Irene Smith and James Tanner (PhD 2020) presented at Interspeech 2024, September 1-5, in Kos, Greece. The titles of the talks are below. Irene Smith,聽Morgan Sonderegger, and The SPADE Consortium. Modelled Multivariate Overlap: A method for measuring vowel merger.James Tanner, Morgan Sonderegger,聽Jane Stuart-Smith, Tyler Kendall, JeffMielke, Robin Dodsworth, Erik Thomas. Exploring the anatomy of articulation […]
At this week鈥檚 MCQLL meeting, Gaurav Kamath will present “When Words Change Meaning, Age (Almost) Doesn’t Matter”We will be meeting this Wednesday, September 18, at noon. Meetings are held both in person in room 117 of the 成人VR视频 Linguistics department Abstract: A central question in the study of how language changes over lifetimes is whether […]
成人VR视频 will host Understanding Obviation: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective, October 4鈥6 at 成人VR视频’s Thomson House. The full program is now available here. All are welcome to attend, but requested to register by September 22nd. Obviation is perhaps most commonly discussed in connection with languages of the Algonquian family in which (i) multiple 3rd person nominals in […]
Program
MONDAY, September 16
9:20 WORKSHOP OPENING
9:30-11.00 Manuel Garc铆a-Carpintero, "Direction of fit. A normative account" [9.30-10.15]; Comments: Nils Franz茅n [10.15-10.30]; Q&A [10.30-11.00]
11.00-11.30 COFFEE BREAK
11.30-13.00 Claudia Picazo Jaque, "Communicative distortions" [11.30-12.15]; Comments: Elin McCready/Gr茅goire Winterstein [12.15-12.30]; Q&A [12.30-13.00]
13.00-14.30 LUNCH BREAK
14.30-16.00 Nils Franz茅n, "Future contingents and the assertion problem" [14.30-15.15]; Comments:
This week, Laurestine Bradford (成人VR视频) will be presenting a MULL-themed talk 鈥淲hat are the eventuality classes of Tlingit?鈥. The meeting will take place on Monday, September 16 at 3pm in Room 002 of the 成人VR视频 linguistics department. Laurestine鈥檚 abstract is below: In terms of eventuality class (or lexical aspect, or aktionsart), Tlingit verbs broadly fall into four groups: achievement, activity, state, […]
The program is available here: https://obviationworkshop2024.wordpress.com/program-and-location/
Registration for the workshop is now open: https://obviationworkshop2024.wordpress.com/registration-form/ Please register before September 22nd 2024.
WORKSHOP PROGRAMME, October 25th - October 26th, 2024
Day 1: OCTOBER 25, 2024 鈥 ROOM KOL-G-212 (R盲mistrasse 71, 2nd floor, 8006 Z眉rich)
9:00 - 9:30 Gabriela Soare Universit盲t Z眉rich, CH Welcome & Introduction
9:30 - 10:15 Iliana Krapova&Guglielmo Cinque Universit脿 Ca鈥橣oscari, IT Peculiarities of Bulgarian relative clauses and their implications
10:15-10:45 Coffee break
10:45 - 11:30 Adriana Belletti Universit脿 di Siena, IT On the complexity of a shorter structure: The case of Reduced Relative C
Call for Papers:
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Hello everyone! I'm a PhD student at the University of Nicosia conducting an experiment on the impact of pauses in English public speaking. I'm seeking 10 native English speakers as participants. Your assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Requirements:
鈥 Native English speaker
鈥 Age 18-35
鈥 Experience with English public speaking (either teaching or learning these skills)
鈥 No speech disorders
Location:
Online (via WebEx, Zoom, or Tencent Meeting) or at the University of Nicosia.
What wil
This coming week, we are starting off the 成人VR视频 Linguistics Colloquium series for the 2024-2025 academic year! Our first talk will be given by Dr. Georgia Zellou (UC Davis) on Friday, September 13th at 3:30PM. Details on the location will be announced shortly. The details of the talk are given below.聽 Title: Linguistic and social […]
This week, Richard Compton (UQAM) will be presenting a MULL-themed talk entitled “Collaborating on a Kangiryuarmiutun dictionary & Research Ethics and REB Approval for Linguistic Fieldwork” at 3pm in room 002 of the Linguistics department. The abstract is below: In the first half hour I鈥檒l present an overview of a collaboration with Inuvialuit community linguist Emily Kudlak to create […]
Last week,聽Brandon Chaperon聽presented work-in-progress titled “Irrealis mood enclosed negation in Igala” at the聽SNAG 2024聽workshop, held September 5-6 by the Laboratoire de linguistique formelle at University Paris Cit茅.
Call for Papers:
Studies in Second Language Acquisition (SSLA) is now entertaining proposals for the thematic issue of Volume 48:3, to be published in July 2026. Thematic issues of SSLA focus on areas of current interest and are an excellent venue to bring together in one issue numerous approaches to a problem or methodology in the field of SLA. Please click on the following link for more information: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xyh2v1ncDF7F_5ogJLfcw02LLP4RzX7yLlgmrf9WhnI/edit?usp=shari
Call for Papers:
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The submission of proposals for oral presentations will open on 1 September and will continue throughout that
This conference will focus on the various mythologies that have framed the English language, both historically and today. These are the ideological and institutional structures that enable speakers to conceptualize the language itself and to process specific uses of it. They enable historiographic narratives that shape how the language and its uses are understood; whether or not they are true in some absolute sense, they necessarily reflect and further specific cultural expectations. Put another
This conference will focus on the various mythologies that have framed the English language, both historically and today. These are the ideological and institutional structures that enable speakers to conceptualize the language itself and to process specific uses of it. They enable historiographic narratives that shape how the language and its uses are understood; whether or not they are true in some absolute sense, they necessarily reflect and further specific cultural expectations. Put another
Call for Proposals:
Researchers interested in presenting at the Symposium can submit their proposals for oral presentations (20 minutes, plus another 5-10 minutes for questions and discussion) by filling in the corresponding form. Abstracts must be written in English or Spanish and will not exceed 500 words, excluding bibliographic references. They should succinctly expose the goals of the study, the theoretical approach adopted, the methodology, as well as an advance of the results.
Each pers
Final call for symposia:
Deadline September 16 / Call for individual papers and posters will open September 18.
The 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB15) will take place on 9-13 June 2025 in Donostia-San Sebasti谩n (Spain), hosted by the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language.
The conference theme of is The Different Faces of Bilingualism. This broad theme for is aimed at meeting ISB鈥檚 mission to create a space for researchers with a diverse range of interests to share t
Call for Papers:
The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages & Linguistics (MMLL) and the Cambridge Centre for Greek Studies (CCGS) are pleased to announce the 17th International Conference of Greek Linguistics to be held at the University of Cambridge on 23-26 September 2025.
ICGL has been held every two years since 1993 and focuses on all aspects of the linguistic study of Greek, from Ancient to Modern. A small number of thematic workshops will be held as part of the conference. We invite co
Call for Papers:
Journal of Arabic Sociolinguistics, published by Edinburgh University Press, print ISSN: 2755-1911, online ISSN: 2755-192X.
Special issue on 鈥淎nalyzing Contemporary Arab political discourse: Interdisciplinary approaches.鈥
Guest Editors: Emad Abdul-Latif and Zeinab Taha
During the first quarter of the 21st century, the Arab world witnessed radical political transformations that affected millions of people. It was subjected to foreign military invasions in Iraq and Libya. Intern