Universal Grammar and Linguistic Diversity Organiser: Veronica Cibotaru Location: College of Fellows – Center for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Studies, Villa Köstlin, Rümelinstraße 27, 72070 Tübingen, seminar room. Program: 30 March: 10h – 10h15: Opening 10h15 – 11h15: Daniel Hole (University of Stuttgart): “Universalism as a Biographical and Epistemic Necessity” 11h30 – 12h30: Friederike Moltmann (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique): “Light Nouns and the U

The 61st Linguistics Colloquium will take place at the University of Pavia, Italy, from September 9 to 12, 2026. Founded in Hamburg in 1966, the Linguistics Colloquium has since been hosted in almost 20 countries. It provides a platform for the study of language and languages in all areas of linguistics and warmly welcomes researchers from diverse theoretical backgrounds. The colloquium is distinguished by its cooperative and open culture of discussion: innovative ideas meet critical reflecti

The annual Anéla/VIOT Juniorendag (junior research day) will take place at the University of Amsterdam on Friday 29 May 2026. BA and MA students, recent graduates, and PhD candidates will have the opportunity to present their research in the field of applied linguistics (language use, language acquisition, language education, language proficiency, or communication) during the Juniorendag. Both lectures and poster presentations are welcome. Lectures will last 15 minutes. Additionally, the annual

Organisers: Klaus Abels, Ad Neeleman, Sakshi Bhatia, Sana Kidwai Workshop webpage: TBA Rightward Movement is a two-day inaugural workshop of the AHRC funded project 'The Structure and Processing of Rightward Scrambling in Hindi-Urdu.’ The workshop will bring together researchers working on the syntax of (apparent) rightward movement in any language. It aims to advance our understanding of left-right asymmetries and word order variation by exploring theoretical and empirical perspectives on

This book examines how single-player role-playing digital games can promote foreign language acquisition and looks at how they can be integrated into the curricula of foreign language classrooms. As the commercialization of digital games continues to expand and accelerate, some research in digital game-based learning has shifted from creating digital games with pedagogical applications to adopting commercial off-the-shelf digital games for pedagogical purposes. Relevant literature has continu

Online-Kurzpräsentation des Themenschwerpunkts Donnerstag, 26. März 2026, 14:00 bis ca. 14:30 Uhr Wir möchten Sie hiermit sehr herzlich zu einer kurzen Präsentation des Themenschwerpunkts „Mehrsprachigkeit als Ausgangspunkt und Ziel von Bildung“ einladen. Dieser ist in der Ausgabe 1/2026 der Zeitschrift Erziehung & Unterricht erschienen und versammelt acht Beiträge zu laufenden bzw. abgeschlossenen Projekten zum Thema Mehrsprachigkeit im österreichischen Bildungswesen. Die Beiträge setzen in

It is our great pleasure to invite you all to celebrate our edited volume with a book launch event on Tuesday 17 March, 2026! "Data-Intensive Investigations of English" (edited by Mikko Laitinen and Paula Rautionaho) is a new volume in CUP's Studies in English Language series. Join us to hear about the background to the volume, an introduction to all chapters by the editors, an overview of the series, and brief presentations from contributing authors. Key aspects that will be discussed include:

Call for Book Chapters Critical Futures for Heritage Language Education: Policy, Power, and Educational Justice Editors Valeria Ochoa (Oregon State University) Rosti Vana (Sam Houston State University) Sergio Loza (University of Oregon) Scope and goals of the volume: The ongoing challenges in Heritage Language (HL) education in the United States have prompted researchers to move beyond the status quo in research and pedagogy and to pay closer attention to the needs of diverse stude

All'interno del Ciclo di Seminari di Linguistica italiana "Gli incontri del mercOLIDì", organizzati dall'Unità di Ricerca "OLID: Osservatorio sul Lessico Italiano e Dialettale", il prossimo incontrò sarà tenuto da Nicoletta Maraschio e Francesca Cialdini e avrà come tema "L'italiano della radio: il lessico che cambia". Il seminario si svolgerà presso l'Università di Firenze il prossimo 11 marzo, dalle 15 alle 17 nella Sala del Consiglio del Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia (via della Pergola,

