El Colegio de México A. C., Escuela Nacional de Lenguas, Lingüística y Traducción UNAM, and Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas UNAM, invite presentation proposals for the VII Formal Linguistics Meeting in Mexico (ELF) to be held on September 1, 2, and 3, 2026 at El Colegio de México, Mexico City. The Formal Linguistics Meeting aims to bring together researchers who consider formal approaches to the study of language in order to foster the exchange and discussion of linguistic phenome

El Colegio de México A. C., Escuela Nacional de Lenguas, Lingüística y Traducción UNAM, and Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas UNAM, invite presentation proposals for the VII Formal Linguistics Meeting in Mexico (ELF) to be held on September 1, 2, and 3, 2026 at El Colegio de México, Mexico City. The Formal Linguistics Meeting aims to bring together researchers who consider formal approaches to the study of language in order to foster the exchange and discussion of linguistic phenome

We would like to invite you to the 4th and 5th workshops in our Transforming Research into Practice (TRIP) series, which will take place in a HYBRID format, on Saturday, 14th March 2026. If you live in or around the Manchester area, please consider joining us in person at the Manchester Metropolitan University campus. Workshop 4 The 4th TRIP workshop will be led by Dr Karen Forbes, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK, entitled: "We Are Multilingual”: Identity-based Activitie

Department of Applied Linguistics, Department of Pedagogy and Department of English and American Studies of the University of Gdańsk, Poland, in cooperation with ELLMEnet (Early Language Learning and Multilingual Education Network), are proud to welcome researchers from all over the world to contribute to our 4th International Conference on Early Language Learning and Multilingual Education in Early Childhood. In an increasingly interconnected and globalised world, the significance of multili

Department of Applied Linguistics, Department of Pedagogy and Department of English and American Studies of the University of Gdańsk, Poland, in cooperation with ELLMEnet (Early Language Learning and Multilingual Education Network), are proud to welcome researchers from all over the world to contribute to our 4th International Conference on Early Language Learning and Multilingual Education in Early Childhood. In an increasingly interconnected and globalised world, the significance of multili

For more than 30 years, the conferences organized by the International Society for Humor Studies have been the primary venue to present scientific research in the field of humor studies. The ISHS welcomes papers from the numerous expertises, such as social sciences, communication and media studies, anthropology, political science, history, psychology, education, linguistics and translation, folklore, computational sciences and engineering, robotics, law, among others. Individual paper proposa

A Postgraduate Workshop hosted by the Department of English, The Chinese University of Hong Kong You're warmly invited to a two-day in-person workshop on AI Applications in Humanities, open to Research Postgraduate students (MPhil and PhD) in Hong Kong. Whether you're already using digital tools in your research or simply curious about what AI can offer — you are most welcome to join this workshop! Dates: 13–14 March 2026 Venue: User Education Room, G/F, University Library, CUHK ree lunch

2nd Call for Papers: Meeting Description: Following the success of previous editions in Helsinki (2021), Stockholm (2024), and Leipzig (2025), Emerging Topics in Typology (ETT) will return for its fourth edition in 2026, this time at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, from 15 to 17 July 2026. This is a conference organised by and for PhD students in linguistic typology and diversity linguistics. We welcome abstracts on a range of topics in diversity linguistics (quantitative and quali

For more than 30 years, the conferences organized by the International Society for Humor Studies have been the primary venue to present scientific research in the field of humor studies. The ISHS welcomes papers from the numerous expertises, such as social sciences, communication and media studies, anthropology, political science, history, psychology, education, linguistics and translation, folklore, computational sciences and engineering, robotics, law, among others. Individual paper proposa

A Postgraduate Workshop hosted by the Department of English, The Chinese University of Hong Kong You're warmly invited to a two-day in-person workshop on AI Applications in Humanities, open to Research Postgraduate students (MPhil and PhD) in Hong Kong. Whether you're already using digital tools in your research or simply curious about what AI can offer — you are most welcome to join this workshop! Dates: 13–14 March 2026 Venue: User Education Room, G/F, University Library, CUHK ree lunch

