Description of the topic and research questions Linguistic typology and variationist sociolinguistics: bridging approaches to variation Variation is a fundamental characteristic of natural languages that occurs across languages, within speech communities, and in the linguistic behaviour of individual speakers. It can be simultaneously diachronic, diatopic, and diastratic, manifesting across difference levels of the linguistic architecture. Broadly defined, linguistic variation refers to the

Registration is now open for the Workshop on Individual Differences in Reading (IndiREAD), to take place at Saarland University, in Saarbrücken, Germany, 26-27 November 2025. All presenters and participants must register by October 25: https://forms.gle/539mJUdNSvYNCqLC7 We have a small number of travel grants available for participants of the workshop. If you would like to apply, please use the same form, but register no later than September 28 (end of day, MESZ). We are excited to ann

Description of the Topic and Research Questions: Previous research in (Germanic) heritage and minority languages has mainly focused on various aspects of language change and the simplification, convergence, or loss of grammatical features, often identifying language attrition and the incomplete acquisition of grammar as the driving forces behind these developments (see Benmamoun et al. 2013, Montrul 2008 and, for instance, the case studies by Kolmer 2010, Larsson/Johannessen 2015, Lohndal/Wes

At least since Keenan (1976), prototypical subjects have been defined in terms of coding and behavioral properties, such as case marking, clause-initial position, subject-verb inversion, conjunction reduction, raising, and control. These diagnostics have been successfully applied to several languages and have thus led to the discovery of non-canonically case-marked subjects in Icelandic (Andrews 1976, Thráinsson 1976, inter alia) and the South Asian languages (Masica 1976, Kachru, Kachru & Bhati

The UCLA National Heritage Language Resource Center's quadrennial two-day conference will focus on heritage and community language studies as a multidisciplinary field impacting a variety of educational contexts. We welcome submissions from disciplines including but not limited to anthropology, demographics, linguistics, sociology, applied linguistics, policy, psychology, bilingualism, education, and assessment. You are invited to submit a proposal for a paper, panel, or poster. You can ma

Tras el éxito de la sesión monográfica del Simposio SEL 2025 celebrado en Salamanca, nos proponemos avanzar en la exploración de las correlaciones entre la variación lingüística y el contacto lingüístico y/o las actitudes lingüísticas, considerados motores clave del cambio lingüístico (Bloomfield, 1933; Johnstone, Andrus & Danielson, 2006; Labov, 1963, 2001). Las contribuciones presentadas en aquella sesión pusieron de manifiesto la relevancia fundamental del contacto (Poplack & Levey, 2010) y/o

"Developing new languages in migration contexts” will take place from September 30 to October 1, 2025, at Masaryk University (Czech Republic), under the framework of OP JAK “LangInLife” (https://www.muni.cz/en/research/projects/73477). The conference is intended to contribute to filling a gap in Second Language Acquisition, where research on adult immigrants developing additional languages is currently underrepresented (see Mocciaro & Young-Scholten 2025). After a fundamental research seaso

The StuTS (Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft) is a three-day student conference on linguistics held biannually. Organized by volunteer linguistics students, it is hosted usually but not exclusively, by German-speaking universities. Since its inauguration in Hamburg in 1987, StuTS has brought together thousands of enthusiastic linguistics students to present their work, learn about exciting new topics in inspiring keynote addresses, talks, and workshops, and meet interesting like-minde

Queer linguistics has emerged as an essential field for understanding how language, across its various analytical dimensions, relates to LGBTIQ+ identities and experiences. This linguistic branch goes beyond merely documenting specific varieties or sociolects within queer communities. Instead, it examines the linguistic and discursive mechanisms through which dominant culture constructs, maintains, and sometimes challenges established norms around gender and sexuality. Drawing from gender st

This is to announce that the next Bilingualism Matters Symposium (BMS2026) will be hosted by the University of Milano-Bicocca from 28 to 30 April 2026! Submission deadline is on the 12th of October 2025. This year, BMS will feature a special in-person session on Bimodal Bilingualism. Interpretation will be provided in English–International Sign (IS) and Italian Sign Language (LIS). BMS26 welcomes contributions on bilingualism from a broad range of perspectives, including but not limited

