Apologies are ubiquitous in contemporary societies, yet their meanings and functions are rarely straightforward. Online Apologies in Japanese provides a comprehensive account of how three Japanese expressions commonly considered apologetic (gomen, su(m)imasen and mōshiwake arimasen) work in a data set collected from the Q&A website Yahoo! Chiebukuro. The focus is on three variables: their pragmatic functions, the discursive strategies they co-occur with, and the events and b

Language Contact in North-Eastern Siberia: An Introduction Dejan Matić Pages: 1–10 Recent Contact-Induced Morphosyntactic Changes in the Lower Kolyma Region Dejan Matić and Irina Nikolaeva Pages: 11–69 The Tundra Yukaghir Language in a Multilingual Environment: A Longitudinal Research Maria Pupynina and Nikolai Vakhtin Pages: 70–94 Even Kinship Terminology, Society and Language Contact Alexandra Lavrillier and Dejan Matić Pages: 95–162 Incorporation as a Grammaticalization

GENERAL SUMMARY “New Horizons in Prescriptivism Research” is a volume of conference proceedings from the 6th Prescriptivism Conference held in Vigo, Spain in September 2021. It is meant as a multi-disciplinary showcase of research in prescriptivism practices from the 18th century to the present, looking at the role of prescriptivism in language usage guides, literary and scripted texts, in non-mainstream English speech communities, and in other languages. Contributions are from established an

Help CARLA support language teachers! CARLA is conducting a short survey to assess teachers' needs in using technology in their language classrooms. Language teachers at all levels are invited to participate in this survey and help shape the future of technology-focused professional development from CARLA. This anonymous survey will take only 10-15 minutes to complete. Win a free CARLA Summer Institute! Upon completion of the survey, participants will be invited to complete a separate Google

In this newsletter: LDC data and commercial technology development New publications: 2015 NIST Language Recognition Evaluation Test Set The Xi’an Multi-Language Learner Corpus ________________________________________ LDC data and commercial technology development For-profit organizations are reminded that an LDC membership is a pre-requisite for obtaining a commercial license to almost all LDC databases. Non-member organizations, including non-member for-profit organizations, cannot

Online MapLE Masterclass on Epistemicity See https://epistemicity.net/masterclass/ *What is this course about?* When people communicate, they not only exchange information, but they also indicate how the speaker’s and addressee’s knowledge relate to that information. What is the source of the information, how certain is the speaker of it, is it unexpected for the speaker or addressee? All these aspects fall under epistemicity – the expression of the speaker’s and addressee’s knowledge in g

ELLMEnet Webinar: "Bridging Worlds: Driving Policy Change in Early Multilingual Education Worldwide" on the 28th of March. Webinar link: https://www.ellmenet.com/events/webinar-bridging-worlds-driving-policy-change-in-early-multilingual-education-worldwide The online webinar is free but registration is needed at least 48 hours before the webinar.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Paradigm welcomes John Benjamins eBooks to its partner program Esteemed linguistics publisher’s eBooks will be sold by Paradigm alongside De Gruyter Mouton and Multilingual Matters Boston/Warsaw/London - 17/03/2025 - Paradigm Publishing Services, a division of De Gruyter Brill, welcomes John Benjamins to its consortium of university and smaller specialized presses that form the partner program. Under this agreement, John Benjamins’s titles will be sold in the U

iv, 188 pp.2025 Table of Contents Introduction Words in the World Laura Teddiman, Lori Buchanan & Hamad Al-Azary | pp. 1–5 Articles A psycholinguistic analysis of clinical list-learning tests Brette Lansue & Lori Buchanan | pp. 6–24 Tense and agreement processing in native Spanish speakers with aphasia Camila Stecher, María Elina Sánchez, Julia Roberta Carden & Virginia Irene Jaichenco | pp. 25–36 Intralingual and interlingual effects in a pure language list: Evidence for

The II International Conference “Lexicography in the XXI Century“ will be held on October 10-12 in hybrid format in Tbilisi, at Ilia State University. The Conference is dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the death of Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani, an eminent Georgian lexicographer, writer, diplomat and public figure. The aim of the Conference is to create a forum for the discussion of issues of modern lexicography in Georgia. The digital era proved to become a big challenge for lexicography which

