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The 28th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL28) will take place at the University of Iceland, Reykjav铆k, July 26th 鈥� 30th, 2027. The ICHL brings together historical linguists and specialists in related fields to explore advances in areas including methods and practices of linguistic reconstruction; formal and functional approaches to language change; historical sociolinguistics; computational approaches to historical linguistics; contact and areal linguistics; interfaces bet

Scheitern als Chance: Romanistische Perspektiven auf 脺berwindung und Neubeginn Gilt das Scheitern im Allgemeinen als Ausdruck von Misserfolg und als m枚glicher Ausl枚ser von gravierenden St枚rungen oder gar Krisen, richtet das XLII. Forum Junge Romanistik den Blick auf das produktive Potenzial solcher Misserfolge. Gegenw盲rtig zeigt sich die Relevanz des Themas besonders deutlich im Kontext globaler Polykrisen: Kriege, Naturkatastrophen sowie wirtschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Herausforderunge

Linguistic justice is an increasingly important and relevant theme in public and academic debate, shaped by social and technological transformations, imposing hegemonic cultural visions and affecting speakers鈥� rights. Several issues emerge in various domains, such as the global dominance of English in research, the spread of English-Medium Instruction in tertiary education, and Artificial Intelligence algorithms, which tend to reproduce Western values and perspectives, thereby reducing and at ti

The following books are now available for review on the LINGUIST List. If you would like to become a reviewer for one of the books announced in the AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW posting, you will need to follow steps 1-4 explained below: Step 1: Go to https://linguistlist.org/reviews/request Step 2: You will be asked to log in or create an account. Step 3: Update your personal information and add reviewer specific information on why you would be a good reviewer for the books you wish to select. Step

Inscriptions are often regarded as the ultimate textual 鈥榦riginals鈥� 鈥� authentic, authoritative, and unique. This volume challenges that longstanding assumption by showing that formal inscriptions were commonly produced with the help of manuscripts and are, in many cases, copies of preexisting models. Bringing together studies from China, India, Laos, and Siam, the book explores the complex processes of drafting, copying, and transferring texts across a wide range of materials and media. The cont

Two new interviews of the "Talking about languages series" have been uploaded: https://tv.uvigo.es/series/679a63164e20f40f98159db3 Paul Nation (Victoria University of Wellington). Vocabulary learning Matthew Poehner (Pennsylvania State University). Dynamic Assessment.

NLP++ AND VISUALTEXT OVERVIEW NLP++ is a rule-based, knowledge-driven programming language designed specifically for natural language processing. It was created in 1998 by Amnon Meyers and David de Hilster, based on a cognitive model of how humans read and understand natural language, and is now in active development under the NLP Foundation. NLP++ takes a fundamentally different approach from the statistical and neural methods that dominate contemporary NLP. Rather than learning patterns

General Review: The Use of Internal State Terms by Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Scoping Review Vasiliki Zarokanellou, Maria Andreou and Katerina Papanikolaou Languages 2026, 11(6), 127; DOI: 10.3390/languages11060127 Article: How a Usage-Based Approach Promotes Conceptual Development and Natural Use of Japanese Passives: Evidence from Concept-Based Language Instruction Kyoko Masuda and Amy Snyder Ohta Languages 2026, 11(6), 108; DOI: 10.3390/languages11060108 Article:

The study of language variation from a geographical perspective has become the subject of renewed interest thanks to new theoretical, empirical and technological developments, such as advances in the study of language and dialect contact, the creation of new dialectal corpora or the availability of computer tools to create maps from geolocated linguistic data. The present volume features research that takes advantage of these developments and brings together the efforts of linguists working in h

The volume represents a cohesive yet multifaceted approach to themes, issues, and controversies concerning the role that Latin and Greek played in providing a template for the structural patterns and lexicon of the modern-day European languages. The authors engage in a careful examination of the evidence from the classical languages, tracing the origins of such structures as negation patterns from Latin, or request verbs from Greek. Among many other structures, they observe the continuing influe

