The functional domain of apprehensionality encompasses grammatical markers or constructions which conventionally encode or pragmatically implicate that the situation described by the clause is an undesirable possibility. Its main manifestations discussed in this volume are (i) apprehensives, which are modal markers which can occur in main clauses, and thus could serve to translate English might in Don't go near this dog, it might bite (but also add a component of undesirability), and (ii) precau
What do people mean when they talk about the sound pattern of a language鈥攚hat linguists call phonology? This book explores that question in a hands-on way, with a focus on applying the knowledge in language revitalization and community language work. The book introduces basic ideas and analytic strategies using examples from Indigenous languages across North and South America. Short comprehension checks invite you to test your understanding, and language explorations encourage you to apply what
Despite decades of scholarship on lexical borrowing in post-Conquest England, the vocabulary of the medieval countryside has remained largely outside the lens of contact linguistics 鈥� an oversight shaped by the long-standing assumption that French influence was confined to elite domains. At the same time, the multilingual reality of medieval England has made monolingual lexicography an increasingly inadequate tool: the Anglo-French, Medieval Latin, and Middle English lexicons of the period canno
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Table of Contents
Obituary
In memoriam
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Introduction
The Nature of Modality: Werner Abraham鈥檚 Perspective
Ermenegildo Bidese & Manuela Caterina Moroni
pp.鈥�2鈥�9
Articles
From Needing to Wanting: Taking a Deep Dive into Abraham鈥檚 Modal Protosoup
Jakob Mach茅
pp.鈥�10鈥�50
Perspectival Mechanisms of Modality: Semantic Shifts of Modal Verb sollen (鈥榮hall鈥�) + inf. in German
Stefan Hinterwimmer & Sonja Zeman
pp.鈥�51鈥�79
Modality and Illocutionary Force:
This dissertation investigates how Mandarin Chinese encodes definiteness and indefiniteness in the absence of a dedicated article system. It addresses the 鈥渁lternation challenge,鈥� a tension between the functionalist observation that Mandarin bare nouns alternate with overt markers (numeral-yi and demonstratives) and the formal semantic generalization that Mandarin bare nouns do not require determiners to function as arguments. Adopting a data-driven translation corpus methodology based on Harry
Languages constantly change, especially when they are spoken across generations and in contact with other languages. One striking site of such change is Differential Object Marking (DOM), the phenomenon whereby only some direct objects are overtly marked, typically depending on properties such as animacy, definiteness, or discourse prominence. In Romance languages, DOM has a long and complex history, often realised through the preposition a. Yet little is known about how these systems evolve wh
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The International Linguistic Society is delighted to invite you to participate in the International Thematic Conference of Language Education Research and Applications, Language Education 2026, to be held online from 24-26 June 2026.
The primary aim of the conference is to advance key areas of language education, welcoming at the same time innovative approaches to related research and applications.
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"(In)transitivity and its Variation" workshop, founded by SLE Joint initiatives research grant 2026, will be held in Pozna艅 (Poland) on 28-29 September 2026. This workshop aims to explore the interplay of semantics, morphology, and syntax in encoding (in)transitivity, investigating the functional motivations underlying valency patterns across diverse language families.
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SUMMARY
Comparing Linguistic Diachronies contains an introduction to, and a collection of papers based on, presentations at the 2022 and 2023 editions of the Comparing Diachronies workshops at the Language Variation and Change in Ancient and Medieval Europe鈥擟omparing Diachronies summer school held in Naxos, Greece. The volume seems to be intended for a general audience, that is, for anyone from readers with a passing interest in languages and linguistics to researchers whose agendas include a
Appel 脿 communications
脌 la m茅moire de Bernard Dupriez
(1933-2025)
Cette deuxi猫me 茅dition de nos journ茅es, qui aura lieu le 17 novembre 2026 et qui sera consacr茅e au th猫me de la r茅ticence, se veut le prolongement et l鈥檃pprofondissement en 茅tudes m茅di茅vales, fran莽aises et romanes, du colloque pour jeunes chercheurs 芦 The unspoken and silence in language and literature 禄, qui s鈥檈st tenu en novembre 2025 脿 l鈥橴niversit茅 de Sofia. Or notre journ茅e s鈥檃dresse aussi bien aux jeunes chercheurs (茅
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For centuries, linguistics focused on written language as 鈥渢he norm鈥�, and all features of language were studied based on written and often constructed artificial examples. Spoken corpora have enabled a shift in the way we view language, e.g. from a product-based to a process-based view on grammar, from an inherently-fluent view on communication to stipulating a fluency鈥揹isfluency continuum, from a verbally-centred communication to a multimodal construction of meaning.
