SUMMARY
True to its title, this textbook assumes literary interests on the part of its readers but no linguistic background. It aims to provide basic tools and concepts of stylistic analysis and is accessible to literature students at graduate or upper undergraduate levels. The format lends itself to learning of discrete points, as the content is organized into 26 chapters of 5-10 pages each, each self-contained and focusing on one grammatical category or stylistic feature. The book opens wit
Focus: Cognitive and Functional Linguistics
Description:
The Centre for Philosophical and Humanistic Studies from the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Portuguese Catholic University organizes Braga Summer School in Linguistics, within the scope of the Doctoral Program in Linguistics. The event will offer advanced training in several areas of linguistic studies, especially from the perspective of Cognitive and Functional Linguistics in their most recent developments and in a
This book is dedicated to Ilse Zimmermann, who was a pioneer of Generative Grammar in Germany and made important contributions to the analysis of German and Slavic languages. It contains original articles by Zimmermann as well as newly written papers inspired by her work. Zimmermann's original articles cover a wide range of topics over a long period of research 鈥� the earliest dating from 1983 鈥� and they make it clear that issues that are highly topical today have long been the subject of linguis
Advances in Formal Slavic Linguistics 2022 brings together a collection of 22 articles originating as talks presented at the 15th Formal Description of Slavic Languages conference (FDSL 15) held in Berlin on 5鈥�7 October, 2022. The contributions cover a broad spectrum of topics, including clitics, nominalizations, l-participles, the dual, verbal prefixes, assibilation, verbal and adjectival morphology, lexical stress, vowel reduction, focus particles, aspect, multiple wh-fronting, definiteness, p
Rare phenomena play a key role in forming and challenging linguistic theory. This volume presents multi-faceted analyses of rarities in phonetics and phonology, from a wide variety of theoretical standpoints. Some contributions to the volume analyse language-specific rare features, placing them in a broader cross-linguistic context and looking at a sum of their phonological, phonetic, and evolutionary properties, at times also making connections to sociolinguistic factors. Others consider the sa
Tsova-Tush is an East Caucasian language spoken in one single village in Eastern Georgia by approximately 300 speakers. Since its early description, scholars have been intrigued by the high degree of linguistic influence from the Georgian language. This book has a threefold goal: (1) To contribute to the overall description of the Tsova-Tush language, by filling gaps in the previous literature in absence of a reference grammar. (2) To contrast Tsova-Tush constructions with functionally equivalen
Deux bourses de doctorat (4 ans) sont offertes respectivement 脿 l鈥橴niversit茅 libre de Bruxelles et 脿 l鈥橴CLouvain, dans le cadre du projet de recherche (PDR) 芦 Faire face 脿 la langue de l鈥橝utre : donner du sens au n茅erlandais et au fran莽ais en tant que langues peu valoris茅es 禄, co-dirig茅 par les professeurs J眉rgen Jaspers (ULB) et Philippe Hambye (UCLouvain).
Ce projet, financ茅 par le Fonds national de la recherche scientifique (F.R.S.-FNRS), vise 脿 mieux saisir la mani猫re dont les 茅l猫ves et les
I鈥檓 pleased to share the interview 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.
https://tv.uvigo.es/series/679a63164e20f40f98159db3
Current interviews include:
鈥� Luke Plonsky (Northern Arizona Uni
Call for Papers:
The International Linguistic Society is delighted to invite you to participate in the 16th International Conference of Linguistic Research and Applications, Linguistics 2025 Paris, to be held on 22-24 October 2025 in Paris, France. The primary aim of the conference is to advance key areas of contemporary linguistics, welcoming at the same time innovative approaches to linguistic research and applications.
The Linguistics 2025 Paris conference envisions a vibrant platform f
Pragmasophia 5 (2026)
Organized by:
Alessandro Capone
Mitchell Green
Igor Douven
Pietro Perconti
https://alessandro-capone-pragmatics.webnode.it/
Junior Organizers:
Roberto Graci
Daniele Panizza
Messina, 11-14th May 2026
COSPECS, via Concezione, 6, Univ. Messina
Abstracts should be sent to acapone@unime.it and to the workshop organizers by January 30th, 2026 (the sooner, the better).
Key Speakers (provisional):
Anna Cardinaletti 鈥� Ca鈥� Foscari University of Venice
Louis
Bienvenue 脿 la 8岬� 茅dition de TechLING, qui se tiendra en ligne depuis l鈥橴niversit茅 Marie et Louis Pasteur (Besan莽on - France), en partenariat avec l鈥橴niversit茅 du Minho (Braga - Portugal).
