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University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 8th 鈥� 10th September 2026 Henry Sweet Lecture 2026 Prof. Martin Kr盲mer (UiT The Arctic University of Norway) Linguistics Association Lecture 2026 Prof. Dr. Regine Eckardt (Universit盲t Konstanz) Language Tutorial Mapudungun - Ben Molineaux, Aldo Berrios Castillo (University of Edinburgh) LAGBPSC Summer School LAGB Education Committee Session Call for Papers 鈥� Standard Abstracts: The Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Northern

The International Network for Personal Names Research invites abstracts for its 2nd Online Meeting 2026. - 12 June 2026 - 1:00-5:00 pm (UTC+2) - Platform: Zoom - Students welcome! - Deadline for registrations and abstract submissions: 16 May 2026 Abstracts are invited to be submitted by 16 May to Anna.Balbach@tu-dortmund.de for: - Lectures (20 min + 10 min Q&A) - Research pitches (5 min + 5 min Q&A) - Networking/discussion groups (15 min) The theme is deliberately broad: New Resea

The 26th Workshop on Cantonese (WOC-26) Everything in one wok: Cantonese in multilingual environments Saturday, 30 May 2026 We are pleased to announce that the Twenty-Sixth Workshop on Cantonese (WOC-26) is jointly organised by The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK) and the Department of Linguistics and Translation, City University of Hong Kong (LT department, CityUHK). The workshop will be held in person on Saturday, 30 May 2026, at CityUHK. The theme of WOC-26 is 鈥淓verything in one

The International Symposium on Bilingualism 2027 (ISB 16) invites symposia submissions. The conference will take place June 14鈥�18, 2027, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The symposia abstracts submission deadline is June 30, 2026. Call time span: April 8 鈥� June 30, 2026 Symposia are 120-minute sessions with a thematically united set of related papers. Each symposium includes four slots: either four presentations or three presentations plus a discussion. For the latter option, no discussio

O VI Congresso internacional formas e f贸rmulas de tratamento no mundo hisp芒nico e luso-brasileiro (CCFT6 2027) acontecer谩 na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (Portugal) de 22 a 24 de setembro de 2027. O objetivo deste evento 茅 reunir investigadores de diferentes pa铆ses que levam a cabo estudos sobre as formas e f贸rmulas de tratamento (FFT) nas variedades de portugu锚s e espanhol da Europa, Am茅rica, 脕frica e 脕sia. As pesquisas sobre FFT devem levar em considera莽茫o as seguintes abordag

What constitutes 鈥渢he truth鈥� underpins contemporary debates and is increasingly contested and politicised. This conference steps back to reflect on the role played by 鈥渢elling the truth鈥� in literary works and non-literary discourses across historical periods, languages and cultures, with the aim of bringing a wide range of perspectives to bear on a concept of enduring importance and throwing new light on present-day tensions. Drawing on a range of analytical approaches from across linguistics, l

For centuries, linguistics focused on written language as 鈥渢he norm鈥�, and all features of language were studied based on written and often constructed artificial examples. Spoken corpora have enabled a shift in the way we view language, e.g. from a product-based to a process-based view on grammar, from an inherently-fluent view on communication to stipulating a fluency鈥揹isfluency continuum, from a verbally-centred communication to a multimodal construction of meaning. Data from speech corpora

The ATHENA R.C. team on Dialectal NLP, affiliated with the Institute for Language and Speech Processing and Archimedes, in collaboration with researchers from George Mason University, is organizing the first edition of the DialRes-LREC 2026 workshop, 鈥淒ialects in NLP: A Resource Perspective鈥�, to be held on 16 May 2026. More information is available here: https://dialres.github.io/dialres/index.html. DialRes is co-located with the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026) in Pal

Michigan State University is pleased to host the 56th Linguistic Symposium in Romance Languages in East Lansing, MI, May 14-16th 2026. Invited Speakers: - Andr茅s Saab (Universidad de Buenos Aires / Conicet) - Karen Miller (Penn State University) - Miquel Simonet (University of Arizona) - Patr铆cia Amaral (Indiana University) The preliminary LSRL 56 program can be found here: https://lsrl56.hcommons.org/program/

The countdown is on! For its 3rd year, the International Conference-Workshop on Language and Literature (ICWoLL) is making its offshore debut. Building on our roots at MSU-IIT, we are thrilled to partner with this year鈥檚 host: King Mongkut鈥檚 Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL) 鈥� Chumphon Campus for the 2026 ICWoLL. Call for abstracts is officially open! We are looking for papers that align with the theme: 鈥淩eframing Language, Literature, and Culture for Smart and Sustainable Commun

