Conferences - Tue, 09/02/2025 - 08:05
The Language Attitudes and Popular Linguistics Area of the Popular Culture Association is seeking presentations on any language attitude or language-related popular culture topic, such as: - the language attitudes of X (for example, new baby greeting cards, truck drivers, student writers, first generation immigrants, etc.) - issues with prescriptivism - language and advertising or other media; - professional, corporate, or other industry-related language; - dialect, code-switching, or

Conferences - Tue, 09/02/2025 - 08:05
This is a call for papers for a hybrid session at the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference in Pittsburgh, PA which will take place March 5-8, 2026. Please see this link for the CFP and to submit through the NeMLA site: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21963 . On March 1, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued an executive order designating English the official language of the United States while simultaneously revoking a previous executive order from August 11, 2000, called 鈥淚mpro

Conferences - Tue, 09/02/2025 - 07:05
As part of the Marie Sk艂odowska-Curie funded project Verb valency in Germanic: diachronic analysis and reconstruction of protolinguistic scenario (VALGER, project no. 101150253) the research group Linguistics in Pavia, sponsored by the journal North-Western European Language Evolution (NOWELE, John Benjamins), is organizing a two-day symposium dedicated to the study of Germanic syntax. The symposium will take place at the University of Pavia on Thursday 16 and Friday 17 April 2026. We invite

Conferences - Tue, 09/02/2025 - 07:05
We are very excited to announce the very first Young Researchers' Conference on negation taking place in Frankfurt am Main in May 2026! The conference has two main goals: to foster exchange among doctoral and postdoctoral researchers working on negation and to investigate negation from a range of theoretical and empirical perspectives. By bringing together young researchers from different disciplines and methodological backgrounds, the event offers a space for feedback, discussion, and collabora

The LINGUIST List - Mon, 09/01/2025 - 05:05
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

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Call for Papers: The Linguistics Department at the University of Florida is excited to announce that the Call for Abstracts for the Florida Linguistics Yearly Meeting (FLYM) 2025 is now open. FLYM 2025 will take place on Friday October 10th and Saturday October 11th. This year's theme is Language in Context: Theory and Community. We welcome submissions in sociolinguistics, theoretical, and computational linguistics, and, in the spirit of the theme, we particularly welcome submissions focu

Conferences - Mon, 09/01/2025 - 04:05
West Virginia Foreign Language Teachers Association (WV FLTA) is inviting everyone to attend our annual conference in Lewisburg, WV on October 3-4, 2026. At the conference, you can expect to: 1) Receive high-quality professional development designed for World Languages & Cultures teachers. 2) Attend multiple sessions with ideas to enrich the language classroom. 3) Participate in two workshops that will demonstrate activities to enhance learning both in and beyond the classroom. 4) Interact

The LINGUIST List - Mon, 09/01/2025 - 04:05
West Virginia Foreign Language Teachers Association (WV FLTA) is inviting everyone to attend our annual conference in Lewisburg, WV on October 3-4, 2026. At the conference, you can expect to: 1) Receive high-quality professional development designed for World Languages & Cultures teachers. 2) Attend multiple sessions with ideas to enrich the language classroom. 3) Participate in two workshops that will demonstrate activities to enhance learning both in and beyond the classroom. 4) Interact

The LINGUIST List - Mon, 09/01/2025 - 04:05
This panel comprises a collection of 6 contributions and 2 general discussions. Our聽talks聽focus on the specific relationship between music and language.聽The first聽3 papers report new findings in textsetting. These talks collectively argue that musical settings actively shape and expose hidden linguistic structures. The analysis of right-headed constituents in Italian pop songs (Talk 1) challenges the traditional trochaic model by showing how iambic patterns emerge under musical prominence. Simil

The LINGUIST List - Mon, 09/01/2025 - 04:05
Doctoral researcher in Descriptive Linguistics for ERC project 鈥淟o-Rig" The School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, is seeking to recruit a highly motivated and outstanding doctoral researcher for a period of 4 years (48 months). Candidates are given the opportunity to work on a structured PhD in descriptive linguistics, writing a grammatical description of the M枚npa language of Bhutan based on a corpus of natural speech and elicitation. We are seeking

Conferences - Mon, 09/01/2025 - 03:05
El pensamiento filos贸fico est谩 presente, impl铆cita o expl铆citamente, en la construcci贸n, el desarrollo y la argumentaci贸n de las ciencias humanas y sociales. No son pocos los trabajos sobre filosof铆a en la tradici贸n del estudio de las lenguas: la ling眉铆stica, como ciencia, participa del criterio ontol贸gico y epistemol贸gico en la mayor parte de los conceptos con los que opera; dentro de esta necesidad, son urgentes trabajos que estudien los fen贸menos ling眉铆sticos desde esta mirada. Las coordin

