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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 Poznań Linguistic Meeting Thematic Session: Multimodal Dimensions of Metaphorical Cognition
Organized by Tomasz Dyrmo
This session aims to examine, highlighting the “beyond-language” 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
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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
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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; Bošković 2001, 2008, 2016; Milićević 2023, a.m.o.). Slavic languages, wit
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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 ‘Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis’. Over the past 16 years it has been been organised in Brno, Udine, Novi Sad, Budapest, Kr
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El Colegio de México A. C., Escuela Nacional de Lenguas, Lingüística y Traducción UNAM, and Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas 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 México, 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
For sixty years, applied linguistics has stood at the crossroads of language and society, by meeting real-world needs. 60 Years of Applied Linguistics: Toward more engaged research offers a compelling reflection on the field’s evolution while calling for a renewed commitment to socially responsive, ethically grounded scholarship. Inspired by the momentum of the 2023 AILA World Congress in France, this collective volume brings together leading international applied linguists to examine how
The source text is an unescapable part of any translation or translation process. Without source text, no translation. Yet it is only recently that scholars in the field of translation studies have begun exploring, theorizing, and conceptualizing the source text in a more systematic fashion. The present volume builds on and expands this work, exposing how source texts are never merely given but always constructed by translators and used for various purposes. The seven case studies, by researcher
Toponymy is the branch of Onomastics that studies place names. From among the subfields in Toponymy, in this work we focus on standardized toponymic repositories: toponymic lexical data bases. An adequate standardization of the major toponymy in the CPLP area assumes special relevance, as it embodies a normalizing function and is characterized by its enlarged scope. The Vocabulário Toponímico (VT – toponymic wordlist), studied here, is a digital toponymic resource, a specialized vocabulary that
2026. iii, 186 pp.
Table of Contents
Articles
Proto-Tibetic *mbras ‘1grain; 2rice’: Comparative reconstruction and dialect subgrouping
Joanna Bialek
pp. 175–227
The associative plural in Cantonese
Pun Ho Lui
pp. 228–256
Applying popular arguments for and against an independent egophoric grammatical category to Thewo Tibetan
Abe Powell
pp. 257–301
Dynamics of L3 lexical representations of Dutch-English-Mandarin trilinguals
Xiaowen Ji & Niels Olaf Schiller
pp. 302–32
2025. v, 119 pp.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Group dynamics in human–robot interaction
Alessandra Sciutti, Dario Pasquali, Giulia Belgiovine & Linda Lastrico
pp. 387–391
Articles
Moderating multi-party conversations with social robots: Design and evaluation of control policies
Lucrezia Grassi, Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto & Antonio Sgorbissa
pp. 392–421
Evaluating multi-party interactions with social robots using large language models and multi-modal systems
Daniel Hern
2026. iii, 150 pp.
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Article
Multiple grammars within linguistic populations: Distributions and theoretical implications
Maria Polinsky
pp. 101–128
Commentaries
Defining and testing multiple grammars
Tania Ionin
pp. 129–132
Micro-variation and multiple grammars
Marit Westergaard
pp. 133–136
Understanding multiple types of multiple grammars
Luiz Amaral & Tom Roeper
pp. 137–140
Articles
Cross-linguistic influence in L3 acquisition: Investigat
2026. iii, 250 pp.
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Articles
Distance-based approach reveals convergence effects in word order among the languages of the Circum-Baltic linguistic area
Ilja A. Seržant, Berfin Aktaṣ, Maria Ovsjannikova & Manfred Stede
pp. 259–293
A for antipassive, I for inverse: Rethinking transitivity and voice in Chiquitano
Andrey Nikulin
pp. 294–351
The size of clitics and affixes: A phonological approach to the grammaticalization cline
Tim Zingler & Phillip Rogers
p
2026. iii, 141 pp.
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Editorial
The multicultural turn in sociolinguistics
Shobha Satyanath
pp. 1–12
Articles
Are we surprised yet? Expecting the unexpected in Asia-Pacific language variation
James Stanford
pp. 13–38
Registers in the Bahnar dialects in Vietnam: A sociophonetic study
Lư Giang Đinh, Thành Thơ Quản & Trần Quý Nguyễn
pp. 39–71
Variation and change in Philippine languages: Trends, challenges, and pathways forward
Wilkinson Daniel Wong Go
The next Nordic Speech Research Forum webinar takes place on Fri, April 17th at 12:00 - 13:00 (Helsinki/Eastern European Summer Time EEST; UCT+3). You are warmly welcome to join the event via our website https://www.jyu.fi/nsrf.
The phonetic construction of good and evil from a whole-larynx perspective
Míša Hejná, Aarhus University
The Nordic Speech Research Forum is organized by the Speech and Speech Research Special Interest Group of the Finnish Association for Applied Linguistics (AFin
I enclose the link to two new interviews of the "Talking about languages series"
Judith Kroll (University of California, Irvine): Bilingualism: cognitive consequences
Scott Thornbury (The New School, NY): Language teaching methods.
https://tv.uvigo.es/series/679a63164e20f40f98159db3
I am a PhD student in psycholinguistics at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy), and currently a visiting PhD student at Lund University (Sweden).
I am recruiting Swedish native speakers who speak English as a second language for an online study on bilingualism. The study is conducted in English and explores how people think about words and what associations come to mind (for example, what words you might think of when you read or hear an English word like “lemon”).
Participation involves