Across generations, communities have developed languages that carry histories, worldviews, ecological knowledge, social practices, and ways of relating to the natural world. Yet processes of language shift, cultural change, environmental transformation, and the weakening of intergenerational transmission increasingly challenge the continuity of this knowledge. In this context, language revitalization and the renewal of cultural and ecological knowledge are not only matters of linguistic or cultu

The first talk in our McGill Linguistics Colloquium Series will be given by Lefteris Paparounas (UQAM), next Friday, October 2nd, at 3:30pm in Arts Building, room 150. The details of the talk are given below.  Building verbal reflexives in Turkish and beyond Many languages derive reflexive interpretations from ostensibly intransitive verbal forms (e.g. English ‘John bathed’; compare ‘John bathed himself’). […]

The seminar series “Identifying units of organization in spoken discourse: theory and methods” aims at fostering theoretical and methodological exchanges between scholars interested in the challenges of defining, identifying, and analyzing the fundamental units that structure naturally occurring spoken interaction. Different types of units can be identified at different levels: conversational moves at the level of interaction (cf. Jefferson 2004), syntactic units if we consider language struc

This book is a pioneering work, which meticulously presents the instantiation of various pragmatic universals within the Romanian languaculture and complements existing research on Romanian language structure. The authors explore topics such as the pragmatics-grammar interface, speech acts, im/politeness, discourse genres, humor, emotions, and cyber discourse, arriving at insightful generalizations that compile a cluster of pragmatic features of Romanian in use. The volume integrates and supplem

Focus: Each class will focus on one or more songs and will combine listening comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, analysis of lyrics, cultural context, and discussion. Participants will work with authentic Russian and encounter idiomatic expressions, colloquial language, grammatical constructions, and vocabulary as they appear in real cultural contexts. Description: Learn Russian through Songs 3-Week Intensive Online Russian Language Course October 12–30, 2026 | 36 Hours of Live Online In

Description: Associate or Full Professor of Indian Sociolinguistics and Multilingualism and Director of the Mattoo Center for India Studies Location: Stony Brook University Deadline: Nov 06, 2026 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time Description: The Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at Stony Brook University invites applications for a tenured faculty position at the rank of Full or Associate Professor, beginning Fall 2027. We are looking for an outstanding scholar with a solid

Description: The College of Arts & Sciences at Cornell University invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship (appointment title: Postdoctoral Associate) focused on artificial intelligence in the humanities and social sciences. Our aim is to appoint up to 5 new fellows in the first year. Desirable areas of research include the social and cultural impacts of AI, computational methods and theories for humanistic and social scientific inquiry, and the ethical, political, or histo

PAC 2027 - Spoken English varieties: Continua, boundaries, and meaning International conference Thursday, June 17th & Friday, June 18th Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Chambéry, France Organised by LLSETI (Langages, Littératures, Sociétés, Études Transfrontalières et Internationales) Université Savoie Mont Blanc Guest Speakers: Betsy Evans, University of Washington, USA Chris Montgomery, University of Sheffield, UK The aims of the PAC programme (Phonologie de l’Anglais Contemporai

Description: The Department of Linguistics at The University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor with tenure to begin Fall of academic year 2027-2028. We seek candidates with a primary teaching and research specialization in the area of semantics and pragmatics. We are particularly interested in candidates who can interface with any of our other major areas of research in syntax, sounds, psycholinguistics, cognitive science, co

Description: Position Overview: We are seeking a Vietnamese Linguistic Specialist to support NLP and speech-technology projects involving grammar development, language localization, phonetics, pronunciation resources, tokenization, text normalization, and Vietnamese language variation. This is a technical linguistics position, not a translation-only or general annotation role. We welcome candidates from different backgrounds, including: Linguists or language specialists with an inter

