This thesis examines how Amazigh (Berber) languages are planned in Morocco鈥攖he largest Amazigh-speaking country by population鈥攁nd investigates the considerations underlying these measures through the ideologies of the Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture (IRCAM).
It traces the historical development of the Amazigh cultural movement from its Kabylian origins in the colonial period to its Moroccan expression, showing how language planning鈥攖hrough the creation of the Neo-Tifinagh script and neolog
This dissertation investigates how bilingual speakers navigate lexico-syntactic features, including grammatical gender, classifier systems, and the linear order of adjectives and nouns, across Spanish and Chinese in both unilingual and bilingual contexts. The central focus is on how early Spanish鈥揅hinese bilinguals, particularly those residing in Barcelona, Spain, process and produce grammatical gender in Spanish and classifiers in Mandarin Chinese. It also examines how these bilinguals resolve
Languages employ different nominal classification systems to categorise nouns. In German, each noun is assigned a grammatical gender, while in Mandarin Chinese, nouns are paired with classifiers that align with semantic features. Grammatical gender and classifiers are lexico-syntactic features that are assumed to be automatically activated during speech production. Although grammatical gender has been widely studied, research on classifiers remains scarce, and it is unclear how such features are
This thesis investigates how native and second language (L2) speakers establish temporal relations in Spanish, integrating formal linguistic theory with experimental evidence. Part I examines temporal interpretation in complex (two-clause) sentences such as Mary said that John was sick. In this so-called 鈥榩ast-under-past鈥� construction, John鈥檚 illness may be understood as simultaneous with or anterior to Mary鈥檚 report. Competing accounts have attributed the availability (or lack thereof) of these
Pronominal systems represent one of the most fertile testing grounds for understanding grammar as a symbolic system adapted to a stochastic cognitive environment. Pronouns are minimal in descriptive content but maximal in context dependency: they enable reference-tracking without lexical repetition, interact closely with information structure, and frequently give rise to mismatches between form and meaning (Onea et al. 2023).
The 2026 edition of the Vienna Workshops on Portuguese Linguistics,
Pronominal systems represent one of the most fertile testing grounds for understanding grammar as a symbolic system adapted to a stochastic cognitive environment. Pronouns are minimal in descriptive content but maximal in context dependency: they enable reference-tracking without lexical repetition, interact closely with information structure, and frequently give rise to mismatches between form and meaning (Onea et al. 2023).
The 2026 edition of the Vienna Workshops on Portuguese Linguistics,
Call for Papers:
Call for Papers for Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference (Sept 2-4, Edinburgh) and Proposed Special Issue:
In-Group Queer Languages Beyond the West
Pioneering researchers of twentieth-century argots developed by sexual and gender minorities documented covert lexicons employed by trans women and gay men 鈥� often including sex workers 鈥� and, to a lesser extent, lesbian women and trans men (Hayes 1976; Painter 1981; Sonenschein 1969). This research typically expla
Final Call for Papers:
Deadline Extended.
From August 31st to September 2nd, 2026, the 11th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association (GCLA/Deutsche Gesellschaft f眉r kognitive Linguistik 鈥� DGKL) will take place on-site in Bielefeld, Germany.
We invite papers on a broad range of topics taking a cognitive approach to the study of language. For more information, see the DGKL/GCLA website about the tenets of Cognitive Linguistics.
General Session and Poster S
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L'茅tranget茅 en partage
Journ茅e d鈥櫭﹖ude sur les langues imaginaires
Besan莽on, 12 juin 2026
Nous sollicitons des propositions pour une journ茅e d鈥櫭﹖ude consacr茅e aux langues imaginaires, ou artlangs (artistic languages), qui se tiendra 脿 Besan莽on le 12 juin 2026.
On entend par langue imaginaire une langue invent茅e 脿 des fins artistiques et int茅gr茅e 脿 une 艙uvre de fiction (roman, film, s茅rie, bande dessin茅e, 艙uvre po茅tique, jeu vid茅o etc.). 脌 ce titre, elle se distingue d
Keynote with Charlotte Bosseaux with a Screening and Q&A of Surviving Translation
Roundtable discussion with poets and translators Anna B艂asiak, Maria Jastrz臋bska, and Piotr Florczyk
Political literature encapsulates and brings to light how the political permeates our everyday lives and situations, using a range of literary devices and genres as tools to share ideas and observations, thus actively taking part into shaping societies and individuals. As there are laws supporting some languages
Focus: Persian language classes are held daily and are designed to develop all core language skills. Each day includes focused grammar instruction in modern Persian, with references to classical usage, alongside systematic vocabulary building (approximately 1,500 new words over the course of the program).
