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Final Call for Papers: Organisers: Klaus Abels, Ad Neeleman, Sakshi Bhatia, Sana Kidwai Workshop webpage: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences/events/2026/jul/workshop-rightward-movement Rightward Movement is a two-day inaugural workshop of the AHRC funded project 'The Structure and Processing of Rightward Scrambling in Hindi-Urdu.鈥� The workshop will bring together researchers working on the syntax of (apparent) rightward movement in any language. It aims to advance our understanding of

Call for Papers: We invite abstracts for either oral presentation (20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of discussion) or poster presentation for AMP and its special session on phonological malleability (details below). Abstracts must be anonymous, so please be sure to eliminate any identifying information and metadata from the document. Length is limited to a maximum of two single-spaced pages (US Letter/A4), figures and references included. Font size should be 12-point, with margins of at lea

Final Call for Papers: Implicit arguments 鈥� participants in an event or relation that are not overtly realized but are nonetheless interpreted and syntactically active 鈥� pose persistent challenges for theories of argument structure, linking, and the syntax-semantics interface. Canonical examples include, among others, the unexpressed external argument of passives (The ship was sunk), null internal arguments of certain transitive verbs (Tom already ate), and unsaturated thematic roles in dever

The Department of English at the American University of Sharjah invites applications for a full-time Graduate Research Assistant (GRA) position associated with a Faculty Research Grant (FRG26-S43) project titled: The Role of HVPT and GenAI in Technology-Supported L2 Pronunciation Development. Adopting a mixed-methods experimental design, the project investigates how High Variability Phonetic Training (HVPT) and Generative AI-mediated interaction support the perceptual and productive development

Final Call for Papers: Deadline extension: Pronominal systems represent one of the most fertile testing grounds for understanding grammar as a symbolic system adapted to a stochastic cognitive environment. Pronouns are minimal in descriptive content but maximal in context dependency: they enable reference-tracking without lexical repetition, interact closely with information structure, and frequently give rise to mismatches between form and meaning (Onea et al. 2023). The 2026 edition o

SUMMARY Forensic Linguistics in Southern Africa: Origins, Progress and Prospects by Russell H. Kaschula, Monwabisi K. Ralarala, Eliseu Mabasso, Zakeera Docrat, Wellman Kondowe, and Paul Svongoro is an open-access Study in Cambridge鈥檚 Studies in Forensic Linguistics series. It surveys the emergence and consolidation of forensic linguistics across southern Africa and, more selectively, other African regions, with an explicit concern for access to justice and the United Nations鈥� Sustainable Deve

Summary Written by Jack Pun and Audrey Chan, Exploring Clinical Communication in Asia begins with an introduction chapter. The content is divided into two sections: (i) Insights from interviews with clinicians and (ii) Skills for effective clinical communication. Section one consists of nine chapters where interviews covered a broad range of specialised fields, such as Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to oncology, neurology and veterinary science. Section Two consists of four chapters where