We are happy to announce that as of 2026 the editorial team of the John Benjamins journal Chinese Language and Discourse will be expanded with Executive Editor Xiaoting Li (University of Alberta), Associate Editor Shuangyun Yao (Central China Normal University), Assistant Editor Xiaoyun Wang (University of Alberta), and Review Editor Wei Wang (University of Houston), replacing Ni Eng Lim.
A peer-reviewed journal which seeks to publish original work on Chinese and related languages, with a foc
As of Volume 60 (2025) Julio Jensen (University of Copenhagen) will succeed Steen Bille Jorgensen (University of Aarhus), and join Richard Waltereit (Humboldt-Universit盲t zu Berlin) as editor of the John Benjamins journal Revue Romane.
Revue Romane publishes studies about Romance languages and literature as well as reviews of linguistic and literary works. Revue Romane is especially interested in articles that focus on methodological and/or theoretical arguments of the treated topic.
A multi
We are pleased to announce that Maria Gonz谩lez-Davies (Universitat Ramon Llull) and Silvia Melo-Pfeifer (University of Hamburg) will succeed Sara Laviosa (University of Bari 'Aldo Moro') as editors of the John Benjamins journal Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts, as of volume 12 (2026).
We also welcome Lisa Marie Brinkmann (University of Hamburg) as Review Editor and Editorial Assistant.
We are greatly indebted to Sara Laviosa who started the journal and under whose exce
2nd Call for Papers:
We are pleased to invite submissions for AnatoLinks, a PhD / early career two-day conference dedicated to the study of Ancient Anatolia through the lenses of Linguistics, Philology, History, and Archaeology, to be held at the University of Oxford on 4鈥�5 December 2025.
The conference aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and encourage meaningful exchange between different approaches to the ancient Anatolian world. We particularly welcome joint presentations by resea
Meeting Description:
Null Objects from a Crosslinguistic and Developmental Perspective 2025 will be hosted by the Universitat de les Illes Balears and will take place in Palma de Mallorca (Spain). It aims to gather colleagues to present and discuss new empirical and theoretical insights on null objects from a crosslinguistic and developmental perspective.
Invited speakers:
Prof. Dr. Maia Duguine (CNRS-IKER)
Prof. Dr. Ianthi Tsimpli (University of Cambridge)
Program:
The program of NoCr
Meeting Description:
Null Objects from a Crosslinguistic and Developmental Perspective 2025 will be hosted by the Universitat de les Illes Balears and will take place in Palma de Mallorca (Spain). It aims to gather colleagues to present and discuss new empirical and theoretical insights on null objects from a crosslinguistic and developmental perspective.
Invited speakers:
Prof. Dr. Maia Duguine (CNRS-IKER)
Prof. Dr. Ianthi Tsimpli (University of Cambridge)
Program:
The program of NoCr
2nd Call for Papers:
The performance of food has become ubiquitous in the digital realm, where we find content saturated with all things culinary, gustatory, and gastronomic. From food porn images to restaurant reviews, from what-I-eat-in-a-day-videos to cooking shows, from mukbang to forum posts with food advice 鈥� people negotiate and display their food practices online, to be consumed and regurgitated by others via their digital devices. This is often based on co-occurring linguistic perfor
Date: 21-22 November, 2025
Venue: Faculty of Letters, 5-7 Edgar Quinet St., Bucharest, Romania (and online)
Conference languages: Romanian, English, French
Convenors: Cristian Moroianu, Monica Vasileanu, Gabriela Stoica
Registration fee: 300 RON/60 euro; for PhD students or online participation, 150 RON/30 euro.
2nd Call for Papers:
A neologism is generally understood as a new word, due to tradition and to its remote etymology of the term, whereby the Greek 谓苇慰蟼 鈥渘ew鈥� and 位蠈纬慰蟼 鈥渨ord鈥�
Date: 21-22 November 2025
Location: Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest
Keynote speaker: Prof. Luis Javier Pent贸n Herrera (Akademia Ekonomiczno-Humanistyczna in Warsaw, Poland)
2nd Call for Papers:
We invite researchers, educators, PhD students, and specialists in teaching foreign languages or Romanian as a foreign language (RFL) to contribute with papers exploring the impact and interaction between Large Language Models (LLMs) and the teaching and learning process of foreign lan
2nd Call for Papers:
Convenors: Andrei M膬r膬葯oiu, Sandra Br芒nzaru (Faculty of Philosophy), Alexandru Nicolae (Faculty of Letters)
We invite submissions to a workshop to be held within the 25th International Conference of the Department of Linguistics of the Faculty of Letters.
