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New linguistic analysis finds Dravidian language family is approximately 4500 years old
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FYI: Coronavirus Corpus: We are please to announce the release of the Coronavirus Corpus: The Coronavirus Corpus is designed to be the definitive record of the social, cultural, and economic impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in…
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Books: Python Programming for Linguistics and Digital Humanities: Weisser (2024): Learn how to use Python for linguistics and digital humanities research, perfect for students working with Python for the first time Python programming is no longer only…
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FYI: 2024 Duolingo Dissertation Grants: Call for Applications: The Duolingo Dissertation Grant in Language Learning The Duolingo Dissertation Grant Program supports dissertation research by doctoral candidates specializing in second language learning.…
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FYI: Linguistics under threat at the University of Kent: Colleagues and friends: Linguistics is going to be shut down at the University of Kent (UK). Some context below, but please take a look at this petition, consider signing, and share widely.…
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Unknown Language Discovered in Malaysia
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Languages are full of very interesting and unique words. What is your favorite word (or concept) that cannot be easily translated to another language?
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Software: A LaTeX package for Linguists: tipauni: Hello all, This is to inform you all about a newly released LaTeX package named tipauni. Linguistics-community has for a long time used package TIPA for producing IPA characters in the PDF documents, but…
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Jobs: Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor Specializing in Sociolinguistics, Stanford University: The Department of Linguistics at Stanford University is seeking applicants for an open rank position in Sociolinguistics, beginning September 1, 2022.…
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FYI: Duolingo call for research proposals: Duolingo () is excited to announce a new call for research proposals. The project will focus on English learners' real-life communication skills. Proposals are due May 31, 2024. For more…
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Summer Schools: Data visualization with ggplot2 for linguists: Design principles and efficient work flows / Online: Where: University of Konstanz (Online) Price: Free Description: The R package ggplot2 has become the lingua franca of data visualization…
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How Language Came to Be — and How We Use It Today
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World's Oldest Written Language Has Its Own Dictionary Available Online for Free
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The LINGUIST List Blog: Language and Pop Culture: Dear LINGUIST List readers and subscribers, The last few years have been an unusually good time for representation of language and linguistics in pop culture. From movies to books to TV shows, linguistic…
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All: Vivian Cook (1940-2021): We have sadly lost a leading figure in applied linguistics: Vivian J. Cook, Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University. Vivian will be known to most scholars in the field for his work on second…
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Calls: International Conference on Multilingualism and Multilingual Education: Call for Papers: We invite papers in all areas of research in bi-/multilingualism, whether or not linked directly to the overarching conference theme, including, but not…
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Jobs: PhD/Postdoc Positions in Language Science, University of Zurich: The NCCR Evolving Language () invites applications for early-career research positions (Postdoctoral Researcher and/or PhD student) in a variety of…
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Software: Phonetic transcription based on automatic acoustic spectral analysis: I have developed a program capable of doing phonetic transcriptions of speech in any linguistic variant and with a degree of granularity and accuracy that no phonetician, TTS…
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Jobs: Linguistics, Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track, open field, University of Michigan: The Department of Linguistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, invites applications for a new full-time, tenure-track position, beginning…
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Jobs: Applied Linguistics: Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, The University of Queensland: - Full-time, fixed-term position through to 30th June 2028 - Base salary will be in the range AUD$110,365 - $130,765 + 17% superannuation (Academic Level B) - Based…
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FYI: Resignation of co-editors of Syntax: We, Klaus Abels and Suzanne Flynn, are writing to the linguistics community today to announce our resignation from our posts as the editors of the journal Syntax: A Journal of Theoretical, Experimental, and…
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Books: Ten Lectures on Corpus Linguistics with R: In this book, Stefan Th. Gries provides an overview of how quantitative corpus methods can provide insights to cognitive/usage-based linguistics and selected psycholinguistic questions. Topics include the…
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Books: Grammatical Voice: The grammatical category of voice covers a wide range of phenomena, including causatives, applicatives, passives, antipassives, middles, and others. Drawing on data from over 200 languages, Fernando Zúñiga and Seppo Kittilä…
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FYI: The Birmingham Lectures: Language Structure and Language Use: The Department of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Birmingham is happy to host the Birmingham Lectures, a lecture series that will bring well known researchers from…
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Calls: Challenging the Binary: Non-binary, genderqueer, and gender-neutral language: Call for Papers: Questions to explore include but are not limited to: - Which new terminology has emerged or been developed in the world’s languages to describe agender,…
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Switzerland's mysterious fourth language
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Country's second language on a map
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Jobs: Assistant Professor, Linguistics, Macalester College: The Department of Linguistics invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position at the level of Assistant Professor to begin fall 2024. We seek applicants with a specialization in…
