SUMMARY
鈥淭his is the Thing, A cognitive/typological investigation into the concept of 鈥榯hinghood鈥欌�� is a monograph written by Michael Fortescue which was published in 2026. The 220-page volume contains fifteen chapters, followed by a full references list, two appendixes (鈥榃ords for body and animal鈥� and 鈥榃ords for shape, form and figure鈥�), a Subject, a Name, and a Language Index. Before the first chapter, a short preface describes the author鈥檚 incentive to undergo this study of 鈥榯hing鈥� words an
Focus: This datathon aims to guide participants through the creation of high-quality, FAIR morphological data. Participants will create Paralex datasets, machine-readable collections of inflectional paradigms. These collections are of benefit to people working on descriptions of individual languages, language typologists, theorists and quantitative linguists.
Participants are expected to bring morphological data they are interested in, be it content from a grammar, their own fieldwork collect
The final meeting of the first season of Making Waves, an online discussion group launched in October 2025 and dedicated to the acquisition of prosody and gesture, will take place on Wednesday, July 1, at 15:00 (CET). Patrick L. Rohrer will give a talk titled 鈥淔rom Speech to Gesture: Theoretical Tensions in the Notion of Prominence鈥�.
We look forward to seeing many of you there and to another lively discussion.
Abstract:
The notion of prominence plays a central role in research on speech p
El Instituto De Literatura Y Ling眉铆stica 鈥淛os茅 Antonio Portuondo Valdor" Convoca a:
XIV Conferencia Internacional Ling眉铆stica 2026 en Homenaje Al Centenario De La Academia Cubana De La Lengua
II Encuentro Internacional Del Grupo De Estudios De Fraseolog铆a De Cuba
Eventos h铆bridos (presencial y virtual)
La Habana, 25-27 de noviembre de 2026
Tem谩ticas:
Lexicograf铆a; Fraseolog铆a y fraseograf铆a; Morfosintaxis; Lexicolog铆a y sem谩ntica; Terminograf铆a; Fon茅tica y fonolog铆a; Teor铆as ling眉铆
El Instituto De Literatura Y Ling眉铆stica 鈥淛os茅 Antonio Portuondo Valdor" Convoca a:
XIV Conferencia Internacional Ling眉铆stica 2026 en Homenaje Al Centenario De La Academia Cubana De La Lengua
II Encuentro Internacional Del Grupo De Estudios De Fraseolog铆a De Cuba
Eventos h铆bridos (presencial y virtual)
La Habana, 25-27 de noviembre de 2026
Tem谩ticas:
Lexicograf铆a; Fraseolog铆a y fraseograf铆a; Morfosintaxis; Lexicolog铆a y sem谩ntica; Terminograf铆a; Fon茅tica y fonolog铆a; Teor铆as ling眉铆
We are pleased to announce that ICAME48 will take place in Helsinki (Finland) on 18鈥�22 May 2027. ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English) is an annual international conference and one of the longest-standing organisations of linguists and data scientists working with English language corpora. The conference theme is The Times They Are A-Changin鈥�, honouring the University of Helsinki English Unit鈥檚 longstanding tradition of studying language change with corpus-based m
This workshop is organized as part of the 49th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of Germany (DGfS 2027).
Workshop Organizers:
Andr谩s B谩r谩ny (University of Edinburgh)
Jens Hopperdietzel (University of Cologne)
Jozina Vander Klok (Simon Fraser University)
Workshop Description:
The interaction between the (morpho)syntactic realization of event participants and their discourse status is a central topic in linguistic research. Currently, we have a good understanding of how alter
We are pleased to announce that ICAME48 will take place in Helsinki (Finland) on 18鈥�22 May 2027. ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English) is an annual international conference and one of the longest-standing organisations of linguists and data scientists working with English language corpora. The conference theme is The Times They Are A-Changin鈥�, honouring the University of Helsinki English Unit鈥檚 longstanding tradition of studying language change with corpus-based m
This workshop is organized as part of the 49th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of Germany (DGfS 2027).
