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The LINGUIST List - Mon, 03/16/2026 - 10:05
This conference aims to support and promote research that significantly utilizes sources in Turkish or other Turkic languages by graduate students from fields including but not limited to literature, history, linguistics, language education, and related fields at North American academic institutions. It also offers a collaborative platform for the student presenters to share their work and exchange research ideas with their peers and the colleagues in attendance from the field. The AATT is d

The LINGUIST List - Mon, 03/16/2026 - 10:05
This panel is a continuation of the first panel “Language as Human Behaviour: The Legacy of William Diver and Érica García”, which took place in 2025 as part of the 17th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and brought together scholars from all over the world. The panel is dedicated to the functionally-oriented linguistic framework initiated by William Diver, Érica García and their students at Columbia University in the 1960s has come to be known as Columb

The LINGUIST List - Mon, 03/16/2026 - 10:05
Call for Papers: OASIS 6 (Ontology As Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics 6) will take place at the Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa, 13-16 October, 2026. The OASIS conference series aims to promote conversation across different disciplines that interface with semantics, using ontological questions as shared reference points. The broad questions in the background are these: 1. What basic ontological building blocks do we use to talk and think about the world? 2. Ho

Conferences - Mon, 03/16/2026 - 09:05
This conference will explore the rapidly evolving intersections between AI and language-based disciplines, bringing together perspectives from linguistics, literary and cultural studies, language education, and translation and interpreting. As AI systems increasingly shape how language is analyzed, produced, taught, and mediated, they invite both new methodological possibilities and critical reflection. The conference aims to examine how AI can model linguistic structure, meaning, variation, lea

The LINGUIST List - Mon, 03/16/2026 - 09:05
This conference will explore the rapidly evolving intersections between AI and language-based disciplines, bringing together perspectives from linguistics, literary and cultural studies, language education, and translation and interpreting. As AI systems increasingly shape how language is analyzed, produced, taught, and mediated, they invite both new methodological possibilities and critical reflection. The conference aims to examine how AI can model linguistic structure, meaning, variation, lea

The LINGUIST List - Mon, 03/16/2026 - 09:05
Description: We are looking for course instructors for the MA degree in Technology-Mediated Language Teaching and Learning at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Department of Arts and Humanities) Based in an online learning environment, course instructors introduce, guide, plan, stimulate, focus, motivate and tie together students' learning processes with a proactive approach. They provide teaching assistance to students both individually and collectively, monitoring their learning over

Conferences - Mon, 03/16/2026 - 08:05
The program of the 35th Colloquium on Generative Grammar (27-29 May, Universitat de Barcelona, Catalonia) is now available at: https://sites.google.com/view/cgg35barcelona. The CGG is an annual conference held in the Iberian peninsula since 1991. It provides a platform for linguists working in Generative grammar all over the world to come together and discuss current trends and topics in syntax, morphology, semantics, phonology and their interfaces.

Conferences - Mon, 03/16/2026 - 08:05
A Germanic Sandwich is a series of workshops in which Dutch is compared with its closest Germanic neighbours, English and German. Consistent with its geographical intermediate location, Dutch has been argued to occupy a linguistic position in between German and English. The 10th Germanic Sandwich workshop – the jubilee edition – will take place on Thursday 7 May and Friday 8 May 2026 at Freie Universität Berlin. The workshop series was founded in 2005, also at Freie Universität Berlin, to com

Conferences - Mon, 03/16/2026 - 08:05
Se invita a la presentación de comunicaciones orales sobre cualquier aspecto de la variación dialectal del español en los ámbitos de la morfología y sintaxis formales y teniendo en cuenta los enfoques tanto diacrónicos como sincrónicos. Uso de recursos digitales: Se valorarán especialmente las propuestas que hagan uso de recursos on-line y corpus digitales para el estudio de la variación dialectal, tales como (lista no exhaustiva): - ASinEs - ALPI - PRESEEA - CORPES XXI - COSER

McLing Newsletter - Sun, 03/15/2026 - 17:00
Next presentation will be on Monday, March 16th, 12-1pm in room 117 and on Zoom.  Alex will be presenting research from her thesis Lexical Recruitment in Perception: Effects of L1 Background, Contrast Type, and Proficiency. All relevant documents (schedules, abstracts, papers and slides/handouts) will be available on this Google Drive.

