SUMMARY Insecurities in Language Policy and Planning: Decolonial Theories and Practices, edited by Sinfree Makoni, Cristine Gorski Severo, Ashraf Abdelhay, and Alissa J. Hartig, examines the epistemological foundations of language policy and planning (LPP). In doing so, it asks what it means to ‘decolonise’ the field. The volume spans diverse contexts and engages with core concepts in LPP, particularly its roots in Western academic traditions. The volume includes fifteen chapters, alongside a

SUMMARY Half Silver, Half Gold presents ten Modole (mqo) stories documented by Dutch missionary G. J. Ellen, and a grammar sketch based on this data. The book consists of three sections, an introductory section, a grammar sketch, and the ten texts. The first part, Preliminaries (p. 1-23), gives an overview of the language background and context, as well as contextualizing the Modole people themselves. The language is a Papuan family that belongs to the North Halmahera family, and is spok

Focus: Natural Language Processing (NLP) has witnessed a clear paradigm shift: the transition from rule-based approaches to data-driven language models. While rule-based approaches dominated NLP for many years, during the 1990s and early 2000s they gradually gave way to statistical and machine-learning methods. It would be fair to say that data-driven models—and, most prominently, Deep Learning (DL), including more recently Large Language Models (LLMs)—have taken the world by storm. Deep Learnin

Focus: Curso intensivo de 30 horas que combina la presentación de contenidos y técnicas de la lingüística de corpus con sesiones prácticas en las que los participantes aplicarán los conocimientos adquiridos a la resolución de problemas lingüísticos y al diseño de proyectos de investigación sobre diferentes corpus textuales. Description: Bajo el título oficial Cómo investigar con corpus, esta edición adopta la metáfora de la "Cocina del lingüista" para invitar a los participantes a "meter l

Mango Languages is now accepting proposals for our annual Dissertation Awards program, which supports exceptional dissertation research at the intersection of second language acquisition and educational technology. We invite advanced PhD candidates to submit applications on our website (see link below). Details: - Mango Languages will award grants in the amount of $1,000 per grant. - This year, 3 awards will be distributed. - Applications are due on June 15th, 2026. - Applicants will

Description: Director of the Center for Language Education Hong Kong University of Science and Technology: Academic: School of Humanities and Social Science Description: Founded in 1991, HKUST is a publicly funded international university dedicated to undergraduate and postgraduate education and research in science, engineering, business & management, and humanities & social science. We seek to nurture students with entrepreneurial spirit, innovative thinking, and global outlook and

Description: The Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies (LMS) offers a vibrant and interdisciplinary environment for the study of language in its structural, social, cognitive, and technological dimensions. We focus on multilingualism in an Asian/Southeast Asian context. We are internationally recognized for our research on multilingualism, language diversity, and the interface between linguistics and technology. LMS is part of the School of Humanities (SoH), within NTU Singapore

Call for Papers: The workshop brings together researchers working within diverse theoretical frameworks, including (morpho)syntactic, usage-based, and morphopragmatic approaches, to examine evaluative morphology from a comparative and cross-theoretical perspective. The workshop will feature talks by the following keynote speakers: - Wolfgang U. Dressler (University of Vienna) - Francesca Masini (University of Bologna) - Pavel Caha (Masaryk University Brno) Evaluative morphology, b

Final Call for Papers: The Centre for Latin American Studies of the University of Ghana (UG) in collaboration with the Ghanaian Association of Hispanists, the Department of European Languages (UG) and the Institute of African Studies (UG), is pleased to announce that it will be hosting the VII International Conference on Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian, and Latin American Studies (ICALLAS 2026) from August 5-7, 2026. The theme of the conference is Transatlantic Pathways: Culture, Politics, an

PhD position in French/Dutch linguistics, Ghent University We are looking for a PhD candidate for a period of four years (100% employment), starting in October 2026. The project is funded by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO); project G091726N (FWO PRJ Senior 2026). The project is situated in the field of syntax and semantics of modern French and Dutch and deals with the mass/count distinction, in collaboration with Prof. Wiltrud Mihatsch, University of Tübingen. The project will lea

