Call for Papers: The 40th International Conference of the Asociación de Jóvenes Lingüistas will take place in Salamanca (Spain) from 7 to 9 October 2026, fifteen years after the University of Salamanca last hosted the annual AJL conference. The conference is open to undergraduate and MA students, PhD candidates, and scholars who have obtained their PhD within the last two years. Contributions may be written in in any of the languages of Spain or English. Abstract submission will be open

Final Call for Papers: We are delighted to announce that the Gallo-Romance Advances in Morphology & Syntax (GRAMS) workshop will be held in Trinity College Dublin on 25-26 May 2026. The submission deadline is extended to 19 January 2026. GRAMS embraces the full diversity of the Gallo‑Romance continuum, such as (standard) French and its regional varieties, the lesser-studied Oïl dialects (e.g., Gallo, Picard, Franc-Comtois), and the Oc varieties of southern France (e.g., Provençal, Auver

ATRAS Journal is now inviting scholars from around the globe to submit their unpublished manuscripts for publication. The journal aims to contribute to the body of knowledge by publishing original papers in the fields of literature, gender studies, cultural studies, linguistics, education, language studies, translation, social sciences, and the arts. Researchers are invited to submit their manuscripts in English, Arabic, and French. Presentation: ATRAS Journal is inviting researchers from th

G21C (Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century), also known as /gʁafematik/, is a biennial academic conference that convenes scholars from disciplines engaged with grapholinguistics and, more broadly, the systematic study of writing systems and their manifestation in written communication. The conference seeks to examine the current state of scholarship in this domain and to assess the significance of writing and writing systems within adjacent disciplines, including computer science, communication

For the first time in the history of Semitic studies, this volume is devoted entirely to Modern South Arabian (MSA) as a unified linguistic and cultural entity. The three principal regions inhabited by MSA speakers—Mahra and Dhofar on the Arabian mainland, and the island of Soqotra—are comprehensively represented. The contributions span a broad thematic range, including cultural history, field sociology, and, above all, linguistics (both synchronic and diachronic), alongside the rich oral tradit

What happens when Chinese is shaped by centuries of contact with Mongolic, Tungusic, Turkic, and Tibetic languages? This volume explores this question through striking case studies of lects like Tangwang and Wutun, where Chinese exhibits unexpected features such as OV word order, case suffixes, and restructured verbal morphology. Drawing on rare fieldwork data, this volume reveals how deep multilingual interaction transforms grammatical systems. It offers a unique contribution to the study of la

What if Old Norwegian syntax diverged from Old Icelandic earlier than previously assumed? Discover the hidden dynamics of Old Norwegian syntax in this groundbreaking volume that challenges the long-held view that Old Norwegian and Old Icelandic can, on a syntactic level, be treated uniformly under the broader term ‘Old Norse.’ Through detailed analyses of information structure and prosodic weight, this book reveals – among other findings – an early shift toward fixed VO word order in Old Norwegi

The Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (SELIM) and the Local Organising Committee invite members of the Society and all scholars interested in the field to participate in the 36th International Conference of SELIM (SELIM 36), to be hosted by the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) in Toledo, from 23rd to 25th September 2026. The organisers welcome papers dealing with any aspect of medieval English language and literature. As in previous SELIM conferences, we especi

Richard Page, one of the founding editors of the SiGL book series, is stepping down; we sincerely thank him for his contribution to the series and to the Benjamins program in general. We welcome new editors David Natvig (University of Stavanger) and Hanna Fischer (Philipps-Universität Marburg), who will be joining Michael T. Putnam and Laura Catherine Smith. Studies in Germanic Linguistics (SiGL) aims to achieve a more detailed and nuanced understanding of the structural development of German

As of Volume 5 (2026), the John Benjamins journal Translation in Society welcomes on board two new Associate Editors, Diana Roig-Sanz (Open University of Catalonia, Spain) and Minhui Xu (University of Macau), and one new Review Editor, Giuseppe Palumbo (University of Trieste, Italy). The aim of this essentially interdisciplinary journal is to explore translation as a key social relation in a deeply interconnected world. Translation in Society offers a platform for the growing amount of resea

