2026. iii, 250 pp.
Table of Contents
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
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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
Would you like to network with other linguists and learn more about Open Science, the reproducibility and replicability of published results, good scientific practices, and how to improve the status quo in academia? Then our event series "ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas" is the right place for you. Join the mailing list, drop by, share your ideas, and become part of the community.
Each session begins with a 20-minute presentation or an activating mini-workshop usually led by a linguist. T
The Research Centre for Linguistics at NOVA University Lisbon (CLUNL) (https://clunl.fcsh.unl.pt/en/) encourages expressions of interest for applications to the Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme (MSCA PF) financed by the European Commission from excellent postdoctoral researchers in the fields of:
- Language Acquisition
- Lexicology and Lexicography
- Terminology
- Text Theory
- Discourse Analysis
- Historical Linguistics
- Phonology and
I'm a PhD student in Psychology, Linguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Milano-Bicocca, researching conceptual processing in bicultural bilinguals.
I am looking for adult Italian native speakers currently residing in the UK for a psycholinguistics experiment.
The experiment can be carried out fully online on a laptop, and it's a visual world eye-tracking study.
It lasts approximately 45-60 minutes.
Here is the link to participate: https://www.labvanced.com/player.h
Focus: The NYI Global Institute of Cultural, Cognitive and Linguistic Study is an interdisciplinary institute focusing on theoretical linguistics, cognitive science, and global cultural studies. V-NYI is the real-time, live, global version of NYI, now entering its 12th session this summer
V-NYI #12 is open to students, artists, scholars and all curious minds, from all backgrounds and countries, interested in comparative and formal approaches to theoretical linguistics as well as race, ethnici
I am a PhD student in Linguistics at the University of Kansas conducting research on sentence interpretation in Russian second language learners and in Russian heritage speakers. I am currently seeking participants for a study that involves a judgment task asking participants to decide if sentences are appropriate or not.
Russian instructors teaching upper-division courses are warmly encouraged to share this information with their students.
We are recruiting two different groups of partic
Focus: ‘Stylistics: Back to the Future?’
We are delighted that the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) annual Summer School will this year be taught by:
- Katie Wales, Honorary Professor, School of English, University of Nottingham, UK.
- Michael Toolan, Emeritus Professor of English Language, University of Birmingham, UK.
Katie Wales is one of PALA’s founding members and Michael Toolan is one of PALA’s longest-standing members.
This is a rare opportunity to study with two ma
The 3rd SMOG International Conference on Syntax and Semantics (ICSS@GKNU), hosted by the Society of Modern Grammar (SMOG), will take place at GyeongKuk National University in Andong-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Korea, from August 18–20, 2026.
ICSS@GKNU is an annual conference that brings together generative linguists from East Asia and around the world to present and discuss current research on generative syntax and its interfaces. In addition to regular presentations, the conference features plenar
For the first time at VIZJA University, we are pleased to announce the International Scientific and Practical Conference Multilingual Dialogues–2026: Human–AI Communication Across Generations, which will take place online on 12–14 June 2026.
The main organiser of the conference is VIZJA University (Poland), with the following institutions joining as co-organisers:
- Charles University (Czech Republic)
- Université Côte d’Azur (France)
- Azerbaijan University of Languages (Azerbaijan)
The online conference “Philosophy and Generative Grammar 3” will take place on May 6–8, 2026. This conference will bring together philosophers and linguists to discuss topics in the philosophy of generative grammar and linguistic developments that may be of interest to philosophers.
The conference will be preceded by the online workshop “Attitude Reports, Unarticulated Constituents, and Mental Files” (May 5).
If you want further information about the conference or the workshop, please visi
We are pleased to announce the 6th European Experimental Philosophy Conference & Satellite Workshop on Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Linguistic Justice, which will be held in Cagliari (Sardinia) on September 8th–11th, 2026.
The Conference and Workshop are open to all empirically-informed and experimental work that hinges on philosophical issues, including research by linguists and that engages with linguistics. It welcomes empirically/experimentally informed investigations into language,
The conference Corpus Linguistics & AI brings together researchers from corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, and applied language studies to explore the growing interface between large language models and corpus-linguistic methodology.
Over three days and six thematic sections, more than 20 international speakers will address topics including content and meaning analysis with LLMs, theoretical implications for corpus linguistics, AI-assisted annotation, learner corpus research, and
AsLing invites submissions for the 47th edition of the Translating and the Computer Conference (TC47), to be held from 8 to 10 December 2026 in Luxembourg.
The TC conference series brings together professionals, researchers, developers and decision-makers from the language industry, academia and public institutions. TC47 will explore how technological innovation – particularly AI – is reshaping multilingual communication, raising new questions about human agency, professional ethics, and sust
Members of the Kanien’kéha language research partnership between ɬ and the Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center (KORLCC) presented a talk titled “Iakwarihwí:saks: A community–university Kanien’kéha Research Partnership” at the Symposium on American Indian Languages (SAIL), which was held at the University of Arizona, April 2–3.
The last presentation in this term will be on Monday, April 13, 12-1pm in room 117 and on Zoom (Please use this new zoom link). Jeanne will be practising her invited talk in the creaky voice special session at ASA 2026. Topic: Rethinking “young women’s creak”: Piecing together production, perception, and social evidence Abstract: Since the early 2010s, popular narratives alongside […]
Congratulations to Myriam Lapierre who just had two papers accepted for publication! The first has been accepted to Journal of Phonetics (with Alessio Tosolini) and the second has been accepted to Laboratory Phonology. Lapierre, M., De Falco, E., Tosolini, A., & Steffman, J. (accepted). Disentangling prominence strengthening: Evidence for independent stress and length effects in […]