The Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society will be held at Griffith University's Gold Coast Campus in Southport, Queensland between 2-5th December 2025.
For more information, please visit the official conference website.
The Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society will be held at Griffith University's Gold Coast Campus in Southport, Queensland between 2-5th December 2025.
For more information, please visit the official conference website.
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to invite submissions for the special issue "Advancements in Early Communicative Development: Coordination, Synchrony, and Material Engagement", to be published in Infancy.
Early communication emerges through rich multimodal interactions鈥攇aze, gestures, vocal prosody, and material engagement鈥攑roviding infants with opportunities to coordinate actions, understand social cues, and explore their surroundings. This special issue seeks to bring together research t
We would like to submit a workshop proposal for the ALT 2026 conference (Lyon, France, July 1-3, 2026). Below you鈥檒l find a first draft of the call, which we will use as the basis for the final proposal. If anyone is interested in participating, we kindly ask you to send a title and, possibly, a short abstract (up to 300 words) to the following addresses by April 25:
Caterina Mauri: caterina.mauri@unibo.it
Andrea Sans貌: asanso@unisa.it
Many thanks in advance!
"Disentangling literacy ef
We would like to submit a workshop proposal for the ALT 2026 conference (Lyon, France, July 1-3, 2026). Below you鈥檒l find a first draft of the call, which we will use as the basis for the final proposal. If anyone is interested in participating, we kindly ask you to send a title and, possibly, a short abstract (up to 300 words) to the following addresses by April 25:
Caterina Mauri: caterina.mauri@unibo.it
Andrea Sans貌: asanso@unisa.it
Many thanks in advance!
"Disentangling literacy ef
The Editorial Board of REDIS: Revista de Estudos do Discurso (University of Porto, Portugal) is pleased to announce the call for papers for Issue No. 16, scheduled for publication in July 2025. We cordially invite researchers to submit original works in the field of Discourse Studies. Welcoming contributions from various theoretical perspectives, the journal prioritizes submissions that emphasize the linguistic dimensions of discourse.
Key Dates:
- Submission deadline: May 5, 2025
- Expecte
Language development is fundamental to successful and effective education as it enables the comprehension and mastery of academic content. Moreover, the development of language skills is closely tied to the growth of communicative competence - one of the key skills for lifelong learning. Since language acquisition and learning are deeply intertwined with cognitive, emotional, and social development, studying children鈥檚 speech, reading, and writing provides valuable insights into the cognitive, a
Language development is fundamental to successful and effective education as it enables the comprehension and mastery of academic content. Moreover, the development of language skills is closely tied to the growth of communicative competence - one of the key skills for lifelong learning. Since language acquisition and learning are deeply intertwined with cognitive, emotional, and social development, studying children鈥檚 speech, reading, and writing provides valuable insights into the cognitive, a
Meeting Description:
The aim of this conference is to examine the notion of possession and its various forms (alienable/inalienable possession, part-whole relationships), with a focus on corpus linguistics. Given the advent of the theoretical framework of Construction Grammar (Goldberg 1995), and in the era of digital humanities, new statistical methods (calculations of sparsity, density of occurrences, productivity, visualisations with decision trees, etc.) have emerged (cf. among others Van
Topics: The 2025 SECOL Conference is open to all fields and topics in applied and theoretical linguistics.
Proposal types
Conference sessions: One speaker - 30-minute total time - 20-minute presentations with 10 minutes for discussion.
Conference Panels: Multiple speakers - 60-minute total time.
Proposal Deadlines
Round l: Expedited review - Due Oct. 19th - decision: Nov. 1st
Round 2: Early submission - Due Nov. 1st - decision: Dec. 1st
Round 3: Regular submission - Due Jan. 6th - deci
Topics: The 2025 SECOL Conference is open to all fields and topics in applied and theoretical linguistics.
Proposal types
Conference sessions: One speaker - 30-minute total time - 20-minute presentations with 10 minutes for discussion.
