Vera Yunxiao Xia (BA 2018) and Lydia White presented a paper at the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition Conference (GALA 17), at the Université de Tours, Tours, France, September 11-13th 2025, on Number mismatches in the processing of object relative clauses: Does featural Relativized Minimality operate in L2?

Invited speaker: Pavel Iosad (University of Edinburgh) Morphological alternations can be realized through the concatenation of affixes, or through non-concatenative processes that do not involve the addition of segmental material, such as modifications of suprasegmental features (e.g. length or tone), or the featural constituents of segments (e.g. vowel height, consonantal manner of articulation). The two nouns below, from Nuer (a West Nilotic language of South Sudan and Ethiopia), illustrate

Linguistics at school in a European perspective (LiDi 2026) University of Zurich April 13-14, 2026 Confirmed speakers: Ann-Marie Moser (University of Zurich) Anna Pineda (University of Barcelona) Tom Rankin (Masaryk University Brno) Michelle Sheehan (Newcastle University) Jimmy van Rijt (Utrecht University) Organizers: Angelika Golegos & Andreas Trotzke Europe’s linguistic landscape is increasingly diverse. It encompasses standardized national languages (taught to both L1 and

The research project 'Fragments: Constructionalising Non-Canonical Expressions in English' at the University of Vigo (https://lvtc.uvigo.es/fragments), funded by the Spanish Research Agency (MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033; grant PID2020-117541GB-I00, PI: Javier Pérez-Guerra), is pleased to announce the release of six outreach video clips, now publicly available at https://www.youtube.com/@LVTC_uvigo/playlists

Invited speaker: Pavel Iosad (University of Edinburgh) Morphological alternations can be realized through the concatenation of affixes, or through non-concatenative processes that do not involve the addition of segmental material, such as modifications of suprasegmental features (e.g. length or tone), or the featural constituents of segments (e.g. vowel height, consonantal manner of articulation). The two nouns below, from Nuer (a West Nilotic language of South Sudan and Ethiopia), illustrate

Linguistics at school in a European perspective (LiDi 2026) University of Zurich April 13-14, 2026 Confirmed speakers: Ann-Marie Moser (University of Zurich) Anna Pineda (University of Barcelona) Tom Rankin (Masaryk University Brno) Michelle Sheehan (Newcastle University) Jimmy van Rijt (Utrecht University) Organizers: Angelika Golegos & Andreas Trotzke Europe’s linguistic landscape is increasingly diverse. It encompasses standardized national languages (taught to both L1 and

The rapid expansion of language policy and planning over the course of the last decades has led to a breadth of concepts, phenomena, and processes vying for attention in the field. Attempts at integrating and balancing all of these priorities have led some researchers to ask, “what isn’t language policy?” (Johnson, 2012, p. 9). While the work of early scholars was “technical, oriented toward problem-solving, and pragmatic in its goals” (Ricento, 2000, p. 198), this was critiqued by later scholar

This conference, hosted by CRC 1412 “Register” (https://sfb1412.hu-berlin.de/projects/b03), explores the role of asymmetric communication in ancient societies, focusing on how power imbalances, status differences, and socio-cultural hierarchies shaped modes of interaction. Attendance is in person only. Please register by October 10, 2025, via asymcom-conference@hu-berlin.de. https://www.archaeologie.hu-berlin.de/de/aknoa/veranstaltungen/konferenzen/asymmetric-communication-in-ancient-societi

The rapid expansion of language policy and planning over the course of the last decades has led to a breadth of concepts, phenomena, and processes vying for attention in the field. Attempts at integrating and balancing all of these priorities have led some researchers to ask, “what isn’t language policy?” (Johnson, 2012, p. 9). While the work of early scholars was “technical, oriented toward problem-solving, and pragmatic in its goals” (Ricento, 2000, p. 198), this was critiqued by later scholar

2nd Call for Papers: The question of how humans process social information is one of the biggest topics in cognitive science. This workshop addresses the topic from the perspective of linguistics and aims at breaking new ground by bringing together the two very different perspectives of sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology on the one hand and formal syntax and semantics on the other hand. Confirmed Speakers: Elin McCready (ICREA/Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Emma Moore (Univ