Data
Appel 脿 communications
脌 la m茅moire de Bernard Dupriez
(1933-2025)
Cette deuxi猫me 茅dition de nos journ茅es, qui aura lieu le 17 novembre 2026 et qui sera consacr茅e au th猫me de la r茅ticence, se veut le prolongement et l鈥檃pprofondissement en 茅tudes m茅di茅vales, fran莽aises et romanes, du colloque pour jeunes chercheurs 芦 The unspoken and silence in language and literature 禄, qui s鈥檈st tenu en novembre 2025 脿 l鈥橴niversit茅 de Sofia. Or notre journ茅e s鈥檃dresse aussi bien aux jeunes chercheurs (茅
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The Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS 2026) invites researchers, practitioners, industry experts, and students to participate in this international forum dedicated to the latest advances in NLP, Artificial Intelligence, and Cyber Security. The conference will take place in Alicante, Spain, on 11鈥�12 June 2026.
The list of accepted papers is published at: https://nlpaics2026.gplsi.es/accept
The VI International Postgraduate Seminar in English Literature and Linguistics (IPSELL) organised by the Master鈥檚 in English Literature and Linguistics of the University of Granada aims to provide a forum where postgraduate students/researchers can present the results of their current research projects (preferably MA dissertation or early PhD work). This event intends to allow master鈥檚 and early career research students to share their research interests with national and international young sch
The VI International Postgraduate Seminar in English Literature and Linguistics (IPSELL) organised by the Master鈥檚 in English Literature and Linguistics of the University of Granada aims to provide a forum where postgraduate students/researchers can present the results of their current research projects (preferably MA dissertation or early PhD work). This event intends to allow master鈥檚 and early career research students to share their research interests with national and international young sch
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The Department of English Philology at the University of Zielona G贸ra is pleased to announce a scientific conference celebrating the 20th anniversary of English philology at the University of Zielona G贸ra.
The conference "Contemporary Perspectives on Language and Literatures in English" aims to bring together young and established scholars giving them a venue for reexamining the focus, content, boundaries and interconnections between disciplines within the broad area of
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This is the final call for abstracts for Linguistic Evidence 2026. The deadline for abstract submission has been extended to 8 June, 2026.
Linguistic Evidence will take place from 15-16 October 2026 at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language Mannheim, Germany.
Linguistic Evidence is a biennial conference series founded in 2004 at the University of T眉bingen (https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/core-research/collaborative-research-centers/crc-833/linguistic-eviden
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The Bantu languages, a family of approximately 500 living languages (Hammarstr枚m 2019:17), are a kaleidoscope of grammatical contrasts. Consider the contrasting examples below, where (a) is from Sambaa and (b) from Swahili (capitalisation highlights verbal object markers):
a) Sambaa: n-za-ha-CHI-M-nka Stella kitabu haja 'I gave Stella a book there' (Riedel 2009:60)
b) Swahili: ni-me-M-pa Juma vitabu vyote vitatu pale 'I have given Juma all three books there' (Riedel 2009:62)
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This book focuses on second language pragmatics, specifically targeting young learners. It brings together nine studies that examine two dimensions: young learners鈥� pragmatic production, perception, and development, as well as materials and pedagogical considerations. The volume opens with an introductory chapter in which the authors highlight the importance of childhood in second language pragmatics and provide a brief overview of each part of the book.
The first part, entitled Yo