AJL is committed to encouraging junior linguists to have opportunities to present their work at a formal academic conference. Junior linguists mainly include undergraduate students studying linguistics, but Master's and PhD level submissions will also be welcomed.
Plenary speakers are:
- Celeste Guillemot (Hosei University) "Perceptual biases in the acquisition of second language pronunciation"
- Soo-Hwan Lee (Gyeongsang National University) "What Bantu languages tell us about nominalizatio
This academic conference is intended for young researchers: BA, MA and PhD students and postdocs. It is going to take place on 21 November 2025 in the New Conference Hall of Sofia University.
The thematic areas of the conference include:
- Languages of the unspoken
- Whisper and cry in language and literature
- Control and censorship
- Context and subtext in language and literature
- What is said between the lines
- Working languages: Bulgarian and English.
This academic conference is intended for young researchers: BA, MA and PhD students and postdocs. It is going to take place on 21 November 2025 in the New Conference Hall of Sofia University.
The thematic areas of the conference include:
- Languages of the unspoken
- Whisper and cry in language and literature
- Control and censorship
- Context and subtext in language and literature
- What is said between the lines
- Working languages: Bulgarian and English.
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During the last years there has been a growing interest in the study of the morphosyntactic behaviour of proper names (Ackermann & Schlücker 2017; Dammel & Handschuh 2019; Caro Reina & Helmbrecht 2022; Stolz & Nintemann 2024). From a typological perspective, it has been shown that proper names can, to varying degrees, morphosyntactically differ from common nouns. As a consequence, some scholars speak of a special onymic grammar (Nübling et al. 2015) while others propose a special a
LabPhon 20 will be held in Montréal, Québec, Canada from June 26–28, 2026, with pre-conference workshops and a keynote lecture on June 25. This 20th anniversary meeting will take place at Coeur des Sciences at UQAM, located in downtown Montréal, and is being organized by a multi-university team from 9I制作厂免费, Carleton University, and the University of Ottawa. As we mark the 20th LabPhon meeting, our theme, Looking Back and Looking Forward, invites reflection on the field’s foundational
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During the last years there has been a growing interest in the study of the morphosyntactic behaviour of proper names (Ackermann & Schlücker 2017; Dammel & Handschuh 2019; Caro Reina & Helmbrecht 2022; Stolz & Nintemann 2024). From a typological perspective, it has been shown that proper names can, to varying degrees, morphosyntactically differ from common nouns. As a consequence, some scholars speak of a special onymic grammar (Nübling et al. 2015) while others propose a special a
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Articles
Identification and evaluation of L1 and L2 Chinese accents
Chunsheng Yang, Han Luo & Wenhua Jin | pp.?181–200
Re-evaluating the dynamics of subjectification, intersubjectification, and textualization from a constructional perspective: The development of the pragmatic marker jiushi in Chinese
Fangqiong Zhan | pp.?201–233
漢語量級組構搭配_x0008__x0008_之實證探究： 以「程度副詞－形容詞」結構為例
Yun-Han Wang、Anwei Yu & Huichen S. Hsiao | pp.?234–270
Establishing joint attent
The Section for Sign Linguistics at the Faculty of Polish Studies of the University of Warsaw is proud to be holding the third edition of the Workshop on Cognitive and Functional Explorations in Sign Language Linguistics. You can register to participate in the conference at https://forms.gle/PcFvfZqEGiXXgowT9.
Sign CAF? 3 will take place on September 18–19, 2025, at the University of Warsaw, Poland, in the Old University Library building, where our series of local conferences titled “Researc
The Section for Sign Linguistics at the Faculty of Polish Studies of the University of Warsaw is proud to be holding the third edition of the Workshop on Cognitive and Functional Explorations in Sign Language Linguistics. You can register to participate in the conference at https://forms.gle/PcFvfZqEGiXXgowT9.
Sign CAF? 3 will take place on September 18–19, 2025, at the University of Warsaw, Poland, in the Old University Library building, where our series of local conferences titled “Researc
Visible language is widespread and familiar in everyday life. We find it in shop signs, advertising billboards, street and place name signs, commercial logos and slogans, and visual arts. The field of linguistic landscapes draws on insights from sociolinguistics, language policy and semiotics to show how these public forms of language relate to multiple issues in language policy, language rights, language and education, language and culture, and globalization. Stretching from the earliest stone
Referential expressions include terms such as determiners, proper names, noun phrases, pronouns, and all other expressions that we use to make reference to things, beings, or events. The first of its kind, this book presents a detailed, integrated account of typical and atypical uses of referential expressions, combining insights from discourse, cognitive, and psycholinguistic literature within a functional model of language. It first establishes a foundation for reference, including an overview
Turn-taking is a fascinating feature of conversational interaction, due to its systematic and ordered nature. However, research has so far focused mainly on American and British conversations, with other varieties of English receiving much less attention. This pioneering book addresses this gap by exploring turn-taking patterns and cultural variation in Southeast Asian and Caribbean English. Bringing together research from the fields of Conversation Analysis and World Englishes for the first ti
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User experience (UX) writers are the professionals who create the verbal content of websites, apps, or other software interfaces, including error messages, help texts, software instructions, or button labels that we all see and engage with every day. This invisible yet highly influential language work has been largely ignored by sociocultural linguists. The book addresses this gap, examining the broader cultural politics of digital media through an exploration of the linguistic production and pu
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Now in its second edition, this is an invaluable manual for teaching and learning variation analysis, the quantitative study of linguistic variation and change. Written by a leading scholar in the field with over thirty years of experience, it provides an insider's view of the methodology through practical, 'hands-on' advice, including straightforward instructions for conducting analyses using the R programming language, the new gold standard for analysis. It leads readers through each phase of