The Institute of Western European Languages and Literature of the Faculty of Humanities at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University announces a Call for Applications for the interdisciplinary symposium 鈥淒ialogue of Cultures: Georgia and the Outside World (Literary, Cultural, Historical, and Diplomatic Relations)鈥� to be held on October 22鈥�23, 2026, at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.
The aim of the symposium is to bring together Georgian and international researchers, translat
The 2nd Workshop on Computational Humor (CHum 2026) will take place virtually on July 3 or 4, 2026 as part of the 64th Annual Meeting of the the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026).
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CHum 2026 aims to foster further work on modeling the processes of humor with current methods in computational linguistics and natural language processing, against the theoretical backdrop of humor research and with reference to relevant corpora of textual, visual, and multimoda
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Applicants are invited to apply for the postdoctoral research fellow position at the Institute of Psychology, University of Tartu, Estonia. The position is funded by the Estonian Research Council project Native Language Background and the Brain鈥檚 Perception and Learning of a Foreign Language,鈥� led by Dr. Siqi Lyu.
The research project adopts both the behavioral and EEG methods to investigate how three groups of native speakers, i.e., Mandarin Chinese speakers, Estonian speaker
The Institute of Western European Languages and Literature of the Faculty of Humanities at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University announces a Call for Applications for the interdisciplinary symposium 鈥淒ialogue of Cultures: Georgia and the Outside World (Literary, Cultural, Historical, and Diplomatic Relations)鈥� to be held on October 22鈥�23, 2026, at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.
The aim of the symposium is to bring together Georgian and international researchers, translat
A workshop of the PALA-LAND Special Interest Group (http://www.pala.ac.uk/land-sig.html) on the stylistics of landscape, place and environment will be led by Daniela Francesca Virdis (University of Cagliari) and Elisabetta Zurru (University of Genoa).
Its primary aim will be to survey current stylistic approaches to concepts of landscape, place and environment (and related notions such as space, setting, cityscape, etc.) against the backdrop of one of the prominent challenges the world is fac
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This post-doctoral position is within the research and teaching team of Prof. Dr. Sophie Repp at the Institute for German Language and Literature I at the University of Cologne, Germany. The team focus on combining linguistic modelling and quantitative data collection/analysis using various experimental methods and written, oral and audiovisual corpus analyses in the fields of phonetics/phonology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics and multimodal communication. The target language is
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On 7-9 May 2026, the Romanian Lectureship and the Department of Romance Philology at the University of Salamanca, together with the Romanian Language Institute in Bucharest are organising the RoSal conference, 80 years of Romanian Studies at the University of Salamanca, which celebrates the introduction of Romanian language courses at this institution in 1946.
The conference is aimed at the scientific community in Romania, Spain and other countries and is open to any topic
A workshop of the PALA-LAND Special Interest Group (http://www.pala.ac.uk/land-sig.html) on the stylistics of landscape, place and environment will be led by Daniela Francesca Virdis (University of Cagliari) and Elisabetta Zurru (University of Genoa).
Its primary aim will be to survey current stylistic approaches to concepts of landscape, place and environment (and related notions such as space, setting, cityscape, etc.) against the backdrop of one of the prominent challenges the world is fac
El objetivo del encuentro es reunir a personal investigador interesado en analizar, debatir y visibilizar las m煤ltiples manifestaciones de la discriminaci贸n ling眉铆stica en diferentes contextos sociales, educativos, institucionales y medi谩ticos.
La discriminaci贸n ling眉铆stica constituye una de las formas menos visibilizadas, pero m谩s persistentes, de desigualdad social. Las lenguas, los indicios sociales asociados a ellas y las variedades ling眉铆sticas no son 煤nicamente medios de comunicaci贸n, s
Northern Englishes is a series of workshops focused on dialects of English associated with the linguistic 鈥榥orth鈥� of the UK. We are delighted to announce that the 11th Northern Englishes Workshop (NEW11) will take place in York from 9th-10th September 2026 at The Guildhall, a stunning 15th century building right in the heart of York city centre.
We are adopting a fairly loose definition of what constitutes 'northern Englishes': this includes everything from the North of England and as far so
We are pleased to announce that the 5th edition of the Workshop on Linguistic Theories and the Teaching of L2/L3/Ln to take place on February 6th 2026.
