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The Program in Linguistics at Princeton University invites applications for an American Sign Language Lecturer to teach undergraduate courses in the 2025-26 academic year. In an exceptional case, an appointment may be made at the rank of Senior Lecturer.
This position requires in-person teaching, grading student work, holding regular on-campus office hours, participating in the development of the ASL program, and engaging in the on-campus ASL community. Position duty time is subject to enrollme
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Rutgers University-New Brunswick is seeking an interdisciplinary scholar of Spanish for health care. This is a non-tenure track three-year renewable Assistant Teaching Professor position. This 10-month position can begin in January or in September, 2025.
The qualifications required are: (1) doctorate or other job-specific higher degree; (2) teaching and/or professional experience related to language in physical and/or mental health; and (3) native or
Dear colleague, working on lexical innovation and neologisms,
If you didn鈥檛 have the chance yet, we kindly invite you to participate in the ENEOLI survey on neology by November 15 and help us get valuable information about available resources for neology research and documentation: https://1ka.arnes.si/eneoli.
The survey is being conducted as part of the European Network on Lexical Innovation (ENEOLI) Cost Action CA22126. Its objective is to gather insights into the methods, practices, tools,
2024. iii, 164 pp.
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The representation of African American identity on screen for a Spanish audience: A multimodal approach to the dubbing of Luke Cage, Bamboozled, and Tropic Thunder
Stuart Green | pp.鈥323鈥351
Towards a practice of translanguaging subtitling for the mediatised articulation of fangyan
Dingkun Wang & Xiaochun Zhang | pp.鈥352鈥375
鈥淒etermined to prove a villain鈥: Disability, translation, and the narratives of evil in Shakespeare鈥檚 Richard III
Eva Spi
2024. iii, 169 pp.
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Creative metaphors and non-propositional effects: An experiment
Valandis Bardzokas | pp.鈥473鈥500
Pragmatic markers in English and Italian film dialogue: Distribution and translation
Liviana Galiano | pp.鈥501鈥533
Translating politeness on public notices with a directive function in Thessaloniki: A cross-cultural perspective
Christopher Lees | pp.鈥534鈥564
An investigation of the formation and pragmatic strategies of 鈥渪x-zi鈥: The case of Chinese
2024. iii, 159 pp.
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Telicity judgments in L2 English by L1 Slovak speakers: The role of proficiency and exposure in telicity interpretations
Zuzana Nadova & Mar铆a del Pilar Garc铆a Mayo | pp.鈥775鈥808
Heritage speakers鈥 processing of the Spanish subjunctive: A pupillometric study
Priscila L贸pez-Beltr谩n & Paola E. Dussias | pp.鈥809鈥855
What looks native-like may not necessarily be native-like: Evidence from L2 Chinese covert objects
Lilong Xu & Boping Yuan | pp.鈥856鈥8
2024. v, 160 pp.
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Introduction
Linguistic constructions
Beata Trawi艅ski, Marc Kupietz & Kristel Proost | pp.鈥165鈥169
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Future constructions in English and Norwegian: A contrastive corpus study
Stefan Hartmann & Olaf Mikkelsen | pp.鈥170鈥196
French, Polish and Czech converbs: A contrastive corpus-based study
Olga N谩dvorn铆kov谩 | pp.鈥197鈥225
Negative existentials and presentationals in Chinese: A parallel corpus investigation
Ludovica Lena | pp.鈥226鈥247\
Projected me
2024. iii, 285 pp.
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Pragmatics and cognition in Easy Language
Julia Fuchs | pp.鈥1鈥26
When do people dislike self-enhancers? When they claim to be superior
Valentin Weber & Hugo Mercier | pp.鈥27鈥48
Four-year-olds鈥 visuospatial cognitive abilities and their relation to observer鈥憊iewpoint gestures across three communicative tasks
Ulrich J. Boden, Friederike Kern, Sofia Koutalidis, Olga Abramov, Anne Nemeth, Stefan Kopp & Katharina J. Rohlfing | pp.鈥49鈥96
Ironic crit
Dear colleagues,
I hope this message finds you well. I am reaching out to request your assistance with a survey I am conducting as part of my MA thesis on languages that have acquired Differential Object Marking (DOM) due to language contact.