Cette conf茅rence internationale vise 脿 explorer l鈥檌ntersection entre les langues, les arts et les technologies innovantes, avec un accent particulier sur l鈥檌nclusion et l鈥檃ccessibilit茅. L鈥檌ntelligence artificielle g茅n茅rative jouera un r么le central dans cette 茅dition, mettant en lumi猫re son potentiel pour l鈥檃p
Pragmasophia 5 (2026)
Organized by:
Alessandro Capone
Mitchell Green
Igor Douven
Pietro Perconti
https://alessandro-capone-pragmatics.webnode.it/
Junior Organizers:
Roberto Graci
Daniele Panizza
Messina, 11-14th May 2026
COSPECS, via Concezione, 6, Univ. Messina
Abstracts should be sent to acapone@unime.it and to the workshop organizers by January 30th, 2026 (the sooner, the better).
Key Speakers (provisional):
Anna Cardinaletti 鈥� Ca鈥� Foscari University of Venice
Louis
Bienvenue 脿 la 8岬� 茅dition de TechLING, qui se tiendra en ligne depuis l鈥橴niversit茅 Marie et Louis Pasteur (Besan莽on - France), en partenariat avec l鈥橴niversit茅 du Minho (Braga - Portugal).
Cette conf茅rence internationale vise 脿 explorer l鈥檌ntersection entre les langues, les arts et les technologies innovantes, avec un accent particulier sur l鈥檌nclusion et l鈥檃ccessibilit茅. L鈥檌ntelligence artificielle g茅n茅rative jouera un r么le central dans cette 茅dition, mettant en lumi猫re son potentiel pour l鈥檃p
Focus:
The goal of the GRAMEN school is to build bridges between university and non-university education, effectively contributing to the transmission of grammar and linguistics content. With this aim, the school aspires to be a forum for discussion and dialogue aimed primarily at secondary and high school teachers, as well as students of any bachelor's or master's degree related, in whole or in part, to the teaching of grammar.
Description:
This intensive course is structured in two compl
Call for Papers in International Sign (IS): https://s.gwdg.de/ZZsMdS (Note: Link opens MP4 video file.)
Background:
The world鈥檚 different sign languages offer a unique perspective on the human capacity for language and their rigorous scientific study within linguistics since the 60s of the past century has provided a multitude of novel insights. Some of these have significantly and lastingly changed how we conceptualize and investigate our species鈥� faculty of language: We now understand la
We are pleased to announce that the Call for Papers for the international and interdisciplinary conference 鈥濼hird Space and Ancient World Studies鈥� is now open for submissions. The conference will be hosted by the Department of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Innsbruck from 29th to 31st of October 2025.
This conference seeks to develop the research on spatial perception in ancient societies by gathering scholars of any discipline in the Humanities, Social Sc
Celebrating 50 years of the Irish Association of Applied Linguistics
Call for Papers:
The IRAAL 50th anniversary conference aims to bring together all sectors of Applied Linguistics in Ireland to celebrate half a century of our association鈥檚 academic activity. We welcome abstracts (max. 250 words) for conceptual and empirical presentations in any area of Applied Linguistics, broadly defined, including, but not confined to the following:
鈥� Bilingualism
鈥� Multilingualism
鈥� Plurilin
Call for Papers in International Sign (IS): https://s.gwdg.de/ZZsMdS (Note: Link opens MP4 video file.)
Background:
The world鈥檚 different sign languages offer a unique perspective on the human capacity for language and their rigorous scientific study within linguistics since the 60s of the past century has provided a multitude of novel insights. Some of these have significantly and lastingly changed how we conceptualize and investigate our species鈥� faculty of language: We now understand la
We are pleased to announce that the Call for Papers for the international and interdisciplinary conference 鈥濼hird Space and Ancient World Studies鈥� is now open for submissions. The conference will be hosted by the Department of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Innsbruck from 29th to 31st of October 2025.
This conference seeks to develop the research on spatial perception in ancient societies by gathering scholars of any discipline in the Humanities, Social Sc
The Department of Linguistics is pleased to announce this year鈥檚 award recipients. Learn more about the awards here and here. Congratulations all! Faculty of Arts AwardsCremona Memorial Prize in Linguistics: Emma Custer & Sophia FlaimLara Riente Memorial Prize: Terrance Gatchalian Departmental AwardsU2 Academic Achievement Award:聽Kira Tess PavlidisAward for Academic Leadership:聽Max BlackburnAward for Department Citizenship:聽Ina ZengAward for Excellence in Research:聽Natalia Feu