This two-day workshop brings together an international line-up of female researchers working at the intersection of philosophy, theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics, logic, formal semantics and pragmatics, psychology, and political and social science. The event explores diverse perspectives on the semantics鈥損ragmatics distinction, highlighting how interdisciplinary approaches can advance our understanding of meaning, context, and interpretation.
The workshop highlights the contr
'Accents' is an annual conference organized by the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics at University of Lodz, Poland. It brings together researchers and teachers interested in native and non-native accents of English, approached from a variety of theoretical and/or practical perspectives. The key issues discussed each year include individual accent characteristics, the dynamism of accent usage, accent teaching and learning, and the methods and tools for accent studies. The lei
Convenor: Michela Russo (CNRS SFL UMR 7023/U. Paris 8 & UJML 3, France)
Rationale:
The interaction between phonology and morphology has been at the heart of generative and post-generative linguistics since the inception of both fields. Despite recurring claims about the autonomy of morphology (Aronoff 1994; see also discussion in Booij 2018) and the modularity of phonology (Kiparsky 1982, 1985; Zwicky & Pullum (1986; Scheer 2012), recent work across language families shows that many morpholo
'Accents' is an annual conference organized by the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics at University of Lodz, Poland. It brings together researchers and teachers interested in native and non-native accents of English, approached from a variety of theoretical and/or practical perspectives. The key issues discussed each year include individual accent characteristics, the dynamism of accent usage, accent teaching and learning, and the methods and tools for accent studies. The lei
2026. iii, 136 pp.
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Articles
What else is there to say about existential there? A corpus-based study of existential there-clauses in written Nigerian English
Roseline Abonego Adejare & Richard Oliseyenum Maledo
pp.鈥�1鈥�29
鈥淲e was goin鈥� kangaroo shooting鈥�: Was/were variation in Australian Aboriginal English
Lucia Fraiese, Celeste Rodr铆guez Louro, Matt Hunt Gardner & Glenys Dale Collard
pp.鈥�30鈥�63
Hypercorrect Moun[th扫n] in Utah English
Joseph A. Stanley
pp.鈥�
2026. iv, 174 pp.
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A corpus-assisted critical metaphor analysis of movement metaphors in university presidents鈥� responses to anti-black violence
Victor Adedayo
pp.鈥�1鈥�23
Press, police, and protest: The framing effect of elemental metaphors in social unrest
Alexander W. Chen
pp.鈥�24鈥�46
Valence distribution and valence alignment in the metaphor by膰 na 艣wieczniku in the Polish language
Tomasz Dyrmo
pp.鈥�47鈥�70
Metaphors in Stand Up 2 Cancer animatio
2026. v, 154 pp.
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Editorial
Terminology beyond terms
Pius ten Hacken & Rossella Resi
pp.鈥�1鈥�5
Articles
Consistency beyond terms: Translating terminological chains
Rossella Resi
pp.鈥�6鈥�32
Terms as linguistic and domain specific units: A translation perspective
Maria Koliopoulou
pp.鈥�33鈥�55
Domain properties and the representation of terminological relations
Pius ten Hacken
pp.鈥�56鈥�75
Meaning distinctions in terminology research: A lexicon-driven ap
2026. v, 138 pp.
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Introduction
Corpus perspectives on legal discourse
David Wright
pp.鈥�1鈥�12
Articles
Measuring divergence in migration-related terminology between EU legal discourse and press articles in English and French
Edward Clay
pp.鈥�13鈥�35
Continuum of stance in law: A corpus-based study across written legal genres
Le Cheng, Xiuli Liu & Jian Li
pp.鈥�36鈥�63
Dimensions of variation across institutional legal and administrative registers: An MDA an
Programme and registration here: https://canva.link/c1krqkbedmlymlt
Plenary Speaker鈥�- Professor Phil Hubbard, Stanford University USA (Integrating Generative AI into Second Language Listening: Explorations in Professional Development)
Professor Phil Hubbard, PhD, is Senior Lecturer Emeritus in the Stanford University Language Center. Working in the field of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) since the early 1980s, he has published in the areas of CALL theory, research, methodology
Join us this coming week for the 2026 Research Incubator of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics!
Consult the program for the largest and most thematically-rich Incubator line-up ever:聽https://narnihs.org/?page_id=3420
Thirteen (13!!!) exciting international projects in Historical Sociolinguistics across four sessions, plus our annual Meta-Discussion panel!
