Description: The Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures (DEALL) at The Ohio State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Japanese linguistics with a start date of August 15, 2027. We seek an outstanding scholar in any area of Japanese linguistics. The successful candidate will teach and mentor undergraduate and graduate students, helping them develop the analytical skills needed to investigate Japanese language data while engaging with c

The 2026 16th International Conference on Languages, Literature, and Linguistics (ICLLL 2026) invites scholars, researchers, and practitioners to explore the dynamic relationship between tradition and innovation in the fields of language, literature, and linguistics. The conference, to be held at the Otsuma Women's University, Tokyo, Japan, from November 27-29, 2026, aims to provide a platform for discussing how traditional linguistic theories, literary analyses, and cultural interpretations int

Description: University of California, Davis Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics The Departments of Philosophy and Linguistics at the University of California, Davis invite applications for a joint tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor, specializing in research questions at the intersection of philosophy of language and theoretical/computational linguistics. A successful candidate is expected to be active in both departments. The anticipated start date is

The 2026 16th International Conference on Languages, Literature, and Linguistics (ICLLL 2026) invites scholars, researchers, and practitioners to explore the dynamic relationship between tradition and innovation in the fields of language, literature, and linguistics. The conference, to be held at the Otsuma Women's University, Tokyo, Japan, from November 27-29, 2026, aims to provide a platform for discussing how traditional linguistic theories, literary analyses, and cultural interpretations int

Call for Papers: The University of Pisa Language Centre (CLI), in collaboration with the Italian Association of University Language Centres (AICLU), is pleased to announce the conference “Culture – Languages – Inclusion”, to be held in Pisa on 27–28 May 2027. The conference will also host the 30th AICLU Seminar. The conference focuses on the intersections of culture, language education and inclusion, with particular attention to intercultural and linguistic mediation, multilingualism, inno

AI Pragmatics: Co-evolution of Human and AI Language Panel organisers: Vittorio Tantucci (Lancaster University) Xi Chen (Nanyang Technological University) Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly evolving, but also changing how language is produced in everyday life. From emails and academic writing to LLMs joining social media and health communication, AI is increasingly shaping the way humans communicate. AI systems are trained not only on human but also on AI interaction, meaning that

AI Pragmatics: Co-evolution of Human and AI Language Panel organisers: Vittorio Tantucci (Lancaster University) Xi Chen (Nanyang Technological University) Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly evolving, but also changing how language is produced in everyday life. From emails and academic writing to LLMs joining social media and health communication, AI is increasingly shaping the way humans communicate. AI systems are trained not only on human but also on AI interaction, meaning that

Call for Papers: Extended Deadline: 17 September 2026 We are pleased to announce the fourth edition of the 'Current Issues in Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics' workshop. As in the previous years, the workshop will be part of the ÖLT (50th Austrian Linguistics Conference), which takes place November 20-21 in Salzburg, Austria. The workshop aims to create opportunities for researchers to discuss their original, unpublished work related to any of the fields mentioned in its title as well as

Call for Papers: The abstract deadline for the workshop on multimodal aspects of silence and noise, and the signal is fast approaching (September 20th). Please submit your abstract(s) via OpenReview (see link on our main website: https://www.sfb1760.uni-konstanz.de/talks-and-events/workshops-and-conferences/multimodal-speech-corpora/.) Human communication is inherently multimodal. In the interdisciplinary CRC 1760 “Silence, Noise and the Signal”, we are interested in communicative aspects

GLOW in Asia provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research in theoretical linguistics. Although hosted in Asia, the conference attracts participants from around the world. GLOW in Asia XV will be held at National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei, Taiwan, on April 23–25, 2027. We invite submissions for oral and poster presentations. Oral presentations will consist of a 30-minute talk followed by 10 minutes of discussion. We welcome abstracts presenting origina

