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Mon, 04/20/2026 - 13:05
Title: Reinstating Authorship and Human Agency in Translation Date: Saturday, May 2nd, 2026 | Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Venue: Hunter College's Faculty Dining Room 8th Floor (695 Park Ave, New York, NY 10065) / Zoom RSVP: https://forms.gle/UvgmfZuryC6DQefL8 In the face of the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence and automated language production, the question of authorship returns with urgency. Reinstating human agency in translation means renewing attention to the social, pragmatic,

Mon, 04/20/2026 - 13:05
RALFe 2026, the ninth edition of Rencontres autour de la linguistique formelle, France’s premier annual conference for formal linguistics, coorganised by Universités Paris 8 and Paris Cité will take place at Paris Cité on June 3–5 2026. Registration information will soon be available via the conference website, https://sites.google.com/view/ralfe2026. Any updates to running order, venue specifics, and the like will be found there too. Our invited speakers are: - Colin Phillips (University o

Mon, 04/20/2026 - 13:05
We are pleased to announce PaydaDosh (https://paydadosh.ru), the largest online Ingush-Russian and Russian-Ingush dictionary currently available. The resource includes: - 66,000+ lexical entries with source references (Uzhakhov 1927, Kurkiev 2005, Nichols 2004, and others) - Parallel text corpus: literary works in Ingush with Russian translation - 2,000+ proverbs with translation and thematic index - 171 folk stories (притчи) with translation - Phrasebook with ready-made conversational

Mon, 04/20/2026 - 12:05
To celebrate the centenary of the Prague Linguistic Circle, an international conference is being held at INALCO (Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales). Focusing on the relationships between language, norm and society, the conference will build on the Prague theoretical tradition while engaging with contemporary research in sociolinguistics, glottopolitics, language teaching, language contact, variation and typology. The aim is to examine how these notions have evolved since

Mon, 04/20/2026 - 12:05
Call for Papers: Linguistic Evidence will take place from 15-16 October 2026 at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language Mannheim, Germany. Linguistic Evidence is a biennial conference series founded in 2004 at the University of Tübingen (https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/core-research/collaborative-research-centers/crc-833/linguistic-evidence/#c1511619). It serves as an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary forum for researchers from all linguistic and neighboring disciplines w

Mon, 04/20/2026 - 12:05
PhD position at ZAS (project LIBILLE) The Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS) invites applications for a PhD research position inthe project LIBILLE within the DFG priority program LaSTing for a period of 3 years and apercentage of 66% (25.74 h/week) starting between July 1st and October 1st 2026. Please consult the full advertisement here: https://www.leibniz-zas.de/fileadmin/media/Dokumente/Karriere/LastingJob.pdf Some of the details: Job Description: The project LIBILLE examin

Mon, 04/20/2026 - 11:05
Registration for the 8th edition of the Translation in Transition Conference, taking place 9-11 September 2026 at RWTH Aachen University, is now open! Please see our website for the registration link and more useful information [1]. Early-bird registration ends on June 30. Under ‘Accommodation’ [2], you can find a selection of different hotel rooms in Aachen that have been reserved for conference participants. The conference makes room for discussion of all strands of empirical research in t

Mon, 04/20/2026 - 11:05
Final Call for Papers: Organisers: Klaus Abels, Ad Neeleman, Sakshi Bhatia, Sana Kidwai Workshop webpage: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences/events/2026/jul/workshop-rightward-movement Rightward Movement is a two-day inaugural workshop of the AHRC funded project 'The Structure and Processing of Rightward Scrambling in Hindi-Urdu.’ The workshop will bring together researchers working on the syntax of (apparent) rightward movement in any language. It aims to advance our understanding of

Mon, 04/20/2026 - 11:05
Call for Papers: We invite abstracts for either oral presentation (20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of discussion) or poster presentation for AMP and its special session on phonological malleability (details below). Abstracts must be anonymous, so please be sure to eliminate any identifying information and metadata from the document. Length is limited to a maximum of two single-spaced pages (US Letter/A4), figures and references included. Font size should be 12-point, with margins of at lea

