Jobs: Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Translation: Assistant Professor in Language Technologies and AI Governance, University of Warwick
Other Specialties: Language Technology; Artificial Intelligence; Translation Studies; Digital Humanities; Language Policy
Description:
The School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Warwick invites applications for a permanent Assistant Professor in Language Technologies and AI Governance. This post is part of a strategic refresh through which the School is investing in new research and teaching at the intersection of languages, AI, data science, and digital multilinguali
Calls: Language Disorders 2026 Special Session
Call for Papers:
Co-organised by the International Linguistic Society and DELAD (Database Enterprise for Language and Speech Disorders)
Language disorders affect individuals across all ages and languages. While many are congenital and emerge in early childhood, others develop later in life as a result of neurological conditions, illness, or injury. Addressing this global and multilingual reality requires robust, well-documented, and ethically managed language disorder corpora.
This spec
Calls: 25th Amsterdam Colloquium
Call for Papers:
We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the 25th Amsterdam Colloquium, to be held on 16--18 December 2026, at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), University of Amsterdam.
Submissions are now open on the journal website: https://platform.openjournals.nl/PAC/about/submissions
Call Deadline: 1 September 2026
Meeting Description:
The Amsterdam Colloquia aim to bring together linguists, philosophers, logicians, cognitive scientists and comput
Confs: Dag van de Fonetiek 2026 / Phonetics Day 2026
On Friday, 6 November 2026, the Dutch Association for Phonetic Sciences organizes its annual Phonetics Day, this time in Amsterdam.
We invite submissions on current and recently finished phonetic research within the empirical tradition, and/or demonstrations of new applications or methods in the field of speech science.
Due to the increasing number of suitable entries, the NVFW is applying a new method for abstract submission and selection this year: all abstracts will first be checked for
Confs: Dag van de Fonetiek 2026 / Phonetics Day 2026
On Friday, 6 November 2026, the Dutch Association for Phonetic Sciences organizes its annual Phonetics Day, this time in Amsterdam.
We invite submissions on current and recently finished phonetic research within the empirical tradition, and/or demonstrations of new applications or methods in the field of speech science.
Due to the increasing number of suitable entries, the NVFW is applying a new method for abstract submission and selection this year: all abstracts will first be checked for
Calls: Workshop at DGfS 2027: Was Kopula? Atypical Copular Constructions
Call for Papers:
This workshop is organized by Marianna Lohmann and Barbara Schlücker (Freie Universität Berlin) as part of the 49th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (49. Jahrestagung der DGfS 2027 „Sprache unter dem Mikroskop – Beobachtung, Analyse, Theorie“), which will take place in Jena from 3 to 5 March 2027.
Workshop Description:
Copular clauses are simple syntactic structures. They consist minimally of a (referential) NP as subject and a (non-verbal) predicate w
Calls: 15th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer-Assisted Language Learning
Call for Papers:
We are happy to announce the 15th edition of the NLP4CALL workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer-Assisted Language Learning. This year, NLP4CALL will be a two-day hybrid event that will take place on November 19-20, 2026. Onsite participation will be possible at the Humanisten building of the University of Gothenburg (Renströmsgatan 6, Göteborg, Sweden) and a link for remote participation will be shared closer to the workshop dates. Both onsite and online partic
Confs: 21st Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Conference
The Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association (SCLA; https://slavic.fas.harvard.edu/scla) will hold its 21st conference on June 16 – 18, 2027. The conference will be hosted by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia and will be held in an on-site format.
We acknowledge the support of the conference co-organizers: the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka; the inPrincipio project (principal researcher: Mihaela Matešić) and
Calls: Evaluative Morphology in Action: Frameworks in Dialogue
Call for Papers:
New Deadline: 29 July 2026
This 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 Br
Confs: 21st Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Conference
The Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association (SCLA; https://slavic.fas.harvard.edu/scla) will hold its 21st conference on June 16 – 18, 2027. The conference will be hosted by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia and will be held in an on-site format.
