Papers with a focus on regional variation in English are invited 鈥 particularly when they relate to diachronic variability as captured in the conference theme. Papers can also have a more explicit focus on any of the conference subthemes listed here.
World Englishes and Applied Linguistics
World Englishes and Corpus Linguistics
World Englishes and Cultural Linguistics
World Englishes and Discourse Analysis
World Englishes and Education
World Englishes and Intercultural Communication
World Engli
2nd Call for Papers:
We invite submissions on current and recently finished phonetic research within the empirical tradition, and/or demonstrations of new applications or methods within the field of speech science.
Abstracts will be anonymized for review and judged for empirical or practical relevance, clarity and completeness (i.e. research question, hypotheses, methods, availability of results, and 鈥揺specially for new methods/software- possible applications).
If you have a contribution, in
2nd Call for Papers:
The call requests submissions of resources, tools, and methods that can be used to study linguistic change within the German language. If accepted, the content will be presented in a poster presentation and published in a short article afterwards. The language of the presentation and publication is German. The full call follows in German:
Methodenmesse auf der IDS-Jahrestagung 2025: 鈥濪eutsch im Wandel鈥
Die Jahrestagung 2025 des Instituts f眉r Deutsche Sprache in Mannheim s
Final Call for Papers:
Deadline extended until 30th September 2024, 23.59 CET.
Please visit the website linked below for submission details.
Call for Papers:
We invite contributions on proper names with determiners, quantifiers and/or any means of modification, as well as honorifics, diminutives, classifiers, and other affixes, from a morphological, syntactic, semantic, or pragmatic perspective. The main questions this Workshop seeks to answer are:
- What categories can accompany proper names in natural language?
- What is the meaning contribution of these categories? How does this meaning combine with that of proper names?
- Wha
Final Call for Papers:
The abstract submission deadline has been extended till September 21, 2024.
Please visit the website below for submission details.
Vortr盲ge sind auf 20 Minuten begrenzt, im Anschluss ist eine zehnmin眉tige Diskussion vorgesehen.
Zus盲tzlich zu den Vortr盲gen der Hauptsektion gibt es in diesem Jahr die M枚glichkeit der Poster-Pr盲sentation. Die Poster werden im Rahmen eines zweimin眉tigen Pitchs zentral vorgestellt und anschlie脽end im individuellen Austausch mit den Teilnehmenden diskutiert. Diese Option richtet sich vor allem diejenigen, die am Anfang ihres Forschungsvorhabens stehen oder die das interaktive Format nutzen m枚chten
2nd Call for Papers:
The goal of this session is to approach DOM from different perspectives, such as:
- linguistic change, both in diachrony and synchrony. The evolution of DOM throughout the history of Spanish has been governed by the scale of animacy and referentiality (Laca 2006). In Old Spanish, DOM was obligatory in canonical position (SVO) with strong pronouns and personal nouns, while in Modern Spanish it is also obligatory with certain (in)definite, human nominal phrases. Furthermore
Call for Papers:
We invite submissions for oral presentations (30 minutes + 10 minutes for questions and discussion) on the grammar of Manner Adverbials, including (but not limited to) their syntax, morphology, semantics, and pragmatics, as well as the properties of MAs at the interfaces of these fields of study. There are no restrictions as to the investigated language. In particular, we encourage researchers who study manner adverbials from a comparative perspective to submit.
Questions that
The Department of English at American University of Sharjah (AUS) seeks applicants for several full-time permanent faculty positions in composition/writing studies. Candidates should hold a PhD in Rhetoric and Composition, English for Academic Purposes, TESOL or a closely related field. We welcome applications from candidates with any specialization in composition/writing studies, including but not limited to writing pedagogy, technology and writing, academic writing, composition studies or seco
Are you a linguist specialising in Japanese or Korean? SIDE are in need of freelance native-speaking formally trained phonologists who are able to do phonemic transcription, audio analysis and other speech linguistic tasks (text-to-speech).
Successful candidates will be part of a team processing large amounts of linguistic data and carrying out a number of tasks to improve the quality of our client鈥檚 text-to-speech synthesis for Japanese or Korean.
Linguistics Requirements:
- University-level
The Department of Arabic and Translation Studies at American University of Sharjah invites applications for faculty positions at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin in Fall 2025, subject to budgetary approval. A PhD in Arabic Studies, Arabic Literature or related areas is required. The willingness and ability to teach entry-level Arabic heritage classes is essential. The ability to offer courses on the history, culture and society of the United Arab Emirates will be a distinct advantage. Ca
2024. iii, 105 pp.
Table of Contents
Articles
Honorifics in child-directed speech
Gwendolyn Hildebrandt | pp.鈥1鈥39
Transplanted Brazilian Portuguese in Japan: Mobility, contact, and koin茅 formation among Latin American immigrants
Kazuko Matsumoto, Akiko Okumura & Kenjiro Matsuda | pp.鈥40鈥66
Variation in Asian and Pacific Islander North American English: What the patterns of scholarship demonstrate about race in sociolinguistics
Andrew Cheng, Lauretta Cheng, Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales &
2024. iii, 165 pp.
Table of Contents
Articles
Mixing adjectives: A variable equivalence hypothesis for bilingual word order conflicts
Rena Torres Cacoullos & Jessica V茅lez Avil茅s | pp.鈥609鈥639
Frequency effects and aspect morphology with state verbs in heritage Spanish
Patrick D. Thane | pp.鈥640鈥667
Prosodic interaction in Cantonese-English bilingual children鈥檚 speech production
Jonathan Him Nok Lee, Regine Yee King Lai, Stephen Matthews & Virginia Yip | pp.鈥668鈥707
Second language learne
The Hispanic Linguistics track in Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications to the Ph.D. program for students starting their studies in the Fall Semester 2025.
Our PhD program in Hispanic Linguistics allows students to focus on applied linguistics, indigenous languages of Latin America, language acquisition, phonetics and phonology, formal semantics and pragmatics, sociolinguistics and dialectology, and syntax. Please visit https://www.umass.
I am currently looking for native European Portuguese speakers for an online experiment on vowels and foreign accent.
The study has a gift prize ruffle and a statement of participation can be issued upon request.
More info:
https://clunl.fcsh.unl.pt/procuram-falantes-nativos-as-de-portugues-europeu/
Thank you!
Yolanda Xavier
yolandaxavier@fcsh.unl.pt
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Using the OED to support historical writing
19 Sep 鈥 05:00 PM BST | 12:00 PM EDT | 04:00 PM GMT
Book your place:
http://tiny.cc/OED-Historical-writing-LL
Editors and guest speakers will be discussing the challenges of historical writing, and how the Oxford English Dictionary, as well as the Historical Thesaurus of the OED, can be used to navigate them:
鈥 Historical accuracy
鈥 Extracting historical information from the OED and the HTOED
鈥 Cultural sensitivity and ethical considerations
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