We are still looking for a few contributors to this project specifically for the following chapter headings:
- Kyrgyzstan
- Turkmenistan
- Premodern Language Policy
- Statecraft-diplomacy and Law
I have copied the original call for contributions below.
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Call for Contributors: Handbook of Language Policies in the Caucasus and Central Asia
We invite chapter proposals for the forthcoming De Gruyter-Brill Handbook of Language Po
I am a student of the Applied Linguistics MA program in Bonn (Germany), currently working on a module-embedded, extensive research project. In this context, I am conducting multiple surveys, for which I am still in need of participants. I am preferably looking for native speakers of English or German, though the official requirement for each survey is a B1 (CEFR) level per language. Links to both versions of the survey can be found below. If you are willing to participate, please choose the surv
We are happy to announce that we have released the second version of the South Slavic CLASSLA-web corpora. The corpus collection contains approximately 38 million texts and 17 billion words, collected from the web in 2024, and covers the full South Slavic language group: Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Serbian, and Slovenian. Compared to CLASSLA-web 1.0, the new web corpora are significantly expanded and largely consist of new texts. The corpora are linguistically annotate
The Metagram seminar (https://htl.cnrs.fr/seminaire-metagram/) is a monthly seminar on questions of grammaticography and metagrammaticography. The seminar takes place the second Tuesday of each month, Feb-May and Sept-Dec, in hybrid mode. It is supported by the Empirical Foundations of Linguistics infrastructure project.
The seminar is one of two strands within a research project, 鈥淒eveloping (meta)grammaticographical methods鈥�, coordinated by Aim茅e Lahaussois and Yvonne Treis, which centers a
You are cordially invited to a free lecture hosted by Lakeland University Japan on Thursday, March 12 at 7:00pm Japan Standard Time. The lecture will be based on Mario Leto's forthcoming book The Discursive Construction of Veganism: An Ecolinguistics Approach, to be published in the Bloomsbury Advances in Ecolinguistics series (ebook 5 March, hardcover 2 April). In his lecture, Dr. Leto will discuss the discursive representations of plant-based diets in podcasts, television programs, online new
The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers working on the languages of Pamir, Hindu Kush and Karakoram, a mountainous area also known as Hindu Kush鈥揔arakoram or Peristan in recent publications. Many of these languages are endangered and remain under-described. In this context, it is particularly important to foster collaboration between linguists currently working on the languages of this convergence area and review those aspects of languages that have received less attention in th
The theme of this conference, "Beyond Human Language: The impact of AI on Linguistics,鈥� asks how language is created, implicated, manipulated, used, learned, taught, and bought and sold by the integration of Artificial Intelligence into all aspects of our lives. It is not an overstatement to say that the arrival of AI upends every aspect of Linguistics, from the way language gets created to the way language is used to the way language goes out of use. The relationship between language and AI eme
The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers working on the languages of Pamir, Hindu Kush and Karakoram, a mountainous area also known as Hindu Kush鈥揔arakoram or Peristan in recent publications. Many of these languages are endangered and remain under-described. In this context, it is particularly important to foster collaboration between linguists currently working on the languages of this convergence area and review those aspects of languages that have received less attention in th
The theme of this conference, "Beyond Human Language: The impact of AI on Linguistics,鈥� asks how language is created, implicated, manipulated, used, learned, taught, and bought and sold by the integration of Artificial Intelligence into all aspects of our lives. It is not an overstatement to say that the arrival of AI upends every aspect of Linguistics, from the way language gets created to the way language is used to the way language goes out of use. The relationship between language and AI eme
2nd Call for Papers:
Pitch at the Crossroads: Experimental Approaches to the Language鈥揗usic Connection
Date and Time:
Thursday, June 25, 2026
1:00鈥�4:30 pm
Location:
Montr茅al, Qu茅bec, Canada
Satellite Workshop of LabPhon20
Pitch is central to both language and music, yet the relationship between linguistic and musical pitch remains under-theorized within laboratory phonology. While LabPhon has long advanced the experimental study of tone and intonation, explicit cross-domain resea
El Colegio de M茅xico A. C., Escuela Nacional de Lenguas, Ling眉铆stica y Traducci贸n UNAM, and Instituto de Investigaciones Antropol贸gicas UNAM, invite presentation proposals for the VII Formal Linguistics Meeting in Mexico (ELF) to be held on September 1, 2, and 3, 2026 at El Colegio de M茅xico, Mexico City.