Questions we aim to explore:
- Do LLMs have metalinguistic abilities (do they have the ability to generate analyses of language data/theoretical linguistic abilities of language samples so as to identify whether
The Language Attitudes and Popular Linguistics Area of the Popular Culture Association is seeking presentations on any language attitude or language-related popular culture topic, such as:
- the language attitudes of X (for example, new baby greeting cards, truck drivers, student writers, first generation immigrants, etc.)
- issues with prescriptivism
- language and advertising or other media;
- professional, corporate, or other industry-related language;
- dialect, code-switching, or
This is a call for papers for a hybrid session at the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference in Pittsburgh, PA which will take place March 5-8, 2026. Please see this link for the CFP and to submit through the NeMLA site: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21963 .
On March 1, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued an executive order designating English the official language of the United States while simultaneously revoking a previous executive order from August 11, 2000, called 鈥淚mpro
As part of the Marie Sk艂odowska-Curie funded project Verb valency in Germanic: diachronic analysis and reconstruction of protolinguistic scenario (VALGER, project no. 101150253) the research group Linguistics in Pavia, sponsored by the journal North-Western European Language Evolution (NOWELE, John Benjamins), is organizing a two-day symposium dedicated to the study of Germanic syntax.
The symposium will take place at the University of Pavia on Thursday 16 and Friday 17 April 2026.
We invite
We are very excited to announce the very first Young Researchers' Conference on negation taking place in Frankfurt am Main in May 2026! The conference has two main goals: to foster exchange among doctoral and postdoctoral researchers working on negation and to investigate negation from a range of theoretical and empirical perspectives. By bringing together young researchers from different disciplines and methodological backgrounds, the event offers a space for feedback, discussion, and collabora
The following books are now available for review on the LINGUIST List.
If you would like to become a reviewer for one of the books announced in the AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW posting, you will need to follow steps 1-4 explained below:
Step 1: Go to https://linguistlist.org/reviews/request
Step 2: You will be asked to log in or create an account.
Step 3: Update your personal information and add reviewer specific information on why you would be a good reviewer for the books you wish to select.
Step
Call for Papers:
The Linguistics Department at the University of Florida is excited to announce that the Call for Abstracts for the Florida Linguistics Yearly Meeting (FLYM) 2025 is now open.
FLYM 2025 will take place on Friday October 10th and Saturday October 11th. This year's theme is Language in Context: Theory and Community. We welcome submissions in sociolinguistics, theoretical, and computational linguistics, and, in the spirit of the theme, we particularly welcome submissions focu
West Virginia Foreign Language Teachers Association (WV FLTA) is inviting everyone to attend our annual conference in Lewisburg, WV on October 3-4, 2026. At the conference, you can expect to:
1) Receive high-quality professional development designed for World Languages & Cultures teachers.
2) Attend multiple sessions with ideas to enrich the language classroom.
3) Participate in two workshops that will demonstrate activities to enhance learning both in and beyond the classroom.
4) Interact
West Virginia Foreign Language Teachers Association (WV FLTA) is inviting everyone to attend our annual conference in Lewisburg, WV on October 3-4, 2026. At the conference, you can expect to:
1) Receive high-quality professional development designed for World Languages & Cultures teachers.
2) Attend multiple sessions with ideas to enrich the language classroom.
3) Participate in two workshops that will demonstrate activities to enhance learning both in and beyond the classroom.
4) Interact
This panel comprises a collection of 6 contributions and 2 general discussions. Our聽talks聽focus on the specific relationship between music and language.聽The first聽3 papers report new findings in textsetting. These talks collectively argue that musical settings actively shape and expose hidden linguistic structures. The analysis of right-headed constituents in Italian pop songs (Talk 1) challenges the traditional trochaic model by showing how iambic patterns emerge under musical prominence. Simil
Doctoral researcher in Descriptive Linguistics for ERC project 鈥淟o-Rig"
The School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, is seeking to recruit a highly motivated and outstanding doctoral researcher for a period of 4 years (48 months). Candidates are given the opportunity to work on a structured PhD in descriptive linguistics, writing a grammatical description of the M枚npa language of Bhutan based on a corpus of natural speech and elicitation. We are seeking