Registration for the 12th EAFT Summit in Innsbruck, taking place 27–29 November 2025, has been extended until 13 October. This is the last chance to join an event that will bring together terminologists from across Europe to explore key topics in Terminology Planning. Don’t miss out. Register now! https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/congress/eaft-summit/registration/ Terminology Planning cannot be defined independently of the language, linguistic environment, and country in which it takes place. Based

We are inviting paper submissions to the special issue of Esercizi Filosofici entitled: Language(s) of Propaganda Guest Editors: Irene Lo Faro, University of Bamberg; Caterina Lupieri, University of Trieste. Description: The term propaganda is commonly associated with the public discourse typical of totalitarian regimes, where a body promoting propaganda – usually the government – manipulates the public into believing and acting in a certain way. According to this understanding, propaga

Call for Papers: The tenth biennial conference on Current Approaches to Spanish and Portuguese Second Language Phonology (CASPSLaP) will be held at Brigham Young University on February 27–28, 2026. CASPSLaP brings together leading experts in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) of Spanish and Portuguese pronunciation. The conference will highlight the themes of acquisition of dialectal variation and fine-grained phonetic traits, heritage language phonology, and social variation in s

LVMH brings together researchers exploring the rich landscape of minority languages, heritage languages, and other non-standard varieties. This free-for-all, open-access-friendly, three-day in-person event aims to advance our theoretical understanding and empirical knowledge of linguistic diversity beyond standard language norms. We invite submissions that address, but are not limited to, the following themes in heritage grammars, minority languages, and other non-standard varieties: - Th

How do beliefs about Creole languages influence the their descriptions by 19th-century creolists? This issue of 'Archipélies' seeks to answer this question, focusing on the beliefs, representations, and, more broadly, ideologies that permeate descriptions of Creole languages from the documentation of Haitian Creole by Ducœurjoly in 1802 to the naturalistic portrayal of Creoles around the turn of the century. Far from being reduced to simple nomenclatures, descriptions of Creole languages reprodu

LVMH brings together researchers exploring the rich landscape of minority languages, heritage languages, and other non-standard varieties. This free-for-all, open-access-friendly, three-day in-person event aims to advance our theoretical understanding and empirical knowledge of linguistic diversity beyond standard language norms. We invite submissions that address, but are not limited to, the following themes in heritage grammars, minority languages, and other non-standard varieties: - Th

News Translation and Artificial Intelligence Edited by Julie Alice Gramaccia (University of Ottawa) and Kyle Conway (University of Ottawa) Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 November 2025 In the last half-decade, research on artificial intelligence has exploded, following the exponential growth in the capacity and use of large language models. Among media scholars, the impact of AI on journalism has been a frequent focus (e.g., Guèvremont & Brin, 2024; Roy, Brin, & Gramaccia, 2021). In a paral

Workshop at the 16th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology Convenors: Laura Becker (University of Freiburg) & Naomi Peck (University of Freiburg) Workshop Description: The Written Bias in Typology Most languages are primarily spoken, with only a minority of languages or speaker communities developing a writing system. We can estimate that less than 10% of all languages spoken today have developed writing to the extent that they have a literary tradition, with

The morphosyntax of who knows what and how in interaction Proposal for a workshop at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2026), to be held in Osnabrück, 26-29 August 2026. Organisers: Jenneke van der Wal (Leiden University) Karolina Grzech (UPF Barcelona) Martina Wiltschko (ICREA/UPF Barcelona) Summary: The speaker’s and addressee’s knowledge can be(come) an essential aspect of a language’s grammar and languages differ in how it is realized. Some language

Workshop at the 16th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology Convenors: Laura Becker (University of Freiburg) & Naomi Peck (University of Freiburg) Workshop Description: The Written Bias in Typology Most languages are primarily spoken, with only a minority of languages or speaker communities developing a writing system. We can estimate that less than 10% of all languages spoken today have developed writing to the extent that they have a literary tradition, with