The II International Conference “Lexicography in the XXI Century“ will be held on October 10-12 in hybrid format in Tbilisi, at Ilia State University. The Conference is dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the death of Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani, an eminent Georgian lexicographer, writer, diplomat and public figure. The aim of the Conference is to create a forum for the discussion of issues of modern lexicography in Georgia. The digital era proved to become a big challenge for lexicography which

At this week’s MCQLL meeting, Laurestine Bradford will present a talk titled “Do aspectual classes show up in corpus distribution patterns?”. We will be meeting this Wednesday, March 19, at 10 AM. Meetings are held in person in room 117 of the McGill Linguistics department and on zoom at https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/89609376104. Verbs fall into distinct aspectual classes, […]

Jessica Coon’s paper, “Embedding, extraction, and clausal pied-piping in Ch’ol”, with collaborator Juan Jesús Vázquez Álvarez (CIMSUR-UNAM) was just published in Glossa, available here: https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/17171/. Congrats! Abstract: This paper examines clausal embedding and long-distance wh-dependencies in Ch’ol, a Mayan language of southern Mexico. We demonstrate that when it comes to finite embedded clauses, two options […]

Summary This book is organized into three parts. Part I (Chapters 2 to 5) explains how to measure the level of intelligibility and how to quantify linguistic and extralinguistic determinants of intelligibility (see Figure 1.1). Part II (Chapters 6 and 7) deals in further depth with specific methodology-related issues relating to the statistical measurement and assessment of intelligibility indices between dialects and languages in general. Finally, Part III (Chapters 8 and 9) discusses practi

Dear colleagues, The next Nordic Speech Research Forum webinar takes place on Fri, March 21 at 12:00 - 13:00 (Helsinki/Eastern European Time EET; UCT+2). Join the webinar at https://jyufi.zoom.us/j/65558081185 or via our website www.jyu.fi/nsrf. Acceptability as a crucial dimension for measuring pronunciation: What we can learn from Danish as an L2 Lisa Tulaja, Kiel University News: Our April webinar is given by Magdalena Wrembel and Jolanta Sypiańska on Fri, Apr 11 at 14:00 - 15:00

The Department of Languages and Literature at the University of Nicosia is pleased to host a guest lecture titled 'Responsible AI Applied to Multilingual Technologies' by Dr Helena Moniz from the University of Lisbon, as part of the MA in TESOL Webinar Series. This online event will take place via WebEx on Thursday, 27th of March 2025 at 15:00 (Cyprus time) and is free of charge. Please see the link below: https://globaltraining.webex.com/globaltraining/j.php?MTID=ma9dabf395b518e49572d70fe

The Research Group Monumenta Linguae Vasconum (MLV) and the University of the Basque Country are pleased to announce the First International Conference on the History of Basque (ICHB1), to be held in Gasteiz (Basque Country), 25-27 November 2025. The theme of the 2025 Conference is "Exploring Texts and Varieties". Papers on all aspects of Basque historical dialectology and the study of Basque texts are welcome. The following topics fall within the particular interests of this conference: -

The Research Group Monumenta Linguae Vasconum (MLV) and the University of the Basque Country are pleased to announce the First International Conference on the History of Basque (ICHB1), to be held in Gasteiz (Basque Country), 25-27 November 2025. The theme of the 2025 Conference is "Exploring Texts and Varieties". Papers on all aspects of Basque historical dialectology and the study of Basque texts are welcome. The following topics fall within the particular interests of this conference: -

Call for Papers: Zeit und ihre soziale Aneignung in Praktiken der Zeitlichkeit stellen als fundamentale menschliche Erfahrungs- und Handlungsdimensionen zentrale Gegenstände der Erforschung von Sozialität und Kultur dar (vgl. Munn 1992). So bildet einerseits die Orientierung an Vergangenem sowie andererseits die Antizipation von Zukünftigem die Basis von gemeinschaftlich koordinierten Handlungsabläufen im Sinne von Problemlösungsstrategien (vgl. Baur 2005): Soziales Handeln ist ein zeitliches

Call for Papers: 'Contextual and individual factors in linguistic research: How sampling shapes analytical outcomes' The second edition of the PhD CLUB Doctoral Conference seeks to explore the profound impact that contextual and individual factors exert on linguistic research, with particular attention to sampling practices. Sampling lies at the heart of linguistic methodology, shaping not only the scope and representativity of a study but also the reliability of its findings. The interact