The 2027 Annual Meeting of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences (NAAHoLS) will be held in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA. NAAHoLS has been meeting as a sister society of the LSA since 1989.
As members of an LSA sister society, presenters at NAAHoLS 2027 will register for the LSA Annual Meeting at the discounted LSA member rate and will have access to all LSA events and benefits, as well as events
Introduction
H. Ekkehard Wolff鈥檚 volume Lexical Reconstruction in Chadic, in my critical valuation, represents a significant 鈥榥ew鈥 addition to the relatively restricted list of 鈥榓cademic鈥 references currently available on comparative Chadic linguistics. This judgment is partly elucidated in evaluative comments that I make on specific chapters and sections of the volume at the end of this review report. But before I offer my comments, I need to indicate that I support and appreciate the vali
SUMMARY
Language Teacher Education Beyond Borders: Multilingualism, Transculturalism and Critical Approaches is edited by Fernando Zolin Vesz, Dar铆o Luis Banegas and Luciana C. de Oliveira, was published in 2024 by Bloomsbury Academic in hardback, paperback and e-book formats, and has 200 pages. The eight chapters draw on multilingual and transcultural education research from around the globe to explore language teacher education from a critical perspective. With chapters from Scotland, Thail
Focus: Cantonese linguistics, language contact.
Description:
First launched in 2019, the School of Cantonese Studies aims to introduce recent developments in Cantonese Studies, provide systematic and rigorous research methodologies, and foster scholarly exchange between speakers and participants. This year's theme is Language Contact.
Sessions and Speakers:
Kam-Tai substratum in Cantonese 鈥 Prof. Chung Pui Tai & Dr. Hanbo Liao
Mutual influence between Cantonese and Standard Chinese 鈥
Call for Papers:
We are happy to announce the 6th International Conference on Discourse, Culture & Interaction that provides a forum for researchers in the areas of Pragmatics, (Applied) Linguistics, Discourse Studies among others to share their research. We welcome submissions from established scholars as well as early career researchers 鈥 including Honours, MA and PhD researchers.
Keynote speaker: Assoc. Prof Lili Gong (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China)
Abstracts are inv
The 6th International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (ISMBS 2027) will host original research on the acquisition and use of first language, second or additional language, bilingual, and (bi)dialectal speech, child and adult, typical and atypical.
The Symposium encourages a multidisciplinary exchange of ideas across phonology, phonetics, morphology, syntax, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, clinical phonetics and linguistics, speech pathology, acoustics, neurolinguistic
Call for Papers:
We are delighted by the interest our conference has received and, in response to requests from prospective contributors, we have decided to extend the abstract submission deadline to July, 15th, 2026.
The contemporary world is marked by a state of ongoing tension, no longer driven by isolated crises, but by the convergence and interplay of multiple, simultaneous crises: pandemics, war, migration, climate catastrophes, economic instability, disinformation, and the erosion
Call for Papers:
We are pleased to announce the extended call for submissions for the recurring meeting dedicated to computational psycholinguistics, which will take place in Utrecht on December 3 and December 4, and it will be preceded by tutorials on the afternoon of December 2.
Updated deadline for the abstract submission: July 17
Description of the CPL meeting:
The field has seen significant growth in recent years, not only due to developments in large language models but also to
The 6th International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (ISMBS 2027) will host original research on the acquisition and use of first language, second or additional language, bilingual, and (bi)dialectal speech, child and adult, typical and atypical.
The Symposium encourages a multidisciplinary exchange of ideas across phonology, phonetics, morphology, syntax, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, clinical phonetics and linguistics, speech pathology, acoustics, neurolinguistic
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 led to a rapid increase in Korean immigration to the United States and by the 1990s, the Korean diaspora community became one of the largest immigrant communities in the country. As a result, the main demographic of Korean language students at universities in the US during late twentieth century consisted mostly of 1.5 and 2nd generation Korean heritage learners. In the 21st century, along with the growth of non-heritage learners largely driven by the
Northern Englishes is a series of workshops focused on dialects of English associated with the linguistic 鈥榥orth鈥 of the UK. We are delighted to announce that the 11th Northern Englishes Workshop (NEW11) will take place in York from 9th-10th September 2026 at The Guildhall, a stunning 15th century building right in the heart of York city centre.