Call for Papers: Description: The goal of this panel is to maintain the meeting space for linguists working on ellipsis that was initiated at the LII Simposio de la SEL, held in Madrid in 2024. Given that the panel was successful in 2024 and 2026 (researchers from different universities and countries, such as Spain, Korea, Austria, Germany, the United States of America and Poland attended), we believe that the session can provide a fruitful meeting space at the LIV Simposio de la SEL. E

GLOW in Asia provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research in theoretical linguistics. Although hosted in Asia, the conference attracts participants from around the world. GLOW in Asia XV will be held at National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei, Taiwan, on April 23–25, 2027. We invite submissions for oral and poster presentations. Oral presentations will consist of a 30-minute talk followed by 10 minutes of discussion. We welcome abstracts presenting origina

Call for Papers: The central theme of the conference addresses the link between identity and the digital sphere, particularly how various identities are discursively constructed and performed within the diverse constraints and affordances of various digital platforms. The papers presented at the conference will apply various approaches to digitally-mediated discourse analysis, including multimodal studies, critical linguistics, sociopragmatics, corpus-assisted discourse analysis etc. that pro

The Collaborative Research Centre “Prominence in Language” (CRC 1252) at the University of Cologne in Germany invites applications for short-term fellowships available between March and December 2027 for researchers who are not affiliated with an institution in Germany. We invite applications for two types of fellowships: (1) Senior Fellowships for experienced international researchers (at least 5 years after PhD) who will reside in Cologne for a duration of 1 to 3 months. The CRC can cover 2

We are pleased to announce the availability of UD_French-ECALM, a corpus of handwritten manuscripts written by French pupils and students enriched with automatic annotations of the part-of-speech tags and syntatic dependencies; and manual annotations of the graphical revisions, the misspellings and the reference continuities. The resource currently available online provides access to 964 texts, 14,374 sentences and 221,776 tokens (conllu format, Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share

I am a PhD candidate at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST), working on a readability model for Spanish as a foreign language. I am currently in the validation phase of this research and looking for two groups of participants: Spanish learners (any L1, any level) to complete a placement test and read a series of short graded chapters, rating their comprehension and perceived difficulty. Fully online, self-paced, about 3-4 hours total over 4-5 weeks. Link: carla2.pytho

A 60-minute online presentation by Tim Brookes, founder of the Endangered Alphabets Project, suitable for undergraduate students of linguistics, anthropology, communication, human rights, history, social studies, writing, and languages While the vital field of endangered languages study, including documentation and revitalization programs, has been embraced and established in higher education, the different but related field of endangered and emerging minority scripts has not. Of the more t

Studies in Second Language Acquisition (SSLA) is now entertaining proposals for the thematic issue of Volume 50:3, to be published in summer 2028. Thematic issues of SSLA focus on areas of current interest and are an excellent venue to bring together in one issue numerous approaches to a problem or methodology in the field of SLA. For special issue examples, see previous special volumes of SSLA. For examples of previous winning proposals, see https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_gYBJUCdpC_XJ

Te Reo 68(4) Special Issue: Vanuatu language structures (Guest editors: Tihomir Rangelov, Eleanor Ridge, Lana Takau, Victoria Chen) Introduction: Vanuatu language structures Eleanor Ridge, Tihomir Rangelov & Lana Takau | pp. 1–3 Demonstrative and anaphoric reference in Daakie (Ambrym, Vanuatu) with special focus on associative anaphors Manfred Krifka | pp. 4–35 Article loss and article gain in the Unua DP? Elizabeth Pearce | pp. 36–58 The bula- possessive classifier in northern

Te Reo 68(3) Special Issue: Vanuatu languages in action (Guest editors: Tihomir Rangelov, Eleanor Ridge, Lana Takau, Victoria Chen) Introduction: Vanuatu languages in action Tihomir Rangelov, Eleanor Ridge & Lana Takau | pp. 1–4 Towards a National Sign Language in Vanuatu Angelinah Eldads Vira, Leniker Thomas & Rachel Miles | pp. 5–19 English and Bislama in professional contexts: Perspective from an intelligibility study in Vanuatu Cindy Schneider, Charlotte Gooskens, Owen Kapelle