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Fri, 01/09/2026 - 16:05
Digitale Ressourcen, Methoden und Werkzeuge sind heute in verschiedensten Bereichen von Translation und Translatologie anzutreffen. Es genügt also nicht mehr, in diesem Zusammenhang nur ganz allgemein von Maschineller Übersetzung, Korpora und Termdatenbanken zu sprechen. Diesem Umstand trägt der Band Rechnung: In Überblicksbeiträgen mit Handbuchcharakter wird ein Querschnitt des Digitalen in Translationsforschung, -praxis und -didaktik wiedergegeben. Dieser reicht von historischen und psychologi

Fri, 01/09/2026 - 15:05
We are writing to introduce the MultiLX online seminar series, which brings together researchers, artists and creative practitioners to explore issues of language, culture and communication in an increasingly digital and multilingual Europe. The series is organised as part of the MultiLX research project, a multi-institutional collaboration that seeks to provide new knowledge about the communication practices and language ideologies of young people in Europe, shaping the future of inclusive mult

Fri, 01/09/2026 - 15:05
Both general linguists and Slavic specialists will find the Slavic verb to be a rich source of linguistic data. Its study offers insights that contribute to a deeper understanding of the Slavic languages and of language more broadly. The second volume of this two-part work compiles language-specific studies on the Slavic verb, featuring articles on secondary imperfectives, the aspectual behavior of simplex verbs, habituality, relative tense, and perfective verbs of returning. The empirical da

Fri, 01/09/2026 - 15:05
Both general linguists and Slavic specialists will find the Slavic verb to be a rich source of linguistic data. This book offers insights that contribute to a deeper understanding of both the Slavic languages and language structure more broadly The first volume of this two-part work presents studies on the Slavic verb from a comparative perspective, focusing on analyses involving two or more Slavic languages. It includes contributions on verbal aspect (including biaspectuality, the East Slavi

Fri, 01/09/2026 - 14:05
Call for Papers: The 40th International Conference of the Asociación de Jóvenes Lingüistas will take place in Salamanca (Spain) from 7 to 9 October 2026, fifteen years after the University of Salamanca last hosted the annual AJL conference. The conference is open to undergraduate and MA students, PhD candidates, and scholars who have obtained their PhD within the last two years. Contributions may be written in in any of the languages of Spain or English. Abstract submission will be open

Fri, 01/09/2026 - 14:05
Final Call for Papers: We are delighted to announce that the Gallo-Romance Advances in Morphology & Syntax (GRAMS) workshop will be held in Trinity College Dublin on 25-26 May 2026. The submission deadline is extended to 19 January 2026. GRAMS embraces the full diversity of the Gallo‑Romance continuum, such as (standard) French and its regional varieties, the lesser-studied Oïl dialects (e.g., Gallo, Picard, Franc-Comtois), and the Oc varieties of southern France (e.g., Provençal, Auver

Fri, 01/09/2026 - 14:05
ATRAS Journal is now inviting scholars from around the globe to submit their unpublished manuscripts for publication. The journal aims to contribute to the body of knowledge by publishing original papers in the fields of literature, gender studies, cultural studies, linguistics, education, language studies, translation, social sciences, and the arts. Researchers are invited to submit their manuscripts in English, Arabic, and French. Presentation: ATRAS Journal is inviting researchers from th

Fri, 01/09/2026 - 13:05
G21C (Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century), also known as /gʁafematik/, is a biennial academic conference that convenes scholars from disciplines engaged with grapholinguistics and, more broadly, the systematic study of writing systems and their manifestation in written communication. The conference seeks to examine the current state of scholarship in this domain and to assess the significance of writing and writing systems within adjacent disciplines, including computer science, communication

Fri, 01/09/2026 - 13:05
For the first time in the history of Semitic studies, this volume is devoted entirely to Modern South Arabian (MSA) as a unified linguistic and cultural entity. The three principal regions inhabited by MSA speakers—Mahra and Dhofar on the Arabian mainland, and the island of Soqotra—are comprehensively represented. The contributions span a broad thematic range, including cultural history, field sociology, and, above all, linguistics (both synchronic and diachronic), alongside the rich oral tradit

Fri, 01/09/2026 - 13:05
What happens when Chinese is shaped by centuries of contact with Mongolic, Tungusic, Turkic, and Tibetic languages? This volume explores this question through striking case studies of lects like Tangwang and Wutun, where Chinese exhibits unexpected features such as OV word order, case suffixes, and restructured verbal morphology. Drawing on rare fieldwork data, this volume reveals how deep multilingual interaction transforms grammatical systems. It offers a unique contribution to the study of la

