After earlier installments in Paris (2022), Tours (2024) and Lille (2025), we are happy to announce that the fourth workshop 鈥楧es Langues Pas Si Mortes鈥� (DELPASIMO 4) will take place at the C么te d鈥橝zur University (Nice, France) on March 13-14, 2026. The event is hosted by the lab 鈥楤ases, Corpus, Langage鈥� (BCL, UMR 7320).
The workshop series DELPASIMO is devoted to the formal grammar of historical languages, primarily from a synchronic (rather than diachronic) perspective. The conference is op
In general approaches to language contact and contact-induced change, the subject of research is typically the linguistic consequences of interaction between communities speaking different languages (Goebl et al. 1996, Thomason 2001, Myers-Scotton 2002, Winford 2003, Siemund & Kintana 2008, Matras 2009, Hickey 2010, a.m.o.). Contact between geographical varieties of a language is usually analyzed under the same framework as with autonomous languages. One difference often highlighted is that borr
Since the advent of transdisciplinary death studies in the 1970s, a plethora of research has been conducted in the humanities and social sciences on death-related issues, including end-of-life conditions and bereavement. This research has been undertaken in fields such as anthropology, history, psychology, philosophy, and sociology (see for example Thomas 1975; Aries 1977; Baudry 1999; Boltanski 2004; Molini茅 2006; Clavandier 2009; Despret 2015; Boltanski 2004). In linguistics, research has addr
After earlier installments in Paris (2022), Tours (2024) and Lille (2025), we are happy to announce that the fourth workshop 鈥楧es Langues Pas Si Mortes鈥� (DELPASIMO 4) will take place at the C么te d鈥橝zur University (Nice, France) on March 13-14, 2026. The event is hosted by the lab 鈥楤ases, Corpus, Langage鈥� (BCL, UMR 7320).
The workshop series DELPASIMO is devoted to the formal grammar of historical languages, primarily from a synchronic (rather than diachronic) perspective. The conference is op
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In Language Policy and the New Speaker, Colin H. Williams draws on decades of research in minority language policy to offer a grounded analysis of the 鈥榥ew speaker鈥� concept.
Organised into nine chapters, the book moves coherently from definitional debates to comparative case studies and, finally, to a synthesis of findings and policy recommendations. Chapter 1 introduces the emergence of the 鈥榥ew speaker鈥� concept and situates it within broader debates on multilingualism, minoritise
My name is Runyu Wu, a PhD student in University of Groningen.
I am conducting a short online study on how listeners perceive the similarity between different English accents. I am seeking participants who are from a European country and for whom English is not a first language. Normal hearing is required, and participation should be completed on a computer by using Google chrome; headphones are recommended for best audio quality.
If you choose to take part, you will listen to brief clips
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This book examines the perspectives and experiences of student teachers who are in the process of becoming secondary school English teachers in Japan. It reports on the trainee teachers鈥� attitudes towards theory and practice in their professional development. Through a discussion of what professional expertise should look like in this context, the book identifies the challenges faced by the Initial Teacher Education (ITE) system in Japan, and suggests support and m
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The Department of Chicano Studies, Languages, and Linguistics at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor or tenured Associate Professor position in Latino/Chicano/Latin American Studies or in Spanish for Specific Purposes, to begin in Fall 2026. We seek an innovative and dynamic scholar whose research either bridges the fields of Latino, Chicano and Latin American Studies or specializes in the teaching of Sp
I am a PhD student in Brazil and I am recruiting native English speakers from the US and Canada to take part in a short experiment. Would anyone like to participate? This is the last experiment for my PhD so I appreciate all the help sharing this message.
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We鈥檙e recruiting participants born in Canada or the US, native speakers of English, 18+ and who have no knowledge of Portuguese. You鈥檒l listen to several sentences and answer s
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This book contributes to emerging research on third language acquisition (TLA) and pinpoints the main factors characterising TLA as a different process and area of study from second language acquisition. Moving beyond the dichotomous conception of monolingualism and bilingualism, it proposes a holistic and interdisciplinary approach to studying acquisition of a third or additional language. It presents readers with a practical guide to understanding how these langu
Designed specifically for class use, this text guides students through developing their own full, working constructed language. It introduces basic concepts and the decisions students need to make about their conlang's speakers and world, before walking them through the process of conlanging in incremental stages, from selecting a language's sounds to choices about its grammar. It includes hundreds of examples from natural and constructed languages, and over seventy end-of-chapter exercises that
This Element proposes to view World Englishes as components of an overarching Complex Dynamic System of Englishes, against the conventional view of regarding them as discrete, rule-governed, categorial systems. After outlining this basic idea and setting it off from mainstream linguistic theories, it introduces the theory of Complex Dynamic Systems and the main properties of such systems (systemness, complexity, perpetual dynamics, network relationships, the interplay of order and chaos, emergen
The development of academic language in bilingual contexts is under-researched, especially at the critical point of adolescence. This insightful book addresses the onset and development of literacy in bilingual contexts, through a series of original case studies. Covering CLIL, EMI, and bilingual/multilingual education, the authors examine the evolution of the lexis, syntax and discourse in bilingual learning over the years of adolescence and early adulthood at school. Qualitative and quantitati
This Element provides readers with an overview of major approaches, concepts, and research on language teacher emotions (LTE) along with related pedagogical approaches. It begins by situating LTE within the context of the affective turn in language education. The discussion then moves through psycho-cognitive approaches, followed by critical perspectives on LTE, highlighting key concepts and research contributions within each framework. The Element next explores pedagogical approaches to LTE, of
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The 38th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-38) will be held from May 8鈥�10, 2026 at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., USA. Launched in 1989, the NACCL conference series has become a major academic platform for Chinese language and linguistics research in North America and beyond.
Conference Dates: May 8鈥�10, 2026
Location: Washington, D.C., USA
Website: https://eall.columbian.gwu.edu/naccl-38
Email: naccl-38@gwu.edu
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The Department of Linguistics at Montclair State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Linguistics, with a start date of August 2026. We seek a scholar whose work addresses real-world language challenges in educational, clinical, or communicative contexts, and is grounded in strong theoretical foundations. We welcome research areas such as language assessment, AI-assisted language learning, first and second language acquisition, speech
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INSTILS 鈥� the International Network for Skills Training in Intergenerational Language Sustainability 鈥� invites you to its inaugural conference on Discoveries and Insights in Skills Training in Intergenerational Language Sustainability (DISTILS-01).
A key element of intergenerational language sustainability is building capacity within communities to define and meet their own language goals. To support these aspirations, numerous programs and initiatives (including CoLang, ELD
The LIMES-Colloquium 2026 will take place from 11 March to 13 March 2026 at the Trier University.
LIMES is a conference for young researchers in the field of Romance linguistics and is primarily aimed at doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers and advanced Master's students.
Contributions from all subdisciplines of linguistics and on all Romance languages are welcome.
Presentations are limited to 20 minutes, followed by a ten-minute discussion.
Please send abstracts (max. 500 words,
The ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics is pleased to announce the Workshop on Mixed Projections and Associated Constructions (MixPAC), to be held in Budapest, Hungary, on 26 June 2026. The workshop seeks to foster fruitful dialogue between researchers through syntactic analyses of construction types involving mixed extended projections (in particular, constructions involving deverbal nouns, deverbal adjectives or deverbal adverbs), from a wide range of language families and analytical perspect