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Tue, 05/26/2026 - 16:05
Starting with volume 23 (2026), Barbara de Cock (Université Catholique de Louvain) will succeed Rosina Márquez Reiter (The Open University) as Co-Editor of the John Benjamins journal Spanish in Context, joining Executive Editor Francisco Moreno-Fernández (Universidad de Alcalá & Heidelberg University) and Co-Editors Lucía Cantamutto (Universidad Nacional de Río Negro) & Andrew Lynch (University of Miami). We are greatly indebted to Rosina Márquez Reiter who started the journal and under whos

Tue, 05/26/2026 - 16:05
Focus: Subtitles, cinema, cinema communication Description: Cinema, linguaggi, comunicazione è la Summer School dell’Università degli Studi di Trieste dedicata al cinema come spazio di incontro tra linguaggi, pratiche comunicative e competenze professionali. In programma dal 21 al 25 settembre 2026 a Trieste, la scuola propone 32 ore di lezioni, visite e laboratori pratici, con particolare attenzione ai linguaggi audiovisivi, alla comunicazione e alla sottotitolazione. Il percorso si conc

Tue, 05/26/2026 - 15:05
We are excited to invite everyone to join Dr. Ahmad Izadi's inspiring webinar on "Power in Healthcare Communication," part of the VIZJA series in Frontiers in Language Studies & Research. This initiative is organised by VIZJA University and will be held online on June 11, 2026, at 10:00 AM. Use the following link for registration: https://form.jotform.com/261352711717050

Tue, 05/26/2026 - 15:05
Merlin's Syntax Studio is a free, browser-based syntax tree generator designed for linguists, syntax instructors, and students. It converts bracketed expressions into clean syntactic tree diagrams and supports commonly needed notation for phrase-structure trees, including multiline labels, visible and hidden movement indices, strikethrough traces/copies, italic text, outline text, Greek letters, triangle/roof notation, and customizable movement links. The tool provides an interactive workspac

Tue, 05/26/2026 - 15:05
Join our online reading group to discuss hot-off-the-press publications in historical sociolinguistics with the authors! The fourth session of "Reading with NARNiHS" is taking place on Monday, 29 June 2026, at 10:00 am US Eastern time / 4:00 pm European Central time and features Christine Wallis with her recent work in historical pragmatics, politeness, and identity work using intriguing material culture data from postal practices in 18th-century England. Reading with NARNiHS is a vibrant

Tue, 05/26/2026 - 10:05
The functional domain of apprehensionality encompasses grammatical markers or constructions which conventionally encode or pragmatically implicate that the situation described by the clause is an undesirable possibility. Its main manifestations discussed in this volume are (i) apprehensives, which are modal markers which can occur in main clauses, and thus could serve to translate English might in Don't go near this dog, it might bite (but also add a component of undesirability), and (ii) precau

Tue, 05/26/2026 - 10:05
What do people mean when they talk about the sound pattern of a language—what linguists call phonology? This book explores that question in a hands-on way, with a focus on applying the knowledge in language revitalization and community language work. The book introduces basic ideas and analytic strategies using examples from Indigenous languages across North and South America. Short comprehension checks invite you to test your understanding, and language explorations encourage you to apply what

Tue, 05/26/2026 - 10:05
Despite decades of scholarship on lexical borrowing in post-Conquest England, the vocabulary of the medieval countryside has remained largely outside the lens of contact linguistics — an oversight shaped by the long-standing assumption that French influence was confined to elite domains. At the same time, the multilingual reality of medieval England has made monolingual lexicography an increasingly inadequate tool: the Anglo-French, Medieval Latin, and Middle English lexicons of the period canno

Tue, 05/26/2026 - 09:05
2025. v, 207 pp. Table of Contents Obituary In memoriam p. 1 Introduction The Nature of Modality: Werner Abraham’s Perspective Ermenegildo Bidese & Manuela Caterina Moroni pp. 2–9 Articles From Needing to Wanting: Taking a Deep Dive into Abraham’s Modal Protosoup Jakob Maché pp. 10–50 Perspectival Mechanisms of Modality: Semantic Shifts of Modal Verb sollen (‘shall’) + inf. in German Stefan Hinterwimmer & Sonja Zeman pp. 51–79 Modality and Illocutionary Force:

Tue, 05/26/2026 - 09:05
This dissertation investigates how Mandarin Chinese encodes definiteness and indefiniteness in the absence of a dedicated article system. It addresses the “alternation challenge,” a tension between the functionalist observation that Mandarin bare nouns alternate with overt markers (numeral-yi and demonstratives) and the formal semantic generalization that Mandarin bare nouns do not require determiners to function as arguments. Adopting a data-driven translation corpus methodology based on Harry

