The Learner Corpus Research Conference 2026 (LCR 2026) will be held in the beautiful and historically rich city of Prague in September 2026. Organized biennially under the auspices of the Learner Corpus Association, the upcoming conference is hosted by the Department of Linguistics at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. The event is co-organized by two of its constituent units: the Department of English Language and ELT Methodology and the Czech National Corpus.
The conference, titled Fo
This international workshop convened by DIASCO-TIB aims to reflect on names and naming practices in the context of migration from a variety of disciplines of the humanities and social sciences, tackling present or historical situations analyzed through empirical case studies.
Dates: November 20-21, 2025.
Venue: Auditorium Dum茅zil, Maison de la Recherche, Inalco (2, rue de Lille, 75007 Paris), and online
No registration required, in-person or online.
The conference programme with abstract
Onomastica Canadiana publishes original research articles, review essays, and critical notes, written in English or French, on all aspects of onomastics 鈥� the study of names and naming practices or trends in all languages, cultures, periods, and areas. The online journal provides an interdisciplinary platform for exploring the linguistic, cultural, historical, geographical, literary, social, and theoretical aspects of naming.
Scope and Areas of Interest:
We welcome contributions that advance
Description:
The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Swarthmore College invites applications for a full-time position in Premodern Chinese Language, Literature and Culture at the tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor rank, depending on qualifications and experience, to begin in Fall 2026. The successful candidate will have research interests in pre-modern or early modern Chinese literature and culture and the ability to teach undergraduate courses on Chinese language, li
This international workshop convened by DIASCO-TIB aims to reflect on names and naming practices in the context of migration from a variety of disciplines of the humanities and social sciences, tackling present or historical situations analyzed through empirical case studies.
Dates: November 20-21, 2025.
Venue: Auditorium Dum茅zil, Maison de la Recherche, Inalco (2, rue de Lille, 75007 Paris), and online
No registration required, in-person or online.
The conference programme with abstract
The Computational Resources for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL) language archive will hold its IX annual meeting Dec 11th聽and 12th聽2025 from 10:00am-6:00pm IST.聽聽Join us via ZOOM. Link provided upon registration.聽聽
Register at: https://go.iu.edu/8vPg
The goal of the event is to
(1) create awareness in India of the CoRSAL digital language archive and
(2) to explore avenues of research and
(3) academic collaboration between IU and Indian partners.聽聽
The event brings together聽CoRSAL
The Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM) is delighted to announce that the 6th International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC 2026) will be held on June 18th-19th, 2026 at the University of Reading, UK. ISBPAC brings together researchers who investigate bi-/multilingualism from various disciplines, including linguistics, cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, multimodal communication, and language pedagogy, addressing language acquisition and
The Computational Resources for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL) language archive will hold its IX annual meeting Dec 11th聽and 12th聽2025 from 10:00am-6:00pm IST.聽聽Join us via ZOOM. Link provided upon registration.聽聽
Register at: https://go.iu.edu/8vPg
The goal of the event is to
(1) create awareness in India of the CoRSAL digital language archive and
(2) to explore avenues of research and
(3) academic collaboration between IU and Indian partners.聽聽
The event brings together聽CoRSAL
The Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM) is delighted to announce that the 6th International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC 2026) will be held on June 18th-19th, 2026 at the University of Reading, UK. ISBPAC brings together researchers who investigate bi-/multilingualism from various disciplines, including linguistics, cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, multimodal communication, and language pedagogy, addressing language acquisition and
The SynTeach team (Laura Bailey, Bronwyn Bjorkman, Caitl Light, Kirby Conrod) is getting ready for our next phase of research on how syntax is taught in higher ed. Our next phase will be focus group interviews, where we want to get together people with experience teaching and learning syntax.
We鈥檙e hoping to gather people with a variety of experiences, so whether you loved or hated syntax, we鈥檇 really like to hear from you! This link is to an interest form 鈥� if you鈥檇 like us to contact you w
The Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) promotes the study of Austronesian languages from a formal perspective. Since 1994, AFLA has served internationally as the most prominent and influential venue for presentation and discussion of recent research on Austronesian languages. Research disseminated at AFLA spans all subfields of linguistics (syntax, semantics, phonology, morphology, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, historical linguistics, etc). AFLA has a
Call for Papers:
The 18th international conference on Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics is calling for abstracts.
