Call for Papers: The biannual conference of the European Association for Chinese Linguistics (EACL) will be held in Paris-Aubervilliers, Campus Condorcet, on 2-4 September 2026. This year, besides the general session dedicated to all areas of Chinese linguistics, the EACL conference will also hold a special panel on "The morphosyntax of aspect : diachrony and synchrony" and a Young Scholars Forum. The 13th EACL conference is jointly organized by the EACL executive committee, the Centre

E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize 2026 Since 1998, the Association for Logic, Language, and Information (FoLLI) has been awarding the annual E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding Ph.D. dissertations in Logic, Language, and Information, with financial support of the E.W. Beth Foundation. Information about the qualifications for the 2026 E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize: - Ph.D. dissertations concerning a topic in Logic, Language, or Information are eligible for the prize, if the degree was aw

The 20th International Pragmatics Conference (IPC-20) will be held at the University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, from 27 June to 2 July 2027. The Call for Papers is now open! Deadlines: - Deadline for panel proposals: 5 June 2026 (midnight CEST) - Contributions to accepted panels, and submissions for posters and lectures must be sent in by 15 October 2026 (midnight CEST) Please visit https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP2027 for all details regarding submission procedure

Colloque international interdisciplinaire à l’occasion du XXe anniversaire de la philologie romane à l’Université d’Opole Question(S) de Style du 28 au 29 septembre 2026 Département d’études littéraires / Département des sciences du langage Université d’Opole Collegium Maius Place Kopernika 11a 45-040 Opole (Pologne) La relation entre un message et la forme utilisée pour le transmettre a été définie par Sénèque, il y a presque deux mille ans, dans les termes suivants : « Le style e

The 20th International Pragmatics Conference (IPC-20) will be held at the University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, from 27 June to 2 July 2027. The Call for Papers is now open! Deadlines: - Deadline for panel proposals: 5 June 2026 (midnight CEST) - Contributions to accepted panels, and submissions for posters and lectures must be sent in by 15 October 2026 (midnight CEST) Please visit https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP2027 for all details regarding submission procedure

Colloque international interdisciplinaire à l’occasion du XXe anniversaire de la philologie romane à l’Université d’Opole Question(S) de Style du 28 au 29 septembre 2026 Département d’études littéraires / Département des sciences du langage Université d’Opole Collegium Maius Place Kopernika 11a 45-040 Opole (Pologne) La relation entre un message et la forme utilisée pour le transmettre a été définie par Sénèque, il y a presque deux mille ans, dans les termes suivants : « Le style e

The English Language and Literature Study Program is pleased to announce its annual conference for young researchers, which will take place on 23 April 2026 at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In line with the 2010 initiative of the UN Department of Global Communications, which established 23 April as International English Language Day, the conference is dedicated to the celebration and promotion of the English language, literature, and culture. It pres

The English Language and Literature Study Program is pleased to announce its annual conference for young researchers, which will take place on 23 April 2026 at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In line with the 2010 initiative of the UN Department of Global Communications, which established 23 April as International English Language Day, the conference is dedicated to the celebration and promotion of the English language, literature, and culture. It pres

An increasing number of historical linguists now believe that the traditional reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European stop system (*T, *D, *Dh) is likely flawed. Yet, despite various proposed alternatives—ranging from systems featuring glottalised or non-plosive consonants to those based on length contrasts—no single theory has achieved broad consensus. This volume, comprising twenty chapters, brings together leading specialists who examine all relevant data, as well as comparative and typolog

If there is one speculation about English and German that has pervaded scholarly work within contrastive linguistics as well as language teaching and translation handbooks for decades, it is probably the assumption of a more “verbal style” in English compared to German. Settling this question once and for all, the present book provides a comprehensive comparison of verbal style in English and German that pays due attention to language-internal variation by mode and register at the same time.

How diverse can a single language family’s prosody be? "Word-Prosodic Systems of Japonic Languages" answers this by offering the first-ever comparative overview in English of the highly diverse word-prosodic systems of the Japonic languages. Through accessible descriptions couched in a unified framework, this volume dismantles long-standing barriers in a field whose publications are almost exclusively in Japanese and whose descriptive tradition is shaped by idiosyncratic terminology and theory.

Das interdisziplinäre Werk positioniert sich an einer Schnittstelle, an der gesundheitsbezogene und fachdidaktische Perspektiven miteinander in Dialog treten. Die interdisziplinäre Herangehensweise ist dabei kein Selbstzweck, sondern reflektiert die Komplexität der Gesundheitsthematik im Bildungsbereich und eröffnet fundierte Perspektiven für ein gesundes Lehren und Lernen von Fremdsprachen. Denn ein gesunder Fremdsprachenunterricht beginnt mit der Gesundheit der Lehrkräfte – nur wer psychisch u

The causes of polarization existing in Polish society are multifaceted, and cannot be easily elucidated using ordinary demographic variables alone. The collaborative research initiative of linguists and media scholars is therefore not accidental: language is the primary vehicle of communication, and communication constitutes the modus operandi of social existence. Without language, which functions as a cohesive force (a “glue”) of society, any society would be unable to organize itself or sustai

The theme of this volume revolves around three distinct yet interconnected analytical categories: identity, conflict, and interaction. The contributions collected here foreground the challenges, tensions and limitations inherent in identity construction, conflictual online discourse as well as verbal interaction, whether investigated independently or as an interplay across these domains. Theoretically, the contributions are ingrained in various scholarly traditions which comprise educational stu

This collection sits at the intersection of transnationalism, queer studies, and feminist theories, bringing refreshing perspectives on transnational language teaching and teacher education by amplifying voices from the Global South. Spanning the transnational ELT field, its pedagogical, theoretical, and empirical inquiries cover K-16+ settings across Australasia, Africa, and the Americas. Creating a critical and dialogic space to re-think the challenges and agency, struggles and growth of la

On Sunday, some linguists enjoyed x-country skiing on Mont Royal!

The workshop takes place as part of the Biennial of Czech Linguistics 2026: https://sites.google.com/mail.muni.cz/bcl2026en/homepage Invited Speaker: Marieke Schouwstra (University of Amsterdam) Workkshop Description: Word order is a phenomenon that penetrates most linguistic subdisciplines (from phonology via syntax to pragmatics) and has been studied from a variety of perspectives (linguistic theory and typology, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, acquisition, etc.). Recent advances

Next presentation will be on Monday, Mar 9th, 12-1pm in room 117 and on Zoom.  Kuilin will be presenting Schertz, J. (2025). Individual uniformity in phonetic imitation: Assessing the stability of individual variability across features and tasks. Journal of Phonetics, 108, 101376 (attached). All relevant documents (schedules, abstracts, papers and slides/handouts) will be available on this Google Drive.

Call for Papers: The second International Conference on Globalisation/Deglobalisation in Languages, Education, Culture and Communication (GLECC2026) is going to be held 28-30 July 2026, Manchester, UK. The past two decades have witnessed remarkable advancements in the studies into Education, Second and Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting, Cultural Studies, and Communication. This growth, evident in both the number of active researchers and the volume of scholarly throughput and

Call for Papers: Keynote Speakers: Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck, Leipzig) Martin Hilpert (Uni. of Neuchâtel) Sophie Prévost (CNRS – Lattice) Graeme Trousdale (Uni. of Edinburgh) Keynote Discussant: Bernd Heine (Uni. of Cologne) ‘Grammaticalization’ (a term introduced by Meillet in 1912) has been the subject of numerous studies, which have highlighted regularities in the emergence of grammatical forms across typologically diverse languages. Grammaticalization refers both to a type