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The Department of Linguistics at Rice University (Houston, Texas) invites applications for a faculty position at any rank鈥擜ssistant Professor (tenure-track), Associate Professor (tenured), or Full Professor (tenured) 鈥攂eginning July 1, 2026. The selected candidate must hold a Ph.D. in linguistics or a closely related discipline by June 30, 2026, and job duties entail conducting a productive research program with potential to secure external funding, the ability to teach undergrad
Queer linguistics has emerged as an essential field for understanding how language, across its various analytical dimensions, relates to LGBTIQ+ identities and experiences. This linguistic branch goes beyond merely documenting specific varieties or sociolects within queer communities. Instead, it examines the linguistic and discursive mechanisms through which dominant culture constructs, maintains, and sometimes challenges established norms around gender and sexuality.
Drawing from gender st
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The successful candidate will be entrusted with the following tasks:
- active and independent research in one or more subfields of general linguistics
- research specializations should include one or more of the following subfields: typology, research on one or more languages spoken outside of Europe, language documentation, research on spoken language
- study program coordination
- active efforts to secure third-party funding
- supporting role in department management
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A Germanic Sandwich is a series of workshops in which Dutch is compared with its closest Germanic neighbours, English and German. Consistent with its geographical intermediate location, Dutch has been argued to occupy a linguistic position in between German and English.
The 10th Germanic Sandwich workshop 鈥� the jubilee edition 鈥� will take place on Thursday 7 May and Friday 8 May 2026 at Freie Universit盲t Berlin. The workshop series was founded in 2005, also at Freie Univer
Queer linguistics has emerged as an essential field for understanding how language, across its various analytical dimensions, relates to LGBTIQ+ identities and experiences. This linguistic branch goes beyond merely documenting specific varieties or sociolects within queer communities. Instead, it examines the linguistic and discursive mechanisms through which dominant culture constructs, maintains, and sometimes challenges established norms around gender and sexuality.
Drawing from gender st
I鈥檓 pleased to share three new interviews of the series 鈥淭alking About Languages,鈥� which features conversations with leading linguists in the fields of second language acquisition, bilingualism, and multilingualism. These interviews can be used as teaching material in the classroom.
New interviews are added regularly, and I hope you find the series useful. Please find the link enclosed.
John Lucy (University of Chicago) Linguistic relativity
Annick de Houwer (University of Erfurt) Childho
This is to announce that the next Bilingualism Matters Symposium (BMS2026) will be hosted by the University of Milano-Bicocca from 28 to 30 April 2026!
Submission deadline is on the 12th of October 2025.
This year, BMS will feature a special in-person session on Bimodal Bilingualism. Interpretation will be provided in English鈥揑nternational Sign (IS) and Italian Sign Language (LIS).
BMS26 welcomes contributions on bilingualism from a broad range of perspectives, including but not limited
This is to announce that the next Bilingualism Matters Symposium (BMS2026) will be hosted by the University of Milano-Bicocca from 28 to 30 April 2026!
Submission deadline is on the 12th of October 2025.
This year, BMS will feature a special in-person session on Bimodal Bilingualism. Interpretation will be provided in English鈥揑nternational Sign (IS) and Italian Sign Language (LIS).
BMS26 welcomes contributions on bilingualism from a broad range of perspectives, including but not limited
We are pleased to announce that the 56th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS 55) will be hosted by New York University in New York, New York, from October 17 to October 19, 2025. The keynote speakers are:
Sam Alxatib (The City University of New York)
Tanya Bondarenko (Harvard University)
Sharon Rose (UC San Diego)
Jim Wood (Yale University)
The full conference schedule is now up here: https://wp.nyu.edu/artsampscience-nels56/schedule/
The poster session inform
Zones of conflict are often at the center of multilingual creativity, since writers themselves are frequently in the midst of wars and migration chaos. Writing can serve as a crucial means of processing these experiences. Finding a suitable language for this endeavor might be challenging, given that many ethnic or military conflicts have a linguistic dimension: the language of the colonizer can become a target of attack during a struggle for national independence, aggressor states can question t
We are pleased to announce that the 56th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS 55) will be hosted by New York University in New York, New York, from October 17 to October 19, 2025. The keynote speakers are:
Sam Alxatib (The City University of New York)
Tanya Bondarenko (Harvard University)
Sharon Rose (UC San Diego)
Jim Wood (Yale University)
The full conference schedule is now up here: https://wp.nyu.edu/artsampscience-nels56/schedule/
The poster session inform
Producing terminology resources requires a wide range of research and development skills. The design and implementation phases involve a thorough preliminary analysis of the information needs of potential users, as well as an accurate assessment of the structural requirements of the resource.
