The conference serves as a platform for educators from around the world to share their experiences in teaching foreign languages to both young and adult learners across a variety of settings. This year’s online event focuses on inclusive practices that empower diverse learners and support equitable access to language education. Participants will gain practical strategies, discover innovative tools, and connect with a global community committed to creating welcoming learner-centered classrooms.

Welcome to Ghent for the 48th annual Language Testing Research Colloquium! Join language testing professionals and researchers from across the world in one of Europe’s most vibrant university cities for two days of pre-conference workshops (26–27 June 2027) and three days of symposia, paper presentations, posters, networking events, and discussions at the forefront of language assessment research. Theme: Language assessment in interdisciplinary research This year's theme is language ass

In an age of intensified interconnectedness and "time-space compression" (Harvey, 1989), translation emerges both as a situated practice and a force that reshapes cultural geographies. It is not only a linguistic act, but a cultural, political and economic one. This has always been the case historically, but the current pace of technological and political developments is generating ripples of change at unprecedented speed. Translation inhabits and constructs spaces—urban and rural, central and p

We are pleased to announce the program for the 38th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, to be held on September 17-18, 2026, at the University of Potsdam. The program can be accessed via the workshop website at the following link: https://sites.google.com/view/cgsw38/program The Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop is a theoretically-oriented forum for dealing with all aspects of comparative Germanic syntax, from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives. This year's program also includes

Welcome to Ghent for the 48th annual Language Testing Research Colloquium! Join language testing professionals and researchers from across the world in one of Europe’s most vibrant university cities for two days of pre-conference workshops (26–27 June 2027) and three days of symposia, paper presentations, posters, networking events, and discussions at the forefront of language assessment research. Theme: Language assessment in interdisciplinary research This year's theme is language ass

In an age of intensified interconnectedness and "time-space compression" (Harvey, 1989), translation emerges both as a situated practice and a force that reshapes cultural geographies. It is not only a linguistic act, but a cultural, political and economic one. This has always been the case historically, but the current pace of technological and political developments is generating ripples of change at unprecedented speed. Translation inhabits and constructs spaces—urban and rural, central and p

We are pleased to announce the program for the 38th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, to be held on September 17-18, 2026, at the University of Potsdam. The program can be accessed via the workshop website at the following link: https://sites.google.com/view/cgsw38/program The Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop is a theoretically-oriented forum for dealing with all aspects of comparative Germanic syntax, from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives. This year's program also includes

The linguistics community lost a valued member when Wayne Cowart died on August 17, 2026 in Seattle, Washington after a brief illness. Wayne is best known for having advocated for scientific methodology in syntactic research, starting with his 1997 book, "Experimental syntax: Applying objective methods to sentence judgments." This book laid the foundation for the use of rigorous experimental tools to obtain acceptability judgments. At the time of that work, most syntactic judgments were gotte

The Metaphor Society is an interdisciplinary community exploring how metaphor and symbolic thought shape human experience across language, psychology, embodied cognition, therapy, culture and related scholarship. The Society offers live online talks and discussions, a growing presentation archive, articles and explorations, and opportunities for exchange among researchers, practitioners and others interested in metaphor, mind and meaning. Topics include conceptual and embodied metaphor, the r

SUMMARY Chapter 1: Linguistic Modality This initial chapter introduces the theoretical framework of the book and establishes the concepts that guide the following chapters. According to the authors, the book aims to “offer a conceptual grounding of modality within the notions of truth, (non)veridicality, epistemic commitment, and evidential bias” (1). Giannakidou and Mari begin by returning to the foundations of modal theory, distinguishing between necessity and possibility modals as descr

For decades, the question of developmental ordering among subjectification, intersubjectification, and related processes has driven one of the most productive debates in grammaticalization research and historical linguistics. In the foundational stages of grammaticalization theory, Traugott (1982) proposed that meanings tend to shift from propositional (truth-conditional and referential) through textual functions of discourse cohesion, and finally toward expressive meanings encoding the speaker’

For decades, the question of developmental ordering among subjectification, intersubjectification, and related processes has driven one of the most productive debates in grammaticalization research and historical linguistics. In the foundational stages of grammaticalization theory, Traugott (1982) proposed that meanings tend to shift from propositional (truth-conditional and referential) through textual functions of discourse cohesion, and finally toward expressive meanings encoding the speaker’

The French-German research project IMMAGES – Hosting a clause: IMplications for the MAtrix and its GuestS (ANR-22-FRAL-0005) invites submissions for its final conference. IMMAGES investigates the syntax and semantics of complement clauses, that is, clauses embedded under predicates such as say, believe, or hope. More specifically, the project explores the hypothesis that the relation between an embedded clause and its matrix predicate is not direct, but mediated, and that complement clauses

The American Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ACIR) is hosting its inaugural Interdisciplinary Conference on November 12, 2026, via Zoom — and you are warmly invited to participate. Conference Theme: Knowledge Without Borders: Bridging Disciplines for the Public Good This one-day virtual event is designed for one purpose: to open up how people across different fields see, hear, and engage with each other's work. Too often, breakthrough ideas stay within the boundaries of a single di

This is a panel at the 20th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA20). In this panel we focus on conflict as an interactional-pragmatic phenomenon. It aims to explore how speakers signal, negotiate, and contest meaning, focusing on the dynamic interplay between communicative practices and the contextual features of conflict. These may include the nature of the dispute, the medium of interaction, participants’ roles and relationships, and social or institutional stakes. Bringing togethe

The French-German research project IMMAGES – Hosting a clause: IMplications for the MAtrix and its GuestS (ANR-22-FRAL-0005) invites submissions for its final conference. IMMAGES investigates the syntax and semantics of complement clauses, that is, clauses embedded under predicates such as say, believe, or hope. More specifically, the project explores the hypothesis that the relation between an embedded clause and its matrix predicate is not direct, but mediated, and that complement clauses

The American Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ACIR) is hosting its inaugural Interdisciplinary Conference on November 12, 2026, via Zoom — and you are warmly invited to participate. Conference Theme: Knowledge Without Borders: Bridging Disciplines for the Public Good This one-day virtual event is designed for one purpose: to open up how people across different fields see, hear, and engage with each other's work. Too often, breakthrough ideas stay within the boundaries of a single di

This is a panel at the 20th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA20). In this panel we focus on conflict as an interactional-pragmatic phenomenon. It aims to explore how speakers signal, negotiate, and contest meaning, focusing on the dynamic interplay between communicative practices and the contextual features of conflict. These may include the nature of the dispute, the medium of interaction, participants’ roles and relationships, and social or institutional stakes. Bringing togethe

The 30th International Conference on Yue Dialects will be held on December 18-19, 2026 at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), which is jointly organized by the T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre, CUHK and the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, CUHK, co-organized by the Hong Kong Base of the Joint Research Institute for International Communication of Language and Culture of the Ministry of Education and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao University Alliance for Chinese, and s

Call for Papers: Confirmed Speakers: Anna Papafragou (University of Pennsylvania) Devyani Sharma (University of Oxford) Sandrine Zufferey (University of Bern) After the successful workshop Social Meaning and Grammar, which took place in Zürich in February 2026 (https://www.ds.uzh.ch/de/tagungen/social-meaning-and-grammar.html), we are now moving on to the second round. The term ‘social’ plays a central role in the acquisition and learning literature in general (e.g., in broad topics s