Software: RCaucTile and PyCaucTile
I am pleased to announce the release of RCaucTile and PyCaucTile. Those are new R and Python packages designed for generating tile maps specifically for East Caucasian languages within the `ggplot2` framework. RCaucTile and PyCaucTile provide an R/Python implementation of the East Caucasian Languages template. Documentation includes several examples. The packages are freely available on CRAN and pypi.
- documentation: https://lingconlab.github.io/RCaucTile/
- R version from CRAN: https://cr
Jobs: English; Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics: Assistant Professor - English Linguistics, Louisiana State University
Description:
The Department of English at Louisiana State University (LSU) invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Linguistics, beginning in August of 2026.
Located in Baton Rouge, LSU is the flagship land-grant institution in Louisiana and a Research 1 (R1) University. We support research and teaching in a broad range of fields and many interdisciplinary programs.
Requirements: Ph.D.in Linguistics, or in related field by the time the position begins; record of pu
Confs: Les français d'ici 10
Organisé pour la première fois en 2006, le colloque Les français d’ici en est à sa dixième édition et fêtera donc à cette occasion en 2026 son vingtième anniversaire.
Ce colloque bisannuel offre aux chercheuses et chercheurs, professeures et professeurs qui s’intéressent aux variétés de français et à la francophonie nord-américaine une occasion de partager leurs travaux et leurs réflexions en la matière, quelles que soient les approches théoriques et méthodologiques mobilisées par leurs rech
Calls: International Thematic Conference on Pronunciation Research and Applications
Call for Papers:
The International Linguistic Society is delighted to invite you to participate in the International Thematic Conference of Pronunciation Research and Applications, Pronunciation 2026 Online, to be held online from 25-27 February 2026. The primary aim of the conference is to advance key areas of pronunciation, welcoming at the same time innovative approaches to pronunciation research and applications.
The Pronunciation 2026 Online conference envisions a vibrant platform for
Calls: Sociolinguistic Studies - "Issue 20.3" (Jrnl)
The journal Sociolinguistic Studies, founded in 2000, invites submissions of articles for its number/issue 20.3, to be published in August 2026. Papers may examine any issue in sociolinguistic research including, but not limited to, styles and registers, communicative situations and speech events, politeness, bilingual conversation and code-switching, gender and discourse, language attitudes, language ideologies, the diversity of the worldwide linguistic situation, bilingualism and multilinguali
Confs: Les français d'ici 10
Organisé pour la première fois en 2006, le colloque Les français d’ici en est à sa dixième édition et fêtera donc à cette occasion en 2026 son vingtième anniversaire.
Ce colloque bisannuel offre aux chercheuses et chercheurs, professeures et professeurs qui s’intéressent aux variétés de français et à la francophonie nord-américaine une occasion de partager leurs travaux et leurs réflexions en la matière, quelles que soient les approches théoriques et méthodologiques mobilisées par leurs rech
Confs: Workshops at the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing & Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2025
Call for Papers - Workshops at International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing & Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2025
Here is the list of accepted workshops at IJCNLP-AACL 2025, which will be held at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in December 2025. We invite you to explore the individual workshop websites for important details, including deadlines, calls for papers, and participation information.
As workshop co-chairs, we are
Confs: Workshop at SLE 2026: Measuring Cross-linguistic Distances
Background:
To what degree a given variety of human language is similar to or different from another variety has been a topic of great interest, not only to linguists but also to the general public. With the advent of big data and computational tools in language science, we can now address this perennial question in ways that were not possible or realistic before. In this proposed workshop, we will venture into the many dimensions of cross-linguistic distance, the quantifiable degree of dissi
Confs: 11th International Conference on Bantu Languages
Please see the conference website (https://www.bantugent.ugent.be/bantu11/) for versions of this announcement in Kiswahili, Lingála, français, português, and español.
The BantUGent team is happy to welcome you to the city of Ghent (Belgium) for the 11th International Conference on Bantu Languages (Bantu11). It will take place from August 18 to August 21, 2026, just before the 55th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics (CALL 2026) in Leiden (the Netherlands) from August 24th till Aug
Confs: Workshops at the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing & Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2025
Call for Papers - Workshops at International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing & Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2025
Here is the list of accepted workshops at IJCNLP-AACL 2025, which will be held at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in December 2025. We invite you to explore the individual workshop websites for important details, including deadlines, calls for papers, and participation information.
