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If you were to travel to Japan, you would likely hear 'giving' and 'receiving' verbs in conversations quite frequently. In Japanese, giving and receiving verbs are not only used to describe an object being transferred, but also metaphorically, for example to describe giving/receiving a favor or involvement in an event. Giving and receiving verbs in all of these situations are known as benefactive constructions. Role and Reference Grammar analysis allows us to analyze which structures of benefac
In languages like Latin, participles can express future actions as well as present and past ones. English, however, lacks a dedicated future tense participle. This paper examines how certain English constructions function similarly to future tense participles, particularly in expressing actions occurring in the future and the sequence between them. We propose that "after" + verb-ing, "upon" + verb-ing, and "with" + noun + verb-ing constructions can be used as counterparts to future tense partici
Hello, I'm Naoki Kawaguchi, an English teacher belonging to Daiichi Institute of Technology (Kagoshima, Japan).
I am wanting for native English speakers to enter the following Google Form URL to
answer the questions there.
To exhaust various possibilities, there are approximately 20 Qs there, so I would like to express my
sincere gratitude in advance.
The questionnaire is concerning usage of prepositions: between and among!
Thanks,
Naoki Kawaguchi
https://forms.gle/ynkVjZMehrN6rCZD7
Call for Papers:
We are inviting submissions for 15-minute oral presentations or posters. Please submit an anonymous 500-word abstract as a pdf file to asya.achimova@uni-tuebingen.de by November 10, 2024. Please indicate in your submission the preferred presentation format.
Notification of acceptance: December 10, 2024
Call for Papers:
Languages spoken at the conference: French and English
Submission procedures:
Your proposal must not exceed 2000 words (excluding bibliography) and must be submitted on the symposium website (see 鈥淢y Submissions鈥 tab): https://possession.sciencesconf.org/
Provisional timetable:
- 1st call: September 23, 2024
- deadline for receipt of proposals: January 12, 2025
- notification of authors: end of June 2025
- programme & registration: September 2025
- Conference: December 3, 4 a
We warmly invite you to submit your research papers by 1 November 2024.
Selected topics include, among others:
鈥 Communicative practices in business communication
鈥 Corporate language and language management
鈥 Multicultural and diversity management
鈥 Intercultural business communication
鈥 Language-sensitive international business research
鈥 Translation practices in organisational settings
鈥 Uses of lingua franca in organisational settings
鈥 Discourses of sustainability and climate chang
The conference structure includes concurrent panels, individual presentations (oral or poster), and work-in-progress sessions.
Individual papers (Oral/poster)
(a) Abstract length should be approximately 250 words.
(b) Presenters should indicate a preference for oral or poster presentations.
(c) The decision on the poster or oral presentation will be determined by organizers after the peer review process.
(d) Oral presentations will be allocated 30 minutes (20 minutes for presentation and 10 mi
Call for Papers:
On the linguistic side, we welcome submissions examining any grammatical phenomena sensitive to the degree of agency or interpretation of an action as intentional versus accidental, such as controller choice, subjunctive obviation, licensing of polarity items, aspect choice in Slavic, case marking in ergative split languages and 鈥榦ut-of-control鈥 morphology. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the following: ways in which natural languages manifest different d
2nd Call for Papers:
R眉ckblicke und Ausblicke auf die Angewandte Linguistik in 脰sterreich 鈥 eine gemeinsame Bestandsaufnahme von verbal und Emerging Linguists anl盲sslich des 30. Geburtstags von verbal
Wo: O虉sterreichische Linguistiktagung 17. 鈥 19.12.2024, Innsbruck
Der Verband f眉r Angewandte Linguistik 脰sterreich und die Association of Emerging Linguists laden angewandte Linguist:innen mit all ihren verschiedenen Qualifikationen und Erfahrungen ein, am EL & verbal Workshop bei der 48. O虉sterr
Call for Papers:
We invite 100-word abstracts until October 20, 2024. Please send your abstract to Stefan Hartmann (hartmast@hhu.de). We will let you know whether we can incorporate your abstract in the proposed theme session until the end of October. If our theme session is accepted, we will ask authors of provisionally accepted abstracts to submit an extended abstract (max. 500 words) via the conference submission system until January 15. The extended abstract will then be subject to peer rev
Call for Papers:
Abstract Submissions are now open for 30-minute talks (20 minutes + 10 minutes Q&A)
All abstracts will be anonymously peer-reviewed.
