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FYI: Onomastics Online Lecture Series 2026 Onomastics Online is a lecture series hosted by the International Council of Onomastic Sciences. Given by scholars from various academic backgrounds, the lectures demonstrate the importance and the multidisciplinary nature of onomastic research. Talks are held on Microsoft Teams. Preregistration is required for live attendance, but recordings are uploaded on our YouTube channel. In 2026, Onomastics Online presents five speakers: 11 June 2026 (17:00 UTC+2) Sonam Tshering - Bhutanese Persona

FYI: Onomastics Online Lecture Series 2026

Software: HDICT - A Free and Libre Offline Dictionary Reader App (iOS and macOS) I am pleased to introduce HDICT, a free and libre iOS dictionary reader app, designed for scholars who work deeply with dictionaries. Licence - GNU GPL v3.0. Available on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/hdict/id6759493062 Note - If you are on an android phone, and would like to test the app, kindly let me know off list. Why HDICT? Research often requires consulting multiple dictionaries across languages and traditions—sometimes in environments where stable internet

Software: HDICT - A Free and Libre Offline Dictionary Reader App (iOS and macOS)

FYI: Call for Contributions: PsychLing-101 (Open Repository of Psycholinguistic Datasets) We are a group of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Humboldt University of Berlin, and the University of Milano-Bicocca, collaborating on a research initiative to build shared infrastructure for psycholinguistic research. We would like to invite contributions to PsychLing-101, a community-driven repository that collects psycholinguistic datasets in a unified format for both traditional analyses and evaluation of large language models. Project overview Psyc

FYI: Call for Contributions: PsychLing-101 (Open Repository of Psycholinguistic Datasets)

Books: Creating a Sign Language Out of Everything and Everywhere: Martins (2026) This thesis traces the formation of a deaf community in Guinea-Bissau and the emergence of its sign language, Língua Gestual Guineense (LGG), offering rare real-time documentation of how a language develops from gestural roots. The relative absence of medical approaches to deafness enabled a free-signing environment in schools and informal meeting places. Within two decades, the first generation of signers in Bissau established a proud community and shaped an autochthonous sign language. The

Books: Creating a Sign Language Out of Everything and Everywhere: Martins (2026)

Books: Advancing Explanatory and Tonal Dialectometry: Sung (2026) Dialectometry is a quantitative branch of dialectology, which makes use of computational and statistical methods on dialect data in order to understand language variation in space. The current dissertation presents how dialectometry can deepen our understanding of the variation of Yue dialects spoken in Southern China. It also shows how Yue can help us to broaden the scope of computational methods used in dialectometry, particularly in accounting for tonal languages, which are common in the worl

Books: Advancing Explanatory and Tonal Dialectometry: Sung (2026)

Books: When Speech Becomes Emotional: Liang (2025) This dissertation investigated cross-cultural vocal emotion recognition by four groups of listeners—Dutch, Korean, American English, and French listeners, responding to emotional speech utterances produced by either Dutch or Korean actors portraying four basic (anger, fear, joy, sadness) and four non-basic (pride, relief, tenderness, irritation) emotions. Both categorical and dimensional approaches to emotions were pursued. The project comprised three perception experiments and one simulation st

Books: When Speech Becomes Emotional: Liang (2025)

Books: Your Langauge Matters: Prieto (2025) The ability to learn and develop languages for communication is a uniquely human characteristic. Equip yourself by exploring language and linguistics as a discipline – this book is that exploration. Interactive exercises invite readers to engage with the critical linguistic questions. You will develop foundational skills to analyze languages scientifically, appreciate its diversity, and understand its profound impact on the human experience. In our interdependent global world understandi

Books: Your Langauge Matters: Prieto (2025)

Calls: ESSLLI 2026 Workshop - Referring Expression Choice in Grounded Contexts: Linguistic, Cognitive, and Computational Aspects Call for Papers: Workshop Description: When we refer to entities and events in our environment, particularly (but not only) when visual information is present, we have choices. Depending on what has been said before, who or what else is in a scene, and the characteristics of what we want to refer to, we might say (among many other options) "the person running", "the runner", "the woman in the red shirt", "the one with the glasses", or "them over there". The extent of this variation in refe

