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The American Philosophical Society's Library & Museum in Philadelphia invites applications for short-term residential research fellowships. These funding opportunities provide 1- to 3- months of support for researchers in residence and are open to scholars in all fields who show a demonstrated need to use the Library & Museum鈥檚 collections for their project. Approximately 25-30 short-term fellowships are awarded each year.
Deadline: March 3, 2025. Notifications will be sent in May 2025.
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The Department of Linguistics at the University of Alberta, established in 1969, offers MSc and PhD positions for prospective graduate students interested in learning and conducting research with our vibrant team of faculty members, graduate students, and other academics in state-of-the-art research facilities.
*The application deadline is January 15, 2025*.
The Department has a long-standing focus on community-engaged work with Indigenous languages and their sustainability and revitalization.
Final Call for Papers:
DEADLINE EXTENSION
The deadline for submitting abstracts for the 11th conference on Pluricentric Languages and their Non-Dominant Varieties has been extended to 15 December 2024.
For more information, including confirmed invited speakers, visit our website at https://www.uc.pt/celga-iltec/pcl2025/.
We look forward to seeing you in Lisbon!
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We are happy to announce that The English Linguistic Society of Japan 18th Spring Forum is to be held as described below. All presentations and discussions will be conducted in English. All abstracts must be written in English.
Forum Dates: Saturday May 17 鈥 Sunday May 18, 2025
Location: Seijo University, Tokyo
6-1-20 Seijo, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo-to, 157-8511, Japan
Contact: forum-elsj@kaitakusha.co.jp
We invite abstracts for (A) oral presentations (each a 20-minute talk plu
Seminario internazionale di Studi linguistici di genere. Spagna e Italia
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**Call for abstracts**
We welcome abstract submissions for talks or posters on topics related to natural language semantics, pragmatics, the syntax-semantics interface, philosophy of language, and psycho-/neurolinguistic studies related to meaning. We especially encourage contributions that incorporate experimental evidence, although all submissions should aim to advance a formal model of natural language semantics and pragmatics. We welcome abstract submissions for talks or p
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The panel focuses on the usage of obscene language (伪峒跋兿囅佄课晃课澄/obscenitas) in the ancient world. Of the many types of words that could be seen as obscene, most pertained to sexual and scatological vocabulary, but other types of taboos also existed (see e.g. De Martino & Sommerstein, "Studi sull鈥橢ufemismo," Bari 1999). Until the 1960s, work on this kind of vocabulary was prevented by the prudery that inhibited the scholarly community (think of the avoidance of explicit definiti
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Elements in Translation and Interpreting presents innovative studies on the theory, practice and pedagogy of translation and interpreting. In Translation as Creative-Critical Practice, Delphine Grass challenges the separation between practice and theory in translation studies by analyzing creative-critical translation experiments.
Traditionally, translation studies as a discipline has been organized around a clear separation between theory and practice. According to the author, creativ
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Proposals of thematic/workshop sessions and papers are invited for both oral and poster presentations related to the leitmotif, as well as to other topics within modern linguistics.
Each paper in the general oral sessions will be given 30 minutes, including 10 minutes for discussion. Poster sessions will form an integral part of the conference programme. The number of submissions is limited to one single-authored plus one co-authored abstract per author (or two co-authored one
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We welcome contributions for 30 minute talks, each followed by a 10 minute discussion session. As this workshop seeks to foster dialogue and collaboration between researchers working in Distributed Morphology and Nanosyntax, we especially welcome submissions that engage with one or more of the following topics:
- Curious cases of syncretism
- Suppletion and contextual allomorphy
- *ABA-patterns
- The relevance of zero in DM and Nanosyntax
- Structural gaps (e.g. (pro)nouns, TAM
Plenary Speakers:
Jasone Cenoz (University of the Basque Country)
Jean-Marc Dewaele (Birkbeck, University of London)
Ulrike Jessner (University of Innsbruck)
Christina Lindqvist (University of Gothenburg)
Roumyana Slabakova (University of Southampton)
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Presentation Formats
- Oral presentations: 20-minute talks organized into thematic sessions
- Poster presentations: dedicated poster sessions
Submission Guidelines for Oral or Poster Presentations
- Proposals for oral or poster presentations must be written in French or English and should
not exceed 500 words (references not included).
