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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

We are very happy to announce that the new edition of Psycholinguistics in Flanders (PiF) will take place in Pavia, Italy on the 12th-13th of May 2026. As always, PiF aims to be a welcoming and collaborative meeting for language scientists, and we will continue the tradition of highlighting the work of early-career researchers by giving them generous space in the program and opportunities for supportive, constructive feedback. At the same time, we encourage researchers at all career stages to

We would like to invite master鈥檚 students, doctoral candidates, and post-doctoral researchers (within 3 years of their PhD defense) to submit a paper to the Young Scholar's Forum (YSF) at the 13th International Conference of the European Association for Chinese Linguistics (EACL-13) in Paris-Aubervilliers, Campus Condorcet (2-4 September 2026). The YSF provides an inclusive platform for eligible participants to present ongoing research, discuss methodological challenges, connect with peers wh

Workshop on Expressive Syntax: Exclamatives, Complementizers and Epistemic Modality Date: 18 February 2026 Location: Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain Website: https://sites.google.com/view/workshop-expsyntax Contact: vasfunproject@gmail.com The workshop brings together researchers working on the syntactic and interpretative properties of exclamatives鈥攑articularly those that involve complementizers鈥攁s well as scholars investigating epistemic modal adverbs, expressive particles, and other elements

We are pleased to announce the NUMBES Symposium: Numbers, Motion and Multimodality, which will take place in Cabo de Palos (Murcia, Spain) on 28鈥�29 May 2026. The symposium theme, Representing abstract concepts through metaphor, places a particular emphasis on the conceptualization of number, while also inviting an interdisciplinary discussion at the crossroads of linguistics, cognitive science, psychology, gesture studies, and cultural analysis, including contributions on other abstract domai

The 2026 annual conference of the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States will be held ONLINE, July 8-10, 2026, hosted by the Department of World Languages and Cultures, The University Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, with local hosts Gaby Semaan and Kasumi Yamazaki. Abstracts: While abstracts presenting empirically grounded investigations in any theoretical framework into aspects of the conference theme are especially welcome, LACUS invites abstracts representing a broad range of approa

After the success of our initial two workshops focused on meaning and form, we are excited to launch a third POQAL meeting, this time without subject limitations. We hope to welcome your research on polar(-like) questions, especially in lesser studied languages and dimensions of form and meaning. As before, the aim is to discuss the phenomenon across subdisciplines and we will do everything we can to curate a program to facilitate the inclusion of a diversity of approaches. Join us in G枚ttingen

Discursive Approaches to Semantic Change in the History of the English Language Panel at the 23rd International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 23) Milan, 15-18 June 2026 Convenors: Susan Fitzmaurice & Catherine Wong, The University of Sheffield The panel is an opportunity for English historical linguists to share theoretical and methodological insights based upon the idea that semantic change is rooted in pragmatic meaning and discursive context. The principle und

ACL 2026 Industry Track in San Diego, CA, United States Conference: July 2 - 7, 2026 Paper submission deadline: February 14, 2026 Background: Language technologies are an integral and critical part of our daily lives. Many of these applications have their roots in academic and industrial research laboratories where researchers invented a plethora of algorithms, benchmarked them against shared datasets and perfected their performance to provide plausible solutions to real-world applicatio

This theme session continues the discussion that began in various events and lately in the online workshop, 4-5 October 2025, entitled 鈥淭he Figure of Irony revisited鈥� in which the multifaceted and varied nature of irony was reestablished, its pervasive character in thought and language was reconfirmed, though, as expected, more facets were deemed necessary for further theoretical and empirical investigation. The present theme session once again aims to extend the discussion of irony in figur

Meeting Description: Following the success of previous editions in Helsinki (2021), Stockholm (2024), and Leipzig (2025), Emerging Topics in Typology (ETT) will return for its fourth edition in 2026, this time at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, from 15 to 17 July 2026. This is a conference organised by and for PhD students in linguistic typology and diversity linguistics. We welcome abstracts on a range of topics in diversity linguistics (quantitative and qualitative typology, languag

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Seventh International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations (DMR 2026), to be held at LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Workshop website: https://dmr2026.github.io/ Submission deadline: February 28, 2026 DMR 2026 invites contributions on topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Development and annotation of meaning representations - Challenges and techniques in leveraging meaning representations for do

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,

[English below.] 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

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 23rd Old-World Conference in Phonology (OCP23) will take place at Gonville & Caius College in Cambridge (United Kingdom) from 14 January to 16 January 2026. We invite submissions reflecting various perspectives on phonology, including but not limited to formal, typological, and laboratory approaches. Abstracts based on first-hand empirical data, especially field data on lesser-resourced languages, are particularly encouraged. The conference will be held in person, though an online option

Global Digital Applied Linguistics Association (GloDAL) & Methodology SIG, Kansai Chapter, Language Education and Technology (LET), Japan May 16鈥�17, 2026 路 Macao Polytechnic University 路 On鈥憇ite only About the Conference: Advancing theory, methodology, and practice in Applied Language Sciences. Hosted by Global Digital Applied Linguistics Association (GloDAL) & Methodology SIG, Kansai Chapter, Language Education and Technology (LET), Japan, ALS-RM 2026 convenes a global community to ad