Languages constantly change, especially when they are spoken across generations and in contact with other languages. One striking site of such change is Differential Object Marking (DOM), the phenomenon whereby only some direct objects are overtly marked, typically depending on properties such as animacy, definiteness, or discourse prominence. In Romance languages, DOM has a long and complex history, often realised through the preposition a. Yet little is known about how these systems evolve wh

Call for Papers: One Experimental Day June 18th 2026 | Online Online Event on Experimental Linguistics Hosted by Dr. Anastasia Gerasimova and Prof. Ekaterina Lyutikova The program features three keynote talks and a Showcase Session for early-career researchers. Invited Speakers: Jennifer Culbertson (University of Edinburgh) Ellen Lau (University of Maryland) Jana Willer-Gold (University of Oxford) Call for Showcase Presentations: In addition to the keynote lectures, the pro

Call for Papers: The International Linguistic Society is delighted to invite you to participate in the International Thematic Conference of Language Education Research and Applications, Language Education 2026, to be held online from 24-26 June 2026. The primary aim of the conference is to advance key areas of language education, welcoming at the same time innovative approaches to related research and applications. The Language Education 2026 conference envisions a vibrant platform for

Call for Papers: "(In)transitivity and its Variation" workshop, founded by SLE Joint initiatives research grant 2026, will be held in Poznań (Poland) on 28-29 September 2026. This workshop aims to explore the interplay of semantics, morphology, and syntax in encoding (in)transitivity, investigating the functional motivations underlying valency patterns across diverse language families. We welcome contributions dealing with (but not restricted to) the following topics: - Transitivity promi

SUMMARY Comparing Linguistic Diachronies contains an introduction to, and a collection of papers based on, presentations at the 2022 and 2023 editions of the Comparing Diachronies workshops at the Language Variation and Change in Ancient and Medieval Europe—Comparing Diachronies summer school held in Naxos, Greece. The volume seems to be intended for a general audience, that is, for anyone from readers with a passing interest in languages and linguistics to researchers whose agendas include a

Call for Papers: For centuries, linguistics focused on written language as “the norm”, and all features of language were studied based on written and often constructed artificial examples. Spoken corpora have enabled a shift in the way we view language, e.g. from a product-based to a process-based view on grammar, from an inherently-fluent view on communication to stipulating a fluency–disfluency continuum, from a verbally-centred communication to a multimodal construction of meaning. Data

Appel à communications À la mémoire de Bernard Dupriez (1933-2025) Cette deuxième édition de nos journées, qui aura lieu le 17 novembre 2026 et qui sera consacrée au thème de la réticence, se veut le prolongement et l’approfondissement en études médiévales, françaises et romanes, du colloque pour jeunes chercheurs « The unspoken and silence in language and literature », qui s’est tenu en novembre 2025 à l’Université de Sofia. Or notre journée s’adresse aussi bien aux jeunes chercheurs (é

Call for Papers: The Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS 2026) invites researchers, practitioners, industry experts, and students to participate in this international forum dedicated to the latest advances in NLP, Artificial Intelligence, and Cyber Security. The conference will take place in Alicante, Spain, on 11–12 June 2026. The list of accepted papers is published at: https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es/accept

The VI International Postgraduate Seminar in English Literature and Linguistics (IPSELL) organised by the Master’s in English Literature and Linguistics of the University of Granada aims to provide a forum where postgraduate students/researchers can present the results of their current research projects (preferably MA dissertation or early PhD work). This event intends to allow master’s and early career research students to share their research interests with national and international young sch

Call for Papers: The Department of English Philology at the University of Zielona Góra is pleased to announce a scientific conference celebrating the 20th anniversary of English philology at the University of Zielona Góra. The conference "Contemporary Perspectives on Language and Literatures in English" aims to bring together young and established scholars giving them a venue for reexamining the focus, content, boundaries and interconnections between disciplines within the broad area of

Call for Papers: This is the final call for abstracts for Linguistic Evidence 2026. The deadline for abstract submission has been extended to 8 June, 2026. Linguistic Evidence will take place from 15-16 October 2026 at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language Mannheim, Germany. Linguistic Evidence is a biennial conference series founded in 2004 at the University of Tübingen (https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/core-research/collaborative-research-centers/crc-833/linguistic-eviden