Focus: ‘Stylistics: Back to the Future?’ We are delighted that the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) annual Summer School will this year be taught by: - Katie Wales, Honorary Professor, School of English, University of Nottingham, UK. - Michael Toolan, Emeritus Professor of English Language, University of Birmingham, UK. Katie Wales is one of PALA’s founding members and Michael Toolan is one of PALA’s longest-standing members. This is a rare opportunity to study with two ma

The 3rd SMOG International Conference on Syntax and Semantics (ICSS@GKNU), hosted by the Society of Modern Grammar (SMOG), will take place at GyeongKuk National University in Andong-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Korea, from August 18–20, 2026. ICSS@GKNU is an annual conference that brings together generative linguists from East Asia and around the world to present and discuss current research on generative syntax and its interfaces. In addition to regular presentations, the conference features plenar

For the first time at VIZJA University, we are pleased to announce the International Scientific and Practical Conference Multilingual Dialogues–2026: Human–AI Communication Across Generations, which will take place online on 12–14 June 2026. The main organiser of the conference is VIZJA University (Poland), with the following institutions joining as co-organisers: - Charles University (Czech Republic) - Université Côte d’Azur (France) - Azerbaijan University of Languages (Azerbaijan)

The online conference “Philosophy and Generative Grammar 3” will take place on May 6–8, 2026. This conference will bring together philosophers and linguists to discuss topics in the philosophy of generative grammar and linguistic developments that may be of interest to philosophers. The conference will be preceded by the online workshop “Attitude Reports, Unarticulated Constituents, and Mental Files” (May 5). If you want further information about the conference or the workshop, please visi

We are pleased to announce the 6th European Experimental Philosophy Conference & Satellite Workshop on Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Linguistic Justice, which will be held in Cagliari (Sardinia) on September 8th–11th, 2026. The Conference and Workshop are open to all empirically-informed and experimental work that hinges on philosophical issues, including research by linguists and that engages with linguistics. It welcomes empirically/experimentally informed investigations into language,

The conference Corpus Linguistics & AI brings together researchers from corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, and applied language studies to explore the growing interface between large language models and corpus-linguistic methodology. Over three days and six thematic sections, more than 20 international speakers will address topics including content and meaning analysis with LLMs, theoretical implications for corpus linguistics, AI-assisted annotation, learner corpus research, and

AsLing invites submissions for the 47th edition of the Translating and the Computer Conference (TC47), to be held from 8 to 10 December 2026 in Luxembourg. The TC conference series brings together professionals, researchers, developers and decision-makers from the language industry, academia and public institutions. TC47 will explore how technological innovation – particularly AI – is reshaping multilingual communication, raising new questions about human agency, professional ethics, and sust

Members of the Kanien’kéha language research partnership between McGill and the Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center (KORLCC) presented a talk titled “Iakwarihwí:saks: A community–university Kanien’kéha Research Partnership” at the Symposium on American Indian Languages (SAIL), which was held at the University of Arizona, April 2–3. 

The last presentation in this term will be on Monday, April 13, 12-1pm in room 117 and on Zoom (Please use this new zoom link). Jeanne will be practising her invited talk in the creaky voice special session at ASA 2026. Topic: Rethinking “young women’s creak”: Piecing together production, perception, and social evidence Abstract: Since the early 2010s, popular narratives alongside […]

Congratulations to Myriam Lapierre who just had two papers accepted for publication! The first has been accepted to Journal of Phonetics (with Alessio Tosolini) and the second has been accepted to Laboratory Phonology. Lapierre, M., De Falco, E., Tosolini, A., & Steffman, J. (accepted). Disentangling prominence strengthening: Evidence for independent stress and length effects in […]

SUMMARY The Cambridge Element Language, Gender and Pregnancy Loss by Beth Malory explores how language describes and shapes experiences of pregnancy loss in healthcare contexts in the UK. The book analyzes how terminology reflects pregnancy loss and how the language used affects individuals experiencing clinical pregnancy loss. It also discusses the negative impacts of certain pregnancy loss terms, as well as the ideologies surrounding reproductive norms. The analysis draws on data from 42 UK

