Abstracts (max. 300 words, excluding references) should be sent to Natalia Levshina (natalia.levshina@ru.nl) and Nicole Katzir (nicole.katzir@gmail.com) by November 10th.
Large Language Models (LLMs) are models with billions of parameters, trained on vast amounts of text data to learn statistical patterns in language, and able to generate, process, and predict human(-like) text. As discussions at the recent SLE meeting and other venues demonstrate, the rise of LLMs has major consequences for
Final Call for Papers:
Deadline extended to 1 October 2025
No wonder sugar is on everyone鈥檚 lips (pun intended): it is just an omnipresent item and a hotly debated topic. But there are many facets to it: sugar is an agricultural product, a food item, a nutrient, and a biochemical component of our bodies. The meanings of sugar are thus constructed in many different discourses, with different aspects being foregrounded. Many of these aspects are problematic and controversial, whether the rol
The American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL) conference will take place 18-19 April 2026 at the University of Florida.
The extended deadline for abstract submissions for oral presentations, posters, or workshops is 30 September 2025.
Our plenary speakers are Paul Baker (Lancaster University, UK), Kristopher Kyle (University of Oregon), Kenji Sagae (UC Davis), and Sali Tagliamonte (University of Toronto).
More information, including a link for abstract submission, is here: h
The American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL) conference will take place 18-19 April 2026 at the University of Florida.
The extended deadline for abstract submissions for oral presentations, posters, or workshops is 30 September 2025.
Our plenary speakers are Paul Baker (Lancaster University, UK), Kristopher Kyle (University of Oregon), Kenji Sagae (UC Davis), and Sali Tagliamonte (University of Toronto).
More information, including a link for abstract submission, is here: h
Call for Papers:
The French Cognitive Linguistics Association (AFLiCo) is pleased to announce its 10th international conference (AFLiCo10), to be held in Paris from June 22nd to June 24th 2026. The theme of the conference will be Interaction and Discourse.
Going back to Clark鈥檚 (1996) joint action hypothesis, language is seen as a joint activity, which draws on a common ground shared among speakers, who have to constantly coordinate with each other in order to make their intentions known
2nd Call for Papers:
Description:
The goal of this panel is to maintain the meeting space for linguists working on ellipsis that was initiated at the LII Simposio de la SEL, held in Madrid in 2024. Given that the panel was successful in 2024 (researchers from different universities and countries, such as Spain, Germany, the United States and Poland attended), we believe that the session can provide a fruitful meeting space at the LIV Simposio de la SEL.
Ellipsis is the anaphoric phenome
Convenors:
Abdelkader Fassi Fehri (Mohammed V University & Linguistic Society of Morocco)
Peter Hallman (Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence)
Key words: Arabic/Semitic lexicon, root/template morphosyntax, allosemy, acquisition
Meeting Description:
In light of the enthusiastic and successful reception of the first SLE Workshop on the Arabic (Semitic) Lexicon, held at the 57th SLE Meeting at Helsinki, 2024, and sustained interest in developing descriptive, typologi
We are pleased to announce the upcoming 14th edition of our conference Language of the Third Millennium, to be held on 18-20 March 2026.The conference aims to create a forum dedicated to the exploration of the interplay of modes鈥攍inguistic, visual, gestural, spatial, aural, and beyond鈥攊n meaning-making processes across a wide range of communicative contexts
The importance of multimodality becomes evident in everyday life, strongly tied to dynamic media contexts and influenced by the online en
Interactional Competences and Practices in a Second Language (ICOP-L2) conferences bring together researchers sharing a socially and interactionally situated view of language use, L2 learning and L2 interactional competence development. We hereby invite researchers at all career levels who draw on the principles of ethnomethodology, (multimodal) conversation analysis, membership categorization analysis, usage-based linguistics and related approaches to present their research on how L2/multilingu
Convenors:
Abdelkader Fassi Fehri (Mohammed V University & Linguistic Society of Morocco)
Peter Hallman (Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence)
Key words: Arabic/Semitic lexicon, root/template morphosyntax, allosemy, acquisition
Meeting Description:
In light of the enthusiastic and successful reception of the first SLE Workshop on the Arabic (Semitic) Lexicon, held at the 57th SLE Meeting at Helsinki, 2024, and sustained interest in developing descriptive, typologi
We are pleased to announce the upcoming 14th edition of our conference Language of the Third Millennium, to be held on 18-20 March 2026.The conference aims to create a forum dedicated to the exploration of the interplay of modes鈥攍inguistic, visual, gestural, spatial, aural, and beyond鈥攊n meaning-making processes across a wide range of communicative contexts
The importance of multimodality becomes evident in everyday life, strongly tied to dynamic media contexts and influenced by the online en
Interactional Competences and Practices in a Second Language (ICOP-L2) conferences bring together researchers sharing a socially and interactionally situated view of language use, L2 learning and L2 interactional competence development. We hereby invite researchers at all career levels who draw on the principles of ethnomethodology, (multimodal) conversation analysis, membership categorization analysis, usage-based linguistics and related approaches to present their research on how L2/multilingu
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Since the advent of Web 2.0, the interaction of user-generated content on participatory platforms has democratized content creation and reshaped communication, identity, authority, and knowledge across various fields, from health to politics, amid the post-truth phenomena. This timely book provides essential insights into the transformative effects of the evolving digital landscape. It gives a comprehensive analysis of how areas such as health, politics, and language ideology have been influence
A logical and clear exposition of hierarchy and locality by a leading figure in the field, Continuing Syntax takes students from an introductory level of syntactic theory to an understanding of cutting-edge research in the field. A comprehensive range of topics is covered, including configurationality, head-movement, clause structure, nominal structure, subjacency, barriers and phases, ensuring that students have a thorough understanding of all the main components of contemporary theory. The man
This Element proposes to view World Englishes as components of an overarching Complex Dynamic System of Englishes, against the conventional view of regarding them as discrete, rule-governed, categorial systems. After outlining this basic idea and setting it off from mainstream linguistic theories, it introduces the theory of Complex Dynamic Systems and the main properties of such systems (systemness, complexity, perpetual dynamics, network relationships, the interplay of order and chaos, emergen
From anti-vaccine politics to aliens, this volume explores diverse critical approaches to conspiracy narratives representing them as playful stories with serious ideologies and effects.
It examines conspiracy in relation to social power and authority, moving beyond either disinformation or revelation. In addition, it looks at how the genre of conspiracy is the performance of questioning authority to produce new forms of expertise which frequently stabilize existing power hierarchies.
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According to Natural Morphology (e.g., Dressler 2005), the most natural morphological constructions are those based on constructional iconicity, i.e.,constructions in which more meaning is represented by more form. From this point of view, concatenative morphology is natural and typical, while non-concatenative morphology can be perceived as atypical, deviating from the standard types of word-formation in the languages of the world (see also 艩tekauer, Valera, and K枚rtv茅lyessy 2012). The types of
According to Natural Morphology (e.g., Dressler 2005), the most natural morphological constructions are those based on constructional iconicity, i.e.,constructions in which more meaning is represented by more form. From this point of view, concatenative morphology is natural and typical, while non-concatenative morphology can be perceived as atypical, deviating from the standard types of word-formation in the languages of the world (see also 艩tekauer, Valera, and K枚rtv茅lyessy 2012). The types of
About the conference:
The StuTS (Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft) is a three-day student conference on linguistics held biannually. Organized by volunteer linguistics students, it is hosted usually but not exclusively, by German-speaking universities.
Since its inauguration in Hamburg in 1987, StuTS has brought together thousands of enthusiastic linguistics students to present their work, learn about exciting new topics in inspiring keynote addresses, talks, and workshops, and me