La cuarta edición del Congreso Internacional SAnTINA IV tendrá lugar de manera virtual los días 6 y 7 de mayo de 2026, auspiciada por la Universidad “Ștefan cel Mare” de Suceava, la Universidade de Vigo, la University of California (Riverside), la Oklahoma State University y la Sociedad para el Análisis de Temas Culturales e Identidades Lingüísticas N’Asturies (SAnTINA). Invitamos a la participación de investigadores e investigadoras interesados en los Estudios Asturianos, entendidos de manera

The Lingua student group at the University of Texas at Arlington is excited to announce that we are now accepting abstracts for the 31st Annual University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics and TESOL (UTASCiLT). This annual conference provides a fantastic opportunity for students to refine their presentation skills, showcase their research, and engage with a wider academic audience. We strongly encourage all students—undergraduate and graduate—to participate, especially t

It is our pleasure to invite you to the 40th International Scientific Conference of the Croatian Applied Linguistics Society (CALS). The conference will be held from June 25 to 27, 2026, at the Faculty of Humanities, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Croatia. The theme of this year's conference is: "Language: From Conceptualization to Application" We welcome submissions that approach this theme from various perspectives, including but not limited to: foreign/second language acquisition, fi

Organiser: Costas Gabrielatos (Edge Hill University) Invited Speakers: - Stefan Gries (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) - Martin Hilpert (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland) - Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK) The focus of LxGr is the interaction of lexis and grammar. It is influenced by Halliday’s view of lexis and grammar as “complementary perspectives” (1991: 32), and his conception of the two as notional ends of a continuum (lexicogrammar), in that “if you in

The Syntax-Semantics Group will hold its next meeting on Thursday, February 5th, at 2-3pm in Room 002 of the McGill linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/84180431566 Laurestine Bradford (McGill) will be presenting “Tlingit Spatial Roots” Here is the abstract:

The article “Natural language and external conventions: re-examining per”, co-authored by Alan Bale and Bernhard Schwarz, has just appeared online at Linguistics and Philosophy: https://rdcu.be/e1ian. The abstract is below. Abstract We argue that per-phrases like two grams per liter exhibit a dual interpretive pattern. When such phrases saturate predicates of quantities in simplex dimensions, like weight or distance, they are […]

Next presentation will be on Monday, Feb 2,12-1pm in room 117 and on Zoom.  Tony will be presenting Bybee, J., & Easterday, S. (2022). Primal consonants and the evolution of consonant inventories. Language Dynamics and Change, 13(1), 1-33. (Attached) All relevant documents (schedules, abstracts, papers and slides/handouts) will be available on this Google Drive.

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

As of volume 50 (2026) Editor Michele Gazzola (Ulster University) will succeed François Grin (Université de Genève) as Editor-in-Chief of the John Benjamins journal Language Problems & Language Planning. François Grin will remain member of the board. LPLP also welcomes Antonio Leoni de León (University of Costa Rica) as new Editor. Language Problems and Language Planning (LPLP) is a peer-reviewed international and multilingual journal which focuses on language issues and the challenges they r

The Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) network (https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/home) an international and interdisciplinary network whose primary aim is to promote work on slurs, pejoratives, expressives and evaluative terms from less studied languages, invites you to the fifth talk of the 2025-2026 academic year. The invited speaker is Elisabeth Camp (Rutgers University), who will give a talk entitled "Why Do Mantras Move Us?" (see the abstract below). The event will take place o

Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching: The Case of the Nordics Edited by Pia Sundqvist, Liss Kerstin Sylvén, and Hayo Reinders In Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching: The Case of the Nordics, the aim is to shed light on this region with its fascinating linguistic landscape and long tradition of language learning and teaching research. People from the Nordics—Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, including relevant territories—have always needed to be knowledgeable in ot

Upcoming webinar: Enacting translanguaging in a Ghanaian multilingual classroom - Code choices in minority language classrooms. Friday, 6 February 2026, 15:00 - 16:00 GMT. Presenters: David Dankwa-Apawu, University of Media, Arts and Communication, Accra; Yvonne Agbetsoamedo, University of Ghana, Legon; Elvis ResCue, University of Birmingham, UK Register via https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/5158c609-2abc-4ef6-88fb-2efa28d061b9@d400387a-212f-43ea-ac7f-77aa12d7977e In the multilingual cl

I am running a 15-minute survey on the acceptability of alternative constructions for German nouns as part of my undergraduate dissertation. The survey is entirely in German and open to any adult speakers whether they consider themselves native speakers or not. I am particularly interested in more repsonses from men, as the current sample is quite biased right now. At the end of the task, you may optionally supply your age (in bins), gender, and first language. You may also enter a raffle

The Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) is conducting a survey to map linguistics outreach activities across Europe and to reflect on the future role of the SLE in this area. This short questionnaire is open to all colleagues involved or interested in linguistics outreach, whether or not they are SLE members. All responses will be used for research and planning purposes only. The questionnaire, which takes about 5 minutes to complete (or more if you want to share your thoughts), is available

Especially those of you working with West African languages, but anyone can chime in: I'm looking at a tone process in Kusuntu (bqg) of central Togo called HLH plateauing and wondering if it is an aerial phenomenon. Plateauing occurs where there is an underlying HLH pattern across a morpheme- or word-boundary. The singly-linked L tone delinks and floats. The unassociated segment takes a H (because of H-spreading), but the floating L causes it to downstep so the resulting surface pattern i

Focus: Indo-European Linguistics Historical Linguistics Typology Sanskrit Germanic Albanian Old Church Slavonic Hittite Description: Dear Colleagues and Friends of the Pavia Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics, we are pleased to announce that from September 7 to 12, 2026 we will organize the 7th Pavia Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics. The courses we offer this year are: Old Church Slavonic - Thomas Olander (Copenhagen) Germanic - Ludwig Rübekeil (Züric

As of volume 17 (2026), Xiaoting Li (University of Alberta) will succeed Zhuo Jing-Schmidt (University of Oregon) and join Editors K.K. Luke (Nanyang Technological University), Hongyin Tao (University of California, Los Angeles) and Li Wei (UCL IOE, UK) as Executive Editor of the John Benjamins journal Chinese Language and Discourse. Zhuo Jing-Schmidt will remain member of the board. Furthermore, we welcome on board Associate Editor Shuangyun Yao (Central China Normal University), Assistant Edit

Este volumen reúne los trabajos de especialistas en lingüística románica, que analizan la variación desde diversas perspectivas (fonético-fonológica, léxico-semántica y morfosintáctica) a partir de los datos de atlas lingüísticos y corpus textuales y orales de las lenguas romances. Los resultados constituyen una muestra ilustrativa de la complementariedad de la geolingüística y la lingüística de corpus.

2026. v, 100 pp. Table of Contents Article What returnee bilinguals may teach us about language attrition, language stabilization, and individual variation Cristina Flores & Neal Snape pp. 1–25 Commentaries What returnee international adoptees may teach us about language attrition, language stabilization, and individual variation Mirjam Broersma pp. 26–30 The other side of the coin matters too: What changes in the former heritage language of returnees may reveal about the

2026. iii, 152 pp. Table of Contents Articles Both responsiveness and standardization: Constructing institutional realities in intermediate labor markets Sanni Tiitinen, Kirsi Juhila & Tea Lempiälä pp. 1–23 Reciprocity and epistemicity on screen-based interactions: The case of MOOCs Ana Larissa Adorno Marciotto Oliveira pp. 24–44 Conflict, gender, and amount of talk: Gender differences in Spanish role play data Gloria Uclés-Ramada, Sven Kachel & Pekka Posio pp. 45–65