The Syntax-Semantics Group will hold its next meeting on Monday, September14th, at 1-2pm in Room 002 of the McGill linguistics department, 1085 Dr. Penfield. Online participants can join with this zoom link.  Austin Kraft (McGill) will be presenting “Partitives in Javanese.” Here is the abstract: I present a new account for why partitives in Javanese (Austronesian) yield a different interpretation than partitive counterparts in languages like English. Constructions such as the English three of Mary’s […]

McGill’s P* Group will have its first meeting on Monday, September 14th, at 12PM in Room 117. They will be creating this semester’s schedule so come prepared with presentation ideas!

Martina Martinović accompanied by Emma Custer (M2), Kento Tanaka (PhD2), and Sama’a Salama (PhD3) spent 6 weeks in the Saint-Louis region of Senegal conducting fieldwork on Wolof and Pulaar.

Professor James Crippen, PhD students Laurestine Bradford and David Avellan-Hultman, and UBC PhD student Aaní Perkins traveled to Teslin, YT for three weeks in August to do fieldwork on Tlingit (Lingít [ɬìn’kít]). They had elicitation sessions almost every day, covering subordinate clauses, question and focus particles, and progressive aspect with elders Anaalahaash Sam Johnston, Shuwuteen Margaret […]

I am a doctoral researcher conducting a linguistic study on how native speakers of English perceive certain abstract notions. I am looking for native speakers of British English and native speakers of American English (aged 16+) to complete a short online questionnaire. The survey takes approximately 10–15 minutes. It is completely anonymous, and all responses will be used exclusively for academic research purposes. Participants will be asked to provide spontaneous associations, images, and b

We are delighted to invite everyone to VIZJA Webinars on Language Studies and Research, to be held on September 25, 2026. In this edition, Dr Iralia Kotsakidou, PhD, from the Ionian University, will present her research on Gender Roles and the LGBTIQ+ Community in Candace Owens' Discourse. Please join us via Teams on September 25, 2026. For registration, please use the link: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/dX2kn5AQDm?origin=lprLink

The collection is of interest to a broad readership – Slavic as well as general linguistic scholars, experienced researchers as well as advanced undergraduate or postgraduate students. Individual contributions can serve as background reading to topical seminars. The volume covers areas of semantics in which Slavic languages have traditionally or more recently played an important role in the general formal semantic discourse (e.g. aspect, event structure, genericity, tense, information structure,

About Graduate Studies and Professional Development in Applied Linguistics Graduate Studies and Professional Development in Applied Linguistics explores and demystifies multiple facets of graduate education and professional development in applied linguistics, including the experiences of master’s students, doctoral students, doctoral candidates, postdoctoral scholars, and early-career scholars and professionals. Following the diamond open-access publication model, this international series aims

A new version of the Contour Clustering app is out. Apart from some upgrades regarding the existing workflow for f0, duration and intensity, the app can now also do formant estimation and use these measures for a new clustering method. Feel free to try it out and recommend it to others. The Shiny R application code (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), manual and all relevant published work is freely available via: https://constantijnkaland.github.io/contourclustering/ Feedback and questions are more tha

The Center for Language Acquisition will host a series of three Foundational Dialogues webinars in which prominent scholars will engage in constructive and collegial discussions about key topics in Second Language Acquisition research, In this webinar, Dr. Loewen and de Keyser will conduct a semi-structured dialogue on basic and classroom research from their perspectives. Attendance is free and requires registration. Wednesday, October 14th, 10:00am - 11:30am EST Registration is requir

The Center for Language Acquisition will host the first of its 2026-27 Advances in World Pedagogy series with: Advanced by Design: Curriculum, Rigor, and Transformation through Collegiate Language Programming Dr. Victoria Hasko Wednesday. October 7th, 2026 10:00am - 11:30am (EST) Registration is required https://tinyurl.com/t6anse9j

Efficacious Words: Religion, Speech Acts and (Im)politeness in Historical Pragmatics Organisers: Annick Paternoster, Kim Ridealgh and Luis Unceta Gómez This panel contributes to the next phase of Historical (Im)politeness Research and Historical Pragmatics: a move beyond segmented studies of individual periods and languages towards longer diachronies, contrastive research and renewed theoretical reflection on what counts as pragmatic action in historically and geographically distant lingua

The Workshop on Complex predicate constructions across modalities will be held on Mon 12 Oct 2026 at UPS Pouchet, 59 rue Pouchet, 75017 Paris and on visioconference. Invited Speaker: Miriam Butt (U. Konstanz) https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/butt/ Programme: Lundi 12 oct 2026 / Monday 12 Oct 2026 9h00-9h20 Bienvenue & Café / Welcome & coffee 9h20-9h30 Ouverture / opening 9h30-10h30 Conférence invitée : Miriam Butt (U. Konstanz) https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-kon

SUMMARY This book is written with an intended audience of language teachers, language teacher educators, administration, policymakers, academics, researchers, and other stakeholders in the realm of language education. It outlines current research on the psychology of language teachers as well as areas in which research is lacking, in the hopes of inspiring future scholarship. The book is divided into five chapters which include overviews of language teacher cognition and metacognition, affec

Efficacious Words: Religion, Speech Acts and (Im)politeness in Historical Pragmatics Organisers: Annick Paternoster, Kim Ridealgh and Luis Unceta Gómez This panel contributes to the next phase of Historical (Im)politeness Research and Historical Pragmatics: a move beyond segmented studies of individual periods and languages towards longer diachronies, contrastive research and renewed theoretical reflection on what counts as pragmatic action in historically and geographically distant lingua

The Workshop on Complex predicate constructions across modalities will be held on Mon 12 Oct 2026 at UPS Pouchet, 59 rue Pouchet, 75017 Paris and on visioconference. Invited Speaker: Miriam Butt (U. Konstanz) https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/butt/ Programme: Lundi 12 oct 2026 / Monday 12 Oct 2026 9h00-9h20 Bienvenue & Café / Welcome & coffee 9h20-9h30 Ouverture / opening 9h30-10h30 Conférence invitée : Miriam Butt (U. Konstanz) https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-kon

We are pleased to announce the call for proposals for the special issue Discursive Perspectives on Conflictive Interaction, to be published in Quaderns de Filologia. Estudis Linguistics, Volume 32 (December 2027), edited by María Querol, Maria Estellés, and Andrea Carcelén (https://turia.uv.es/index.php/qfilologia/ca). This volume aims to provide a meeting point for scholars investigating the discursive architecture of conflict from the perspectives of linguistics, pragmatics, and conversatio

Call for Individual Papers: We are pleased to announce that the 17th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics will take place at Meisei University, Tokyo, on August 1-5, 2027 (on-site only). Scholars are invited for 20-minute talks (plus 10 minutes for discussion) and/or poster presentations on any aspect of language or linguistics specifically related to Austronesian languages. Submissions are limited to one individual and one joint abstract per author. Abstracts should be si

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

Panel Description: Panel: Integrating conversation analysis and semantics into new perspectives Organized by Yida Cai, University of Helsinki Discussant: Prof. Arnulf Deppermann This is a panel at the 20th International Pragmatics Conference (IPC20) that aims to provide an opportunity to discuss how conversation analysis (CA) and semantics can be integrated to study linguistic phenomena more deeply from various perspectives. Within Interactional Linguistics (IL), CA is the primary metho