Calls: II International Conference on Academic Literacies in Multilingual Contexts
Call for Papers:
We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the II International Conference on Academic Literacies in Multilingual Contexts (19-20 November, 2026 in Bilbao), which will bring together researchers interested in the development of academic and disciplinary literacies in multilingual educational settings.
The conference focuses on how learners develop the language and literacy practices required for academic success across subjects, with particular attention to primary
Confs: Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa conference 2026
Important Dates:
- Submission deadline: 20 August 2026
- Date of notification: 21 September 2026
- Camera-ready copy deadline: 19 October 2026
- Conference: 17 November 2026 – 20 November 2026
- Conference venue: University of Eswatini, Kwaluseni, Kingdom of Eswatini
Co-located Events:
Several co-located events are currently being prepared, including workshops and tutorials. These will be updated on the conference website.
Submission Types:
Long papers — max 8 content pages (9
Calls: ColDoc 2026 – PhD students and Young Researchers
Call for Papers:
Deadline Extended : July 3th 2026
COLDOC is a biannual conference organized by doctoral students and early-career researchers at the MoDyCo laboratory (UMR 7114 – CNRS/Université Paris Nanterre). This year's edition will be held on November 9th and 10th.
For its 16th edition, COLDOC centers on the interfaces and interactions that connect all areas of linguistics and natural language processing. Language is inherently an interactive phenomenon, yet the forms and framewor
Calls: ANGLICA: An International Journal of English Studies - "Special Issue: Creativity and Extravagance in English Evaluative Morphology" (Jrnl)
Thematic Issue 2028: Creativity and Extravagance in English Evaluative Morphology
Guest Editor(s): Andrés Muñoz García (University of Alicante) & José A. Sánchez Fajardo (University of Alicante)
ANGLICA: An International Journal of English Studies is an open-access, annual, peer-reviewed journal in literary, cultural, and linguistic studies published both in print and online under the auspices of the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland. The journal is indexed in SCOPUS
Confs: Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa conference 2026
Important Dates:
- Submission deadline: 20 August 2026
- Date of notification: 21 September 2026
- Camera-ready copy deadline: 19 October 2026
- Conference: 17 November 2026 – 20 November 2026
- Conference venue: University of Eswatini, Kwaluseni, Kingdom of Eswatini
Co-located Events:
Several co-located events are currently being prepared, including workshops and tutorials. These will be updated on the conference website.
Submission Types:
Long papers — max 8 content pages (9
Review: Michael Fortescue (2026)
SUMMARY
“This is the Thing, A cognitive/typological investigation into the concept of ‘thinghood’” is a monograph written by Michael Fortescue which was published in 2026. The 220-page volume contains fifteen chapters, followed by a full references list, two appendixes (‘Words for body and animal’ and ‘Words for shape, form and figure’), a Subject, a Name, and a Language Index. Before the first chapter, a short preface describes the author’s incentive to undergo this study of ‘thing’ words an
Summer Schools: Paralex Datathon @ LIFT2
Focus: This datathon aims to guide participants through the creation of high-quality, FAIR morphological data. Participants will create Paralex datasets, machine-readable collections of inflectional paradigms. These collections are of benefit to people working on descriptions of individual languages, language typologists, theorists and quantitative linguists.
Participants are expected to bring morphological data they are interested in, be it content from a grammar, their own fieldwork collect
FYI: Making Waves July 2026 Meeting
The final meeting of the first season of Making Waves, an online discussion group launched in October 2025 and dedicated to the acquisition of prosody and gesture, will take place on Wednesday, July 1, at 15:00 (CET). Patrick L. Rohrer will give a talk titled “From Speech to Gesture: Theoretical Tensions in the Notion of Prominence”.
We look forward to seeing many of you there and to another lively discussion.
Abstract:
The notion of prominence plays a central role in research on speech p
Confs: XIV Conferencia Internacional Lingüística 2026 / II Encuentro Internacional del Grupo de Estudios de Fraseología de Cuba
El Instituto De Literatura Y Lingüística “José Antonio Portuondo Valdor" Convoca a:
XIV Conferencia Internacional Lingüística 2026 en Homenaje Al Centenario De La Academia Cubana De La Lengua
II Encuentro Internacional Del Grupo De Estudios De Fraseología De Cuba
Eventos híbridos (presencial y virtual)
La Habana, 25-27 de noviembre de 2026
Temáticas:
Lexicografía; Fraseología y fraseografía; Morfosintaxis; Lexicología y semántica; Terminografía; Fonética y fonología; Teorías lingüí
Confs: XIV Conferencia Internacional Lingüística 2026 / II Encuentro Internacional del Grupo de Estudios de Fraseología de Cuba
El Instituto De Literatura Y Lingüística “José Antonio Portuondo Valdor" Convoca a:
XIV Conferencia Internacional Lingüística 2026 en Homenaje Al Centenario De La Academia Cubana De La Lengua
II Encuentro Internacional Del Grupo De Estudios De Fraseología De Cuba
Eventos híbridos (presencial y virtual)
La Habana, 25-27 de noviembre de 2026
Temáticas:
Lexicografía; Fraseología y fraseografía; Morfosintaxis; Lexicología y semántica; Terminografía; Fonética y fonología; Teorías lingüí
Confs: International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English
We are pleased to announce that ICAME48 will take place in Helsinki (Finland) on 18–22 May 2027. ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English) is an annual international conference and one of the longest-standing organisations of linguists and data scientists working with English language corpora. The conference theme is The Times They Are A-Changin’, honouring the University of Helsinki English Unit’s longstanding tradition of studying language change with corpus-based m
Confs: Workshop at DGfS 2027: Pragmatic Functions of Applicative Alternations
This workshop is organized as part of the 49th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of Germany (DGfS 2027).
