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SUMMARY This is a very short book (as are the other Cambridge "Elements in Phonology" books): 43 pages, not counting references; there is no index. The topic is phonological analysis for language documentation. More specifically, it covers the phonology of spoken languages. Sign languages are not covered, although there are some useful references (p.4). I will have more to say about what is not covered in my evaluation. The introductory chapter sets the stage by explaining what languag

Call for Papers: The Linguistic Society of Korea (LSK) is pleased to announce the 2026 Seoul International Conference on Linguistics (SICOL-2026), to be held on August 10鈥�11, 2026 at Sungshin Women鈥檚 University in Seoul, Korea (Participation mode: in person). Recent advances in artificial intelligence鈥攑articularly large language models (LLMs)鈥攈ave reshaped how language is processed, modeled, and analyzed. As AI systems increasingly simulate aspects of linguistic competence and performance,

This thesis studies the syntax and semantics of null objects in Spanish. Null objects are grammatical elements that, despite not being uttered, are interpreted and display syntactic structure (e.g., En esta escuela castigan 脴 con dureza 鈥業n this school they punish harshly鈥�; Buscaban defectos de forma, pero no encontraron 脴 鈥楾hey were looking for formal defects, but found none鈥�). Despite the interest aroused by null objects in Romance languages, null objects of Spanish have gone almost unnoticed

Registration open!! GRACE@IberLEF2026: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/13280/ GRACE@IberLEF2026 announces the first edition of a novel task on Argument Mining shared task in Spanish connecting Explainable AI and Evidence-Based Medicine across clinical trials and medical licensing examinations. Argument Mining Argument Mining automatically extracts claims and evidence from clinical text and reveals how they support or challenge each other, enabling transparent, traceable clinical

I am looking for adult speakers of Upper Swabian who grew up in or near the county of Ravensburg (Oberschwaben) in Germany. The study investigates the AM-Progressive in Upper Swabian, such as: 'I be am schaffa.' Participants will evaluate sentences recorded in Upper Swabian. I am looking for speakers born between 1938-1980. For any questions, please contact Bettina Spreng, University of Saskatchewan. bettina.spreng@usask.ca Please share with anyone you think might be suitable. Link to

We are delighted to share the second call for papers with you for Konferenz zur Verarbeitung nat眉rlicher Sprache (KONVENS) 2026, organized under the auspices of the GSCL, the DGfS-CL, the 脰GAI, and SwissNLP. This year鈥檚 KONVENS will take place in Hamburg, September 14 鈥� 17 under the special theme 鈥淐ontext Matters: NLP Beyond Text鈥�. The conference will include a diverse program including talks by our two keynote speakers: - Dr. Valentin Hoffmann, Allen Institute for AI - Prof. Dr. Barbara P

We invite submissions for papers, posters, or panels focusing on, but not limited to: - Mother tongue/multilingual education strategies - Literacy development through first language instruction - Documentation and digitisation of endangered languages - Language endangerment and revitalisation practices - Linguistic diversity and social inclusion - Computational tools for low-resource language preservation - Policy, planning, and legal frameworks supporting multilingualism - Cross

Registration is now available for the UK Workshop on Generative Language Acquisition (UK-WGLA), to be held on 19-20 June at Ulster University in Belfast. Registration is free of charge, from https://blogs.ulster.ac.uk/language/wgla/registration/ This workshop provides a dedicated UK venue for theory-driven generative acquisition research, bringing together scholars working on syntax, semantics, morphology, phonology, and their interfaces in child language. Invited speaker: Professor Rus

This volume presents recent research in colour studies with a particular focus on language, offering both continuity and innovation within the field. All chapters are developed from papers first presented at the Progress in Colour Studies 2022 (PICS2022) conference, held at Tallinn University, Estonia. Building on the results of earlier PICS meetings and publications, this book continues the series鈥� tradition of offering fresh perspectives on colour across languages and cultures. The contribu

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the Dutch鈥揊rench contact situation in the Early and Late Modern period, when the Dutch language and culture supposedly underwent frenchification in various spheres of life. Bringing together empirical approaches based on a wide range of datasets, this volume not only delves deeply into an intriguing case study in historical multilingualism and language contact but also offers detailed theoretical and methodological background information on ho