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Books: Tungusic languages: Tungusic is a small family of languages, many of which are endangered. It encompasses approximately twenty languages located in Siberia and northern China. These languages are distributed over an enormous area that ranges from…
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FYI: RUEG completed, corpus (with English, German, Greek, Russian, Turkish data) will remain open-access: After 6 successful years, the Research Unit "Emerging Grammars in Language-Contact Situations" () came to an end in March…
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Summer Schools: Gestures: How to analyse forms, functions, and meanings / Online: This introduction to gesture analysis is geared towards MA and PhD students as well as professionals. It is intended for those who have no background in gesture studies but…
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Jobs: Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in English Linguistics, Stockholm University, Sweden: The Department of English is part of the Faculty of Humanities and has a staff of about 40 people. It provides education at the bachelor’s, master’s, and…
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Books: The Cambridge World History of Lexicography: A dictionary records a language and a cultural world. This global history of lexicography is the first survey of all the dictionaries which humans have made, from the ancient civilizations of…
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Software: phonfieldwork: An R Package for Phonetic Fieldwork and Experiments: Dear all, It’s my pleasure to announce a new stable release of phonfieldwork v.0.0.10 package for R that just passed rOpenSci review. The main goal of this package is to…
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Summer Schools: Large Language Models for Linguists: A Practical Introduction: Instructor: Dr Tommi Buder-Gröndahl Dates: Thu Sept 5th & Fri Sept 6th @ 2-4 pm (Berlin, Rome, ...) for a total of 4 contact hours Location: Online (organised by LingLabs at…
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Jobs: Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics: Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Rice University: The Department of Linguistics at Rice University in Houston, Texas is seeking applications for an assistant professor to begin July 1, 2025. The candidate…
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Books: The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory: This volume is the first handbook devoted entirely to the multitude of frameworks adopted in the field of morphology, including Minimalism, Optimality Theory, Network Morphology, Cognitive Grammar, and…
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Jobs: PhD Position in English Linguistics, University of Würzburg: For DFG-project "From English in Hong Kong to Hongkong English. A new diachronic approach to genre and varietal developments in (post)colonial contexts", the Chair of English Linguistics…
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Books: The Oxford Handbook of Lying: This handbook brings together past and current research on all aspects of lying and deception, with chapters contributed by leading international experts in the field. We are confronted daily with cases of lying,…
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The LINGUIST List Blog: Featured Linguist: Adele Goldberg: For this week’s featured linguist, we are proud to present Professor Adele Goldberg! — As a kid, my mom always praised me for being logical. Not appreciating how generously mothers view their…
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Why you're more likely to make an immoral decision when speaking a foreign language
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Jobs: Tenure-track position in Sociolinguistics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra: The Department of Translation and Language Sciences is seeking to fill a faculty position in the area of Sociolinguistics. This is a regular faculty appointment. Duties include…
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Summer Schools: Deep Learning for Linguists / Online: Starting Aug 04, 2021: Deep Learning for Linguists A free online (Zoom) course with Khalil Iskarous Deep Learning algorithms have made profound progress over the last few years in speech and language…
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The LINGUIST List Blog: Some Post Fund-drive Words and a Final Rising Star: Meet Anastasia Panova!: Dear Readers, Thank you so much for your contributions this year. It is true that the fund drive is over but you can always donate by visiting our…
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FYI: The Routledge Handbook of Pronouns: The Routledge Handbook of Pronouns draws together research from language studies, syntactic theory, experimental psychology, discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and case study research to provide readers with…
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Jobs: Position in Romance Linguistics, University of Osnabrück: Applications are invited for a position in Romance Linguistics (Spanish/French) with a focus on Interactional Linguistics, Conversation Analysis and/or spoken language research at the…
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Jobs: Linguistics - Tenure-track Position, University of Michigan: The Department of Linguistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, invites applications for a new full-time, tenure-track position, beginning August 26, 2024. Qualifications: We seek…
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Summer Schools: MEDAL Summer School in Experimental Linguistics / Netherlands: This summer school focuses on using different experimental methodologies in linguistic research. The summer school will consist of a plenary session each day, and four days of…
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FYI: Call for Book Chapter Proposals: Games for Students of Linguistics: Gamification – using game thinking and game mechanics for educational purposes – is building momentum. Several journals are dedicated to this exciting new trend: the International…
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Summer Schools: Innovative Tools in the Study of Language / Online: Linguistic data, be it oral, signed, audiovisual or written, is now available in unprecedented quantity due to progress in information technology. This provides new opportunities for…
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Support: Semantics: PhD, Humboldt University of Berlin: We are looking for a candidate with a Masters degree in English linguistics, general linguistics, or computational linguistics with a focus on semantics, additional research interest in syntax or…
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Summer Schools: Summer school on `The emergence and cognitive status of language universals', to be held in conjunction with the first edition of the international conference `Langues et langage à la croisée des disciplines/ Language & Languages at the…
