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Conferences - Wed, 01/14/2026 - 06:05
[English below.] L'étrangeté en partage Journée d’étude sur les langues imaginaires Besançon, 12 juin 2026 Nous sollicitons des propositions pour une journée d’étude consacrée aux langues imaginaires, ou artlangs (artistic languages), qui se tiendra à Besançon le 12 juin 2026. On entend par langue imaginaire une langue inventée à des fins artistiques et intégrée à une œuvre de fiction (roman, film, série, bande dessinée, œuvre poétique, jeu vidéo etc.). À ce titre, elle se distingue d

Conferences - Wed, 01/14/2026 - 06:05
Keynote with Charlotte Bosseaux with a Screening and Q&A of Surviving Translation Roundtable discussion with poets and translators Anna Błasiak, Maria Jastrzębska, and Piotr Florczyk Political literature encapsulates and brings to light how the political permeates our everyday lives and situations, using a range of literary devices and genres as tools to share ideas and observations, thus actively taking part into shaping societies and individuals. As there are laws supporting some languages

The LINGUIST List - Tue, 01/13/2026 - 12:05
Focus: Persian language classes are held daily and are designed to develop all core language skills. Each day includes focused grammar instruction in modern Persian, with references to classical usage, alongside systematic vocabulary building (approximately 1,500 new words over the course of the program). Students regularly practice listening through songs, films, news, and short videos, while speaking skills are developed through discussions, conversations, and role-plays. Daily reading and

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Focus: Generative Linguistics Description: The EGG summer school is turning to the broader community for financial support, through crowdfunding on this GoFundMe page: https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-egg-eastern-generative-grammar This is to help ensure that our teachers (who teach for free) are able to attend (the school covers their travel and accommodation in dorms) and that the summer school can take place as planned with modest student fees. The longer text on the GoFundMe page

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Two Doctoral Positions in Linguistics (part-time 65 %, E 13 TV-L) Reference no.: 2026/010. Two doctoral positions are available as of April 1st, 2026. The positions are available until the end of 2029. The University of Konstanz is a dynamic and internationally successful research university with approximately 10,000 students. The campus university’s architecture promotes interdisciplinary cooperation and a sense of community among researchers, lecturers and students. The University of Kon

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University or Organization: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Department: Centre de Lingüística Teòrica Job Location: Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain Web Address: http://filcat.uab.cat/clt Job Title: Beatriu de Pinós 3-year postdoctoral position Deadline for expression of interest: 20 January 2026 Deadline for official online application to be filled by the candidate: 4 February 2026 at 14:00 h (CET). Job Rank: 3 year postdoctoral position Contact: Xavier.Villalba@uab.cat Specialty Area

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Terminàlia is the international scientific journal of the Catalan Society of Terminology, SCATERM, a subsidiary of the Institute of Catalan Studies. It is published biannually (June and December) and electronically (https://revistes.iec.cat/index.php/Terminalia/index). The journal's languages are Catalan, Spanish, French and English. In the case of languages other than the four mentioned, the texts are translated into Catalan, and both the article in the original language and the Catalan transla

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2025. iii, 100 pp. Table of Contents Articles – Artículos – Aufsätze – Artikoloj Prospects of Kyrgyz language transition to the Latin script based on experience of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan: Prospects of Kyrgyz language transition Gulzhamal Toktogulova, Sayipzhamal Sakieva, Sabira Osmonalieva, Kubanychbek Uraimov & Meergul Asanalieva pp. 129–152 Talking over the catastrophe: Linguistic justice in disaster risk reduction Cecilia Gialdini pp. 153–177 The evolution of language

Conferences - Tue, 01/13/2026 - 10:05
The DUO Colloquium investigates the effects of the radical changes that have taken place in the language industry since 2017, when the machine translation platform DeepL launched, but especially since the arrival of ChatGPT and other GenAI systems in 2022. Now that machine translation has become the norm, the roles played by human linguists are shifting – towards multilingual communication management but also towards intercultural, linguistic and technological consulting. This shift means that t

Conferences - Tue, 01/13/2026 - 10:05
The rise of climate discourse on social media offers new channels for public engagement but also amplifies mis- and disinformation. As online platforms increasingly shape public understanding of science, tools that ground claims in trustworthy, peer-reviewed evidence are necessary. The new 2026 iteration of ClimateCheck builds on the results and insights from the 2025 iteration (run at SDP 2025/ACL 2025), extending it by adding training data, a new task on classifying disinformation narratives i

