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The LINGUIST List - Mon, 11/24/2025 - 15:05
Workshop description: We are delighted to announce that the 8th edition of Experimental and Corpus-Based Approaches to Ellipsis (ECBAE) will take at the Hohentübingen Castle, Tübingen, Germany, on 19-20 August 2026. The workshop brings together researchers using empirical methods to investigate ellipsis and related phenomena across languages. It will provide an opportunity to discuss how corpus-based and experimental approaches can advance our understanding of how various components of grammar

The LINGUIST List - Mon, 11/24/2025 - 15:05
Keynote Speakers: Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck, Leipzig) Martin Hilpert (Uni. of Neuchâtel) Sophie Prévost (CNRS – Lattice) Graeme Trousdale (Uni. of Edinburgh) Keynote Discussant: Bernd Heine (Uni. of Cologne) ‘Grammaticalization’ (a term introduced by Meillet in 1912) has been the subject of numerous studies, which have highlighted regularities in the emergence of grammatical forms across typologically diverse languages. Grammaticalization refers both to a type of change (and somet

The LINGUIST List - Mon, 11/24/2025 - 15:05
We are tremendously excited to announce Sinologists in Bydgoszcz: The 3rd International Conference on Chinese Languages, Literature, and Culture (SinB-2026), which will be conducted online via Zoom from May 22-23, 2026. Participation in SinB-2026 is free of charge. We welcome submissions from various perspectives on Chinese language teaching and learning, Chinese studies, including Chinese languages and linguistics, literature, and culture. Important Dates: Abstract Submission Due: March 01,

The LINGUIST List - Mon, 11/24/2025 - 14:05
Other Specialties: multilingualism, language contact, foreign language acquisition Description: The professorship will focus on language acquisition in the Romance languages (L1, L2, foreign language acquisition, multilingualism) both in research and teaching. We expect a PhD in this field of research covering at least one of the three languages French, Italian and Spanish. The candidate is expected to represent at least two, ideally all three languages in research and teaching. The candid

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Description: Starting from April 1, 2026, the section of English Linguistics in English and American Studies at TU Braunschweig offers a position for a Postdoctoral Researcher in English Linguistics (m/f/d) (part-time or full-time, 50%-100% - German pay scale TV-L EG 13) The position is for a period of 3 years initially, subject to a successful evaluation of progress at the end of the first year. Salary ranges from 27k to 58k Euros per year depending on the applicant’s experience. The

The LINGUIST List - Mon, 11/24/2025 - 14:05
This is a PhD position in the project “Expressing time without verbs: non-verbal copula constructions in Southern Bantu and beyond”. The aim of this project is to describe and analyse the system of non-verbal copula constructions in Xhosa and Southern Bantu. It will explore what kind of inflection can be expressed on a noun or other part-of-speech, by means of a copula that is different per noun class and hence not a verb. The project will answer questions about the use of the noun as a predicat

The LINGUIST List - Mon, 11/24/2025 - 12:05
Verbal valency is the number of core arguments a verb can take, hence instantiating a particular valency frame. There are for instance zero-valent verbs e.g. to rain (Eng. it rains); monovalent verbs e.g. to sleep (Eng. I sleep); bivalent verbs e.g. to kiss (Eng. the girl kisses the boy); trivalent verbs e.g. to give (Eng. the boy gives a present to the girl); etc. The project’s overarching aim is to map out and analyze the valency patterns of Germanic. This is done by selecting a number of repr

McLing Newsletter - Mon, 11/24/2025 - 09:30
Congratulations to Siva Reddy who received a CS-Can Outstanding Early Career Computer Science Researcher award! CS-Can is Canada’s national organization for advancing computer science research and education. This Early Career award recognizes CS faculty members at Canadian universities who, within 10 years of receiving their PhD, have made significant contributions in their academic careers, particularly to research. […]

The LINGUIST List - Sun, 11/23/2025 - 15:05
Das Buch bietet den ersten Versuch weitere melanesische Sprachen neben der Fidschisprache näher zu untersuchen und die Verwandtschaftsbeziehungen der melanesischen Sprachen unter sich und zu den polynesischen Sprachen zu erforschen. Die Ermittlung des grammatikalischen Charakters der Sprachen und Dialekte, der weit über einen reinen Vergleich der Wörter hinausgeht, ist hierfür zentral. Der Autor H. C. von der Gabelentz nutzte hier die für 1860 üblichen verfügbaren Quellen: so untersuchte er 10

The LINGUIST List - Sun, 11/23/2025 - 15:05
Samuel J. Evans wrote this 5th edition of his short grammar on Welsh in 1908. Originally this work was intended as a textbook for pupils and students. The grammar includes chapters on orthography and the alphabet and spelling, etymology (classification, inflection and derivation of words), gives information on nominal and verbal morphology with a special focus on the mutation of vowels and consonants, a special feature of Welsh and Celtic languages in general. The chapter on syntax includes word