Fri, 01/09/2026 - 12:05
What if Old Norwegian syntax diverged from Old Icelandic earlier than previously assumed? Discover the hidden dynamics of Old Norwegian syntax in this groundbreaking volume that challenges the long-held view that Old Norwegian and Old Icelandic can, on a syntactic level, be treated uniformly under the broader term ‘Old Norse.’ Through detailed analyses of information structure and prosodic weight, this book reveals – among other findings – an early shift toward fixed VO word order in Old Norwegi

Fri, 01/09/2026 - 12:05
The Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (SELIM) and the Local Organising Committee invite members of the Society and all scholars interested in the field to participate in the 36th International Conference of SELIM (SELIM 36), to be hosted by the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) in Toledo, from 23rd to 25th September 2026. The organisers welcome papers dealing with any aspect of medieval English language and literature. As in previous SELIM conferences, we especi

Thu, 01/08/2026 - 16:05
Richard Page, one of the founding editors of the SiGL book series, is stepping down; we sincerely thank him for his contribution to the series and to the Benjamins program in general. We welcome new editors David Natvig (University of Stavanger) and Hanna Fischer (Philipps-Universität Marburg), who will be joining Michael T. Putnam and Laura Catherine Smith. Studies in Germanic Linguistics (SiGL) aims to achieve a more detailed and nuanced understanding of the structural development of German

Thu, 01/08/2026 - 15:05
As of Volume 5 (2026), the John Benjamins journal Translation in Society welcomes on board two new Associate Editors, Diana Roig-Sanz (Open University of Catalonia, Spain) and Minhui Xu (University of Macau), and one new Review Editor, Giuseppe Palumbo (University of Trieste, Italy). The aim of this essentially interdisciplinary journal is to explore translation as a key social relation in a deeply interconnected world. Translation in Society offers a platform for the growing amount of resea

Thu, 01/08/2026 - 15:05
NyishiBERT is a transformer-based language model developed for the Nyishi language, a low-resource Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Northeast India. The model is intended to support linguistic research and language technology development for underrepresented languages, including tasks such as language modeling, downstream NLP experimentation, and corpus-based analysis. The model is trained on Nyishi text data and released openly to encourage reproducibility, reuse, and further research on low

Thu, 01/08/2026 - 15:05
Calling all native English-speaking academics & PhD students in Linguistics, Literature, or ELT! Help us with our TÜBİTAK-funded research (Project No: 323K457). This study focuses on interactional metadiscourse markers in academic writing (hedges, boosters, self-mentions etc.). 5-min survey + 25-min Zoom interview Fully anonymized results Interested? Email oliver.bevington@tedu.edu.tr with 3 preferred time slots to participate!

Thu, 01/08/2026 - 14:05
Description: Lecturer in Linguistics Position Spring 2026 University of California Los Angeles Requisition Number: JPF10778 UCLA Linguistics Department: Lecturer in Linguistics Position AY 2025-2026 The UCLA Department of Linguistics invites applications for Lecturer for the 2025-2026 academic year to teach 1 undergraduate course: Spring: Linguistics and Speech Pathology See Table 15 for the salary range for this position. Salary placement will be based on skills, knowledge, and e

Thu, 01/08/2026 - 13:05
Description: Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in! At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds — while doing work that’s both meaningful and fun.

Thu, 01/08/2026 - 13:05
The Italian Institute of Oriental Studies Department at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, warmly invites both members and non-members of the Italian Association of Chinese Linguistics (AILC) to participate in the 9th edition of the Study Days on Chinese Linguistics. The conference will be hosted onsite in Rome from June 17th to June 18th, 2026. Similar to past editions held in Venezia (2014), Milano (2015), Roma (2016), Napoli (2017), Milano (2018), Forlì (2021), Bergamo (2022), and Verona

Thu, 01/08/2026 - 13:05
Address forms are the set of expressions used by speakers to address their interlocutor(s). These forms signal the social, cultural, and relational norms that shape human interactions. They convey respect, intimacy, or distance between interlocutors, and vary across languages and cultures. The study of these forms allows for the identification of social and linguistic dynamics, as well as of pragmatic and linguistic variation in multilingual and intercultural contexts. This conference aims to pr

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