The three-volume work Negation in the world's languages constitutes a major step forward in the comparative study of negation. It includes 43 chapters describing the negation system of one language each, following a typologically and functionally oriented questionnaire. The questionnaire is a comparative tool organized according to functional subdomains of negation. It highlights aspects of negation that have been found salient in typological research, such as standard negation, negation in non-

2026 Call for publications in the UVigo series ‘Lingua’ 1. Justification The Lingua Research Institute (iLingua) opens the series ‘Lingua’ in the Publications Service of the University of Vigo, with the aim of creating an editorial space for the publication of monographs and collective works on research in languages and linguistics. Priority will be given to publication proposals that fall within iLingua’s lines of research (https://ilingua.uvigo.gal/investigacion/), although original pro

Focus: Ancient Greek, Modern Greek, Historical linguistics Description: This is a one-week introduction to the Modern Greek language directed at graduate and undergraduate students, as well as interested faculty, who have at least a basic knowledge of the Ancient Greek language. The major objective of the program is to equip classicists with knowledge they can use to leverage their command of Classical Greek to gain a foothold in the modern language, essentially repurposing their Classical

The International Journal of Arabic Linguistics (IJAL) is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to scholarly research on the Arabic language in all its varieties and contexts. IJAL welcomes work on the linguistic structure of Arabic, its history, and its functions in society, including (but not limited to) dialectology, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and related areas. Publication model: Continuous publication (articles are published online as soon as they are ready).

Writing an academic text can be challenging for English learners, including Indonesian students studying at Hungarian Universities (HUs). These students must learn to write in a second language while mastering grammatical structures and lexical resources, as well as distinguishing between academic English and conversational English in terms of conventional words, phrases,and sentence structures.This study is aimed at examining students’ experiences in English academic writing during their master

Description: In conjunction with the Linguistics Program at Wayne State University, the Department of English at Wayne State University invites applications for a 12-month pre-faculty fellow position specializing in language(s) of the African diaspora beginning on August 18. 2026. We seek an innovative researcher trained in Sociolinguistics or another subfield of Linguistics that intersects with Black Studies, which may include, but is not limited to structure and/or use of African American E

Other Specialties: US Society, Language, Gender & Sexuality, Ethnicity, Race & Language Description: The Department of Linguistics at the University of Colorado Boulder invites applications for an Assistant Teaching Professor position in the field of Sociocultural Linguistics (broadly defined) to start the fall 2026 semester. This is a full-time, non-tenure track position with an initial 3-year contract, which may be renewable ​This position makes significant contributions to the Depa

About the Conference: The ACM Annual Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) is the premier international event to present and discuss the newest research on socially interactive agents and human-agent interaction. Specifically, IVAs are AI-based virtual or robotic agents that exhibit human-like capabilities of social interaction, including multimodal communication using facial expressions, speech, or gestures, as well as real-time perception, cognition, emotion, and action that allow

Présentation des responsables de l’organisation: L’Association des Études Francophones (AEEF) rassemble les chercheurs et chercheuses qui étudient les littératures francophones contemporaines, qu’elles soient européennes, africaines, américaines, asiatiques ou océaniennes. L’AEEF entend promouvoir « une nouvelle façon de penser l’histoire des textes produits en langue française, y compris en France, et donc sortir des lectures hexagonales trop souvent déformantes » (Association des Études Fra

Le comité de direction du projet (Inter)Phonologie du français contemporain (I)PFC a le plaisir de vous annoncer que le Colloque international (Inter)phonologie du français contemporain – (I)PFC2026 aura lieu à Paris, à la Maison de la Norvège, les jeudi et vendredi 26 et 27 novembre 2026. Les propositions de communication dédiées à la phonologie du français, sa description, sa modélisation, son traitement et son apprentissage seront les bienvenues. Les propositions concernant les développeme

ComputEL-9 will be co-located with ACL 2026 in San Diego, California. We encourage submissions that explore the interface and intersection of computational linguistics, documentary linguistics, and community-based efforts in language revitalization and reclamation. This includes submissions that: (i) demonstrate new methods or technologies for tasks or applications focused on low-resource settings, and in particular, endangered languages, (ii) examine the use of specific methods in the ana

You are cordially invited to the Young Linguists’ Meeting, a tradition that began in 2000 at the Czech Language Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague and has continued at the Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc since 2001. The event hosts PhD candidates and young post-doc researchers in various disciplines of linguistics. What are the main topics of this year’s conference? - Language System and Cognition Grammatical gender and neutrality: How do the morphological

For this edition of the Poznań Linguistic Meeting, we invite participants to engage with the leitmotif “Linguistics in dialogue: looking for parallels beyond language.” We would like to encourage reflection on how linguistic phenomena can be illuminated/informed by other domains. Linguistics has long relied on analogies to describe, explain, and model language: language as a system, as a network, as a biological capacity, as a cultural phenomenon. Such metaphors often shape the questions we

« ‘‘À demain les Indiens’’ se dit en anglais : ‘‘Sioux tomorrow’’ » (Philippe Geluck)  Si « les langues diffèrent essentiellement par ce qu’elles doivent exprimer, et non par ce qu’elles peuvent exprimer » (Jakobson, 1963 : 84), la question de la transposition des jeux de mots et des traits d’humour d’une langue à une autre ne peut pas véritablement se poser comme une opposition entre « possible » ou « impossible ». L’humour et les jeux de mots ne se trouvent pas limités et enfermés dans la