It is great pleasure to announce the celebration of the International conference on minority languages and multilingualism in European schools: practices, challenges, and future prospects that will take place in Donostia/San Sebastian July 9th, 2026. You may find the full CfP information here. This conference aims to analyse and gain a deeper understanding of the situation of minority languages in European schools. The conference welcomes both theoretical and empirical academic contributions

On Friday November 27, 2026 the annual Taal & Tongval Colloquium wil take place at the KANTL in Ghent. This year’s theme is Language Variation and AI. The Colloquium will be organized by the KANTL (Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal en Letteren), the Dutch Language Institute (Leiden), Ghent University, and the University of Antwerp. There will be three keynote lectures, by: - Dong Nguyen – Utrecht University - Yanzhu Guo – Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris - Hugo

This Element presents a computational theory of syntactic variation that brings together (i) models of individual differences across distinct speakers, (ii) models of dialectal differences across distinct populations, and (iii) models of register differences across distinct contexts. This computational theory is based in Construction Grammar (CxG) because its usage-based representations can capture differences in productivity across multiple levels of abstraction. Drawing on corpora representing

As globalization spreads, English has become a lingua franca. Emerging technologies (e.g., Artificial Intelligence) now make learning English more accessible, affordable, and tailored to each learner. Social media and digital platforms immerse users in English, offering interactive, personalized, and engaging experiences that fuel Informal Digital Learning of English (IDLE). Research spanning more than ten regions has found that IDLE brings a wide range of benefits, including greater motivation,

The 'Discriminative Lexicon Model' is a new theory of how we process words, which moves radically away from most standard theories of morphology. This book introduces the Discriminative Lexicon from both a practical and a theoretical perspective. The first half explains the basic theory and the main parts of 'JudiLing', the Julia package implementing the theory. This is complimented by theory boxes introducing the core concepts underlying the model, such as Matrix Multiplication and the Rescorla

This Element traces the origins and earliest manifestations of gender bias in the English language. The analysis is based on a corpus of Old English prose texts, written between the ninth and the eleventh centuries. The results are interpreted in the historical, cultural and literary context of Anglo-Saxon England and early medieval Europe. The investigation shows a significant difference in the way women and men are presented in Old English texts, with the former clearly associated with family

Through conceptual and empirical means, this timely volume looks at how critical realism, a specific approach to the philosophy of science, helps uncover and refine assumptions about what constitutes valid knowledge in applied linguistics, how scholars can create it, and how applied linguistics can improve as an interdisciplinary strand of the social sciences. With contributions from leading and up-and-coming scholars in the field, the book covers a range of topics, from language, language learn

The program area “Oral corpora” at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS Mannheim) is pleased to announce that the “Parallel European Corpus of Informal Interaction” (PECI) has been released this week as part of version 2.25 of the “Database for Spoken German” (DGD). The corpus is now available online for scientific research and academic teaching purposes after registration: https://dgd.ids-mannheim.de/ The PECI corpus is a multilingual comparative corpus of spoken everyday socia

Focus: Lingüística Aplicada, Documentación de Lenguas, Sociolingüística, Traducción, Fonética Description: El Diplomado Internacional en Lingüística Aplicada (DILA) es un programa intensivo de verano con más de 35 años de trayectoria, organizado conjuntamente por la Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP) y el Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C. (ILV México). La edición 2026 se llevará a cabo en la Facultad de Lenguas de la BUAP, del 15 de junio al 10 de julio, en modalidad pres

We are pleased to announce that Registered Reports in Linguistics (RRLing) is now open for submissions at https://journals.ed.ac.uk/rrling. Registered Reports in Linguistics is a journal that publishes Registered Reports of qualitative and quantitative exploratory and corroboratory research within the field of linguistics. Registered Reports are a new article format and publishing model that prioritises the meaningfullness of research questions and hypotheses, and the rigour of the methodo

