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Conferences - Mon, 02/02/2026 - 06:05
Organiser: Costas Gabrielatos (Edge Hill University) Invited Speakers: - Stefan Gries (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) - Martin Hilpert (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland) - Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK) The focus of LxGr is the interaction of lexis and grammar. It is influenced by Halliday’s view of lexis and grammar as “complementary perspectives” (1991: 32), and his conception of the two as notional ends of a continuum (lexicogrammar), in that “if you in

McLing Newsletter - Sun, 02/01/2026 - 17:00
The Syntax-Semantics Group will hold its next meeting on Thursday, February 5th, at 2-3pm in Room 002 of the Թ linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/84180431566 Laurestine Bradford (Թ) will be presenting “Tlingit Spatial Roots” Here is the abstract:

McLing Newsletter - Sun, 02/01/2026 - 17:00
The article “Natural language and external conventions: re-examining per”, co-authored by Alan Bale and Bernhard Schwarz, has just appeared online at Linguistics and Philosophy: https://rdcu.be/e1ian. The abstract is below. Abstract We argue that per-phrases like two grams per liter exhibit a dual interpretive pattern. When such phrases saturate predicates of quantities in simplex dimensions, like weight or distance, they are […]

McLing Newsletter - Sun, 02/01/2026 - 17:00
Next presentation will be on Monday, Feb 2,12-1pm in room 117 and on Zoom.  Tony will be presenting Bybee, J., & Easterday, S. (2022). Primal consonants and the evolution of consonant inventories. Language Dynamics and Change, 13(1), 1-33. (Attached) All relevant documents (schedules, abstracts, papers and slides/handouts) will be available on this Google Drive.

The LINGUIST List - Sun, 02/01/2026 - 02:05
The following books are now available for review on the LINGUIST List. If you would like to become a reviewer for one of the books announced in the AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW posting, you will need to follow steps 1-4 explained below: Step 1: Go to https://linguistlist.org/reviews/request Step 2: You will be asked to log in or create an account. Step 3: Update your personal information and add reviewer specific information on why you would be a good reviewer for the books you wish to select. Step

The LINGUIST List - Fri, 01/30/2026 - 08:05
As of volume 50 (2026) Editor Michele Gazzola (Ulster University) will succeed François Grin (Université de Genève) as Editor-in-Chief of the John Benjamins journal Language Problems & Language Planning. François Grin will remain member of the board. LPLP also welcomes Antonio Leoni de León (University of Costa Rica) as new Editor. Language Problems and Language Planning (LPLP) is a peer-reviewed international and multilingual journal which focuses on language issues and the challenges they r

The LINGUIST List - Fri, 01/30/2026 - 08:05
The Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) network (https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/home) an international and interdisciplinary network whose primary aim is to promote work on slurs, pejoratives, expressives and evaluative terms from less studied languages, invites you to the fifth talk of the 2025-2026 academic year. The invited speaker is Elisabeth Camp (Rutgers University), who will give a talk entitled "Why Do Mantras Move Us?" (see the abstract below). The event will take place o

The LINGUIST List - Fri, 01/30/2026 - 08:05
Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching: The Case of the Nordics Edited by Pia Sundqvist, Liss Kerstin Sylvén, and Hayo Reinders In Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching: The Case of the Nordics, the aim is to shed light on this region with its fascinating linguistic landscape and long tradition of language learning and teaching research. People from the Nordics—Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, including relevant territories—have always needed to be knowledgeable in ot

The LINGUIST List - Thu, 01/29/2026 - 15:05
Upcoming webinar: Enacting translanguaging in a Ghanaian multilingual classroom - Code choices in minority language classrooms. Friday, 6 February 2026, 15:00 - 16:00 GMT. Presenters: David Dankwa-Apawu, University of Media, Arts and Communication, Accra; Yvonne Agbetsoamedo, University of Ghana, Legon; Elvis ResCue, University of Birmingham, UK Register via https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/5158c609-2abc-4ef6-88fb-2efa28d061b9@d400387a-212f-43ea-ac7f-77aa12d7977e In the multilingual cl

The LINGUIST List - Thu, 01/29/2026 - 15:05
I am running a 15-minute survey on the acceptability of alternative constructions for German nouns as part of my undergraduate dissertation. The survey is entirely in German and open to any adult speakers whether they consider themselves native speakers or not. I am particularly interested in more repsonses from men, as the current sample is quite biased right now. At the end of the task, you may optionally supply your age (in bins), gender, and first language. You may also enter a raffle

