The Research Group Monumenta Linguae Vasconum (MLV) and the University of the Basque Country are pleased to announce that the First International Conference on the History of Basque (ICHB1) will take place next week in Gasteiz, from 25鈥�27 November 2025. The first quarter of this century has been a productive period for the study of the history of the Basque language, marked by significant advances in text editing, historical dialectology, and linguistic reconstruction, among other areas. Hist

2nd Call for Papers: Convenors: Sabine Arndt-Lappe (Trier) Barbara Schl眉cker (FU Berlin) Complex words are produced, understood, and also coined in context, and a by now large, but diverse body of literature has explored different facets of the role of context. By 鈥榗ontext鈥� we mean the linguistic context, both immediate (e.g. preceding and following words) and with a larger scope (e.g. text types), and the extralinguistic context such as the speaker and the listener or the situation of s

Call for Papers: The First International Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health (HeaLing鈥�26) will be held as a half-day workshop at EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco, March 24鈥�29, 2026. Scope & Aims: Language-oriented approaches鈥攕uch as discourse and conversation analysis, narrative medicine, and linguistic ethnography鈥攈ave long been central to understanding how medical knowledge is produced, communicated, and experienced. Advances in NLP and AI now enable these approaches to scale across l

SUMMARY The Challenge of Subtitling Offensive and Taboo Language into Spanish: A Theoretical and Practical Guide was first published in 2023 and released in paperback in 2025. The book has a brief Introduction, followed by three more chapters. Each of these three chapters closes with extensive exercises, and there is an answer key at the end of the volume. At the front of the book is a list of abbreviations; in its final pages are lists of films and TV series, web addresses, references, and a

The topic of language and brain is a large and significant area of research and study, and this Handbook provides a state-of-the-art survey of the field. Bringing together contributions from an interdisciplinary team of internationally-renowned scholars, it focuses on important theoretical positions that have changed the study of language and brain in the first two decades of the 21st century. It is split into seven thematic parts, covering topics such as theoretical foundations of language and

2025. iii, 175 pp. Table of Contents Editorial Preface pp.鈥�145鈥�147 Articles The Finnish definite article Nathaniel Jacob Torres | pp.鈥�148鈥�178 Epistemic perspective of temporal deictics: A study on Mari retrospectivizing particles Silja-Maija Spets | pp.鈥�179鈥�216 Verb second in Estonian and the syntax-prosody relation Anders Holmberg, Heete Sahkai & Anne Tamm | pp.鈥�217鈥�268 Binding in Finnish and the language-cognition interface Pauli Brattico | pp.鈥�269鈥�319

2025. iii, 165 pp. Table of Contents Articles Exploring young Chilean learners鈥� 鈥榯hick鈥� voices about English language learning: A longitudinal participatory approach P铆a Tabali & Annamaria Pinter | pp.鈥�153鈥�176 Integrating technology-mediated language learning tasks into the young learner English as a foreign language classroom: Unravelling a pre-service teacher鈥檚 competence development Euline Cutrim Schmid & Andrea Kratzer | pp.鈥�177鈥�201 Extensive reading of digital science reso

2024. iii, 148 pp. Table of Contents Articles The development of discourse competence in learner academic writing Sonca Vo | pp.鈥�141鈥�165 Evaluative stance in academic arguments: A study of that-structures in applied linguistics research article introductions Ebtesam Abbasi Montazeri & Alireza Jalilifar | pp.鈥�166鈥�207 Thom Gunn鈥檚 poetry and capital: A reading through Pierre Bourdieu鈥檚 sociology Fatemeh Shahpoori Arani | pp.鈥�208鈥�233 Deconstructing OUT-prefixation: A constructi

2025. iii, 169 pp. Table of Contents Articles Simple language, sophisticated actions: Sequence-initiating actions by novice English users in an educational context Eric Hauser & Zachary Nanbu | pp.鈥�777鈥�805 The metapragmatic act of debating in the media Ronald R. Jacobsen | pp.鈥�806鈥�827 Commenting behavior as a mirror of parasocial relationships and emotional attachment on YouTube: A qualitative study of comments on product-promoting videos in Spanish Sanna Pelttari | pp.鈥�828鈥�84

