"(In)transitivity and its Variation" workshop, founded by SLE Joint initiatives research grant 2026, will be held in Pozna艅 (Poland) on 28-29 September 2026. This workshop aims to explore the interplay of semantics, morphology, and syntax in encoding (in)transitivity, investigating the functional motivations underlying valency patterns across diverse language families.
We welcome contributions dealing with (but not restricted to) the following topics:
- Transitivity prominence especially of
The Department of Phonetics at Trier University is proud to host the 34th Annual Conference of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA2026). The conference will take place at Trier University.
Important Dates:
- Deadline for Abstract submission: 03 April 2026
- Notification of acceptance: 15 May 2026
- Deadline for submission of work-in-progress posters: 24 May 2026
- Notification of acceptance for work-in-progress posters: 14 June 2026
Submission
The Constructed Agents theme provides a forum for exploring how humans develop their understanding of AI agents from their exposure to representations of agents in literature and film. The conference explores how and to what extent representations of non-human sentient agents such as Frankenstein鈥檚 creature in Mary Shelley鈥檚 1818 novel and Hal in 2001 Space Odyssey may shape views of today鈥檚 language-using AI agents including those for language learning.
Abstracts are invited for presentation
"(In)transitivity and its Variation" workshop, founded by SLE Joint initiatives research grant 2026, will be held in Pozna艅 (Poland) on 28-29 September 2026. This workshop aims to explore the interplay of semantics, morphology, and syntax in encoding (in)transitivity, investigating the functional motivations underlying valency patterns across diverse language families.
We welcome contributions dealing with (but not restricted to) the following topics:
- Transitivity prominence especially of
The Department of Phonetics at Trier University is proud to host the 34th Annual Conference of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA2026). The conference will take place at Trier University.
Important Dates:
- Deadline for Abstract submission: 03 April 2026
- Notification of acceptance: 15 May 2026
- Deadline for submission of work-in-progress posters: 24 May 2026
- Notification of acceptance for work-in-progress posters: 14 June 2026
Submission
The Constructed Agents theme provides a forum for exploring how humans develop their understanding of AI agents from their exposure to representations of agents in literature and film. The conference explores how and to what extent representations of non-human sentient agents such as Frankenstein鈥檚 creature in Mary Shelley鈥檚 1818 novel and Hal in 2001 Space Odyssey may shape views of today鈥檚 language-using AI agents including those for language learning.
Abstracts are invited for presentation
We are happy to invite you to NIC 2026 conference, which will take place at Vilnius University (Vilnius, Lithuania) on 17鈥�19 August 2023.
The topic of this year鈥檚 conference is Intercultural Communication for Change. With this theme, we encourage discussion of intercultural communication as a way of engaging with change at multiple levels (individual, organisational, societal, and global), as well as of the implications of intercultural communication research for policy-making, institutional
We are pleased to invite you to the forthcoming seminar series From the Perspective of the Addressee, which will be held in English and take place entirely online.
The next session will take place on Friday, 13 March 2026, at 3:00 p.m. (CET). We will have the pleasure of hearing Francesco Cutugno (University of Naples Federico II), who will give a talk entitled Intendi?, 驴Entiendes?, Did you get it? - The Acoustic Unpacking of Meaning.
Programme:
- [passed] Friday, 14 November 2025, 15:00
Conducting independent replication and reproduction studies of past research findings has gained increasing importance in recent years, particularly in light of the interdisciplinary replication crisis affecting many research fields. For this reason, we have recently founded a new interdisciplinary journal, 鈥淩eplication Research (R2)鈥�, which is now open for submissions. Accepted formats include all types of replications, reproductions, and conceptual contributions on the topic of replication and
We are happy to invite you to NIC 2026 conference, which will take place at Vilnius University (Vilnius, Lithuania) on 17鈥�19 August 2023.
The topic of this year鈥檚 conference is Intercultural Communication for Change. With this theme, we encourage discussion of intercultural communication as a way of engaging with change at multiple levels (individual, organisational, societal, and global), as well as of the implications of intercultural communication research for policy-making, institutional
This book presents empirical research from a wide range of South Asian contexts, in order to develop critical understandings of the intricate relationships between translingual practices, language education, social justice and equity. The chapters explore the feasibility, acceptance and prospects of translingual practices as meaningful communication and pedagogic practices in South Asian English language classrooms.
