/linguistics/aggregator Linguistics - aggregated feeds en https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1901/ The last talks of the Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series 2026 will take place remotely on Monday 8th June 2026 at 5pm BST. We are delighted to host a special panel session on phylogenetics, featuring two back-to-back talks, followed by a joint Q&A session. Artin Nasirpour (University of Georgia, USA) will open the panel and present on “Middle Iranian Evidence and the ‘Problem’ of East Iranian: A Comparative and Quantitative Reassessment”. Emma Kopp (Université Paris-Dauphine, Fr Tue, 26 May 2026 17:05:02 -0400 https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1900/ The Department of Languages and Literature of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Nicosia invites you to a webinar held as part of the Master in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) programme. The webinar will take place on Monday, 8 June 2026, from 19:00-20:00 EEST. Speaker Dr Georgios P. Georgiou Assistant Professor of Linguistics Associate Head, Department of Languages and Literature University of Nicosia georgiou.georg@unic.ac.cy | htt Tue, 26 May 2026 16:05:02 -0400 https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1899/ Starting with volume 23 (2026), Barbara de Cock (Université Catholique de Louvain) will succeed Rosina Márquez Reiter (The Open University) as Co-Editor of the John Benjamins journal Spanish in Context, joining Executive Editor Francisco Moreno-Fernández (Universidad de Alcalá & Heidelberg University) and Co-Editors Lucía Cantamutto (Universidad Nacional de Río Negro) & Andrew Lynch (University of Miami). We are greatly indebted to Rosina Márquez Reiter who started the journal and under whos Tue, 26 May 2026 16:05:02 -0400 https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1898/ Focus: Subtitles, cinema, cinema communication Description: Cinema, linguaggi, comunicazione è la Summer School dell’Università degli Studi di Trieste dedicata al cinema come spazio di incontro tra linguaggi, pratiche comunicative e competenze professionali. In programma dal 21 al 25 settembre 2026 a Trieste, la scuola propone 32 ore di lezioni, visite e laboratori pratici, con particolare attenzione ai linguaggi audiovisivi, alla comunicazione e alla sottotitolazione. Il percorso si conc Tue, 26 May 2026 16:05:02 -0400 https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1897/ We are excited to invite everyone to join Dr. Ahmad Izadi's inspiring webinar on "Power in Healthcare Communication," part of the VIZJA series in Frontiers in Language Studies & Research. This initiative is organised by VIZJA University and will be held online on June 11, 2026, at 10:00 AM. Use the following link for registration: https://form.jotform.com/261352711717050 Tue, 26 May 2026 15:05:02 -0400 https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1896/ Merlin's Syntax Studio is a free, browser-based syntax tree generator designed for linguists, syntax instructors, and students. It converts bracketed expressions into clean syntactic tree diagrams and supports commonly needed notation for phrase-structure trees, including multiline labels, visible and hidden movement indices, strikethrough traces/copies, italic text, outline text, Greek letters, triangle/roof notation, and customizable movement links. The tool provides an interactive workspac Tue, 26 May 2026 15:05:02 -0400 https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1895/ Join our online reading group to discuss hot-off-the-press publications in historical sociolinguistics with the authors! The fourth session of "Reading with NARNiHS" is taking place on Monday, 29 June 2026, at 10:00 am US Eastern time / 4:00 pm European Central time and features Christine Wallis with her recent work in historical pragmatics, politeness, and identity work using intriguing material culture data from postal practices in 18th-century England. Reading with NARNiHS is a vibrant Tue, 26 May 2026 15:05:02 -0400 https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1894/ The functional domain of apprehensionality encompasses grammatical markers or constructions which conventionally encode or pragmatically implicate that the situation described by the clause is an undesirable possibility. Its main manifestations discussed in this volume are (i) apprehensives, which are modal markers which can occur in main clauses, and thus could serve to translate English might in Don't go near this dog, it might bite (but also add a component of undesirability), and (ii) precau Tue, 26 May 2026 10:05:02 -0400 https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1893/ What do people mean when they talk about the sound pattern of a language—what linguists call phonology? This book explores that question in a hands-on way, with a focus on applying the knowledge in language revitalization and community language work. The book introduces basic ideas and analytic strategies using examples from Indigenous languages across North and South America. Short comprehension checks invite you to test your understanding, and language explorations encourage you to apply what Tue, 26 May 2026 10:05:02 -0400 https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1892/ Despite decades of scholarship on lexical borrowing in post-Conquest England, the vocabulary of the medieval countryside has remained largely outside the lens of contact linguistics — an oversight shaped by the long-standing assumption that French influence was confined to elite domains. At the same time, the multilingual reality of medieval England has made monolingual lexicography an increasingly inadequate tool: the Anglo-French, Medieval Latin, and Middle English lexicons of the period canno Tue, 26 May 2026 10:05:02 -0400