Six years after its inaugural meeting in 2020, the second conference of the Indonesian Languages and Linguistics (InLaLi2) will take place in Yogyakarta, under the theme linguistic diversity of Indonesia. Background: The Republic of Indonesia is home to hundreds of languages. While most of them belong to the Austronesian family, a sizable number of non-Austronesian (aka 鈥淧apuan鈥�) languages are used in the eastern part of the country, not to mention the coexistence of different sign languages

Le Colloque International LaPaC (Langues et Patrimoine Culturel), pour son 茅dition de 2026, vise 脿 r茅unir les sp茅cialistes de linguistique amazighe pour produire un 茅tat de l鈥檃rt actualis茅 et transformer cet 茅tat de l鈥檃rt en agenda scientifique. Il a pour objectif de faire de la linguistique amazighe un champ cumulatif, outill茅 et internationalement comparable, capable de produire des retomb茅es directes pour l鈥檈nseignement, la traduction et les technologies de la langue. La linguistique amazi

Forms of Context-Sensitivity 2 April 14, 2026 University of Porto, Institute of Philosophy, Via Panor芒mica s/n 4150-564 Porto, Sala de Reuni玫es 2 https://ifilosofia.up.pt/activities/forms-context-sensitivity-2 Description: Many (if not most) expressions in natural languages are context-sensitive, at least in the sense that the same sentences comprising them, when uttered in different contexts, can intuitively have different truth values. There are many ways in which this phenomenon can co

This conference is the third of the DiLegMa series, after editions hosted in Paris in 2024 and in Bern in 2025. The conference aims to bring together descriptive/documentary linguists who engage with legacy materials on their language (or language group) of specialization. Hosted by Universit茅 Paris Cit茅's Histoire des th茅ories linguistiques research group, the conference will provide opportunities for exchange with historians of linguistics, and its themes are therefore situated at the interfac

Philosophica is an analytic philosophy conference series hosted by the Institute of Philosophy at Maria Curie-Sk艂odowska University. The theme of this edition of the conference is words and language, engaging with philosophical work addressing the nature of expressions, meaning, and natural language more broadly construed. We invite contributions on topics like the ontology of words, word individuation, pragmatic features of expressions, meaning in natural language (metasemantics), or the rel

Langues, cultures et m茅dias en M茅diterran茅e et en Orients : dispositifs, pratiques et id茅ologies Congr猫s international, 8猫me 茅dition, 10-11 d茅cembre 2026, Montpellier Pour sa 8i猫me 茅dition, le congr猫s international Langues, cultures et m茅dias en M茅diterran茅e et en Orient prend comme th茅matique de recherche dispositifs, pratiques et id茅ologies. Pour rappel, les cinq pr茅c茅dentes 茅ditions (2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018) se sont focalis茅es sur les formes, les sens, les usages, les repr茅sentati

Going Romance is a European conference series dedicated to the study of Romance languages from the perspective of contemporary linguistic theory. Over the past four decades, it has established itself as a leading forum for cutting-edge theoretical research on Romance languages. The 40th edition of Going Romance will be hosted by the Institute for Language Sciences at Utrecht University (the Netherlands) from November 11鈥�13, 2026. This anniversary edition marks a symbolic coming home, as the v

NortheastGenAI 2026 is the first workshop on AI-assisted research for Northeast India's languages, cultures, histories, and ecosystems. May 29, 2026 (Virtual, Free). We invite submissions substantially generated or assisted by AI systems (GPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.), with full disclosure of methodology. All submissions and reviews are publicly visible on OpenReview. Inspired by Agents4Science 2025 (Stanford University). Tracks: - Language, Culture and Heritage - Society, History and

We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the 25th Amsterdam Colloquium, to be held on 16-18 December 2026, at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), University of Amsterdam. Submissions are now open on the journal website: https://platform.openjournals.nl/PAC/about/submissions Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2026 Meeting Description: The Amsterdam Colloquia aim to bring together linguists, philosophers, logicians, cognitive scientists and computer scientists who share an

Registration for AFLiCo10 is now open! We are pleased to offer a rich program, featuring four keynote talks by Ga毛tanelle Gilquin (UCLouvain, Belgium), Geert Br么ne (KU Leuven, Belgium), Elisabeth Zima (University of Freiburg, Germany), and Charles Forceville (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands), as well as enjoyable social events throughout the conference. The detailed program is available at: https://aflico10.sciencesconf.org/ We encourage you to take advantage of the early bird rat