So far, I have identified a few well-attested cases, for example in the Tibeto-Burman language family, particularly the Kiranti languages (Ebert 2003; Bickel 2003, etc.), as well as a few other cases such as Afrikaans (den Besten 2000), Basque (Rodr铆guez-O
The influence of pop-culture on mainstream language
Thu 21 Nov, 5 PM GMT | 12 PM EST | 9 AM PST
Save your spot:
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Pop-culture language commonly starts as specific to particular groups with shared interests, and is frequently adopted into mainstream vernacular. We warmly invite you to join us for this discussion around the language of science-fiction, fantasy, and gaming:
鈥 How and why language that develops in these communities is adopted more widely
鈥 How
Open Call
SHORT-TERM FELLOWSHIPS at the Collaborative Research Center 1629 鈥淣egation in language and beyond鈥 (NegLaB)
The Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 鈥淣egation in language and beyond鈥 (SFB 1629 NegLaB) at Goethe University Frankfurt focuses on a comprehensive exploration of the topic of negation in language and cognition. The general aim of the CRC is to unravel the complexities of negation across different languages and its implications for our understanding of linguistic competence an
Call for Papers:
"Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Syntactic Change in the Diachrony of Romance"
This special issue addresses the lack of diachronic studies focusing on variation. Submitted papers must feature: (i) a diachronic study of one or several syntactic phenomena, (ii) a comparison between at least two Medieval Romance varieties, including, for instance, the analysis of contact phenomena, shared linguistic innovations, and the emergence of linguistic splits in geographically contiguous
The program schedule will be announced at a later time.
Call for Papers:
Papers are invited in:
- Theoretical Linguistics (syntax, morphology, phonology, semantics and the interfaces, language acquisition)
- Applied linguistics and translation studies
Invited speakers
Susi Wurmbrand (Paris Lodron University of Salzburg)
Robert Truswell (University of Edinburgh)
Diana Hornoiu (鈥淥vidius鈥 University of Constan葲a)
Presentations will be allocated 25 minutes each, plus 5 minutes for discussion. Abstracts should not exceed two A4 pages, Times New
Call for Papers:
The goal of our workshop is to stimulate a joint effort of linguists for understanding wordhood and wordhood-related phenomena in West African languages and beyond. We are primarily focused on this particular linguistic area and invite contributions presenting and analyzing data from a West African language and comparative studies in West African language groups or in the area as a whole. We also welcome submissions dealing with languages from other linguistic areas from lingui
Call for Papers:
We invite contributions to our workshop on using large language models (LLMs) in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science (HPSS). The workshop will focus on exploring use cases and proposals for how, and to what extent, LLMs might help overcome long-standing challenges in studies of how science works. The event will take place from April 2鈥4, 2025, at Technische Universit盲t Berlin, Germany. Attendance (online and on site) will be free and open to the public but registr
Call for Papers:
In our workshop, we aim to bridge the gap between grammatical theories and empirical research, addressing the need for exploring how theoretical grammar can be used to systematically classify and investigate indeterminacy (cf. Winkler 2015). The following research questions will be discussed in our workshop:
鈥 Which phenomena of indeterminacy (ambiguity, vagueness and polysemy) can be found in grammar? On which linguistic levels (word types, sentence structure, morphological s
You can access the conference鈥檚 official program here: https://sites.uw.edu/ssla4/program/
The conference website is accessible here: https://sites.uw.edu/ssla4/
Deep Springs College is hiring the Julian Steward Chair of Social Sciences to begin in August of 2025. This position is open to any specialty including sociology, anthropology, archaeology, economics, linguistics, psychology, and political science.
Job Description
The ideal candidate will be a committed and passionate teacher with an enthusiasm for Deep Springs College鈥檚 unique educational program. As long-standing members of the College community, Faculty Chairs have the dual responsibility o
International Christian University (ICU) is a private, bilingual university that provides a first-class liberal arts education in a culturally and religiously diverse international community of students, faculty, and staff. ICU鈥檚 educational mission is based on Christian and democratic principles. ICU has approximately 3,000 students and over 150 faculty members from Japan and overseas. The university is located on a wooded campus in the suburbs of Tokyo.
We are pleased to announce an open se