https://linguistlist.org Latest Most Recent Issues en-us Copyright 2008-2026 The LINGUIST List linguist@linguistlist.org linguist@linguistlist.org https://backend.userland.com/rss May 25, 2026, 10:30 a.m. 60 https://linguistlist.org/static/img/lllogo-large.png https://linguistlist.org https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1881/ https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1881/ 2026-05-25T10:05:02.597099-04:00 The VI International Postgraduate Seminar in English Literature and Linguistics (IPSELL) organised by the Master’s in English Literature and Linguistics of the University of Granada aims to provide a forum where postgraduate students/researchers can present the results of their current research projects (preferably MA dissertation or early PhD work). This event intends to allow master’s and early career research students to share their research interests with national and international young sch https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1880/ https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1880/ 2026-05-25T10:05:02.543136-04:00 Call for Papers: The Department of English Philology at the University of Zielona Góra is pleased to announce a scientific conference celebrating the 20th anniversary of English philology at the University of Zielona Góra. The conference "Contemporary Perspectives on Language and Literatures in English" aims to bring together young and established scholars giving them a venue for reexamining the focus, content, boundaries and interconnections between disciplines within the broad area of https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1879/ https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1879/ 2026-05-25T10:05:02.383107-04:00 Call for Papers: This is the final call for abstracts for Linguistic Evidence 2026. The deadline for abstract submission has been extended to 8 June, 2026. Linguistic Evidence will take place from 15-16 October 2026 at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language Mannheim, Germany. Linguistic Evidence is a biennial conference series founded in 2004 at the University of Tübingen (https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/core-research/collaborative-research-centers/crc-833/linguistic-eviden https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1878/ https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1878/ 2026-05-23T18:05:02.110006-04:00 SUMMARY The Bantu languages, a family of approximately 500 living languages (Hammarström 2019:17), are a kaleidoscope of grammatical contrasts. Consider the contrasting examples below, where (a) is from Sambaa and (b) from Swahili (capitalisation highlights verbal object markers): a) Sambaa: n-za-ha-CHI-M-nka Stella kitabu haja 'I gave Stella a book there' (Riedel 2009:60) b) Swahili: ni-me-M-pa Juma vitabu vyote vitatu pale 'I have given Juma all three books there' (Riedel 2009:62) https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1877/ https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1877/ 2026-05-22T18:05:02.297161-04:00 SUMMARY This book focuses on second language pragmatics, specifically targeting young learners. It brings together nine studies that examine two dimensions: young learners’ pragmatic production, perception, and development, as well as materials and pedagogical considerations. The volume opens with an introductory chapter in which the authors highlight the importance of childhood in second language pragmatics and provide a brief overview of each part of the book. The first part, entitled Yo https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1876/ https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1876/ 2026-05-22T15:05:02.719478-04:00 SUMMARY Published in July 2025 by LINCOM GmbH, ФРАГМЕНТЫ ТАЛЫШСКОЙ РЕЧИ I (English: Fragments of Talysh Dialect I) is a substantial 590-page volume compiled and edited by Talysh researcher Igbal Abilov. Serving as the inaugural publication of the Bibliotheca Talyshica series—an initiative of the Talysh National Academy based in Riga—the book undertakes what its editor describes as an act of "scientific repatriation": the recovery and scholarly presentation of culturally significant materials https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1875/ https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1875/ 2026-05-22T12:05:02.024970-04:00 Join us for this public lecture where Prof. Jo Angouri (University of Warwick) talks about language use in high-risk professional settings. The event will take place in the Arts Two lecture theatre at Queen Mary University of London, from 4:30 pm on Friday the 29th of May. The lecture is two hours and will be followed by a drinks reception. Please sign up using the link below. Free Ticket Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-sociolinguistics-of-work-and-health-from-the-margins-to-the-main https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1874/ https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1874/ 2026-05-22T12:05:01.970932-04:00 This thesis investigates Norwegian language learning experiences and professional trajectories of highly educated Indonesians in Norway. Drawing on both sociolinguistic and second language acquisition theories, it examines language learning, employment, and social inclusion of both longterm and newly arrived migrants from different perspectives. The study is based on data collected through multiple methods: an online questionnaire, semi-structured interviews, language diaries, focus group discus https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1873/ https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1873/ 2026-05-22T12:05:01.784049-04:00 The Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) network (https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/home), an international and interdisciplinary network whose primary aim is to promote work on slurs, pejoratives, expressives and evaluative terms from less studied languages, invites you to the ninth and last talk of the 2025-2026 academic year. The invited speaker is Mingya Liu (Humboldt University of Berlin), who will give a talk entitled "Expressive Classifiers in Mandarin Chinese" (see the abstract https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1872/ https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1872/ 2026-05-22T09:05:01.982084-04:00 PhD in language and cognition with focus on psycholinguistics and corpus linguistics Supervisor: Prof. Louise Connell, Department of Psychology, Maynooth University, Ireland Application deadline: 01 July 2026 Full info and application details: