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New publications:
DEFT Chinese and English Light and Rich ERE Parallel Annotation
MATERIAL Tagalog-English Language Pack
LORELEI Somali Representative Language Pack
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New publications:
DEFT Chinese and English Light and Rich ERE Parallel Annotation was developed by LDC and consists of 179 Chinese discussion forum documents and their English translations annotated for entities, relations, and events (ERE). Light ERE annotation l
Focus: The courses on offer cover a wide range of subfields and methods in linguistics and communication -- please refer to the webpage for more information.
Description:
The two-week LOT Summer School offers a wide variety of eighteen one-week courses on relevant topics in linguistics, taught by a mix of researchers from The Netherlands and abroad. The levels of the course range from intermediate (targeting PhD candidates who have general linguistic knowledge) and advanced (targeting PhD
Researchers at UIC鈥檚 Lab for Language, Cognition, and Computation are looking for Spanish-English Heritage bilingual adults (18 years or older) to participate in a paid research study. Completion of the study is done online, must be done on a computer, and takes 30-45 minutes. Participants will receive a $10 Amazon gift card for their participation.
Please direct potential participants to the following link: https://research.sc/participant/login/dynamic/8C7BCF46-EC1D-4A7B-898E-398F472828BC.
Guest-edited issue of the new Journal of Non-Professional Interpreting and Translation (JoNPIT) by Ahmad Ayyad (Binghamton University, USA) and Rachele Antonini (University of Bologna, Italy)
We welcome submissions examining the ethical, political, and practical dimensions of non-professional translation and interpreting in conflict and war.
Abstracts should be submitted as a Word attachment to Ahmad Ayyad (aayyad@binghamton.edu) and Rachel Antonini (rachele.antonini@unibo.it) by June 15,
The seventh talk of the Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series will take place remotely on Monday 27th April 2026 at 5pm BST. Thi Huyen Trang Phan (University of Venice, Italy) will be presenting on "Tracing Contextual Pathways: A Corpus-based Study of the Grammaticalization of the Vietnamese general classifier鈥.
Registration for this talk will close at midnight on Friday 24th April and the link for this can be accessed here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfW3qoNPOM8StP3xEm
The contributors argue that multilingual repertoires are shaped by various forms of mobility 鈥 physical, symbolic, and digital. Across diverse contexts, mobility generates new linguistic resources, reshapes identities, and prompts individuals to negotiate belonging and power. They show that multilingualism is flexible, emotionally charged, and deeply tied to social hierarchies, conflict, and shifting ideologies. While mobility can foster hybridity and creativity, it can also reinforce exclusion
This book explores the construction of 鈥榣anguaged鈥 and professional subjectivities in the context of refugee support work in Austria. It presents ethnographic insights into how language and linguistic practice come to matter both as part of a migration infrastructure in transformation, and in the efforts within a particular institution to reinvent itself as it struggles for survival in the context of shrinking public and state support for refugee provision.
The author focuses on how transform
This book analyzes the multilingual and multidialectal practices of Chinese Americans in Los Angeles, a city with a Chinese diasporic population of around 500,000. It describes the contact between different Chineses in a diasporic setting, illustrating how non-Putonghua features are made use of to form distinct identities and speech communities. It demonstrates that localized conceptions of 'Chineseness' hold greater sociolinguistic significance than the transnational narratives of a unified glo
Community/heritage language schools exist across the world, and yet little is known of the languages they teach, how they are organised and what students learn. Teachers in mainstream schools are generally unaware of the language and cultural knowledge their students are gaining from these schools. This book provides an overview of this educational sector and crucially how it interacts with mainstream education.
Students of all ages describe what they think of the schools, how language learni
This book aims to disrupt the native-speaker/non-native-speaker binary through a study of the construction of English teacher identities in Japan. The book suggests that macro discourses in the Japanese context, as well as institutional processes, are powerful forces in perpetuating native-speakerist discourses and ascribing identity labels.