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FYI: Podcast: History and Philosophy of the Linguistics: The History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences blog recently started a monthly podcast, which is now up to episode 4. Through talks and interviews, the first series of the podcast offers an…
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Summer Schools, Grammatical Gender and ‘Natural’ Gender: Mappings and Mismatches / Germany: We are pleased to invite you to this two-day workshop on the relationship between grammatical gender and ‘natural’ gender in order to bring together specialists…
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Calls: 29th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference: Call for Papers: The JK29 organizing committee welcomes abstract submissions for 20-minute oral presentations, followed by 10 minutes for discussion, and for poster presentations. Contributions to any…
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Jobs: Associate Professor in Linguistics, University of Bergen: Associate Professor in Linguistics The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Bergen invites applications for a permanent position as Associate Professor in Linguistics at The Department…
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Books: Thinking and Speaking in a Second Language: Does the language we speak affect the way we think? This Element provides a synthesis of contemporary research on the interplay between language and cognition in speakers of two or more languages and…
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A picture of language: the fading art of diagramming sentences
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FYI: Call for Applications: Endangered Languages Documentation Programme: The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) annual grant round is now open. ELDP supports the linguistic documentation of endangered languages worldwide. Our key…
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Summer Schools: Corpus Linguistics Summer School (University of Birmingham) / Online: The Centre for Corpus Research at the University of Birmingham is pleased to announce that our Corpus Linguistics Summer School will take place fully online this year…
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Jobs: English; Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Semantics, Sociolinguistics: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Stuttgart: Prof. Dr. Judith Tonhauser from the Department of English Linguistics at the University of Stuttgart invites applications for a…
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FYI: Saudi Society of Linguistics: Saudi Society of Linguistics is now formally registered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and accepts registrations. This society aims to (a) improve the scientific study of language in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, (b)…
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Jobs: Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor of Linguistics, Harvard University: The Department of Linguistics at Harvard University seeks to make a tenure-track or tenured appointment in the area of phonology or phonetics, with an…
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Jobs: Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Language and Cognition 2021-22, University of California Santa Barbara: Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Language and Cognition 2021-22, Department of Linguistics Job
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Summer Schools: Intro to Bayesian for Speech and Language Scientists / Online: When: October 25th AND 26th, 2-4 pm CET (Berlin, Rome). Where: Zoom, links sent at a later date to those who sign up through Eventbrite. Instructor: Dr Stefano Coretta…
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Books: Language or Dialect?: This book provides a historiographic study of the distinction between language and dialect, a puzzle which has long fascinated linguists and laypeople alike. It offers a comprehensive account of the intriguing and complex…
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Jobs: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Edinburgh: The Linguistics and English Language Department in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences is seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher on a full time, fixed term basis for 32 months.…
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Calls: Studies in Second Language Acquisition: Replication in Second Language Research Special Issue of Studies in Second Language Acquisition, September 2024 Call for Proposals Due April 1, 2022 Guest Editor: Kevin McManus (Penn State University, USA)…
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Cambridge Extra Blog: Language as Symbolic Power: Written by Claire Kramsch, author of Language as Symbolic Power When twenty years ago I decided to teach an undergraduate course on Language and Power in my German department at UC Berkeley, I didn’t…
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Summer Schools: Digital Signal Processing in R / Online: Who: Dr Christopher Carignan (Lecturer in Speech Science at UCL) When: June 8th-9th 2022, 2-4 pm CEST Where: Zoom (link provided closer to the date, following your registration on Eventbrite) How…
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Calls: International Corpus Linguistics Conference 2021: Call for Papers: We invite proposals across the categories: full papers, posters and panels. All proposals will be peer-reviewed by the conference programme committee. The conference will feature…
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Software: Large corpus of German YouTube language now available: Dear Linguist-Listers, The Nottingham Corpus of German YouTube Language (Nottinghamer Korpus Deutscher YouTube-Sprache or NottDeuYTSch) is now available for analysis in a variety of…
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FYI: LGBTQ+ Intersectionality in Applied Linguistics: Hello All, My name is Joshua Paiz and I work on issues related to queer-inclusive language teaching in ESL/EFL context. My co-editor, James Coda, and I would like to extend an invitation to those of…
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FYI: Book Chapter Call: Names, Naming, Identity, & Law: Around the world, across different cultures and languages, names are used to mark individual and group identity. The significance of names therefore extends far beyond their surface indexical…
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Summer Schools: Research Methods for Applied Linguists / USA: The Penn State Summer Workshops in Research Methods for Applied Linguists provide graduate students and faculty with hands-on training in cutting-edge research methods, including mixed method,…
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Will we need new criteria, as for example "digitally endangered languages"?