The event is fully online and free for NARNiHS members. Not yet a NARNiHS member? Membership is free:
Description:
The second edition of the DM meets Nano workshop, to be held at the Masaryk University (Brno) on July 7-9, 2026, aims to bring together researchers working within Distributed Morphology and Nanosyntax, inviting them to share recent developments and findings in their respective frameworks and/or to examine (key) phenomena from a comparative perspective, highlighting both the similarities and differences between the two approaches. This way, the conference wants to encourage dialog
Programme and registration here: https://canva.link/c1krqkbedmlymlt
Plenary Speaker鈥�- Professor Phil Hubbard, Stanford University USA (Integrating Generative AI into Second Language Listening: Explorations in Professional Development)
Professor Phil Hubbard, PhD, is Senior Lecturer Emeritus in the Stanford University Language Center. Working in the field of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) since the early 1980s, he has published in the areas of CALL theory, research, methodology
Join us this coming week for the 2026 Research Incubator of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics!
Consult the program for the largest and most thematically-rich Incubator line-up ever:聽https://narnihs.org/?page_id=3420
Thirteen (13!!!) exciting international projects in Historical Sociolinguistics across four sessions, plus our annual Meta-Discussion panel!
The event is fully online and free for NARNiHS members. Not yet a NARNiHS member? Membership is free:
Description:
The second edition of the DM meets Nano workshop, to be held at the Masaryk University (Brno) on July 7-9, 2026, aims to bring together researchers working within Distributed Morphology and Nanosyntax, inviting them to share recent developments and findings in their respective frameworks and/or to examine (key) phenomena from a comparative perspective, highlighting both the similarities and differences between the two approaches. This way, the conference wants to encourage dialog
SUMMARY
Alexis Michaud's Tone in Yongning Na: Lexical tones and morphotonology first appeared in 2017 and has since become a key reference for the description of the tone system of Yongning Na (Mosuo), a Tibeto-Burman language of Southwest China. This second edition (2025) retains the core of the original 鈥� based on a decade of fieldwork (2006鈥�2016), a systematic treatment of lexical tones and morphotonological patterns, and an autosegmental analytical framework 鈥� while incorporating several
2026. iii, 99 pp.
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Articles
Whose needs are met? Navigating tensions in academic language support at a Vietnamese EMI university
Phuong-Anh Pham (Ellie)
pp.鈥�1鈥�26
Israeli engineering students鈥� perceptions of EMI: Needs and learning strategies
Brigitta R. Schvarcz, Rachel Wohlfarth & Marta Aguilar-P茅rez
pp.鈥�27鈥�50
Emerging research on the employability of English-medium instruction (EMI) graduates: A scoping review
Oliver Hadingham & Zheng Zhang
pp.鈥�51鈥�76
2026. iii, 177 pp.
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Articles
An attempt to identify language-universal and language-specific patterns in the use of filled pauses and prolongations: Evidence from monolingual and bilingual speakers of Russian, Hebrew, and Mandarin Chinese
Marianna Beradze, Tatiana Verkhovtceva, Xiaoli Sun, Kristina Zaides, Natalia Bogdanova-Beglarian & Natalia Meir
pp.鈥�1鈥�44
The effects of interleaving and blocking practice on L2 contextualized grammar learning
Nicolas Buhot & Qi
2026. vi, 228 pp.
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Introduction
Investigating children鈥檚 irony comprehension: Current trends, challenges, and perspectives
Julia Fuchs-Krei脽
pp.鈥�1鈥�11
Articles
Attitude understanding and irony development: Methodological challenges
Ana Milosavljevic & Diana Mazzarella
pp.鈥�12鈥�33
LEIRO: A novel approach to assess irony comprehension in children
Julia Fuchs-Krei脽 & Cornelia Schulze
pp.鈥�34鈥�55
Training studies provide new insights about mechanisms of iro
CorporaExpert is a web-based corpus analysis workbench designed for linguists and discourse researchers. It combines classic corpus linguistics tools (KWIC, collocations, n-grams, lexical diversity) with NLP-powered analysis (lemmatization, named entity recognition, topic modelling, sentiment) 鈥� all from a single browser interface, with no programming required.
Developed as part of PhD research in Applied Linguistics (Universitat Polit猫cnica de Val猫ncia), with a focus on Critical Discourse A
We are thrilled to announce that the 5th International Conference on Language Attrition and Bilingualism (ICLA5) will take place from October 7鈥�9, 2026, at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil).
ICLA 5 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from around the world to advance our understanding of language attrition and its effects on bilingual development. Continuing the tradition of previous ICLA editions, the conference provides an international forum for in-depth