Final Call for Papers: Extended Deadline: January 11, 2026 We invite submission of abstracts for 20-minute in-person talks and poster presentations on any topic of linguistic inquiry pertaining to spoken or signed languages. Subfields may include but are not limited to syntax, morphology, semantics, pragmatics, language acquisition, phonetics, phonology, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and their various interfaces. We also welcome work situate

We are delighted to announce the Sixth Conference of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS-6), hosted by Sapienza University of Rome from June 4 to 6, 2026. E-mail: labsil@uniroma1.it Conference Theme: (In)determinacy of Meaning Cognitive semiotics, repeatedly reimagined over recent decades, responds to a longstanding demand within both philosophical-linguistic and semiotic traditions: the need to investigate the semiotic mediation of cognition—both phylogenetically

We are delighted to announce the Sixth Conference of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS-6), hosted by Sapienza University of Rome from June 4 to 6, 2026. E-mail: labsil@uniroma1.it Conference Theme: (In)determinacy of Meaning Cognitive semiotics, repeatedly reimagined over recent decades, responds to a longstanding demand within both philosophical-linguistic and semiotic traditions: the need to investigate the semiotic mediation of cognition—both phylogenetically

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for XPRAG.it 2026, the 6th edition of the Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference, hosted by the University of Genoa and the XPRAG.it network. This year, XPRAG.it drops anchor at Genoa’s Old Port. The conference will take place on its historic pier, an iconic venue where sea, city, and history meet – long a site of exchange of goods, ideas, and cultures, and reminiscent of the settings of many Plato’s dialogues. We welcome submissions on any t

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for XPRAG.it 2026, the 6th edition of the Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference, hosted by the University of Genoa and the XPRAG.it network. This year, XPRAG.it drops anchor at Genoa’s Old Port. The conference will take place on its historic pier, an iconic venue where sea, city, and history meet – long a site of exchange of goods, ideas, and cultures, and reminiscent of the settings of many Plato’s dialogues. We welcome submissions on any t

In the past few decades, and since Kratzer’s seminar work in the later 70s Kratzer (1977, 1981, 1991), the phenomenon of modality has received substantial attention in linguistic theory— especially in formal semantics and the syntax- semantics interface, and recently also in experimental semantics-pragmatics (e.g. Phillips and Knobe (2017); Liu et al. (2021)). Modality generally refers to the expression of a speaker’s reduced commitment towards to the truth of the propositional content (De Haan

Call for Papers: Meeting Description: Tense and Aspect are fundamental categories in the architecture of grammar. Both situate eventualities in time, but they do so in different ways: tense anchors the time of the event deictically to the time of the utterance, yielding present, past, or future distinctions, either directly or through the mediation of a reference time (Comrie 1985, Bybee 1992). Aspect, on the other hand, refers to the internal temporal constituency of the event, encoding d

We are pleased to announce that the 17th international roundtable conference UZRT 2026, hosted by the SLA and TEFL Section of the Department of English at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, will take place on June 12th, 2026. Continuing with the long-standing tradition, the conference invites researchers and doctoral students working across the field of applied linguistics to share their current work, exchange ideas and build collaborations. We invite proposa

The Canadian Society for the Study of Names (CSSN) will hold its 60th Annual Meeting virtually from Saturday, June 6 to Sunday, June 7, 2026. The 2026 CSSN conference will not be held in conjunction with the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS) of Canada and will take place entirely online. The general theme of this 2026 CSSN Conference is “Onomastics and Toponymy as reflections of our World”. Papers on any onomastic or toponymic topic are welcome, from any discipline, per

We are pleased to announce that the 17th international roundtable conference UZRT 2026, hosted by the SLA and TEFL Section of the Department of English at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, will take place on June 12th, 2026. Continuing with the long-standing tradition, the conference invites researchers and doctoral students working across the field of applied linguistics to share their current work, exchange ideas and build collaborations. We invite proposa

