EVOLANG XVI workshop 'A Window into Ursch枚pfung: Primary Iconic Coinage in Spoken Languages' (April 7, 2026; organized by Maria Flaksman, Alexandra Bagasheva, and Maruszka Meindard) welcomes talk and/or poster submissions on (1) imitative words / ideophones in ancient and reconstructed languages, (2) diachronic research on onomatopoeia and ideophones, (3) comparative research on onomatopoeia / ideophones in world languages, (4) recurrent patterns in (sound)imitation in spoken languages, (5) un
The ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics is pleased to announce the 6th Conference on the Syntax of Uralic Languages (SOUL6), to be held on June 24-26, 2026 in Budapest. The Syntax of Uralic Languages (SOUL) is a biennial conference that first took place in Oulu in 2015. Its goal is to provide a forum where researchers of Uralic languages working in different paradigms could exchange ideas and discuss their research and data. For further information on the SOUL conference series please visit ht
2nd Call for Papers:
We are pleased to inform you that the 11th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (BICLCE) will be held from 3rd to 5th July 2026 in Austria, at the University of Klagenfurt.
For over two decades, the BICLCE conference series has been a forum for researchers who are interested in the linguistics of contemporary English. It is open to different theoretical and methodological perspectives. Previous conferences were held in Edinburgh
EVOLANG XVI workshop 'A Window into Ursch枚pfung: Primary Iconic Coinage in Spoken Languages' (April 7, 2026; organized by Maria Flaksman, Alexandra Bagasheva, and Maruszka Meindard) welcomes talk and/or poster submissions on (1) imitative words / ideophones in ancient and reconstructed languages, (2) diachronic research on onomatopoeia and ideophones, (3) comparative research on onomatopoeia / ideophones in world languages, (4) recurrent patterns in (sound)imitation in spoken languages, (5) un
The ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics is pleased to announce the 6th Conference on the Syntax of Uralic Languages (SOUL6), to be held on June 24-26, 2026 in Budapest. The Syntax of Uralic Languages (SOUL) is a biennial conference that first took place in Oulu in 2015. Its goal is to provide a forum where researchers of Uralic languages working in different paradigms could exchange ideas and discuss their research and data. For further information on the SOUL conference series please visit ht
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We are soliciting applications for a 1 year postdoc fellowship (12 months) in experimental sociolinguistics/psycholinguistics. The postdoctoral researcher will primarily collaborate on Phase 1 of the ANR JCJC SOPHIA project (Social Persona and Human Interaction). This project aims to integrate the social dimension of language into psycholinguistic models, exploring how linguistic variants (subject inversion, inclusive writing, liaison) construct social personae and influence real
CUNY Profs. Christina Tortora, Michael Newman, Bill Haddican, Cecelia Cutler, and U. of Pennsylvania Prof. Beatrice Santorini are pleased to announce the release of the CUNY Corpus of New York City English. The Corpus of New York City English (CUNY-CoNYCE) is an innovative audio-aligned and parsed corpus of New Yorkers鈥� speech which aims to further the study of New York City English (namely, the varieties of English particular to New York City and the surrounding region).
The project combine
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The Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica (ILAS), Taiwan invites applicants for a tenured or tenure-track position at all levels (Assistant, Associate or Full Professor equivalent). A Ph.D. in Linguistics is required. The area of specialization is open.
Applicants should be able to communicate in Chinese. The successful candidate will be joining a vibrant research only program in linguistics with substantial research resources, two active research laboratories (Phonetics and
The Virtual Institute for Afrikaans (VivA), in collaboration with local and international partners, is pleased to host the fourth edition of the Small Languages, Big Ideas (SLBI) conference 鈥� this time with a fresh southern perspective. Join us in Gauteng, one of the linguistically and culturally vibrant provinces of South Africa, as we bring the focus to Germanic dialects, microvariation, and linguistic diversity across continents.
This edition of SLBI highlights dialects as windows into lan
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This PhD conference is organized by the PhD program of Philological and Linguistic Studies in Oral and Written Records of the University of Bergamo (IT). The event aims to investigate how 鈥減lace鈥� can be both materially and conceptually interpreted across archival, linguistic, philological, and palaeographic聽approaches.
