Meeting Description: Following the success of previous editions in Helsinki (2021), Stockholm (2024), and Leipzig (2025), Emerging Topics in Typology (ETT) will return for its fourth edition in 2026, this time at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, from 15 to 17 July 2026. This is a conference organised by and for PhD students in linguistic typology and diversity linguistics. We welcome abstracts on a range of topics in diversity linguistics (quantitative and qualitative typology, languag

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Seventh International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations (DMR 2026), to be held at LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Workshop website: https://dmr2026.github.io/ Submission deadline: February 28, 2026 DMR 2026 invites contributions on topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Development and annotation of meaning representations - Challenges and techniques in leveraging meaning representations for do

This thesis examines how Amazigh (Berber) languages are planned in Morocco—the largest Amazigh-speaking country by population—and investigates the considerations underlying these measures through the ideologies of the Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture (IRCAM). It traces the historical development of the Amazigh cultural movement from its Kabylian origins in the colonial period to its Moroccan expression, showing how language planning—through the creation of the Neo-Tifinagh script and neolog

This dissertation investigates how bilingual speakers navigate lexico-syntactic features, including grammatical gender, classifier systems, and the linear order of adjectives and nouns, across Spanish and Chinese in both unilingual and bilingual contexts. The central focus is on how early Spanish–Chinese bilinguals, particularly those residing in Barcelona, Spain, process and produce grammatical gender in Spanish and classifiers in Mandarin Chinese. It also examines how these bilinguals resolve

Languages employ different nominal classification systems to categorise nouns. In German, each noun is assigned a grammatical gender, while in Mandarin Chinese, nouns are paired with classifiers that align with semantic features. Grammatical gender and classifiers are lexico-syntactic features that are assumed to be automatically activated during speech production. Although grammatical gender has been widely studied, research on classifiers remains scarce, and it is unclear how such features are

This thesis investigates how native and second language (L2) speakers establish temporal relations in Spanish, integrating formal linguistic theory with experimental evidence. Part I examines temporal interpretation in complex (two-clause) sentences such as Mary said that John was sick. In this so-called ‘past-under-past’ construction, John’s illness may be understood as simultaneous with or anterior to Mary’s report. Competing accounts have attributed the availability (or lack thereof) of these

Pronominal systems represent one of the most fertile testing grounds for understanding grammar as a symbolic system adapted to a stochastic cognitive environment. Pronouns are minimal in descriptive content but maximal in context dependency: they enable reference-tracking without lexical repetition, interact closely with information structure, and frequently give rise to mismatches between form and meaning (Onea et al. 2023). The 2026 edition of the Vienna Workshops on Portuguese Linguistics,

Pronominal systems represent one of the most fertile testing grounds for understanding grammar as a symbolic system adapted to a stochastic cognitive environment. Pronouns are minimal in descriptive content but maximal in context dependency: they enable reference-tracking without lexical repetition, interact closely with information structure, and frequently give rise to mismatches between form and meaning (Onea et al. 2023). The 2026 edition of the Vienna Workshops on Portuguese Linguistics,

Call for Papers: Call for Papers for Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference (Sept 2-4, Edinburgh) and Proposed Special Issue: In-Group Queer Languages Beyond the West Pioneering researchers of twentieth-century argots developed by sexual and gender minorities documented covert lexicons employed by trans women and gay men – often including sex workers – and, to a lesser extent, lesbian women and trans men (Hayes 1976; Painter 1981; Sonenschein 1969). This research typically expla

Final Call for Papers: Deadline Extended. From August 31st to September 2nd, 2026, the 11th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association (GCLA/Deutsche Gesellschaft für kognitive Linguistik – DGKL) will take place on-site in Bielefeld, Germany. We invite papers on a broad range of topics taking a cognitive approach to the study of language. For more information, see the DGKL/GCLA website about the tenets of Cognitive Linguistics. General Session and Poster S

[English below.] L'étrangeté en partage Journée d’étude sur les langues imaginaires Besançon, 12 juin 2026 Nous sollicitons des propositions pour une journée d’étude consacrée aux langues imaginaires, ou artlangs (artistic languages), qui se tiendra à Besançon le 12 juin 2026. On entend par langue imaginaire une langue inventée à des fins artistiques et intégrée à une œuvre de fiction (roman, film, série, bande dessinée, œuvre poétique, jeu vidéo etc.). À ce titre, elle se distingue d

Keynote with Charlotte Bosseaux with a Screening and Q&A of Surviving Translation Roundtable discussion with poets and translators Anna Błasiak, Maria Jastrzębska, and Piotr Florczyk Political literature encapsulates and brings to light how the political permeates our everyday lives and situations, using a range of literary devices and genres as tools to share ideas and observations, thus actively taking part into shaping societies and individuals. As there are laws supporting some languages