Tue, 05/26/2026 - 09:05
Languages constantly change, especially when they are spoken across generations and in contact with other languages. One striking site of such change is Differential Object Marking (DOM), the phenomenon whereby only some direct objects are overtly marked, typically depending on properties such as animacy, definiteness, or discourse prominence. In Romance languages, DOM has a long and complex history, often realised through the preposition a. Yet little is known about how these systems evolve wh

Tue, 05/26/2026 - 08:05
Call for Papers: One Experimental Day June 18th 2026 | Online Online Event on Experimental Linguistics Hosted by Dr. Anastasia Gerasimova and Prof. Ekaterina Lyutikova The program features three keynote talks and a Showcase Session for early-career researchers. Invited Speakers: Jennifer Culbertson (University of Edinburgh) Ellen Lau (University of Maryland) Jana Willer-Gold (University of Oxford) Call for Showcase Presentations: In addition to the keynote lectures, the pro

Tue, 05/26/2026 - 05:05
Call for Papers: The International Linguistic Society is delighted to invite you to participate in the International Thematic Conference of Language Education Research and Applications, Language Education 2026, to be held online from 24-26 June 2026. The primary aim of the conference is to advance key areas of language education, welcoming at the same time innovative approaches to related research and applications. The Language Education 2026 conference envisions a vibrant platform for

Tue, 05/26/2026 - 05:05
Call for Papers: "(In)transitivity and its Variation" workshop, founded by SLE Joint initiatives research grant 2026, will be held in Poznań (Poland) on 28-29 September 2026. This workshop aims to explore the interplay of semantics, morphology, and syntax in encoding (in)transitivity, investigating the functional motivations underlying valency patterns across diverse language families. We welcome contributions dealing with (but not restricted to) the following topics: - Transitivity promi

Mon, 05/25/2026 - 14:05
SUMMARY Comparing Linguistic Diachronies contains an introduction to, and a collection of papers based on, presentations at the 2022 and 2023 editions of the Comparing Diachronies workshops at the Language Variation and Change in Ancient and Medieval Europe—Comparing Diachronies summer school held in Naxos, Greece. The volume seems to be intended for a general audience, that is, for anyone from readers with a passing interest in languages and linguistics to researchers whose agendas include a

Mon, 05/25/2026 - 11:05
Call for Papers: For centuries, linguistics focused on written language as “the norm”, and all features of language were studied based on written and often constructed artificial examples. Spoken corpora have enabled a shift in the way we view language, e.g. from a product-based to a process-based view on grammar, from an inherently-fluent view on communication to stipulating a fluency–disfluency continuum, from a verbally-centred communication to a multimodal construction of meaning. Data

Mon, 05/25/2026 - 11:05
Appel à communications À la mémoire de Bernard Dupriez (1933-2025) Cette deuxième édition de nos journées, qui aura lieu le 17 novembre 2026 et qui sera consacrée au thème de la réticence, se veut le prolongement et l’approfondissement en études médiévales, françaises et romanes, du colloque pour jeunes chercheurs « The unspoken and silence in language and literature », qui s’est tenu en novembre 2025 à l’Université de Sofia. Or notre journée s’adresse aussi bien aux jeunes chercheurs (é

Mon, 05/25/2026 - 11:05
Call for Papers: The Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS 2026) invites researchers, practitioners, industry experts, and students to participate in this international forum dedicated to the latest advances in NLP, Artificial Intelligence, and Cyber Security. The conference will take place in Alicante, Spain, on 11–12 June 2026. The list of accepted papers is published at: https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es/accept

Mon, 05/25/2026 - 10:05
The VI International Postgraduate Seminar in English Literature and Linguistics (IPSELL) organised by the Master’s in English Literature and Linguistics of the University of Granada aims to provide a forum where postgraduate students/researchers can present the results of their current research projects (preferably MA dissertation or early PhD work). This event intends to allow master’s and early career research students to share their research interests with national and international young sch

Mon, 05/25/2026 - 10:05
Call for Papers: The Department of English Philology at the University of Zielona Góra is pleased to announce a scientific conference celebrating the 20th anniversary of English philology at the University of Zielona Góra. The conference "Contemporary Perspectives on Language and Literatures in English" aims to bring together young and established scholars giving them a venue for reexamining the focus, content, boundaries and interconnections between disciplines within the broad area of

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