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Monday the 11th of May - Public Lecture - 15:00
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Title: Universals and Variation in Linguistic Morphology: Some Kamchatkan Evidence
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Abstract: Cross-linguistic variation seems vast
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Editorial
Designing for understanding, engagement and interpretation
pp.鈥�95鈥�96
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pp.鈥�97鈥�116
Visual context in biological life cycle diagrams is associated with elevated empathy
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Editorial: Cultural turns in information design
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pp.鈥�29鈥�54
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Juhri Selamet
pp.鈥�55鈥�77
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Fuyin Thomas Li
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Possessive construction in the Kurdish language: A cognitive perspective
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Introduction
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SUMMARY
The book has xi + 191 pages, beginning with an editorial forward by Brian D. Joseph, the managing editor for the series, Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory, in which he outlines his prior acquaintance and collaboration with the author, Paul M. Postal (PMP). The book has five chapters comprising an introduction, three substantive chapters, and a concluding chapter. The three substantive chapters, Chapters 2鈥�4, are revised versions of papers published on LingBuzz by PMP in 2012,
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This book is both a selection of papers from the International Conference for Historical Lexicography and Lexicology (ISHLL) held in Lorient, France in May 2022, and the first in a new book series dedicated to the field. The new series is a result of collaboration between two sister associations, International Society for Historical Lexicography and Lexicology (ISHLL) and the Helsinki Society for Historical Lexicography (HSHL). The volume contains texts in English and French that prov
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The edited volume, "Broadening the Horizon of TBLT," comprises a range of discussions and techniques of TBLT. The book is split into six sections, an introduction, and 12 chapters, describing plenaries delivered at the International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching between 2015 and 2023. The main purpose is to put task-based concepts and realities into practice. The first section is the introductory chapter, "Broadening the horizon of task-based language teaching," which dis
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Introduction
The papers included in the volume, 鈥樷�楲ocative and Existential Predication鈥欌�� cover a wide range of topics, each focusing on different aspects and categories of predication and existential construction patterns in languages from different parts of the contemporary world. Each paper strives to make in-depth and insightful contributions to a deeper understanding of the respective topics covered in the volume. Certain papers, namely, Chapters 3, 4, 5, 9, 10 & 11 in the volume specific
We are pleased to invite researchers to contribute to the Workshop "NLP tools and methods for diachronic lexical semantics" that will take place as part of the LLcD2026 conference (December 2026, Aix-en-Provence, France). The focus of the Workshop is on diachrony and lexical semantics, addressing two questions: (1) does the performance of NLP tools vary depending on the historical period and language considered? (2) when are manual or semi-automatic annotations more reliable than NLP methods?
Call for Papers:
SpeakVar Workshop: A workshop on intraspeaker and interspeaker variability
The MTA鈥揈LTE NYTK Lend眉let 鈥淢omentum鈥� Neurophonetics Research Group and the ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics invite you to participate in the Intraspeaker and interspeaker variability Workshop, taking place 25鈥�27 November, 2026.
The keynote speakers of the workshop are Anne Hermes, who will give a talk on speech coordination in relation to syllable structure, age, and disease-related effects,
We are pleased to invite researchers to contribute to the Workshop "NLP tools and methods for diachronic lexical semantics" that will take place as part of the LLcD2026 conference (December 2026, Aix-en-Provence, France). The focus of the Workshop is on diachrony and lexical semantics, addressing two questions: (1) does the performance of NLP tools vary depending on the historical period and language considered? (2) when are manual or semi-automatic annotations more reliable than NLP methods?