We are pleased to announce that the 56th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS 55) will be hosted by New York University in New York, New York, from October 17 to October 19, 2025. The keynote speakers are: Sam Alxatib (The City University of New York) Tanya Bondarenko (Harvard University) Sharon Rose (UC San Diego) Jim Wood (Yale University) The full conference schedule is now up here: https://wp.nyu.edu/artsampscience-nels56/schedule/ The poster session inform

Producing terminology resources requires a wide range of research and development skills. The design and implementation phases involve a thorough preliminary analysis of the information needs of potential users, as well as an accurate assessment of the structural requirements of the resource. In this context, the fifth international conference Multilingual Digital Terminology Today: Design, Representation Formats and Management Systems aims to bring together specialists in terminology, termin

As part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie ONISILOS COFUND project ‘Gradience in Polarity Morphology and Diglossia’ (GraPMoD, Agreement No. 101034403), we are pleased to announce a two-day symposium. The Symposium on Empirical Approaches to Meaning and Structure (SEAMS) will take place on site at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia on November 22–23, 2025. SEAMS will be a hybrid event, allowing participation and attendance from colleagues worldwide. It is designed as a forum for exchanging ideas a

We are delighted to announce the upcoming conference Phonetic Approaches to Under-Documented Languages (with a Special Emphasis on Tibeto-Burman Languages) which will be held on September 18–19, 2025. The event will take place in a hybrid format—both on-site at Campus Condorcet in Aubervilliers, France, and online, allowing broad participation from around the world. This conference explores how instrumental and experimental phonetics can contribute to the documentation, analysis, an

Workshop at the University of Bamberg, Germany, 17 to 18 September 2025 as part of the project "Young German Learner English" (funded by the German Research Foundation; grant DFG 515774206) Organized by Anna Rosen (University of Freiburg), Robert Fuchs (University of Bonn) & Valentin Werner (University of Bamberg) In research on Second Language Acquisition (SLA), and in the domain of Learner Corpus Research (LCR) specifically, there has been a tendency to rely on material from advanced le

1 Björn Wiemer, 2 Haiping Long, 3 Giulia Mazzola 1 JGU Mainz (wiemerb@uni-mainz.de), 2 Sun Yat-sen University (lhpszpt@126.com), 3 Newcastle University (Giulia.Mazzola@newcastle.ac.uk) Until now, research on the pragmatics-syntax interface of discourse, on the one hand, and on clausal complementation, on the other, have been developing rather independently. This workshop aims at bringing these two strands together, with a focus on delimitation problems between asyndetic complementation, qu

Esta sesión monográfica se centra en el análisis del lenguaje desde una perspectiva formal, computacional y/o de inteligencia artificial, promoviendo la discusión y el intercambio de ideas entre los participantes para explorar las posibilidades y los desafíos en la intersección de la lingüística, la inteligencia artificial y la computación. En un contexto tecnológico en constante evolución, el estudio del lenguaje ha incorporado enfoques computacionales y modelos de inteligencia artificial. E

The Third Conference on Bantoid Languages (Banto3d) will be held at the University at Buffalo, May 19–21, 2026. Banto3d welcomes papers on Bantoid languages of Cameroon and Nigeria relevant to any aspect of linguistics. While the label Bantoid conventionally refers to a specific set of non-Bantu subgroups of Benue-Congo, such as Dakoid, Mambiloid, Tivoid, Beboid, Grassfields and Ekoid, we welcome papers on other understudied Niger-Congo language groups of the Cameroon-Nigeria border area, such a

Discourse particles are a key component of natural language, connecting structural and semantic content with speaker stance, discourse structuring, and pragmatic meaning. They have been described as elements that contribute little to truth-conditional content but are crucial for managing interaction and guiding interpretation. While particles in some languages have received sustained attention, there remains a lot to be learnt about their role in natural language more generally. This workshop

16th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology Diversity in Systemic Expansion and Contraction (WS2) Workshop organizers: Oliver Bond and Dávid Győrfi The grammatical systems of languages – such as case, gender or TAM systems – can vary considerably in terms of the core distinctions they make (and the exponents thereof) even in closely related languages. In the most striking cases, some family members have systems that encode a handful of cross-linguistically fami