The linguistics community lost a valued member when Wayne Cowart died on August 17, 2026 in Seattle, Washington after a brief illness. Wayne is best known for having advocated for scientific methodology in syntactic research, starting with his 1997 book, "Experimental syntax: Applying objective methods to sentence judgments." This book laid the foundation for the use of rigorous experimental tools to obtain acceptability judgments. At the time of that work, most syntactic judgments were gotte

The Metaphor Society is an interdisciplinary community exploring how metaphor and symbolic thought shape human experience across language, psychology, embodied cognition, therapy, culture and related scholarship. The Society offers live online talks and discussions, a growing presentation archive, articles and explorations, and opportunities for exchange among researchers, practitioners and others interested in metaphor, mind and meaning. Topics include conceptual and embodied metaphor, the r

SUMMARY Chapter 1: Linguistic Modality This initial chapter introduces the theoretical framework of the book and establishes the concepts that guide the following chapters. According to the authors, the book aims to “offer a conceptual grounding of modality within the notions of truth, (non)veridicality, epistemic commitment, and evidential bias” (1). Giannakidou and Mari begin by returning to the foundations of modal theory, distinguishing between necessity and possibility modals as descr

For decades, the question of developmental ordering among subjectification, intersubjectification, and related processes has driven one of the most productive debates in grammaticalization research and historical linguistics. In the foundational stages of grammaticalization theory, Traugott (1982) proposed that meanings tend to shift from propositional (truth-conditional and referential) through textual functions of discourse cohesion, and finally toward expressive meanings encoding the speaker’

For decades, the question of developmental ordering among subjectification, intersubjectification, and related processes has driven one of the most productive debates in grammaticalization research and historical linguistics. In the foundational stages of grammaticalization theory, Traugott (1982) proposed that meanings tend to shift from propositional (truth-conditional and referential) through textual functions of discourse cohesion, and finally toward expressive meanings encoding the speaker’

The French-German research project IMMAGES – Hosting a clause: IMplications for the MAtrix and its GuestS (ANR-22-FRAL-0005) invites submissions for its final conference. IMMAGES investigates the syntax and semantics of complement clauses, that is, clauses embedded under predicates such as say, believe, or hope. More specifically, the project explores the hypothesis that the relation between an embedded clause and its matrix predicate is not direct, but mediated, and that complement clauses

The American Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ACIR) is hosting its inaugural Interdisciplinary Conference on November 12, 2026, via Zoom — and you are warmly invited to participate. Conference Theme: Knowledge Without Borders: Bridging Disciplines for the Public Good This one-day virtual event is designed for one purpose: to open up how people across different fields see, hear, and engage with each other's work. Too often, breakthrough ideas stay within the boundaries of a single di

This is a panel at the 20th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA20). In this panel we focus on conflict as an interactional-pragmatic phenomenon. It aims to explore how speakers signal, negotiate, and contest meaning, focusing on the dynamic interplay between communicative practices and the contextual features of conflict. These may include the nature of the dispute, the medium of interaction, participants’ roles and relationships, and social or institutional stakes. Bringing togethe

The French-German research project IMMAGES – Hosting a clause: IMplications for the MAtrix and its GuestS (ANR-22-FRAL-0005) invites submissions for its final conference. IMMAGES investigates the syntax and semantics of complement clauses, that is, clauses embedded under predicates such as say, believe, or hope. More specifically, the project explores the hypothesis that the relation between an embedded clause and its matrix predicate is not direct, but mediated, and that complement clauses

The American Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ACIR) is hosting its inaugural Interdisciplinary Conference on November 12, 2026, via Zoom — and you are warmly invited to participate. Conference Theme: Knowledge Without Borders: Bridging Disciplines for the Public Good This one-day virtual event is designed for one purpose: to open up how people across different fields see, hear, and engage with each other's work. Too often, breakthrough ideas stay within the boundaries of a single di

This is a panel at the 20th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA20). In this panel we focus on conflict as an interactional-pragmatic phenomenon. It aims to explore how speakers signal, negotiate, and contest meaning, focusing on the dynamic interplay between communicative practices and the contextual features of conflict. These may include the nature of the dispute, the medium of interaction, participants’ roles and relationships, and social or institutional stakes. Bringing togethe

The 30th International Conference on Yue Dialects will be held on December 18-19, 2026 at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), which is jointly organized by the T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre, CUHK and the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, CUHK, co-organized by the Hong Kong Base of the Joint Research Institute for International Communication of Language and Culture of the Ministry of Education and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao University Alliance for Chinese, and s

Call for Papers: Confirmed Speakers: Anna Papafragou (University of Pennsylvania) Devyani Sharma (University of Oxford) Sandrine Zufferey (University of Bern) After the successful workshop Social Meaning and Grammar, which took place in Zürich in February 2026 (https://www.ds.uzh.ch/de/tagungen/social-meaning-and-grammar.html), we are now moving on to the second round. The term ‘social’ plays a central role in the acquisition and learning literature in general (e.g., in broad topics s

The 30th International Conference on Yue Dialects will be held on December 18-19, 2026 at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), which is jointly organized by the T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre, CUHK and the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, CUHK, co-organized by the Hong Kong Base of the Joint Research Institute for International Communication of Language and Culture of the Ministry of Education and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao University Alliance for Chinese, and s

Call for Papers: We are happy to announce that the deadline for abstract submission to WoReLa 2 has been extended to September 15, 2026. For more information on WoReLa 2, please check our conference website (https://sites.google.com/view/worela2) or see the information below. The Second Workshop on Replication in the Language Sciences (WoReLa 2) focuses on building cumulative knowledge in linguistics through reproducible, robust, and replicable research findings. Building on the success

Description: We are seeking forward-thinking scholars who possess a strong foundation in humanities research and who have (or are highly motivated to develop) an active engagement with emerging technologies. We are particularly interested in candidates whose work critically engages with how language, technology, and society intersect. Relevant areas of expertise reflect this synthesis of humanities and technology, and include, but are not limited to: AI and translation and interpreting techno

This book promotes greater interest in cognitive linguistics (CL) among English language teaching (ELT) practitioners, while offering researchers a more direct line toward shaping pedagogy. The book presents a collection of CL-informed ready-to-use pedagogical summaries and activities that teachers without background knowledge in CL can take directly to their classrooms. Importantly, the book targets traditionally challenging areas of English instruction by focusing on vocabulary, grammar, and a

How can teachers and teacher educators enact positive change in their working environments? How can they develop professional learning communities? How can they support educational policies on intercultural competence, multilingualism and plurilingualism while improving students' language skills? This inspiring collection gives clear and practical advice on how action research can help achieve all of those goals, from primary through secondary, higher and adult education settings. Action Rese

Explaining how the cultural practices of a community can be used as the vehicle for learning its language, this book shows how two apps have been developed to deliver language learning while users are carrying out real-life cultural activities. Many people are motivated to learn foreign languages by their interest in foreign cultures, cuisines and activities such as origami, Hallowe'en pumpkins or cooking a meal from the target culture. This book shows how these motivations can be integrated

Researchers, translators, practitioners and artists join voices in this volume to explore the profound relationship between multimodality and translation. Looking at the subject from a wide range of perspectives, this book questions the possibility of redefining art practices and artworks as forms and processes of intersemiotic translation. Exploring the connection between multimodality, translation and the arts, the authors uncover the many overlooked practices of translation which are already