This book analyzes the multilingual and multidialectal practices of Chinese Americans in Los Angeles, a city with a Chinese diasporic population of around 500,000. It describes the contact between different Chineses in a diasporic setting, illustrating how non-Putonghua features are made use of to form distinct identities and speech communities. It demonstrates that localized conceptions of 'Chineseness' hold greater sociolinguistic significance than the transnational narratives of a unified glo
Community/heritage language schools exist across the world, and yet little is known of the languages they teach, how they are organised and what students learn. Teachers in mainstream schools are generally unaware of the language and cultural knowledge their students are gaining from these schools. This book provides an overview of this educational sector and crucially how it interacts with mainstream education.
Students of all ages describe what they think of the schools, how language learni
This book aims to disrupt the native-speaker/non-native-speaker binary through a study of the construction of English teacher identities in Japan. The book suggests that macro discourses in the Japanese context, as well as institutional processes, are powerful forces in perpetuating native-speakerist discourses and ascribing identity labels.
However, in self-identification and in interactions with students, the results are found to be more nuanced, with a complex picture of identity construct
Final Call for Papers:
We are inviting proposals for presentations at the 21st Annual Meeting of Slavic Linguistics Society to be held at Seoul National University (Korea), from August 12 to 14, 2026. Papers dealing with any aspect of Slavic linguistics, within any theoretical framework or methodological approach, are welcome. The abstract submission deadline has been extended till April 30, 2026.
Keynote Speakers:
John F. Bailyn (Stony Brook University)
Hana Filip (Heinrich Heine Univer
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 who wish to exchange
We are pleased to announce the Workshop 鈥淧rosodic systems across languages and their varieties鈥� as part of the 3rd edition of the conference 鈥淟anguages and Language at the Crossroads of Disciplines鈥� (LLcD), organized within the CNRS Thematic Network LLcD. The conference will take place at Aix-Marseille University from 14 to 16 December 2026 (https://llcd2026.sciencesconf.org).
This workshop will bring together researchers鈥攂oth within the French-speaking community and internationally鈥攚ho inve
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 who wish to exchange
We are pleased to announce the Workshop 鈥淧rosodic systems across languages and their varieties鈥� as part of the 3rd edition of the conference 鈥淟anguages and Language at the Crossroads of Disciplines鈥� (LLcD), organized within the CNRS Thematic Network LLcD. The conference will take place at Aix-Marseille University from 14 to 16 December 2026 (https://llcd2026.sciencesconf.org).
This workshop will bring together researchers鈥攂oth within the French-speaking community and internationally鈥攚ho inve
Call for Papers:
We are happy to announce the first Call for Papers for the second edition of the conference series Applications of Relevance Theory (RT) to Translation and Interpreting (ARTTI). After the success of ARTTI-1 in Rome in February 2023, the second edition of ARTTI hopes to bring together cutting-edge research at the intersection of Relevance Theory and Translation and Interpreting Studies (T&I), with a special focus on theoretical and methodological developments related to the RT
We are pleased to invite you to participate in the 1st DL2 International Workshop, which will be held in hybrid format on 3rd and 4th December 2026 at the University of Alicante and online. We kindly ask you to distribute this invitation among your colleagues and staff.
This workshop, organised by the Digital Language Learning (DL2) research group at the University of Alicante, aims to provide a forum for discussing theoretical, methodological, and practical advancements in technology-enhance
We are pleased to invite you to participate in the 1st DL2 International Workshop, which will be held in hybrid format on 3rd and 4th December 2026 at the University of Alicante and online. We kindly ask you to distribute this invitation among your colleagues and staff.
This workshop, organised by the Digital Language Learning (DL2) research group at the University of Alicante, aims to provide a forum for discussing theoretical, methodological, and practical advancements in technology-enhance
Call for Papers:
The deadline for submissions for the conference 鈥淭he Expression of Indebtedness in Linguistics: Cross-Perspectives between European and Asian Languages鈥� has been extended to April 30, 2026.