Zero elements are used by several theories in morphology and syntax as analytical tool, but the question of whether phonologically empty elements should be structurally present or not has been a controversial issue from the very beginning. In addition to analyses that work with zero, there are also a whole series of works that explicitly reject a description with zero or allow them only under restricted circumstances. This volume aims at getting a more complete picture of zero elements as a theo

Call for Papers: Ever since the beginning of the minimalist enterprise in the early 90-ies, the Program has been trying to reconcile the ambitious task of formulating a comprehensive, compact and streamlined theory of grammar with the need for broad empirical coverage and adequacy. In the process, the theory has impacted research on particular constructions and languages and, in turn, particularly successful empirical analyses fed theory-oriented proposals. For the past 35 years the Program h

54th Pozna艅 Linguistic Meeting Thematic Session: 锘匡豢Multimodal Dimensions of Metaphorical Cognition Organized by Tomasz Dyrmo This session aims to examine, highlighting the 鈥渂eyond-language鈥� thematic scope of the conference, how metaphorical cognition is made observable across multiple semiotic modalities. The session adopts, therefore, a focused multimodal perspective: it investigates how underlying conceptual mappings are realized and constrained within specific discourse domains through mu

Call for Papers: Deverbal nominalisations and participles are among the most intensively studied representatives of so-called mixed categories. At least since Chomsky (1970), they have played a central role in debates on how syntax, morphology, and semantics interact in word formation. They occupy a theoretical middle ground between verbs and nouns/adjectives: they may preserve argument structure, aspectual interpretation, and event semantics, while simultaneously exhibiting nominal or adject

Call for Papers: Clitics are a highly prominent category in Slavic languages, which raises fundamental questions about the interfaces between syntax, morphology, phonology, and information structure. They occupy a theoretical middle ground between words and affixes, and their placement often reflects complex interactions among syntactic position, prosodic structure, and discourse-related constraints (Franks & King 2000; Bo拧kovi膰 2001, 2008, 2016; Mili膰evi膰 2023, a.m.o.). Slavic languages, wit

Call for Papers: SinFonIJA is a traveling conference that covers topics from all areas of theoretical linguistics, comparative linguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, and language acquisition. It was first organised in Nova Gorica in 2008 (you can still visit its website here) and got its name from the Slovenian SINtaksa FONologija In Jezikovna Analiza 鈥楽yntax, Phonology and Language Analysis鈥�. Over the past 16 years it has been been organised in Brno, Udine, Novi Sad, Budapest, Kr

Final Call for Papers: El Colegio de M茅xico A. C., Escuela Nacional de Lenguas, Ling眉铆stica y Traducci贸n UNAM, and Instituto de Investigaciones Antropol贸gicas UNAM, invite presentation proposals for the VII Formal Linguistics Meeting in Mexico (ELF) to be held on September 1, 2, and 3, 2026 at El Colegio de M茅xico, Mexico City. The Formal Linguistics Meeting aims to bring together researchers who consider formal approaches to the study of language in order to foster the exchange and discus

Multilingual corpora have been used in cross-linguistic research for 30 years. New technologies have dramatically changed the processes of compilation and exploitation of tailor-made corpora for linguistic research. The studies included in this volume showcase current cross-linguistic research utilising parallel, comparable, and novel types of corpora beyond this traditional two-fold distinction. The first part of the volume draws on specialised comparable corpora of newspaper opinion articles,

Intralingual Translation: Beyond language and text offers an innovative, wide-ranging exploration of translation within the same language, bringing together leading international scholars from diverse linguistic and disciplinary backgrounds. Spanning theoretical reflections, empirical studies, and historical analyses, the volume addresses the rich spectrum of intralingual practices, from plain language and accessibility adaptations to diachronic rewritings of historical texts. The first s

A current trend in contrastive corpus linguistics is to take register variation as a point of departure for identifying similarities and differences across languages. This volume looks back at central previous contributions in this area, and adds to our store of knowledge in the form of nine studies comparing English to five other languages in a wide variety of registers representing written, spoken, and written-to-be-spoken modes of communication. The volume starts with a semi-systematic review