PAC 2027 - Spoken English varieties: Continua, boundaries, and meaning International conference Thursday, June 17th & Friday, June 18th Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Chambéry, France Organised by LLSETI (Langages, Littératures, Sociétés, Études Transfrontalières et Internationales) Université Savoie Mont Blanc Guest Speakers: Betsy Evans, University of Washington, USA Chris Montgomery, University of Sheffield, UK The aims of the PAC programme (Phonologie de l’Anglais Contemporai

Call for a theme session in ICLC 18 Title: “Figurativity, Rhetoric and the Study of Constructions” Theme session organizers: Angeliki Athanasiadou: angath@enl.auth.gr Mingjian Xiang: wesleyxmj@vip.163.com Submission Deadline: 08-Oct-2026 We are preparing a proposal for a theme session at the 18th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 2027) in Germany Figurative mechanisms can be examined in different constructions, in discourse, and they reveal different sta

Other Specialties: sociolinguistics, language documentation, contact linguistics Description: We are looking for someone who will be responsible for the subject area of General Linguistics in research and teaching. The successful candidate will contribute to the coordination and further development of the BA programme in Empirical Linguistics and the MA programme in Language and Variation, strengthen typological research, with a particular focus on smaller languages, and engage in interdis

Call for a theme session in ICLC 18 Title: “Figurativity, Rhetoric and the Study of Constructions” Theme session organizers: Angeliki Athanasiadou: angath@enl.auth.gr Mingjian Xiang: wesleyxmj@vip.163.com Submission Deadline: 08-Oct-2026 We are preparing a proposal for a theme session at the 18th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 2027) in Germany Figurative mechanisms can be examined in different constructions, in discourse, and they reveal different sta

The 18th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC18) will take place at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg from 20-24 August 2027 with pre-conference workshops from the 18th to the 20th and post-conference excursions on the 25th. The ICLC is the leading biennial meeting in Cognitive Linguistics (CL), bringing together researchers from around the world to present new research on the relationship between language and cognition, exchange ideas, and discuss emerging th

Producing terminology resources requires a wide range of research and development skills. The design and implementation phases involve a thorough preliminary analysis of the information needs of potential users, as well as an accurate assessment of the structural requirements of the resource. In this context, the sixth international conference “Multilingual Digital Terminology Today: Design, Representation Formats and Management Systems” aims to bring together specialists in terminology, termi

Registration is now open for Ars Inquirendi 2026: Querying Pre-Print Cultures with LLMs St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and online, 20–22 November 2026 We are convening over thirty scholars from around the world to answer two questions: in the era of large language models, what can we now discover about the pre-print past that we could not before, and what would justify believing it? Keynotes: Marieke Meelen (Cambridge); Peter Turchin (Complexity Science Hub, Vienna, and Oxford) Registrati

Producing terminology resources requires a wide range of research and development skills. The design and implementation phases involve a thorough preliminary analysis of the information needs of potential users, as well as an accurate assessment of the structural requirements of the resource. In this context, the sixth international conference “Multilingual Digital Terminology Today: Design, Representation Formats and Management Systems” aims to bring together specialists in terminology, termi

Registration is now open for Ars Inquirendi 2026: Querying Pre-Print Cultures with LLMs St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and online, 20–22 November 2026 We are convening over thirty scholars from around the world to answer two questions: in the era of large language models, what can we now discover about the pre-print past that we could not before, and what would justify believing it? Keynotes: Marieke Meelen (Cambridge); Peter Turchin (Complexity Science Hub, Vienna, and Oxford) Registrati

This issue explores the expression of a metaphorical meaning in binominal noun phrases following a DET N1 PREP (DET) N2 pattern across languages, N1 and N2 being nominal elements (common nouns, proper nouns/names) linked by a preposition. Examples are: an army of robots, the Harvard of nursery schools, an ocean of time, the height of his playing career, the king of pop, a wow of a show, a gem of a construction (Eng.); ce chien de Roger, une forêt de mâts, le sommet de la gloire, le Tom Cr