11 June 2026 17:00 UTC+2 / 17:00 GMT+2 Microsoft Teams Speaker: Sonam Tshering (Jigme Singye Wangchuck School of Law, Bhutan) Moderator: Fatemeh Akbari (Kamusi Project International/University of Vienna, Austria) Title: Bhutanese Personal Names and Identity Abstract: Bhutan, a small Himalayan kingdom between India and China, promotes Gross National Happiness (GNH). Bhutan has preserved its unique culture, strong Buddhist values, and lively social and cultural legacy despite its 400-yea

The Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) network (https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/home) an international and interdisciplinary network whose primary aim is to promote work on slurs, pejoratives, expressives and evaluative terms from less studied languages, invites you to the eight talk of the 2025-2026 academic year. The invited speaker is Yim Binh Felix Sze (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), who will give a talk entitled "Taboos and Euphemisms in Sex-Related Signs in Asian Sign

Designing and Scoping Your Next Interdisciplinary Research Project: A Panel Discussion Thursday, June 4, 2026 4:30 PM BST | 03:30 PM GMT | 11:30 AM EDT | 04:30 PM WAT | 09:00 PM IST Book your place: http://tiny.cc/InterdisciplinaryResearch Interdisciplinary research promises richer insight into complex questions, but designing and scoping such projects brings distinct intellectual, methodological, and practical challenges. In this moderated panel discussion, Oxford Intersections ed

The I-LanD Research Centre (https://i-land-researchcentre.eu/) is pleased to announce the fourth seminar in the I-LanD Seminar Series - 4th Edition (2nd semester). Innovative in format and interdisciplinary in scope, the I-LanD Seminar Series brings together scholars to discuss key issues in their fields of expertise, with particular attention to theoretical perspectives, methodological approaches, research challenges, and emerging directions of inquiry. Each seminar opens with a brief introd

The next Acquisition Sketch Project Meeting is on "An in-progress look at the Berber Acquisition Sketch”, presented by Abdellah Elouatiq. It will be held on Wednesday May 13 as follows: Los Angeles = 8 am Mexico City = 9 am New York = 11 am Berlin = 5 pm Tbilisi = 7 pm Delhi = 8:30 pm Zoom link = https://uni-kl-de.zoom-x.de/j/68724552887?pwd=lxCUOxU9mV4j84IRCa1vGs4xGaaTfH.1 Meeting ID = 687 2455 2887 Passcode = 7$d72Hp& Check https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/ for the

Dieses Buch befasst sich mit dem in der theoretischen linguistischen Literatur stark diskutierten Phänomen der lexikalischen Adjektiv-Intensivierung. Dabei wird ein graduierbares Adjektiv – z. B. schön – durch eine Intensitätspartikel modifiziert. Der Strand ist ∅ schön. Positiv Der Strand ist sehr schön. Deskriptiv Der Strand ist mega schön. Expressiv Durch die Modifikation erfährt das Adjektiv eine Bedeutungsverstärkung, die sich in einer gesteiger

This book investigates the realization of subject focus in French and Spanish from a comparative, variationist perspective. Building on spontaneous dialogical data, it examines the range of syntactic, prosodic, and elliptical strategies speakers use to encode narrowly focused subjects. The study draws on two highly comparable sub-corpora of spontaneous speech elicited through the same task, allowing for fine-grained cross-linguistic comparison. Adopting a Question Under Discussion (QUD) framewor

Le colloque « Les constructions et la constructionnalisation en langue française, espagnole et italienne » à réfléchir à la notion de construction, aussi bien d’un point de vue synchronique que diachronique, en adoptant différentes perspectives théoriques. On pourra présenter des analyses plutôt théoriques ou la description du fonctionnement d’une construction en particulier. Les propositions peuvent être ancrées dans les différentes composantes de la linguistique : morphologie, syntaxe, sémanti

We invite submissions for a special issue of Visible Language titled ‘Typographic Landscapes: Migrating types – typographic meaning-making across boundaries’ connecting scholarship in typography, graphic communication, and sociolinguistics to investigate typographic activities as social practices in public spaces. We welcome contributions that bring these disciplinary perspectives into fruitful dialogue and focus on typographic meaning-making across cultural, geographical, and temporal bounda

Easy Language and Easy Read Practices in the Nordic Languages: Exploring Informational Complexity Between Universal Models and Discourse-Specific Variations Special issue of ELAD-SILDA (ISSN 2609-6609) Spring 2027 Deadline for draft submissions: Sept. 30th, 2026 Languages of submission : French, English or German contact: sarah.harchaoui@sorbonne-universite.fr Full call : https://cel.univ-lyon3.fr/cel-elad-silda-15-falc-et-easy-languages-en-langues-nordiques This special issue seeks t