We acknowledge the support of the conference co-organizers: the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka; the inPrincipio project (principal researcher: Mihaela Matešić) and
Confs: Panel at IPC20: Pragmatic Markers in Learner Language
The key role that pragmatic markers (PMs) such as English actually, well, you know, and I mean play in social interaction, collaborative meaning-making, and successful communication is well known in a range of different languages (Fischer 2006, Degand et al. 2022, inter alia). PMs are essential to achieving communicative goals such as managing interaction or expressing attitudes. What is far less well understood is how language learners acquire and use PMs in an L2 or additional language. The ap
Confs: Panel at IPC20: Pragmatic Markers in Learner Language
The key role that pragmatic markers (PMs) such as English actually, well, you know, and I mean play in social interaction, collaborative meaning-making, and successful communication is well known in a range of different languages (Fischer 2006, Degand et al. 2022, inter alia). PMs are essential to achieving communicative goals such as managing interaction or expressing attitudes. What is far less well understood is how language learners acquire and use PMs in an L2 or additional language. The ap
Confs: Panel at IPC20: Relating and Relationship Development over Time
This panel is organised by Chilmeg Elden and Michael Haugh (The University of Queensland, Australia) and will be held as part of the 20th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA2027) at the University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Call for Papers:
A growing body of research has examined interpersonal relationships from an interactional perspective, treating relationships as interactional achievements between two or more parties, which are accomplished over various different spans of time
Confs: 13th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech
We are pleased to announce the 13th edition of the DiSS workshop (Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech), which will take place in Bolzano-Bozen (Italy), on February 4th-5th.
Established in 1999, the DiSS workshop series provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers interested in disfluency and spontaneous speech. It brings together researchers from a wide range of disciplines and welcomes studies on disfluency in spontaneous speech.
Submissions are encouraged from all fields that deal w
Confs: 33rd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
The 33rd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar will be held on August 03 - August 04, 2026 at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (Bergen, Norway). It will be co-located with the DELPH-IN meeting held over the preceding week (27th - 31st of July).
Conference fee: free of charge, both for in-person and online attendees
Registration is open: https://petterha.github.io/hpsg2026/registration/
Programme: https://petterha.github.io/hpsg2026/program/
Inv
Confs: Panel at IPC20: Relating and Relationship Development over Time
This panel is organised by Chilmeg Elden and Michael Haugh (The University of Queensland, Australia) and will be held as part of the 20th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA2027) at the University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Call for Papers:
A growing body of research has examined interpersonal relationships from an interactional perspective, treating relationships as interactional achievements between two or more parties, which are accomplished over various different spans of time
Confs: 13th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech
We are pleased to announce the 13th edition of the DiSS workshop (Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech), which will take place in Bolzano-Bozen (Italy), on February 4th-5th.
Established in 1999, the DiSS workshop series provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers interested in disfluency and spontaneous speech. It brings together researchers from a wide range of disciplines and welcomes studies on disfluency in spontaneous speech.
Submissions are encouraged from all fields that deal w
Confs: 33rd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
The 33rd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar will be held on August 03 - August 04, 2026 at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (Bergen, Norway). It will be co-located with the DELPH-IN meeting held over the preceding week (27th - 31st of July).
Conference fee: free of charge, both for in-person and online attendees
Registration is open: https://petterha.github.io/hpsg2026/registration/
Programme: https://petterha.github.io/hpsg2026/program/
Inv
Confs: 2nd Language Anxiety Network One-Day Seminar
Since Horwitz's seminal definition of language anxiety as a complex of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors related to classroom language learning, it has been regarded as a very special and multidimensional psychological phenomenon during the process of language teaching, learning, and using. From the confounded to the current contextual phase, research on language anxiety has been conducted worldwide, concerning its interfaces with speaking, reading, listening comprehension, and writing in additi
Confs: 2nd Language Anxiety Network One-Day Seminar
Since Horwitz's seminal definition of language anxiety as a complex of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors related to classroom language learning, it has been regarded as a very special and multidimensional psychological phenomenon during the process of language teaching, learning, and using. From the confounded to the current contextual phase, research on language anxiety has been conducted worldwide, concerning its interfaces with speaking, reading, listening comprehension, and writing in additi