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Other Specialties: Experimental Linguistics
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The Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main is one of the largest universities in Germany with around 41,000 students and with about 5,800 employees. Founded in 1914 by Frankfurt citizens and since 2008 once again proud of its foundation status Goethe University possesses a high degree of autonomy, modernity and professional diversity. As a comprehensive university, the Goethe University offers a total of 16 departments o
The Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham welcomes enquiries and applications for PhD study in linguistics, especially Romance and Ibero-Romance linguistics, as well as in a wide range of related fields in languages and cultures.
Sir Henry Thomas Scholarship:
In 2026 we will also be awarding the Sir Henry Thomas Scholarship, a competitive postgraduate scholarship for research in the fields of Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan or Latin American Studies (not limited to ling
Two 4-year PhD positions in the project `A Cyclic Optimization Approach to the A/A-bar Distinction in Syntax' as part of the DFG
Research Unit `Cyclic Optimization'
Starting date: March 1, 2026
Salary: Fully Funded Positions
Deadline: December 15, 2025
The DFG Research Unit `Cyclic Optimization' starting its second phase on March 1 2026 with 13 new research positions explores the interaction of cyclicity and optimization in all areas of grammar: phonology, morphology, syntax, and s
The dominant view in linguistics nowadays is that impoliteness is purely a matter of situational assessments by speech participants. This volume challenges that orthodoxy. Bringing together studies on structures that convey insults, threats and more in a wide range of languages, it shows that there is, in fact, a formal side to impoliteness. The volume reveals shared features of and sources for grammatical expressions of impoliteness, explores ways in which their impolite character can be establ
Other Specialties: Romance Linguistics
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The University of Klagenfurt wants to attract more qualified women for professorships.
The University of Klagenfurt is pleased to announce the following open position in the Department of Romance Languages within the Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Education, in compliance with the provisions of Art. 98 (open-ended) or Art. 99 (limited to 5 years) of the Austrian Universities Act:
Full Professor of Romance Linguistics (Italian and French
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Prominence relations establish a ranking between linguistic units, such as prosodic units, arguments of a verb, and discourse referents. Prominence is one of the key notions in language and communication: it accounts, for instance, for prosodic highlighting and for the building of linguistic structure and discourse representations. The CRC 1252 Prominence in Language (University of Cologne) investigates the role of prominence from an interdisciplinary linguistic perspective,
The Complutense Undergraduate Linguistics Conference (C(U)LC 2026) is an academic event organized by students from the Department of Linguistics at the Complutense University of Madrid, to be held on March 23–24, 2026, at the Faculty of Philology, in hybrid modality (both in person and online).
C(U)LC aims to create a scientific meeting space for undergraduate seniors and first-year MA students interested in linguistic research. The conference seeks to encourage dialogue, collaboration, and t
2025. iii, 168 pp.
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Articles
Examining contextual constraints on the English dative alternation in L2 written production: A contrastive multifactorial analysis
Qiao Gan & Min Wang
pp. 265–295
Using machine learning to automate data annotation in corpus linguistics: A case study with MacBERTh
Lauren Fonteyn, Enrique Manjavacas & Jaleesa De Regt
pp. 296–315
Interactive metadiscourse across languages and writer groups: A comparison among L1 Chinese, L2 English
2025. v, 172 pp.
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Editorial
Notes from the Editors
pp. 177–178
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A guide to construct non-canonical wh-questions: A cross-linguistic perspective
Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai
pp. 179–202
Restrictions on the rhetorical use of shenme-shihou sentences in Mandarin Chinese
Chi-Ming Louis Liu
pp. 203–223
Word order optionality in question formation in Chinese copula clauses
Gerardo Fernández-Salgueiro
pp. 224–245
Disjunctions and questions in Mandarin C
2024. iii, 108 pp.
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The beneficial effect and possible mechanisms of observing gestures in mental rotation training
Yan Zhang, Chenyu Zhou, Yabo Ge, Fengying Li & Weijian Li
pp. 199–216
What counts as a relevant gesture in the study of multimodal event expressions?
Anna Margetts, Eleanor Jorgensen, Isabelle Burke & Harriet Sheppard
pp. 217–258
Charting the development of pointing: A longitudinal study on social and non-social index finger use
Sofi
2025. vi, 298 pp.
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Preface
Foreword
Kristel Doreleijers, Remco Knooihuizen & Eva van Lier
pp. 227–228
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Pleidooi voor nutteloze beschaving
Mark Dingemanse
pp. 229–235
Vowel devoicing as prosodic augmentation in Mẽbêngôkre
Bernat Bardagil
pp. 236–251
Uhm… The use of hesitation markers on the social media platform X in Dutch and Spanish
Patricia Sánchez Carrasco, Imke Wets & Lotte Hogeweg
pp. 252–268
Tread lightly: Deriving distribu
2025. iv, 127 pp.