Any question related to call for papers can be directed here: tuplus10workshop@gmail.com
(or, to the organizers: Metehan O臒uz (moguz@usc.edu) and Esra Eldem-Tun莽 (eeldem@usc.edu)
Important Dates
Deadline for Submission: 15th November 2024, 11:59pm PT (Pacific Time)
Notification of Acceptance: 20th December 2024, 11:59pm PT
The final version of the program is now available on the conference website: https://sites.google.com/view/sinfonija-17/program
SinFonIJA 17 will be held September 26-28 at the Obrtni dom, located at Gradnikove brigade 6, Nova Gorica.
Call for Papers
Thematic Issue on Artificial Intelligence in Language Learning and Assessment
CALICO Journal 43.3, October 2026
This thematic issue seeks to deepen our understanding of how AI technologies, particularly machine learning and natural language processing (NLP), can enhance language education and impact learner outcomes. We invite original, methodologically rigorous, and empirically sound studies that focus on learner outcomes and demonstrate how AI tools, especially NLP tools power
Call for Papers:
Main Session
Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks and posters on any theoretical or formal aspect of natural language, including but not limited to phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and their interfaces.
Special Session: Sign Language Linguistics
Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks and posters on sign language linguistics, including but not limited to: the formal analysis of particular sign languages, the overt expression of elements implicit in
Format and target audience:
The workshop/symposium consists of short talks by the participants, invited keynotes, and discussion sessions. It is aimed primarily at early career researchers in linguistics or adjacent fields. Preference will be given to scholars working on endangered and/or understudied languages and/or on methods and tools that advance research on such languages.
Call for Papers:
Potential talk and discussion topics include but are not limited to:
鈥 types of linguistic data and their relationship to qualitative and quantitative analyses
鈥 transparency and reproducibility in the context of primary and secondary data
鈥 the role of understudied and endangered languages in methodological and theoretical advancements
鈥 biases in annotation and analysis of linguistic data and how they can be addressed or mitigated
鈥 the connection of quant
Call for Papers:
The section on graphemics, phonetics, phonology and prosody, withing the XXXI CILFR, is open to all currents of research. Synchronic and diachronic approaches will be treated on an equal footing. All Romance languages are accepted in principle, both as research objects and as metalanguages, but comparative work on all Romance languages, or on several of them, will be particularly welcome. Among the theoretical contributions, the Section will favour those which apply different a
Call for Papers:
The seminar is open to all theoretical approaches and welcomes contributions both from the perspective of pragmatics and spoken corpora construction and from the perspective of corpus driven teaching, assessment and training.
Proposal submissions may include the following topics, but others related to the workshop will be welcome:
- Pragmatics and spoken corpora, methodological issues (e.g. data collection and corpus construction unit, corpora annotation).
- Pragmatics, spoken
We are recruiting to fill two PhD positions (30 hours per week) on the subject of pronouns, in synergy with the large research network "Language between Redundancy and Deficiency". Applications are welcomed up to 31 October 2024. Further information in text below and at the application links provided under "Key dates".
Key dates:
-Apply by 31 October 2024 (via portal: https://jobs.uni-graz.at/de/jobs/62ed3aeb-26c4-527d-f8bc-66dfee62bfdc
OR https://jobs.uni-graz.at/de/jobs/d5489b99-ea41-ab65-4da
School: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department: Department of Applied Linguistics
Position: Assistant/Associate/Senior Associate Professor/ Professor (depending on experience)
Discipline: Language and Health Humanities, Ecolinguistics
Location: Suzhou, China
Contract Type: Fixed-term, renewable. 3rd contract is open-ended
Advertisement End Date: Open until filled (early submission of applications is encouraged)
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