We are delighted to announce that the 12th edition of Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory (FEAST) will take place at the University of Amsterdam from 6 to 8 July 2026. It is organized by SignLab Amsterdam, a cross-faculty research lab of the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam.
FEAST is the regular forum to discuss formal approaches to sign language grammar (in particular in
The study of mass-media-distributed pop-cultural artifacts - such as songs, films, television series, comics, video games, and so on - is becoming increasingly widespread in academia due to their enormous reach and the fact that they constitute a significant portion of contemporary everyday communication (with potentially significant social influence). In this regard, it should be noted that language, as a central creative component of pop-cultural communication, has received increased attention
成人VR视频 linguistics was well represented at the 44th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 44), which took place May 6鈥�8 at the Universidad Nacional Aut贸noma de M茅xico in Mexico City. Presentations by current affiliates included: The full program is available here: https://wccfl44.github.io/WCCFL44/program.html
11 June 2026
17:00 UTC+2 / 17:00 GMT+2
Microsoft Teams
Speaker: Sonam Tshering (Jigme Singye Wangchuck School of Law, Bhutan)
Moderator: Fatemeh Akbari (Kamusi Project International/University of Vienna, Austria)
Title: Bhutanese Personal Names and Identity
Abstract: Bhutan, a small Himalayan kingdom between India and China, promotes Gross National Happiness (GNH). Bhutan has preserved its unique culture, strong Buddhist values, and lively social and cultural legacy despite its 400-yea
The Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) network (https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/home) an international and interdisciplinary network whose primary aim is to promote work on slurs, pejoratives, expressives and evaluative terms from less studied languages, invites you to the eight talk of the 2025-2026 academic year. The invited speaker is Yim Binh Felix Sze (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), who will give a talk entitled "Taboos and Euphemisms in Sex-Related Signs in Asian Sign
Designing and Scoping Your Next Interdisciplinary Research Project: A Panel Discussion
Thursday, June 4, 2026
4:30 PM BST | 03:30 PM GMT | 11:30 AM EDT | 04:30 PM WAT | 09:00 PM IST
Book your place: http://tiny.cc/InterdisciplinaryResearch
Interdisciplinary research promises richer insight into complex questions, but designing and scoping such projects brings distinct intellectual, methodological, and practical challenges.
In this moderated panel discussion, Oxford Intersections ed
The I-LanD Research Centre (https://i-land-researchcentre.eu/) is pleased to announce the fourth seminar in the I-LanD Seminar Series - 4th Edition (2nd semester).
Innovative in format and interdisciplinary in scope, the I-LanD Seminar Series brings together scholars to discuss key issues in their fields of expertise, with particular attention to theoretical perspectives, methodological approaches, research challenges, and emerging directions of inquiry. Each seminar opens with a brief introd
The next Acquisition Sketch Project Meeting is on "An in-progress look at the Berber Acquisition Sketch鈥�, presented by Abdellah Elouatiq.
It will be held on Wednesday May 13 as follows:
Los Angeles = 8 am
Mexico City = 9 am
New York = 11 am
Berlin = 5 pm
Tbilisi = 7 pm
Delhi = 8:30 pm
Zoom link = https://uni-kl-de.zoom-x.de/j/68724552887?pwd=lxCUOxU9mV4j84IRCa1vGs4xGaaTfH.1
Meeting ID = 687 2455 2887
Passcode = 7$d72Hp&
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Dieses Buch befasst sich mit dem in der theoretischen linguistischen Literatur stark diskutierten Ph盲nomen der lexikalischen Adjektiv-Intensivierung. Dabei wird ein graduierbares Adjektiv 鈥� z. B. sch枚n 鈥� durch eine Intensit盲tspartikel modifiziert.