Conference Panels: Multiple speakers - 60-minute total time.
Proposal Deadlines
Round l: Expedited review - Due Oct. 19th - decision: Nov. 1st
Round 2: Early submission - Due Nov. 1st - decision: Dec. 1st
Round 3: Regular submission - Due Jan. 6th - deci
Sank's Glossary of Linguistics now announces its new, convenient domain name, purchased on March 28.
Hitherto, we have all been typing the longer and clunkier:
studylove.org/ling/jpsgloss.html
Effective immediately, we now merely type or tap exactly nine (9) keystrokes including Enter:
sgol.org
The new name is just a quick redirect to the same old location. The longer address will keep functioning.
Other SGOL news items:
* SGOL will soon reach the milestone of expansion t
Starting with volume 32 (2025), Elena Smirnova (University of Hannover) will succeed Martin Hilpert (University of Neuch芒tel) and join J. Lachlan Mackenzie (VU University Amsterdam) and Sumin Zhao (University of Edinburgh) as Editor of the John Benjamins journal Functions of Language. The FoL editorial team furthermore consists of Book Review Editor Mark Nartey (University of the West of England) and Managing Editor Caroline Gentens (KU Leuven).
Functions of Language is an international journ
This manuscript represents a comprehensive analysis of non-finite causal constructions in English, German, Dutch, and Czech. Based on a corpus of social media posts, the study provides an analysis of the formal and functional aspects of these constructions, their development, and their cross-linguistic similarities and differences. The study follows the principles of (Diasystematic) Construction Grammar. Formally, these constructions differ from both causal clauses and causal prepositional const
At this week鈥檚 MCQLL meeting, Austin Kraft will present 鈥淢otivating morphology in semi-supervised tokenization.鈥� We will be meeting this Wednesday, April 2, at 10 AM. Meetings are held in person in room 117 of the 好色TVl Linguistics department and on zoom at聽https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/89609376104. Abstract: Tokenization is fundamental for computational linguistics and NLP. An input text is […]
We are pleased to invite you to the interdisciplinary international conference 鈥楨nglish and Other Languages on the Labour Market: Perspectives of Collaboration Between Philology Departments and Companies鈥�, which will be held at the University of Economics and Humanities in Bielsko-Bia艂a, Poland, on September 10-12, 2025. The conference will take place online via Zoom. The links to the online sessions will be sent to you by email in early September, before the conference.
The plenary speakers
We are pleased to invite you to the interdisciplinary international conference 鈥楨nglish and Other Languages on the Labour Market: Perspectives of Collaboration Between Philology Departments and Companies鈥�, which will be held at the University of Economics and Humanities in Bielsko-Bia艂a, Poland, on September 10-12, 2025. The conference will take place online via Zoom. The links to the online sessions will be sent to you by email in early September, before the conference.
The plenary speakers
We are delighted to announce that the Institute of Linguistics at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, is organising the 12th meeting of Linguistics Beyond and Within 鈥� International Linguistics Conference in Lublin. The conference, to be held on 23鈥�24 October 2025 in Lublin, will be hosted by the Department of Applied Linguistics, the Department of Theoretical Linguistics, the Department of Contrastive English-Polish Studies and the Department of Celtic Studies. This year, th
We are delighted to announce that the Institute of Linguistics at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, is organising the 12th meeting of Linguistics Beyond and Within 鈥� International Linguistics Conference in Lublin. The conference, to be held on 23鈥�24 October 2025 in Lublin, will be hosted by the Department of Applied Linguistics, the Department of Theoretical Linguistics, the Department of Contrastive English-Polish Studies and the Department of Celtic Studies. This year, th
The PAAL International Conference is the annual gathering of the Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, a global community of researchers dedicated to applied linguistics and related fields in Asian and Pan-Asian contexts. The conference was originally established as a collaboration between PAAL Japan and PAAL Korea, with the hosting alternating between these two groups of researchers. Over the years, our conference has grown in scope, attracting researchers and practitioners from aroun