Submission Process
Proposals should be submitted before January 31st via the Sciencesconf platform:
https://real2-paris2025.sciencesconf.or
2nd Call for Papers:
We would like to thank all the people who have already submitted their proposals and, following up on the many requests we have received over the past few days, we have decided to extend the deadline for submissions until December 31st!
The CERLIS2025 conference on Metaphors in Specialized Discourse In and Across Cultures (12-14 June 2025, University of Bergamo) aims to explore the intricate and multifaceted roles that metaphors play in specialized forms of discourse, enco
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Poster Session: Call for Papers
We invite contributions to the poster session on Friday, March 21, 2025. This is an opportunity for researchers, including M.A. students, to share their work on topics in corpus linguistics involving concordance reading.
Submission Details: Submit an abstract (max. 500 words, excluding tables and references) to dhss-team@fau.de with the subject line 鈥淩C21 Poster鈥.
Deadline: January 31, 2025
Notification of Acceptance: February 7, 2025
Call for Papers:
Abstracts for individual presentations and poster presentations should be limited to 500 words (excluding title and references) and should fit on a single page, single-spaced, 12-point Times New Roman font. An additional page containing references, tables, figures, or examples may also be included. Abstracts must not contain any identifying information.
Important Dates:
Abstract submission open: November 28th, 2024
Abstract submission deadline: February 7th, 2025
Author notif
2nd Call for Papers:
On the linguistic side, we welcome submissions examining any grammatical phenomena sensitive to the degree of agency or interpretation of an action as intentional versus accidental, such as controller choice, subjunctive obviation, licensing of polarity items, aspect choice in Slavic, case marking in ergative split languages and 鈥榦ut-of-control鈥 morphology. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the following: ways in which natural languages manifest differe
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Abstract Submission
鈥 Each abstract should not exceed 300 words (incl. at least four keywords and references).
鈥 Text should be justified and single-spaced (font size: Times New Roman 12pt).
鈥 Name, affiliation, and e-mail address should be on separate first page of the electronic copy.
鈥 Every individual presentation will last 20 minutes (plus 10 minutes for discussion and questions).
Conference Themes:
We invite submissions that engage with the following themes:
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Language in Japan, the English-language journal of the Society for Japanese Linguistics, is now soliciting papers for its next issue, Volume 3, scheduled for publication in March 2026. The deadline for submission is the end of June 2025. Authors are NOT required to be a member of the Society. Language in Japan is a fully open-access journal, with no associated costs.
For journal scope, rules of submission and other information, see https://www.jpling.gr.jp/en/lij.
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Organisers:
Andreas Witt, Institut f眉r Deutsche Sprache (IDS), Mannheim
Christian Mair, English Department, University of Freiburg
Key dates:
From 1 Dec. 2024: Submission of abstracts
16 Feb. 2025: Abstract submission deadline
1 March 2025: Notification of acceptance; registration
For information see the conference website (https://www.ids-mannheim.de/fi/veranstaltungen/workshop-corpus-linguistics-2040/). A full programme will be available from 15 March 2025. All inquiries should be addres
Call for Papers:
We invite submissions relating to the following four topic areas:
- Corpora of spontaneous speech 鈥 new formats, new searches
- Corpora versus AI/LLMs? Corpora and AI/LLMs?
- Multilingual and multimodal corpora
- Future infrastructures for corpus linguistics and text-based Digital Humanities
Please indicate which focus you consider the best fit for your contribution. Abstracts (max. 500 words, including references) should be submitted (with the header 鈥渁bstract submission鈥) to