The Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies is seeking to fill a part-time (65%) position as a research assistant in the field of General Linguistics as soon as possible. The advertized position is part of the research project "Systemic Robustness Assessments of Language Models for Cross-Linguistic Research using Formally Related Structures" (FORESTS; PIs: Jutta M. Hartmann, Anke Himmelreich, Sina Zarrieß) with the DFG-Priority Program "Robust Assessment & Safe Applicability of Language Mode

Call for Papers: The Arnold Chikobava Institute of Linguistics at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, in cooperation with the Vukol Beridze Association of Terminology of Georgia, is pleased to announce the 5th International Conference “Terminology: Heritage and Modernity,” to be held in Tbilisi, Georgia, in October 2026. The conference is dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the Institute of Linguistics and its Department of Scientific Terminology. It aims to bring together schol

Cover Story Article: Social Relationship Marking in German from a Variationist Perspective: Inter- and Intra-Individual Variation in the Use of Vocatives and Vocative-like NPs Janel Zoske and Tanja Ackermann Languages 2026, 11(5), 82; DOI: 10.3390/languages11050082 General Review: Narrative Skills in Autistic and Non-Autistic Preschool Children: A Scoping Review Sofia Kouvava, Katerina Antonopoulou, Aglaia Stampoltzis, Sofia Mavropoulou, Eirini Patroumpa, Aggelos Tzoumailis and Eleni

The 8th International Conference on Ecolinguistics which will take place from 9th to 11th July 2026 in Rennes, France. Multilingual programme now available (in French, English and Spanish) on the conference website. Registration is closing soon: deadline 8th June. We will discuss and practice approaches to the ecolinguistic commitment for sustainable futures and ecojustice with a special focus on multilingual and multisensory encounters. ICE 8 aims to provide a dynamic and stimulating sp

Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer la tenue de la journée d’étude « L’étrangeté en partage : les langues imaginaires », qui se déroulera les 11 et 12 juin 2026 à Besançon. Programme et informations pratiques : https://crit.umlp.fr/2026/05/31/letrangete-en-partage/ Présentation : Les langues imaginaires se manifestent de manière très variable dans les œuvres : elles peuvent apparaître ponctuellement, sous la forme de quelques mots ou expressions, ou faire l’objet d’un développement sy

The 8th International Conference on Ecolinguistics which will take place from 9th to 11th July 2026 in Rennes, France. Multilingual programme now available (in French, English and Spanish) on the conference website. Registration is closing soon: deadline 8th June. We will discuss and practice approaches to the ecolinguistic commitment for sustainable futures and ecojustice with a special focus on multilingual and multisensory encounters. ICE 8 aims to provide a dynamic and stimulating sp

Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer la tenue de la journée d’étude « L’étrangeté en partage : les langues imaginaires », qui se déroulera les 11 et 12 juin 2026 à Besançon. Programme et informations pratiques : https://crit.umlp.fr/2026/05/31/letrangete-en-partage/ Présentation : Les langues imaginaires se manifestent de manière très variable dans les œuvres : elles peuvent apparaître ponctuellement, sous la forme de quelques mots ou expressions, ou faire l’objet d’un développement sy

2026. 248 pp. Articles Word-specific tonal realizations in Mandarin Yu-Ying Chuang, Melanie J. Bell, Yu-Hsiang Tseng, R. Harald Baayen pp. 1–45 Toward an information-theoretic model of morphological fusion based on an efficient tradeoff of memory and surprisal Neil Rathi, Michael Hahn, Richard Futrell pp. 46–79 Pragmatics of spatial descriptions: Sign language loci Dorothy Ahn, Annemarie Kocab, Kathryn Davidson pp. 80–119 The effects of sound change vs. analogy on paradigm c

The Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg, Tuchkov Lane, 9) is holding the 6th Conference on Uralic, Altaic, and Paleoasiatic Languages on November 23–25, 2026. This conference will be dedicated to the centenary of the birth of A. M. Shcherbak. The conference will be held in a hybrid (online and offline) format. Here is a tentative list of topics that will be explored at the conference using data from Uralic, Altaic, and Paleoasiatic languages