The Formal Linguistics Meeting aims to bring together researchers who consider formal approaches to the study of language in order to foster the exchange and discussion of linguistic phenome
El Colegio de M茅xico A. C., Escuela Nacional de Lenguas, Ling眉铆stica y Traducci贸n UNAM, and Instituto de Investigaciones Antropol贸gicas UNAM, invite presentation proposals for the VII Formal Linguistics Meeting in Mexico (ELF) to be held on September 1, 2, and 3, 2026 at El Colegio de M茅xico, Mexico City.
The Formal Linguistics Meeting aims to bring together researchers who consider formal approaches to the study of language in order to foster the exchange and discussion of linguistic phenome
We would like to invite you to the 4th and 5th workshops in our Transforming Research into Practice (TRIP) series, which will take place in a HYBRID format, on Saturday, 14th March 2026. If you live in or around the Manchester area, please consider joining us in person at the Manchester Metropolitan University campus.
Workshop 4
The 4th TRIP workshop will be led by Dr Karen Forbes, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK, entitled:
"We Are Multilingual鈥�: Identity-based Activitie
Department of Applied Linguistics, Department of Pedagogy and Department of English and American Studies of the University of Gda艅sk, Poland, in cooperation with ELLMEnet (Early Language Learning and Multilingual Education Network), are proud to welcome researchers from all over the world to contribute to our 4th International Conference on Early Language Learning and Multilingual Education in Early Childhood.
In an increasingly interconnected and globalised world, the significance of multili
Department of Applied Linguistics, Department of Pedagogy and Department of English and American Studies of the University of Gda艅sk, Poland, in cooperation with ELLMEnet (Early Language Learning and Multilingual Education Network), are proud to welcome researchers from all over the world to contribute to our 4th International Conference on Early Language Learning and Multilingual Education in Early Childhood.
In an increasingly interconnected and globalised world, the significance of multili
For more than 30 years, the conferences organized by the International Society for Humor Studies have been the primary venue to present scientific research in the field of humor studies. The ISHS welcomes papers from the numerous expertises, such as social sciences, communication and media studies, anthropology, political science, history, psychology, education, linguistics and translation, folklore, computational sciences and engineering, robotics, law, among others.
Individual paper proposa
A Postgraduate Workshop hosted by the Department of English, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
You're warmly invited to a two-day in-person workshop on AI Applications in Humanities, open to Research Postgraduate students (MPhil and PhD) in Hong Kong. Whether you're already using digital tools in your research or simply curious about what AI can offer 鈥� you are most welcome to join this workshop!
Dates: 13鈥�14 March 2026
Venue: User Education Room, G/F, University Library, CUHK
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2nd Call for Papers:
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 quali
For more than 30 years, the conferences organized by the International Society for Humor Studies have been the primary venue to present scientific research in the field of humor studies. The ISHS welcomes papers from the numerous expertises, such as social sciences, communication and media studies, anthropology, political science, history, psychology, education, linguistics and translation, folklore, computational sciences and engineering, robotics, law, among others.
Individual paper proposa
A Postgraduate Workshop hosted by the Department of English, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
You're warmly invited to a two-day in-person workshop on AI Applications in Humanities, open to Research Postgraduate students (MPhil and PhD) in Hong Kong. Whether you're already using digital tools in your research or simply curious about what AI can offer 鈥� you are most welcome to join this workshop!
Dates: 13鈥�14 March 2026
Venue: User Education Room, G/F, University Library, CUHK
ree lunch