The morphosyntax of who knows what and how in interaction Proposal for a workshop at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2026), to be held in Osnabrück, 26-29 August 2026. Organisers: Jenneke van der Wal (Leiden University) Karolina Grzech (UPF Barcelona) Martina Wiltschko (ICREA/UPF Barcelona) Summary: The speaker’s and addressee’s knowledge can be(come) an essential aspect of a language’s grammar and languages differ in how it is realized. Some language

Guest Editors: Iker Erdocia (Dublin City University, Ireland - iker.erdocia@dcu.ie) Bettina Migge (University College Dublin, Ireland – bettinamigge@ucd.ie) Britta Schneider (European University Viadrina, Germany – bschneider@europa-uni.de) Special Issue Information: Machine-learning involving language (or AI) has recently become ubiquitous in all aspects of life in many parts of the world due to a commercially driven agenda by a handful of big tech companies from the US and China. Althou

Our next presentation will be on Tuesday, September 30, from 1-2 pm in room 002 and on Zoom. Kuilin (me) will present a paper (attached). Presenter: Kuilin Li Paper: Beddor, P. S., Coetzee, A. W., Styler, W., McGowan, K. B., & Boland, J. E. (2018). The time course of individuals’ perception of coarticulatory information is linked to their production: Implications for sound change. Language, 94(4), […]

The first talk in our 2025-2026 McGill Linguistics Colloquium Series will be given by Dr. John Esling (University of Victoria) next Friday, October 3rd at 3:30pm at Sherbrooke 680 in room 1041. The details of the talk are given below. Title: What Polynesian, Iroquoian, Semitic/Cushitic, Nilotic, West African (ATR), Tibeto-Burman and Germanic languages share in laryngeal articulation Abstract: Many phonetic and […]

The Syntax-Semantics Group will be meeting on Tuesday, September 30, at 3-4pm in Room 117 of the McGill linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/bQ4IXlJxTTShVcMHOosNtQ George Bennett (McGill) will be presenting “Argument structure of emission verbs in Scandinavian.” Here is the abstract: In this talk, I present some early-stage data and thoughts on […]

We are delighted to announce the 7th international Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change (DiPVaC) conference, which takes place at the University of Salzburg, Austria, from 23-25 September 2026. Keynotes: Miriam Meyerhoff — University of Oxford, UK Emma Moore — University of Sheffield, UK John A. Bateman — University of Bremen, Germany Gunther Kaltenböck — University of Graz, Austria Scott F. Kiesling — University of Pittsburgh, USA The Conference Series: DiPVaC is a biennial in

We are delighted to announce the 7th international Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change (DiPVaC) conference, which takes place at the University of Salzburg, Austria, from 23-25 September 2026. Keynotes: Miriam Meyerhoff — University of Oxford, UK Emma Moore — University of Sheffield, UK John A. Bateman — University of Bremen, Germany Gunther Kaltenböck — University of Graz, Austria Scott F. Kiesling — University of Pittsburgh, USA The Conference Series: DiPVaC is a biennial in

Final Call for Papers: Deadline Extended until October 15th. Welcome to the 6th International UCM Predoctoral Conference on English Linguistics (UPCEL 2026), which is organised by the PhD Programme in English Linguistics and will be held on January 21, 22, and 23, 2026, at the Faculty of Philology, Complutense University of Madrid. As a predoctoral conference, we encourage predoctoral students and early-career scholars from various linguistic fields to submit their work. It will be a great

After a summer break, the Acquisition Sketch Meetings are starting again! Our new series will focus on sketches in progress. In each session, one or more people will present advances and issues from their ongoing sketches. This will give us all a chance to see other sketches in development and discuss questions. The first meeting will be "An in-progress look at the Pitjantjatjara Acquisition Sketch”, presented by Rebecca Defina. It will be held on Wednesday 8th October: Berlin = 9 am, Delh

A large-scale study of attitudes towards Standard Austrian German has collected more than 55,000 complete responses to date (preliminary results in German: https://science.apa.at/power-search/5030866180983458640, in English: https://www.vienna.at/german-but-please-made-in-austria-why-we-austrians-love-our-standard-german/9628517). We ask for your assistance distributing the survey to people who: * live or have lived in Austria (for two years or more) * are 12 years or older We would part