological momentum by bringing together cutting-edge work that spans lexicogrammatical, pragmatic, and disco

The next online Acquisition Sketch Project Meeting will focus on the Community Report. It will be held on Tuesday 10th June (Americas) and Wednesday 11th June (elsewhere) at two times: Time 1: Los Angeles = 4 pm Tuesday June 10 New York = 7 pm Tuesday June 10 Melbourne = 9 am Wednesday June 11 https://unimelb.zoom.us/j/89998651857?pwd=vd1NozDvL4lsnqMlngjo8NIX82EYir.1&from=addon Meeting ID: 899 9865 1857 Password: 650227 Time 2: Berlin = 9 am Wednesday June 11 Delhi = 12:30

Call for Book Reviews: We are pleased to announce that Applied Linguistics Compass is now accepting book reviews for publication. To contribute meaningfully to the advancement of scholarship in applied linguistics, the journal is launching a new sectional and thematic book review initiative. Each issue of Applied Linguistics Compass will spotlight a specific and evolving area of research within Applied Linguistics, with the aim of promoting academic rigor and fostering critical discussion.

All Germanic languages exhibit patterns in which two components of a constituent interpreted as a semantic complex surface in a discontinuous syntactic configuration. Such constructions include, e.g., so-called what-for-phrases (1), locative adverbs featuring indexical particles (2), prepositional adverbs (3) and aggressively non-D-linked expressions (4): (1) Norwegian [Hva](i) har du lest [t(i) for slags bok]? what have you read for sorts book ‘What kind of book did you read?’ (Leu

All Germanic languages exhibit patterns in which two components of a constituent interpreted as a semantic complex surface in a discontinuous syntactic configuration. Such constructions include, e.g., so-called what-for-phrases (1), locative adverbs featuring indexical particles (2), prepositional adverbs (3) and aggressively non-D-linked expressions (4): (1) Norwegian [Hva](i) har du lest [t(i) for slags bok]? what have you read for sorts book ‘What kind of book did you read?’ (Leu

Call for Papers: Description: The demand for more sophisticated natural human-computer and human-robot interactions is rapidly increasing as users become more accustomed to conversation-like interactions with AI and NLP systems. Such interactions require not only the robust recognition and generation of expressions through multiple modalities (language, gesture, vision, action, etc.), but also the encoding of situated meaning. When communications become multimodal, each modality in oper

The First Workshop on Optimal Reliance and Accountability in Interactions with Generative Language Models (ORIGen) will be held in conjunction with the Second Conference on Language Modeling (COLM) at the Palais des Congrès in Montreal, Quebec, 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”

(Im)politeness plays a crucial role in the analysis of dramatic dialogue, revealing complex aspects of characterization, plot development, and the underlying structure of social harmony or discord. The ways in which characters deploy impoliteness strategies on stage provide insights into power dynamics, relationships, and the negotiation of social boundaries. Beyond its narrative function, impoliteness also serves as an important theatrical tool: it can enhance entertainment, generate humour, an

The First Workshop on Optimal Reliance and Accountability in Interactions with Generative Language Models (ORIGen) will be held in conjunction with the Second Conference on Language Modeling (COLM) at the Palais des Congrès in Montreal, Quebec, 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”

(Im)politeness plays a crucial role in the analysis of dramatic dialogue, revealing complex aspects of characterization, plot development, and the underlying structure of social harmony or discord. The ways in which characters deploy impoliteness strategies on stage provide insights into power dynamics, relationships, and the negotiation of social boundaries. Beyond its narrative function, impoliteness also serves as an important theatrical tool: it can enhance entertainment, generate humour, an

The British Association of Academic Phoneticians invites submissions for its 38th Colloquium, to be hosted at University of Warwick, 8th-10th April 2026. Submissions are welcome in any area of phonetics. We look forward to bringing together excellent, inspiring, and thought-provoking work on phonetic theory, application, and practice, as well as collaborations between phonetics and other disciplines and fields. Abstracts are invited for oral/manual and poster presentations. Abstracts must

The British Association of Academic Phoneticians invites submissions for its 38th Colloquium, to be hosted at University of Warwick, 8th-10th April 2026. Submissions are welcome in any area of phonetics. We look forward to bringing together excellent, inspiring, and thought-provoking work on phonetic theory, application, and practice, as well as collaborations between phonetics and other disciplines and fields. Abstracts are invited for oral/manual and poster presentations. Abstracts must

The 56th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) was held at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, from May 15-17, 2025. Presentations by McGill-affiliated students included:

Call for Papers: Call for Papers in International Sign (IS): https://s.gwdg.de/ZZsMdS (Note: Link opens MP4 video file.) Background: The world’s different sign languages offer a unique perspective on the human capacity for language and their rigorous scientific study within linguistics since the 60s of the past century has provided a multitude of novel insights. Some of these have significantly and lastingly changed how we conceptualize and investigate our species’ faculty of language:

Call for Papers: 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

PhD student Austin Kraft was the invited student speaker at this year’s 32nd Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association annual meeting (AFLA 32), which took place June 2–4 at the Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia. The title of Austin’s talk was “Pseudoclefts in Land Dayak Questions”, and the full program is available here.

Description: The Institute of Romance Philology at the Department of Philosophy and Humanities of the Free University of Berlin is currently seeking to fill a Doctoral Researcher Position (m/f/d) in the ERC-funded research project "Experimental replication of historical reanalysis processes" (EXREAN), starting as soon as possible. This is a fixed-term position until March 31, 2029. Salary is determined following the salary scale E 13 according to German TVL (75%). EXREAN investigates reana

Lexicography, in its many forms, is a very old, practical discipline solving practical problems concerning word usage. The term “word” seems more appropriate than “language” in this context, as lexicography addresses more questions relating to what we now call lexicology. As with all areas of human endeavour, what developed gradually through trial and error has eventually been subjected to a theoretical framework. The role of historical lexicography is to look back on the development of these hi

Yongning Na, also known as Mosuo, is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Southwest China. This book provides a description and analysis of its tone system, progressing from lexical tones towards morphotonology. Tonal changes permeate numerous aspects of the morphosyntax of Yongning Na. They are not the product of a small set of phonological rules, but of a host of rules that are restricted to specific morphosyntactic contexts. Rich morphotonological systems have been reported in this area of Sino-

This book collects a curated selection of papers from the 2023 Colloque de Syntax et Sémantique à Paris (CSSP 2023), held on December 7-8, 2023, at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. The result aims to be a snapshot of contemporary linguistic research in the areas of syntax and semantics. CSSP has always been committed to fostering research uniting empirical rigor with formal precision, while remaining open to newly emerging methodologies, and multiple theoretical approaches. This volume emb