The Syntax-Semantics Group will hold its final meeting of 2025 on Tuesday, December 2, at 3-4pm in Room 117 of the 9I制作厂免费 linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/bQ4IXlJxTTShVcMHOosNtQ David Avellan-Hultman (9I制作厂免费) will be presenting 鈥淩evisiting finite ha-omission in Swedish.鈥� Here is the abstract: In this talk, I revisit the observation that the Swedish perfect […]
The newest issue of the journal 鈥淟anguage in Africa鈥� (6(1) 2025) is available online on the website of the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian academy of Sciences: https://iling-ran.ru/web/ru/publications/journals/languageinafrica/6-1
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Le systeme aspectuo-temporel 脿 valeur deictique en Kirundi
Epimaque Nshimirimana, Pascal Tuyubahe, Constantin Ntiranyibagira
pp. 3-31.
Portrayal of men in Swahili proverbs
Kithaka wa Mberia, Doreen Banja
pp. 32-59
Swahili rid
This book is the first to explore the properties of words across languages that correspond to English 'other'. When can Italian altro mean 鈥榙ifferent鈥� or 鈥榓dditional鈥�? And why do these meanings often lexicalize together? How can we explain that cross-linguistically, such words may also mean 鈥榮econd鈥� or 鈥榬emainder鈥�? This book brings together data from multiple language families including Eskaleut, Finno-Ugric, Germanic, and Romance, to address these questions. It presents analytic, typological, c
Part 2 of the Festschrift dedicated to William H. Nienhauser presents a collection of twelve academic papers that delve into the realms of poetry, fiction, and anecdotal writing from the Tang dynasty onwards. Readers will immerse themselves in the linguistic and literary intricacies of some of the most famous pieces of Tang era poetry, learn to see the city of Beijing through the eyes of a Portuguese explorer of the 16th century, dissect late pictorial depictions of Confucius in classroom settin
Part 1 of the Festschrift honoring William H. Nienhauser invites readers to explore the fascinating world of ancient Chinese texts through a scholarly lens. The collected articles investigate how already in early times, formerly lost texts were recovered, studied, and edited in order to produce the literature now accessible to us. They analyze how ancient poems inscribed on newly unearthed bamboo slips can be dated according to their rhyme structure and linguistic nuances. And readers will furth
Focus: Cross-linguistic view of Negation, Language Acquisition, Computational and Psycholinguistic perspectives on negation, syntax and semantics of negation.
Description:
Negation is a universal phenomenon found across languages, allowing speakers of natural languages to deny, contradict, or reverse the truth proposition. It manifests in varied ways cross-linguistically, and has been studied extensively in the linguistics literature. Despite its apparent simplicity, the phenomenon of nega
I am looking for native (L1) European Portuguese speakers (18+; can be bilingual), with no auditory impairments, for a study on how people perceive different job candidates based on a short voice recording. The study can be done on a computer/laptop and will take around 20 minutes. It will be open until the 1st of March 2026. After that, I will be doing a gift card raffle of 18 digital gift cards (5鈧� each) from Decathlon and earbuds from House of Marley. The winners will be contacted on the 6th
Other Specialties: Linguistics and Multilingual Studies
Description:
Associate / Full Professor of Linguistics,
NTU Singapore
The School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore, invites applications for聽three faculty appointments聽at the rank of聽Associate Professor or Professor (with tenure) in Linguistics and Multilingual Studies,聽with preference聽in Computational Linguistics / Natural Language Processing, Psycholinguistics, and Language Typology.
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Final Call for Papers:
Extended submission deadline: December 8, 2025
Please also note the new dates of the conference!
The 22nd International Morphology Meeting had to be rescheduled to June 18-21, 2026.
Convenors:
Sabine Arndt-Lappe (Trier)
Barbara Schl眉cker (FU Berlin)
Complex words are produced, understood, and also coined in context, and a by now large, but diverse body of literature has explored different facets of the role of context. By 鈥榗ontext鈥� we mean the linguistic con
We invite submissions for 50-minute presentations, 20-minute presentations, and poster presentations.
