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Hello! My name is Theodor Brus and i am writing my bachelor thesis this spring at the department of linguistics at Stockholm University. I want to do a typological study of comparative correlative clauses. Sag (2010, p. 526) defines comparative correlative clauses as 鈥榤onotonic relations between two differentials鈥. However, there is often a causative function in one direction, the first element is the reason for the state of the second element. The following examples illustrate this point.
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My co-authors and I are seeking a publication venue for the 18,000-word manuscript from a large-scale study summarized below:
In the current experimental psycholinguistic study, English-language teacher candidates with German as first language were studied before, immediately after, and a while after being taught about pragmatic and semantic differences based on linguistic aspect. Depending on task and linguistic level, learning of imperfective aspect was apparent: pragmatic causal inferencing
ExLing 2024 Paris exhibition
Katia Starenka
exlingsociety.com
At Grammarly, our mission is to improve lives by improving communication. One of the key technologies driving our innovations are Large Language Models (LLMs). These advanced AI (Artificial Intelligence) systems are designed to understand, generate, and refine human language by processing extensive corpora and employing sophisticated algorithms. Our objective is to make communication assistance more intuitive, accurate, and contextua
For Spring 2025 semester (commences on February 2025), the Department of Languages and Literature at the University of Nicosia announces the opening of five (5) positions for admission to the 3-year full-time PhD programme in TESOL. More specifically, it is offered:
One (1) PhD position in TESOL with emphasis on speech acquisition. The PhD will be supervised by Dr Georgios (George) Georgiou. The student will have the opportunity to work under the Phonetic Lab, unic.ac.cy/phonetic-lab/. For more
The Graduate Program in Germanic Studies at The University of Texas at Austin invites applications for its Ph.D. program (deadline Jan. 3, 2025. Start: August 15, 2024). Before the application deadline, we invite you to find out more about graduate study by visiting Austin virtually to experience 鈥淕raduate School for a Day鈥 on October 28 and 29, 2024. The event will be held online via Zoom. During the event, participants will have the opportunity to sit in on graduate courses, meet with faculty
This volume explores the ways in which historical linguistics and language change interact with ideology. The chapters present twelve in-depth case studies that cover topics ranging from the location of the Indo-European homeland to language policy in the former Yugoslavia.
This book traces the development of Greek from Proto-Indo-European to around the 5th century BC, drawing on all the tools of scientific historical and comparative linguistics. It contributes to long-standing debates surrounding the classification of Ancient Greek dialects and discusses the tension between cladistics and contact phenomena.
This volume explores the ways in which historical linguistics and language change interact with ideology. The chapters present twelve in-depth case studies that cover topics ranging from the location of the Indo-European homeland to language policy in the former Yugoslavia.
This volume offers new perspectives on the tension between the rich patterns of language variation that emerge from comparative studies and the quest for simple theoretical primitives. The chapters analyze a wide range of phenomena, and relate them to fundamental questions of universality, linguistic variation, and learnability.
This volume showcases the most innovative current scholarship in historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and in the burgeoning field of historical sociolinguistics which lies at their intersection. The work is underpinned by a range of different approaches and highlights new directions for linguistic research on the French language.
This book deals with the category of case and where to place it in grammar. Chapters explore a range of issues relating to the division between syntactic Case and morphological case, investigating the relevant phenomena, and drawing on data from a variety of typologically diverse languages.
'The Victorians and English Dialect' tells the story of the Victorians' discovery of English dialect, and of the revaluation of local language that was brought about by the new, historical philology of the nineteenth century.
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Python Programming for Linguistics and Digital Humanities: Applications for Text-Focused Fields by Martin Weisser is an introduction to Python programming written with students of linguistics, digital humanities and social sciences in mind, that is for students with no background in computer science. The main purpose of the book is to introduce the basic concepts of programming and the programming language Python to those with no prior experience in programming in order to equip them wi
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The volume (356 pages) comprises 11 chapters, each presenting a distinct paper. The introduction 鈥 authored by the editor 鈥 provides a general overview of the volume. The book is divided into two parts: the first part (six chapters) focuses on face-to-face interactions, while the second part (five chapters) examines humor in public contexts (e.g., TV shows) and private mediated interactions (e.g., instant messaging apps).
The aim of the volume is to explore interactional humor 鈥 define
Call for Papers:
Modern Iranian Jewish Languages: Thematic Issue of the Journal of Jewish Languages
The Iranian language family has included many Jewish languages, such as Judeo-Persian, Juhuri (Judeo-Tat), Bukharian (Judeo-Tajik), Judeo-Shirazi, Judeo-Hamedani, Judeo-Yazdi, and Judeo-Kashani. While there has been much research on medieval Judeo-Persian writing, scholarship on contemporary spoken varieties is underrepresented (see reviews in Borjian 2014, 2015; Gindin 2003; Lazard 1968; Shalem
Call for Papers:
Abstracts are invited for oral and poster presentations from graduate/postgraduate students and research scholars (MPhil/PhD) working in the field of language and linguistics. We encourage presentations in the following (and related) areas:
- Phonetics and Phonology
- Morphology
- Syntax
- Semantics
- Pragmatics
- Sociolinguistics
- Psycholinguistics
- Historical Linguistics
- Typology
- Language documentation
- Computational Linguistics
- Cognitive Linguistics
- S
鈥榃onders of the World鈥 | The Journal of Languages, Texts, and Society Conference 2024
9.30鈥9.45* Welcome and introduction
Kat Rolfe & Qizhu Zhao | University of Nottingham
Conference organising team
9.45鈥10.45 Panel 1. Histories and Herstories
鈥樷淥ut On Their Geg鈥: Women, class and popular performance in Belfast鈥
Claire Murphy | Queen鈥檚 University Belfast
鈥楢n Ironic Representation of Women as 鈥淓difices of Nature鈥 in Mahapatara鈥檚 鈥淪ummer鈥 using Peter H眉hn鈥檚 Narratological Framework鈥
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Symposium About Language and Society, Austin (SALSA):
January 17-18, 2025
The University of Texas at Austin
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Erin Debenport, University of California Los Angeles
The Symposium About Language and Society, Austin (SALSA) is an annual conference that brings together scholars from around the world who study the social life of language. We are now accepting submissions for SALSA XXIX, which will take place January 17-18, 2025. The deadline for submissions is November 5, 2024.
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The Linguistics Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Linguistics, to begin in the Fall of 2025. We are seeking applicants who specialize in Hispanic Linguistics or Sociolinguistics, or a combination thereof (for example, a sociolinguist specializing in the Spanish-speaking world or languages in contact with Spanish).
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate an outstanding resea
The Department of Linguistics at Rice University in Houston, Texas is seeking applications for an assistant professor to begin July 1, 2025. The candidate should have research expertise in the areas of language and gender, language and ethnicity, sociolinguistics, and discourse analysis. Major factors for consideration will be a demonstrated excellence in teaching, as well as demonstrated active participation in research activities in the desired areas. Once hired, the scholar will maintain an