Der Strand ist 鈭� sch枚n. Positiv
Der Strand ist sehr sch枚n. Deskriptiv
Der Strand ist mega sch枚n. Expressiv
Durch die Modifikation erf盲hrt das Adjektiv eine Bedeutungsverst盲rkung,
die sich in einer gesteiger
This book investigates the realization of subject focus in French and Spanish from a comparative, variationist perspective. Building on spontaneous dialogical data, it examines the range of syntactic, prosodic, and elliptical strategies speakers use to encode narrowly focused subjects. The study draws on two highly comparable sub-corpora of spontaneous speech elicited through the same task, allowing for fine-grained cross-linguistic comparison. Adopting a Question Under Discussion (QUD) framewor
Le colloque 芦 Les constructions et la constructionnalisation en langue fran莽aise, espagnole et italienne 禄 脿 r茅fl茅chir 脿 la notion de construction, aussi bien d鈥檜n point de vue synchronique que diachronique, en adoptant diff茅rentes perspectives th茅oriques. On pourra pr茅senter des analyses plut么t th茅oriques ou la description du fonctionnement d鈥檜ne construction en particulier. Les propositions peuvent 锚tre ancr茅es dans les diff茅rentes composantes de la linguistique : morphologie, syntaxe, s茅manti
Le colloque 芦 Les constructions et la constructionnalisation en langue fran莽aise, espagnole et italienne 禄 脿 r茅fl茅chir 脿 la notion de construction, aussi bien d鈥檜n point de vue synchronique que diachronique, en adoptant diff茅rentes perspectives th茅oriques. On pourra pr茅senter des analyses plut么t th茅oriques ou la description du fonctionnement d鈥檜ne construction en particulier. Les propositions peuvent 锚tre ancr茅es dans les diff茅rentes composantes de la linguistique : morphologie, syntaxe, s茅manti
We invite submissions for a special issue of Visible Language titled 鈥楾ypographic Landscapes: Migrating types 鈥� typographic meaning-making across boundaries鈥� connecting scholarship in typography, graphic communication, and sociolinguistics to investigate typographic activities as social practices in public spaces.
We welcome contributions that bring these disciplinary perspectives into fruitful dialogue and focus on typographic meaning-making across cultural, geographical, and temporal bounda
Conference Dates: 11鈥�13 June 2027
Location: Hong Kong SAR
Hosts: The Chinese University of Hong Kong & City University of Hong Kong
Website: https://lt.cityu.edu.hk/nwavap9/
Submission Portal: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NWAVAP2027
Abstract Deadline: 1 October 2026
The organizing committee of New Ways of Analysing Variation 鈥� Asia Pacific 9 (NWAV-AP 9) invites abstract submissions for the conference to be held in Hong Kong SAR from 11鈥�13 June 2027.
Since its founding in 2011 a
The Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics invites you to its 5th AMC Symposium, which will take place in December this year, at the University of Edinburgh.
The event has the guiding theme of "Types of Evidence in Historical Linguistics"
Background:
How do we know what a language was like in the past? How do we know that it has changed (or is changing)? The study of language change, and of historical linguistics more generally, uses many different kinds of evidence, including am
Easy Language and Easy Read Practices in the Nordic Languages: Exploring Informational Complexity Between Universal Models and Discourse-Specific Variations
Special issue of ELAD-SILDA (ISSN 2609-6609)
Spring 2027
Deadline for draft submissions: Sept. 30th, 2026
Languages of submission : French, English or German
contact: sarah.harchaoui@sorbonne-universite.fr
Full call : https://cel.univ-lyon3.fr/cel-elad-silda-15-falc-et-easy-languages-en-langues-nordiques
This special issue seeks t
Conference Dates: 11鈥�13 June 2027
Location: Hong Kong SAR
Hosts: The Chinese University of Hong Kong & City University of Hong Kong
Website: https://lt.cityu.edu.hk/nwavap9/
Submission Portal: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NWAVAP2027
Abstract Deadline: 1 October 2026
The organizing committee of New Ways of Analysing Variation 鈥� Asia Pacific 9 (NWAV-AP 9) invites abstract submissions for the conference to be held in Hong Kong SAR from 11鈥�13 June 2027.
Since its founding in 2011 a
The Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics invites you to its 5th AMC Symposium, which will take place in December this year, at the University of Edinburgh.
The event has the guiding theme of "Types of Evidence in Historical Linguistics"
Background:
How do we know what a language was like in the past? How do we know that it has changed (or is changing)? The study of language change, and of historical linguistics more generally, uses many different kinds of evidence, including am
This is an interdisciplinary workshop which addresses all topics ranging from Legibility to Text Simplification, including issues, resources, and manual and automatic methods related to measuring and improving text comprehensibility.
The event brings together researchers, IT professionals, publishers, public institutions (e.g., Ministries of Education, schools), and practitioners (authors, teachers, translators) to discuss current challenges and innovative solutions.
Specifically, we inv
This is an interdisciplinary workshop which addresses all topics ranging from Legibility to Text Simplification, including issues, resources, and manual and automatic methods related to measuring and improving text comprehensibility.
The event brings together researchers, IT professionals, publishers, public institutions (e.g., Ministries of Education, schools), and practitioners (authors, teachers, translators) to discuss current challenges and innovative solutions.
Specifically, we inv