[English version below] Le Laboratoire de NeuroPsychoLinguistique (LNPL, UR 4156) et le Département des Sciences du Langage de l’Université Toulouse 2 – Jean Jaurès vous invitent à la journée d’étude intitulée « Bilinguismes harmonieux : évaluer le bien-être langagier dans différentes situations de vie », qui se tiendra le 9 juin 2026 en format hybride. Cette journée réunira des chercheur·euses autour des liens entre bi-/multi-/plurilinguisme et bien-être langagier. L’événement vise à favo

This workshop is organized as part of the World Congress of African Linguistics – WOCAL 12, 2027 Workshop Description: Object marking has long been central to debates about the nature of agreement and clitic doubling. While traditionally treated as distinct phenomena, a growing body of work has shown that the empirical picture is more complex and that the distinction is often difficult to maintain (Jaeggli 1982; Borer 1984; Sportiche 1996; Roberts 2010; Kramer 2012; Zeller 2015; Dierks, Ra

The Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg, Tuchkov Lane, 9) is holding the 6th Conference on Uralic, Altaic, and Paleoasiatic Languages on November 23–25, 2026. This conference will be dedicated to the centenary of the birth of A. M. Shcherbak. The conference will be held in a hybrid (online and offline) format. Here is a tentative list of topics that will be explored at the conference using data from Uralic, Altaic, and Paleoasiatic languages

[English version below] Le Laboratoire de NeuroPsychoLinguistique (LNPL, UR 4156) et le Département des Sciences du Langage de l’Université Toulouse 2 – Jean Jaurès vous invitent à la journée d’étude intitulée « Bilinguismes harmonieux : évaluer le bien-être langagier dans différentes situations de vie », qui se tiendra le 9 juin 2026 en format hybride. Cette journée réunira des chercheur·euses autour des liens entre bi-/multi-/plurilinguisme et bien-être langagier. L’événement vise à favo

This workshop is organized as part of the World Congress of African Linguistics – WOCAL 12, 2027 Workshop Description: Object marking has long been central to debates about the nature of agreement and clitic doubling. While traditionally treated as distinct phenomena, a growing body of work has shown that the empirical picture is more complex and that the distinction is often difficult to maintain (Jaeggli 1982; Borer 1984; Sportiche 1996; Roberts 2010; Kramer 2012; Zeller 2015; Dierks, Ra

SUMMARY Die Dativalternation betrifft nur dreiwertige Transferverben wie ‚geben‘, ‚leihen‘, ‚schicken‘, ‚senden‘ und ‚verkaufen‘, die den Transfer eines Themas (Akkusativ) von einem Agens (Nominativ) zu einem Rezipienten kodieren. Der Rezipient kann durch eine Dativobjektkonstruktion oder eine Präpositionalobjektkonstruktion ausgedrückt werden. Diese Konstruktionen unterscheiden sich von vier verwandten Konstruktionen: die Doppelobjektkonstruktion des Englischen oder Niederländischen, eine Ko

As you no doubt know, the academic job market has been evolving in the last few years, and preparing for it is a stressful time for graduate students and those trying to make moves to new institutions or roles. This year, some colleagues and I across universities are continuing our free Zoom workshop series, Jobs in English and Transdisciplinary Studies (JETS), to help folks across the discipline prepare for the job market. We’re thrilled to continue the workshop series this summer with support

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The Language Attrition Network meets once a month (from October to June) in a 1-hour online session to discuss projects, papers, and chapters related to Language Attrition. You can see our past and next meetings here: https://languageattrition.org/language-attrition-network/ We would like to invite you to our next session, the last one of this academic year: Friday 12th, June, at 14:00 CET (13:00 UK), entitled "Phonetic Drift vs. Phonetic Attrition – same phenomena, different names?" by Erdin

I enclose the link to the interview with Diane Larsen-Freeman on " Second Language Development". https://tv.uvigo.es/video/6a1937f878c6aead6558a912?track_id=6a193da178c6aead74060d52 Abstract: This interview discusses the shift from traditional views of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) to more dynamic perspectives on Second Language Development (SLD). Early theories based on Universal Grammar viewed language learning as guided by innate principles, while connectionism and usage-based model

I do not doubt that there are languages where the WORD for '20' is etymologically something like '(whole) person', which fact is constantly cited as proof that those people counted fingers AND TOES. But two questions: (1) is there a language that actually has a numeral that etymologically derives from a word for toe? (2) Has anyone observed people counting on fingers and toes?