The Canadian Society for the Study of Names (CSSN) will hold its 60th Annual Meeting virtually from Saturday, June 6 to Sunday, June 7, 2026. The 2026 CSSN conference will not be held in conjunction with the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS) of Canada and will take place entirely online. The general theme of this 2026 CSSN Conference is “Onomastics and Toponymy as reflections of our World”. Papers on any onomastic or toponymic topic are welcome, from any discipline, per

Digital transformations are profoundly affecting research practices in the humanities and social sciences (HSS). Massive access to heterogeneous corpora, the rise of computational methods and computing resources, the widespread use of data infrastructures, and the proliferation of collaborative tools are transforming the ways in which knowledge is captured, produced, analysed and shared. These transformations are enabling the development of new research methodologies and contributing to the deve

Digital transformations are profoundly affecting research practices in the humanities and social sciences (HSS). Massive access to heterogeneous corpora, the rise of computational methods and computing resources, the widespread use of data infrastructures, and the proliferation of collaborative tools are transforming the ways in which knowledge is captured, produced, analysed and shared. These transformations are enabling the development of new research methodologies and contributing to the deve

Please write or copy and paste your review of Love, Sex, and the Sacred here. SUMMARY Veronika Szelid’s Love, Sex, and the Sacred explores how ROMANTIC LOVE is conceptualized in the Hungarian love folk songs of a traditional religious community. The songs analyzed come from the Moldavian Csángós, a Roman Catholic Hungarian group that speaks one of the oldest Hungarian dialects. The book is organized into six chapters and includes an appendix containing the abbreviations used throughout, th

The following books are now available for review on the LINGUIST List. If you would like to become a reviewer for one of the books announced in the AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW posting, you will need to follow steps 1-4 explained below: Step 1: Go to https://linguistlist.org/reviews/request Step 2: You will be asked to log in or create an account. Step 3: Update your personal information and add reviewer specific information on why you would be a good reviewer for the books you wish to select. Step

SUMMARY “We look inward in order to fight forward” (p. 6). The edited collection Autoethnographic explorations of lived raciolinguistic experiences among multilingual scholars: Looking inward to move forward by Qianqian Zhang-Wu and Bridget Goodman is a unique and timely work that brings together deeply personal autoethnographic narratives of multilingual scholars from diverse cultural, linguistic, and ethnic backgrounds across the globe, spanning 14 institutions of higher education and 6

SUMMARY The idea of modeling language as a dynamical system is not new, but it has not caught on widely. With this entry in the Cambridge Elements series, Edgar W. Schneider draws attention to how concepts of complex dynamic systems theory can be used to better understand language, particularly the varieties of English spoken around the world. In keeping with the scope of the Elements series, the book is very short, only 85 pages including the references. It consists of six chapters: four

I teach an undergraduate course entitled “Indigenous languages: their past, present, and future,” with “future” referring to ongoing processes of revitalization, reclamation, and change. Since most of the Indigenous students at Syracuse University are from the United States or Canada and since I conduct my own research in Brazil, my syllabus focuses on the Indigenous peoples of the Americas and the languages that they speak (or spoke in the past). My students express interest in transnational p

SUMMARY The edited volume “Early Language Education in Instructed Contexts” offers a comprehensive, empirically grounded exploration of early additional-language learning for children aged approximately 5 to 12. Bringing together fourteen chapters from international scholars, the book surveys contemporary research on assessment, literacy development, classroom practices, teaching materials, teacher cognition, parental views, and transitional experiences between primary and secondary schooling

Dear Linguist Listers, Linguist List turns 36 years old this month! Our first issue was posted in December, 1990: https://linguistlist.org/issues/1/0/ We've come a long way since these humble beginnings. From a few dozen linguists on a new electronic mailing list -- to over 125,000 subscribers and followers worldwide! But with age, inevitably comes change… Linguist List's creators and its first moderators retired long ago. But before they did, they formed the eLinguistics Foundati