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Conferences - Mon, 02/16/2026 - 08:05
2nd CISMA Conference on Technology and Corpora in Discourse, Translation and Interpreting, Baku, Azerbaijan Unveiling the Power of Technology and Corpora in Discourse, Translation and Interpreting, Khazar University (Neftchilar Campus) , Baku, Azerbaijan April 30th, 2026 CISMA 2026 focuses on the transformative impact of corpora, big data, and technology in advancing discourse studies, language sciences, T & I and interdisciplinary research. The conference underscores the critical role o

The LINGUIST List - Mon, 02/16/2026 - 08:05
Final Call for Papers: Workshop on Dialects in NLP: A Resource Perspective (DialRes-LREC26) Workshop at LREC 2026 — Palma de Mallorca, Spain, May 16, 2026 Hybrid event — in person and online Website: https://dialres.github.io/dialres/ Contact: dialres-lrec26@googlegroups.com Overview: DialRes-LREC26 addresses the growing need for high-quality resources supporting dialect-focused NLP. The workshop aims to bring together researchers from linguistics, computational linguistics, digital

The LINGUIST List - Mon, 02/16/2026 - 08:05
ISAPh is an international conference series. It has been held in Nagoya, Japan (2016), Aizuwakamatsu, Japan (2018), Tarragona, Spain (2021), Lund, Sweden (2022), and Tartu, Estonia (2024). It will be held in Hiroshima, Japan, in September 2026. We define “Applied Phonetics” as “practical use of phonetics in various aspects of human life and communication”. Building on this definition, the symposium welcomes interdisciplinary research that connects phonetics with phonology, explores their interfa

The LINGUIST List - Mon, 02/16/2026 - 08:05
2nd CISMA Conference on Technology and Corpora in Discourse, Translation and Interpreting, Baku, Azerbaijan Unveiling the Power of Technology and Corpora in Discourse, Translation and Interpreting, Khazar University (Neftchilar Campus) , Baku, Azerbaijan April 30th, 2026 CISMA 2026 focuses on the transformative impact of corpora, big data, and technology in advancing discourse studies, language sciences, T & I and interdisciplinary research. The conference underscores the critical role o

The LINGUIST List - Mon, 02/16/2026 - 07:05
Final Call for Papers: Gaze4NLP - The Second Workshop on Gaze Data and Natural Language Processing 12 May 2026, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (co-located with LREC 2026) https://gaze4nlp.github.io/Gaze4NLP2026/ The Second Workshop on Gaze Data and Natural Language Processing (Gaze4NLP) invites papers of a theoretical or experimental nature describing research methodologies by employing interdisciplinary perspectives, including computer science and engineering perspectives and cognitive scienc

The LINGUIST List - Mon, 02/16/2026 - 07:05
Call for Papers: We are pleased to announce the Third Conference “Multimodality and Transmediality in the Social World” (MT-2026) and invite submissions of abstracts. This third biennale conference aims to provide a forum for exploring mechanisms of meaning-making as constructed through the interaction of diverse semiotic resources – both verbal (oral and written) and non-verbal (visual, aural, olfactory, spatial, gestural, etc.). In the digital age, the significance of multimodality and t

The LINGUIST List - Mon, 02/16/2026 - 07:05
Call for Papers: Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań invites abstracts for the 3rd edition of NanoDays, to be held in Poznań on 8-9 September 2026. The conference welcomes submissions that are either conducted within the Nanosyntactic framework or that interact with, respond to, or otherwise engage with it in a substantive manner. Invited Speakers: - Pavel Caha (Masaryk University, Brno) - Michal Starke (Masaryk University, Brno) Abstract Guidelines: We invite

Conferences - Mon, 02/16/2026 - 06:05
This workshop explores the shift from controlled laboratory recordings to crowdsourced and automatically aligned speech data. Advances in speech technology and annotation tools now enable large-scale phonetic research but raise questions about data reliability, interpretability, and ethics. Alignment errors and variable recording conditions are especially common in spontaneous and heterogeneous data, where they challenge traditional analytical assumptions. Bringing together perspectives from pho

