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
A Germanic Sandwich is a series of workshops in which Dutch is compared with its closest Germanic neighbours, English and German. Consistent with its geographical intermediate location, Dutch has been argued to occupy a linguistic position in between German and English.
The 10th Germanic Sandwich workshop 鈥� the jubilee edition 鈥� will take place on Thursday 7 May and Friday 8 May 2026 at Freie Universit盲t Berlin. The workshop series was founded in 2005, also at Freie Universit盲t Berlin, to com
A Germanic Sandwich is a series of workshops in which Dutch is compared with its closest Germanic neighbours, English and German. Consistent with its geographical intermediate location, Dutch has been argued to occupy a linguistic position in between German and English.
The 10th Germanic Sandwich workshop 鈥� the jubilee edition 鈥� will take place on Thursday 7 May and Friday 8 May 2026 at Freie Universit盲t Berlin. The workshop series was founded in 2005, also at Freie Universit盲t Berlin, to com
This conference brings together scholars investigating the cognitive, biological, and computational foundations of language within the biolinguistic framework that Noam Chomsky has pioneered. Under the theme 鈥淭owards K-Humanities: Thought, Structure, and Language Design,鈥� we explore how language, as a thought-generating system, reflects principles of structural simplicity and computational efficiency.
Our point of departure is the two foundational challenges in biolinguistics: Plato鈥檚 Problem
This conference brings together scholars investigating the cognitive, biological, and computational foundations of language within the biolinguistic framework that Noam Chomsky has pioneered. Under the theme 鈥淭owards K-Humanities: Thought, Structure, and Language Design,鈥� we explore how language, as a thought-generating system, reflects principles of structural simplicity and computational efficiency.
Our point of departure is the two foundational challenges in biolinguistics: Plato鈥檚 Problem
Il convegno prosegue la riflessione sulle parti del discorso inaugurata con l鈥檈dizione del 2023 dedicata al verbo. Ci si propone ora di approfondire un鈥檃ltra fondamentale classe di parola: il nome. L鈥檌ncontro permetter脿 di creare uno spazio di dialogo e confronto tra linguisti di orientamenti diversi su un argomento complesso e variegato come la classe nominale. Si aprir脿 in questo modo una discussione scientifica destinata ad indagare aspetti ancora in parte da approfondire, legati ad esempio a
Il convegno prosegue la riflessione sulle parti del discorso inaugurata con l鈥檈dizione del 2023 dedicata al verbo. Ci si propone ora di approfondire un鈥檃ltra fondamentale classe di parola: il nome. L鈥檌ncontro permetter脿 di creare uno spazio di dialogo e confronto tra linguisti di orientamenti diversi su un argomento complesso e variegato come la classe nominale. Si aprir脿 in questo modo una discussione scientifica destinata ad indagare aspetti ancora in parte da approfondire, legati ad esempio a
Why is world shouting everywhere about sustainability but is decidedly mute on language?
Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, are, in the words of the UN, 鈥渢he blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all鈥�. They address 鈥済lobal challenges鈥� which include eradicating poverty, ensuring good health and well-being, providing quality education, protecting the environment, upholding human rights, and promoting the rule of law, among others. However, languages are not explici
Why is world shouting everywhere about sustainability but is decidedly mute on language?
Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, are, in the words of the UN, 鈥渢he blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all鈥�. They address 鈥済lobal challenges鈥� which include eradicating poverty, ensuring good health and well-being, providing quality education, protecting the environment, upholding human rights, and promoting the rule of law, among others. However, languages are not explici
Focus: PhD and advanced MA students specializing in experimental linguistics and/or language acquisition
Description:
EMLaR aims at training PhD students and advanced MA students in experimental methods of language (acquisition) research. Experts in various domains of linguistic research will give lectures and hands-on tutorials that can be followed both in-person and online. We also provide the opportunity to present your (ongoing) research at the poster session.