The LINGUIST List - Tue, 01/13/2026 - 10:05
The DUO Colloquium investigates the effects of the radical changes that have taken place in the language industry since 2017, when the machine translation platform DeepL launched, but especially since the arrival of ChatGPT and other GenAI systems in 2022. Now that machine translation has become the norm, the roles played by human linguists are shifting – towards multilingual communication management but also towards intercultural, linguistic and technological consulting. This shift means that t

The LINGUIST List - Tue, 01/13/2026 - 10:05
The rise of climate discourse on social media offers new channels for public engagement but also amplifies mis- and disinformation. As online platforms increasingly shape public understanding of science, tools that ground claims in trustworthy, peer-reviewed evidence are necessary. The new 2026 iteration of ClimateCheck builds on the results and insights from the 2025 iteration (run at SDP 2025/ACL 2025), extending it by adding training data, a new task on classifying disinformation narratives i

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2025. iv, 193 pp. Table of Contents Editorial Publishing in English across borders: Emerging tensions and opportunities in global academia Pejman Habibie & Sue Starfield pp. 1–5 Articles Learning to write for publication in STEM doctorates: Insights from three decades of ethnographic research Pascal Matzler pp. 6–36 Uncovering global cohesion patterns in the introductory sections of Applied Linguistics research articles Marjan Keivan, Alireza Jalilifar & Ahmad Izadi pp.

The LINGUIST List - Tue, 01/13/2026 - 09:05
Final Call for Papers: The University of Wisconsin-Madison Linguistics Student Organization (LSO) invites submissions for papers to be presented at the 20th Annual Workshop in General Linguistics (WiGL 20), to be held in-person Friday and Saturday, March 13-14, 2026 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In addition, online sessions will be held on Thursday, March 12, 2026 and the morning of Friday, March 13, 2026. The keynote speakers for the workshop are Prof. L.J. Randolph Jr and Dr. Lina

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Call for Papers: 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, pro-drop languages, and languages featuring clitic doubling). The goal in developing UD was not only to support comparative evaluation and cross-lingual learning but al

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"The Sentience–Sapience Problem" is a talk by Dr. Julian Kiverstein, presented as part of the 2025-2026 MLAG Seminar Series. The event will take place online, via Microsoft Teams, on January 22, 13.00–14.30 Western European Time (WET, GMT+0) (see abstract below). The seminar is jointly organized by Sofia Miguens (MLAG-IF), Dan Zeman (MLAG-IF), James Grayot (MLAG-IF), Rafael Antunes Padilha (MLAG-IF|IFCH-UNICAMP), Samuel Lima (FLUP) and João Carlos Rocha Lima (FLUP). Information about MLAG can

Conferences - Tue, 01/13/2026 - 08:05
The 23rd Old-World Conference in Phonology (OCP23) will take place at Gonville & Caius College in Cambridge (United Kingdom) from 14 January to 16 January 2026. We invite submissions reflecting various perspectives on phonology, including but not limited to formal, typological, and laboratory approaches. Abstracts based on first-hand empirical data, especially field data on lesser-resourced languages, are particularly encouraged. The conference will be held in person, though an online option

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2nd Call for Papers: S'amplia El Termini D'enviament De Propostes Fins Al 31 De Gener De 2026. La setena edició de les Jornades de Lingüística Catalana a Viena se celebrarà del 28 al 29 de maig de 2026. La temàtica se centrarà en els marcadors discursius i en els processos de pragmaticalització. Les propostes de presentació es poden enviar per EasyAbs (https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/JLCV26/) o directament a l'adreça de correu electrònic indicada en aquesta pàgina. Les prop

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Final Call for Papers: The 11th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (BICLCE) will be held between 3rd and 5th July 2026 at the University of Klagenfurt (Austria). For over two decades, the BICLCE conference series has been a forum for researchers who are interested in the linguistics of contemporary English. It is open to different theoretical and methodological perspectives. Previous conferences were held in Edinburgh (2005), Toulouse (2007), Londo

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The 23rd Old-World Conference in Phonology (OCP23) will take place at Gonville & Caius College in Cambridge (United Kingdom) from 14 January to 16 January 2026. We invite submissions reflecting various perspectives on phonology, including but not limited to formal, typological, and laboratory approaches. Abstracts based on first-hand empirical data, especially field data on lesser-resourced languages, are particularly encouraged. The conference will be held in person, though an online option

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