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Twenty-one linguistic families are counted in California. The authors conducted a vocabulary study to examine and structure these families in more detail. About two hundred and twenty-five English words were selected and compared with the known native equivalents to determine all similarities. Soon some similarities between almost all twenty-one tribes became apparent, and as the comparative vocabulary was completed, the number of similarities had become considerable. One group contained the int

The LINGUIST List - Sun, 11/23/2025 - 14:05
In dem westlichen Teil der Provinz West-Preussen und in einigen Dörfern der Kreise Bütow, Stolp und Lauenburg in Pommern spricht die Landbevölkerung (180000 Personen) eine Sprache, über welche die Meinungen sehr geteilt sind. Von streng wissenschaftlichen Standpunkt ist sie, soviel mir bekannt ist, von niemanden bisher behandelt worden. Die Hauptmundarten des Kaschubischen sind die nördliche (die pommersche und die Sprache des Kreises Neustadt und des nördlichen Teiles des Kartauser Kreises) un

The LINGUIST List - Sun, 11/23/2025 - 14:05
Der Madschame-Dialekt, oder auch Kimashami, ist ein Bantudialekt, der im Westen des Kilimandscharo in Tanzania von ca. 16000 Einwohnern als Muttersprache gesprochen wird. Der Schwerpunkt der Arbeit von Augustiny liegt auf dem Klassensystem und den Regeln für die Assimilation, die im Verb morphologisch kodierten Zeitformen, Relativpronomina, Relativsätze, Nomina (Genitiv und Lokativklassen), Kausativa, Ordnungszahlen, etc. Das Buch enthält zudem zwei übersetzte Beispieltexte aus der Kolonialz

The LINGUIST List - Fri, 11/21/2025 - 16:05
We are pleased to announce the release of NE-BERT, a state-of-the-art domain-specific foundation model designed to bridge the digital divide for the languages of Northeast India. Built on the ModernBERT architecture, NE-BERT provides open-source, high-performance language representations for 9 underserved languages of the region, spanning the Tibeto-Burman, Austroasiatic, and Indo-Aryan families. Linguistic Motivation: Standard multilingual models (like mBERT or indicBERT) often fail on North

McLing Newsletter - Fri, 11/21/2025 - 15:21
Our last P* meeting for this semester will be on Tuesday, Nov 25, from 1-2 pm in room 002 and on Zoom.  Irene, Jeanne, Massimo, and Alex (maybe) will practice presenting for their ASA presentations! All relevant documents (presentation schedules, abstracts, papers and slides/handouts) are available on this Google Drive.

McLing Newsletter - Fri, 11/21/2025 - 15:20
The Syntax-Semantics Group will be meeting on Tuesday, November 25, at 3-4pm in Room 117 of the 鶹ýվ linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/bQ4IXlJxTTShVcMHOosNtQ Dawn Lau (鶹ýվ) will be presenting “Surprisals, The Brain, and How Thematic Roles Are Processed.” Here is the abstract: Cross-linguistically, experimental data from neurolinguistics has initially shown blindness […]

The LINGUIST List - Fri, 11/21/2025 - 15:05
2025. iv, 414 pp. Contents Introduction: multilingual, multilectal, and multiscriptal writing Cecelia Cutler, Unn Røyneland and Zvjezdana Vrzić pp. 167-176 Norms at play Bjørn T. Ramberg and Unn Røyneland pp. 177-202 Professional identities and cosmopolitan personas: Latin as cultural capital in Scandinavian rune inscribers’ signatures Alessandro Palumbo pp. 203-226 How planning a national language cured the Croatian nationalists of xenolingohassen Kristian Novak pp. 227

The LINGUIST List - Fri, 11/21/2025 - 15:05
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Linguistics Student Organization (LSO) invites submissions for papers to be presented at the 20th Annual Workshop in General Linguistics (WiGL 20), to be held in-person Friday and Saturday, March 13-14, 2026 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In addition, online sessions will be held on Thursday, March 12, 2026 and the morning of Friday, March 13, 2026. The keynote speaker for the workshop is Professor L.J. Randolph Jr, with one potential additional keyno

The LINGUIST List - Fri, 11/21/2025 - 15:05
Description: The Department of Linguistics invites applications for a position as an Instructional Professor (open rank) in Linguistics and Cognitive Science with an expected start date of September 1, 2026, or as soon as possible thereafter. The selected candidate will be appointed at the rank of Assistant Instructional Professor, Associate Instructional Professor, or Instructional Professor, depending on qualifications and educational background. The initial appointment is for a minimum of

The LINGUIST List - Fri, 11/21/2025 - 14:05
Greetings, Linguists! The November 2025 issue of Speculative Grammarian—the premier scholarly journal featuring research in the neglected field of satirical linguistics—is now available online for your browsing pleasure.      http://specgram.com/CXCV.2/ The editors and publishers of Speculative Grammarian are proud to announce that the Penultimate Issue of our esteemed journal is now available. This issue offers many excellent articles, including a case study in how to deal with, let’s

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