Speakers will give met
Our next meeting will be Tuesday April 1st at 10am in room 117. There will be practice talks and feedback sessions for MOTh. Massimo and Irene will be doing presentations. There will also be a Zoom link open for this meeting at the following link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/84127437214?pwd=3U6LIdUJyJi6TnacFR1OwPRetKNAAN.1 Meeting ID: 841 2743 7214 Passcode: 674595
The Syntax-Semantics Group will be meeting on Monday, March 31 at 3pm in Room 117 of the 好色TVl linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/16ZiB1ATRMGSUxbkGOJGvw. Jonny Palucci (好色TVl) will be discussing 鈥淔unctional relative clauses and pseudo-scope.鈥� Here is Jonny鈥檚 abstract: Sentences where a definite DP is modified by a relative clause containing a universal quantifier (relativized […]
Description:
The working group Phonetics has a vacancy for a PostDoc position within the DFG-funded project "Laughter in Conversation: Form, Function and Multimodality" is available. The research builds on the work of a previous project and focuses on the study of laughter in spontaneous conversations, with a focus on the acoustic, articulatory and multimodal realisation, the frequency of occurrence of certain types of laughter in conversations and the interplay between smiles and laughter.
SUMMARY
This book, 鈥淭he COLT Observation Scheme,鈥� was written by Nina Spada and edited by Nina Spada and Laura Gurzynski-Weiss. It is the second edition of the original book about the COLT Observation Scheme, published in 1995. The second edition is supplemented with a new chapter on digital COLT and updated research applications of COLT in different L2 contexts.
The first chapter introduces the Communicative Orientation of Language Teaching (COLT) Observation Scheme as an instrument for t
SUMMARY
(Non)referentiality in Conversation is a useful compendium of some of the latest studies in interactional linguistics and (multimodal) conversation analysis on referentiality in everyday conversations. Referentiality (or the lack thereof) is a concept that refers to the use of grammatical resources (nouns, pronouns, etc.) to indicate the specificity, generality or indefiniteness of what these resources denote. This volume investigates how conversationalists use various grammatical res
SUMMARY
Migrationslinguistik provides an introduction to the linguistic issues associated with the phenomenon of migration. It is a handbook aimed primarily at students (and at 鈥渋nterested colleagues鈥�, as the authors write in their preface [11]) at German universities and therefore presents the topic using the example of migration movements and their consequences in this country. The fourteen chapters of the book attempt to cover the broad thematic spectrum of this research field, ranging fro
SUMMARY
"Modern Standard Arabic: Advanced to Superior" is an updated version of the book that was first released in 1971 by the Center for Middle Eastern and North Africa Studies at the University of Michigan. In addition to the 20 lessons in the book, there is a free online companion that contains lexical and grammar notes, as well as listening comprehension and reading passages in the lessons. Each lesson is also broken up into seven main sections. Part 1, Preliminaries, includes pre-readin
Ph.D. positions in Linguistics
The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and the University of Verona have activated a joint PhD program in Linguistics for the academic year 2025/26. They have issued a call for 6 fully funded PhD positions. PhD candidates which are selected will receive a 3-year fellowship.
Successful applicants will be committed to conducting independent and original scientific research and participating in local, national, and international training activities to develop the
We're excited to launch and share the free and interactive "KorPLUS" OER self-learning package, tailored to the needs of advanced students and teachers of English as well as anyone interested in the English language. It is based on the widely-used www.English-Corpora.org interface and endorsed by the platform's host, Mark Davies (https://www.English-Corpora.org/thirdPartyMaterials.asp).
https://www.uni-bamberg.de/KorPLUS/
Make your students corpus-literate (https://youtu.be/72ZQiluCbgA), r
SWANSEA UNIVERSITY
LANGUAGE RESEARCH CENTRE SEMINAR SERIES
Wednesday, 2nd April, 13:00-14:00 UK time (BST/ GMT+1)
Zoom Link:
https://swanseauniversity.zoom.us/j/96688743280?pwd=AWZa1tmmRtaIeWLmcHGS9GpzzwJM8b.1
Creating and evaluating corpus-informed word lists for adolescent, beginner-to-low-intermediate learners of French, German, and Spanish
Professor Emma Marsden (University of York) & Dr Natalie Finlayson
We describe recent changes to the lexical content of G