McLing is happy to welcome Samantha Prins, who is joining us for a two-year Canada Impact+ Research Training Award (CIRTA) postdoctoral fellowship, working with Jessica Coon. Sam’s research combines morphosyntactic theory, documentation, and (re)vitalization. Her theoretical work centers on formal models of inflection, agreement, and reference-tracking in Algonquian languages, particularly Blackfoot. Her documentary work focuses […]

Alex Zhai has accepted a two-year instructor position at the University of Manitoba –– congratulations Alex!

Several current and former McGill affiliates travelled to Argentina for Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 36, held July 29-31 at the University of Buenos Aires (https://saltconf.github.io/salt36/). Talks by current and former McGill affiliates included:

McGill linguists had a number of successful PhD defenses this summer. These included: Congratulations new doctors!

Description: This is a full time position at the Sociolinguistics Lab for 3 years. The successful candidate will contribute to an ongoing research project which investigates processes of language variation and change across the lifespan. The candidate will undertake the analysis of spoken English language data using cutting-edge research methods and be active in the advancement of ongoing research in the lab. The fellow will publish research in collaboration with members of the Sociolab team

Description: The Linguistics Department at the University of Maryland, College Park invites applications for an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) with an anticipated starting date of August 8, 2027. Applicants should be prepared to teach courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. We seek to hire someone with an active research program, who is prepared to work closely with graduate students, and whose research connects with existing strengths in linguistic theory, psycholinguistic

Concept: Human society is passing through a period of rapid technological change. Artificial intelligence, social media, machine learning, automated translation, digital publishing, virtual communication and other emerging technologies are changing how people communicate, learn, work, create knowledge and relate with one another. These technologies are also changing the ways languages are used, taught, documented, translated and preserved. Language is at the centre of these changes. New te

Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for the 48th annual SWPACA conference. One of the nation’s largest interdisciplinary academic conferences, SWPACA offers nearly 70 subject areas, each typically featuring multiple panels. For a full list of subject areas, area descriptions, and Area Chairs, please visit https://swpaca.org/subject-areas/. We are currently accepting individual papers for 15-minute presentations on general and applied linguistics, including but not limited t

(see German version below) The panel is a continuation of the panel Digital Slavic Studies, which took place in 2024 and 2025 as part of the 48th and 49th Österreichische Linguistik-Tagung and brought together scholars of Slavic languages from Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany, as well as different Austrian universities, with proceedings published in Scripta & e-Scripta 2025 and 2026. The panel aims to connect researchers working at the interface between digital human

Concept: Human society is passing through a period of rapid technological change. Artificial intelligence, social media, machine learning, automated translation, digital publishing, virtual communication and other emerging technologies are changing how people communicate, learn, work, create knowledge and relate with one another. These technologies are also changing the ways languages are used, taught, documented, translated and preserved. Language is at the centre of these changes. New te

Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for the 48th annual SWPACA conference. One of the nation’s largest interdisciplinary academic conferences, SWPACA offers nearly 70 subject areas, each typically featuring multiple panels. For a full list of subject areas, area descriptions, and Area Chairs, please visit https://swpaca.org/subject-areas/. We are currently accepting individual papers for 15-minute presentations on general and applied linguistics, including but not limited t

(see German version below) The panel is a continuation of the panel Digital Slavic Studies, which took place in 2024 and 2025 as part of the 48th and 49th Österreichische Linguistik-Tagung and brought together scholars of Slavic languages from Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany, as well as different Austrian universities, with proceedings published in Scripta & e-Scripta 2025 and 2026. The panel aims to connect researchers working at the interface between digital human

We are pleased to announce that the fourteenth international Corpus Linguistics conference will take place in Venice (Italy), 12-16 July 2027, and it will be jointly organised by "Ca' Foscari" University of Venice, The University of Liverpool and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The Call for Papers will follow shortly on Linguist List, and is already available on the conference's website: https://www.cl2027.info/call-for-papers. Deadline: 8th January 2027

The Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Linguistics (TRILL) is the first peer-reviewed venue for the sharing of high quality, evidence-based linguistics teaching resources. TRILL resources are, at their core, specific class activities and assignments used by the authors, but they are presented and annotated in such a way as to be useful in a broader variety of pedagogical contexts and to engage with core principles of the pedagogical and linguistic literature. Moreover, pedagogical re

Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL) is a forum for researchers and scholars to present their linguistic work and discuss issues related to the formal description of Slavic languages. It covers a wide range of disciplines, including phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and also including theoretical, experimental and corpus approaches. The main goal of FDSL is to provide a platform for the exchange of linguistic ideas and research results and to promote the developm

We are pleased to announce that the fourteenth international Corpus Linguistics conference will take place in Venice (Italy), 12-16 July 2027, and it will be jointly organised by "Ca' Foscari" University of Venice, The University of Liverpool and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The Call for Papers will follow shortly on Linguist List, and is already available on the conference's website: https://www.cl2027.info/call-for-papers. Deadline: 8th January 2027

This volume focuses on Bantu and the other Bantoid languages of southern Cameroon. This region served as the cradle of the Bantu Expansion, where the Bantu populations separated from the other Bantoid groups. As a result, there are important historical questions about linguistic relationships between Bantu and Bantoid. The chapters explore these questions through new approaches to language classification, verb morphology and tense-aspect marking.

Call for Papers: The Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL) is an international conference on any aspect of theoretical or descriptive linguistics. Invited speakers this year are Aaron Broadwell - University of Florida Hannah Sande - University of California, Berkeley WECOL 2026 will be held VIRTUALLY on Zoom, November 14-15, based at California State University, Fresno. Presentations are published in the WECOL Proceedings online: https://wecol.weebly.com/ Submission Instructions

ESSLLI 2027 European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information 2027 University of Tartu Tartu, Estonia, August 2-13, 2027 Web page: https://digits.ut.ee/esslli-2027/ Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esslli2027 TL;DR: ESSLLI seeks courses on diverse topics, each course taking one or two weeks of 90 minutes per day. ESSLLI workshops follow the same structure (5 days, 90 minutes per day) with content assembled from external contributors. Important Dates

I am pleased to announce the release of Merlin’s Leipzig Gloss Tool 2.0, an online research tool designed to assist linguists, language teachers, and students in preparing editable interlinear glossed text (IGT). The tool can generate and align multiple annotation layers, including: - the original text; - a primary transcription or romanization; - IPA or another secondary annotation; - English Leipzig-style glosses; - token-aligned Chinese glosses; - free English translations; and - fr