Applicative constructions are a distinctive grammatical feature of the Austronesian languages of western Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei. Applicatives in these languages show varied syntactic and semantic properties, and are closely connected to causativization, aspectual meanings, and symmetrical voice. As a result, they do not fit neatly into 'canonincal' patterns for applicatives. This book adopts a construction-based, typologically-grounded approach, treating applicatives as pairi
This work examines Noam Chomsky's widely accepted ontological assumptions, now referred to as 鈥渂iolinguistics鈥濃�攁nd demonstrates that they are internally inconsistent. Notably, it is shown that Chomsky himself has at least once admitted this flaw.
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The 34th edition of the Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE) will take place on January 28-30, 2025, at IUSS Pavia (Italy).
ConSOLE is an annual conference for graduate (Master, PhD) and advanced undergraduate (Bachelor) students of Linguistics. It aims to provide students worldwide with the opportunity to present their research to an international audience. More information about SOLE (Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe), previous conferences,
The 34th edition of the Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE) will take place on January 28-30, 2025, at IUSS Pavia (Italy).
ConSOLE is an annual conference for graduate (Master, PhD) and advanced undergraduate (Bachelor) students of Linguistics. It aims to provide students worldwide with the opportunity to present their research to an international audience. More information about SOLE (Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe), previous conferences,
We are pleased to announce AI Meets Language: International Seminar on Applied Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence, a free hybrid event bringing together leading scholars to explore how AI is transforming language analysis.
Hybrid event: Online and Aula Magna, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of C贸rdoba (Spain)
Format: Keynotes, workshops, and roundtables
Highlights:
- Plenary talks by Laurence Anthony, Pascual P茅rez-Paredes & Alfonso Ure帽a on computational linguistics a
The 34th edition of the Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE) will take place on January 28-30, 2025, at IUSS Pavia (Italy).
ConSOLE is an annual conference for graduate (Master, PhD) and advanced undergraduate (Bachelor) students of Linguistics. It aims to provide students worldwide with the opportunity to present their research to an international audience. More information about SOLE (Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe), previous conferences,
The 34th edition of the Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE) will take place on January 28-30, 2025, at IUSS Pavia (Italy).
ConSOLE is an annual conference for graduate (Master, PhD) and advanced undergraduate (Bachelor) students of Linguistics. It aims to provide students worldwide with the opportunity to present their research to an international audience. More information about SOLE (Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe), previous conferences,
In a world characterised by the presence of multiple, simultaneous and overlapping crises, language and communication have an increasingly important role. For example, in the context of large-scale, societal crises, effective communication during and about a crisis keeps people calm and informed by carefully controlling the flow of information, and by providing guidelines and directions that are understood and accepted by all segments of the populace. Similarly, during organisational, political
On Saturday, September 27, 2025, following the main AMP session held on September 25-26, 2025, there will be a special session on "Deep Phonology: Doing phonology with deep learning" held on the UC Berkeley campus.
Phonology has been modeled using rules, constraints, finite state machines, exemplars, and many other approaches. Recent advances in deep learning have prompted researchers to explore how deep neural architectures (e.g., seq2seq models, transformers, RNNs, LSTMs, VAEs, GANs) can sh
LANSI brings together scholars and students working on naturally-occurring data within the broad area of language and social interaction. In keeping with the LANSI spirit of diversity and dialog, we welcome abstracts from colleagues working on a variety of topics using discourse analytic approaches that include but are not limited to conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and critical discourse analysis.
Full program can be found on our website: https:
In a world characterised by the presence of multiple, simultaneous and overlapping crises, language and communication have an increasingly important role. For example, in the context of large-scale, societal crises, effective communication during and about a crisis keeps people calm and informed by carefully controlling the flow of information, and by providing guidelines and directions that are understood and accepted by all segments of the populace. Similarly, during organisational, political
On Saturday, September 27, 2025, following the main AMP session held on September 25-26, 2025, there will be a special session on "Deep Phonology: Doing phonology with deep learning" held on the UC Berkeley campus.
Phonology has been modeled using rules, constraints, finite state machines, exemplars, and many other approaches. Recent advances in deep learning have prompted researchers to explore how deep neural architectures (e.g., seq2seq models, transformers, RNNs, LSTMs, VAEs, GANs) can sh
LANSI brings together scholars and students working on naturally-occurring data within the broad area of language and social interaction. In keeping with the LANSI spirit of diversity and dialog, we welcome abstracts from colleagues working on a variety of topics using discourse analytic approaches that include but are not limited to conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and critical discourse analysis.
Full program can be found on our website: https:
Academic communication is configured as a heterogeneous space, in which different functions coexist: from the specialised dialogue between peers, to the formative knowledge construction between teachers and students, up to the divulgative mediation addressed at non-expert interlocutors. Whatever the disciplinary field, academic communication is essentially based on the use of language, in its oral and written forms, to convey and develop concepts and knowledge.
The idea for this conference or
The AI in Computational Linguistics (ACLing) conference serves as a premier international platform for the dissemination of cutting-edge research at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and natural language processing (NLP). In light of rapid advancements in neural networks and large language models, the conference aims to foster scholarly exchange and collaboration among leading academics, researchers, and industry professionals engaged in the development and
Academic communication is configured as a heterogeneous space, in which different functions coexist: from the specialised dialogue between peers, to the formative knowledge construction between teachers and students, up to the divulgative mediation addressed at non-expert interlocutors. Whatever the disciplinary field, academic communication is essentially based on the use of language, in its oral and written forms, to convey and develop concepts and knowledge.
The idea for this conference or
The AI in Computational Linguistics (ACLing) conference serves as a premier international platform for the dissemination of cutting-edge research at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and natural language processing (NLP). In light of rapid advancements in neural networks and large language models, the conference aims to foster scholarly exchange and collaboration among leading academics, researchers, and industry professionals engaged in the development and
Call for Papers:
The question of how humans process social information is one of the biggest topics in cognitive science. This workshop addresses the topic from the perspective of linguistics and aims at breaking new ground by bringing together the two very different perspectives of sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology on the one hand and formal syntax and semantics on the other hand.
Confirmed Speakers:
Elin McCready (ICREA/Universitat Aut貌noma de Barcelona)
Emma Moore (Universi
14th International Conference of Construction Grammar will be held at Princeton University, NJ, US. The conference invites submissions of 500 word abstracts (due Dec 1st 2025).
Invited Speakers:
- Corrine Occhino
- Dagmar Divjak
- Idan Blank
- Randy Allen Harris
- Gary Lupyan
- Laura Michaelis
- Kanishka Misra
Information about student travel awards, accommodations, coming soon!
Scientific committee: Hans Boas, Mirjam Fried, Adele Goldberg (chair), Shahar Shirtz