The authors identify diverse language uses in sociolinguistically unexplored
The last two decades have seen a series of publications focused on time. So, why another book? It now appears that a kairos moment has arrived to reconsider from a more holistic point of view the manifold ways in which we think about time and talk about it. The book is divided into four major parts: Fundamental issues; Conceptualization of temporality across languages and cultures; Metaphor, metonymy, and time conceptualization; and Time and grammar. Following the two chapters that prefigure the
We are pleased to announce the 1st Call for Participation in our MediaEval 2026 shared task: Missing Pieces and Misinformation: Identifying Social Media Posts with Implicit Messages.
Task Description:
Given a tweet, determine whether it contains an implicit premise, an implicit conclusion, or neither. This is a three-class classification task.
Input: The raw text of a tweet.
Output: One label: implicit_premise, implicit_conclusion, or none.
An implicit premise is a supportin
Call for Papers:
Almost 30 years later, the International Congress of the International Society for Applied Psycholinguistics (ISAPL) returns to the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto in Porto, Portugal, continuing the exceptional and visionary work of the founders of this international scholarly association.
The 13th International Congress of the International Society for Applied Psycholinguistics (ISAPL 2026) will take place from 11 to 13 June 2026, bringing togeth
We are pleased to announce the 1st Call for Participation in our MediaEval 2026 shared task: Missing Pieces and Misinformation: Identifying Social Media Posts with Implicit Messages.
Task Description:
Given a tweet, determine whether it contains an implicit premise, an implicit conclusion, or neither. This is a three-class classification task.
Input: The raw text of a tweet.
Output: One label: implicit_premise, implicit_conclusion, or none.
An implicit premise is a supportin
The University of Luxembourg and Marie Speyer Gender Excellence Grant is happy to support a new lecture series in critical media studies, with many focusing on digital/media/and linguistic anthropology, language and gender, or critical discourse analysis Our first talk by the fantastic Prof. Dr. Dominika Baran (Duke, USA) exemplifies these with a critical discourse analysis of reactionary media and anti-gender ideology. The talk is March 19, at 4pm CET, 10am EST
Please see the invitation
The next Acquisition Sketch Project Meeting is on "An in-progress look at the Totoli Acquisition Sketch鈥�, presented by Maria Bardaji.
It will be held on Wednesday March 11 as follows:
Los Angeles = 9 am
Mexico City = 10 am
New York = 12 pm
Berlin = 5 pm
Tbilisi = 8 pm
Delhi = 9:30 pm
Zoom link = https://uni-koeln.zoom.us/j/98377387344?pwd=b5sdre2JHB8cmBUTX5eGts2KG5s11w.1
Meeting ID = 983 7738 7344
Password = 488543
Check https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/ for the corr
On behalf of the DELAMAN Award Committee, I am pleased to announce that Wesley dos Santos is the recipient of the 2026 DELAMAN Award for his archived collection of language documentation materials entitled "Kawahiva: documentation of vocabulary, grammar, texts, and verbal arts / Kawahiva: documenta莽茫o do vocabul谩rio, gram谩tica, textos, e artes verbais." This collection in the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR) covers three of the eight varieties of Kawah铆va鈥擩uma (ISO 639-3 jua), Parintintin (pa
Description:
Post-doc position in English linguistics, 60%
Start: 1 August 2026
As of August 1, 2026, the Department of Languages and Literatures of the University of Basel (English division, Prof. Miriam Locher) is seeking to fill a 60% post-doc position in English linguistics. The position is intended for further academic qualification and is limited in duration (2+4 years).
Your tasks:
- Further academic qualification (second book or cumulative)
- Two hours of teaching per week in
Description:
PhD position in English linguistics, 60%
Start: 1 August 2026
As of August 1, 2026, the Department of Languages and Literatures of the University of Basel (English division, Prof. Miriam Locher) is seeking to fill a 60% PhD position in English linguistics. The position is intended for further academic qualification and is limited in duration (1+3 years).
Your tasks:
- Further academic qualification (PhD thesis and coursework)
- Two hours of teaching per week in English