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Linguistic enclaves and/or islands are communities whose spoken variety differs from that of the surrounding majority, often preserved through geographical, social, or political separation. Whether they are long-established diaspora varieties, historical settler languages, or indigenous communities encircled by an official standard language, enclave languages offer rich insights in a variety of linguistic issues. Having long coexisted in regions of intense multilingualism, migration, and shif

GloSoc6 is the sixth edition of the conference series focusing on mainstreaming lesser-known sociolinguistic research. It will take place at the University of Verona, Italy, from 23 to 25 June 2027.This edition鈥檚 theme is 'nonverbal communication in everyday interaction', focusing on the body as a silent communicator. While spoken language is commonly analysed linguistically, such analyses capture only part of how people create and convey meaning. Indeed, spoken communication relies heavily o

Workshop organizers: - Maik Thalmann (Ruhr University Bochum) - Daniel Gutzmann (Ruhr University Bochum) Invited speakers: - Cornelia Ebert (University of Frankfurt) - David Beaver (University of Graz) Workshop Description: At-issueness as a category of linguistic description reflects the intuition that the meaning of an utterance can be partitioned into foregrounded (at-issue) and backgrounded (non-at-issue) contents. To date, the at-issue/non-at-issue divide has been fruitfull

The Departments of African Studies and Linguistics at the University of Vienna are pleased to announce the call for papers for the 12th edition of the World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL 12). We warmly invite researchers, academics, and students, particularly those working in African Studies, African languages, and African literatures, to participate in this global scholarly gathering. Apart from the general sessions, there will be two thematic workshops: Workshop 1: Object mark

Invited speaker: Kilu von Prince (U. Heinrich-Heine-Universit盲t D眉sseldorf) We invite submissions for EmGraCa 2026, a workshop dedicated to the investigation of emerging grammatical categories, with a particular focus on categories that have only relatively recently been identified, theorized, or systematically compared across languages. The workshop aims to bring together researchers working on underexplored or newly conceptualized domains of grammar, especially those grounded in semantic di

The Department of the Lithuanian Language of the Faculty of Philology at Vilnius University and the Research Centre of Standard Language at the Institute of the Lithuanian Language invite you to participate in The 31st Jonas Jablonskis鈥� conference 鈥淟anguage as a system and process鈥�. The conference will take place at Vilnius University, Lithuania, on October 1鈥�2, 2026. Conference Languages: English, Lithuanian. Conference Topics: - Studies of language structure - Features and patterns o

Project PRECISION invites submissions for an interdisciplinary conference exploring children鈥檚 communication in digital environments and its implications for online safety. The conference brings together researchers and practitioners to examine how children鈥檚 communicative practices and perspectives can inform more effective prevention and protection strategies. Topics of Interest: We welcome contributions from disciplines including linguistics, communication studies, psychology, criminolo

This year鈥檚 theme investigates the design, use, and academic study of AI systems that operate across modalities and models, and the implications for research in applied linguistics. Location: Teachers College, Columbia University Plenary Speaker: Veronika Timpe-Laughlin, Senior Research Scientist, Educational Testing Service (ETS) Title: Talking with Machines: AI Interlocutors in Language Learning and Assessment Pre-Conference Workshop Presenter: Edward Metz, Founder of App Club T

The 5th Iconicity Seminar (IcoSem5) will be held in Daejeon, South Korea on 1鈥�3 April 2027. IcoSem5 invites abstracts that pertain to linguistic iconicity, the resemblance between linguistic form and meaning. We call for papers for 30-minute presentations (20min presentation + 10min Q&A) dealing with any aspect of linguistic iconicity, such as: - Sound symbolism - Onomatopoeia and ideophones - Sign language iconicity - Syntactic iconicity - Iconicity and language change - Icon

ADS will hold its annual meeting in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America Wednesday, January 6 through Saturday, January 9, 2027, in San Francisco, CA. The meeting will be held at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis. Friday, July 31, 2026, is the deadline for 20-minute paper and poster proposals, as well as innovative panel proposals. We invite presentations on any aspect of all languages and dialects used or found in North America (as well as associated islands in the Pacifi

