2nd Call for Papers:
The CfP for the conference on modality in Germanic and in contrast (Paris, June 5-6, 2025) has been extend to December 15th, 2024.
Talks will last 20 to 25 minutes and will be followed by a discussion. Abstracts should be between 1 and 2 pages long and should be sent to pierre-yves.modicom (at) univ-lyon3.fr and olivier-duplatre (at) wanadoo.fr
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The informal International Working Group Modalit盲t im Deutschen was founded in 1992. Eleven meetings have been held since the
Final Call for Papers:
Meeting URL: https://eventos.ucm.es/119522/detail/cultural-linguistis-internacional-conference-2025-clic-25.html
At the 5th Cultural Linguistics International Conference (CLIC 2025), we will explore various levels of analysis from diverse perspectives aligned with the social and cultural approach. The conference is not restricted to any particular school or model, offering a broad perspective on language and culture.
Keynote Speakers:
Iraide Ibarretxe-Antu帽ano (Universi
Call for Papers:
Nuevo plazo de presentaci贸n de propuestas: hasta el 15 de diciembre de 2024.
Conferenciantes plenarios:
鈥� Johannes Kabatek, Catedr谩tico de ling眉铆stica iberorrom谩nica y ling眉铆stica rom谩nica comparada en la Universidad de Z煤rich (Suiza).
鈥� Richard Bueno Hudson, Director del Instituto Cervantes de Lisboa (Portugal).
鈥� Silke Jansen, Catedr谩tica de ling眉铆stica rom谩nica en la Universidad de Erlangen-N煤remberg (Alemania).
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"J. David Sapir, a cultural and linguistic anthropologist, West Africanist, and scholar of folklore and ethnographic photography, died August 31, 2024, at the age of 91. He was the son of Jean McClenaghan, a psychiatric social worker, and Edward Sapir."
Read the full In Memoriam here:
https://www.anthropology-news.org/articles/j-david-sapir/
As a result of the identification of a new language belonging to the Tyrrhenian language family, Rhaetic, in the last 30 years and the focus on the three languages of this language family in several publications, a renewed interest in the relationships between the peoples of central and northern Italy and the northern Aegean has arisen and been analysed anew. In this anthology, authors from various disciplines present their views on the Tyrrhenian question: Linguistics, palaeoanthropology, archa
A significant body of literature has explored information structure, examining how speakers shape content to suit communicative needs, including participants鈥� mental states. The utterance right periphery is a critical point in this process, allowing speakers to (re)evaluate utterance appropriateness before reception. In Mandarin, a topic-prominent language, these elements are pivotal in organizing discourse and facilitating effective communication.
This volume extensively explores information s
Within the list of approx. 180 selected basic meanings such as 鈥榖lack鈥�, 鈥榟and鈥�, 鈥榬ain鈥� etc, a lexical database of approx. 45 Indo-Iranian languages, including such rarely accessed ones as Dardic and Nuristani, is prepared. By applying the methods of historical linguistics, this lexical database allows answering the following questions.
1. Internal classification of Indo-Iranian languages using quantitative methods. This includes the following topics. 1.1. New subgroup of Indo-Iranian lang
This is a new descriptive grammar of Sikuani, a language of the Guahibo family spoken in the mid Orinoco grasslands of Colombia and the jungle-covered ridges of Venezuela. The book, written in English, condenses down to one third a two-volume 950-page grammar published in French between 1998 and 2000. The analyses sometimes diverge from the previous version given that in the meantime the author's understanding of languages and linguistics has in someway changed - hopefully for better. Ten chapte
Tandis que, d'apr猫s l'opinion g茅n茅rale, la ville d'Akn fut fond茅es pas les ministres du roi S茅nkh茅rim Arerun铆 en 1021, et que les Akinois sont originaires de Van, le parler d''Akn est tres different de celui de Van. Une autre opinion que d'ailleurs je partage et qui est bas茅e sur une tradition populaire, admet que la ville d'Akn fut fond茅e imm茅diatement apr猫s laruine d'Ani, la capitale des Bagratides, par des emigrants qui venaient d'Ani. Comme on n'a pas encore 茅tudi茅 toutes les diff茅ren
The collective work entitled Multilingual Education in Cameroon : Planning and Ways for the Teaching of National Languages looks at the unique linguistic diversity of Cameroon, a country with around 250 national languages in addition to French and English, its official languages. The contributors to this book endeavour to strengthen the conceptualisation of didactic and pedagogical practices relating to national languages, by highlighting their fundamental role in the development of learners鈥� s
Der vorliegende Band enth盲lt Paul Trosts unpublizierte Dissertation von 1934 zum indogermanischen Worttabu. Bereits diese fr眉he Arbeit zeichnet sich durch diejenigen Z眉ge aus, die typisch f眉r Trosts Werk waren: thematische Breite, gedankliche Tiefe, gedr盲ngte Darbietung. Zur Dissertation gesellen sich mehrere kleinere fr眉her bereits publizierte Texte, in denen einige Aspekte des Themas n盲her ausgef眉hrt werden.