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In pursuit of childfree lifestyle? Discursive legitimation of Chinese childfree women on RedNote
Chao Lu
pp. 133–156
(In)visibility matters: Reappropriating stigma in Filipino HIV and AIDS trope through Kapwa and Hiya
George Vincent F. Gamayo
pp. 157–183
Hanja usage in Korean newspaper headlines: A diachronic analysis of language in shaping national identity
Jaehee Kwak & Jaeeun Kwak
pp. 184–201
The syntax of emojis in X co
2025. v, 141 pp.
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Introduction
Rethinking translating cultures
Moneera Al-Ghadeer, Charles Forsdick, Mohammed Al-Sudairi, Andreas Karatsolis, Eric Calderwood & Mohammed Allwaish
pp. 725–739
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The role of artificial intelligence tools in mediating Sino-Arab cultural exchanges through intercultural translation
Mubarak Alkhatnai
pp. 740–769
Translating the nation in nineteenth-century Arabic: A diachronic corpus study
Marianna Massa
pp. 770–791
2025. v, 120 pp.
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Acknowledgements
p. 1
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Burgundische Personennamen im Kontakt mit Fränkisch und Galloromanisch als Elemente der Rekonstruktion einer ostgermanischen Trümmersprache
Wolfgang Haubrichs
pp. 2–26
Old French exploitation toponyms in the northern Low Countries and their significance for medieval Dutch settlement history
Alexia E. Kerkhof
pp. 27–43
Germanisch-romanische Sprachkontakte: Wie außersprachliche Faktoren die Linguisti
2025. iii, 103 pp.
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How machine translation is used in healthcare: Insights from recent Chinese migrants in the Netherlands
Tian Yang & Susana Valdez
pp. 125–149
Mapping the production stage of a video game localization project with actor-network theory
Dariush Robertson
pp. 150–178
Industry watch
A digital sociology of interpreting: Charting the digital turn in interpreting studies
Esther Monzó-Nebot & Vorya Dastyar
pp. 179–204
Book revie
2025. v, 201 pp.
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Introduction
Areal effects on argument-coding patterns: Problems, progress, and prospects
Daria Alfimova, Kirill Kozhanov & Sergey Say
pp. 757–777
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Postnominal flagging and OV in Sinitic: Areal and typological perspectives
Andreas Hölzl
pp. 778–822
Valency patterns in Mande: Contact vs inheritance
Maria Khachaturyan, George Moroz, Valentin Vydrin & Maria Konoshenko
pp. 823–857
Variation in valency patterns across Romani dial
2025. iii, 130 pp.
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School, age, and exposure effects in the child heritage language acquisition of the Spanish volitional subjunctive
Patrick D. Thane
pp. 745–775
Individual language experience determinants of morphosyntactic variation in heritage and attriting speakers of Bosnian and Serbian: A causal inference approach
Aleksandra Tomić, Yulia Rodina, Fatih Bayram & Cecile De Cat
pp. 776–811
Facilitative use of classifiers in heritage Vietnamese
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Sponsorship for Juan de la Cierva/Beatriu de Pinós Postdoctoral Contracts at UB Barcelona
The coordinated research project "The grammar and its interfaces: architecture, variation and applications" in the Department of Catalan Philology and General Linguistics at Universitat de Barcelona (Catalonia) is accepting expressions of interest from researchers interested in applying to the upcoming Juan de la Cierva (Spanish Government) and Beatriu de Pinós (Catalan Government) postdoctoral calls, to
The aim of this eleventh issue of the journal Langue(s) & Parole is to bring together articles that focus on the situated process of language acquisition by adolescents, a population that is largely underrepresented in second language acquisition research. Of the 89 classroom studies that Collins and Muñoz (2016) identified in the Modern Language Journal between 2001 and 2014, only 15, or 17%, focused on adolescents in secondary education, compared to 75% on adults. Adolescence will therefore be
Review of Linguistics and Oral History
Reviewer: Philemon Victor Gomwalk
Book Title: Linguistics and Oral History
Editor: Chris Fitzgerald
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Date of Publication: 2025
Summary
Chris Fitzgerald’s edited volume is organized into twelve (12) chapters. These chapters broadly explore the intersection of linguistics and oral history, covering topics such as the role of memory and language, the interpretation of transcription practices, and the challen