The study of cross-linguistic variability between languages has been a central question in linguistic theory and has delivered important insights into language. This focus on cross-linguistic variation is essential for formulating and testing linguistic theories: A theory of grammar should be a theory of all possible human grammars. Similarly, a theory of the psychology of language should be based on cross-linguistic evidence: Although grammars are language-specific, speakers' minds and brains a

Call for Papers: This fifth edition of the Globalising Sociolinguistics conference series focusses on the sociolinguistics of formal as well as informal L2 language learning. This year, the conference is organized by the Faculty of Humanities at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University and will be held in a hybrid format. Below are some suggestions for themes of the papers. - Language policing inside and outside the L2 classroom - Online language learning - Using the L1 as langua

Following the 1st International Conference on Contemporary Spanish Bilingual Lexicography held at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Granada on June 2023, we are pleased to announce the 2nd International Conference on Contemporary Bilingual Spanish Lexicography (BIL.LEX26). It will be held on 26-27 May 2026 at the same venue. This conference continue the research into recent bilingual dictionaries, focusing on one of the gaps identified in studies of Spanish lexicograph

We invite the submission of long and short papers, as well as system demonstrations, related to all aspects of Natural Language Generation (NLG), including data-to-text, concept-to-text, text-to-text and vision-to-text approaches. Accepted papers will be presented as oral talks or posters. The event is organized under the auspices of the Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN) of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). The event will be held from October 17

Following the 1st International Conference on Contemporary Spanish Bilingual Lexicography held at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Granada on June 2023, we are pleased to announce the 2nd International Conference on Contemporary Bilingual Spanish Lexicography (BIL.LEX26). It will be held on 26-27 May 2026 at the same venue. This conference continue the research into recent bilingual dictionaries, focusing on one of the gaps identified in studies of Spanish lexicograph

We invite the submission of long and short papers, as well as system demonstrations, related to all aspects of Natural Language Generation (NLG), including data-to-text, concept-to-text, text-to-text and vision-to-text approaches. Accepted papers will be presented as oral talks or posters. The event is organized under the auspices of the Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN) of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). The event will be held from October 17

Call for Papers: NELS 57 will take place from 2026-10-16 to 2026-10-18 at New York, USA, hosted by the CUNY Graduate Center. The invited speakers are: Athulya Aravind (Yale University) Jeff Heinz (Stony Brook University) Matthew Hewett (University of Pennsylvania) Laura Kalin (Princeton University). We invite abstracts for 20-minute talks and posters on theoretical and formal issues in any area in natural language. Abstracts, including data and references, may not exceed 2 letter

We are delighted to announce that the 12th edition of Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory (FEAST) will take place at the University of Amsterdam from 6 to 8 July 2026. It is organized by SignLab Amsterdam, a cross-faculty research lab of the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam. FEAST is the regular forum to discuss formal approaches to sign language grammar (in particular in

The study of mass-media-distributed pop-cultural artifacts - such as songs, films, television series, comics, video games, and so on - is becoming increasingly widespread in academia due to their enormous reach and the fact that they constitute a significant portion of contemporary everyday communication (with potentially significant social influence). In this regard, it should be noted that language, as a central creative component of pop-cultural communication, has received increased attention

Call for Papers: The PILL Conference Series brings together scholars and researchers to explore one of the most compelling questions in linguistics and discourse studies: How is identity constructed, performed, and negotiated through language? This year’s edition of PILL invites scholars to critically engage with the concept of identity in (post)modernity, with particular attention to the challenges and dilemmas that arise in both the discursive construction of identity and the methods use

We are delighted to announce that the 12th edition of Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory (FEAST) will take place at the University of Amsterdam from 6 to 8 July 2026. It is organized by SignLab Amsterdam, a cross-faculty research lab of the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam. FEAST is the regular forum to discuss formal approaches to sign language grammar (in particular in

The study of mass-media-distributed pop-cultural artifacts - such as songs, films, television series, comics, video games, and so on - is becoming increasingly widespread in academia due to their enormous reach and the fact that they constitute a significant portion of contemporary everyday communication (with potentially significant social influence). In this regard, it should be noted that language, as a central creative component of pop-cultural communication, has received increased attention

McGill linguistics was well represented at the 44th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 44), which took place May 6–8 at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City. Presentations by current affiliates included: The full program is available here: https://wccfl44.github.io/WCCFL44/program.html

11 June 2026 17:00 UTC+2 / 17:00 GMT+2 Microsoft Teams Speaker: Sonam Tshering (Jigme Singye Wangchuck School of Law, Bhutan) Moderator: Fatemeh Akbari (Kamusi Project International/University of Vienna, Austria) Title: Bhutanese Personal Names and Identity Abstract: Bhutan, a small Himalayan kingdom between India and China, promotes Gross National Happiness (GNH). Bhutan has preserved its unique culture, strong Buddhist values, and lively social and cultural legacy despite its 400-yea

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 eight talk of the 2025-2026 academic year. The invited speaker is Yim Binh Felix Sze (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), who will give a talk entitled "Taboos and Euphemisms in Sex-Related Signs in Asian Sign

Designing and Scoping Your Next Interdisciplinary Research Project: A Panel Discussion Thursday, June 4, 2026 4:30 PM BST | 03:30 PM GMT | 11:30 AM EDT | 04:30 PM WAT | 09:00 PM IST Book your place: http://tiny.cc/InterdisciplinaryResearch Interdisciplinary research promises richer insight into complex questions, but designing and scoping such projects brings distinct intellectual, methodological, and practical challenges. In this moderated panel discussion, Oxford Intersections ed

The I-LanD Research Centre (https://i-land-researchcentre.eu/) is pleased to announce the fourth seminar in the I-LanD Seminar Series - 4th Edition (2nd semester). Innovative in format and interdisciplinary in scope, the I-LanD Seminar Series brings together scholars to discuss key issues in their fields of expertise, with particular attention to theoretical perspectives, methodological approaches, research challenges, and emerging directions of inquiry. Each seminar opens with a brief introd

The next Acquisition Sketch Project Meeting is on "An in-progress look at the Berber Acquisition Sketch”, presented by Abdellah Elouatiq. It will be held on Wednesday May 13 as follows: Los Angeles = 8 am Mexico City = 9 am New York = 11 am Berlin = 5 pm Tbilisi = 7 pm Delhi = 8:30 pm Zoom link = https://uni-kl-de.zoom-x.de/j/68724552887?pwd=lxCUOxU9mV4j84IRCa1vGs4xGaaTfH.1 Meeting ID = 687 2455 2887 Passcode = 7$d72Hp& Check https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/ for the

Dieses Buch befasst sich mit dem in der theoretischen linguistischen Literatur stark diskutierten Phänomen der lexikalischen Adjektiv-Intensivierung. Dabei wird ein graduierbares Adjektiv – z. B. schön – durch eine Intensitätspartikel modifiziert. Der Strand ist ∅ schön. Positiv Der Strand ist sehr schön. Deskriptiv Der Strand ist mega schön. Expressiv Durch die Modifikation erfährt das Adjektiv eine Bedeutungsverstärkung, die sich in einer gesteiger

This book investigates the realization of subject focus in French and Spanish from a comparative, variationist perspective. Building on spontaneous dialogical data, it examines the range of syntactic, prosodic, and elliptical strategies speakers use to encode narrowly focused subjects. The study draws on two highly comparable sub-corpora of spontaneous speech elicited through the same task, allowing for fine-grained cross-linguistic comparison. Adopting a Question Under Discussion (QUD) framewor