The last talks of the Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series 2026 will take place remotely on Monday 8th June 2026 at 5pm BST. We are delighted to host a special panel session on phylogenetics, featuring two back-to-back talks, followed by a joint Q&A session.
Artin Nasirpour (University of Georgia, USA) will open the panel and present on 鈥淢iddle Iranian Evidence and the 鈥楶roblem鈥� of East Iranian: A Comparative and Quantitative Reassessment鈥�.
Emma Kopp (Universit茅 Paris-Dauphine, Fr
The Department of Languages and Literature of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Nicosia invites you to a webinar held as part of the Master in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) programme. The webinar will take place on Monday, 8 June 2026, from 19:00-20:00 EEST.
Speaker
Dr Georgios P. Georgiou
Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Associate Head, Department of Languages and Literature
University of Nicosia
georgiou.georg@unic.ac.cy | htt
Starting with volume 23 (2026), Barbara de Cock (Universit茅 Catholique de Louvain) will succeed Rosina M谩rquez Reiter (The Open University) as Co-Editor of the John Benjamins journal Spanish in Context, joining Executive Editor Francisco Moreno-Fern谩ndez (Universidad de Alcal谩 & Heidelberg University) and Co-Editors Luc铆a Cantamutto (Universidad Nacional de R铆o Negro) & Andrew Lynch (University of Miami).
We are greatly indebted to Rosina M谩rquez Reiter who started the journal and under whos
Focus: Subtitles, cinema, cinema communication
Description:
Cinema, linguaggi, comunicazione 猫 la Summer School dell鈥橴niversit脿 degli Studi di Trieste dedicata al cinema come spazio di incontro tra linguaggi, pratiche comunicative e competenze professionali.
In programma dal 21 al 25 settembre 2026 a Trieste, la scuola propone 32 ore di lezioni, visite e laboratori pratici, con particolare attenzione ai linguaggi audiovisivi, alla comunicazione e alla sottotitolazione. Il percorso si conc
We are excited to invite everyone to join Dr. Ahmad Izadi's inspiring webinar on "Power in Healthcare Communication," part of the VIZJA series in Frontiers in Language Studies & Research.
This initiative is organised by VIZJA University and will be held online on June 11, 2026, at 10:00 AM.
Use the following link for registration:
https://form.jotform.com/261352711717050
Merlin's Syntax Studio is a free, browser-based syntax tree generator designed for linguists, syntax instructors, and students. It converts bracketed expressions into clean syntactic tree diagrams and supports commonly needed notation for phrase-structure trees, including multiline labels, visible and hidden movement indices, strikethrough traces/copies, italic text, outline text, Greek letters, triangle/roof notation, and customizable movement links.
The tool provides an interactive workspac
Join our online reading group to discuss hot-off-the-press publications in historical sociolinguistics with the authors!
The fourth session of "Reading with NARNiHS" is taking place on Monday, 29 June 2026, at 10:00 am US Eastern time / 4:00 pm European Central time and features Christine Wallis with her recent work in historical pragmatics, politeness, and identity work using intriguing material culture data from postal practices in 18th-century England.
Reading with NARNiHS is a vibrant
The functional domain of apprehensionality encompasses grammatical markers or constructions which conventionally encode or pragmatically implicate that the situation described by the clause is an undesirable possibility. Its main manifestations discussed in this volume are (i) apprehensives, which are modal markers which can occur in main clauses, and thus could serve to translate English might in Don't go near this dog, it might bite (but also add a component of undesirability), and (ii) precau
What do people mean when they talk about the sound pattern of a language鈥攚hat linguists call phonology? This book explores that question in a hands-on way, with a focus on applying the knowledge in language revitalization and community language work. The book introduces basic ideas and analytic strategies using examples from Indigenous languages across North and South America. Short comprehension checks invite you to test your understanding, and language explorations encourage you to apply what
Despite decades of scholarship on lexical borrowing in post-Conquest England, the vocabulary of the medieval countryside has remained largely outside the lens of contact linguistics 鈥� an oversight shaped by the long-standing assumption that French influence was confined to elite domains. At the same time, the multilingual reality of medieval England has made monolingual lexicography an increasingly inadequate tool: the Anglo-French, Medieval Latin, and Middle English lexicons of the period canno
2025. v, 207 pp.
