The Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics invites you to its 5th AMC Symposium, which will take place in December this year, at the University of Edinburgh. The event has the guiding theme of "Types of Evidence in Historical Linguistics" Background: How do we know what a language was like in the past? How do we know that it has changed (or is changing)? The study of language change, and of historical linguistics more generally, uses many different kinds of evidence, including am

Easy Language and Easy Read Practices in the Nordic Languages: Exploring Informational Complexity Between Universal Models and Discourse-Specific Variations Special issue of ELAD-SILDA (ISSN 2609-6609) Spring 2027 Deadline for draft submissions: Sept. 30th, 2026 Languages of submission : French, English or German contact: sarah.harchaoui@sorbonne-universite.fr Full call : https://cel.univ-lyon3.fr/cel-elad-silda-15-falc-et-easy-languages-en-langues-nordiques This special issue seeks t

Conference Dates: 11–13 June 2027 Location: Hong Kong SAR Hosts: The Chinese University of Hong Kong & City University of Hong Kong Website: https://lt.cityu.edu.hk/nwavap9/ Submission Portal: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NWAVAP2027 Abstract Deadline: 1 October 2026 The organizing committee of New Ways of Analysing Variation – Asia Pacific 9 (NWAV-AP 9) invites abstract submissions for the conference to be held in Hong Kong SAR from 11–13 June 2027. Since its founding in 2011 a

The Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics invites you to its 5th AMC Symposium, which will take place in December this year, at the University of Edinburgh. The event has the guiding theme of "Types of Evidence in Historical Linguistics" Background: How do we know what a language was like in the past? How do we know that it has changed (or is changing)? The study of language change, and of historical linguistics more generally, uses many different kinds of evidence, including am

This is an interdisciplinary workshop which addresses all topics ranging from Legibility to Text Simplification, including issues, resources, and manual and automatic methods related to measuring and improving text comprehensibility. The event brings together researchers, IT professionals, publishers, public institutions (e.g., Ministries of Education, schools), and practitioners (authors, teachers, translators) to discuss current challenges and innovative solutions. Specifically, we inv

This is an interdisciplinary workshop which addresses all topics ranging from Legibility to Text Simplification, including issues, resources, and manual and automatic methods related to measuring and improving text comprehensibility. The event brings together researchers, IT professionals, publishers, public institutions (e.g., Ministries of Education, schools), and practitioners (authors, teachers, translators) to discuss current challenges and innovative solutions. Specifically, we inv

Call for Papers: English below Das germanische Verb. Historisch und typologisch (Internationale Nachwuchstagung der Vergleichenden germanischen Sprachwissenschaft) Erlangen, 27.–28. November 2026 Die Internationale Nachwuchstagung der Vergleichenden germanischen Sprachwissenschaft, die seit 2014 mehrfach in Zürich, einmal 2025 in Uppsala stattgefunden hat, wird diesmal als Kooperation des Fachbereichs für Vergleichende germanische Sprachwissenschaft Zürich und der Professur für Ver

Call for Papers: The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers working on the languages of Pamir, Hindu Kush and Karakoram, a mountainous area also known as Hindu Kush–Karakoram or Peristan in recent publications. Many of these languages are endangered and remain under-described. In this context, it is particularly important to foster collaboration between linguists currently working on the languages of this convergence area and review those aspects of languages that have received

Description: Das sind wir: Die Graduate School Language & Literature Munich ist eine fächerübergreifende Einrichtung zur Förderung von Promovierenden und Postdocs an der Fakultät für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften der LMU München. Sie bietet hervorragenden Forschenden in frühen Karrierephasen ein ausgezeichnetes Umfeld für ihre wissenschaftliche Weiterqualifizierung und Vernetzung. Wir suchen Sie: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter und Koordinator (m/w/d) am Standort München Das s

SUMMARY (xxvi, 665 pp.) In effect, Alexandra Aikhenvald here summarizes and expands on the excellent Aikhenvald and Mihas (2019; cf. Robertson 2020). That is, this volume is a synthesis of the rapidly growing body of research into what can be thought of as linguistically-encoded folk taxonomies of nominals (grammatical genders and the various kinds of classifier systems), adding a number of new foci for investigation such as diachronic trends, contact effects, acquisition, and language death

In recent years, while preparing various digital Latvian and Lithuanian language resources (corpora, databases, dictionaries, wordnets, etc., e.g., Miliūnaitė, Aleksaitė 2011; Rimkutė et al. 2013; Dadurkevičius 2020a, 2020b; Andronova et al. 2022; Levāne-Petrova et al. 2023; see also LatvianWordNet https://wordnet.ailab.lv/; Kalnača, Pakalne 2026), the issue of compounds in both Baltic languages – their structural types, semantics and word formation models, as well as orthography issues – has be

PhD positions in Linguistics The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and the University of Verona have activated a joint PhD program in Linguistics for the academic year 2026/27. They have issued a call for 4 fully funded PhD positions. PhD candidates which are selected will receive a 3-year fellowship. Successful applicants will be committed to conducting independent and original scientific research and participating in local, national, and international training activities to develop their

In recent years, while preparing various digital Latvian and Lithuanian language resources (corpora, databases, dictionaries, wordnets, etc., e.g., Miliūnaitė, Aleksaitė 2011; Rimkutė et al. 2013; Dadurkevičius 2020a, 2020b; Andronova et al. 2022; Levāne-Petrova et al. 2023; see also LatvianWordNet https://wordnet.ailab.lv/; Kalnača, Pakalne 2026), the issue of compounds in both Baltic languages – their structural types, semantics and word formation models, as well as orthography issues – has be

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, data toxicity, limi

Bilingualism and multilingualism are natural phenomena that have been extensively studied globally. However, monolingualism has been used as a standard to characterize and define bilingualism and multilingualism in linguistic research, leading to a distorted perception of these phenomena. This perspective is rapidly becoming obsolete due to the proliferation of multidisciplinary research. This session welcomes diverse perspectives on bilinguals and multilinguals from conceptual, theoretical, and

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, data toxicity, limi

Bilingualism and multilingualism are natural phenomena that have been extensively studied globally. However, monolingualism has been used as a standard to characterize and define bilingualism and multilingualism in linguistic research, leading to a distorted perception of these phenomena. This perspective is rapidly becoming obsolete due to the proliferation of multidisciplinary research. This session welcomes diverse perspectives on bilinguals and multilinguals from conceptual, theoretical, and

Call for Papers: Following the success of the annual autumn online workshops, TCLR Group is organizing an online workshop on the seminal role of Prepositions in Thought and Language. This online workshop aims to explore and extend the discussion regarding the pervasive role of prepositions in thought and language. More specifically, prepositions will be treated within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics, in terms of subjectivity and subjectification, reference and vantage point, figurat

Dates: 13–14 November 2026 Venue: Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest. Keynote speaker: Adam Ledgeway, Professore Ordinario di Linguistica italiana, Università di Bergamo. Convenors: Adina Dragomirescu, Alexandru Nicolae This workshop is part of the Annual Conference of the Department of Linguistics of the University of Bucharest. It is devoted to Romanian as seen from a typological and Romance-comparative perspective, with particular attention to the grammatical features that defi

We invite you to participate in the workshop “L1 – Curriculum Models and Current Practices”, organized within the framework of the 26th International Conference of the Department of Linguistics. - Date: November 13–14, 2026 - Venue: University of Bucharest, Faculty of Letters, 5–7 Edgar Quinet Street, Bucharest, Romania - Language of presentation: Romanian and English - Invited speaker: Simona Grigoraș, teacher at European School Brussels IV - Organizers: Florentina Sâmihăian, And