Final Call for Papers: We invite contributions on theoretical and empirical aspects of marginal grammar phenomena and the interpretational processes related to them, addressing any of the topics listed in the workshop description and beyond. Studies exploring new marginal patterns, testing new methodologies, or refining existing theoretical notions of meaning with respect to these patterns are very welcome, as are studies from the perspectives of multimodality, language change, language acquisi

Call for Papers: TOPICS We welcome contributions of all topics related to writing aids, including but not limited to the following: 1. The Human Perspective: Cognitive scientific viewpoints, including education, psycholinguistics, and neuroscience : - Support: How can AI tools support critical thinking and logical reasoning in writing? How can writing assistants tailor feedback to individual writers, considering their unique needs and styles? How can we assess the quality and impact of AI-ge

The third RISE UP Online Networking Event called “Media Inside/Out – Perspectives on Minoritised Language Media” will take place online on September 9th, 2024 at 14:00-17:00 CEST. Share and explore minoritised language media! From the Latin medius (“in the middle”), modern media still has the power to connect small in-groups with the large out-side and to amplify the voices of those rarely heard in the mainstream. During the three hours of this networking event, we will present various ways of

The CoMeDi (Context and Meaning—Navigating Disagreements in NLP Annotations) workshop will host a shared task. We invite participants to solve two subtasks given a pair of words uses: Subtask 1: Ordinal Word-in-Context Classification (OGWiC) Subtask 2: Disagreement in Word-in-Context Ranking (DisWiC) The task takes a different view on modeling of word meaning by (i) treating WiC as an ordinal classification task, and (ii) making disagreement the explicit detection aim (instead of removing it).

Call for Papers: LINGUISTICS - Phonetic, morphological, syntactic, and semantic changes in languages - Longitudinal studies on language shift and maintenance - Sociolinguistic factors influencing language choice, code-switching, and language mixing - Educational challenges and strategies for teaching in multilingual environments LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE - The role of cultural, religious, and social institutions in maintaining heritage languages - The use of technology, social media, and d

2nd Call for Papers: Due to unexpected (but happy) circunstances, the International Workshop on Romance SE/SI Constructions has been postponed to January 22-23, 2026. The new deadline for submissions is October 10, 2025. ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: We invite abstracts for 20-minute oral presentations, followed by 10 minutes of discussion, that address any aspect of Romance SE/SI constructions. Contributions examining variation among Romance languages, data from less studied varieties, contexts that r

Call for Papers: Organizers: Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen (Manchester), Marina Terkourafi (Leiden) The idea that messages encoded in speakers' utterances are subsequently decoded by hearers has long been abandoned within pragmatics in favor of an inferential model which views meaning derivation as an interactional process to which the subjectivities, emotions, and cognitive environments of both speakers and hearers (as well as eventual third parties) actively take part. This inferential approach

Call for Papers: We invite researchers from all pertinent disciplines to submit abstracts for 20 minute presentations (in German or English). Abstracts should be anonymous and no longer than 500 words (plus examples and references). Please e-mail your abstract to variationslinguistik.lid.fk15@tu-dortmund.de. Deadline for the submission of abstracts: 15 November 2024 Notification of acceptance: 13 December 2024 Registration for the conference: 13 December 2024 – 04 May 2025 Conference fee: t

Hello! I am recruiting advanced speakers of Mandarin (L1 English). Participants should have completed 302-level university coursework or above in Mandarin Chinese. More requirements can be found here: https://cla.purdue.edu/english/francislab/recruitment/ The experiment involves computer-based tasks and takes place over Zoom. Participants are compensated via an major electronic payment app of their choice. Please contact sheuv@purdue.edu if you are interested. A million thanks, linguist frien

2nd Call for Papers: Expressivity: Variation and Change (Workshop at DGfS 2025) This workshop aims at filling this gap by encouraging and bringing together research on variation and change in expressivity. Questions that may be addressed at the workshop include (but are not limited to) the following: * With respect to which parameters/aspects does the expressions of expressivity vary across languages and which aspects are rather stable (and may point towards universals regarding expressivity

