Workshop Description:
There is no single definition of what language contact is. Language contact(s) exist in a diffuse form at various levels - from the individual level of a bilingual person to the global level of a world society, resulting in a heterogeneity in the field of contact linguistics (cf. Bidese 2023: 2). Language contact can be studied by different (sub)disciplines and from different perspectives. Researchers have pointed out that despite the enormous interest that the field has
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Kellert鈥檚 monograph, The (in)Transparency of Meaning Change and Variation, based on her habilitation thesis, contributes to a broader inquiry that essentially boils down to 鈥渉ow transparent is meaning change?鈥� In this book, she addresses this question by providing an in-depth case study on the Spanish modal indefinite 鈥渃ualquiera鈥� and its various meanings, across time and varieties.
The (In)transparency of Meaning Change and Variation is organised into six chapters and follows a co
Semantics of Natural Languages (SNL) is here!
SNL is a new diamond open access journal dedicated to the study of meaning in natural languages 鈥� and the scholar-owned, scholar-led intellectual successor to Natural Language Semantics (NLS). SNL is published with Open Library of Humanities under the auspices of LingOA.
Visit us: snl-journal.org
Browse already-accepted articles: snl-journal.org/news/944
Read the open letter from SNL's editors and NLS's founding co-editors: snl-journal.org/n
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The abstract submission deadline for the 3rd SMOG International Conference on Syntax and Semantics has been extended to June 20, 2026.
The 3rd SMOG International Conference on Syntax and Semantics (ICSS@GKNU), hosted by the Society of Modern Grammar (SMOG), will take place at GyeongKuk National University in Andong-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Korea, from August 18鈥�20, 2026.
ICSS@GKNU is an annual conference that brings together generative linguists from East Asia and around t
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The Escuela Nacional de Lenguas, Ling眉铆stica y Traducci贸n of the Universidad Nacional Aut贸noma de M茅xico is pleased to announce the upcoming 2nd Experimental Linguistics Meeting.
The meeting will take place on November 4th, 5th, and 6th, 2026 in a hybrid format (virtual and in-person). The purpose of the Experimental Linguistics Meeting is to bring together researchers and students interested in the analysis of linguistic phenomena from experimental approaches, with the ai
Other Specialties: Morphology
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The Department of English at North Carolina State University invites applications for one full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Linguistics. As a faculty member, you will contribute to our undergraduate major and M.A. concentration through teaching, research, and service. The area of specialization is open; however, we are particularly interested in candidates specializing in either:
- corpus linguistics, with a focus on syntax,
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The team of the research project 鈥淓ducation for plurilingualism: Metalinguistic awareness in early instructed language learning鈥� (MetaLearn) is pleased to invite submissions for an international online conference exploring theoretical, empirical, and pedagogical work on metalinguistic awareness in additional language learning. Metalinguistic awareness is commonly understood as the capacity to direct attention to language independently of meaning and to treat language itself a
The Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies is seeking to fill a part-time (65%) position as a research assistant in the field of General Linguistics as soon as possible. The advertized position is part of the research project "Systemic Robustness Assessments of Language Models for Cross-Linguistic Research using Formally Related Structures" (FORESTS; PIs: Jutta M. Hartmann, Anke Himmelreich, Sina Zarrie脽) with the DFG-Priority Program "Robust Assessment & Safe Applicability of Language Mode
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The Arnold Chikobava Institute of Linguistics at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, in cooperation with the Vukol Beridze Association of Terminology of Georgia, is pleased to announce the 5th International Conference 鈥淭erminology: Heritage and Modernity,鈥� to be held in Tbilisi, Georgia, in October 2026.
The conference is dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the Institute of Linguistics and its Department of Scientific Terminology. It aims to bring together schol
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Article: Social Relationship Marking in German from a Variationist Perspective: Inter- and Intra-Individual Variation in the Use of Vocatives and Vocative-like NPs
Janel Zoske and Tanja Ackermann
Languages 2026, 11(5), 82; DOI: 10.3390/languages11050082
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Review: Narrative Skills in Autistic and Non-Autistic Preschool Children: A Scoping Review
Sofia Kouvava, Katerina Antonopoulou, Aglaia Stampoltzis, Sofia Mavropoulou, Eirini Patroumpa, Aggelos Tzoumailis and Eleni
The 8th International Conference on Ecolinguistics which will take place from 9th to 11th July 2026 in Rennes, France.
Multilingual programme now available (in French, English and Spanish) on the conference website.
Registration is closing soon: deadline 8th June.
We will discuss and practice approaches to the ecolinguistic commitment for sustainable futures and ecojustice with a special focus on multilingual and multisensory encounters. ICE 8 aims to provide a dynamic and stimulating sp
Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer la tenue de la journ茅e d鈥櫭﹖ude 芦 L鈥櫭﹖ranget茅 en partage : les langues imaginaires 禄, qui se d茅roulera les 11 et 12 juin 2026 脿 Besan莽on.