The EARLI Special Interest Group Writing and the ZHAW School of Applied Linguistics, invite participants to the 21st biennial SIG Writing conference to be held at ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland, from June 2nd to 4, 2026. Prior to the conference, from May 29 to June 1st, 2026, the Research School will be held. This year’s SIG Writing conference invites scholars to explore the dynamic relationship between research and practice in writing. Under the theme "W

Call for Papers: "(In)transitivity and its Variation" workshop, funded by SLE Joint initiatives research grant 2026, will be held in Poznań (Poland) on 28-29 September 2026. This workshop aims to explore the interplay of semantics, morphology, and syntax in encoding (in)transitivity, investigating the functional motivations underlying valency patterns across diverse language families. We welcome contributions dealing with (but not restricted to) the following topics: - Transitivity promin

The EARLI Special Interest Group Writing and the ZHAW School of Applied Linguistics, invite participants to the 21st biennial SIG Writing conference to be held at ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland, from June 2nd to 4, 2026. Prior to the conference, from May 29 to June 1st, 2026, the Research School will be held. This year’s SIG Writing conference invites scholars to explore the dynamic relationship between research and practice in writing. Under the theme "W

Linguistic Society of Nepal (LSN) organizes an annual conference on 26-27 November every year. The conference is one of the major activities of Society which provides a platform for those who have been working on different aspects of languages. LSN has been organizing the annual conferences since 1979 unfailingly bringing various linguists and practitioners together from home and abroad concentrating on the studies of Nepalese languages. This society would like to request all the linguists and

Linguistic Society of Nepal (LSN) organizes an annual conference on 26-27 November every year. The conference is one of the major activities of Society which provides a platform for those who have been working on different aspects of languages. LSN has been organizing the annual conferences since 1979 unfailingly bringing various linguists and practitioners together from home and abroad concentrating on the studies of Nepalese languages. This society would like to request all the linguists and

General Information: All deadlines are 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE). Website: npxiv.nordicprosody.org Place: Campus, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Hosts: Dept. of Speech, Music and Hearing (TMH), KTH Date: 18–20 August 2026 (lunch to lunch) Abstract submission: 21 May 2026 Notification of acceptance: 5 June 2026 Registration deadline: 17 July 2026 (at least one author per accepted contribution) Registration fee: 100 EUR (students) / 200 EUR (non-students). IS

Program: Thursday - May 28, 2026 09:00–09:30: Registration 09:30-09:45: Opening remarks 09:45–11:00: Invited speaker: Hadil Karawani [Past and Perfect: Modality without modals] 11:00–11:30: Coffee break 11:30–12:10: Yusuke Kanazawa [Two types of analytic future and deontic modality in Old Sardinian] 12:10–12:50: Zahra Mirrazi [Existence Presupposition in Counterfactual conditionals: Tense or Aspect] 12:50–14:20: Lunch break 14:20–15:00: Jéssica Mendes [On the unavailability of (some

General Information: All deadlines are 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE). Website: npxiv.nordicprosody.org Place: Campus, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Hosts: Dept. of Speech, Music and Hearing (TMH), KTH Date: 18–20 August 2026 (lunch to lunch) Abstract submission: 21 May 2026 Notification of acceptance: 5 June 2026 Registration deadline: 17 July 2026 (at least one author per accepted contribution) Registration fee: 100 EUR (students) / 200 EUR (non-students). IS

Call for Papers: We are pleased to announce that AMLaP 2026 will take place in Saarbrücken, Germany, from 2-4 September, 2026 (Wed-Fri). AMLaP is an annual event that brings together researchers with empirical, theoretical, computational, neural, and psychological perspectives on all aspects of human language processing. Important Dates: Abstract submission deadline: 8 May 2026 (extended) Notification of acceptance: 22 June 2026 Conference dates: 2-4 September 2026 Organising Commit

Program: Thursday - May 28, 2026 09:00–09:30: Registration 09:30-09:45: Opening remarks 09:45–11:00: Invited speaker: Hadil Karawani [Past and Perfect: Modality without modals] 11:00–11:30: Coffee break 11:30–12:10: Yusuke Kanazawa [Two types of analytic future and deontic modality in Old Sardinian] 12:10–12:50: Zahra Mirrazi [Existence Presupposition in Counterfactual conditionals: Tense or Aspect] 12:50–14:20: Lunch break 14:20–15:00: Jéssica Mendes [On the unavailability of (some