SUMMARY Data-intensive investigations of English (edited by Mikko Laitinen and Paula Rautionaho) consists of ten chapters, all of which address state-of-the-art data-intensive approaches in linguistic research. It includes an introductory chapter by the editors that presents the volume, eight chapters by different authors that report on data-intensive studies across various linguistic disciplines, and a final chapter that discusses issues in data analysis related to such approaches. Among the

University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 8th – 10th September 2026 Henry Sweet Lecture 2026 Prof. Martin Krämer (UiT The Arctic University of Norway) Linguistics Association Lecture 2026 Prof. Dr. Regine Eckardt (Universität Konstanz) Language Tutorial Mapudungun - Ben Molineaux, Aldo Berrios Castillo (University of Edinburgh) LAGBPSC Summer School LAGB Education Committee Session Call for Papers – Standard Abstracts: The Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Northern

University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 8th – 10th September 2026 Henry Sweet Lecture 2026 Prof. Martin Krämer (UiT The Arctic University of Norway) Linguistics Association Lecture 2026 Prof. Dr. Regine Eckardt (Universität Konstanz) Language Tutorial Mapudungun - Ben Molineaux, Aldo Berrios Castillo (University of Edinburgh) LAGBPSC Summer School LAGB Education Committee Session Call for Papers – Standard Abstracts: The Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Northern

The International Network for Personal Names Research invites abstracts for its 2nd Online Meeting 2026. - 12 June 2026 - 1:00-5:00 pm (UTC+2) - Platform: Zoom - Students welcome! - Deadline for registrations and abstract submissions: 16 May 2026 Abstracts are invited to be submitted by 16 May to Anna.Balbach@tu-dortmund.de for: - Lectures (20 min + 10 min Q&A) - Research pitches (5 min + 5 min Q&A) - Networking/discussion groups (15 min) The theme is deliberately broad: New Resea

The 26th Workshop on Cantonese (WOC-26) Everything in one wok: Cantonese in multilingual environments Saturday, 30 May 2026 We are pleased to announce that the Twenty-Sixth Workshop on Cantonese (WOC-26) is jointly organised by The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK) and the Department of Linguistics and Translation, City University of Hong Kong (LT department, CityUHK). The workshop will be held in person on Saturday, 30 May 2026, at CityUHK. The theme of WOC-26 is “Everything in one

The International Network for Personal Names Research invites abstracts for its 2nd Online Meeting 2026. - 12 June 2026 - 1:00-5:00 pm (UTC+2) - Platform: Zoom - Students welcome! - Deadline for registrations and abstract submissions: 16 May 2026 Abstracts are invited to be submitted by 16 May to Anna.Balbach@tu-dortmund.de for: - Lectures (20 min + 10 min Q&A) - Research pitches (5 min + 5 min Q&A) - Networking/discussion groups (15 min) The theme is deliberately broad: New Resea

The 26th Workshop on Cantonese (WOC-26) Everything in one wok: Cantonese in multilingual environments Saturday, 30 May 2026 We are pleased to announce that the Twenty-Sixth Workshop on Cantonese (WOC-26) is jointly organised by The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK) and the Department of Linguistics and Translation, City University of Hong Kong (LT department, CityUHK). The workshop will be held in person on Saturday, 30 May 2026, at CityUHK. The theme of WOC-26 is “Everything in one

Final Call for Papers: Natural Language Processing (NLP) has witnessed remarkable progress in recent years, largely driven by the emergence of deep learning architectures and, more recently, large language models (LLMs). Nevertheless, these advances have disproportionately benefited high-resource languages that possess abundant data for model training. By contrast, low-resource languages which account for at least 85% of the world’s linguistic diversity and are often spoken by smaller or marg

Studies in Polish Linguistics is pleased to invite submissions for our upcoming 2026 and 2027 volumes. We are a Scopus-indexed, peer reviewed journal dedicated to high-quality linguistics research with a primary focus on the Polish language. We welcome full-length research papers from both established and emerging scholars. SPL’s scope includes, but is not limited to: - analysis of naturally-occurring data across various genres, registers and contexts of use involving Polish and/or other