Conference Dates: 11–13 June 2027 Location: Hong Kong SAR Hosts: The Chinese University of Hong Kong & City University of Hong Kong Website: https://lt.cityu.edu.hk/nwavap9/ Submission Portal: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NWAVAP2027 Abstract Deadline: 1 October 2026 The organizing committee of New Ways of Analysing Variation – Asia Pacific 9 (NWAV-AP 9) invites abstract submissions for the conference to be held in Hong Kong SAR from 11–13 June 2027. Since its founding in 2011 a

The Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics invites you to its 5th AMC Symposium, which will take place in December this year, at the University of Edinburgh. The event has the guiding theme of "Types of Evidence in Historical Linguistics" Background: How do we know what a language was like in the past? How do we know that it has changed (or is changing)? The study of language change, and of historical linguistics more generally, uses many different kinds of evidence, including am

This is an interdisciplinary workshop which addresses all topics ranging from Legibility to Text Simplification, including issues, resources, and manual and automatic methods related to measuring and improving text comprehensibility. The event brings together researchers, IT professionals, publishers, public institutions (e.g., Ministries of Education, schools), and practitioners (authors, teachers, translators) to discuss current challenges and innovative solutions. Specifically, we inv

Call for Papers: English below Das germanische Verb. Historisch und typologisch (Internationale Nachwuchstagung der Vergleichenden germanischen Sprachwissenschaft) Erlangen, 27.–28. November 2026 Die Internationale Nachwuchstagung der Vergleichenden germanischen Sprachwissenschaft, die seit 2014 mehrfach in Zürich, einmal 2025 in Uppsala stattgefunden hat, wird diesmal als Kooperation des Fachbereichs für Vergleichende germanische Sprachwissenschaft Zürich und der Professur für Ver

Call for Papers: The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers working on the languages of Pamir, Hindu Kush and Karakoram, a mountainous area also known as Hindu Kush–Karakoram or Peristan in recent publications. Many of these languages are endangered and remain under-described. In this context, it is particularly important to foster collaboration between linguists currently working on the languages of this convergence area and review those aspects of languages that have received

Description: Das sind wir: Die Graduate School Language & Literature Munich ist eine fächerübergreifende Einrichtung zur Förderung von Promovierenden und Postdocs an der Fakultät für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften der LMU München. Sie bietet hervorragenden Forschenden in frühen Karrierephasen ein ausgezeichnetes Umfeld für ihre wissenschaftliche Weiterqualifizierung und Vernetzung. Wir suchen Sie: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter und Koordinator (m/w/d) am Standort München Das s

SUMMARY (xxvi, 665 pp.) In effect, Alexandra Aikhenvald here summarizes and expands on the excellent Aikhenvald and Mihas (2019; cf. Robertson 2020). That is, this volume is a synthesis of the rapidly growing body of research into what can be thought of as linguistically-encoded folk taxonomies of nominals (grammatical genders and the various kinds of classifier systems), adding a number of new foci for investigation such as diachronic trends, contact effects, acquisition, and language death

PhD positions in Linguistics The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and the University of Verona have activated a joint PhD program in Linguistics for the academic year 2026/27. They have issued a call for 4 fully funded PhD positions. PhD candidates which are selected will receive a 3-year fellowship. Successful applicants will be committed to conducting independent and original scientific research and participating in local, national, and international training activities to develop their

In recent years, while preparing various digital Latvian and Lithuanian language resources (corpora, databases, dictionaries, wordnets, etc., e.g., Miliūnaitė, Aleksaitė 2011; Rimkutė et al. 2013; Dadurkevičius 2020a, 2020b; Andronova et al. 2022; Levāne-Petrova et al. 2023; see also LatvianWordNet https://wordnet.ailab.lv/; Kalnača, Pakalne 2026), the issue of compounds in both Baltic languages – their structural types, semantics and word formation models, as well as orthography issues – has be

The World Wide Web has evolved from a resource for building linguistic corpora into the central data infrastructure powering modern natural language processing and Large Language Models (LLMs). As web-scale data increasingly shapes AI systems’ knowledge and capabilities, understanding its quality, representativeness, and ethical implications has become critical. At the same time, the “more is better” paradigm is being challenged by issues such as machine-generated content, data toxicity, limi