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*What is this course about?*
When people communicate, they not only exchange information, but they also indicate how the speaker鈥檚 and addressee鈥檚 knowledge relate to that information. What is the source of the information, how certain is the speaker of it, is it unexpected for the speaker or addressee? All these aspects fall under epistemicity 鈥 the expression of the speaker鈥檚 and addressee鈥檚 knowledge in grammar.
In this online masterclass, you will become familiar with the whole area of epi
Focus: The main focus of the Summer School is in applied knowledge about experimental methodologies to study voice, speech, language and behaviour, following a hands-on approach.
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This is the ninth edition of STEM (Summer Training in Experimental Methods), a week long training program in current methods in experimental linguistics, phonetics and psycholinguistics, organized by the Phonetics and Phonology Laboratory and Lisbon Baby Lab (Center of Linguistics, University of Lisbon).
Dear all,
We warmly welcome you to the Language Culture Matters Seminar Series for Term 3 of the 2024-25 academic year.
The seminars will take place each Wednesday from 30th April 2025 until 18th June 2025, at 16:00-17:00 (British Summer Time; UTC+1). They are hybrid sessions, held in A0.23 (Social Sciences Building, University of Warwick) and online (Microsoft Teams).
Please check the website for joining information and details of the upcoming talks.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc
PhD position in child language socialization (involves fieldwork: West Papua, Indonesia)
A PhD candidate is sought for the Documenting Languages and Ethnobiological Knowledge (DocuLEK) project, funded jointly by the French and German research agencies (ANR-DFG). The project will be headed by an international team of researchers, including Sonja Riesberg (LaCiTO CNRS, Paris), Birgit Hellwig (University of Cologne) and Aung Si (University of Cologne). This interdisciplinary project has a number
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HK Research Professor (Post Doc) Positions at the Center for Data Science in Humanities
Chosun University, Korea
The newly established Center for Data Science in Humanities (Director: Eon-Suk Ko) at Chosun University is seeking multiple full-time HK research professors to join a newly funded HK 3.0 research initiative titled "Language, Cognition, and Society: A Lifespan Data-Driven Approach." This six-year national project, supported by the Ministry of Education and the Natio
The study of dialectal variation in phonology, morphology, and syntax has received increasing attention in recent decades. The result is an important body of work on dialect syntax with diverse approaches, methodologies, and scopes, including formal approaches (e.g. Bayer 1984, Haegeman 1992, Hoekstra 1993, Poletto 2000, Beninc脿 and Poletto 2004, Van Craenenbroeck 2010), computational-quantitative analyses (e.g. Nerbonne 2009, 2010, Heeringa and Nerbonne 2013, Wieling and Nerbonne 2015), and soc
We are pleased to announce that the 56th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS 55) will be hosted by New York University in New York, New York, from October 17 to October 19, 2025. Keynote speakers will be announced at a later date.
We invite abstracts for 20-minute talks and posters on any theoretical or formal aspect of natural language, including but not limited to phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and their interfaces. There will be a special sessi
The Faculty of Humanities and the Centre for Sociocultural and Ethnolinguistic Studies of the HSE University are pleased to announce an interdisciplinary conference on 鈥淢anaging language diversity through Societies, States and History鈥 to be held online on June 06, 2025. The conference aims to bring together scholars, researchers, and professionals from various disciplines to explore the historical, legal, and social dynamics related to language diversity. We invite the submission of papers tha
Call for Proposals
The Texts in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas series is an annual supplement to the International Journal of American Linguistics dedicated to the presentation of analyzed oral texts from the indigenous languages of the Americas. TILA volumes are guest-edited, thematically-organized collections of texts published as a supplement to the April issue of IJAL and online on the IJAL website.
Issues in the series may be single-authored or edited multi-contributor colle
The eighth workshop on Universal Dependencies
Part of SyntaxFest 2025, Ljubljana, August 26-29
2nd Call for Papers:
Universal Dependencies (UD) is a framework for cross-linguistically consistent treebank annotation that has so far been applied to over 150 languages (https://universaldependencies.org ). The framework is aiming to capture similarities as well as idiosyncrasies among typologically different languages (e.g., morphologically rich languages, pro-drop languages, and languages f
Deadline Extension: Call for Papers and Posters
The conference KogWis 2025, which will take place 01.09. - 03.09. at Ruhr-University Bochum aims at providing a platform for discussing the most recent developments in Cognitive Science. It will feature contributed papers, symposia, and posters covering all subfields of cognitive science, bringing together a large number of experts from Europe and overseas.