We are particularly interested in presentations that explore:
- Innovative classroom linguistic techniques that promote active participation and collaboration
- Linguistic strategies for engaging students both inside and outside the classroom
- Methods for fostering meaningful student鈥搕eacher and student鈥搒tudent interaction
- Practical applications of linguistics, technology, games, o
Description:
The second edition of the DM meets Nano workshop, to be held at the Masaryk University (Brno) on July 7-9, 2026, aims to bring together researchers working within Distributed Morphology and Nanosyntax, inviting them to share recent developments and findings in their respective frameworks and/or to examine (key) phenomena from a comparative perspective, highlighting both the similarities and differences between the two approaches. This way, the conference wants to encourage dialogue
We invite submissions for 50-minute presentations, 20-minute presentations, and poster presentations.
We are particularly interested in presentations that explore:
- Innovative classroom linguistic techniques that promote active participation and collaboration
- Linguistic strategies for engaging students both inside and outside the classroom
- Methods for fostering meaningful student鈥搕eacher and student鈥搒tudent interaction
- Practical applications of linguistics, technology, games, o
Description:
The second edition of the DM meets Nano workshop, to be held at the Masaryk University (Brno) on July 7-9, 2026, aims to bring together researchers working within Distributed Morphology and Nanosyntax, inviting them to share recent developments and findings in their respective frameworks and/or to examine (key) phenomena from a comparative perspective, highlighting both the similarities and differences between the two approaches. This way, the conference wants to encourage dialogue
Theme Session Title: "Between Entrenchment and Imagination: Cognitive, Crosslinguistic, Corpus-Based, and Multimodal Perspectives on Idioms, Creativity, and Figurativity"
Idioms occupy a unique position at the intersection of figurative thought, linguistic structure, and creative language use. With their relatively inflexible forms and conceptually dense meanings, idioms often invite local adaptations, humorous reinterpretations, multimodal elaborations, and other innovative uses in discourse
Call for participation:
SemEval-2026 Task 13: Detecting Machine-Generated Code
We announce an exciting and challenging new SemEval task!
With the rapid growth of large language models for code generation, it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between code written by humans and code produced by AI systems. This raises serious concerns for academic integrity, hiring evaluations, and software security.
To address this, we are introducing SemEval-2026 Task 13: Detecting Machin
Theme Session Title: "Between Entrenchment and Imagination: Cognitive, Crosslinguistic, Corpus-Based, and Multimodal Perspectives on Idioms, Creativity, and Figurativity"
Idioms occupy a unique position at the intersection of figurative thought, linguistic structure, and creative language use. With their relatively inflexible forms and conceptually dense meanings, idioms often invite local adaptations, humorous reinterpretations, multimodal elaborations, and other innovative uses in discourse
Call for participation:
SemEval-2026 Task 13: Detecting Machine-Generated Code
We announce an exciting and challenging new SemEval task!
With the rapid growth of large language models for code generation, it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between code written by humans and code produced by AI systems. This raises serious concerns for academic integrity, hiring evaluations, and software security.
To address this, we are introducing SemEval-2026 Task 13: Detecting Machin
Final Call for Papers:
By repeated request and popular demand, the Organizing Committee of the Conference of Methods in Dialectology and Language Diversity XIX (4-7 Aug. 2026 at qewem, UBC, Vancouver) is pleased to announce THE EXTENSION of its PAPER and POSTER deadline from 30 November to 7 December 2025, 11:59 pm PT.
Methods XIX website and Call for papers/posters details: thttps://methodsxix.ubc.ca
The workshop deadline closed on 31 October. Six workshops were accepted (see below):
2nd Call for Papers:
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,
Final Call for Papers:
The deadline for contributions to the workshop on AI in language evolution will be extended to December 7.
This workshop, on artificial intelligence methods, will be organized in conjunction with the Evolang 2026 conference in Plovdiv, held from April 7-10, 2026. We invite two-page abstracts in the Evolang format about recent and ongoing work on language evolution that employs AI techniques in any form - be it for agent-based modeling, data analysis, computational li