Linguistics aggregator /linguistics/aggregator Linguistics - aggregated feeds en The LINGUIST List: FYI: Call for Contributors: Handbook of Language Policies in the Caucasus and Central Asia https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/845/ 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. ------------------------------------------------------ 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 Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:05:02 -0500 The LINGUIST List: Qs: Participant Search: Online Survey https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/844/ 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 Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:05:02 -0500 The LINGUIST List: FYI: CLASSLA-web 2.0 Web Corpora for South Slavic Languages https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/843/ 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 Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:05:02 -0500 The LINGUIST List: FYI: METAGRAM Seminar Series on Questions of Grammar-Writing (Hybrid Mode) https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/842/ 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, “Developing (meta)grammaticographical methods”, coordinated by Aimée Lahaussois and Yvonne Treis, which centers a Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:05:02 -0500 The LINGUIST List: Media: Public Lecture on the Forthcoming Book The Discursive Construction of Veganism: An Ecolinguistics Approach https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/841/ 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 Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:05:02 -0500 Conferences: Confs: Argument-coding Patterns In The Languages Of Pamir, Hindu Kush And Karakoram: Exploring Morphosyntactic And Lexical Variation https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/840/ 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–Karakoram 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 Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:05:02 -0500 Conferences: Confs: 69th Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/839/ The theme of this conference, "Beyond Human Language: The impact of AI on Linguistics,” 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 Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:05:02 -0500 The LINGUIST List: Confs: Argument-coding Patterns In The Languages Of Pamir, Hindu Kush And Karakoram: Exploring Morphosyntactic And Lexical Variation https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/840/ 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–Karakoram 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 Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:05:02 -0500 The LINGUIST List: Confs: 69th Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/839/ The theme of this conference, "Beyond Human Language: The impact of AI on Linguistics,” 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 Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:05:02 -0500 The LINGUIST List: Calls: Workshop at LabPhon 20: Pitch at the Crossroads: Experimental Approaches to the Language–Music Connection https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/838/ 2nd Call for Papers: Pitch at the Crossroads: Experimental Approaches to the Language–Music Connection Date and Time: Thursday, June 25, 2026 1:00–4:30 pm Location: Montréal, Québec, 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 Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:05:02 -0500