This workshop is organized by Marianna Lohmann and Barbara Schl眉cker (Freie Universit盲t Berlin) as part of the 49th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (49. Jahrestagung der DGfS 2027 鈥濻prache unter dem Mikroskop 鈥� Beobachtung, Analyse, Theorie鈥�), which will take place in Jena from 3 to 5 March 2027.
Workshop Description:
Copular clauses are simple syntactic structures. They consist minimally of a (referential) NP as subject and a (non-verbal) predicate which, in many language
鈥淣atural languages offer a variety of means not only to describe our world by making a claim with specific truth conditions, but also to address the validity of the claim and highlight its truth itself.鈥� (M眉ller 2024: 577) There is however only limited research on the means that languages other than German and English use for such truth highlighting, or verum marking (most notably, Gutzmann et al. 2020, Kerr & van der Wal 2023, De Cia 2025). From this research, there already emerges a variety of
Meaning is not a static property of words or sentences but an emergent, context-sensitive outcome of cognitive and communicative processes. Historical semantics provides an essential backdrop for understanding how meaning emerges and transforms across time, and how changes in meaning correlate with shifts in conceptual organization and communicative practice. Rather than treating semantic change as a sequence of isolated shifts, contemporary approaches emphasize its dynamic, cognitively motivate
Language and texts have an astounding capacity to generate different meanings with every interpretation. As such, Catherine Malabou frames this regenerative capacity as 鈥渟omething like a scar, tugging the skin of a text to distribute its meaning differently, to reveal within it a new organization, to make possibly in the very text different movements and different effects of truth.鈥� She defines plasticity as 鈥渢his regenerative force of reading鈥� (29). Form, whether textual, oral, pictorial, artef
Language and texts have an astounding capacity to generate different meanings with every interpretation. As such, Catherine Malabou frames this regenerative capacity as 鈥渟omething like a scar, tugging the skin of a text to distribute its meaning differently, to reveal within it a new organization, to make possibly in the very text different movements and different effects of truth.鈥� She defines plasticity as 鈥渢his regenerative force of reading鈥� (29). Form, whether textual, oral, pictorial, artef
Co-organised by the International Linguistic Society and DELAD (Database Enterprise for Language and Speech Disorders)
Language disorders affect individuals across all ages and languages. While many are congenital and emerge in early childhood, others develop later in life as a result of neurological conditions, illness, or injury. Addressing this global and multilingual reality requires robust, well-documented, and ethically managed language disorder corpora.
This special session focuses
The Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago will host the UIC Bilingualism Forum 2026 from October 22 鈥� 23, 2026. The Bilingualism Forum is a biannual conference organized by graduate students from the Hispanic Linguistics program at UIC. Abstracts for paper presentations or posters are invited on any area related to bilingualism: theoretical linguistics, code-switching, second/additional language acquisition, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, neuro
Co-organised by the International Linguistic Society and DELAD (Database Enterprise for Language and Speech Disorders)
Language disorders affect individuals across all ages and languages. While many are congenital and emerge in early childhood, others develop later in life as a result of neurological conditions, illness, or injury. Addressing this global and multilingual reality requires robust, well-documented, and ethically managed language disorder corpora.
This special session focuses
The Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago will host the UIC Bilingualism Forum 2026 from October 22 鈥� 23, 2026. The Bilingualism Forum is a biannual conference organized by graduate students from the Hispanic Linguistics program at UIC. Abstracts for paper presentations or posters are invited on any area related to bilingualism: theoretical linguistics, code-switching, second/additional language acquisition, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, neuro
My name is Leon Grausam, and I am a research associate at the University of Bremen. In my current work, I am exploring the concept of "Language Activism" - what it means in practice, how it is lived and experienced, and how it can serve as a tool for bottom-up research in indigenous and minoritized language communities.
A central pillar of this research is a series of interviews with people who are close to this topic. What matters most to me is that indigenous perspectives are not just incl
The TESL Canada Journal (http://www.teslcanadajournal.ca) is soliciting proposals from prospective guest editors for the 2028 Special Issue. The TESL Canada Journal is an open access, refereed journal for practicing teachers, teacher educators, graduate students, and researchers. As the federally funded flagship journal of the TESL Canada Foundation since 1984, its mandate is to publish articles that contribute to the advancement of the teaching and learning of English and French as second langu
Call for Papers:
Meeting Description:
The Workshop on Ideophones in Use (WIU-2026) will take place on December 5鈥�6, 2026 (Japan Standard Time [JST]). The event will be held in a hybrid format (on-site and online) and is co-hosted by the Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University, Japan, and York University, Canada. The on-site component will be held at Nagoya University, Japan. (Please note that, as of June 3, 2026, the workshop has been changed from an online-only meeting to a hybri
Focus: Language, logic and information
Description:
Early-bird deadline has been extended to June 15th, 2026!
The detailed programme schedule is now available at:
https://2026.esslli.eu/courses-workshops-accepted/week-1-and-2-schedule.html
The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is a yearly recurring event, which has been organized since 1989. An ESSLLI Summer School provides an interdisciplinary setting in which courses and workshops are offered in lo
IsoPhon is designed to compare formant charts and compute a Similarity Index (SI) between them.
IsoPhon does not compare individual vowels in isolation. Instead, it compares the articulatory space, or vocal space, represented by the formant chart.
This vocal space is represented as a polygon constructed from the F1 and F2 values of the selected vowels. As a result, IsoPhon compares polygons, not isolated points.
The comparison is performed by transforming the starting polygon, A, so that it m
This workshop is organized as part of the 49th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of Germany (DGfS 2027).
Workshop organizers:
Esther Rinke (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Esther Ruigendijk (Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg)
Workshop Description:
There is a consensus that children are well equipped for the task of language acquisition, enabling them to master many developmental milestones in their first language(s) by the age of 3 or 4. The quest to explain this fascinatin
The Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at Florida State University is delighted to invite submissions for the Florida Linguistics Yearly Meeting (FLYM) to be held on October 9 & 10, 2026. The theme for this year鈥檚 conference is Native American and Indigenous Languages and Contact. We will be inviting submissions in any area of linguistics. In the spirit of the theme, we particularly welcome submissions focused on Native American and Indigenous languages and language contact (involvin
Focus: Linguistics: language change and variation, fieldwork methodology and data collection, statistical and quantitative analysis.
Literary and Cultural Studies: transmedial movement of genres, motifs, and narrative structures, examining how symbolic repertoires and collective memories are reinterpreted as they travel across media.
Description:
The Summer School explores the complexity of a cultural environment in which texts, languages, and images are constantly recombined through prac
This workshop is organized as part of the 49th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of Germany (DGfS 2027).
Workshop organizers:
Esther Rinke (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Esther Ruigendijk (Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg)
Workshop Description:
There is a consensus that children are well equipped for the task of language acquisition, enabling them to master many developmental milestones in their first language(s) by the age of 3 or 4. The quest to explain this fascinatin
The Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at Florida State University is delighted to invite submissions for the Florida Linguistics Yearly Meeting (FLYM) to be held on October 9 & 10, 2026. The theme for this year鈥檚 conference is Native American and Indigenous Languages and Contact. We will be inviting submissions in any area of linguistics. In the spirit of the theme, we particularly welcome submissions focused on Native American and Indigenous languages and language contact (involvin
We invite submissions for a workshop on (the relationship between) at-issueness and commitment in natural language semantics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, philosophy of language, and related fields.
At-issueness and commitment are central notions in the analysis of meaning and discourse, each widely studied in its own right. However, the relationship between the two remains unresolved. Existing findings paint a mixed picture: while pragmatic inferences such as implicatures are often associa