This year鈥檚 edition focuses on curricular documents and their relationship with linguistic theories and language pedagogy, and will bring together researchers and practitioners to reflect on the role of curricular documents in language teaching. The workshop will present experiences in the design of curricular frameworks for adult additional
El objetivo del encuentro es reunir a personal investigador interesado en analizar, debatir y visibilizar las m煤ltiples manifestaciones de la discriminaci贸n ling眉铆stica en diferentes contextos sociales, educativos, institucionales y medi谩ticos.
La discriminaci贸n ling眉铆stica constituye una de las formas menos visibilizadas, pero m谩s persistentes, de desigualdad social. Las lenguas, los indicios sociales asociados a ellas y las variedades ling眉铆sticas no son 煤nicamente medios de comunicaci贸n, s
Northern Englishes is a series of workshops focused on dialects of English associated with the linguistic 鈥榥orth鈥� of the UK. We are delighted to announce that the 11th Northern Englishes Workshop (NEW11) will take place in York from 9th-10th September 2026 at The Guildhall, a stunning 15th century building right in the heart of York city centre.
We are adopting a fairly loose definition of what constitutes 'northern Englishes': this includes everything from the North of England and as far so
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The second edition of the DM meets Nano workshop, to be held at the Masaryk University (Brno) on July 7-9, 2026, aims to bring together researchers working within Distributed Morphology and Nanosyntax, inviting them to share recent developments and findings in their respective frameworks and/or to examine (key) phenomena from a comparative perspective, highlighting both the similarities and differences between the two approaches. This way, the conference wants t
UC Santa Cruz will host the 35th annual meeting of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics from May 1, 2026 to May 3, 2026. Our invited speakers are Miloje Despic (Cornell University), Vera Gribanova (Stanford University) and Gaja Jarosz (University of Massachusetts, Amherst).
Submissions will be invited for 20 min presentations and 10 minutes of questions. The conference will be in person, but we will also offer some fully online sessions, to accommodate participants who may not be able to a
The Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop is a theoretically-oriented forum for dealing with all aspects of comparative Germanic syntax, from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives. The 38th workshop will take place on September 24-25, 2026, at the University of Potsdam. This year, we also encourage submissions that use experimental methods to investigate issues in formal Germanic syntax.
Invited speakers: Imke Driemel, Gert-Jan Schoenmakers
We invite submissions of anonymous abstracts
Our first presentation will be on Monday, Jan 19,12-1pm in room 117 and on Zoom. Meghan will be presenting this paper (attached): Jang, J., Lee, J., Lee, J., Kim, S., & Cho, T. (2025). Unveiling Denasalization as an Ongoing Sound Change: The Role of Prosody and Gender in Seoul Korean. Language and Speech, 00238309251390431. All relevant documents (schedules, abstracts, papers and slides/handouts) will be […]
The Syntax-Semantics Group will hold its next meeting on Thursday, January 22, at 2-3pm in Room 002 of the 麻豆传媒网站 linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/84180431566 Alessio Tosolini (麻豆传媒网站) will be presenting 鈥淎nalyzing the Linguistic Priors of Language Models with Synthetic Languages鈥� Here is the abstract:
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鈥淭he Indo-European Language Family: A Phylogenetic Perspective鈥� offers an up-to-date evaluation of computational approaches as well as traditional approaches to the subgrouping of the Indo-European (IE) family tree. Following an introductory chapter, the volume begins with three chapters which deal with subgrouping at large. They tackle questions ranging from 鈥榳hat can necessitate the postulation of a subgroup?鈥� to 鈥榳hat are the strengths and shortcomings of employing algorithms?鈥� The
Guest Editors:
Anke Berns, Department of French and English Philology, University of C谩diz (Spain), anke.berns@uca.es
Antigoni Parmaxi, Language Centre of CUT, Cyprus University of Technology (Cyprus), antigoni.parmaxi@cyprusinteractionlab.com
Telmo Zarraonandia, Department of Computer Science, University Carlos III of Madrid (Spain), tzarraon@inf.uc3m.es
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Educational authoring tools and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are increasingly reshaping educati