The 26th Workshop on the Roots of Pragmasemantics, held on the top of the Szrenica mountain in the Giant Mountains on the border of Poland and the Czech Republic, invites linguists, logicians, philosophers, psychologists, and researchers from related fields to submit papers for presentation on February 20鈥�23, 2026. This year鈥檚 special theme is Event Cognition. Confirmed invited speakers include: David Beaver (The University of Texas at Austin) Oliver Bott (Bielefeld University) Marcin W膮gi

Convernors: - Eva Skope膷kov谩 (University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic) skopecko@kan.zcu.cz - Emanuela Tenca (UniCamillus, Italy) emanuela.tenca@unicamillus.org 鈥淭he rise of English as a global language has led scholars to call for a paradigm shift in the field of English language teaching (ELT) to match the new sociolinguistic landscape of the twenty-first century.鈥� (Rose et al., 2021, p. 157). Over the last two decades, this issue has been addressed in a considerable body of rese

The Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL) is an annual conference held in UCSB's Department of Linguistics. This conference brings linguists, language activists, and community members together to learn about and advocate for the endangered indigenous languages of North, Central, South America and the Caribbean. This conference aims to introduce community members to the world of linguistics, as well as to contribute to an inclusive, positive culture within the field of linguistics itse

Half a century after Aumann鈥檚 鈥淎greeing to Disagree鈥� (1976), this workshop revisits agreement theorems, common knowledge, and related frameworks at the interface of game theory, economics, logic, and language. Opening day: honorary participation and talk by Robert J. Aumann. Invited/featured speakers include: Galit Ashkenazi-Golan, Mathias Beiglb枚ck, John Geanakoplos (TBC), Ani Guerdjikova, Alia Gizatullina, Yannai A. Gonczarowski, Michael Greinecker, Ziv Hellman, Roni Katzir, Yoram Moses,

Convenors Valentina Del Vecchio1, Laura Tramutoli2, Margherita Di Salvo3, Ad Backus1 1 Tilburg University, NL 2 University of L鈥橝quila, IT 3 University of Naples, IT Keywords language contact; usage-based approaches; code-switching; borrowing; multiword units. 1. Introduction The study of language contact has long been structured by foundational dichotomies: the analysis of synchronic speech phenomena versus diachronic contact-induced change, on the one hand, and of lexical phenome

We are pleased to announce the next TaLC conference, which will take place at University of Extremadura. The conference will be held in Jarandilla de la Vera, a village within the La Vera district, north of the province of C谩ceres, approximately 200 kilometers from Madrid. As summers in this part of Spain are typically very hot, the conference will instead take place in this area of Extremadura. Surrounded by mountains, valleys, gorges, and natural swimming pools, it offers a cooler and more ple

Sektion 9, Frankoromanistiktag Kassel Eine grundlegende Funktion von Kommunikation besteht darin, die Emotionen und Haltungen der eigenen Person dem Gespr盲chspartner mitzuteilen. Diese emotive oder expressive Funktion der Sprache gilt als anthropologische Konstante, die allerdings historisch-kulturell unterschiedlich ausgeformt wird (B眉hler 1999 (1934), Jakobson 2007 (1960), Pustka 2015). Im Zentrum der Sektion steht die Frage, in welcher Weise neue digitale Formate die sprachliche und mul

The Conference on British and American Studies is a forum where senior and junior researchers from different universities present their work and exchange ideas, keeping current with the latest developments in the vast areas of macro- and microlinguistics, whilst also contributing to the growth and continued updating of these fields. Over the years, we have been able to welcome participants from many universities around Romania. We have equally enjoyed the opportunity to meet with fellow acade

Lexicography and lexicology are inherently tied to how language is used, perceived, and conventionalised. The 16th International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology (ICHLL 16) invites scholars to explore how, across time, these disciplines have described, explained, and theorised the processes through which linguistic forms become established, conventional, and meaningful. The conference theme focuses on the historical dynamics of usage, understood not as conformity to norms

Oriental Meetings in Sosnowiec (Sosnowieckie Spotkania Orientalistyczne) is an interdisciplinary academic conference promoting intercultural dialogue, addressed to young scholars, including postgraduate and graduate students, whose research interests focus on the languages, literatures and cultures of Oriental countries, especially Arabic-speaking countries, Central Asian countries, China, Japan and India organized by the Institute of Linguistics of the University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland)