https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/sites/default/files/assets/document/MU%20Doctoral%20Scholarship%20Department%20of%20Psychology%20LC_0_0.pdf This Maynooth University Doctoral Scholarship Award is fully funded for four years, commencing Septemb https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1871/ https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1871/ 2026-05-22T08:05:02.928831-04:00 We are happy to announce the 6th International Conference on Discourse, Culture & Interaction that provides a forum for researchers in the areas of Pragmatics, (Applied) Linguistics, Discourse Studies among others to share their research. We welcome submissions from established scholars as well as early career researchers – including Honours, MA and PhD researchers. Keynote speaker: Assoc. Prof Lili Gong (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China) Abstracts are invited for papers on a https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1870/ https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1870/ 2026-05-22T08:05:02.865233-04:00 This workshop explores Long Distance Agreement (LDA) phenomena, focusing on how agreement mechanisms go beyond local domains. We aim at discussing the implications of their findings for syntactic theory, particularly regarding locality conditions, the interaction of movement with agreement, the potential overlap (or lack thereof) of Case and agreement domains, and, more generally, the variation landscape that we may expect when we compare languages differing in dependent types (infinitives, no https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1869/ https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1869/ 2026-05-22T08:05:02.734875-04:00 Workshop on Aspect and Argument Structure of Adverbs/Adjectives and Prepositions/Participles (WAASAP 7) 18-19 June 2026, UMR 7023 - SFL (CNRS & Université Paris 8) WAASAP 7 will be hosted by the research lab UMR 7023 - SFL (CNRS & Université Paris 8) on 18-19 June 2026. Hybrid: UAR Pouchet, 59 rue Pouchet, 75017 Paris https://www.pouchet.cnrs.fr/acces/ et par visio-conférence / and video conference visio.numerique.gouv.fr/frj-eowj-qpt (accessible de votre navigateur Google Chrome ou Fi https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1868/ https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1868/ 2026-05-22T07:05:02.160623-04:00 Silence has crossed disciplines, historical periods, and forms of expression, taking on different meanings and functions. It may appear as emptiness, pause, interruption, or absence; yet at the same time, it can constitute a form of latent presence — a trace of what has been removed, censored, or rendered invisible. Silence may also represent a site of resistance and possibility: from being an instrument of control to becoming an effect of individual or collective trauma that resists verbalis https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1867/ https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1867/ 2026-05-22T07:05:02.105001-04:00 The Collaborative Research Center 1629 “Negation in Language and Beyond” (NegLaB) at the Universities of Frankfurt, Tübingen and Göttingen invites linguists and psychologists to submit papers to the 3rd NegLaB Workshop (NegLaB III) to be held at the University of Frankfurt on the 1st and 2nd of December 2026. The NegLaB III Workshop aims to advance our understanding of how the expression of negation is cross-linguistically associated with grammatical and non-linguistic cognitive operations an https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1866/ https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1866/ 2026-05-22T07:05:01.913184-04:00 Call for Papers: We are pleased to invite you to participate in the interdisciplinary conference Health Communication and Behaviour Change in the Evolving Digital Landscape: Language, Discourse and Interaction (https://warwick.ac.uk/research/spotlights/health/news-events/healthcomm/), which will take place at the University of Warwick during 9am-5:30pm on Thursday 16 July 2026 (BST). The event is funded by Warwick's Interdisciplinary Research Spotlight (Health). With a strong focus on la https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1865/ https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1865/ 2026-05-22T06:05:02.915076-04:00 Esperanto – 140 years: this is no longer a project 9–11 June 2027, Campus Condorcet, Paris Organised by Sébastien Moret (UNIL-SHESL) and Pascal Dubourg Glatigny (Centre Alexandre Koyré, CNRS-EHESS-MNHN) https://shesl.org/en/2027-esperanto-2/ In 1887, Lazare Louis Zamenhof launched from Warsaw his project for an international language through a series of brochures—published in Russian, Polish, French, and German—that outlined the linguistic and intellectual principles of a future “internati https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1864/ https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1864/ 2026-05-22T06:05:02.806258-04:00 Identity is not something we have, it is something we do. It emerges in discourse, takes shape through interaction and becomes legible through the semiotic resources we bring into play across contexts. From everyday conversation to institutional communication, from digital platforms to embodied practices, identity is continuously performed, negotiated and contested. In contemporary societies marked by mobility, digital mediation and ecological crisis, identity is increasingly fluid, relationa https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1863/ https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1863/ 2026-05-22T06:05:02.656587-04:00 The conference “Shape – in Language and Cognition” brings together international researchers to examine the role of shape in visual perception, conceptual development, and linguistic structure. This event marks the launch of the ERC-funded SHAPE project (ERC SynergyGrant – ID 101167183). June 8–9, 2026 Auditorium Georges Dumézil, INALCO, Paris Free access | Online participation available: https://zoom.us/j/98346033268 | Passcode: 024336 Shape is a prominent feature of the visual worl https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1862/ https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/1862/ 2026-05-21T15:05:02.874844-04:00 Focus: The program is organized around five key themes in the field: - Psychology of reasoning (May, 27-28) - Linguistics (May, 29) - Logic (June, 2-3) - Cognitive architectures (June, 4) - Computer science and artificial intelligence (June, 8, 9 and 10) Description: 9 school days spread over 3 weeks: May,27 to June,10 2026 Our summer school aims to present research in several major areas of contemporary research on knowledge, reasoning, and decision-making, adopting a resolutely int