Calls: ESSLLI 2026 Workshop - Referring Expression Choice in Grounded Contexts: Linguistic, Cognitive, and Computational Aspects

Calls: 38th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop Call for Papers: As of March 15, submissions are open for the 38th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, with the submission deadline on April 15, 2026. More information can be found on our website. Due to unforeseen circumstances, the conference dates have been changed: the workshop will now take place on September 17-18, 2026, at the University of Potsdam. The guidelines for abstract submission remain the same. The Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop is a theoretically-oriented forum

Calls: 38th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop

Calls: 9th International Language Management Symposium Call for Papers: The submission deadline is extended until 10 May 2026. The Hungarian Usage and Language Consulting Research Group and the Terminology Research Group of the ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics are pleased to organize the 9th International Language Management Symposium (ILMS), to be held in Budapest on 3–4 September 2026. The symposium focuses on the theme Language Management: Terminological Processes and aims to bring together researchers from diverse disciplines who ar

Calls: 9th International Language Management Symposium

Calls: 2026 NARNiHS Research Incubator Final Call for Papers: 2026 NARNiHS Research Incubator North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics 8th edition 07-09 May 2026 -- entirely online! Abstract Submission Deadline: 23 March 2026, 11:59 PM (U.S. Eastern Time) The 2026 NARNiHS Research Incubator is an entirely online event (**with free registration**). This event offers an opportunity for scholars in historical sociolinguistics from all over the world to participate in discussions of cutting-edge resear

Calls: 2026 NARNiHS Research Incubator

Calls: Workshop on Multilingual Language Processing: Multilingual Minds and Machines Meeting Call for Papers: The Multilingual Minds and Machines Meeting aims to bridge the gap between the scientific disciplines of multilingual language research, experimental psycholinguistics, and computational cognitive science. By exploring how empirical, human-oriented approaches can be more tightly integrated with the theoretical, computation-oriented methodologies, the workshop will further enhance research into the cognitive science of bi-/multilingualism. Keynote speakers: Lisa Beinborn (U

Calls: Workshop on Multilingual Language Processing: Multilingual Minds and Machines Meeting

Calls: 15th Bonn Applied English Linguistics Conference Final 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 main

Calls: 15th Bonn Applied English Linguistics Conference

FYI: Call for Chapters: Complexity in Language: A Functional Approach to Linguistic Complexity and Variation in Language Use Scope and goals of the volume: Drawing on corpus-based research, the book investigates how clause , embedding, and phrase-level subordination contribute to complex meaning-making. It demonstrates how syntactic choices are determined by transitivity, agency, thematic progression, and the need to package information in discourse. In addition, the book investigates variation in complexity across spoken and written registers and academic genres, revealing how functional factors drive syntactic c

FYI: Call for Chapters: Complexity in Language: A Functional Approach to Linguistic Complexity and Variation in Language Use

FYI: Call for Chapters | Data-Driven Language Teaching and Learning: Theory, Research, and Practice (Springer) We are pleased to announce an upcoming edited volume on "Data-Driven Language Teaching and Learning: Theory, Research, and Practice", to be published by Springer. With this email, we warmly invite chapter proposals from researchers, teacher educators, curriculum designers, and practitioners working across corpus linguistics, applied linguistics, language education, and educational technology. TOPIC OVERVIEW Data-Driven Learning (DDL), first introduced by Tim Johns (1991) as a method of cla

FYI: Call for Chapters | Data-Driven Language Teaching and Learning: Theory, Research, and Practice (Springer)

Calls: International Conference on Linguistic Research and Applications 2026 Final Call for Papers: The International Linguistic Society is delighted to invite you to participate in the International Conference of Linguistic Research and Applications, Linguistics 2026 Athens, to be held from 22nd to 24th April 2026 in Athens, Greece. The primary aim of the conference is to advance key areas of contemporary linguistics, welcoming innovative approaches to linguistic research and applications. The Linguistics 2026 Athens conference envisions a vibrant platform for col