Mon, 04/20/2026 - 10:05
Final Call for Papers: Implicit arguments – participants in an event or relation that are not overtly realized but are nonetheless interpreted and syntactically active – pose persistent challenges for theories of argument structure, linking, and the syntax-semantics interface. Canonical examples include, among others, the unexpressed external argument of passives (The ship was sunk), null internal arguments of certain transitive verbs (Tom already ate), and unsaturated thematic roles in dever

Mon, 04/20/2026 - 10:05
The Department of English at the American University of Sharjah invites applications for a full-time Graduate Research Assistant (GRA) position associated with a Faculty Research Grant (FRG26-S43) project titled: The Role of HVPT and GenAI in Technology-Supported L2 Pronunciation Development. Adopting a mixed-methods experimental design, the project investigates how High Variability Phonetic Training (HVPT) and Generative AI-mediated interaction support the perceptual and productive development

Mon, 04/20/2026 - 10:05
Final Call for Papers: Deadline extension: 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 o

Sun, 04/19/2026 - 18:05
SUMMARY Forensic Linguistics in Southern Africa: Origins, Progress and Prospects by Russell H. Kaschula, Monwabisi K. Ralarala, Eliseu Mabasso, Zakeera Docrat, Wellman Kondowe, and Paul Svongoro is an open-access Study in Cambridge’s Studies in Forensic Linguistics series. It surveys the emergence and consolidation of forensic linguistics across southern Africa and, more selectively, other African regions, with an explicit concern for access to justice and the United Nations’ Sustainable Deve

Sat, 04/18/2026 - 20:05
Summary Written by Jack Pun and Audrey Chan, Exploring Clinical Communication in Asia begins with an introduction chapter. The content is divided into two sections: (i) Insights from interviews with clinicians and (ii) Skills for effective clinical communication. Section one consists of nine chapters where interviews covered a broad range of specialised fields, such as Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to oncology, neurology and veterinary science. Section Two consists of four chapters where

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 18:05
This edited volume has the aim of “trac[ing] the evolution of the practice and the discipline of what is now known as ‘terminology’.” [1] It consists of 31 chapters and an introduction, together accounting for 661 pages. The bibliography is distributed among the chapters, so that each chapter is autonomous in this respect. The publisher gives a detailed table of contents at https://benjamins.com/catalog/tlrp.24. In this review, references to pages in the volume will be given in [square brackets]

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 10:05
You are all cordially invited by the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics to a public lecture by Professor John Baugh (Rice University) on Tuesday 12th May 2:00 - 3:30 at Aston University (Room MB419) If interested, please register on Eventbrite at this link as spaces are limited: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/big-city-monkey-business-tickets-1985711387213?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true Abstract: This presentation examines linguistic analyses conducted in two legal cases involving Af

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 10:05
Focus: - Statistical methods used in psycholinguistics, - R programming for data analysis, - Experiment design and paradigms, - Bayesian modeling Description: The Experimental & Empirical Methods in Linguistics (EEL) workshop was initiated in 2017 to introduce students and researchers to methods used in experimental and computational psycholinguistics. The previous editions were hosted by IIT Delhi (2017), IIT-BHU (2018), and IIT Kanpur (2025). The salient features of the workshop are

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 10:05
Focus: The main focus of the Summer School is on applied knowledge about experimental methodologies to study voice, speech, language and behaviour, following a hands-on approach. Description: This is the tenth edition of STEM (Summer Training in Experimental Methods), a week long training program in current methods in experimental linguistics, phonetics and psycholinguistics, organized by the Phonetics and Phonology Laboratory and Lisbon Baby Lab (Center of Linguistics, University of Lisbo

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 09:05
The GUM Corpus - Public Survey Georgetown University Multilayer Corpus The Corpling Lab at Georgetown University would like your participation in this survey (https://forms.gle/SQkfN8MTHNXo32Z3A) to help us better understand GUM usage and preferences regarding current and potential new genres in the GUM corpus, which would be of great help for our future selection of genres and availability of formats and annotation layers. Survey Link: https://forms.gle/SQkfN8MTHNXo32Z3A GUM is an o

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 09:05
The development of international proficiency tests such as IELTS, which entail important decision making about people’s academic lives, requires complex processes to ensure item discrimination. Previous research has indicated that IELTS has been ineffective in omitting distractor components, which may offer limitations in differentiating among the candidates. Among all the sections, particular attention has been paid to the reading comprehension component and it is considered as a criterion for

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