2025. iii, 144 pp. Table of Contents Preface Edda Weigand | pp.鈥�347鈥�348 Discussion article Why we must communicate: Dewey鈥檚 contribution to the dialogic theory of language Yael Mishani-Uval | pp.鈥�349鈥�361 Articles Dialogue: Translation activities and human鈥搇and relationship Jianzhong Xu | pp.鈥�362鈥�379 How are suggestions formulated in Saudi Arabia and New Zealand? A cross-cultural pragmatic study Dina Abdel Salam El-Dakhs & Anna Siyanova-Chanturia | pp.鈥�380鈥�410 Self-

As of Volume 38 (2026), the John Benjamins journal Target welcomes on board two new Associate Editors: Rhona Amos (University of Geneva) & Sara Ramos Pinto (University of Leeds). Also, Riku Haapaniemi (Tampere University) will become the new Multilingual Website Editor. Target is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal aiming to promote the interdisciplinary scholarly study of translational phenomena from any part of the world and in any medium. The journal presents research on various forms of

In this newsletter: Join LDC for membership year 2026 Spring 2026 data scholarship application deadline New publications: AnnoDIFP CTS Audio and Transcripts LORELEI Ilocano Incident Language Pack ________________________________________ Join LDC for membership year 2026 It鈥檚 time to renew your LDC membership for 2026. Any organization that joins the Consortium or renews their membership before March 2, 2026, will receive a 10% discount off the membership fee. In addition to

Articles A description of Changki-Ao phonology with a note on orthography T, Temsunungsang; Changkija, Amenla, I https://doi.org/10.5070/H9.35216 A study of the Morphological Patterns of Collocation in Assamese: A Thematic Overview Handique, Mouchumi https://doi.org/10.5070/H9.35204 Negation in Mising Doley, Normoda https://doi.org/10.5070/H9.47090 A Phonological Sketch of Maring Kanshouwa, Susie https://doi.org/10.5070/H9.35233 Reduplication In Khiamniungan Thaam, Keen

"(Im)politeness in Ancient Egypt" is the first book-length study of (im)politeness in ancient Egyptian texts. Leading experts in their respective corpora examine a range of textual sources spanning approximately 2,000 years, using the latest frameworks for analyzing language in usage. This edited volume asks how ancient Egyptians adapted and modified their language to persuade, complain, or mock, and how they assessed the risks and benefits of communicating with those above or below them in the

We constantly refer to counterfactual events鈥攖hings that didn鈥檛 happen but could have鈥攖hrough conditional, wish, and modal constructions. Yet, despite their ubiquity, we still know surprisingly little about how these constructions have evolved across languages and through history. This book breaks new ground by tracing, for the first time, the development of counterfactual systems across different constructions, texts, linguistic registers, and historical stages. Drawing on extensive corpus data

Khortha is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken in Jharkhand, India. Netra P. Paudyal provides an in-depth analysis of Khortha grammar based on the data recorded during his field trips, elicited data, and sentences culled from printed literature. Alongside, it includes a fully glossed text, a comparative wordlist of lexical items from three different varieties of this language and verb paradigms, making it of great interest and value to linguists and typologists. Additionally, it highlights Kho

Over the past two decades, linguistic research into embodiment has paid considerable attention to the human body and its individual parts, particularly within typological and cognitively oriented studies. This volume continues that line of inquiry with a specific focus on the lower limb. It shows that, like other major body parts, the lower limb serves as a highly productive source domain for a wide range of conceptualisations across the world鈥檚 languages and cultures. More generally, the book c

Students of teacher education need to be prepared for increasingly diverse classrooms. Internationalising their studies is one way to make them aware of the many dimensions of diversity and prepare them for their future lives in the classroom. It is important to expose them to international learning opportunities, to enable mobility abroad and implement international modules into their studies. The DAAD project to internationalise teacher education is conducted with partner universities worldwid

The DFG Research Unit 鈥楥yclic Optimization鈥�, starting its second phase on March 1 2026 with 13 new research positions, explores the interaction of cyclicity and optimization in all areas of grammar: phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. The two PhD positions announced here are part of the subproject 鈥楾he Clash of Negation and Imperatives through the Lense of Cyclic Optimization鈥� (PI: Paula Fenger). The subproject investigates the morphosyntactic variation across imperatives and prohibit

We are pleased to announce that the 26th International Conference of the Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA 2026) will be held as follows: Dates: 4鈥�5 July 2026 (Sat鈥揝un) Venue: Mie University https://www.mie-u.ac.jp/en/ Invited Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Culbertson銆�(University of Edinburgh) Deadline for Abstract Submission: Tuesday, 31 March 2026, 23:59 (JST). There are four formats for research presentations at J-SLA 2026: (1) Oral Presentation (2) Poster Presentation (3) Studen