Description: The interdisciplinary ERC-Synergy project SHAPE investigates how shape is represented in cognition, language development, and across languages (spoken and signed). The Paris team, led by Frank Seifart, investigates the variability of shape expression across a diverse, worldwide sample of spoken languages. The Postdoctoral Researcher will carry out cross-linguistic research on shape encoding, in collaboration with team members (two other PostDocs and the PI) and independently s

Other Specialties: Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Multimodality, Hate Speech, Digital Hate Studies, Social Media Studies Description: Research Annotator – Qualitative and Mixed Methods Analysis of Digital Hate NYU Center for the Study of Antisemitism · Part-time · Tri-state area-based (NYC-based ideal) Role Overview: NYU's Center for the Study of Antisemitism is seeking Research Annotators to join Decoding Hate, a field-building research hub examining how hate circulates, adapts, and

Call for Papers: Plenary Speakers: Elena Manca (Università del Salento, Italy) - Mihalis Kavaratzis (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) The TourCT (Tourism Translation and Communication) Network is delighted to announce its first interdisciplinary event on the construction of tourism narratives, hosted by the University of Birmingham. You can find more information below or by visiting this link: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/international-symposium-on-tourism-communication-and-t

The 4th edition of the Many Paths to Language conference focuses on meaningful differences in the way children acquire language. It will explore multiple sources of variation in early language development, including: children’s linguistic and cultural environments, their cognitive maturation, and the structural properties of the languages they are acquiring, alongside the implications of this variation for the mechanisms that drive and support native language acquisition, given the overall robus

Call for Papers: The third edition of the International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Technology’ (NeTTIT’2026) will take place in Dubrovnik, Croatia from 24 to 27 June 2026. The objective of the conference is (i) to bridge the gap between academia and industry in the field of translation and interpreting by bringing together academics in linguistics, translation and interpreting studies, machine translation and natural language processing, developers, practitioner

This workshop aims to bring together research focusing on German as a contact language. We welcome contributions focusing on various linguistic aspects and involving German as a contact language across diverse sociolinguistic settings and in interaction with a wide range of contact languages. The workshop seeks to foster dialogue between theoretical and empirical approaches to language contact, with particular emphasis on developmental perspectives. We are especially interested in studies tha

Final Call for Papers: Sinn und Bedeutung 31 Nantes Université Main session: September 2-4, 2026 Pre-conference workshop “Plurality and Distributivity across lexical categories”: September 1, 2026 Submission deadline: March 9, 2026, 23:00 Universal Coordinated Time/Greenwich Mean Time. Please note the time zone! Submissions will close significantly earlier on March 9 in many parts of the world. SuB31, organized by the Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes (Nantes Université/CNRS).

Schedule: March 12 (Thursday) 09:30–10:30: Jan Fließbach (University of Potsdam) & Łukasz Jędrzejowski (University of Agder): Adverbial clauses and prosody: Setting the scene 10:30–11:00: Refreshment break 11:00–12:00: Fatima Hamlaoui (University of Toronto): The prosody and flexible syntax-phonology mapping of adverbial clauses in Basaá (Bantu A43a) 12:00–14:00: Lunch 14:00–15:00: Matthias Mittendorfer (University of Vienna) & Elnora Ten Wolde (University of Graz):

Deverbal nominalisations and participles are among the most intensively studied representatives of so-called mixed categories. At least since Chomsky (1970), they have played a central role in debates on how syntax, morphology, and semantics interact in word formation. They occupy a theoretical middle ground between verbs and nouns/adjectives: they may preserve argument structure, aspectual interpretation, and event semantics, while simultaneously exhibiting nominal or adjectival morphology and

Clitics are a highly prominent category in Slavic languages, which raises fundamental questions about the interfaces between syntax, morphology, phonology, and information structure. They occupy a theoretical middle ground between words and affixes, and their placement often reflects complex interactions among syntactic position, prosodic structure, and discourse-related constraints (Franks & King 2000; Bošković 2001, 2008, 2016; Milićević 2023, a.m.o.). Slavic languages, with their rich clitic

Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages in Educational Digital Settings Call for Papers New Trends in English Language Teaching, Learning and Education Edited by Giuseppe Balirano (University of Naples L'Orientale), Gašper Ilc (University of Ljubljana), Tania Zulli (G. d'Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara) (https://serena.sharepress.it/AL/call_for_papers) Over the past decade, the field of English Language Teaching has witnessed a significant reconfiguration shaped by intersecti