This conference, hosted by CRC 1412 “Register” (https://sfb1412.hu-berlin.de/projects/b03), explores the role of asymmetric communication in ancient societies, focusing on how power imbalances, status differences, and socio-cultural hierarchies shaped modes of interaction. Attendance is in person only. Please register by October 10, 2025, via asymcom-conference@hu-berlin.de. https://www.archaeologie.hu-berlin.de/de/aknoa/veranstaltungen/konferenzen/asymmetric-communication-in-ancient-societi

Other Specialties: Second Language Acquisition Description: The Department of Second Language Studies in the College of Arts, Languages, and Letters at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa invites applicants for a 9-month, tenure-track, full-time assistant professor, with specialization in second language corpus linguistics to begin Fall 2026. The Department of Second Language Studies offers a BA, an MA and a PhD in Second Language Studies as well as an Advanced Graduate Certificate. The Uni

Description: The Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University invites applications for a one-year postdoctoral associate in Applied Linguistics to begin on January 1, 2026. We seek an applied linguist with expertise in second language learning, teaching, assessment, or technology-based instruction, along with the use of quantitative or mixed methodological approaches. The successful candidate should have strong evidence or promise of research and publication and a record of successfu

Organisers: Iris Kamil, Letizia Cerqueglini Call deadline: 1 November 2025 It is by now well-established that the domains of human language rarely exist on their own: syntax, semantics, morphology, phonology, and pragmatics regularly interact with one another on what is known as the interfaces of grammar. The study of the various interfaces is vast, and several frameworks of theoretical linguistic research seek to formalize them, for instance Distributed Morphology, Halle & Marantz 199; Para

Organisers: Iris Kamil, Letizia Cerqueglini Call deadline: 1 November 2025 It is by now well-established that the domains of human language rarely exist on their own: syntax, semantics, morphology, phonology, and pragmatics regularly interact with one another on what is known as the interfaces of grammar. The study of the various interfaces is vast, and several frameworks of theoretical linguistic research seek to formalize them, for instance Distributed Morphology, Halle & Marantz 199; Para

Check out a new series of webinars on Language Policy in Africa, hosted by the University of Bern (Switzerland): https://initiativeafrique.unibe.ch/news_and_events/events/upcoming_events/index_eng.html The first of these webinars will be on 3 October, from 4 to 5 pm CEST (Berlin, Johannesburg, Khartoum, Lusaka, Madrid). Speaker will be Caroline Story from Texas State University, who will discuss her article “Postcolonial Language Imperialism in Africa – The Latter-day Saints Missionary Progra

We are pleased to announce the First Call for Papers for the upcoming workshop: LLMs4All: LLMs, Big Data, and Multilinguality for All - First Call for Papers - To be held at IEEE BigData 2025, Macau, China, December 8–11, 2025 - Our page for more details: https://vinnlp.com/llms4all Workshop Scope: LLMs4All workshop addresses the intersection of LLMs, Big Data, and Multilinguality, with a focus on equitable access and global inclusivity. It explores how large-scale data pipelines and adv

We are excited to announce a call for contributions for an upcoming volume on effective methodologies in deaf/Deaf education in use from around the world. The aim of this book is to share good practices and evidence-based approaches that have proven successful in teaching deaf/Deaf students in different contexts.  We are looking for contributions that describe methodologies in areas such as: - Literacy teaching in the early years of primary school - Grammar teaching - Developing the

The Montreal Underdocumented Languages Linguistics Lab (MULL-Lab) is meeting Thursday, September 25 at 4PM in Rm 404 of Thomson House on the McGill Downtown campus. We will have three presentations on fieldwork puzzles, followed by a social hour. Talks include: The event is open to all linguists across Montreal! If you’d like to join the mailing list, please email willie.myers@mail.mcgill.ca.

What makes literature and art the distinct kinds of entities they are? Previous attempts to prove that artworks and literary texts are formally and structurally distinguishable from other objects have been misinterpreted to mean that any distinction between art and non-art must be largely sociological. This book takes a radically new approach to this long-standing question. Shifting the focus from the artwork itself to art as a case of human agency, it sets out a groundbreaking theory of literat