FYI: Workshop on Applying for PhD Funding in Linguistics (UK)

The LINGUIST List - Wed, 11/05/2025 - 07:05
Join the next Linguistics Association of Great Britain's Postgraduate Student Committee workshop on applying to PhDs in Linguistics on the 6th of November at 1630 (GMT) on Teams - joining link on our website: https://www.lagbpsc.co.uk/events/applying-for-phds This session will provide an overview of the PhD funding landscape in the UK addressing questions like what funding is available? and from where? and where does Linguistics fit in, Arts and Humanities or Social Sciences? We will conclude

Jobs: Romansh; General Linguistics, Language Documentation, Sociolinguistics: Postdoktorierende:r, Pädagogische Hochschule Graubünden PHGR

The LINGUIST List - Wed, 11/05/2025 - 06:05
Other Specialties: GIS skills, data processing, statistics Description: Die Anstellung erfolgt im Rahmen eines von der Pädagogischen Hochschule Graubünden in Zusammenarbeit mit der Universität Freiburg/Schweiz realisierten SNF-Forschungsprojekts zu einem rätoromanischen Sprachatlas sowie zur Erforschung der räumlich und sozial bedingten Variation im Rätoromanischen Graubündens. Als Mitglied des Forschungsteams arbeiten Sie an der Planung und Durchführung der Datenerhebung für den rätoroman

Support: Romansh; General Linguistics, Language Documentation, Sociolinguistics: PhD, Pädagogische Hochschule Graubünden PHGR

The LINGUIST List - Wed, 11/05/2025 - 06:05
Die Pädagogische Hochschule Graubünden sucht für das SNF-Forschungsprojekt «Atlas dal Grischun rumantsch – Zugänge zur Sprachvariation im rätoromanischen Gebiet Graubündens» zwei Doktorierende in Dialektologie/Soziolinguistik. Das Projekt hat die Erarbeitung eines rätoromanischen Sprachatlas und die Erforschung der räumlich und sozial bedingten Variation im Rätoromanischen Graubündens zum Ziel. Die beiden Doktorierenden arbeiten an der Planung und Durchführung der Datenerhebung für den Spracha

FYI: Call for Participants: Online Study on Speech Perception with Spanish Speakers

The LINGUIST List - Wed, 11/05/2025 - 06:05
We are seeking participants for an online study on the perception of Spanish speech, conducted as part of a thesis project at the University of Salamanca (Spain). The task involves listening to individual Spanish voices through headphones and making perceptual judgments about the vocal characteristics of each speaker. The entire experiment is online and takes approximately 28-32 minutes to complete. Participants must be Spanish speakers (either native or with high-level proficiency), must use

Support: Sponsorship for Juan de la Cierva/Beatriu de Pinós Postdoctoral Contracts at UPF Barcelona

The LINGUIST List - Tue, 11/04/2025 - 10:05
The Formal Linguistics Research Group (GLiF) in the Department of Translation and Language Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain) is accepting expressions of interest from researchers interested in applying to the upcoming Juan de la Cierva and Beatriu de Pinós postdoctoral calls: Juan de la Cierva: This is now a 3-year postdoctoral contract awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities. The PhD will have to have been successfully defended and appro

Confs: 2026 Taiwan Computer-Assisted Language Learning (TaiwanCALL) and Global Computer-Assisted Language Learning (GLoCALL) Joint Conference

Conferences - Tue, 11/04/2025 - 08:05
The 2026 Taiwan Computer-Assisted Language Learning (TaiwanCALL) and Global Computer-Assisted Language Learning (GLoCALL) Joint Conference adopts the theme “CALL for All: Inclusive, Adaptive, and Engaging Language Learning.” This conference aims to bring together international scholars and practitioners in the field of Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) to examine current progress and challenges in achieving educational equity through technology-enhanced language learning. It seeks to ex

Confs: 2026 Taiwan Computer-Assisted Language Learning (TaiwanCALL) and Global Computer-Assisted Language Learning (GLoCALL) Joint Conference

The LINGUIST List - Tue, 11/04/2025 - 08:05
The 2026 Taiwan Computer-Assisted Language Learning (TaiwanCALL) and Global Computer-Assisted Language Learning (GLoCALL) Joint Conference adopts the theme “CALL for All: Inclusive, Adaptive, and Engaging Language Learning.” This conference aims to bring together international scholars and practitioners in the field of Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) to examine current progress and challenges in achieving educational equity through technology-enhanced language learning. It seeks to ex

Calls: ICAME47: A Confluence of Corpus Research in the Age of AI

The LINGUIST List - Tue, 11/04/2025 - 08:05
Final Call for Papers: The abstract submission deadline for ICAME47 has been extended to 16 November 2025! We are pleased to announce that ICAME47 will take place in Koblenz (Germany) on 26-30 May 2026. ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English) is an annual international conference and one of the longest-standing organisations of linguists and data scientists working with English language corpora. The conference theme is “A Confluence of Corpus Research in th

Confs: 9th International Conference on Figurative Thought and Language

Conferences - Tue, 11/04/2025 - 07:05
The 9th International Conference on Figurative Thought and Language (FTL9) continues the tradition of regular forums for the discussion of links between figurative thought and language established in Thessaloniki (2014), Pavia (2015), Osijek (2017), Braga (2018), Sofia (2020), Poznań (2022), Genoa (2023), and Klagenfurt (2025). FTL9 will focus on the theme Blending Minds and Machines: Figurative Language, Creativity, AI, and Computational Linguistics. This edition aims to explore how figur