The program and the abstracts of the talks can be found on this website: https://osf.io/uhq3y/

Call for Papers: This panel is dedicated to examining the intricacies of civil interaction on social media. Building on previous work on pragmalinguistic or interactional features which may help bring uncivil interaction back on track (see e.g. Tanskanen 2021; Vásquez 2021; Zhang et al. 2018), the panel aims to shed light on how civility is enacted and negotiated by participants in various digital communities. For the purposes of the panel, civil interaction involves exhibiting a respectful ori

Call for Papers: We invite abstract submissions for both oral presentations (20-minute talk plus additional 10 minutes for questions and discussion) and poster presentations. We welcome abstracts from a broad field of linguistic subfields (e.g., language acquisition, morphology, phonetics/ phonology, semantics/ pragmatics, syntax) and methodologies (e.g., computational, experimental, fieldwork, theoretical). This year there will be a special session with the theme “Features and their interacti

In this newsletter: Fall 2024 LDC Data Scholarship program New publications: LORELEI Uyghur Incident Language Pack Ravnursson Faroese Speech and Transcripts ________________________________________ Fall 2024 LDC Data Scholarship program Student applications for the Fall 2024 LDC Data Scholarship program are being accepted now through September 15, 2024. This program provides eligible students with no-cost access to LDC data. Students must complete an application consisting of a data use proposa

We invite proposals for chapters of a peer-reviewed edited book provisionally titled "The Language of Conflict Resolution". In its broadest sense, conflict is defined by the Danish Centre for Conflict Resolution as a disagreement that leads to tension within and between people. Conflict resolution is a young field of exploration and has included matters of conflict management, peace-building, third party mediation, peace-enforcement, etc. The task of conflict resolution focuses on assisting conf

There's still time to incorporate a Wikipedia assignment [teach.wikiedu.org] into your fall courses with the free support of nonprofit Wiki Education – the application deadline has been extended to September 8! Interested in learning more? Register now for an upcoming information session [https://wikiedu.org/webinars/]. We're offering 8 session options starting this Friday, August 23 at 9 am PDT / 12 pm EDT. Ready to apply now? To apply, visit dashboard.wikiedu.org to create your Wikipedia acc

Call for Papers: EuroSLA 34 2025 We are inviting proposals for presentations at EuroSLA 34 to be held in Tromsø, Norway, June 25 – 28 2024. We welcome submissions in all areas and approaches to the study of second, foreign or additional languages, bilingualism and multilingualism. Academic Program • Kara Morgan-Short (University of Illinois) • Theres Grüter (University of Hawaii) • Patrick Rebuschat (Lancaster University) • Bernadette O’Rourke (University of Glasgow) Doctoral Workshop an

Call for Papers: Contributions are invited across a wide range of diverse aspects of figurativeness in thought and in various semiotic modes. Diversity is intended to comprise modes of figurative enactment, discourses and representations of figurative meaning making, methods of analyses, theoretical approaches and applications, topics of investigation, sources and actors of figurativeness, as well as recipients of figurative processes. Some suggested areas of research on figurative thought, la

Call for Papers: We especially encourage proposals that center language and transcultural learning. Possible topics include but are not limited to: Disruptive and emerging technologies in language education Inclusive CALL and the role of language teachers and learners Opportunities and challenges in augmented, mixed, and virtual realities Generative AI and human-computer interaction for students and teachers Technology in heritage and community language learning Digital literacies and digital

Dear colleagues, In response to a posting from January 2022, in which a debate on possible structural bias in German dialectology and its effects on groups of speakers, a new publication has been offered in open access. The context to this debate, a "Gelehrtenstreit" or "Germanistikstreit", can be found here: https://linguistlist.org/issues/33.521/ . This new publication is based on archival work and highlights connections between the past and the present via concepts, definitions and linguist