Programme et informations pratiques : https://crit.umlp.fr/2026/05/31/letrangete-en-partage/
Pr茅sentation :
Les langues imaginaires se manifestent de mani猫re tr猫s variable dans les 艙uvres : elles peuvent appara卯tre ponctuellement, sous la forme de quelques mots ou expressions, ou faire l鈥檕bjet d鈥檜n d茅veloppement sy
The 8th International Conference on Ecolinguistics which will take place from 9th to 11th July 2026 in Rennes, France.
Multilingual programme now available (in French, English and Spanish) on the conference website.
Registration is closing soon: deadline 8th June.
We will discuss and practice approaches to the ecolinguistic commitment for sustainable futures and ecojustice with a special focus on multilingual and multisensory encounters. ICE 8 aims to provide a dynamic and stimulating sp
Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer la tenue de la journ茅e d鈥櫭﹖ude 芦 L鈥櫭﹖ranget茅 en partage : les langues imaginaires 禄, qui se d茅roulera les 11 et 12 juin 2026 脿 Besan莽on.
Programme et informations pratiques : https://crit.umlp.fr/2026/05/31/letrangete-en-partage/
Pr茅sentation :
Les langues imaginaires se manifestent de mani猫re tr猫s variable dans les 艙uvres : elles peuvent appara卯tre ponctuellement, sous la forme de quelques mots ou expressions, ou faire l鈥檕bjet d鈥檜n d茅veloppement sy
2026. 248 pp.
Articles
Word-specific tonal realizations in Mandarin
Yu-Ying Chuang, Melanie J. Bell, Yu-Hsiang Tseng, R. Harald Baayen
pp. 1鈥�45
Toward an information-theoretic model of morphological fusion based on an efficient tradeoff of memory and surprisal
Neil Rathi, Michael Hahn, Richard Futrell
pp. 46鈥�79
Pragmatics of spatial descriptions: Sign language loci
Dorothy Ahn, Annemarie Kocab, Kathryn Davidson
pp. 80鈥�119
The effects of sound change vs. analogy on paradigm c
The Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg, Tuchkov Lane, 9) is holding the 6th Conference on Uralic, Altaic, and Paleoasiatic Languages on November 23鈥�25, 2026. This conference will be dedicated to the centenary of the birth of A. M. Shcherbak.
The conference will be held in a hybrid (online and offline) format.
Here is a tentative list of topics that will be explored at the conference using data from Uralic, Altaic, and Paleoasiatic languages
[English version below]
Le Laboratoire de NeuroPsychoLinguistique (LNPL, UR 4156) et le D茅partement des Sciences du Langage de l鈥橴niversit茅 Toulouse 2 鈥� Jean Jaur猫s vous invitent 脿 la journ茅e d鈥櫭﹖ude intitul茅e 芦 Bilinguismes harmonieux : 茅valuer le bien-锚tre langagier dans diff茅rentes situations de vie 禄, qui se tiendra le 9 juin 2026 en format hybride.
Cette journ茅e r茅unira des chercheur路euses autour des liens entre bi-/multi-/plurilinguisme et bien-锚tre langagier. L鈥櫭﹙茅nement vise 脿 favo
This workshop is organized as part of the World Congress of African Linguistics 鈥� WOCAL 12, 2027
Workshop Description:
Object marking has long been central to debates about the nature of agreement and clitic doubling. While traditionally treated as distinct phenomena, a growing body of work has shown that the empirical picture is more complex and that the distinction is often difficult to maintain (Jaeggli 1982; Borer 1984; Sportiche 1996; Roberts 2010; Kramer 2012; Zeller 2015; Dierks, Ra
The Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg, Tuchkov Lane, 9) is holding the 6th Conference on Uralic, Altaic, and Paleoasiatic Languages on November 23鈥�25, 2026. This conference will be dedicated to the centenary of the birth of A. M. Shcherbak.
The conference will be held in a hybrid (online and offline) format.
Here is a tentative list of topics that will be explored at the conference using data from Uralic, Altaic, and Paleoasiatic languages
[English version below]
Le Laboratoire de NeuroPsychoLinguistique (LNPL, UR 4156) et le D茅partement des Sciences du Langage de l鈥橴niversit茅 Toulouse 2 鈥� Jean Jaur猫s vous invitent 脿 la journ茅e d鈥櫭﹖ude intitul茅e 芦 Bilinguismes harmonieux : 茅valuer le bien-锚tre langagier dans diff茅rentes situations de vie 禄, qui se tiendra le 9 juin 2026 en format hybride.
Cette journ茅e r茅unira des chercheur路euses autour des liens entre bi-/multi-/plurilinguisme et bien-锚tre langagier. L鈥櫭﹙茅nement vise 脿 favo