Inhalt: Indogermanisches Worttabu (A. Der Sinn der Frage. B. Das Worttabu. C. Das Tabu
DiscoMatiX is rounding off its Autumn series with Irene Mognon and Petra Hendriks in conversation, on the topic "Reconciling Scalar Implicature Theories with Processing Data" (abstract below). The meeting takes place online via Zoom, on Tuesday 10th December, 16:00-16:50 CET. All are welcome to join!
To join the session, please send an email to discomatix.group@gmail.com to receive the Zoom link.
Like other disciplines, linguistics relies on theory development as a vital component of its empir
The Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) network (https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/home) invites you to a talk by Elin McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University) and Christopher Davis (University of the Ryukyus) entitled "The Invocational Impact of Slurs". The talk will take place online on DECEMBER 9, 14:30-16:00 Central European Time (CET) and is part of the of STAL network seminar series (https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/seminar). If you want to participate, please write to staln
Dear LAN Members,
The Language Attrition Network invites you to our next session on the 18th of December at 4pm CET (3pm UK time) on Microsoft Teams.
If you are not yet on the mailing list, please send us an e-mail to attrition.network@gmail.com
Parastoo Kouhestani (University of Troms酶, Norway) will be discussing her study (see abstract below) entitled 鈥淭he Role of Linguistic Distance in First Language Attrition鈥�
Abstract: This project examines a group of Persian-English bilinguals residing
La prochaine s茅ance du cycle de conf茅rences organis茅 par le Germanop么le lorrain, Axe scientifique 1 de la MSH Lorraine (鈥楻echerches linguistiques sur le genre : perspectives crois茅es Allemagne 鈥� France 鈥� Luxembourg鈥�), se tiendra le lundi 16 d茅cembre 2024 de 16h30 脿 18h30 脿 la MSH Lorraine 脿 Nancy (23-25 rue Baron Louis - France) et pourra 锚tre suivie 脿 distance sur Teams (inscription ci-dessous).
Die n盲chste Sitzung der vom Germanop么le lorrain organisierten Vortragsreihe findet statt am Montag,
The American Philosophical Society's Library & Museum in Philadelphia invites applications for short-term residential research fellowships. These funding opportunities provide 1- to 3- months of support for researchers in residence and are open to scholars in all fields who show a demonstrated need to use the Library & Museum鈥檚 collections for their project. Approximately 25-30 short-term fellowships are awarded each year.
Deadline: March 3, 2025. Notifications will be sent in May 2025.
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The Department of Linguistics at the University of Alberta, established in 1969, offers MSc and PhD positions for prospective graduate students interested in learning and conducting research with our vibrant team of faculty members, graduate students, and other academics in state-of-the-art research facilities.
*The application deadline is January 15, 2025*.
The Department has a long-standing focus on community-engaged work with Indigenous languages and their sustainability and revitalization.
Final Call for Papers:
DEADLINE EXTENSION
The deadline for submitting abstracts for the 11th conference on Pluricentric Languages and their Non-Dominant Varieties has been extended to 15 December 2024.
For more information, including confirmed invited speakers, visit our website at https://www.uc.pt/celga-iltec/pcl2025/.
We look forward to seeing you in Lisbon!
2nd Call for Papers:
We are happy to announce that The English Linguistic Society of Japan 18th Spring Forum is to be held as described below. All presentations and discussions will be conducted in English. All abstracts must be written in English.
Forum Dates: Saturday May 17 鈥� Sunday May 18, 2025
Location: Seijo University, Tokyo
6-1-20 Seijo, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo-to, 157-8511, Japan
Contact: forum-elsj@kaitakusha.co.jp
We invite abstracts for (A) oral presentations (each a 20-minute talk plu
Seminario internazionale di Studi linguistici di genere. Spagna e Italia