The research unit Langage, langues et cultures d’Afrique (“Languages and cultures of Africa”) (LLACAN) is pleased to announce the Comparative Niger-Congo workshop, which will take place on May 22nd-23rd, 2025 in Villejuif (near Paris). Abstracts may address any aspect of the comparative-historical linguistics and reconstruction of the Niger-Congo languages. INSTRUCTIONS FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION Abstracts in English or French should be no longer than one page A4 (normal margins of 2,5 cm

Focus: „Sprache im Kontext“ bezieht sich dabei zum einen auf die phonologische, graphematische, morphologische und syntaktische Struktur sowie, über die Satzgrenze hinaus, auf die Text- und Diskursstruktur. Zum anderen stellt Kontext im Sinne der konkreten Äußerungssituation die wesentliche Vorbedingung pragmatischer Strukturen und Eigenschaften von Sprache dar. Schließlich ist Sprache natürlich aber auch auf einer grundsätzlicheren und allgemeineren Ebene in größere soziale Kontexte eingebettet

Call for Papers: The journal Linguistique et Langues Africaines (LLA) invites submissions for its next two varia issues, 11(1) and 11(2)/2025. https://journals.openedition.org/lla/ Linguistique et Langues Africaines (LLA) is an international, open-access, double-blind peer reviewed journal devoted to the study of African languages and linguistics. It provides a forum for linguists working on the phonology, morphology, syntax, pragmatics and semantics of African languages. The main purp

The Organizing Committee of the Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World Conference (BHL) is pleased to announce that the next BHL Conference will be held between 12-14 January 2026 at the University of Reading. We invite researchers, scholars, and industry professionals to submit papers for presentation at this premier academic event. BHL is a biennial international conference (Leiden University, The Netherlands, 2015, 2019; Florida State University, USA, 2017; Puebla, Mexico, 2024) t

*SEM brings together researchers interested in the semantics of natural languages and its computational modelling. The conference embraces a wide range of approaches including data-driven, neural, probabilistic and symbolic; practical applications as well as theoretical contributions are welcome. The long-term goal of *SEM is to provide a forum for NLP researchers working on any aspect of natural language semantics. *SEM invites submissions related to the computational modelling of natural la

Institute of Philosophy, University of Porto Via Panorâmica, s/n, 4150-564 Porto ​​DESCRIPTION In recent years, work in analytic epistemology and philosophy of language has witnessed an increased interest in applied, or socially-relevant issues, such as various social aspects of knowledge, epistemic injustice, linguistic tools for discrimination and propaganda, non-ideal communication and reasoning, biases, etc. Such issues are tightly connected with moral, political and legal consideration

Focus: Programme: Our Corpus Linguistics Summer School aims to equip participants with critical expertise in both the theory and practice of corpus-based linguistic research. Over five days, participants will engage in two types of sessions. First, hands-on sessions will focus on developing practical skills for extracting and analysing different types of corpus data, and applying this knowledge to specific research projects. Second, participants will learn about current corpus research from our

The editors of Language in Society and Journal of Sociolinguistics are jointly sponsoring an online seminar on the theme of publishing in academic journals. This 60-minute webinar is intended to provide practical suggestions on how to navigate the peer review publication process. Early-career researchers, postdocs, and Ph.D students are the target audience for the webinar but all interested parties are welcome. The webinar will be facilitated by the editors of two sociolinguistics peer-revi

Summary Choosing a Mother Tongue: The Politics of Language and Identity in Ukraine is written by Corinne A. Seals based on a study she conducted in 2014-2015 with 38 participants. It contains eight chapters. In the introduction chapter, Seals provides a brief history of modern Ukraine and its linguistic situation. Ukraine became an independent state in 1991 when the implementation of a standardised language to be used in the education system was vital. The initial aim was to require everyone

Discoursivization and Contact-Induced Language Change: Spanish Connectives in Balearic Catalan James Ramsburg Pages: 471–497 Tracing the History of the Taruma People through Plants, Their Names, and Uses Robin Bredero zur Lage, Adrian Gomes, Myanna Jana Konaukii Gomes, Anne Marie Holt, Elizabeth Louis, Nita Louis, Vincent Louis, Anna K. Serke, Irene Suttie, Tinde van Andel, and Konrad Rybka Pages: 498–532 OPEN ACCESS “Eso no es Kreyòl”: Linguistic Insecurity among Haitian Creole Spe

Object Marking in Western Eurasia: The Circum-Baltic Area Dissolves into the Broader Areal Background Daria Alfimova Pages: 281–314 Kinship Terminologies of the Circum-Baltic Area: Convergences and Structural Properties Veronika Milanova, Niklas Metsäranta, and Terhi Honkola Pages: 315–358 OPEN ACCESS Khoekhoe Loanwords in isiXhosa and isiZulu; Beyond Click Loan Camilla Rose Christie Pages: 359–396 Argument Case Leveling toward Genitive: An Unexpected Outcome in a Language Contac

