The Formal Linguistics Research Group (GLiF) in the Department of Translation and Language Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain) is accepting expressions of interest from researchers interested in applying to the upcoming Juan de la Cierva and Beatriu de Pin贸s postdoctoral calls:
Juan de la Cierva: This is now a 3-year postdoctoral contract awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities. The PhD will have to have been successfully defended and appro
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 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
Final Call for Papers:
The abstract submission deadline for ICAME47 has been extended to 16 November 2025!
We are pleased to announce that ICAME47 will take place in Koblenz (Germany) on 26-30 May 2026. ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English) is an annual international conference and one of the longest-standing organisations of linguists and data scientists working with English language corpora.
The conference theme is 鈥淎 Confluence of Corpus Research in th
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
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
2nd Call for Papers:
The deadline for submission of papers for the symposium "Pushing the boundaries of linguistic categorization" has been extended to November 15.
This symposium is organised by both the CELISO, Sorbonne University and the CREA, Paris Nanterre University. It will take place on Friday the 10th of April 2026 starting at 9 AM at the Maison de la Recherche, Sorbonne University, 28 rue Serpente, 75006 Paris (room D323).
You will find the call for papers at the following ad
Final Call for Papers:
We are delighted to invite you to present your work at the 3rd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held online as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2025 (https://2025.jcdl.org//) on December 15, 2025. The workshop will consist of 2 live sessions scheduled to accommodate participants from different time zones across the world. Session recordings and transcripts will be available for workshop participants.
This interactive virtu
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
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
Call for Papers:
We are pleased to announce that the 19th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL19) will take place on 30 June 鈥 2 July 2026 at the Leibniz-Center General Linguistics (ZAS) in Berlin, Germany.
We invite abstracts for in-person talks (20-minute presentation + 10-minute discussion) or poster presentations on any topic in theoretical Altaic linguistics, including phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, or pragmatics, as well as work based on experimental approaches of t
Description:
The Department of English, National Chengchi University (NCCU) in Taipei, Taiwan invites applications for one full-time faculty position (Assistant Professor or above), beginning August 1, 2026.
Qualifications:
- Ph.D. in TESOL, Applied Linguistics, or Literature (nationality unrestricted)
- Proven scholarly research and teaching ability
- Capable of teaching undergraduate English courses, general education courses, and graduate-level seminars
- College teaching experi
Speech production is a core component of human communication, allowing individuals to express meaning and engage with others seamlessly. This thesis explores the mechanisms underlying language production in native Mandarin Chinese, with a particular focus on semantic and lexico-syntactic features involved in word production.
The investigation is structured around three key studies. First, a picture-word interference (PWI) experiment examines the influence of animacy鈥攁 semantic feature鈥攐n lang
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:
This dissertation examines three kinds of grammatical structures present in Yoruba drum music and language.
Chapter 1 is dedicated to speech-to-drum mapping in the speech surrogacy systems of Yoruba d霉nd煤n and b脿t谩 drums, and investigates how each of these drums presents unique strategies based on pitch, timbre, and duration, in imitating Yoruba speech.
Chapter 2 analyses a repertoire of pieces for d霉nd煤n ensemble and utilizes the proposition of musical grammars as a pathway to understandi
鈥淵ou ask what Hanfu is? Essentially, you are asking what this group of people is doing!鈥
Hanfu means 鈥淗an clothing,鈥 with Han referring to the predominant ethnic group in the People鈥檚 Republic of China. In this context, 鈥渢his group of people鈥 refers to 鈥渟elf-defined Hanfu fans.鈥
Doing Hanfu is an ethnographic study of their embodied meaning-making practices and how these contribute to the construction of situated identities. The ethnographic fieldwork was conducted in two distinct geograph
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