Table of Contents
Obituary
In memoriam
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Introduction
The Nature of Modality: Werner Abraham鈥檚 Perspective
Ermenegildo Bidese & Manuela Caterina Moroni
pp.鈥�2鈥�9
Articles
From Needing to Wanting: Taking a Deep Dive into Abraham鈥檚 Modal Protosoup
Jakob Mach茅
pp.鈥�10鈥�50
Perspectival Mechanisms of Modality: Semantic Shifts of Modal Verb sollen (鈥榮hall鈥�) + inf. in German
Stefan Hinterwimmer & Sonja Zeman
pp.鈥�51鈥�79
Modality and Illocutionary Force:
This dissertation investigates how Mandarin Chinese encodes definiteness and indefiniteness in the absence of a dedicated article system. It addresses the 鈥渁lternation challenge,鈥� a tension between the functionalist observation that Mandarin bare nouns alternate with overt markers (numeral-yi and demonstratives) and the formal semantic generalization that Mandarin bare nouns do not require determiners to function as arguments. Adopting a data-driven translation corpus methodology based on Harry
Languages constantly change, especially when they are spoken across generations and in contact with other languages. One striking site of such change is Differential Object Marking (DOM), the phenomenon whereby only some direct objects are overtly marked, typically depending on properties such as animacy, definiteness, or discourse prominence. In Romance languages, DOM has a long and complex history, often realised through the preposition a. Yet little is known about how these systems evolve wh
Call for Papers:
One Experimental Day
June 18th 2026 | Online
Online Event on Experimental Linguistics
Hosted by Dr. Anastasia Gerasimova and Prof. Ekaterina Lyutikova
The program features three keynote talks and a Showcase Session for early-career researchers.
Invited Speakers:
Jennifer Culbertson (University of Edinburgh)
Ellen Lau (University of Maryland)
Jana Willer-Gold (University of Oxford)
Call for Showcase Presentations:
In addition to the keynote lectures, the pro
Call for Papers:
The International Linguistic Society is delighted to invite you to participate in the International Thematic Conference of Language Education Research and Applications, Language Education 2026, to be held online from 24-26 June 2026.
The primary aim of the conference is to advance key areas of language education, welcoming at the same time innovative approaches to related research and applications.
The Language Education 2026 conference envisions a vibrant platform for
Call for Papers:
"(In)transitivity and its Variation" workshop, founded by SLE Joint initiatives research grant 2026, will be held in Pozna艅 (Poland) on 28-29 September 2026. This workshop aims to explore the interplay of semantics, morphology, and syntax in encoding (in)transitivity, investigating the functional motivations underlying valency patterns across diverse language families.
We welcome contributions dealing with (but not restricted to) the following topics:
- Transitivity promi
SUMMARY
Comparing Linguistic Diachronies contains an introduction to, and a collection of papers based on, presentations at the 2022 and 2023 editions of the Comparing Diachronies workshops at the Language Variation and Change in Ancient and Medieval Europe鈥擟omparing Diachronies summer school held in Naxos, Greece. The volume seems to be intended for a general audience, that is, for anyone from readers with a passing interest in languages and linguistics to researchers whose agendas include a
Appel 脿 communications
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(1933-2025)
Cette deuxi猫me 茅dition de nos journ茅es, qui aura lieu le 17 novembre 2026 et qui sera consacr茅e au th猫me de la r茅ticence, se veut le prolongement et l鈥檃pprofondissement en 茅tudes m茅di茅vales, fran莽aises et romanes, du colloque pour jeunes chercheurs 芦 The unspoken and silence in language and literature 禄, qui s鈥檈st tenu en novembre 2025 脿 l鈥橴niversit茅 de Sofia. Or notre journ茅e s鈥檃dresse aussi bien aux jeunes chercheurs (茅
Call for Papers:
For centuries, linguistics focused on written language as 鈥渢he norm鈥�, and all features of language were studied based on written and often constructed artificial examples. Spoken corpora have enabled a shift in the way we view language, e.g. from a product-based to a process-based view on grammar, from an inherently-fluent view on communication to stipulating a fluency鈥揹isfluency continuum, from a verbally-centred communication to a multimodal construction of meaning.
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Appel 脿 communications
脌 la m茅moire de Bernard Dupriez
(1933-2025)
Cette deuxi猫me 茅dition de nos journ茅es, qui aura lieu le 17 novembre 2026 et qui sera consacr茅e au th猫me de la r茅ticence, se veut le prolongement et l鈥檃pprofondissement en 茅tudes m茅di茅vales, fran莽aises et romanes, du colloque pour jeunes chercheurs 芦 The unspoken and silence in language and literature 禄, qui s鈥檈st tenu en novembre 2025 脿 l鈥橴niversit茅 de Sofia. Or notre journ茅e s鈥檃dresse aussi bien aux jeunes chercheurs (茅