Articles Productive Vocabulary Size Test as a Predictor of L2 Learners' Success in Academic Writing Skill Atika Etemadzadeh & Khairi Izwan Abdullah | pp. 1-12 Indirect Complaint as an Act of Rapport-Inspiring Speech Behavior: The Case of Iranian Students in the University Context Esmaeel Ali Salimi & Meysam Khazaee Kouhpar | pp. 13-25 Reliability and Factorial Study of Writing Self-Regulation Inventory in Iranian EFL Context Husain Abdulhay & Moussa Ahmadian | pp. 26-39 A comparat

We invite you to participate in the 'South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and Processing of Language (SAFAL) 2025'. The conference will bring together researchers investigating South Asian languages to exchange ideas in different domains of psycholinguistic inquiry including language acquisition, language processing, multilingualism, and literacy development. The meeting will be held in hybrid modality to allow for broad participation of students and researchers. Participants can attend remotely

Open Call Short-term Fellowships at the Collaborative Research Center 1629 “Negation in language and beyond” (NegLaB) The Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) “Negation in language and beyond” (SFB 1629 NegLaB) at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, focuses on a comprehensive exploration of the topic of negation in language and cognition. The general aim of the CRC is to unravel the complexities of negation across different languages and its implications for our understandin

We invite you to participate in the 'South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and Processing of Language (SAFAL) 2025'. The conference will bring together researchers investigating South Asian languages to exchange ideas in different domains of psycholinguistic inquiry including language acquisition, language processing, multilingualism, and literacy development. The meeting will be held in hybrid modality to allow for broad participation of students and researchers. Participants can attend remotely

Call for Papers: The study of modality in logic is as old as logic itself. Modern propositional and predicate logic replaced notions like ‘necessary’ and ‘possible’, traditionally used to define what it means for a proposition to follow from other propositions, by quantification over ways to interpret the non-logical symbols of the language. But the study of reasoning with the modalities themselves has continued in logic, with the modern tools now available. Early syntactic studies of systems

Our next presentation will be on Tuesday, November 4, from 1-2 pm in room 002 and on Zoom. Presenter: Morgan Sonderegger Title: A survey of the corpus phonetics pipeline Abstract: Morgan will give the first lecture of his LSA 2025 course, described here — covering speech corpora and available tools for doing corpus phonetics, in current practice, at a high level. The full schedule […]

Professor Kriszta Eszter Szendrői (University of Vienna) will give a guest presentation in the Syntax-Semantics meeting on November 4, at 3:00-4:20pm. A reception will follow at 4:30pm in Thomson House. The 3:00pm meeting will be held in Room 117 of the McGill linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/bQ4IXlJxTTShVcMHOosNtQ Kriszta will be presenting on “The typology […]

Formal Linguistic Approaches to MultiModality (FLAMM) will take place at Trinity College Dublin on 4-5 December 2025. The workshop aims to promote and advance the study of multimodality from a formal linguistic perspective by bringing together scholars interested in the formal study of multimodality. Invited Speakers: - Cornelia Ebert (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) - Donna Jo Napoli (Swarthmore College) - Philippe Schlenker (CNRS - Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris / New York University) -

Formal Linguistic Approaches to MultiModality (FLAMM) will take place at Trinity College Dublin on 4-5 December 2025. The workshop aims to promote and advance the study of multimodality from a formal linguistic perspective by bringing together scholars interested in the formal study of multimodality. Invited Speakers: - Cornelia Ebert (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) - Donna Jo Napoli (Swarthmore College) - Philippe Schlenker (CNRS - Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris / New York University) -

Other Specialties: Technology and Language Learning Description: Assistant Professor in Technology and Language Learning English Language and Literature Department Overview: The National Institute of Education (NIE) is among the world’s top education institutes, recognised for its excellence in teacher education and educational research. NIE has played a key and pivotal role in shaping and developing Singapore’s teaching profession and landscape through evidence-informed, practice-f

Call for Papers: The 24th Meeting of the International Circle of Korean Linguistics (ICKL 2026) will be held at the University of Sheffield in Sheffield, United Kingdom from 1 to 3 July 2026. ICKL 2026 is being planned as a fully in-person event. We are happy to confirm the following invited speakers at ICKL 2026: - Hae-Sung Jeon, University of Lancashire - Yoonhee Kang, Seoul National University - George Tsoulas, University of York The conference theme is Variation and Diversit

Call for Papers: Please see the conference website to read this call in Kiswahili, Lingála, French, Portuguese, and Spanish. The call for papers for the 11th International Conference on Bantu Languages (Bantu11) at Ghent University (August 18-21, 2026) is now open. The conference will include a general session which welcomes contributions on any aspect of the Bantu languages, alongside eleven workshops on specific topics (see the workshop descriptions on the conference website: https://www

Call for Papers: We invite abstracts for oral and poster presentations at the 12th edition of the Sociolinguistics Circle, to be held in Brussels on April 24th, 2026. Contributions should deal with topics in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, dialectology, variationist linguistics, social dimensions of multilingualism and language contact, language policy and planning, or related disciplines. We welcome submissions from scholars with a connection to the Low Countries and/or on top

The special issue (SI) explores corpus-based approaches to morphosyntactic acquisition in non-dominant, additional languages (Lx)—including second, foreign, and heritage languages. The proposed SI highlights data curation, technological innovation, and Open Science/Research practices, with the aim of advancing large-scale, transparent research on Lx morphosyntax across diverse typological and sociolinguistic contexts. Closely aligned with the mission of Applied Corpus Linguistics, this SI aims t

Call for Papers: The University of British Columbia is pleased to host a joint conference bringing together SULA (Semantics of Under-represented Languages in the Americas) and TripleA (Semantics of Languages of Africa, Asia, Australia and Oceania) on May 12 -15, 2026. This will be the first time that these conferences will be combined into one joint event. The conference also marks the 25th Anniversary of SULA, which took place for the first time in 2001. The goal of the conference is to

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. The event will cover topics in theoretical Altaic linguistics, including phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, or pragmatics, as well as work based on experimental approaches of theoretical relevance. The term ‘Altaic’ is understood here to include Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages, as we

The research group “CODILAC - Convergence on Dominant Language Constellations: World Englishes in their multilingual ecologies” (DFG FOR 5728) invites proposals for papers and posters to be presented at the workshop on “Inter- and intra-generational Dynamics of Multilingualism” at the University of Hamburg (Germany) on 25-27 June 2026. The workshop aims to explore the social dynamics of multilingualism as constantly negotiated and transformed phenomena across generations. Recognizing language

SUMMARY English Sociolinguistics: An Introduction is an introductory textbook on sociolinguistics for undergraduate and BA students of English Language and Linguistics. The author aims to guide students into the most important and influential subfields of linguistics in a comprehensive and accessible way, using examples and exercises, relevant quotations from the literature, personal experiences, and a few anecdotes throughout the book. The most interesting component of this book is what the

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

The next talk in our 2025-2026 McGill Linguistics Colloquium Series will be given by Dr. Márton Sóskuthy (The University of British Columbia) next Friday, November 7th at 3:30pm at Leacock 232. The details of the talk are given below. Title: Sound change and lexical shifts in the emergence of Zipf’s Law of Abbreviation in English Abstract: Zipf’s Law of Abbreviation is a famous […]