We invite paper and poster contributions on recent research in any subfield of cogni
*Short-term scholarships in fall 2025 for (prospective) PhD students, HU Berlin and ZAS*
Are you an MA graduate planning to do or already pursuing a PhD in linguistics or a related field? Would you like to spend a few months doing linguistic research with us in Berlin? Do you have an idea for a small project, a short study or an interesting collaboration related to the CRC? Apply for a short-term grant!
The CRC (Collaborative Research Center) 1412 鈥淩egister: Language Users鈥 Knowledge of Si
Editor's Note: The following reply addresses content in the review for The Philosophy of Theoretical Linguistics: A Contemporary Outlook (Nefdt, 2024; Cambridge University Press) which can be read in its entirety here: https://linguistlist.org/issues/36/243/.
As a writer of a monograph and a scholar in general, it is always pleasing to see someone engage thoroughly with your work. This feeling holds whether or not that person was particularly laudatory or critical. In fact, critical reviews h
SUMMARY
In 鈥淓conarratives鈥, Arran Stibbe shows the many ways in which econarratives, narratives involving humans, other species and the physical environment, can be analysed using linguistic, rhetorical and narratological methods. The book focuses on how these narratives can influence how people think, talk and act by either reinforcing or resisting pre-existing narratives about how people interact with the ecosystem. The book aims to highlight the importance of finding new stories to live by
3 Bernard Comrie & Raoul Zamponi
Akabea (Great Andamanese) as an anumeric language and the problem of Akabea ordinals
Special Section
Comparative approaches towards the diachronic behavior of subordinate clauses
co-edited by: Iker Salaberri, Annemarie Verkerk & Anne Wolfsgruber
29 Iker Salaberri, Anne Wolfsgruber & Annemarie Verkerk
Subordinate and independent clauses in diachrony
53 Luigi Talamo, Annemarie Verkerk & Iker Salaberri
A quantitative approach to clause type and syntactic c
These articles have now been included in issue 17. Check them out!
Adecuaciones curriculares de Lengua Espa帽ola para estudiantes con autismo: propuesta de la unidad de aprendizaje "Presentaciones personales" (Curricular adaptations in Spanish Language for students with autism: Proposal for the learning unit 'Personal Introductions')
Mar铆a Laura Grosso
https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/didacticae/article/view/45205
La lengua materna y la traducci贸n en las aulas de idiomas del siglo X
The Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution (University of Zurich) invites applications for 2 x funded PhD positions in Typological Linguistics, to join a project investigating semantic patterns in geographic regions. You have a background in typological linguistics, with a Masters or Honours degree on a related topic. Candidates with an interest in Papuan or Australian Aboriginal languages are particularly encouraged to apply, though other geographic regions will also be
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The University of Manchester Faculty of Humanities is advertising for a cluster of permanent positions at the Lecturer and Senior Lecturer level in "AI Trust and Security鈥 broadly defined. People appointed will be placed into a department in whichever of the four schools across the Faculty of Humanities best suits their expertise. As noted in the formal advertisement linked to below, one highlighted area of expertise is "the analysis of large language models", and we would very m
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Goulart begins by justifying her study of university student writing with the significance of written expression in academia, which is why most liberal arts institutions include a two-course sequence in first-year writing as a prerequisite in the core curriculum. The corpus under examination here consists of over 900 assignments from undergraduates taking courses beyond the first year in the humanities and in both the physical and social sciences.
While first-year and L2 writing st
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This book is a monograph in the 鈥淥xford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics鈥 series, which publishes research on language change, covering areas such as grammar, phonology, semantics, and historical linguistics. Providing a forum for both diachronic and historical linguists, the series seeks to advance linguistic theory by integrating current models, addressing broad theoretical questions, and fostering interdisciplinary connections, while being inclusive of diverse langu