Calls: International Conference on Linguistic Research and Applications 2026

Confs: 1st Annual Conference: Language at Crossroads In “The Object Called ‘Language’ and the Subject of Linguistics,” Asif Agha reminds us that language is not merely an object among others, but an institutionally organized medium through which social life is conducted, organized, and made meaningful. This perspective carries an important consequence: the study of any domain of human life can be illuminated through the study of language, provided that we develop analytical models that function as “bridging constructs.” Such constructs link observ

Confs: 1st Annual Conference: Language at Crossroads

Calls: 6th International Conference Thinking Doing Learning Final Call for Papers: The call for abstract submissions for the 6th international conference Thinking, Doing, Learning: Usage-Based Perspectives on Second Language Learning (TDL6) has now been extended until March 27! URL for submission of abstracts: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/TDL6/ Thinking, Doing, Learning: Usage-Based Perspectives on Second Language Learning (TDL6), hosted at the University of Groningen, October 14-16, 2026, brings together researchers exploring sec

Calls: 6th International Conference Thinking Doing Learning

Confs: Priming, Analogy and Linguistic Creativity Priming and analogy are central mechanisms in human language. Priming supports the activation of linguistic structures and meanings, while analogy enables speakers to extend patterns and recognise relational similarities. Although both mechanisms are well studied, they have largely been investigated in isolation. Recent research, however, suggests that they may be deeply interconnected, even as the directionality of this relationship remains a matter of debate. The workshop aims to contribute to

Confs: Priming, Analogy and Linguistic Creativity

Calls: Semmelweis Medical Linguistics Conference 2026 Final Call for Papers: The fourth Semmelweis Medical Linguistics Conference (SMLC 2026) will take place on 5–6 June 2026 in Budapest, Hungary, in a hybrid format. This conference series aims to bring together researchers, educators, and professionals working in the field of healthcare communication and medical linguistics. The thematic scope includes, among others, patient-centred communication, medical translation and interpreting, terminology, pragmatics, artificial intelligence, metaphors,

Calls: Semmelweis Medical Linguistics Conference 2026

Calls: Neophilologica - "Special Issue: Phraseological Universals in Natural Languages" (Jrnl) Thematic Issue of the Journal Neophilologica (No. 38) Phraseological Universals in Natural Languages - Editors: Wiesław Banyś, Monika Sułkowska, Paweł Golda, Beata Śmigielska - Submission deadline: 31 March 2026 31 May 2026 - Publication date: December 2026 - Maximum article length: 60,000 characters (including spaces) - Languages of publication: French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, English - Submissions and author guidelines (mandatory): https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/NEO/

Calls: Neophilologica - "Special Issue: Phraseological Universals in Natural Languages" (Jrnl)

Calls: The Role of Semantics in Syntax Final Call for Papers: Abstracts are invited for 40–60-minute talks in a one-day conference ‘The role of semantics in syntax’, which is to be held at Magdalen College, Oxford, on 20 June 2026. The aim of the conference is to explore ways in which the syntax of a sentence might be influenced by its semantics, in opposition to the traditional Chomskyan conception of the autonomy of syntax. The conference is inspired by two recent speculative developments: the revival of the architecture of the

Calls: The Role of Semantics in Syntax

Confs: Ontology As Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics 6 OASIS 6 (Ontology As Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics 6) will take place at the Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa, 13-16 October, 2026. The OASIS conference series aims to promote conversation across different disciplines that interface with semantics, using ontological questions as shared reference points. The broad questions in the background are these: 1. What basic ontological building blocks do we use to talk and think about the world? 2. How do these building

Confs: Ontology As Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics 6

Calls: English for Specific Purposes - "Special Issue: Collaboration, Joint Innovation, and Impact in ESP: Bridging Academic and Professional Worlds" (Jrnl) Guest editors: Prof. Christoph A. Hafner, City University of Hong Kong, China (c.hafner@city.edu.hk) Prof. Mian Jia, City University of Hong Kong, China Prof. Ge Lan, City University of Hong Kong, China Prof. Esterina Nervino, City University of Hong Kong, China Special Issue Information: Over the years, Languages for Specific Purposes (and English for specific purposes) has faced a number of challenges relating to technological and social developments. First, the rapid evolution of