Workshop Organizers:
Andr谩s B谩r谩ny (University of Edinburgh)
Jens Hopperdietzel (University of Cologne)
Jozina Vander Klok (Simon Fraser University)
Workshop Description:
The interaction between the (morpho)syntactic realization of event participants and their discourse status is a central topic in linguistic research. Currently, we have a good understanding of how alter
Research group 鈥淭ranslation and Language Studies鈥� (Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology) is pleased to invite you to participate in the international conference on linguistics, discourse, media, communication, translation, cultural literacy and impact on society 鈥淚ntermediality in Communication: Translation, Media, Discourse鈥� held in Kaunas, Lithuania. You are invited to present your projects and experiences in the formats of oral or poster presentatio
Research group 鈥淭ranslation and Language Studies鈥� (Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology) is pleased to invite you to participate in the international conference on linguistics, discourse, media, communication, translation, cultural literacy and impact on society 鈥淚ntermediality in Communication: Translation, Media, Discourse鈥� held in Kaunas, Lithuania. You are invited to present your projects and experiences in the formats of oral or poster presentatio
Other Specialties: Artificial Intelligence
Description:
The Department of English in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Applied Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence (AI). We seek a faculty member who specializes in at least one of the following areas: the use of AI and language-generating technologies in first- and second- language learning, teaching, or assessment; linguistics-ba
This innovative volume presents a comparative and diachronic analysis of the major works of outstanding European poets representing different historical periods, languages, cultures, and religious traditions. By examining the most frequently occurring nouns (key concepts) in the original-language texts of Homer, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Pushkin, and Goethe, the author uncovers previously unrecognized linguistic patterns and conceptual structures underlying their poetic language.
The study is
The panel 鈥淐litics: Variation and Linguistic Change鈥� is part of the 25th Congreso de la Asociaci贸n Alemana de Hispanistas, with the main topic "Hispan铆stica transatl谩ntica: relaciones 鈥搈undos 鈥� v铆as", to be held at the University of Augsburg from March 9 to 13, 2027.
This panel is dedicated to clitics and to grammatical and pragmatic aspects of related phenomena such as:
- le铆smo (la铆smo, lo铆smo) (Fern谩ndez Ord贸帽ez 1999; Flores Cervantes 2006) also in relation with other morphosyntactic phe
Linguistic enclaves and/or islands are communities whose spoken variety differs from that of the surrounding majority, often preserved through geographical, social, or political separation. Whether they are long-established diaspora varieties, historical settler languages, or indigenous communities encircled by an official standard language, enclave languages offer rich insights in a variety of linguistic issues.
Having long coexisted in regions of intense multilingualism, migration, and shif
The panel 鈥淐litics: Variation and Linguistic Change鈥� is part of the 25th Congreso de la Asociaci贸n Alemana de Hispanistas, with the main topic "Hispan铆stica transatl谩ntica: relaciones 鈥搈undos 鈥� v铆as", to be held at the University of Augsburg from March 9 to 13, 2027.
This panel is dedicated to clitics and to grammatical and pragmatic aspects of related phenomena such as:
- le铆smo (la铆smo, lo铆smo) (Fern谩ndez Ord贸帽ez 1999; Flores Cervantes 2006) also in relation with other morphosyntactic phe
Call for Papers:
The organizing committee of "Recontextualisation et M茅diation des Discours Sp茅cialis茅s / Recontextualisation and Mediation of Specialised Discourses" invites abstract submissions for the conference to be held at the Universit茅 Grenoble-Alpes from January 20 to 22, 2027.
This conference aims to explore the mediation of specialized discourse as interdiscursive recontextualization. By recontextualization, we mean the reformulation and recreation of meaning across and between
Linguistic enclaves and/or islands are communities whose spoken variety differs from that of the surrounding majority, often preserved through geographical, social, or political separation. Whether they are long-established diaspora varieties, historical settler languages, or indigenous communities encircled by an official standard language, enclave languages offer rich insights in a variety of linguistic issues.
Having long coexisted in regions of intense multilingualism, migration, and shif
GloSoc6 is the sixth edition of the conference series focusing on mainstreaming lesser-known sociolinguistic research. It will take place at the University of Verona, Italy, from 23 to 25 June 2027.This edition鈥檚 theme is 'nonverbal communication in everyday interaction', focusing on the body as a silent communicator.
While spoken language is commonly analysed linguistically, such analyses capture only part of how people create and convey meaning. Indeed, spoken communication relies heavily o
Call for Papers:
The 13th International Conference on Multimodality (13ICOM) will be organised at the University of Helsinki, Finland, in June 2027.
The phenomenon of multimodality 鈥� or how communication and interaction build on coordinated combinations of multiple forms of expression 鈥� is now actively researched within diverse fields of study. Given the multifaceted nature and complexity of the phenomenon, pursuing a constructive dialogue between different approaches to multimodality is e