Location: Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University (Lyon, France)
Conference dates: December 10鈥�11, 2026
New submission deadline: April 30, 2026
This conference explores the notion of indebtedness in linguistic interactions. It focuses on how speakers express, acknowledge, or negotiate relat
SUMMARY
This is a very short book (as are the other Cambridge "Elements in Phonology" books): 43 pages, not counting references; there is no index. The topic is phonological analysis for language documentation. More specifically, it covers the phonology of spoken languages. Sign languages are not covered, although there are some useful references (p.4). I will have more to say about what is not covered in my evaluation.
The introductory chapter sets the stage by explaining what languag
Call for Papers:
The Linguistic Society of Korea (LSK) is pleased to announce the 2026 Seoul International Conference on Linguistics (SICOL-2026), to be held on August 10鈥�11, 2026 at Sungshin Women鈥檚 University in Seoul, Korea (Participation mode: in person).
Recent advances in artificial intelligence鈥攑articularly large language models (LLMs)鈥攈ave reshaped how language is processed, modeled, and analyzed. As AI systems increasingly simulate aspects of linguistic competence and performance,
This thesis studies the syntax and semantics of null objects in Spanish. Null objects are grammatical elements that, despite not being uttered, are interpreted and display syntactic structure (e.g., En esta escuela castigan 脴 con dureza 鈥業n this school they punish harshly鈥�; Buscaban defectos de forma, pero no encontraron 脴 鈥楾hey were looking for formal defects, but found none鈥�). Despite the interest aroused by null objects in Romance languages, null objects of Spanish have gone almost unnoticed
Registration open!!
GRACE@IberLEF2026: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/13280/
GRACE@IberLEF2026 announces the first edition of a novel task on Argument Mining shared task in Spanish connecting Explainable AI and Evidence-Based Medicine across clinical trials and medical licensing examinations.
Argument Mining
Argument Mining automatically extracts claims and evidence from clinical text and reveals how they support or challenge each other, enabling transparent, traceable clinical
I am looking for adult speakers of Upper Swabian who grew up in or near the county of Ravensburg (Oberschwaben) in Germany.
The study investigates the AM-Progressive in Upper Swabian, such as: 'I be am schaffa.' Participants will evaluate sentences recorded in Upper Swabian. I am looking for speakers born between 1938-1980.
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We are delighted to share the second call for papers with you for Konferenz zur Verarbeitung nat眉rlicher Sprache (KONVENS) 2026, organized under the auspices of the GSCL, the DGfS-CL, the 脰GAI, and SwissNLP. This year鈥檚 KONVENS will take place in Hamburg, September 14 鈥� 17 under the special theme 鈥淐ontext Matters: NLP Beyond Text鈥�. The conference will include a diverse program including talks by our two keynote speakers:
- Dr. Valentin Hoffmann, Allen Institute for AI
- Prof. Dr. Barbara P
We invite submissions for papers, posters, or panels focusing on, but not limited to:
- Mother tongue/multilingual education strategies
- Literacy development through first language instruction
- Documentation and digitisation of endangered languages
- Language endangerment and revitalisation practices
- Linguistic diversity and social inclusion
- Computational tools for low-resource language preservation
- Policy, planning, and legal frameworks supporting multilingualism
- Cross
We are delighted to share the second call for papers with you for Konferenz zur Verarbeitung nat眉rlicher Sprache (KONVENS) 2026, organized under the auspices of the GSCL, the DGfS-CL, the 脰GAI, and SwissNLP. This year鈥檚 KONVENS will take place in Hamburg, September 14 鈥� 17 under the special theme 鈥淐ontext Matters: NLP Beyond Text鈥�. The conference will include a diverse program including talks by our two keynote speakers:
- Dr. Valentin Hoffmann, Allen Institute for AI
- Prof. Dr. Barbara P