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This descriptive contrastive grammar systematically analyzes Japanese and Bengali (Bengali)—two typologically distinct languages belonging to the Japonic and Indo Aryan families. The study is organized into ten parts. Part?1 establishes the theoretical and methodological foundations of contrastive linguistics and corpus analysis. Part?2 compares phonology, phonetics, and writing systems, focusing on mora timing vs. syllable timing, pitch accent vs. stress accent, and the Japanese mixed script vs

The Brahui language, spoken by some 1,5 million people in Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan, is the earliest offshoot of the Dravidian stock. Isolated from the kindred languages for several thousand years, it combines ancient features inherited from the Proto-Dravidian ancestor with numerous borrowings from its Iranian and Indo-Aryan neighbours. Apart from a detailed practical grammar, illustrated with copious examples from Brahui texts, the book offers the latest comparative-historical informatio

Das Buch ist eine abgeschlossene Einführung in das Framework der Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. In einem einführenden Kapitel wird der ?bergang von einfachen Phrasenstrukturgrammatiken zu den komplexeren Repr?sentationen mit Merkmalbeschreibungen motiviert. Das zweite Kapitel führt allgemein verst?ndlich in den Formalismus der Merkmalstrukturen ein. In den verbleibenden Kapiteln werden ph?nomenbezogen verschiedene Grammatikbereiche diskutiert, wobei die Analysen jeweils für das Deutsche a

A key challenge of studying the historical phonology of any language is how to reconstruct the pronunciation of periods before the availability of sound recording. Many studies of pre-twentieth-century pronunciation rely on sources that comment on how people spoke, or infer pronunciation from spelling variation or rhymes. This book is the ?rst to investigate the phonology of nineteenth-century English based on a new kind of written source material: it examines pronunciation evidence provided by

Thinking of and talking about future events is a crucial part of our everyday lives. Thus, it is not surprising that in the languages of the world, a variety of markers for future time reference has developed. The goal of this volume is to take a contrastive perspective on the evolution of future constructions by bringing together scholars working on different languages and language families. In doing so, the edited volume opens up new perspectives on long-standing questions regarding the diachr

This dissertation applies the theories and methods of Labovian sociolinguistics to phonetic variation in the small, diasporic minority-context Yiddish community. This community is delineated by usage of Yiddish despite it not being a widely-spoken language in their neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, and other aspects of their daily lives. While community members are spread around the world, this study focuses on those in three cultural centers: Boston, Montreal, and New York City. In analyzing

Focus: Our course covers all the main aspects of English phonetics: - phonemic system (vowels and consonants) - segmental analysis (allophonic processes) - connected speech processes - sentence stress (tonicity, accentuation) - intonation (nuclear tones and prenuclear patterns)?? These topics are investigated both in lectures and in practical classes. Practical groups are kept small and are organised according to your prior knowledge of English and your English proficiency. The course co

ARR submission deadline: Aug 3, 2026 EACL commitment deadline: Oct 11, 2026 Details: https://2027.eacl.org/calls/papers/ Overview: EACL 2027 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research on Natural Language Processing. EACL 2027 has a goal of curating a diverse technical program. In addition to traditional research results, papers may contribute negative findings, survey an area, announce the creation of a new resource, argue a

Desde el impulso que el trabajo de Landry y Bourhis (1997) dio al campo de estudio del paisaje lingüístico (PL), la disciplina ha venido experimentando una constante expansión de los fenómenos que suscitan el interés de los investigadores. Más allá de ser un reflejo de la diversidad lingüística existente en la comunidad que habita el espacio estudiado, el PL constituye una valiosa herramienta para analizar la interacción entre lengua y sociedad por medio de una variedad de fenómenos como el mult

The study of "inclusive language" in Spanish has been predominantly approached from disciplines such as sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and critical discourse analysis, and it has been understood as a social practice or as a space for identity construction. However, the description of these phenomena from the internal perspective of linguistics and formal grammar remains notably scarce. The main objective of this monographic panel is to bring together researchers from the field of Hispanic