Background: The study of how the human brain manages and uses multiple languages has been a central topic in cognition, psychology, and psycholinguistics for decades. Different aspects of how bilinguals activate and control their different languages, which cognitive skills are enhanced during this mental juggling, and what are the limits to the processes of language switching and mixing are a few of the topics that have been at the forefront of such research (Blanco-Elorrieta & Pylkk盲nen 2017

From voice assistants and generative AI to the evolving relationships between humans and their animal companions, language-based communication with non-humans is becoming an increasingly common feature of the everyday. In response, we are seeing a surge in research from linguistics to philosophy to the social sciences, investigating the meanings, quandaries, and realities of this new communicative terrain. This conference aims to build a bridge between the predominantly distinct fields of human鈥�

The proposed workshop aims to explore and understand what鈥檚 special about body part noun incorporation compared to other types of incorporation found across the world鈥檚 languages. Which particular body part terms tend to be incorporated, and what might this reveal about universal patterns in linguistic structure and meaning? By bringing together researchers working on diverse languages, this workshop seeks to uncover the distinctive characteristics, functions, and typological tendencies of body

The 2026 Taiwan Computer-Assisted Language Learning (TaiwanCALL) and Global Computer-Assisted Language Learning (GLoCALL) Joint Conference adopts the theme 鈥淐ALL for All: Inclusive, Adaptive, and Engaging Language Learning.鈥� This conference aims to bring together international scholars and practitioners in the field of Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) to examine current progress and challenges in achieving educational equity through technology-enhanced language learning. It seeks to ex

The 9th International Conference on Figurative Thought and Language (FTL9) continues the tradition of regular forums for the discussion of links between figurative thought and language established in Thessaloniki (2014), Pavia (2015), Osijek (2017), Braga (2018), Sofia (2020), Pozna艅 (2022), Genoa (2023), and Klagenfurt (2025). FTL9 will focus on the theme Blending Minds and Machines: Figurative Language, Creativity, AI, and Computational Linguistics. This edition aims to explore how figur

This workshop explores how autistic people engage with and express focused interests across diverse communicative settings. Previously framed narrowly as 鈥渟pecial interests,鈥� these intense areas of engagement are central to autistic sense-making, self-expression, and social interaction. Bringing together discourse, narrative, and interactional approaches, the sessions will examine how focused interests shape the stories autistic individuals tell, the way knowledge is shared, and connections are

The Manchester Forum in Linguistics (MFiL) is an annual conference for postgraduate students and early-career researchers in all fields of Linguistics. The aim of the conference is to share current theoretical and methodological linguistic work and provide information and advice for postgraduate students, post-doctoral scholars, and others in the early stages of their scientific career, through oral and poster presentations, plenary talks, and a careers panel. The MFiL website is: https://mfilco

A syntax-semantics workshop "Onward and Upward, or Not: Form-meaning mismatches in Modality, Agreement, and Negation" will take place in Georg-August-University G枚ttingen on 14th November 2025. The topics of this workshop include negation, modality and agreement. The workshop is celebrating the achievements and contributions of Hedde Zeijlstra and his colleagues to the study of the syntax-semantics interface. The workshop will include 6 invited talks and a poster session. Invited Speakers:

RALFe 2026, the ninth edition of Rencontres autour de la linguistique formelle, France鈥檚 premier annual conference for formal linguistics, will take place at Universit茅 Paris Cit茅 on June 3 2026 and Universit茅 Paris 8 on June 4鈥�5 2026. Paris Cit茅鈥檚 Laboratoire de linguistique formelle (LLF) will host a one-day workshop entitled 鈥楢llomorphy across grammar鈥�. Paris 8鈥檚 Structures formelles du langage (SFL) will host the main conference. Our invited speakers are: - Colin Phillips (University of

We invite you to participate in the 'South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and Processing of Language (SAFAL) 2025'. The conference will bring together researchers investigating South Asian languages to exchange ideas in different domains of psycholinguistic inquiry including language acquisition, language processing, multilingualism, and literacy development. The meeting will be held in hybrid modality to allow for broad participation of students and researchers. Participants can attend remotely