NyishiBERT is a transformer-based language model developed for the Nyishi language, a low-resource Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Northeast India. The model is intended to support linguistic research and language technology development for underrepresented languages, including tasks such as language modeling, downstream NLP experimentation, and corpus-based analysis. The model is trained on Nyishi text data and released openly to encourage reproducibility, reuse, and further research on low

Calling all native English-speaking academics & PhD students in Linguistics, Literature, or ELT! Help us with our TÜBİTAK-funded research (Project No: 323K457). This study focuses on interactional metadiscourse markers in academic writing (hedges, boosters, self-mentions etc.). 5-min survey + 25-min Zoom interview Fully anonymized results Interested? Email oliver.bevington@tedu.edu.tr with 3 preferred time slots to participate!

Description: Lecturer in Linguistics Position Spring 2026 University of California Los Angeles Requisition Number: JPF10778 UCLA Linguistics Department: Lecturer in Linguistics Position AY 2025-2026 The UCLA Department of Linguistics invites applications for Lecturer for the 2025-2026 academic year to teach 1 undergraduate course: Spring: Linguistics and Speech Pathology See Table 15 for the salary range for this position. Salary placement will be based on skills, knowledge, and e

Description: Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in! At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds — while doing work that’s both meaningful and fun.

The Italian Institute of Oriental Studies Department at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, warmly invites both members and non-members of the Italian Association of Chinese Linguistics (AILC) to participate in the 9th edition of the Study Days on Chinese Linguistics. The conference will be hosted onsite in Rome from June 17th to June 18th, 2026. Similar to past editions held in Venezia (2014), Milano (2015), Roma (2016), Napoli (2017), Milano (2018), Forlì (2021), Bergamo (2022), and Verona

Address forms are the set of expressions used by speakers to address their interlocutor(s). These forms signal the social, cultural, and relational norms that shape human interactions. They convey respect, intimacy, or distance between interlocutors, and vary across languages and cultures. The study of these forms allows for the identification of social and linguistic dynamics, as well as of pragmatic and linguistic variation in multilingual and intercultural contexts. This conference aims to pr

2nd Call for Papers: Extended Deadline: January 26, 2026 Michigan State University is pleased to host the 56th Linguistic Symposium in Romance Languages in East Lansing, MI, May 14-16th 2026. Invited speakers: - Andrés Saab (Universidad de Buenos Aires / Conicet) - Karen Miller (Penn State University) - Miquel Simonet (University of Arizona) - Patrícia Amaral (Indiana University) LSRL provides a forum for all aspects of Romance linguistics. We invite abstracts for considerati

Final Call for Papers: Abstract submission period extended: the new deadline for submission is 17th January 2026 (midnight GMT). The Manchester Forum in Linguistics (MFiL) is an annual conference for postgraduate students and early-career researchers in all fields of Linguistics. The aim of the conference is to share current theoretical and methodological linguistic work and provide information and advice for postgraduate students, post-doctoral scholars, and others in the early stages of

Kaunas University of Technology is organising a research conference dedicated to discussing the rapid development of the language industry and the growing possibilities of applying artificial intelligence in ways that are reshaping research practices. We cordially invite professionals and researchers in Philology, Educational Sciences, language and technologies to share their experience and insights and take part in resourceful discussions about the use of artificial intelligence in language

Final Call for Papers: Keynote Speakers: Lindsay Preseau (Iowa State University) & Jenny Robins (Iowa State University) (EN) The Germanic Graduate Student Association (GGSA) at The Ohio State University invites submissions from graduate and undergraduate students for its upcoming 18th annual conference exploring the diverse ‘lifeworlds’ (Lebenswelten) that inform and transform our understanding of German Studies. This year’s theme centers the concept of ‘lifeworld’ (Lebenswelt), making us