Focus: The Romanian Cultural Institute is extending the registration period for the Romanian Language, Culture, and Civilization Courses – the Summer School in Brașov – until June 17, 2025, at 5:30 PM. Summer School in Brașov – Courses in Romanian Language, Culture, and Civilization, will take place between June 30 – July 13, 2025. Now in its 28th edition, this program is aimed at those who wish to explore Romania's cultural richness, students from Romance language departments abroad, researc

Focus: This intensive program provides students with a background in the formal syntax of Semitic languages (mainly contemporary Arabic dialects), and develops collaborative micro-comparative research on some specific topics. The program offers classes both in formal syntax and relevant related topics, taught by a team of expert linguists, and guided field work sessions with a specific focus on the micro-comparison of different semitic languages, from well-documented to lesser-known varieties of

Hi everyone! I am looking for monolingual speakers of English with no or minimal knowledge of additional languages to participate in an online research study. Briefly, the study involves the completion of online questionnaires and listening to a series of podcasts in Spanish over the course of 4 weeks. Potential participants should also be living in Canada. Participants will be compensated per phase of the study completed. If you are interested in participating, please contact me at gmarti49@u

Other Specialties: Corpus Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Field Research Description: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Faculty of Language and Literature, Department German Language and Linguistics seeks to fill the position of a researcher (=Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in) – E 13 TV-L HU (Third-party funding until 12/31/2027). Field of duty (a) collaboration in the DFG-funded research project A06 "Modeling Register Variation across Languages” of SFB1412 “Register”; (b) r

Other Specialties: Background in generative grammar; German is a must, Chinese and Vietnamese are options Description: The Institute of Linguistics/German Studies at the University of Stuttgart is seeking to fill a TVL13 position of the German public service remuneration scheme (65%) in academic service for an initial period of three years, starting on October 1, 2025. The successful applicant will have a solid background in formal linguistics, preferably in generative linguistics and synt

Organisers of the panel: Junfei Hu (UCLouvain), Geert Brône (KU Leuven) & Liesbeth Degand (UCLouvain) [If you would like to contribute your abstract but require an extension, please contact Dr. Junfei Hu directly.] Background and questions of the panel: In face-to-face conversation, interlocutors coordinate both verbal (lexical choices, syntactic structures, prosody) and non-verbal (posture, gestures, eye gaze, facial expressions) resources to perform communicative actions (Holler & Levin

Organizers: Carolin Reinert and Farbod Khouzani (Goethe University) This short workshop is organized as part of the 48th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS2026). Workshop Description: Negative polarity items (NPIs) and their licensing conditions have long been the subject of extensive research. The fact that NPIs display certain distributional similarities and differences at the same time is a discernible pattern across languages. There have been several attempts to

We are pleased to announce that the registration deadline for the RaAM 17 Conference has been extended to June 15th, 2025. Please note that all attendees and presenting authors must be registered to be included in the conference program. RaAM 17 will be held in Southfield, MI (USA), at Lawrence Technological University, from 7 to 10 August 2025. Registration is available through the members' area of the RaAM website: https://www.raam.org.uk/memberarea/ For more details about the venue a

The Laboratory of Indigenous Languages ​​and Literatures of the Institute of Letters of the University of Brasília, the Department of Linguistics, Portuguese and Classical Languages ​​and its Postgraduate Program in Linguistics of the same university promote the event “Celebrating the Centenary of Aryon Dall’ígna Rodrigues” and the “VI Meeting on Languages ​​and Cultures of the Tupí Peoples” in homage to the great linguist of Brazilian Indigenous languages, Aryon Dall’Igna Rodrigues”, renewing t

Final Call for Papers: We welcome submissions for the Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025. The meeting will take place on December 18–19, 2025, in Utrecht, the Netherlands. It aims to connect researchers using (neuro-)symbolic, Bayesian, deep-learning, connectionist, and mechanistic models (among others) to study human language production, perception, and processing. Keynote Speakers: - Stefan Frank (Radboud University) - Vera Demberg (Saarland University) For detailed gui