Conferences - Mon, 09/01/2025 - 03:05
Session 9 鈥 Phonetics, Phonology and Interfaces Chair: Michela Russo (Universit茅 de Lyon & UMR 7023 SFL/Universit茅 Paris 8) Vice-Chair: Rudolph Sock (Universit茅 de Strasbourg) Other committee members: Nicolas Audibert (Sorbonne Nouvelle University), Marie-H茅l猫ne C么t茅 (Universit茅 de Lausanne, Switzerland), Ivana Didirkov谩 (Universit茅 de Montpellier Paul-Val茅ry), Heather Goad (91黑料网, Montreal, Canada), Bernard Harmegnies (Universit茅 de Mons, Belgium), Haike Jacobs (Radboud Univers

The LINGUIST List - Mon, 09/01/2025 - 03:05
El pensamiento filos贸fico est谩 presente, impl铆cita o expl铆citamente, en la construcci贸n, el desarrollo y la argumentaci贸n de las ciencias humanas y sociales. No son pocos los trabajos sobre filosof铆a en la tradici贸n del estudio de las lenguas: la ling眉铆stica, como ciencia, participa del criterio ontol贸gico y epistemol贸gico en la mayor parte de los conceptos con los que opera; dentro de esta necesidad, son urgentes trabajos que estudien los fen贸menos ling眉铆sticos desde esta mirada. Las coordin

The LINGUIST List - Mon, 09/01/2025 - 03:05
Session 9 鈥 Phonetics, Phonology and Interfaces Chair: Michela Russo (Universit茅 de Lyon & UMR 7023 SFL/Universit茅 Paris 8) Vice-Chair: Rudolph Sock (Universit茅 de Strasbourg) Other committee members: Nicolas Audibert (Sorbonne Nouvelle University), Marie-H茅l猫ne C么t茅 (Universit茅 de Lausanne, Switzerland), Ivana Didirkov谩 (Universit茅 de Montpellier Paul-Val茅ry), Heather Goad (91黑料网, Montreal, Canada), Bernard Harmegnies (Universit茅 de Mons, Belgium), Haike Jacobs (Radboud Univers

The LINGUIST List - Mon, 09/01/2025 - 03:05
Final Call for Papers: IcoLL2026 is the joint conference of the 4th Iconicity Seminar (IcoSem) and the 15th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (ILL). For the first time, the two international conferences on iconicity will take place together on 21-23 February 2026 hosted by the Nagoya University Graduate School of Humanities. The deadline has been extended till 15 September 2025. Please send a 2-page abstract (including everything) in the following format:

The LINGUIST List - Sun, 08/31/2025 - 14:05
SUMMARY This book, 鈥淣egation in English and Other Languages鈥 (henceforth 鈥淣egation鈥), written by Otto Jespersen and edited by Brett Reynolds and Peter Evans with an introduction by Olli O. Silvennoinen, is a newly second edition of Jespersen鈥檚 1917 classic. This edition makes this work more accessible, preserving its historical significance and enhancing its usability and applicability for contemporary readers. The editors鈥 contributions are significant. The new edition is supplemented wit

Conferences - Fri, 08/29/2025 - 13:05
NegLaB, the Collaborative Research Center 1629 鈥淣egation in Language and Beyond鈥 at the Universities of Frankfurt, T眉bingen and G枚ttingen invites linguists and psychologists to submit papers to the 2nd NegLaB Workshop (NegLaB II) to be held at the University of Frankfurt on the 1st and 2nd of December 2025. The NegLaB II Workshop aims to advance our understanding of how the expression of negation is cross-linguistically associated with grammatical and non-linguistic cognitive operations. We a

The LINGUIST List - Fri, 08/29/2025 - 13:05
NegLaB, the Collaborative Research Center 1629 鈥淣egation in Language and Beyond鈥 at the Universities of Frankfurt, T眉bingen and G枚ttingen invites linguists and psychologists to submit papers to the 2nd NegLaB Workshop (NegLaB II) to be held at the University of Frankfurt on the 1st and 2nd of December 2025. The NegLaB II Workshop aims to advance our understanding of how the expression of negation is cross-linguistically associated with grammatical and non-linguistic cognitive operations. We a

Conferences - Fri, 08/29/2025 - 12:05
Institute for Doctoral Studies, 1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba Iulia in cooperation with, Centre for Research and Innovation in Linguistic Education, University of Alba Iulia University of Madeira, Portugal Centre of English Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, University of East Sarajevo Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova are pleased to announce the 1st International Conference for Young Researchers in Humanities and Social Sciences (IC-YRHSS), to be held from 14 to 16 November 2025

Conferences - Fri, 08/29/2025 - 12:05
International Linguistic Association Symposium: Words On WORD In celebration of the 80th anniversary of its journal WORD, the ILA presents within its annual meeting six distinguished linguists discussing groundbreaking articles that first appeared in its pages. Most of the speakers bring personal reminiscences of their authors. Saturday, September 27, 2025 (all times Eastern Daylight Time, GMT +5) I. New Approaches (10:00 am 鈥 11:30 am) Zellig Harris鈥檚 鈥淒istributional Structure鈥 (1954) h

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