Calls: English for Specific Purposes - "Special Issue: Collaboration, Joint Innovation, and Impact in ESP: Bridging Academic and Professional Worlds" (Jrnl)

Calls: Scripta Manent - "Special Issue: Climate Change and Languages for Specific Purposes" (Jrnl) Call for Papers for an issue on Climate Change and Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP) Theme and Scope: Climate change has emerged as one of today’s most urgent global challenges, spanning scientific, professional, institutional, and socio-economic domains. Since it is mostly manifested through language – in areas such as science, policy, law, economics, education, media, and activism – it is a rich field for studying specialized discourse. Scripta Manent invites contributions from s

Calls: Scripta Manent - "Special Issue: Climate Change and Languages for Specific Purposes" (Jrnl)

Confs: Das germanische Verb. Historisch und typologisch – The Germanic Verb. Historical and Typological Perspectives Das germanische Verb. Historisch und typologisch Internationale Nachwuchstagung der Vergleichenden germanischen Sprachwissenschaft English below Die Internationale Nachwuchstagung der Vergleichenden germanischen Sprachwissenschaft, die seit 2014 mehrfach in Zürich, einmal 2025 in Uppsala stattgefunden hat, wird diesmal als Kooperation des Fachbereichs für Vergleichende germanische Sprachwissenschaft Zürich und der Professur für Vergleichende Indogermanische Sprachwissenschaft Erlangen

Confs: Das germanische Verb. Historisch und typologisch – The Germanic Verb. Historical and Typological Perspectives

Confs: Creating New Knowledge over Three Decades of Doctoral Education in Language Pedagogy and Applied Linguistics The Language Pedagogy and English Applied Linguistics PhD Programme at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, Hungary, invites proposals for the international conference “Creating New Knowledge: Three Decades of Doctoral Education in Language Pedagogy and Applied Linguistics,” organized to mark the 30th anniversary of the programme. The conference is organized to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the foundation of the Language Pedagogy and English Applied Linguistics PhD Programme at Eötv

Confs: Creating New Knowledge over Three Decades of Doctoral Education in Language Pedagogy and Applied Linguistics

Qs: Experiment on Linguistic Creativity - Native Speakers of French Needed / Expérience sur la Créativité Linguistique - Recherche de Locuteurs Natifs Français English version: I am looking for native speakers of French who would like to participate in a short online rating task on novel word formations. The experiment will not take longer than 10 minutes and participants can win a voucher of 10€ of an online shop. Feel free to share this study with your friends and colleagues! https://www.lingexp.uni-tuebingen.de/OnExp2/onexp.php?username=DKleineberg&experimentname=CreaDerFR&status=new --- Version française: Je recherche des locuteurs natifs fr

Qs: Experiment on Linguistic Creativity - Native Speakers of French Needed / Expérience sur la Créativité Linguistique - Recherche de Locuteurs Natifs Français

FYI: Online MSc Scholarships in Global Digital Humanities The Global Digital Humanities programme at the University of St Andrews offers a flexible, fully online postgraduate route for students interested in the relationship between technology, language, literature, culture, and heritage. Taught jointly by the School of Modern Languages and the School of Computer Science, the programme combines humanities inquiry with computational methods including Python, machine learning, and data visualisation. With PGCert, PGDip, and MSc pathways, students can

FYI: Online MSc Scholarships in Global Digital Humanities

Books: On the Place of Linguistics in Northern Afghanistan: Werner and Lunsford (eds.) (2025) Bringing a timely contribution to scholarship about the linguistic variations of languages spoken in northern Afghanistan, the authors address gaps in existing literature, particularly regarding linguistic areality in Afghanistan and Uzbek identity. By exploring lesser-studied languages like Afghan Wakhi and Turkmen, they also provide fresh insights into Iranian and Turkic languages. The volume is published in honor of Simone Beck, who dedicated many years of her life to comprehending the li

Books: On the Place of Linguistics in Northern Afghanistan: Werner and Lunsford (eds.) (2025)