The Organizing Committee of this Symposium is pleased to invite you to the 1st International Symposium on evaluative language in social media, which will take place on 19 and 20 November 2026 at the Applied Linguistics Department of the Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain. The symposium will focus on evaluative language in social media. Within this broader framework, four thematic panels will guide the discussion: Gender: This panel explores how evaluative language contributes to the c

100% IN PERSON Co-Located with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting San Francisco, California, USA 6-9 January 2027 This event offers an opportunity for scholars from all over the world to gather and share leading research in historical sociolinguistic methods of linguistic inquiry; and we invite our fellow historical sociolinguists and scholars in related fields from our global scholarly community to join us in San Francisco for our 9th Annual Meeting. Abstract submis

Are you a foreign language teacher juggling learners with different levels, needs and learning styles? You’re not alone — and we’ve got something designed exactly for you. What will you get? - Smart ways to prepare lessons for students of varying levels - Strategies for managing a mixed-ability classroom and building a positive learning environment - Ready-to-use activities for speaking, writing, reading and listening - Tools to help students develop stronger study skills - Effect

Struggling with students who can’t take their eyes off their phones? Turn distraction into motivation! Join our dynamic workshop and discover how to transform smartphones from a classroom challenge into a powerful language learning tool. You'll unlock proven strategies to spark curiosity, boost student engagement, and encourage meaningful collaboration – all through the technology they already love using. What you'll gain: - Innovative methods to integrate mobile tech into language les

It is our pleasure to announce the publication of issue 13(2) of the Journal of Language Modelling (JLM), a free Diamond Open-Access peer-reviewed journal aiming to bridge the gap between theoretical, formal and computational linguistics: http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/ (see “CURRENT” or “ALL ISSUES”). The direct persistent link to this issue is: http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/index.php/JLM/issue/view/34. JLM is indexed by SCOPUS, ERIH PLUS, DBLP, DOAJ, etc., and it is a member of OASPA. Table of

It is our pleasure to announce the publication of issue 13(1) of the Journal of Language Modelling (JLM), a free Diamond Open-Access peer-reviewed journal aiming to bridge the gap between theoretical, formal and computational linguistics: http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/ (see “CURRENT” or “ALL ISSUES”). The direct persistent link to this issue is: http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/index.php/JLM/issue/view/33. JLM is indexed by SCOPUS, ERIH PLUS, DBLP, DOAJ, etc., and it is a member of OASPA. Table of

As of volume 13 (2026), the John Benjamins International Journal of Language and Culture welcomes on board two new Editors, Ana?s Augé (UCLouvain) and Judit Baranyiné Kóczy (University of Pannonia). They will succeed Esther Pascual (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University) and Vera da Silva Sinha (Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB) & University of East Anglia). Esther Pascual and Vera da Silva Sinha will remain members of the board. The aim of the International Journal of Language and Cultur

We are delighted to announce a call for papers for the 4th International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI 2027), which will be held in Hong Kong at the Chinese University of Hong Kong on 27-29 May 2027. The TAI conference originated from the International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL) and the Conference on Tone and Intonation in Europe (TIE). TAI 2027 aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum for distinguished scholars, experts, and practitioners to exchange ideas and d

NE-Embed is an open-source multilingual sentence embedding model developed by MWire Labs for Northeast Indian languages. The model is designed for semantic search, dense retrieval, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), multilingual information retrieval, cross-lingual search, text similarity, clustering, duplicate detection, and AI-powered knowledge retrieval in low-resource languages. Built on the LaBSE architecture and fine-tuned using more than 201,000 English–Northeast Indian parallel sen

A Franco-Belgian team is currently preparing an edited volume with the working title Negotiating Intersections in Translation, Accessibility, and Inclusion, and welcomes contributions for chapters. This project grew out of the “Intersections: Translation, accessibility, inclusion” conference held in Dijon and online in October 2025 (https://tinyurl.com/intersections2025). The edited volume will welcome chapters developed from material presented at the conference but is framed not as a set of