The LINGUIST List - Thu, 01/29/2026 - 15:05
The Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) is conducting a survey to map linguistics outreach activities across Europe and to reflect on the future role of the SLE in this area. This short questionnaire is open to all colleagues involved or interested in linguistics outreach, whether or not they are SLE members. All responses will be used for research and planning purposes only. The questionnaire, which takes about 5 minutes to complete (or more if you want to share your thoughts), is available

The LINGUIST List - Thu, 01/29/2026 - 14:05
Especially those of you working with West African languages, but anyone can chime in: I'm looking at a tone process in Kusuntu (bqg) of central Togo called HLH plateauing and wondering if it is an aerial phenomenon. Plateauing occurs where there is an underlying HLH pattern across a morpheme- or word-boundary. The singly-linked L tone delinks and floats. The unassociated segment takes a H (because of H-spreading), but the floating L causes it to downstep so the resulting surface pattern i

The LINGUIST List - Thu, 01/29/2026 - 14:05
Focus: Indo-European Linguistics Historical Linguistics Typology Sanskrit Germanic Albanian Old Church Slavonic Hittite Description: Dear Colleagues and Friends of the Pavia Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics, we are pleased to announce that from September 7 to 12, 2026 we will organize the 7th Pavia Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics. The courses we offer this year are: Old Church Slavonic - Thomas Olander (Copenhagen) Germanic - Ludwig Rübekeil (Züric

The LINGUIST List - Thu, 01/29/2026 - 14:05
As of volume 17 (2026), Xiaoting Li (University of Alberta) will succeed Zhuo Jing-Schmidt (University of Oregon) and join Editors K.K. Luke (Nanyang Technological University), Hongyin Tao (University of California, Los Angeles) and Li Wei (UCL IOE, UK) as Executive Editor of the John Benjamins journal Chinese Language and Discourse. Zhuo Jing-Schmidt will remain member of the board. Furthermore, we welcome on board Associate Editor Shuangyun Yao (Central China Normal University), Assistant Edit

The LINGUIST List - Thu, 01/29/2026 - 13:05
Este volumen reúne los trabajos de especialistas en lingüística románica, que analizan la variación desde diversas perspectivas (fonético-fonológica, léxico-semántica y morfosintáctica) a partir de los datos de atlas lingüísticos y corpus textuales y orales de las lenguas romances. Los resultados constituyen una muestra ilustrativa de la complementariedad de la geolingüística y la lingüística de corpus.

The LINGUIST List - Thu, 01/29/2026 - 13:05
2026. v, 100 pp. Table of Contents Article What returnee bilinguals may teach us about language attrition, language stabilization, and individual variation Cristina Flores & Neal Snape pp. 1–25 Commentaries What returnee international adoptees may teach us about language attrition, language stabilization, and individual variation Mirjam Broersma pp. 26–30 The other side of the coin matters too: What changes in the former heritage language of returnees may reveal about the

The LINGUIST List - Thu, 01/29/2026 - 12:05
2026. iii, 152 pp. Table of Contents Articles Both responsiveness and standardization: Constructing institutional realities in intermediate labor markets Sanni Tiitinen, Kirsi Juhila & Tea Lempiälä pp. 1–23 Reciprocity and epistemicity on screen-based interactions: The case of MOOCs Ana Larissa Adorno Marciotto Oliveira pp. 24–44 Conflict, gender, and amount of talk: Gender differences in Spanish role play data Gloria Uclés-Ramada, Sven Kachel & Pekka Posio pp. 45–65

The LINGUIST List - Thu, 01/29/2026 - 12:05
Chipewyan, an Athapascan language in Canada, is found particularly along the Athabaska River and Lake, and the lakes and the streams draining into the Churchill River. The Athabaskan languages of the North are commonly referred to as Déné, after the word that in many dialects denotes a man who speaks that tongue. It is the phonetic changes that makes the language almost unintelligible to one knowing only southern dialects. The main difference is in the presence of surd, sonant, and glottally af

The LINGUIST List - Thu, 01/29/2026 - 12:05
This book shows through an extensive cross-linguistic investigation of 1051 languages that there are at least three distinct functions associated with the binary realis-irrealis distinction in the languages of the world, one more common one denoting event status (as in Elliot [2000], Foley and van Valin [1984]), another less common one denoting propositional modality (as in Givón [1994], Nordström [2010]) and a third, rare one involving speech act modality (as in Bybee and Fleichmann [1995], Pal

The LINGUIST List - Thu, 01/29/2026 - 09:05
Description: Tasks: - further academic qualification (with the aim of obtaining a habilitation) - participation in teaching at the Department of Linguistics (2 courses per semester) - collaboration in research of the Applied Linguistics/Psycholinguistics lab - participation in administrative activities of the Applied Linguistics/Psycholinguistics lab What we expect: - completed university degree at MA level and an excellent doctorate in psycholinguistics or related subjects - ability

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