However, in self-identification and in interactions with students, the results are found to be more nuanced, with a complex picture of identity construct
Final Call for Papers:
We are inviting proposals for presentations at the 21st Annual Meeting of Slavic Linguistics Society to be held at Seoul National University (Korea), from August 12 to 14, 2026. Papers dealing with any aspect of Slavic linguistics, within any theoretical framework or methodological approach, are welcome. The abstract submission deadline has been extended till April 30, 2026.
Keynote Speakers:
John F. Bailyn (Stony Brook University)
Hana Filip (Heinrich Heine Univer
Linguistic Evidence will take place from 15-16 October 2026 at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language Mannheim, Germany.
Linguistic Evidence is a biennial conference series founded in 2004 at the University of T眉bingen (https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/core-research/collaborative-research-centers/crc-833/linguistic-evidence/#c1511619). It serves as an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary forum for researchers from all linguistic and neighboring disciplines who wish to exchange
We are pleased to announce the Workshop 鈥淧rosodic systems across languages and their varieties鈥 as part of the 3rd edition of the conference 鈥淟anguages and Language at the Crossroads of Disciplines鈥 (LLcD), organized within the CNRS Thematic Network LLcD. The conference will take place at Aix-Marseille University from 14 to 16 December 2026 (https://llcd2026.sciencesconf.org).
This workshop will bring together researchers鈥攂oth within the French-speaking community and internationally鈥攚ho inve
Linguistic Evidence will take place from 15-16 October 2026 at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language Mannheim, Germany.
Linguistic Evidence is a biennial conference series founded in 2004 at the University of T眉bingen (https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/core-research/collaborative-research-centers/crc-833/linguistic-evidence/#c1511619). It serves as an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary forum for researchers from all linguistic and neighboring disciplines who wish to exchange
We are pleased to announce the Workshop 鈥淧rosodic systems across languages and their varieties鈥 as part of the 3rd edition of the conference 鈥淟anguages and Language at the Crossroads of Disciplines鈥 (LLcD), organized within the CNRS Thematic Network LLcD. The conference will take place at Aix-Marseille University from 14 to 16 December 2026 (https://llcd2026.sciencesconf.org).
This workshop will bring together researchers鈥攂oth within the French-speaking community and internationally鈥攚ho inve
Call for Papers:
We are happy to announce the first Call for Papers for the second edition of the conference series Applications of Relevance Theory (RT) to Translation and Interpreting (ARTTI). After the success of ARTTI-1 in Rome in February 2023, the second edition of ARTTI hopes to bring together cutting-edge research at the intersection of Relevance Theory and Translation and Interpreting Studies (T&I), with a special focus on theoretical and methodological developments related to the RT
We are pleased to invite you to participate in the 1st DL2 International Workshop, which will be held in hybrid format on 3rd and 4th December 2026 at the University of Alicante and online. We kindly ask you to distribute this invitation among your colleagues and staff.
This workshop, organised by the Digital Language Learning (DL2) research group at the University of Alicante, aims to provide a forum for discussing theoretical, methodological, and practical advancements in technology-enhance
We are pleased to invite you to participate in the 1st DL2 International Workshop, which will be held in hybrid format on 3rd and 4th December 2026 at the University of Alicante and online. We kindly ask you to distribute this invitation among your colleagues and staff.
This workshop, organised by the Digital Language Learning (DL2) research group at the University of Alicante, aims to provide a forum for discussing theoretical, methodological, and practical advancements in technology-enhance
Call for Papers:
The deadline for submissions for the conference 鈥淭he Expression of Indebtedness in Linguistics: Cross-Perspectives between European and Asian Languages鈥 has been extended to April 30, 2026.
Location: Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University (Lyon, France)
Conference dates: December 10鈥11, 2026
New submission deadline: April 30, 2026
This conference explores the notion of indebtedness in linguistic interactions. It focuses on how speakers express, acknowledge, or negotiate relat
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