Linguistic topics include:
- Language change and geography, focusing on spatial factors in synchronic and diachronic linguistic variation;
- Space and c
The Virtual Institute for Afrikaans (VivA), in collaboration with local and international partners, is pleased to host the fourth edition of the Small Languages, Big Ideas (SLBI) conference 鈥� this time with a fresh southern perspective. Join us in Gauteng, one of the linguistically and culturally vibrant provinces of South Africa, as we bring the focus to Germanic dialects, microvariation, and linguistic diversity across continents.
This edition of SLBI highlights dialects as windows into lan
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This workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of constructions with multiple WH-words across languages. Such constructions involve two or more WH-elements that typically distribute over different arguments or functions, rather than forming collective units (cf. Moravcsik 1978; Haspelmath 1997).
Cross-linguistic research has shown striking variation in how these patterns are realized. They may involve WH-word reduplicat
We invite proposals for oral presentation sessions as part of SALC10 in Ume氓, on 23-25 June 2026 (https://www.salc10.com/ ). The theme of the conference is Language, Cognition, and Learning. While contributions directly addressing this theme are particularly encouraged, the conference also welcomes papers on language and cognition more broadly.
Topics for oral presentations may include (but are not limited to):
- Language acquisition and cognition
- Cognitive perspectives on education an
El Departamento de Estudios Hisp谩nicos de la Universidad Maria Curie-Sk艂odowska (Polonia) tiene el placer de invitar a todos los especialistas en Traducci贸n y/o Interpretaci贸n especializada(s) al III Simposio Internacional de Traducci贸n e Interpretaci贸n especializadas, que se celebrar谩 en l铆nea los d铆as 19 y 20 de marzo de 2026. En esta edici贸n, contamos con el patrocinio honor铆fico de la Embajada de Colombia y de la Embajada de Espa帽a.
Las conferencias plenarias correr谩n a cargo de reputados
Proposal for a workshop at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea
Convenors:
Jan German (Jagiellonian University, Cracow) jan.german@uj.edu.pl
Dariusz Piwowarczyk (Jagiellonian University, Cracow) dariusz.piwowarczyk@uj.edu.pl
Religious terminology provides a unique window into processes of language contact, borrowing, adaptation, and semantic change. Across time and space, languages regarded as sacred 鈥� such as Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Classical Arabic, or Hebrew 鈥� ha
We invite proposals for oral presentation sessions as part of SALC10 in Ume氓, on 23-25 June 2026 (https://www.salc10.com/ ). The theme of the conference is Language, Cognition, and Learning. While contributions directly addressing this theme are particularly encouraged, the conference also welcomes papers on language and cognition more broadly.
Topics for oral presentations may include (but are not limited to):
- Language acquisition and cognition
- Cognitive perspectives on education an
El Departamento de Estudios Hisp谩nicos de la Universidad Maria Curie-Sk艂odowska (Polonia) tiene el placer de invitar a todos los especialistas en Traducci贸n y/o Interpretaci贸n especializada(s) al III Simposio Internacional de Traducci贸n e Interpretaci贸n especializadas, que se celebrar谩 en l铆nea los d铆as 19 y 20 de marzo de 2026. En esta edici贸n, contamos con el patrocinio honor铆fico de la Embajada de Colombia y de la Embajada de Espa帽a.
Las conferencias plenarias correr谩n a cargo de reputados
Proposal for a workshop at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea
Convenors:
Jan German (Jagiellonian University, Cracow) jan.german@uj.edu.pl
Dariusz Piwowarczyk (Jagiellonian University, Cracow) dariusz.piwowarczyk@uj.edu.pl
Religious terminology provides a unique window into processes of language contact, borrowing, adaptation, and semantic change. Across time and space, languages regarded as sacred 鈥� such as Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Classical Arabic, or Hebrew 鈥� ha
The 10th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature to be held at EACL in March 2026 in Rabat, Morocco as a two-day workshop with one on-site and one online day.
Organizers: Diego Alves, Yuri Bizzoni, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Anna Kazantseva, Janis Pagel, Stan Szpakowicz
SIGHUM (LaTeCH-CLfL) 2026 is the tenth in a series of meetings for NLP researchers who work with data from the broadly understood arts, humaniti
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The Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) is the oldest student-run linguistics organization in the United States. This academic year, CLS will host its 62nd Annual Meeting (CLS 62), to be held from April 17 through April 19, 2026 at the University of Chicago. Upholding a longstanding tradition, the conference serves as a forum for leading scholars and researchers from around the world to engage in the exchange of ideas across all areas of linguistics. CLS is particularly commit