The LINGUIST List - Mon, 02/16/2026 - 06:05
This workshop explores the shift from controlled laboratory recordings to crowdsourced and automatically aligned speech data. Advances in speech technology and annotation tools now enable large-scale phonetic research but raise questions about data reliability, interpretability, and ethics. Alignment errors and variable recording conditions are especially common in spontaneous and heterogeneous data, where they challenge traditional analytical assumptions. Bringing together perspectives from pho

The LINGUIST List - Mon, 02/16/2026 - 06:05
Call for Papers: 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! ETT is a conference organised by and for PhD students in linguistic typology. We welcome abstracts on a range of topics in quantitative and qualitative typology, language documentation and description, and particularly welc

Conferences - Mon, 02/16/2026 - 05:05
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 deverbal nominals and adjective

McLing Newsletter - Sun, 02/15/2026 - 17:00
The Syntax-Semantics Group will hold its next meeting on Thursday, February 19th, at 2-3pm in Room 002 of the 91˿Ƶ linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/84180431566 Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Bernhard Schwarz (91˿Ƶ) will be presenting “Hidden structure in the composition of degree DPs”. Here is the abstract:

McLing Newsletter - Sun, 02/15/2026 - 17:00
GLAM kicked off the new term with a winter outing that brought together new arrivals and returning members of the Department for an afternoon of skating and pizza in downtown Montreal on January 31st. Everyone laced up their skates and enjoyed the crisp January air at Esplanade Tranquille. Check out the photos below! After skating, […]

McLing Newsletter - Sun, 02/15/2026 - 17:00
The next talk in our 2025-2026 91˿Ƶ Linguistics Colloquium Series will be given by Dr. Kate Mooney (University of Maryland, College Park) next Friday, February 20th at 3:30pm at Leacock 232. The details of the talk are given below. Title: Explaining asymmetries between (morpho-)phonological and phonetic operations Abstract: Phonological patterns often bear morphological restrictions. In both SPE-style rules and Optimality Theory, these partially productive alternations are often […]

McLing Newsletter - Sun, 02/15/2026 - 17:00
Next presentation will be on Monday, Feb 16, 12-1pm in room 117 and on Zoom. Heather will be presenting a paper (below) on Epenthetic Inheritance by our upcoming colloquium speaker, Kate Mooney. All relevant documents (schedules, abstracts, papers and slides/handouts) will be available on this Google Drive.

McLing Newsletter - Sun, 02/15/2026 - 16:27
Xuanda Chen has been awarded a postdoctoral position in the lab of Prof Haizhou Li in the School of Artificial Intelligence at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Shenzhen. Congratulations Xuanda!

The LINGUIST List - Sun, 02/15/2026 - 16:05
SUMMARY The edited volume “Entanglements: Between decolonial and southernizing linguistics” by Sinfree Makoni, Unyierie Idem, Edwin Appah Dartey, and Bassey Antia offers a window into what a pluriversal linguistics might look like when the co-existence of diverse ontologies and epistemologies of language is taken seriously. As the fifth volume to emerge from the African Studies Global Virtual Forum (AFGVF), it brings together critical language scholars whose personal and intellectual trajecto

The LINGUIST List - Sat, 02/14/2026 - 07:05
Final Call for Papers: Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026) 16 May 2026, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (co-located with LREC 2026) https://universaldependencies.org/udw26/ Overview: Universal Dependencies (UD) is a framework for cross-linguistically consistent treebank annotation that has so far been applied to over 180 languages. The framework aims to capture similarities as well as idiosyncrasies among typologically different languages (e.g., morphologically rich languages,

Conferences - Sat, 02/14/2026 - 06:05
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Language Sciences Program & Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders invite submissions for papers to be presented at the 47th Annual International Child Phonology Conference, to be held in-person May 27-29, 2026, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The conference brings together researchers from across disciplines to discuss theoretical, empirical, and clinical perspectives on children’s phonology. The conference supports a multi- and interd

Conferences - Sat, 02/14/2026 - 06:05
Call for Papers - Online Workshop Prepositions in Thought and Language 10-11 October 2026 Thessaloniki Cognitive Linguistics Research Group https://www.enl.auth.gr/tclr/index.htm Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Following the success of the annual autumn online workshops, TCLR Group is organizing an online workshop on the seminal role of Prepositions in Thought and Language. This online workshop aims to explore and extend the discussion regarding the pervasive role of prepositio

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