The Department of Asian and North African Studies at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice is pleased to announce the fourth meeting of the Conference on the Endangered Languages of East Asia (CELEA). The aim of CELEA is to gather at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice scholars, researchers, and other academics who work on endangered, indigenous, or minority languages spoken in the territories of East Asia. With this conference, the University wants to broaden its perspective on the linguistic diversity

2nd Call for Papers: Abstracts (max. 300 words, excluding references) should be sent to Natalia Levshina (natalia.levshina@ru.nl) and Nicole Katzir (nicole.katzir@gmail.com) by November 10th. Large Language Models (LLMs) are models with billions of parameters, trained on vast amounts of text data to learn statistical patterns in language, and able to generate, process, and predict human(-like) text. As discussions at the recent SLE meeting and other venues demonstrate, the rise of LLMs has

Call for Papers: We are delighted to announce that Pr. Geoffrey K. Pullum will be the keynote speaker in our symposium entitled “Pushing the boundaries of linguistic categorisation”. We remind you that can still submit a paper until November 3rd. This symposium is organised by both the CELISO (Sorbonne University) and the CREA (Paris Nanterre University) with the financial support of the ALAES. It will take place on Friday the 10th of April 2026 starting at 9 AM at the Maison de la Recherche,

Description: We are looking for a highly-motivated PhD researcher to support a large-scale interdisciplinary research initiative on the topic of "Common Ground" at the University of Tübingen, in particular the investigation of the role of common ground in linguistic communication from the point of view of language evolution. The project, while anchored in linguistics and philosophy of language, seeks to use bespoke probabilistic models and/or computational simulations to study possible routes

You are invited to submit a paper for possible inclusion in the first issue of the Journal of Arabic Sociolinguistics. The journal is published by Edinburgh University Press and the American University in Cairo. The journal seeks to expand and develop theories and methods in linguistics research. Therefore it welcomes studies that are built on data from Arabic, and that use a solid theoretical and methodological framework. We welcome articles that deal with issues pertaining to the relation

We are delighted to share with you the Second Circular for the 23rd International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL-23), which will take place at the University of Milan from 15 to 18 June 2026. Call for Panels: We are now inviting proposals for: - Panels (thematic sessions with several papers) Abstracts should not exceed 300 words (excluding references) and should clearly outline the research question, methodology, and main findings. Panel proposals should be sent to t

Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages 16 (FASAL 16) will be hosted by the Linguistics Program at the University of South Carolina. FASAL reaches out to all researchers that do high-quality linguistic study of any South Asian language adopting a wide range of methodologies. We welcome submissions on under-researched and/or endangered South Asian languages in areas including, but not limited to phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, computational linguistics, psyc

We are delighted to share with you the Second Circular for the 23rd International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL-23), which will take place at the University of Milan from 15 to 18 June 2026. Call for Panels: We are now inviting proposals for: - Panels (thematic sessions with several papers) Abstracts should not exceed 300 words (excluding references) and should clearly outline the research question, methodology, and main findings. Panel proposals should be sent to t

Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages 16 (FASAL 16) will be hosted by the Linguistics Program at the University of South Carolina. FASAL reaches out to all researchers that do high-quality linguistic study of any South Asian language adopting a wide range of methodologies. We welcome submissions on under-researched and/or endangered South Asian languages in areas including, but not limited to phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, computational linguistics, psyc

We are pleased to announce that the 11th iteration of the Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic (TU+) will be hosted by MIT Linguistics. The workshop will be held at MIT, Cambridge, MA, on April 11-12, 2026 in-person. The abstract submissions are now open. TU+ is an annual workshop focusing on all aspects of linguistic research on Turkic languages, as well as on languages in contact with Turkic and on languages spoken in regions where Turkic languages are spoken. TU+ showcas

