This volume looks at the preparation of future critical language teachers in the face of an increasingly multilingual and transcultural contemporary world. This is seen through the lens of the collapse of Nation-State borders that crumble in the face of migration and the intense flow of languages that comes with it. It brings together international research that problematizes, theorizes, re-positions and re-conceptualizes myriad structural, systemic, ideological, political and pedagogical issues

This introductory textbook on the structure of English gives a comprehensive, descriptive grammar of contemporary standardized and non-standardized American English dialects. It helps students understand, analyze, and appreciate grammatical patterns from a variety of American dialects, including African American English, Appalachian English, Chicano English, and Southern American English-deepening students' comprehension of grammar and their analytical skills. Grammatical structures and featu

In the age of ecological crisis, language and discourse are emerging as a new battleground in the environmental debate. With the rise of new environmentalist movements and their subsequent backlash, we are now exposed to a plethora of different and often opposing discourses on the environmental crisis and our relationship with nature. This book argues for the need to develop classroom practices which aid students in critically reviewing and evaluating different perspectives on discourses of envi

In Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), paradigmatic relations are formalised in system networks. This book provides a practical, step-by-step guide to designing system networks for language description, one of the key aspects of SFL theory and analysis. Including examples from English, Chinese, Korean and Spanish, and exercises with answer keys for each of the main chapters, this book offers a broad coverage and guides learners through the process of designing system networks for the purpo

Language resources are the foundation of linguistic research and NLP. Corpora, lexicons, annotated datasets, benchmarks, and models are produced at an unprecedented pace. Yet their long-term stewardship, interoperability, and reuse remain inconsistent and often fragile. Rapid creation has outpaced sustainable design. This workshop aims to bring together researchers, infrastructure providers, data stewards, and policy actors who are committed to building durable language resource ecosystems. We a

We are pleased to announce that registration (free but required) for the conference "Parameters of Language Staging: Forms, Functions, and Multimodal Dynamics of Staged Discourse" (PLS8), to be held on Thursday, May 21, and Friday, May 22, 2026, at the University of Paris Nanterre, is open until April 20. The conference program and registration form are available on the conference website: https://pls8.sciencesconf.org/

Language resources are the foundation of linguistic research and NLP. Corpora, lexicons, annotated datasets, benchmarks, and models are produced at an unprecedented pace. Yet their long-term stewardship, interoperability, and reuse remain inconsistent and often fragile. Rapid creation has outpaced sustainable design. This workshop aims to bring together researchers, infrastructure providers, data stewards, and policy actors who are committed to building durable language resource ecosystems. We a

We are pleased to announce that registration (free but required) for the conference "Parameters of Language Staging: Forms, Functions, and Multimodal Dynamics of Staged Discourse" (PLS8), to be held on Thursday, May 21, and Friday, May 22, 2026, at the University of Paris Nanterre, is open until April 20. The conference program and registration form are available on the conference website: https://pls8.sciencesconf.org/

Kilmer is a free, browser-based tool for creating syntactic tree diagrams in the generative framework. It requires no installation or account, running entirely in the browser as a single-file web application. You can access Kilmer here: https://carlosgonzalezvergara.github.io/kilmer/ Its central design principle is direct visual editing. Unlike most tree-drawing tools, which require users to write bracket notation or code and then render the result, Kilmer works as a WYSIWYG editor. Nodes

Call for Papers: Extended abstract deadline: 3rd April 2026 Northern Englishes is a series of workshops focused on dialects of English associated with the linguistic ‘north’ of the UK. We are delighted to announce that the 11th Northern Englishes Workshop (NEW11) will take place in York from 9th-10th September 2026 at The Guildhall, a stunning 15th century building right in the heart of York city centre. We are adopting a fairly loose definition of what constitutes 'northern Englishes

(English below) Chèr.e.s collègues, Je vous invite à participer à une étude portant sur les phrases interrogatives en français parlé. Le titre de l’étude est « La forme et le sens des questions en français ». Elle fait partie de ma thèse de spécialisation au niveau de baccalauréat. Il s’agit de répondre à un sondage en ligne d’une durée approximative de 10 minutes. Toutes les informations recueillies dans le cadre de cette enquête seront traitées de façon confidentielle et anonyme. Il s

Call for Papers: Implicit arguments – participants in an event or relation that are not overtly realized but are nonetheless interpreted and syntactically active – pose persistent challenges for theories of argument structure, linking, and the syntax-semantics interface. Canonical examples include, among others, the unexpressed external argument of passives (The ship was sunk), null internal arguments of certain transitive verbs (Tom already ate), and unsaturated thematic roles in deverbal no

Summary The course book, entitled ‘Morphosyntaxe du français- Approche générative’, co-authored by Omar Gamboa Gonzalez and Juvenal Ndayiragije, consists of a foreword, an introduction and ten chapters. Each chapter begins with a summary of its objectives and ends with a section of concluding remarks and a section of exercises. The ten chapters are followed by an appendix, a bilingual glossary, the exercise solutions, the references and an index. The target audience of the book is said to

SUMMARY This volume investigates discourse about (nonhuman) animals, in particular anthropocentric representations and behaviour. Studying discourse on animals matters because language both reflects and shapes beliefs, which in turn serve to justify “human exceptionalism” – the idea that humans stand apart from other species – and a view of animals’ worth primarily in terms of their value in our economy (p.2). The book is meant to be of interest both to linguists and non linguists, and it is

Next presentation will be on Monday, Mar 23rd, 12-1pm in room 117 and on Zoom.  Natalia and Massimo will each be practicing their talks for MOThQ. All relevant documents (schedules, abstracts, papers and slides/handouts) will be available on this Google Drive.

We are delighted to invite you to attend the third workshop of the EXREAN project* at Freie Universität Berlin, focusing on individual differences in pragmatic processing. Pragmatic processing plays a central role in how speakers and hearers arrive at intended meanings in context. In everyday communication, language users routinely infer speakers’ intentions, resolve underspecification, enrich meanings, align perspectives, and negotiate common ground. These processes are not only fundamental

English has become a pervasive feature of everyday life in Norway, where it functions across a wide range of domains, including education, media, digital communication, commerce, and public space. Norwegians rank among the most proficient speakers of English worldwide. The country consistently scores high on the EF English Proficiency Index, a global statistic on English language skills in countries where it is not the first language of the majority of the population. In 2025, Norway ranked 5th

We are delighted to invite you to attend the third workshop of the EXREAN project* at Freie Universität Berlin, focusing on individual differences in pragmatic processing. Pragmatic processing plays a central role in how speakers and hearers arrive at intended meanings in context. In everyday communication, language users routinely infer speakers’ intentions, resolve underspecification, enrich meanings, align perspectives, and negotiate common ground. These processes are not only fundamental

2nd Call for Papers: We are inviting proposals for presentations at the 21st Annual Meeting of Slavic Linguistics Society to be held at Seoul National University (Korea), from August 12 to 14, 2026. Papers dealing with any aspect of Slavic linguistics, within any theoretical framework or methodological approach, are welcome. The abstract submission deadline is April 15, 2026. Keynote Speakers: John F. Bailyn (Stony Brook University) Hana Filip (Heinrich Heine Universität) Motoki Nomachi

Fully Funded PhD Positions in Romance Languages (Linguistics or Literature) The Department of Romance Studies and Classics at Stockholm University, Sweden, invites applications for fully funded PhD positions in Linguistics or Literature in Spanish, French, Italian or Portuguese. Doctoral candidates are employed on a full-time basis for up to four years. The positions include a monthly salary and full exemption from tuition fees. The programmes offer interdisciplinary training and participa