2nd Call for Papers: Each year, the Bonn Applied English Linguistics group hosts a conference aimed specifically at postgraduate, PhD, and post-doc students. This conference allows young linguists to showcase their empirical research projects in all areas of Applied Linguistics broadly defined. BAELc15 is a great opportunity to learn from each other, get feedback on your work and network with other researchers in the field. This year’s conference will focus on learner corpora, while mainta

Description: The College of Liberal Arts invites applications for a three-year, full-time, 9-month non-tenure track position at the rank of Visiting Assistant Professor to begin as early as Fall 2026. The successful candidate will oversee the Teacher Certification Program in Spanish and will teach four courses per semester, including Hispanic Linguistics, Grammar, Phonetics and Phonology, Methods in Foreign Language Instruction, Spanish for Heritage Speakers, etc., as well as lower-level Span

Spoken Englishes – Journal in English Variation Studies will publish its very 1st issue in 2027. It will be edited by Christophe Coupé-Jamet (CY Cergy Paris Université, France), Quentin Dabouis (Université Clermont-Auvergne, France), Pierre Fournier (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France), Olivier Glain (Université Jean Monnet de Saint-Étienne, France), Véronique Lacoste (Université Lumière Lyon 2, France) & Anne Przewozny (Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès, France), on the topic of William Lab

Final Call for Papers: Abstract Deadline: 1 March, 11:59pm AOE 500 words, with one additional page permitted for tables, figures, examples, and references. Submit abstracts via OpenReview at https://openreview.net/group?id=UK-WGLA/2026 Workshop dates: 19-20 June 2026 Location: Ulster University in Belfast, Northern Ireland Workshop site: https://blogs.ulster.ac.uk/language/wgla/ This workshop provides a dedicated UK venue for theory-driven generative acquisition research, bringing

Call for Papers: PhD candidates from the 39th and 40th cycles of the PhD programme in Philology, Italian Literature, and Linguistics at the University of Florence (Italy) announce the opening of the Call for Abstracts for the FLUI 2026 International Doctoral Conference. In the field of the humanities, the latin verb legĕre, in its meanings of «to gather», «to extract», and «to choose», is a productive starting point for multiple research strands. Participants are invited to reflect on the

Subject to a pending funding commitment from the German Research Foundation (DFG) expected in mid-May 2026, we are seeking to fill a position as a doctoral researcher in CRC 1475 subproject C04 "Metaphor and social positioning in religious online forums. Local, non-local, and cross-modal metaphor interpretation". The subproject combines religious studies and computational linguistics under the direction of Prof. Dr. Tatjana Scheffler and Prof. Dr. Frederik Elwert. One focus of our subproject is

Final Call for Papers: Deadline Extension: 4 March Due to several requests, we are happy to announce a deadline extension for the 2nd Workshop on Ecology, Environment, and Natural Language Processing. We are particularly interested in contributions that push the boundaries of linguistics and NLP research in the context of ecological and environmental crisis and that foster interdisciplinary collaboration. New Submission Deadline: 4 March 2026 (23:59 AoE) All other dates remain unchan

Philosophy of Translation invites submissions for its 2026 second issue (Autumn-Winter). As a newly established international journal dedicated to the philosophical dimensions of translation in all its forms—linguistic, cognitive, political, ethical, technological, aesthetic and cultural —we welcome contributions that explore translation not merely as a linguistic or practical activity, but as a fundamental mode of thought, a form of mediation, and a condition for understanding across difference

Comprehenders continuously generate expectations about upcoming linguistic material using information from multiple sources, including lexical and morpho-syntactic cues, prosody, discourse structure, world knowledge, and communicative goals. These expectations shape processing at all levels, from reference resolution and coherence relations to pragmatic inference and conversational implicature. DETEC 2026 provides a forum for interdisciplinary exchange between theoretical, experimental, and c

The Vici project Through the Hands of Signers invites everyone to participate in its kick-off symposium on the History of Sign Language Emergence, Transmission, and Change on July 10, 2026, at Leiden University (Leiden, The Netherlands). The symposium will bring together researchers, students, and international professionals with the aim of promoting the exchange of research and experiences, as well as reflecting on sign languages from a broad historical perspective, encompassing their early rec