Confs: 9th International Conference on Figurative Thought and Language

The LINGUIST List - Tue, 11/04/2025 - 07:05
The 9th International Conference on Figurative Thought and Language (FTL9) continues the tradition of regular forums for the discussion of links between figurative thought and language established in Thessaloniki (2014), Pavia (2015), Osijek (2017), Braga (2018), Sofia (2020), Poznań (2022), Genoa (2023), and Klagenfurt (2025). FTL9 will focus on the theme Blending Minds and Machines: Figurative Language, Creativity, AI, and Computational Linguistics. This edition aims to explore how figur

Calls: Pushing the Boundaries of Linguistic Categorisation

The LINGUIST List - Tue, 11/04/2025 - 07:05
2nd Call for Papers: The deadline for submission of papers for the symposium "Pushing the boundaries of linguistic categorization" has been extended to November 15. This symposium is organised by both the CELISO, Sorbonne University and the CREA, Paris Nanterre University. It will take place on Friday the 10th of April 2026 starting at 9 AM at the Maison de la Recherche, Sorbonne University, 28 rue Serpente, 75006 Paris (room D323). You will find the call for papers at the following ad

Calls: 3rd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives

The LINGUIST List - Tue, 11/04/2025 - 07:05
Final Call for Papers: We are delighted to invite you to present your work at the 3rd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held online as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2025 (https://2025.jcdl.org//) on December 15, 2025. The workshop will consist of 2 live sessions scheduled to accommodate participants from different time zones across the world. Session recordings and transcripts will be available for workshop participants. This interactive virtu

Confs: Focused Interests, Identity, and Autistic Communication Across Contexts

Conferences - Tue, 11/04/2025 - 06:05
This workshop explores how autistic people engage with and express focused interests across diverse communicative settings. Previously framed narrowly as “special interests,” these intense areas of engagement are central to autistic sense-making, self-expression, and social interaction. Bringing together discourse, narrative, and interactional approaches, the sessions will examine how focused interests shape the stories autistic individuals tell, the way knowledge is shared, and connections are

Confs: Manchester Forum in Linguistics 2026

Conferences - Tue, 11/04/2025 - 06:05
The Manchester Forum in Linguistics (MFiL) is an annual conference for postgraduate students and early-career researchers in all fields of Linguistics. The aim of the conference is to share current theoretical and methodological linguistic work and provide information and advice for postgraduate students, post-doctoral scholars, and others in the early stages of their scientific career, through oral and poster presentations, plenary talks, and a careers panel. The MFiL website is: https://mfilco

Confs: Focused Interests, Identity, and Autistic Communication Across Contexts

The LINGUIST List - Tue, 11/04/2025 - 06:05
This workshop explores how autistic people engage with and express focused interests across diverse communicative settings. Previously framed narrowly as “special interests,” these intense areas of engagement are central to autistic sense-making, self-expression, and social interaction. Bringing together discourse, narrative, and interactional approaches, the sessions will examine how focused interests shape the stories autistic individuals tell, the way knowledge is shared, and connections are

Confs: Manchester Forum in Linguistics 2026

The LINGUIST List - Tue, 11/04/2025 - 06:05
The Manchester Forum in Linguistics (MFiL) is an annual conference for postgraduate students and early-career researchers in all fields of Linguistics. The aim of the conference is to share current theoretical and methodological linguistic work and provide information and advice for postgraduate students, post-doctoral scholars, and others in the early stages of their scientific career, through oral and poster presentations, plenary talks, and a careers panel. The MFiL website is: https://mfilco

Calls: 19th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics

The LINGUIST List - Tue, 11/04/2025 - 06:05
Call for Papers: We are pleased to announce that the 19th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL19) will take place on 30 June – 2 July 2026 at the Leibniz-Center General Linguistics (ZAS) in Berlin, Germany. We invite abstracts for in-person talks (20-minute presentation + 10-minute discussion) or poster presentations on any topic in theoretical Altaic linguistics, including phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, or pragmatics, as well as work based on experimental approaches of t

Jobs: English; Applied Linguistics: Assistant Professor Level or above in TESOL/Applied Linguistics/Literature, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

The LINGUIST List - Tue, 11/04/2025 - 05:05
Description: The Department of English, National Chengchi University (NCCU) in Taipei, Taiwan invites applications for one full-time faculty position (Assistant Professor or above), beginning August 1, 2026. Qualifications: - Ph.D. in TESOL, Applied Linguistics, or Literature (nationality unrestricted) - Proven scholarly research and teaching ability - Capable of teaching undergraduate English courses, general education courses, and graduate-level seminars - College teaching experi

Books: The Lexico-Semantic Representation of Words in the Mental Lexicon: Wang (2025)

The LINGUIST List - Mon, 11/03/2025 - 14:05
Speech production is a core component of human communication, allowing individuals to express meaning and engage with others seamlessly. This thesis explores the mechanisms underlying language production in native Mandarin Chinese, with a particular focus on semantic and lexico-syntactic features involved in word production. The investigation is structured around three key studies. First, a picture-word interference (PWI) experiment examines the influence of animacy—a semantic feature—on lang

Confs: Onward and Upward, or Not: Form-meaning Mismatches in Modality, Agreement, and Negation

Conferences - Mon, 11/03/2025 - 13:05
A syntax-semantics workshop "Onward and Upward, or Not: Form-meaning mismatches in Modality, Agreement, and Negation" will take place in Georg-August-University Göttingen on 14th November 2025. The topics of this workshop include negation, modality and agreement. The workshop is celebrating the achievements and contributions of Hedde Zeijlstra and his colleagues to the study of the syntax-semantics interface. The workshop will include 6 invited talks and a poster session. Invited Speakers:

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