Focus: Alongside the theoretical seminars, the Training School includes practical workshops designed to foster the direct acquisition of operational skills.
Participants will take part in practical sessions held at different venues: workshops on fragmentology and image processing as well as on digital survey methods applied to inscribed supports at the Seminario Vescovile and the Museo Maffeiano, then a final session on imaging techniques and 2D/3D applications to the Biblioteca Capitolare her
The conference continues the tradition of previous events on linguistic (im)politeness hosted by the Argo Research Centre. Following the respective conferences on cinema, TV series and theatre, this year鈥檚 edition aims to investigate (im)politeness in fictional and scientific texts that use the page as their medium from a philological, linguistic and literary point of view.
Since the idea of textuality has gradually encompassed a wide spectrum of written forms, the term 鈥減age鈥� is understood a
Title: Reinstating Authorship and Human Agency in Translation
Date: Saturday, May 2nd, 2026 | Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Venue: Hunter College's Faculty Dining Room 8th Floor (695 Park Ave, New York, NY 10065) / Zoom
RSVP: https://forms.gle/UvgmfZuryC6DQefL8
In the face of the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence and automated language production, the question of authorship returns with urgency. Reinstating human agency in translation means renewing attention to the social, pragmatic,
RALFe 2026, the ninth edition of Rencontres autour de la linguistique formelle, France鈥檚 premier annual conference for formal linguistics, coorganised by Universit茅s Paris 8 and Paris Cit茅 will take place at Paris Cit茅 on June 3鈥�5 2026. Registration information will soon be available via the conference website, https://sites.google.com/view/ralfe2026. Any updates to running order, venue specifics, and the like will be found there too.
Our invited speakers are:
- Colin Phillips (University o
Title: Reinstating Authorship and Human Agency in Translation
Date: Saturday, May 2nd, 2026 | Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Venue: Hunter College's Faculty Dining Room 8th Floor (695 Park Ave, New York, NY 10065) / Zoom
RSVP: https://forms.gle/UvgmfZuryC6DQefL8
In the face of the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence and automated language production, the question of authorship returns with urgency. Reinstating human agency in translation means renewing attention to the social, pragmatic,
RALFe 2026, the ninth edition of Rencontres autour de la linguistique formelle, France鈥檚 premier annual conference for formal linguistics, coorganised by Universit茅s Paris 8 and Paris Cit茅 will take place at Paris Cit茅 on June 3鈥�5 2026. Registration information will soon be available via the conference website, https://sites.google.com/view/ralfe2026. Any updates to running order, venue specifics, and the like will be found there too.
Our invited speakers are:
- Colin Phillips (University o
We are pleased to announce PaydaDosh (https://paydadosh.ru), the largest online Ingush-Russian and Russian-Ingush dictionary currently available.
The resource includes:
- 66,000+ lexical entries with source references (Uzhakhov 1927, Kurkiev 2005, Nichols 2004, and others)
- Parallel text corpus: literary works in Ingush with Russian translation
- 2,000+ proverbs with translation and thematic index
- 171 folk stories (锌褉懈褌褔懈) with translation
- Phrasebook with ready-made conversational
To celebrate the centenary of the Prague Linguistic Circle, an international conference is being held at INALCO (Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales). Focusing on the relationships between language, norm and society, the conference will build on the Prague theoretical tradition while engaging with contemporary research in sociolinguistics, glottopolitics, language teaching, language contact, variation and typology. The aim is to examine how these notions have evolved since
To celebrate the centenary of the Prague Linguistic Circle, an international conference is being held at INALCO (Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales). Focusing on the relationships between language, norm and society, the conference will build on the Prague theoretical tradition while engaging with contemporary research in sociolinguistics, glottopolitics, language teaching, language contact, variation and typology. The aim is to examine how these notions have evolved since
Call for Papers:
Linguistic Evidence will take place from 15-16 October 2026 at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language Mannheim, Germany.
Linguistic Evidence is a biennial conference series founded in 2004 at the University of T眉bingen (https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/core-research/collaborative-research-centers/crc-833/linguistic-evidence/#c1511619). It serves as an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary forum for researchers from all linguistic and neighboring disciplines w
PhD position at ZAS (project LIBILLE)
The Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS) invites applications for a PhD research position inthe project LIBILLE within the DFG priority program LaSTing for a period of 3 years and apercentage of 66% (25.74 h/week) starting between July 1st and October 1st 2026.