The sixth talk of the Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series 2025 will take place remotely on Monday 31st March 2025 at 5pm BST. Zinaida Geylikman (Université Paris Cité) will present on ‘Quantitative methods on small corpora for historical sociolinguistics: a case study of Old French fabliaux.’ Registration for this talk will close at midnight on Friday 28th March and the link for this can be accessed here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSciGltVD7ft6dgyMu45DrYbEB0WyJ67RyURLD

Table of Contents: Sprachliche Bildung und Mehrsprachigkeit im Vorbereitungsdienst: Ausgestaltungs-prozesse in der Lehrkräftebildung zwischen Curriculum und Institution Caroline Böning „Besser Gas aus dem Westen als aus dem Osten. Kanada ist ein sympathischer Lieferant“ – Zur Verknüpfung des Topos der geteilten Werte mit aktuellen Narrativen des Energiedispositivs. Eine kleine empirische Studie Laura Coro Blauert, Daisy-Anna Cwikla, Rebecca Kelschebach, Lesley-Ann Kern, Joana Koczy, Dor

Table of Contents: Negotiating sociolinguistic justice: turning spaces of inequality into spaces of conscientization Luisa Martín Rojo, Joan Pujolar, Estibaliz Amorrortu Talking about sociolinguistic injustice: critical ethnographies towards speaker conscientization Gabriela Prego-Vázquez, Clara Molina, Maite Puigdevall Spaces of conscientization as a bridge between inequality and contestation Estibaliz Amorrortu, Miren Otxotorena-Aranguren, Luz Zas Voicing experiences of language

Table of contents: 1. Navigating Multilingualism: Translating Local Language Policies for Inclusive Education in Kenya, Quin E. Awuor, pp. 3–15; 2. Reflections on Islam and Christianity in Modern Swahili Prose, Mikhail D. Gromov, pp. 16–31; 3. Adverbs in Dabida: Key Issues, Irina S. Ryabova, pp. 32–56. URL: https://iling-ran.ru/web/ru/publications/journals/languageinafrica/5-2

Amazigh-Arabic Code-Switching in Radio Talk Shows: A Functional Analysis Aziz Driouch and Abdelkader Hermas Pages: 611–641 Intense Language Contact and Collapse of Lexical Strata: Verbs Ending with -urun in Issime Livio Gaeta Pages: 642–663 L2 German Word Order Preferences by Immigrant L1 Korean Speakers Hyoun-A Joo Pages: 664–702 Finite to Non-finite through Impersonalization: The Emergence of an Infinitive in Russian Romani Kirill Kozhanov Pages: 703–726 The Polyfunctional

2nd Call for Papers : After a first edition in Lyon (2019), and a second cancelled due to the pandemic (2020), the third Rencontres of young researchers in historical linguistics will be held for a third time in Grenoble on the 4th and 5th of December, 2025. The conference aims to provide a forum for young researchers working on the history of Indo-European languages to present their work, whether it focuses on diachronic evolutions of languages or past synchronic states. Invited Speaker

Was prägt die deutsche Sprache? Zum Verhältnis von natürlicher Sprachentwicklung und metasprachlicher Intervention. Tagung an der Universität Würzburg vom 26.—27.03.2026 Organisation: Wolf Peter Klein, Michael Breyl, Fabienne Fulst, Vita Kraft, Linda Stark Schlagwörter: Sprachgebrauch – Sprachsystem, Gegenwartssprache – Sprachgeschichte, Sprachwandel – Spracherwerb, Objektsprache – Metasprache, Natur/Entwicklung – Intervention/Steuerung, Spracherwerb – sprachliches Lernen, Wissen - Können/

Meeting Description: We are excited to announce the 23rd International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2025), which will bring together developers and users of linguistically annotated natural language corpora. The workshop is part of SyntaxFest 2025 and will be hosted by University of Ljubljana in Slovenia on August 26-29, 2025. Link to SyntaxFest 2025: https://syntaxfest.github.io/ SyntaxFest's joint paper submission portal: https://openreview.net/group?id=SyntaxFes

Al-ʽArabiyya, the journal of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic, is a leading journal in the field of Arabic language pedagogy and Arabic linguistics (including applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and theoretical linguistics). Al-‘Arabiyya is indexed by many indexing services including: Clarivate Analytics and SCOPUS. Al-ʽArabiyya welcomes scholarly and pedagogical articles, and book reviews that contribute to the advancement of study, criticism, research, and teaching in the