McLing Newsletter - Sun, 03/15/2026 - 16:57
The Syntax-Semantics Group will hold its next meeting on Thursday, March 19th, at 2-3pm in Room 002 of the 鶹ýվ linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/84180431566 Sama’a Salama (鶹ýվ) will be presenting.

McLing Newsletter - Sun, 03/15/2026 - 16:56
The next talk in our 2025-2026 鶹ýվ Linguistics Colloquium Series will be given by Mark Baker (Rutgers University) on Friday March 20th at 3:30pm at Leacock 232. The details of the talk are given below. Title: Obligatory Control into Propositional Complements Abstract: This paper considers three puzzles about obligatory control (OC) with so-called propositional verbs like claim in English (Chris claimed (to the judge) to […]

The LINGUIST List - Fri, 03/13/2026 - 15:05
Onomastics Online is a lecture series hosted by the International Council of Onomastic Sciences. Given by scholars from various academic backgrounds, the lectures demonstrate the importance and the multidisciplinary nature of onomastic research. Talks are held on Microsoft Teams. Preregistration is required for live attendance, but recordings are uploaded on our YouTube channel. In 2026, Onomastics Online presents five speakers: 11 June 2026 (17:00 UTC+2) Sonam Tshering - Bhutanese Persona

The LINGUIST List - Fri, 03/13/2026 - 14:05
I am pleased to introduce HDICT, a free and libre iOS dictionary reader app, designed for scholars who work deeply with dictionaries. Licence - GNU GPL v3.0. Available on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/hdict/id6759493062 Note - If you are on an android phone, and would like to test the app, kindly let me know off list. Why HDICT? Research often requires consulting multiple dictionaries across languages and traditions—sometimes in environments where stable internet

The LINGUIST List - Fri, 03/13/2026 - 14:05
We are a group of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Humboldt University of Berlin, and the University of Milano-Bicocca, collaborating on a research initiative to build shared infrastructure for psycholinguistic research. We would like to invite contributions to PsychLing-101, a community-driven repository that collects psycholinguistic datasets in a unified format for both traditional analyses and evaluation of large language models. Project overview Psyc

The LINGUIST List - Fri, 03/13/2026 - 14:05
This thesis traces the formation of a deaf community in Guinea-Bissau and the emergence of its sign language, Língua Gestual Guineense (LGG), offering rare real-time documentation of how a language develops from gestural roots. The relative absence of medical approaches to deafness enabled a free-signing environment in schools and informal meeting places. Within two decades, the first generation of signers in Bissau established a proud community and shaped an autochthonous sign language. The

The LINGUIST List - Fri, 03/13/2026 - 13:05
Dialectometry is a quantitative branch of dialectology, which makes use of computational and statistical methods on dialect data in order to understand language variation in space. The current dissertation presents how dialectometry can deepen our understanding of the variation of Yue dialects spoken in Southern China. It also shows how Yue can help us to broaden the scope of computational methods used in dialectometry, particularly in accounting for tonal languages, which are common in the worl

The LINGUIST List - Fri, 03/13/2026 - 13:05
This dissertation investigated cross-cultural vocal emotion recognition by four groups of listeners—Dutch, Korean, American English, and French listeners, responding to emotional speech utterances produced by either Dutch or Korean actors portraying four basic (anger, fear, joy, sadness) and four non-basic (pride, relief, tenderness, irritation) emotions. Both categorical and dimensional approaches to emotions were pursued. The project comprised three perception experiments and one simulation st

The LINGUIST List - Fri, 03/13/2026 - 13:05
The ability to learn and develop languages for communication is a uniquely human characteristic. Equip yourself by exploring language and linguistics as a discipline – this book is that exploration. Interactive exercises invite readers to engage with the critical linguistic questions. You will develop foundational skills to analyze languages scientifically, appreciate its diversity, and understand its profound impact on the human experience. In our interdependent global world understandi

The LINGUIST List - Fri, 03/13/2026 - 12:05
Call for Papers: Workshop Description: When we refer to entities and events in our environment, particularly (but not only) when visual information is present, we have choices. Depending on what has been said before, who or what else is in a scene, and the characteristics of what we want to refer to, we might say (among many other options) "the person running", "the runner", "the woman in the red shirt", "the one with the glasses", or "them over there". The extent of this variation in refe

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