We are pleased to announce that registration is now open! Please see this webpage for more information about how to register:
https://sites.googl
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 led to a rapid increase in Korean immigration to the United States and by the 1990s, the Korean diaspora community became one of the largest immigrant communities in the country. As a result, the main demographic of Korean language students at universities in the US during late twentieth century consisted mostly of 1.5 and 2nd generation Korean heritage learners. In the 21st century, along with the growth of non-heritage learners largely driven by the
Northern Englishes is a series of workshops focused on dialects of English associated with the linguistic 鈥榥orth鈥 of the UK. We are delighted to announce that the 11th Northern Englishes Workshop (NEW11) will take place in York from 9th-10th September 2026 at The Guildhall, a stunning 15th century building right in the heart of York city centre.
We are pleased to announce that registration is now open! Please see this webpage for more information about how to register:
https://sites.googl
Call for Papers:
We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the II International Conference on Academic Literacies in Multilingual Contexts (19-20 November, 2026 in Bilbao), which will bring together researchers interested in the development of academic and disciplinary literacies in multilingual educational settings.
The conference focuses on how learners develop the language and literacy practices required for academic success across subjects, with particular attention to primary
Important Dates:
- Submission deadline: 20 August 2026
- Date of notification: 21 September 2026
- Camera-ready copy deadline: 19 October 2026
- Conference: 17 November 2026 鈥 20 November 2026
- Conference venue: University of Eswatini, Kwaluseni, Kingdom of Eswatini
Co-located Events:
Several co-located events are currently being prepared, including workshops and tutorials. These will be updated on the conference website.
Submission Types:
Long papers 鈥 max 8 content pages (9
Call for Papers:
Deadline Extended : July 3th 2026
COLDOC is a biannual conference organized by doctoral students and early-career researchers at the MoDyCo laboratory (UMR 7114 鈥 CNRS/Universit茅 Paris Nanterre). This year's edition will be held on November 9th and 10th.
For its 16th edition, COLDOC centers on the interfaces and interactions that connect all areas of linguistics and natural language processing. Language is inherently an interactive phenomenon, yet the forms and framewor
Thematic Issue 2028: Creativity and Extravagance in English Evaluative Morphology
Guest Editor(s): Andr茅s Mu帽oz Garc铆a (University of Alicante) & Jos茅 A. S谩nchez Fajardo (University of Alicante)
ANGLICA: An International Journal of English Studies is an open-access, annual, peer-reviewed journal in literary, cultural, and linguistic studies published both in print and online under the auspices of the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland. The journal is indexed in SCOPUS
Important Dates:
- Submission deadline: 20 August 2026
- Date of notification: 21 September 2026
- Camera-ready copy deadline: 19 October 2026
- Conference: 17 November 2026 鈥 20 November 2026
- Conference venue: University of Eswatini, Kwaluseni, Kingdom of Eswatini
Co-located Events:
Several co-located events are currently being prepared, including workshops and tutorials. These will be updated on the conference website.
Submission Types:
Long papers 鈥 max 8 content pages (9
SUMMARY
鈥淭his is the Thing, A cognitive/typological investigation into the concept of 鈥榯hinghood鈥欌 is a monograph written by Michael Fortescue which was published in 2026. The 220-page volume contains fifteen chapters, followed by a full references list, two appendixes (鈥榃ords for body and animal鈥 and 鈥榃ords for shape, form and figure鈥), a Subject, a Name, and a Language Index. Before the first chapter, a short preface describes the author鈥檚 incentive to undergo this study of 鈥榯hing鈥 words an
Focus: This datathon aims to guide participants through the creation of high-quality, FAIR morphological data. Participants will create Paralex datasets, machine-readable collections of inflectional paradigms. These collections are of benefit to people working on descriptions of individual languages, language typologists, theorists and quantitative linguists.
Participants are expected to bring morphological data they are interested in, be it content from a grammar, their own fieldwork collect