As part of her Master's Project, a graduate student at North Carolina State University is seeking participants for her study entitled: The Acquisition of Spanish as a Third Language by Native Speakers of Korean (IRB #: 28361). She is examining how learners’ first language (Korean) and second language (English) influence the acquisition of Spanish as a third language, focusing on morphosyntactic patterns. If you a Spanish learner residing in the Republic of Korea with a major/minor/specializa

We are pleased to announce the release of NE-OCR, a new unified open-source OCR recognition model developed by MWire Labs (Shillong, Meghalaya) specifically for the languages of Northeast India. NE-OCR is built on the DocTR ViTSTR-Base architecture (86M parameters) and provides high-accuracy text recognition for 12 languages (including Hindi and English) across 4 scripts: Latin script: Khasi, Kokborok, Mizo, Garo, Nagamese, Nyishi and English Bengali script: Assamese, Meitei (Bengali vari

This questionnaire investigates the knowledge and frequency of use of common German phrasemes containing the component “arm” among native speakers of German. Participants are asked to evaluate various idiomatic expressions with regard to their familiarity, meaning, and personal language use. The aim is to gain insights into participants’ familiarity with these linguistic units as well as their actual use in everyday communication. The questionnaire consists of several sections with both close

I am currently conducting a research project examining language use and stigma surrounding menstruation across different cultural contexts. The aim of this study is to collect terms used to refer to menstruation in various countries and to explore their meanings, cultural implications, and connotations. To support this research, I have created a brief Google Form to gather responses. I am seeking female participants who would be willing to share a word or expression used in their country, alo

Focus: Introduction to SPSS interface and data entry Data coding and variable management Descriptive statistics for linguistic data Inferential statistics (t-test, ANOVA, correlation) Interpreting SPSS output for research papers Description: Pakistan Corpus Studio invites you to an intensive and fully practical Three Day Workshop on Statistical Data Analysis using SPSS for Linguistic Research. This workshop is specially designed for students, researchers, and faculty who want to learn

Description: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Applications are invited for:- Department of History Postdoctoral Fellow(s) - Cross Cultural Analytics (Data Science, NLP, Computational Linguistics, Computational Humanities) (Ref: 26000063) The Chinese University of Hong Kong invites applications for two full‑time Postdoctoral Fellows to join an interdisciplinary data science project using large‑scale text data, NLP, knowledge graphs, and AI‑driven methods to study the historical in

The following books are now available for review on the LINGUIST List. If you would like to become a reviewer for one of the books announced in the AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW posting, you will need to follow steps 1-4 explained below: Step 1: Go to https://linguistlist.org/reviews/request Step 2: You will be asked to log in or create an account. Step 3: Update your personal information and add reviewer specific information on why you would be a good reviewer for the books you wish to select. Step

SUMMARY “How do we invent new words? How do we understand words that we have never heard before? What are the limits on the kinds of words we produce? How have linguists and grammarians dealt with the phenomenon of creating new words, and how justified are their ways of viewing such words?” (Bauer, 2025) Published by Cambridge University Press, Reflections on English Word-Formation, by Prof. Laurie Bauer, presents a comprehensive and reflective exploration of English word formati

SUMMARY As the editors of the present volume explain, the aim of the publication is to address a set of questions concerning the German language in Europe: Where in Europe is German spoken? How did this come about? What is the status of the German language in Europe? How does it interact with other languages? How does German fit into a multilingual repertoire? How can the vitality of German be assessed? [9] These questions are approached in two distinct ways: the first part of the volume pres

MWire Labs has released KokborokBERT, a masked language model (MLM) for the Kokborok language of Northeast India. The model was developed through domain-adaptive fine-tuning of XLM-RoBERTa-base on a curated Kokborok corpus (372,850 tokens). Training was conducted for 13 epochs on an NVIDIA A40 GPU. Validation Results: -Zero-shot XLM-R Perplexity: 396.69 -KokborokBERT Perplexity: 5.90 ~67× reduction in modeling error The model is designed to support downstream tasks such as named en