Please consult the full advertisement here: https://www.leibniz-zas.de/fileadmin/media/Dokumente/Karriere/LastingJob.pdf
Some of the details:
Job Description:
The project LIBILLE examin
Registration for the 8th edition of the Translation in Transition Conference, taking place 9-11 September 2026 at RWTH Aachen University, is now open!
Please see our website for the registration link and more useful information [1]. Early-bird registration ends on June 30. Under 鈥楢ccommodation鈥� [2], you can find a selection of different hotel rooms in Aachen that have been reserved for conference participants.
The conference makes room for discussion of all strands of empirical research in t
Registration for the 8th edition of the Translation in Transition Conference, taking place 9-11 September 2026 at RWTH Aachen University, is now open!
Please see our website for the registration link and more useful information [1]. Early-bird registration ends on June 30. Under 鈥楢ccommodation鈥� [2], you can find a selection of different hotel rooms in Aachen that have been reserved for conference participants.
The conference makes room for discussion of all strands of empirical research in t
Final Call for Papers:
Organisers: Klaus Abels, Ad Neeleman, Sakshi Bhatia, Sana Kidwai
Workshop webpage: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences/events/2026/jul/workshop-rightward-movement
Rightward Movement is a two-day inaugural workshop of the AHRC funded project 'The Structure and Processing of Rightward Scrambling in Hindi-Urdu.鈥� The workshop will bring together researchers working on the syntax of (apparent) rightward movement in any language. It aims to advance our understanding of
Call for Papers:
We invite abstracts for either oral presentation (20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of discussion) or poster presentation for AMP and its special session on phonological malleability (details below). Abstracts must be anonymous, so please be sure to eliminate any identifying information and metadata from the document. Length is limited to a maximum of two single-spaced pages (US Letter/A4), figures and references included. Font size should be 12-point, with margins of at lea
Final Call for Papers:
Implicit arguments 鈥� participants in an event or relation that are not overtly realized but are nonetheless interpreted and syntactically active 鈥� pose persistent challenges for theories of argument structure, linking, and the syntax-semantics interface. Canonical examples include, among others, the unexpressed external argument of passives (The ship was sunk), null internal arguments of certain transitive verbs (Tom already ate), and unsaturated thematic roles in dever
The Department of English at the American University of Sharjah invites applications for a full-time Graduate Research Assistant (GRA) position associated with a Faculty Research Grant (FRG26-S43) project titled: The Role of HVPT and GenAI in Technology-Supported L2 Pronunciation Development. Adopting a mixed-methods experimental design, the project investigates how High Variability Phonetic Training (HVPT) and Generative AI-mediated interaction support the perceptual and productive development
Final Call for Papers:
Deadline extension:
Pronominal systems represent one of the most fertile testing grounds for understanding grammar as a symbolic system adapted to a stochastic cognitive environment. Pronouns are minimal in descriptive content but maximal in context dependency: they enable reference-tracking without lexical repetition, interact closely with information structure, and frequently give rise to mismatches between form and meaning (Onea et al. 2023).
The 2026 edition o
SUMMARY
Forensic Linguistics in Southern Africa: Origins, Progress and Prospects by Russell H. Kaschula, Monwabisi K. Ralarala, Eliseu Mabasso, Zakeera Docrat, Wellman Kondowe, and Paul Svongoro is an open-access Study in Cambridge鈥檚 Studies in Forensic Linguistics series. It surveys the emergence and consolidation of forensic linguistics across southern Africa and, more selectively, other African regions, with an explicit concern for access to justice and the United Nations鈥� Sustainable Deve
Summary
Written by Jack Pun and Audrey Chan, Exploring Clinical Communication in Asia begins with an introduction chapter. The content is divided into two sections: (i) Insights from interviews with clinicians and (ii) Skills for effective clinical communication. Section one consists of nine chapters where interviews covered a broad range of specialised fields, such as Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to oncology, neurology and veterinary science. Section Two consists of four chapters where