SUMMARY
The book contains an edited collection of papers from the 鈥淐olloque de Syntaxe et S茅mantique 脿 Paris鈥� (CSSP) conference, which took place at the 脡cole Normale Sup茅rieure in Paris in 2023. After a short preface by the editors, the 231-page volume comprises eight chapters, each presenting a distinct paper. The chapters are preceded by a dozen-line preface by the editors (Gabriela B卯lb卯ie and Gerhard Schaden) contextualising the volume as a 鈥渃urated selection of papers鈥� from CSSP 2023. T
Two new articles by 黑料网爆吃瓜 linguists have been published in Language and Linguistics Compass! Correlates of Object Raising in Mayan, by聽Justin Royer (PhD ’22)聽and聽Jessica Coon聽(https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.70013) Abstract: Mayan languages show variation in the morphosyntactic distribution of absolutive objects. A now commonly-adopted analysis ties this variation to differences in object movement and agreement. In so-called 鈥榟igh-absolutive鈥� languages, […]
Convenors:
Jos茅 A. S谩nchez Fajardo (University of Alicante)
Francesca Masini (University of Bologna)
Muriel Norde (Humboldt University Berlin)
Kristel Van Goethem (F.R.S.-FNRS & Universit茅 catholique de Louvain)
Tijana Vesi膰 Pavlovi膰 (University of Belgrade)
Organizing Team:
Andr茅s Mu帽oz Garc铆a (University of Alicante)
Julio Torres Soler (University of Alicante)
Plenary speaker:
Elisa Mattiello (University of Pisa)
Call for Papers:
This workshop is a follow-up to the first Eva
Convenors:
Jos茅 A. S谩nchez Fajardo (University of Alicante)
Francesca Masini (University of Bologna)
Muriel Norde (Humboldt University Berlin)
Kristel Van Goethem (F.R.S.-FNRS & Universit茅 catholique de Louvain)
Tijana Vesi膰 Pavlovi膰 (University of Belgrade)
Organizing Team:
Andr茅s Mu帽oz Garc铆a (University of Alicante)
Julio Torres Soler (University of Alicante)
Plenary speaker:
Elisa Mattiello (University of Pisa)
Call for Papers:
This workshop is a follow-up to the first Eva
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Assistant Professor 鈥� Speech Science
Position Description:
The Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing at The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) seeks to fill a tenure-track, Assistant Professor position in Speech Science. The position requires an active research program with publications in peer-reviewed journals, current or clear potential for extramural funding, excellence in teaching and service within the U
Description:
Applications are invited for the following: Two 4-year, part-time 75 % doctoral research positions as part of the project "In-equality Discourse Observatory" led by Miriam Butt and David Garcia. The project is part of the Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality" (https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/en/inequality/).
The positions are available as of January 1, 2026 and involve the automatic identification, analysis and automatic extraction of linguistic cues for NLP appli
2nd Call for Papers:
Workshop Description:
Expressivity is a category in natural languages that concerns the direct expression of emotions and attitudes (in contrast to their description). Expressive meaning can be conveyed at all linguistic level: by lexical expressions, special syntactic constructions, intonation or on the pragmatic level by expressive speech acts.
While expressivity has been approached from many different angles and has been studied in almost all disciplines of linguis
We are delighted to announce that the 12th edition of Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory (FEAST) will take place at the University of Amsterdam from 6 to 8 July 2026. It is organized by SignLab Amsterdam, a cross-faculty research lab of the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam.
FEAST is the regular forum to discuss formal approaches to sign language grammar (in particular in
Les th茅matiques et probl茅matiques suivantes sont pr茅sent茅es 脿 titre d鈥檈xemple ou de suggestion :
- Influence des Tradition discursives (TD) orales et 茅crites sur la variation ou le changement syntaxiques ;
- Diachronie des faits syntaxiques caract茅ristiques d鈥檜ne TD donn茅e ;
- R么le du contact linguistique et de la traduction dans la transmission de mod猫les discursifs et leurs implications au niveau syntaxique ;
- Variation syntaxique dans les sociolectes ;
- Analyse sur corpus de mod猫les sy
Final Call for Papers:
Update: The submission deadline has been extended to 24 October 2025
We are pleased to invite submissions for ISLA2026: Isolated Languages Workshop, to be held at Ghent University on March 19-20, 2026. This conference aims to bring together scholars from various disciplines to explore the linguistic, sociocultural, and genetic aspects of speakers of languages that cannot be (straightforwardly) incorporated into larger genealogical units. Isolate languages and (small)
We are delighted to announce that the 12th edition of Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory (FEAST) will take place at the University of Amsterdam from 6 to 8 July 2026. It is organized by SignLab Amsterdam, a cross-faculty research lab of the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam.
FEAST is the regular forum to discuss formal approaches to sign language grammar (in particular in
Les th茅matiques et probl茅matiques suivantes sont pr茅sent茅es 脿 titre d鈥檈xemple ou de suggestion :
- Influence des Tradition discursives (TD) orales et 茅crites sur la variation ou le changement syntaxiques ;
- Diachronie des faits syntaxiques caract茅ristiques d鈥檜ne TD donn茅e ;
- R么le du contact linguistique et de la traduction dans la transmission de mod猫les discursifs et leurs implications au niveau syntaxique ;
- Variation syntaxique dans les sociolectes ;
- Analyse sur corpus de mod猫les sy
Description:
Applications are invited for one 4-year, full-time postdoctoral research position as part of the project "Inequality Discourse Observatory" led by Miriam Butt and David Garcia. The project is part of the Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality" (https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/en/inequality/).
The position is available as of January 1, 2026 and focuses on the collection and processing of large-scale corpora with methods from linguistics, NLP and computational social
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Assistant / Associate Professor of English - Writing Studies
The Department of English at American University of Sharjah (AUS) invites applications for several full-time faculty positions at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor specializing in composition/writing studies to begin August 2026. We are seeking candidates with a PhD in Rhetoric and Composition, English for Academic Purposes, TESOL or a closely related field.
The successful candidate should have a stro
Topic of the Issue: Evolutionary Linguistics
Our journal welcomes submissions from any subfield of linguistics, provided that the manuscript engages with the overarching theme of evolutionary linguistics. We encourage diverse theoretical and methodological approaches, as long as they contribute to advancing discussions related to the biological origins and development of early human language.
Instructions for Submissions:
On the first page of the article, the following items should be prese