As workshop co-chairs, we are
Confs: Workshop at SLE 2026: Measuring Cross-linguistic Distances
Background:
To what degree a given variety of human language is similar to or different from another variety has been a topic of great interest, not only to linguists but also to the general public. With the advent of big data and computational tools in language science, we can now address this perennial question in ways that were not possible or realistic before. In this proposed workshop, we will venture into the many dimensions of cross-linguistic distance, the quantifiable degree of dissi
Confs: 11th International Conference on Bantu Languages
Please see the conference website (https://www.bantugent.ugent.be/bantu11/) for versions of this announcement in Kiswahili, Lingála, français, português, and español.
The BantUGent team is happy to welcome you to the city of Ghent (Belgium) for the 11th International Conference on Bantu Languages (Bantu11). It will take place from August 18 to August 21, 2026, just before the 55th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics (CALL 2026) in Leiden (the Netherlands) from August 24th till Aug
Calls: Methods in Dialectology and Language Diversity XIX
2nd Call for Papers:
Methods in Dialectology and Language Diversity is a traditionally triennial conference that originated in Canada as a forum for discussing methodological issues in dialect research. Methods conferences have progressively extended their topical range and now include the whole spectrum of regional, historical, and social language variation, as reflected in the now expanded conference name.
The Methods series welcomes contributions investigating any of the world’s langua
Calls: Studies in Linguistics and Language Education - "Issue No. 2" (Jrnl)
Call for Papers – SLLE Vol. 1, No. 2 (Dec 2025)
Studies in Linguistics and Language Education (SLLE)
e-ISSN: 3088-8115 | p-ISSN: 3088-8069
Website: https://revue.univ-oran2.dz/slle
The editorial board invites submissions for the 2nd issue (December 2025) of SLLE, an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published biannually by the LOAPL Laboratory, Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Oran 2.
Scholarly essays
Focus: Linguistics & Language Education (theoretical, ap
Calls: III Workshop on Linguistic Variation at Interfaces
Call for Papers:
The main aim of the Workshop on Linguistic Variation at Interfaces III – VARINT26 is to widen our understanding of the empirical phenomena displaying linguistic variation, their relevance for the design of the overall grammatical architecture, and the current status of approaches to variation in terms of (micro) parameters and networks.
Descriptive-formal generative approaches to variation are founded on the hypothesis that variation among languages is understood as the in
Jobs: English; Computational Linguistics: Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) in Computational Linguistics, University of York
Description:
The Department of Language and Linguistic Science is seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) in Computational Linguistics for a fixed term of two years to work on “Developing Y-ACCDIST’s robustness for use on Levantine Arabic dialects”. This is a subproject of the Common European Language Indication and Analysis (CELIA) project (led by the Immigration and Naturalisation Service of the Netherlands Ministry of Asylum and Migration and co-funded by the European U
Jobs: English, German; Applied Linguistics: Director of the Department of Applied Linguistics and Member of the University Management Team, ZHAW
Description:
Do you see digitalisation as an opportunity and you would like to play an active role in driving change? Are you able to develop visions and strategies and together with all stakeholders put them into actions? Then you are at the right place!
Responsibilities: In this key position, the candidate will be responsible, together with the department management, for the strategic development and operational lead of the Department of Applied Linguistics. You will have overall respons
Calls: Onward and Upward, or Not: Form-meaning Mismatches in Modality, Agreement, and Negation
Call for Papers:
A syntax-semantics workshop "Onward and Upward, or Not: Form-meaning mismatches in Modality, Agreement, and Negation" will take place in Georg-August-University Göttingen on 14th November 2025. The topics of this workshop include negation, modality and agreement. The workshop is celebrating the achievements and contributions of Hedde Zeijlstra and his colleagues to the study of the syntax-semantics interface. The workshop will include 6 invited talks and a poster session.
McGillians at Sinn und Bedeutung 30
The program of Sinn und Bedeutug 30, held at Goethe University, Frankfurt, features several McGillians, listed below for your information: Despite much pressure and great demand, graphical reporters missed Simonenko. In their favour, however, it should be mentioned that they showed proof of courage once again and risked their lives and equipment on a slippery […]
TOC: Constructions and Frames Vol. 17, No. 2 (2025)
2025. iii, 138 pp.
Table of Contents
Articles
Exploring the form of Italian diminutives: Alternation patterns and constructional schemas
M. Silvia Micheli & Matteo Pellegrini | pp. 175–210
Complex verbs in English: The relationship between verb-forming suffix schemas and argument structure constructions
Jacqueline Laws & Geert Booij | pp. 211–235
The manner of cutting revisited
Seizi Iwata | pp. 236–277
Definite null instantiation in English(es): A Usage-based Construction