In this context, the fifth international conference Multilingual Digital Terminology Today: Design, Representation Formats and Management Systems aims to bring together specialists in terminology, termin
As part of the Marie Sk艂odowska-Curie ONISILOS COFUND project 鈥楪radience in Polarity Morphology and Diglossia鈥� (GraPMoD, Agreement No. 101034403), we are pleased to announce a two-day symposium. The Symposium on Empirical Approaches to Meaning and Structure (SEAMS) will take place on site at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia on November 22鈥�23, 2025.
SEAMS will be a hybrid event, allowing participation and attendance from colleagues worldwide. It is designed as a forum for exchanging ideas a
Producing terminology resources requires a wide range of research and development skills. The design and implementation phases involve a thorough preliminary analysis of the information needs of potential users, as well as an accurate assessment of the structural requirements of the resource.
In this context, the fifth international conference Multilingual Digital Terminology Today: Design, Representation Formats and Management Systems aims to bring together specialists in terminology, termin
Call for Papers
Workshop: Aspiration in Language
Part of the CRC 1252 Prominence in Language
University of Cologne, 3-4 December 2025
Website: https://sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/en/veranstaltungen/internationale-tagungen-workshops/aspiration-in-language
We invite abstracts for a two-day workshop on Aspiration in Language, which will take place on 3rd and 4th December 2025 at the University of Cologne within the framework of the Collaborative Research Centre 1252 Prominence in Language (CRC 12
As part of the Marie Sk艂odowska-Curie ONISILOS COFUND project 鈥楪radience in Polarity Morphology and Diglossia鈥� (GraPMoD, Agreement No. 101034403), we are pleased to announce a two-day symposium. The Symposium on Empirical Approaches to Meaning and Structure (SEAMS) will take place on site at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia on November 22鈥�23, 2025.
SEAMS will be a hybrid event, allowing participation and attendance from colleagues worldwide. It is designed as a forum for exchanging ideas a
We are delighted to announce the upcoming conference
Phonetic Approaches to Under-Documented Languages (with a Special Emphasis on Tibeto-Burman Languages)
which will be held on September 18鈥�19, 2025.
The event will take place in a hybrid format鈥攂oth on-site at Campus Condorcet in Aubervilliers, France, and online, allowing broad participation from around the world.
This conference explores how instrumental and experimental phonetics can contribute to the documentation, analysis, an
PhD Position in English Linguistics
General:
The FAU seeks to appoint a PhD researcher for 3 years in English linguistics employed on a 65% basis on a TV-L13 scale (which amounts to a starting salary of about 鈧�3000 per month before tax). The researcher will be part of an international team headed by Prof. Dr. Lotte Sommerer starting 1st of January (or 1st of February 2026 at the latest). The candidate will also be a member of the DFG Research Training Group (RTG) Dimensions of Constructional
We are delighted to announce the upcoming conference
Phonetic Approaches to Under-Documented Languages (with a Special Emphasis on Tibeto-Burman Languages)
which will be held on September 18鈥�19, 2025.
The event will take place in a hybrid format鈥攂oth on-site at Campus Condorcet in Aubervilliers, France, and online, allowing broad participation from around the world.
This conference explores how instrumental and experimental phonetics can contribute to the documentation, analysis, an
You are warmly welcome to attend the season launch of the Nordic Speech Research Forum. The webinar is open to everyone and can be accessed through our website www.jyu.fi/nsrf which lists all upcoming events of this webinar series. Simply click on the event to join!
Friday, September 12th at 13:00鈥�14:00 Helsinki time (EEST, UCT+3)
L2 Accent in Icelandic: Folk Ideas and Attitudes
Stefanie Bade, University of Iceland
The season is full of interesting webinars with a wide range of topics wi