SKASE Journal of Translation and Interpretation ISSN 1336-7811 VOLUME 19 - 2026 No. 1 DOI: 10.33542/JTI2026-1-0 Wioleta Karwacka Between Humans and the Rest of the Natural World: A Corpus-Based Study of Popular Science Articles in Translation with a Focus on Human Categories DOI: 10.33542/JTI2026-1-1 (p. 2) Sarah Mariam Roy Bridging the Sacred: Communicative Efficacy in Modern Translations of John through Relevance Theory DOI: 10.33542/JTI2026-1-2 (p. 20) Volga Y谋lmaz-G眉m眉艧, Laur

SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics ISSN 1336-782X VOLUME 23 - 2026 No. 1 Mufleh Salem M. Alqahtani Harmonic Parallelism Versus Harmonic Serialism: The Case of Nasal Place Assimilation in Modern Colloquial Persian DOI: https://doi.org/10.33542/JTL2026-1-1 (p. 2) Rafiki Sebonde Expressing Intensification in the Chasu Language of Tanzania DOI: https://doi.org/10.33542/JTL2026-1-2 (p. 16) Thokchom Dhanapyari Devi & Aheibam Linthoingambi Chanu Nominal Categories in Bishnupriya

When faced with a cancer diagnosis, navigating the maze of emotions and decisions can be overwhelming. In this inspiring and deeply personal memoir, Michael Handford 鈥� a professor of intercultural communication 鈥� shares his experience of a stage-4 throat cancer diagnosis at the age of 42 while living and working in Japan and the UK. Weaving together his professional insights and personal experiences, and through vivid storytelling, Handford examines how communication 鈥� whether with doctors, love

That Mande family belongs to the Niger-Congo macro-family was first proposed by Joseph Greenberg in the middle of the 20th century. Over the last two decades this affiliation has regularly been questioned, the main argument for skepticism being the well-known fact there is no trace of any noun class in Mande.Our study proves that these doubts are groundless as far as the lexicon is concerned. Our conclusion is based on the following arguments which appear to be sufficient for the establishment

The 4th Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Publications (WASP 2026) Co-located with IJCNLP-AACL 2026 November 9, 2026, Online Website: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2026/ Submissions (OpenReview): https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/AACL-IJCNLP/2026/Workshop/WASP Overview: The scientific literature now grows faster than anyone can read it. The claims, evidence, named entities, relations, and citations that researchers rely on remain in unstructured text rath

Call for Papers: The Department of English Philology at the University of Zielona G贸ra is pleased to announce a scientific conference celebrating the 20th anniversary of English philology at the University of Zielona G贸ra. The conference "Contemporary Perspectives on Language and Literatures in English" aims to bring together young and established scholars giving them a venue for reexamining the focus, content, boundaries and interconnections between disciplines within the broad area of E

Call for Papers: The International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB 16), to be held in Saskatoon, Canada, on June 14-18, 2027, is pleased to announce the first Call for Individual Presentations Proposals (an abstract of a presentation that can be single authored or co-authored. The theme of ISB 16 is 鈥淟anguages in Academia and in Communities鈥�. ISB is the leading international conference in the field of bi/multilingualism. The five-day program will cover a broad range of topics, including biling

Call for Papers: The 6th International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (ISMBS 2027) will host original research on the acquisition and use of first language, second or additional language, bilingual, and (bi)dialectal speech, child and adult, typical and atypical. The Symposium encourages a multidisciplinary exchange of ideas across phonology, phonetics, morphology, syntax, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, clinical phonetics and linguistics, speech pathology, acoust

The editorial board of the Zeitschrift f眉r Wortbildung / Journal of Word Formation (ZWJW) invites submissions for its next regular issue Vol. 11 No. 1 (2027). ZWJW is an open access and double-blind peer-reviewed international journal. It is indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). The jornal publishes papers on word formation regarding any language and linguistic field, e.g. morphology, syntax, lexicology, phonology, semantics, pragmatics, language history, typology, diale

The Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning Workshop (X-PPL) brings together the growing community of researchers working to expand the diversity of languages in the scope of psycholinguistic and neuroscience research. After several editions held at the University of Zurich (Switzerland), the conference will become itinerant this year and will be hosted by the AHAL Aquitaine Multilingual Lab (IKER-CNRS), at the University of Pau campus in Bayonne (Basque Country, France), from