Call for Papers: The World Wide Web has evolved from a resource for building linguistic corpora into the central data infrastructure powering modern natural language processing and Large Language Models (LLMs). As web-scale data increasingly shapes AI systems’ knowledge and capabilities, understanding its quality, representativeness, and ethical implications has become critical. At the same time, the “more is better” paradigm is being challenged by issues such as machine-generated content,

Call for Papers: This workshop is organized by Marianna Lohmann and Barbara Schlücker (Freie Universität Berlin) as part of the 49th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (49. Jahrestagung der DGfS 2027 „Sprache unter dem Mikroskop – Beobachtung, Analyse, Theorie“), which will take place in Jena from 3 to 5 March 2027. Workshop Description: Copular clauses are simple syntactic structures. They consist minimally of a (referential) NP as subject and a (non-verbal) predicate whi

We are thrilled to announce that our panel at the International Pragmatics Conference is now accepting submissions. Researchers have an ethical responsibility to protect and respect research participants, their personal information, and any sensitive information that might be disclosed in the original data. The General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR (EU 2016/679), emphasises the need to reflect on how we treat personal information. At the same time there is an increased interest in open dat

Experimental SLA: Connecting Research, Theory, and Language Teaching (ExpSLA) is an in-person conference designed to foster exchange among theorists, SLA researchers, language educators, and early-career scholars. Its aim is to strengthen methodological literacy, encourage interdisciplinary collaboration, and promote the integration of experimental findings into both theoretical models and language teaching practice. Over the last three decades, empirical research in Second Language Acquisiti

We are pleased to announce the 18th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition conference (GALA 2027), to be held at the University of Konstanz, Germany, from the 6th to the 8th of September 2027. Keynote Speakers: Kamil Ud Deen (University of Hawai’i) Stephanie Durrleman (Université de Fribourg) Tanja Kupisch (University of Lund) The Call for Papers will be published in the autumn of 2026.

We are thrilled to announce that our panel at the International Pragmatics Conference is now accepting submissions. Researchers have an ethical responsibility to protect and respect research participants, their personal information, and any sensitive information that might be disclosed in the original data. The General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR (EU 2016/679), emphasises the need to reflect on how we treat personal information. At the same time there is an increased interest in open dat

Experimental SLA: Connecting Research, Theory, and Language Teaching (ExpSLA) is an in-person conference designed to foster exchange among theorists, SLA researchers, language educators, and early-career scholars. Its aim is to strengthen methodological literacy, encourage interdisciplinary collaboration, and promote the integration of experimental findings into both theoretical models and language teaching practice. Over the last three decades, empirical research in Second Language Acquisiti

We are pleased to announce the 18th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition conference (GALA 2027), to be held at the University of Konstanz, Germany, from the 6th to the 8th of September 2027. Keynote Speakers: Kamil Ud Deen (University of Hawai’i) Stephanie Durrleman (Université de Fribourg) Tanja Kupisch (University of Lund) The Call for Papers will be published in the autumn of 2026.

Focus: - Fundamentals of EEG and electrophysiology - Generation and characteristics of the EEG signal - Experimental design and EEG data acquisition - EEG preprocessing and artifact handling - Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) - Frequency and time-frequency analysis - Practical EEG analysis using Python - Interpretation of EEG results - Best practices and common pitfalls in EEG research Description: This live online course provides a comprehensive introduction to electroencephalogra

From Word to Voice: Representing Pronunciations in the Oxford Dictionary of African American English When: 24th September 05:00-06:15 PM BST; 12:00-01:15 PM EDT; 11:00 AM-12:15 PM CDT Book your place: http://tiny.cc/ODAAE-pronunciations The Oxford Dictionary of African American English (ODAAE) is nearing publication of the first set of dictionary content. Now that a significant portion of entries have been drafted, the team has turned to pronunciations editing. Join us for this virtual

Behind the scenes with the OED AI Quotations Finder When: Thursday, October 08, 2026 · 09:00 AM – 10:15 AM BST | 01:30 PM – 02:45 PM IST 05:00 PM - 06:15 PM JST Book your place: http://tiny.cc/OED-AI-quotations-finder An AI-powered tool is now available for some OED entries, which can be used to supply more examples of the sense if desired: the OED AI Quotations Finder. Launching in beta, it works by using an LLM (Large Language Model) to interpret potential quotations from the EarlyPri

This book offers the first systematic investigation of the instrumental role across syntax, semantics, and language acquisition. Focusing primarily on Italian within a comparative perspective, the book addresses a long-standing puzzle: why Instruments can be syntactically omitted even when they remain semantically present. Combining theoretical analysis with experimental evidence, corpus data, and innovative methodologies, the study redefines the status of Instruments with respect to the argu

Register and Discourse through the Lens of Corpus Linguistics offers a rigorous and engaging exploration of two of the field’s most dynamic areas. Drawing on key frameworks – including Construction Grammar, Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies, Speech Act Theory, and Local Grammar – the volume showcases how qualitative and quantitative corpus-driven methods illuminate the interplay between linguistic form, communicative function, and contextual embedding. Across eleven chapters, contributors examin

The growing fields of language acquisition and processing have made great strides in understanding how individuals learn and use more than one language across various stages of life in diverse contexts. This is partly due to the methodological innovations that have been developed and refined in recent years. This volume discusses methodologies used in first, second, and bi/multilingual language acquisition and processing, with practical guidance on how to employ the different methodologies and a

Practising Stylistics marks the career of Professor Paul Simpson, a leading figure in the discipline of stylistics, and one who embodies the practical and rigorous linguistic analysis of literary works and social discourse. A prominent figure in the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) since its earliest days and Baines Professor of English Language at the University of Liverpool, Simpson has been a leading light and a steady hand on the stylistics tiller across his career. In this volume

This volume contains a representative sample of studies presented at the 17th meeting of the Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition conference (GASLA-17). The chapters explore new frontiers, and make connections between second language acquisition, bilingualism, psycholinguistic methods, and computational methods. The chapters ask theoretically informed questions about the underlying grammars of language learners and bilinguals, use experimental methods to arrive at answers to thos

Root syntax, with roots as primitive lexical units, is an influential theme in building the lexicon in linguistic theory, typically in Distributed Morphology, and the generative model of minimal computation. Implementing important fragments of the Arabic lexicon, the book presents a comprehensive view of word formation and argument structure, providing robust evidence that favors root-based, rather than stem-based derivations of words. Tested on Arabic, a language wearing DM ‘on its sleeve’, the

The modern world, to the extent that it disassociates us from the secular traditional world, from the “primordial” jobs and words that support the cultural particularity forged over the centuries, weakens the borders between languages. Neologisms bring languages closer together irreversibly, and the loss of primordial words (the local ways of designating a plant or a bird, the words that designated instruments that are no longer used), often accelerated by standardization processes which impose

Lexical Variation and Knowledge Construction across Historical, Methodological, and Cultural Ecologies provides a comprehensive examination of the intricate interplay between language and knowledge, viewing words not as mere vessels but as dynamic agents that sculpt our understanding of the world. Contributions of leading scholars from linguistics, lexicography, and related disciplines are presented in a tripartite structure —historical, methodological, and sociocultural—, illustrating how this

Standard grammatical concepts such as agreement, case, subject, direct object, phrases, clauses, and sentences are predominantly derived from the study of dominant Indo-European languages, including Latin, Greek, German, and English. It raises a crucial question: how can we ensure that these concepts are suitable for analyzing languages from different language families? A brief examination of representative non-Indo-European languages reveals significant differences compared to languages like En