The International Conference in Evolutionary Linguistics (CIEL) series was initiated by renowned linguist Professor William S.-Y. Wang, focusing on interdisciplinary research on language origins and evolution. Continuing and further advancing the academic tradition of the CIEL series, this conference aims to provide a high-level international platform for scholars from linguistics, cognitive science, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, anthropology, and related fields. The conference will foc

The 3rd Adamawa Conference provides a forum for presenting and discussing recent studies on approximately 80鈥�90 languages spoken primarily in eastern Nigeria, northern Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and southern Chad. These languages, spoken by more than 600,000 people, belong to the Adamawa branch of the Niger-Congo language family. The conference welcomes researchers, students, linguists, sociolinguists, language advocates, language developers, and community leaders interested in t

We announce that the 32nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2027) will take place in Macau, China, May 9-14 2027. COLING 2027 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of computational linguistics and natural language processing. More details soon. Conference website: https://2027.coling-iccl.org/ Paper Submission Information: This year, COLING will adopt the ARR system for reviewi

One of the central goals of syntactic typology is to reduce complex linguistic phenomena鈥攁nd the often fine-grained variation they exhibit across languages鈥攖o a set of simpler underlying mechanisms. This enterprise involves deriving a wide range of syntactic constructions from constrained sets of features or other syntactic primitives that can combine in different constellations across languages. In this workshop, to be held at DGfS 2027 in Jena, we zoom in on these primitives and ask two interr

The Second Workshop on Replication in the Language Sciences (WoReLa 2) focuses on building cumulative knowledge in linguistics through reproducible, robust, and replicable research findings. Building on the success of WoReLa 1 in Frankfurt, this second workshop aims to further our understanding of the factors that contribute to (a lack of) replicability in the language sciences, and to identify effective strategies to improve how linguistic research is conducted. For WoReLa 2, we particularly en

The 58th Algonquian Conference will be held in St. John鈥檚, Newfoundland/Ktaqmkuk/Akami-assi at Memorial University, from Friday, 23 October to Sunday, 25 October, 2026. This conference is an international meeting for Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars and community members to share research and practice relating to Algonquian peoples, the largest First Peoples group in Canada. Fields of interest include anthropology, archaeology, art, biography, education, ethnography, ethnobotany, folklo

Methodenmesse auf der IDS-Jahrestagung 2027: "Sprache und Literatur" Die 63. Jahrestagung des Leibniz-Instituts f眉r Deutsche Sprache (IDS) in Mannheim steht unter dem Motto "Sprache und Literatur" und zielt darauf ab, Ph盲nomene literarischer Sprache aus der Perspektive linguistischer Fragestellungen und Methoden zu beleuchten. Wir rufen zur Einreichung von Beitr盲gen f眉r die Methodenmesse auf, die am Mittwoch, 10. M盲rz 2027, im Rahmen der Tagung stattfindet. Der Fokus der Methodenmesse ist

Session 5-LING at 25th International Congress of the German Association of Hispanic Studies (DHV), 9鈥�13 March 2027 Session Chairs: David Paul Gerards (Mainz) and Jonas Gr眉nke (Regensburg) The Spanish-speaking world is characterized by transatlantic mobility and situations of intense language contact, in which Spanish comes into contact with indigenous and minority languages while functioning either as the sole first language or as one of several first languages. This section focuses on the

The Arabic Linguistics Society (ALS) and the University of California, Berkeley鈥檚 department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures are pleased to announce the 40th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (ASAL40) to be held at the University of California, Berkeley from April 2 to 4, 2027. Papers are invited on topics that deal with a variety of issues in Arabic linguistics. Presentations on research in the following areas of Arabic linguistics are welcome: - Linguistic analysis (Phonology

The conference aims to bring together voices from around the world to share knowledge, experiences and transformative projects related to linguistic diversity, social cohesion, culture and innovation working on the present and future of Basque and other minoritized and minority languages around the world. It will be an opportunity to reflect collectively on how languages can help build stronger, more open and more connected communities.