Icelandic language battles threat of 'digital extinction'
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Jobs: Post Doc in Phonetics/Phonology, Universität Potsdam: The Department of Linguistics at the University of Potsdam invites applications for one Postdoc position. Candidates should seek to address problems in Phonetics-Phonology, using an integrative…
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FYI: How do you cite linguistic data? Follow the Tromsø: The Linguistics Data Interest Group (LDIG) of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) is pleased to announce the adoption of The Tromsø Recommendations for Citation of Research Data in Linguistics as a…
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Calls, Speech Prosody 2024: Call for Papers: Speech Prosody 2024 will be held in Leiden, The Netherlands (02–05 July 2024). The conference aims to showcase the facets of prosodic variation and their role in the production, comprehension, and acquisition…
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Fund: LINGUIST List to become [ɧ]: For Immediate Release: In a radical rebranding, LINGUIST List will change its name to [ɧ]. “Only those who can pronounce [ɧ] will now be granted access to the website”, says a spokesperson, who prefers to remain…
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The LINGUIST List Blog: Featured Linguist: Joakim Nivre: For this week’s featured linguist, we bring you a great piece from Professor Joakim Nivre! — I am delighted to support the fund drive for the LINGUIST List in the year of its 30th anniversary. Like…
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Books: The Oxford Handbook of Word Classes: van Lier (ed.) (2024): This handbook explores multiple facets of the study of word classes, also known as parts of speech or lexical categories. These categories are of fundamental importance to linguistic…
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Jobs: Linguistics: Assistant, Associate, or Professor, Syntactic Theory, University of California, Santa Cruz: The Department of Linguistics () at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) invites applications for a position…
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FYI: New Linguistics Department at Boston University: The well-established Linguistics “program'' at BU has now become its own department! We offer BA, MA, BA/MA, and PhD degrees in Linguistics, as well as joint undergraduate majors combining Linguistics…
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TOC: Gender and Language Vol. 14, No. 4 (2020): Gender and Language Issue 14.4 (2020) table of contents Editorial-open access Hope in a Time of Crisis () Mie Hiramoto , Rodrigo Borba , Kira Hall Pages 347-357 Articles: ‘Reclaiming…
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Jobs: Postdoctoral researcher, University of Edinburgh: We are seeking to recruit a postdoctoral researcher (28 months; full-time) with expertise in semantics and/or evolutionary linguistics to contribute to the project “Logic in semantic universals”…
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Calls, 73. Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft: Call for Papers: Welcome to the 73rd Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft (StuTS) We are happy to welcome you to Frankfurt am Main, Germany. We are planning to hold the conference in-person from May 25…
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Calls: International Journal of Language Studies (IJLS): IJLS invites professional applied linguists and language researchers to submit their scholarly papers to IJLS. All submissions can be made in *.doc or *.docx format. A PDF copy of the manuscript…
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Jobs, Postdoc Research Position (f/m/x) Chair of Diachronic Linguistics, Universität zu Köln: Faculty of Arts and Humanities POSTDOC RESEARCH POSITION (F/M/X) Chair of Diachronic Linguistics | English Department I We are one of the largest and oldest…
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Summer Schools: Semantics in Grammatical Models / Online: This course is intended as an illustration of how semantics can be integrated into a complete, functionally-oriented theory of linguistics, in this case the theory of Functional Discourse Grammar…
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Qs: Survey on Creole Languages and Linguistics Teaching: We invite fellow linguists to participate in a survey about Creole languages and how they are introduced and taught about in linguistics courses. The survey can be found at the following link, and…
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Incredible Parrot Speech Decoded As 300 Years Old English Dialect
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FYI: Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics: Isogloss has restarted its activity! Established in 2015, Isogloss has recently undergone a reform with respect to its scope, editorial and review policy, as well as editorial team and board. The change…
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Confs: 16th Annual Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society - "Language, Mind, and Society": We are pleased to announce that abstract submissions are now open for the 16th Annual Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society…
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