Terminology Translation Task at WMT2025 - Call for Participation We are excited to announce the third Shared Task on Terminology Translation, which would be run within the 10th Conference on Machine Translation (WMT2025) in Suzhou, China. TL;DR: - We test the sentence-level and document-level translation of the texts in finance and IT domains, given the explicit terminology. The language pairs are: English -> {Spanish, German, Russian, Chinese}, Chinese -> English. - We evaluate the ove

In un mondo globalizzato, caratterizzato da confini sociali, economici e culturali diventati sempre più labili, l’incontro di lingue e culture ha mutato volto, evolvendosi con complessità e dinamicità crescenti, superando frontiere di diversa natura e portata (Matras, 2009; Horner & Weber, 2018). L’innovazione tecnologica (non solo telematica), lo sviluppo di nuovi mezzi e scambi commerciali, l’intensificazione dei rapporti politici e degli investimenti internazionali su scala mondiale, hann

The 6th International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations To be held in beautiful Prague, Czechia, August 4-5, 2025, following ACL 2025 in Vienna, Austria. Registration for DMR 2025 is now open! The registration form is available at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfj2dZE9L_R1vSBlBfPXfs_6ZYUC-QIEiox9UFr06uYwL9IEg/viewform Registration is FREE and includes access to all DMR 2025 events, including the social dinner on August 4. DMR intends to bring together researchers w

This book presents a pragmatic perspective on the development of intercultural communicative competence and intercultural understanding by language learners in the foreign language classroom and in study abroad contexts. Using data from role-play interactions, intercultural episodes and student reflections, including both US learners of Spanish and multilingual learners of other languages, the book examines how a focus on pragmatics and metapragmatic awareness aids the development of intercultur

This book seeks to understand how language teachers regulate and use their emotions to best serve themselves and their students. It furthers research in the field by providing an in-depth theoretical discussion of emotion regulation alongside a comprehensive exploration in Japan. The study at the heart of the book focuses on three important features: the strategies language teachers employ to regulate their emotions, the motives that they regulate in aid of, and the various contextual factors sh

This book honors the impactful work of Terrence G. Wiley on advancing social justice in the areas of language diversity and language policy. It brings together a group of experienced scholars to provide an overview of research and progress in three areas: heritage and community language education, ideologies of language and literacies, and language policy. The chapters cover a wide range of formal and informal learning spaces and address language policies and practices from the national to the l

Back cover text for The Atoms of Imperatives: Case Studies from Afrikaans (Engela de Villiers): This dissertation probes the formal features—the imperative atoms of the title—that define imperative clauses in Afrikaans, a significantly understudied language. Its two core objectives are: (i) to provide a detailed empirical description of selected imperative and imperative-like structures in Afrikaans, and (ii) to identify the formal features that characterise Afrikaans imperatives and present

In order for decolonization to avoid becoming yet another orthodoxy, this book argues that it is necessary to recognize the neoliberal ideologies and imperatives that drive so much work in universities in both the Global Norths and Global Souths, and to understand the enmeshment (both historical and ongoing) of universities in colonial practices. The chapters interrogate both these issues and the terms in which they are usually critiqued in order to identify the cracks and fissures within instit

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of young children’s language learning in pre-primary and primary education. It collates research to date on language development and pedagogy among children learning a language in addition to their home language(s) in instructional settings, providing readers with a thorough understanding of the topic and directions for further study. The book promotes a learner-centered approach to research and teaching and encourages critical reflection on ho

The term present perfective paradox refers to the following phenomenon: in a given language, there is a tense marker which is used to report on the ongoing present when it combines with stative verbs. With dynamic verbs, in turn, this tense marker refers to something else than the ongoing present - to the future, to the past, or to a habit. English and its simple present tense represent a well-known example. The simple present refers to the ongoing present with stative verbs: I have my laptop wi