Table of Contents: Negotiating sociolinguistic justice: turning spaces of inequality into spaces of conscientization Luisa Martín Rojo, Joan Pujolar, Estibaliz Amorrortu Talking about sociolinguistic injustice: critical ethnographies towards speaker conscientization Gabriela Prego-Vázquez, Clara Molina, Maite Puigdevall Spaces of conscientization as a bridge between inequality and contestation Estibaliz Amorrortu, Miren Otxotorena-Aranguren, Luz Zas Voicing experiences of language

Table of contents: 1. Navigating Multilingualism: Translating Local Language Policies for Inclusive Education in Kenya, Quin E. Awuor, pp. 3–15; 2. Reflections on Islam and Christianity in Modern Swahili Prose, Mikhail D. Gromov, pp. 16–31; 3. Adverbs in Dabida: Key Issues, Irina S. Ryabova, pp. 32–56. URL: https://iling-ran.ru/web/ru/publications/journals/languageinafrica/5-2

Amazigh-Arabic Code-Switching in Radio Talk Shows: A Functional Analysis Aziz Driouch and Abdelkader Hermas Pages: 611–641 Intense Language Contact and Collapse of Lexical Strata: Verbs Ending with -urun in Issime Livio Gaeta Pages: 642–663 L2 German Word Order Preferences by Immigrant L1 Korean Speakers Hyoun-A Joo Pages: 664–702 Finite to Non-finite through Impersonalization: The Emergence of an Infinitive in Russian Romani Kirill Kozhanov Pages: 703–726 The Polyfunctional

2nd Call for Papers : After a first edition in Lyon (2019), and a second cancelled due to the pandemic (2020), the third Rencontres of young researchers in historical linguistics will be held for a third time in Grenoble on the 4th and 5th of December, 2025. The conference aims to provide a forum for young researchers working on the history of Indo-European languages to present their work, whether it focuses on diachronic evolutions of languages or past synchronic states. Invited Speaker

Was prägt die deutsche Sprache? Zum Verhältnis von natürlicher Sprachentwicklung und metasprachlicher Intervention. Tagung an der Universität Würzburg vom 26.—27.03.2026 Organisation: Wolf Peter Klein, Michael Breyl, Fabienne Fulst, Vita Kraft, Linda Stark Schlagwörter: Sprachgebrauch – Sprachsystem, Gegenwartssprache – Sprachgeschichte, Sprachwandel – Spracherwerb, Objektsprache – Metasprache, Natur/Entwicklung – Intervention/Steuerung, Spracherwerb – sprachliches Lernen, Wissen - Können/

Was prägt die deutsche Sprache? Zum Verhältnis von natürlicher Sprachentwicklung und metasprachlicher Intervention. Tagung an der Universität Würzburg vom 26.—27.03.2026 Organisation: Wolf Peter Klein, Michael Breyl, Fabienne Fulst, Vita Kraft, Linda Stark Schlagwörter: Sprachgebrauch – Sprachsystem, Gegenwartssprache – Sprachgeschichte, Sprachwandel – Spracherwerb, Objektsprache – Metasprache, Natur/Entwicklung – Intervention/Steuerung, Spracherwerb – sprachliches Lernen, Wissen - Können/

Meeting Description: We are excited to announce the 23rd International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2025), which will bring together developers and users of linguistically annotated natural language corpora. The workshop is part of SyntaxFest 2025 and will be hosted by University of Ljubljana in Slovenia on August 26-29, 2025. Link to SyntaxFest 2025: https://syntaxfest.github.io/ SyntaxFest's joint paper submission portal: https://openreview.net/group?id=SyntaxFes

Al-ʽArabiyya, the journal of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic, is a leading journal in the field of Arabic language pedagogy and Arabic linguistics (including applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and theoretical linguistics). Al-‘Arabiyya is indexed by many indexing services including: Clarivate Analytics and SCOPUS. Al-ʽArabiyya welcomes scholarly and pedagogical articles, and book reviews that contribute to the advancement of study, criticism, research, and teaching in the

Call for Papers: Recensement et description des données en vue des applications lexicographiques La lexicographie est un domaine ancien, si les premiers glossaires visant à expliquer des termes de la Bible se développent au VIe siècle, les plus vieux prototypes des dictionnaires sont des listes lexicales remontant au 24e siècle av. J.-C. (Boisson et al., 1991, p. 264). Une multitude de recueils monolingues et plurilingues ont vu le jour depuis, en contribuant au développement du domaine qu

Call for Papers: Most studies on classifiers focus on how to use formal criteria to distinguish between different morphosyntactic subtypes based on the contexts in which classifiers appear. Commonly distinguished types include numeral classifiers, as well as noun classifiers, possessive classifiers, verbal classifiers, deictic classifiers and locative classifiers (Aikhenvald 2000). In contrast, relatively little attention has been devoted to the nature of semantic categorization. Examples of

We are pleased to announce the 18th Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL 18), to be held on September 22–24, 2025, at the University of Wrocław, Poland. FDSL 18 will feature a main session and a workshop on Formal Approaches to Historical Slavic Linguistics. We invite submissions for 35-minute slots (25/30-minute presentations followed by 5/10-minute discussions). Main Session Invited speakers: Marko Simonović (University of Graz), Marta Ruda (Jagiellonian University)

We are pleased to announce the 18th Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL 18), to be held on September 22–24, 2025, at the University of Wrocław, Poland. FDSL 18 will feature a main session and a workshop on Formal Approaches to Historical Slavic Linguistics. We invite submissions for 35-minute slots (25/30-minute presentations followed by 5/10-minute discussions). Main Session Invited speakers: Marko Simonović (University of Graz), Marta Ruda (Jagiellonian University)

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