The Department of English Studies at RWTH Aachen University, Germany, mourns the loss of Prof. Dr. Irene Mittelberg, who passed away on 11 October after a long illness, which she endured with admirable serenity, hope and determination. We are very sad to lose a versatile and innovative scholar, a dedicated academic teacher, a colleague, and a friend. Irene Mittelberg’s academic education and employment history demonstrates the breadth of her interests and the ease with which she moved betwee

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 first talk of the 2025-2026 academic year, given by Luvell Anderson (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) and entitled "Theories of Reclamation". The event will take place online on Monday, OCTOBER 17, 14:3

Call for Submissions Communicating Sustainability: Perspectives from International Law, Legal Linguistics, and Psychology Following the growing interest in interdisciplinary approaches to sustainability in and around law, the Austrian Association for Legal Linguistics (AALL) is pleased to announce a call for submissions for an international interdisciplinary volume, to be co-edited by Daniel Green (Croatia), Sarah Atkins (New Zealand), Karin Luttermann (Germany) and Waldemar Nazarov (Franc

Babel: The Language Magazine is running the 11th edition of its Young Writers' Competition, which encourages young linguists who are starting out on their study of language. The competition is open to all linguistics students in further and higher education. The winner(s) will have their article published in Babel and receive a year's subscription to the magazine. Competition guidelines: Deadline: Monday, 1 December 2025 Length: 2000 to 2500 words Topic

Linguistic illusions are cases where we systematically misunderstand, misinterpret, or fail to notice anomalies in the linguistic input, despite our competencies. Revealing fresh insights into how the mind represents and processes language, this book provides a comprehensive overview of research on this phenomenon, with a focus on agreement attraction, the most widely studied linguistic illusion. Integrating experimental, computational, and formal methods, it shows how the systematic study of li

How did dictionaries come to be? When and how did they originate in a specific language? Who was involved in that origin story? How have they evolved over time? What is the tension between scholarly and commercial, and between prescriptive and descriptive, dictionaries? What is the politics behind each dictionary? And what is the connection between dictionaries and nation-building? This fascinating book has the answers. It brings together a collection of conversations with leading lexicographers

The 38th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-38) will be held from May 8–10, 2026 at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., USA. Launched in 1989, the NACCL conference series has become a major academic platform for Chinese language and linguistics research in North America and beyond. NACCL-38 invites abstracts in all subfields of Chinese linguistics, including but not limited to: - Syntax, Morphology - Phonetics, Phonology - Semantics, Pragmatics -

The topic of language and brain is a large and significant area of research and study, and this Handbook provides a state-of-the-art survey of the field. Bringing together contributions from an interdisciplinary team of internationally-renowned scholars, it focuses on important theoretical positions that have changed the study of language and brain in the first two decades of the 21st century. It is split into seven thematic parts, covering topics such as theoretical foundations of language and

Bringing together a globally representative team of scholars, this Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of comparative syntax, the study of universal and variable properties of the structure of building blocks in natural language. Divided into four thematic parts, it covers the various theoretical and methodological approaches to syntactic variation; explores dependency relations and dependency marking; shows how the building blocks of syntax both vary and display universal properties acro

The 38th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-38) will be held from May 8–10, 2026 at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., USA. Launched in 1989, the NACCL conference series has become a major academic platform for Chinese language and linguistics research in North America and beyond. NACCL-38 invites abstracts in all subfields of Chinese linguistics, including but not limited to: - Syntax, Morphology - Phonetics, Phonology - Semantics, Pragmatics -

The Unicode Consortium is hosting a Unicode Technical Workshop from November 11-13, 2025, at the Microsoft campus in Mountain View, California. Attendees will be able to attend workshops, seminars, free-form discussions, and lightning talks centered around internationalization libraries, locale data frameworks, globalization tooling, localization pipelines, input methods, and text rendering. Other topics include script encoding, handling bidirectional text, and fonts. Network with the develop

The inaugural SilkRoadNLP workshop provides a platform for advancing Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models (LLMs) for the Iranian linguistic family—a diverse group of languages spoken across Iran, Afghanistan, Central and South Asia, and the Caucasus. We welcome work that bridges computational methods with linguistic, social, and cultural perspectives to ensure that the technologies shaping the future of language reflect this region’s diversity and depth. Recent advances

The ICNGL conference series (also known as NGL) provides an open forum for linguistic research in order to facilitate the exchange of ideas on Nordic (including Germanic, Finnic, Saami and Greenlandic) and other languages. Its main goals are to create and strengthen connections between researchers working on different languages, with different methodological and theoretical approaches. The conference series is organized under the auspices of the Nordic Association of Linguists. The 13th co

The Unicode Consortium is hosting a Unicode Technical Workshop from November 11-13, 2025, at the Microsoft campus in Mountain View, California. Attendees will be able to attend workshops, seminars, free-form discussions, and lightning talks centered around internationalization libraries, locale data frameworks, globalization tooling, localization pipelines, input methods, and text rendering. Other topics include script encoding, handling bidirectional text, and fonts. Network with the develop

The inaugural SilkRoadNLP workshop provides a platform for advancing Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models (LLMs) for the Iranian linguistic family—a diverse group of languages spoken across Iran, Afghanistan, Central and South Asia, and the Caucasus. We welcome work that bridges computational methods with linguistic, social, and cultural perspectives to ensure that the technologies shaping the future of language reflect this region’s diversity and depth. Recent advances

The ICNGL conference series (also known as NGL) provides an open forum for linguistic research in order to facilitate the exchange of ideas on Nordic (including Germanic, Finnic, Saami and Greenlandic) and other languages. Its main goals are to create and strengthen connections between researchers working on different languages, with different methodological and theoretical approaches. The conference series is organized under the auspices of the Nordic Association of Linguists. The 13th co

This third biennale conference aims to provide a forum for exploring mechanisms of meaning-making as constructed through the interaction of diverse semiotic resources – both verbal (oral and written) and non-verbal (visual, aural, olfactory, spatial, gestural, etc.). In the digital age, the significance of multimodality and transmediality is closely linked to media and environmental contexts and is increasingly influenced by the growing role of artificial intelligence in everyday life. Multim

This third biennale conference aims to provide a forum for exploring mechanisms of meaning-making as constructed through the interaction of diverse semiotic resources – both verbal (oral and written) and non-verbal (visual, aural, olfactory, spatial, gestural, etc.). In the digital age, the significance of multimodality and transmediality is closely linked to media and environmental contexts and is increasingly influenced by the growing role of artificial intelligence in everyday life. Multim

We are happy to announce the kickoff workshop for Unpacking Paradigmatic Gaps (UNPAG), a 5-year project funded by an Advanced ERC Grant awarded to Prof. Hedde Zeijlstra (Project ID: 101142366, 10.3030/101142366). More information about the project is available at www.unpag.eu. Invited Speakers: - Moshe Bar-Lev - Luka Crnič - Jennifer Culbertson - Milica Denić - Paloma Jeretič - Roni Katzir - Jeremy Kuhn - Mora Maldonado - Alda Mari - Lisa Matthewson - Andreea Nicolae - Guillermo d

The International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR) is the main event in the area of human language processing that is focused on theoretical and technological issues of written and spoken Portuguese and Galician. The meeting has been a very rich forum for the exchange of ideas and partnerships for the research and industry communities dedicated to automated language processing, promoting the development of methodologies, resources, and projects. We call for papers