Students regularly practice listening through songs, films, news, and short videos, while speaking skills are developed through discussions, conversations, and role-plays. Daily reading and
Focus: Generative Linguistics
Description:
The EGG summer school is turning to the broader community for financial support, through crowdfunding on this GoFundMe page:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-egg-eastern-generative-grammar
This is to help ensure that our teachers (who teach for free) are able to attend (the school covers their travel and accommodation in dorms) and that the summer school can take place as planned with modest student fees.
The longer text on the GoFundMe page
Two Doctoral Positions in Linguistics (part-time 65 %, E 13 TV-L)
Reference no.: 2026/010. Two doctoral positions are available as of April 1st, 2026. The positions are available until the end of 2029.
The University of Konstanz is a dynamic and internationally successful research university with approximately 10,000 students. The campus university鈥檚 architecture promotes interdisciplinary cooperation and a sense of community among researchers, lecturers and students. The University of Kon
University or Organization: Universitat Aut貌noma de Barcelona
Department: Centre de Ling眉铆stica Te貌rica
Job Location: Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain
Web Address: http://filcat.uab.cat/clt
Job Title: Beatriu de Pin贸s 3-year postdoctoral position
Deadline for expression of interest: 20 January 2026
Deadline for official online application to be filled by the candidate: 4 February 2026 at 14:00 h (CET).
Job Rank: 3 year postdoctoral position
Contact: Xavier.Villalba@uab.cat
Specialty Area
Termin脿lia is the international scientific journal of the Catalan Society of Terminology, SCATERM, a subsidiary of the Institute of Catalan Studies. It is published biannually (June and December) and electronically (https://revistes.iec.cat/index.php/Terminalia/index). The journal's languages are Catalan, Spanish, French and English. In the case of languages other than the four mentioned, the texts are translated into Catalan, and both the article in the original language and the Catalan transla
2025. iii, 100 pp.
Table of Contents
Articles 鈥� Art铆culos 鈥� Aufs盲tze 鈥� Artikoloj
Prospects of Kyrgyz language transition to the Latin script based on experience of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan: Prospects of Kyrgyz language transition
Gulzhamal Toktogulova, Sayipzhamal Sakieva, Sabira Osmonalieva, Kubanychbek Uraimov & Meergul Asanalieva
pp.鈥�129鈥�152
Talking over the catastrophe: Linguistic justice in disaster risk reduction
Cecilia Gialdini
pp.鈥�153鈥�177
The evolution of language
The DUO Colloquium investigates the effects of the radical changes that have taken place in the language industry since 2017, when the machine translation platform DeepL launched, but especially since the arrival of ChatGPT and other GenAI systems in 2022. Now that machine translation has become the norm, the roles played by human linguists are shifting 鈥� towards multilingual communication management but also towards intercultural, linguistic and technological consulting. This shift means that t
The rise of climate discourse on social media offers new channels for public engagement but also amplifies mis- and disinformation. As online platforms increasingly shape public understanding of science, tools that ground claims in trustworthy, peer-reviewed evidence are necessary. The new 2026 iteration of ClimateCheck builds on the results and insights from the 2025 iteration (run at SDP 2025/ACL 2025), extending it by adding training data, a new task on classifying disinformation narratives i
The DUO Colloquium investigates the effects of the radical changes that have taken place in the language industry since 2017, when the machine translation platform DeepL launched, but especially since the arrival of ChatGPT and other GenAI systems in 2022. Now that machine translation has become the norm, the roles played by human linguists are shifting 鈥� towards multilingual communication management but also towards intercultural, linguistic and technological consulting. This shift means that t
The rise of climate discourse on social media offers new channels for public engagement but also amplifies mis- and disinformation. As online platforms increasingly shape public understanding of science, tools that ground claims in trustworthy, peer-reviewed evidence are necessary. The new 2026 iteration of ClimateCheck builds on the results and insights from the 2025 iteration (run at SDP 2025/ACL 2025), extending it by adding training data, a new task on classifying disinformation narratives i