Workshop Organizers:
András Bárány (University of Edinburgh)
Jens Hopperdietzel (University of Cologne)
Jozina Vander Klok (Simon Fraser University)
Workshop Description:
The interaction between the (morpho)syntactic realization of event participants and their discourse status is a central topic in linguistic research. Currently, we have a good understanding of how alter
Confs: International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English
We are pleased to announce that ICAME48 will take place in Helsinki (Finland) on 18–22 May 2027. ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English) is an annual international conference and one of the longest-standing organisations of linguists and data scientists working with English language corpora. The conference theme is The Times They Are A-Changin’, honouring the University of Helsinki English Unit’s longstanding tradition of studying language change with corpus-based m
Confs: Workshop at DGfS 2027: Pragmatic Functions of Applicative Alternations
This workshop is organized as part of the 49th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of Germany (DGfS 2027).
Workshop Organizers:
András Bárány (University of Edinburgh)
Jens Hopperdietzel (University of Cologne)
Jozina Vander Klok (Simon Fraser University)
Workshop Description:
The interaction between the (morpho)syntactic realization of event participants and their discourse status is a central topic in linguistic research. Currently, we have a good understanding of how alter
Confs: Intermediality in Communication: Translation, Media, Discourse
Research group “Translation and Language Studies” (Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology) is pleased to invite you to participate in the international conference on linguistics, discourse, media, communication, translation, cultural literacy and impact on society “Intermediality in Communication: Translation, Media, Discourse” held in Kaunas, Lithuania. You are invited to present your projects and experiences in the formats of oral or poster presentatio
Confs: Intermediality in Communication: Translation, Media, Discourse
Research group “Translation and Language Studies” (Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology) is pleased to invite you to participate in the international conference on linguistics, discourse, media, communication, translation, cultural literacy and impact on society “Intermediality in Communication: Translation, Media, Discourse” held in Kaunas, Lithuania. You are invited to present your projects and experiences in the formats of oral or poster presentatio
Jobs: English; Applied Linguistics: Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence (AI), Iowa State University
Other Specialties: Artificial Intelligence
Description:
The Department of English in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Applied Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence (AI). We seek a faculty member who specializes in at least one of the following areas: the use of AI and language-generating technologies in first- and second- language learning, teaching, or assessment; linguistics-ba
Books: From Homer to Goethe and Beyond to AI: Margolis (2025)
This innovative volume presents a comparative and diachronic analysis of the major works of outstanding European poets representing different historical periods, languages, cultures, and religious traditions. By examining the most frequently occurring nouns (key concepts) in the original-language texts of Homer, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Pushkin, and Goethe, the author uncovers previously unrecognized linguistic patterns and conceptual structures underlying their poetic language.
The study is
Confs: Panel in XXV Congreso de la Asociación Alemana de Hispanistas: Clitics: Variation and Linguistic Change
The panel “Clitics: Variation and Linguistic Change” is part of the 25th Congreso de la Asociación Alemana de Hispanistas, with the main topic "Hispanística transatlántica: relaciones –mundos – vías", to be held at the University of Augsburg from March 9 to 13, 2027.
This panel is dedicated to clitics and to grammatical and pragmatic aspects of related phenomena such as:
- leísmo (laísmo, loísmo) (Fernández Ordóñez 1999; Flores Cervantes 2006) also in relation with other morphosyntactic phe
Confs: International Conference on Enclave Languages/Linguistic Islands
Linguistic enclaves and/or islands are communities whose spoken variety differs from that of the surrounding majority, often preserved through geographical, social, or political separation. Whether they are long-established diaspora varieties, historical settler languages, or indigenous communities encircled by an official standard language, enclave languages offer rich insights in a variety of linguistic issues.
Having long coexisted in regions of intense multilingualism, migration, and shif