Built an LLM for so many languages, but how could you evaluate it? This workshop brings together the community to answer this question through three goals: - Establish a dedicated venue for multilingual evaluation, including resources, metrics, and methodologies; - Advance and standardize evaluation practices to enhance accuracy, scalability, fairness, and cross-system comparability; - Integrate cultural and social dimensions into multilingual evaluation. Call for Papers: We invite archi

We are pleased to announce that the 11th iteration of the Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic (TU+) will be hosted by MIT Linguistics. The workshop will be held at MIT, Cambridge, MA, on April 11-12, 2026 in-person. The abstract submissions are now open. TU+ is an annual workshop focusing on all aspects of linguistic research on Turkic languages, as well as on languages in contact with Turkic and on languages spoken in regions where Turkic languages are spoken. TU+ showcas

Built an LLM for so many languages, but how could you evaluate it? This workshop brings together the community to answer this question through three goals: - Establish a dedicated venue for multilingual evaluation, including resources, metrics, and methodologies; - Advance and standardize evaluation practices to enhance accuracy, scalability, fairness, and cross-system comparability; - Integrate cultural and social dimensions into multilingual evaluation. Call for Papers: We invite archi

Call for Papers: Running since 2018, the Language Policy Forum is an international conference bringing together researchers and practitioners from around the world, working across the broad field of language policy. It is organised by the Language Policy Special Interest Group within the British Association of Applied Linguistics (https://langpol.ac.uk). Location: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Plenary Speakers: - Lily Chimuanya, Covenant University, Nigeria - Andrew Shor

Call for papers: Exploring contemporary English(es) using the BSLVC database Thematic session at BICLCE11 Manfred Krug (University of Bamberg) manfred.krug@uni-bamberg.de Lukas Sönning (University of Bamberg) lukas.soenning@uni-bamberg.de Fabian Vetter (University of Bamberg) fabian.vetter@uni-bamberg.de In the past two decades, corpora have become a (if not the) primary source of evidence for research on contemporary English(es) (see Palacios Martínez 2020; Kortmann 2021). This is p

AbjadNLP 2026 invites submissions on all aspects of Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Arabic-script languages, including Arabic and its dialects, Perso-Arabic languages, and Ajami traditions across Africa and Asia. Building on the success of AbjadNLP 2025 at COLING, the 2026 edition will be held in Rabat, Morocco, co-located with EACL. The workshop provides a platform for research in Arabic NLP — covering Modern Standard Arabic, Classical Arabic, and dialectal varieties — while also suppo

Description: We are looking for a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher to support a large-scale interdisciplinary research initiative on the topic of "Common Ground" at the University of Tübingen. The project seeks to investigate the notion of common ground in linguistic communication by taking an interdisciplinary perspective, incorporating insights from, e.g., the philosophy of language, the cognitive language sciences, linguistic pragmatics, and/or formal logic or epistemology. The ide

Call for papers: Exploring contemporary English(es) using the BSLVC database Thematic session at BICLCE11 Manfred Krug (University of Bamberg) manfred.krug@uni-bamberg.de Lukas Sönning (University of Bamberg) lukas.soenning@uni-bamberg.de Fabian Vetter (University of Bamberg) fabian.vetter@uni-bamberg.de In the past two decades, corpora have become a (if not the) primary source of evidence for research on contemporary English(es) (see Palacios Martínez 2020; Kortmann 2021). This is p

SUMMARY Janet McIntosh’s Kill Talk: Language and Military Necropolitics explores how language sustains the moral, psychological, and political structures of modern warfare. Written primarily for scholars in linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, military studies, and discourse analysis, the book’s accessible prose also extends its reach to veterans and general readers concerned with the ethical dimensions of military life. McIntosh tested portions of the manuscript with veterans, ensuring

SUMMARY This book began as a contribution to the excellent online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. It has since been considerably expanded, but remains quite a short book. (It is printed in an unusually narrow page format, perhaps in order to swell the page-count to a respectable figure for a standalone book.) Despite its brevity, the book covers a remarkable amount of ground. Its central focus, as might be expected, is on what is standardly called the “Sapir–Whorf Hypothesis” or just the