Place: Heinrich Heine University D眉sseldorf
Time: July 22-24, 2026
Invited speakers: Mary Walworth, Yusuf Sawaki
Local organizers: Cat Butz, Kilu von Prince
Abstract submission is now open. Time slots will be 30 minutes: 20 for presentation, 10 for discussion. Any aspect of the linguistics of Austronesian and Papuan languages is relevant to this conference
The Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) promotes the study of Austronesian languages from a formal perspective. Since 1994, AFLA has served internationally as the most prominent and influential venue for presentation and discussion of recent research on Austronesian languages. Research disseminated at AFLA spans all subfields of linguistics (syntax, semantics, phonology, morphology, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, historical linguistics, etc). AFLA has a
2nd Call for Papers:
Focus of the Conference:
This conference invites contributions that explore the communicative practices through which specialized knowledge is disseminated by experts in and across digitally-mediated contexts. Particular attention is given to proposals which examine the processes of recontextualization involved in adapting specialized knowledge so that it is accessible, understandable and acceptable to multiple audiences. Contributions may approach recontextualization an
Workshop at the EVOLANG conference, 7-10 April 2026
Conveners: Judith Verstegen, Sietze Norder, Nicholas Q. Emlen, Derek Karssenberg & Rik van Gijn
Linguistic diversity is unevenly distributed across the globe: hotspots of language, genealogical, and structural diversity are surrounded by large areas with a low linguistic variation. This non-random spatial distribution suggests that, mediated through cultural behavior, the biophysical environment plays a key role in the evolution of linguist
Workshop at the EVOLANG conference, 7-10 April 2026
Conveners: Judith Verstegen, Sietze Norder, Nicholas Q. Emlen, Derek Karssenberg & Rik van Gijn
Linguistic diversity is unevenly distributed across the globe: hotspots of language, genealogical, and structural diversity are surrounded by large areas with a low linguistic variation. This non-random spatial distribution suggests that, mediated through cultural behavior, the biophysical environment plays a key role in the evolution of linguist
Call for Papers:
Exploring contemporary English(es) using the BSLVC database
Thematic session at BICLCE11
Manfred Krug (University of Bamberg) manfred.krug@uni-bamberg.de
Lukas S枚nning (University of Bamberg) lukas.soenning@uni-bamberg.de
Fabian Vetter (University of Bamberg) fabian.vetter@uni-bamberg.de
In the past two decades, corpora have become a (if not the) primary source of evidence for research on contemporary English(es) (see Palacios Mart铆nez 2020; Kortmann 2021). This
SUMMARY
The book under review provides a typology of noun categorization devices 鈥� covering both grammatical gender and various types of classifiers 鈥� in the languages of the world. Its scope is comprehensive in terms of both the languages and the topics that it covers. First, it is based on data from a sample of over 2,500 languages (p. 19). Second, it provides information on morphology, (morpho)syntax, and semantics, as well as discourse functions, sociocultural aspects, diachrony, and the
Our next presentation will be this Tuesday, October 28, from 1-2 pm in room 002 and on Zoom. Massimo will present his work. Title: Patterns of variation in sibilant acoustic dynamics Abstract: According to conventional wisdom, sibilant fricatives require relatively long articulatory–and thus, acoustic–steady states due to their complexity. Recent studies have called this into question, however, finding gradual, continuous change in the […]
The second webinar of the 'Conversations on Language Policy in Africa' series will take place on Friday, 7 November 2025, at 4 pm CET. The format will be a short talk, followed by the opportunity for dialogue 鈥� approximately one hour in total.
The webinar will be hosted by Initiative Afrique of the University of Bern (Switzerland) and will use MS Teams. Prior registration is required.
Speaker is Menzi Thango of Wits - University of the Witwatersrand. He will speak on Workplace Communication -