Liyong Wang

A bonobo’s imaginary tea party suggests apes can play pretend Apes, like humans, are capable of pretend play, challenging long-held views about how animals think, a new study suggests.

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Calls: Experimental and Corpus-Based Approaches to Ellipsis 2026 Final Call for Papers: Workshop Description: We are delighted to announce that the 8th edition of Experimental and Corpus-Based Approaches to Ellipsis (ECBAE) will take at the Hohentübingen Castle, Tübingen, Germany, on 19-20 August 2026. The workshop brings together researchers using empirical methods to investigate ellipsis and related phenomena across languages. It will provide an opportunity to discuss how corpus-based and experimental approaches can advance our understanding of how vari

Calls: Experimental and Corpus-Based Approaches to Ellipsis 2026

Books: New Insights into Theoretical Syntax from Asian Languages: Simpson (ed.) (2026) This book brings together some of the most prominent linguists working in the field of East and Southeast Asian syntax to create a special collection of papers which highlight new developments in the analysis of the syntax of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and other Southeast Asian languages. Generative syntactic theory has regularly been influenced by discoveries made in Asian languages, and the present volume connects a broad range of striking patterns found in Asian languages with Mini

Books: New Insights into Theoretical Syntax from Asian Languages: Simpson (ed.) (2026)

Confs: 15th International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics Organized by the T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and sponsored by United College, CUHK, the 15th International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL-15) will take place at CUHK on June 5-6, 2026 as one of the commemorative activities for the 60th anniversary of the Centre. The Workshop will be held in an in-person mode. We are pleased to invite submissions for a 20-minute talk (followed by 10 minutes of discussion) or a po

Confs: 15th International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics

🚨 CoNLL 2026: Call for Papers 🚨
📍San Diego | July 3–4, 2026 (co-located w/ ACL).
🙋‍♀️Focus: theoretically/cognitively motivated CL & NLP
NEW Areas: Computational Usage-Based Grammars + Language & the Brain.
(Online presentation option available)
📅 Deadline Feb 19, 2026 (AoE): bit.ly/4kgRyKF

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The International Cognitive Linguistics Conference 18 will be hosted at the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg on August 20–24, 2027

Calls: Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association (Jrnl) We invite paper submissions for the Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/gcla/html (DGKL/GCLA) 2026. The Yearbook aims to enable the dynamic exchange of ideas relating to all aspects of Cognitive Linguistics both within the association and in the global Cognitive Linguistics community. The spectrum of topics covered by the Yearbook is as broad as Cognitive Linguistics itself. As such, the Yearbook of the DGKL/GCLA does not impose speci

Calls: Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association (Jrnl)

Confs: 33rd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar The 33rd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar will be held on August 03 - August 04, 2026 at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (Bergen, Norway). The HPSG 2026 conference will be a two-day main conference (3rd - 4th of August). It will be co-located with the DELPH-IN meeting held over the preceding week (27th - 31st of July). Anonymous abstracts are invited that address linguistic, foundational, or computational issues relating to or in the spiri

Confs: 33rd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar

Linguists explain why people often say 'is is' even though we'd never write it that way ​This is very clear and actually helpful.

This is fun

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Calls: 31st International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference Call for Papers: LFG26 welcomes work within the formal architecture of Lexical-Functional Grammar as well as typological, formal, and computational work within the 'spirit of LFG' as a lexicalist approach to language employing a parallel, constraint-based framework. The conference aims to promote interaction and collaboration among researchers interested in non-derivational approaches to grammar, where grammar is seen as the interaction of (perhaps violable) constraints from multiple levels o

Calls: 31st International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference

Calls: Innovations in Linguistics Education (Jrnl) We are glad to announce that Innovations in Linguistics Education, a journal devoted to teaching linguistics in higher education, has been re-launched and is officially open to new submissions as of January 2026. The first five volumes of the journal were published by editor Daniel Dinnsen at the Indiana University Linguistics Club from 1979 to 1990 and re-issued in 2017 by editor Ann Bunger. Volumes 6 onwards will be published on the University of Edinburgh's open access online platform, Edinbu

Calls: Innovations in Linguistics Education (Jrnl)

Mereological Syntax: Phrase Structure, Cyclicity, and Islands An argument for replacing Chomsky’s set-theoretic Merge view of syntax with a theory of syntax based on mereological objects.Mereology is the study of part

My new book is available open access from MITPress. It's a pretty new take on syntax, with some cool consequences for long-distance syntactic dependencies, and I think it should also appeal to non-minimalist syntacticians (since there isn't really any movement!) direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

Really benefit a lot from the detailed comments and suggestions from the reviewers. Hope I can do better next time~

New Cambridge Element, Creative Construction Grammar, by Thomas Hoffmann and Mark Turner, out now! Read Open Access at
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#languageandlinguistics #LangSky

Describing English Constructions: An Introduction Article Describing English Constructions: An Introduction was published on September 1, 2025 in the journal Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (volume 73, issue 3).

Many thanks to Barthe Bloom and Thomas Herbst for putting this special issue together! You can read their introduction here

doi.org/10.1515/zaa-...

Your backstage pass to how #StandUpComedy really works! 🎟️

Discover author Oliver Double’s favourite sentences from his book, ‘The Cambridge Companion to Stand-Up Comedy’🎤

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A copy of "Mereological Syntax: Phrase Structure, Cyclicity, and Islands" by David Adger.

@davidadger.bsky.social's "Mereological Syntax" presents an argument for replacing Chomsky’s set-theoretic Merge view of syntax with a theory of syntax based on mereological objects. Available #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255327...

Reminder: Please join us tomorrow (Friday) for the third talk of the 2025-2026 University of Calgary Linguistics Speaker Series: “External possession and multitransitivity” by University of Toronto Professor María Cristina Cuervo

This is an article about reduplication in Madarin Chinese. By Yanru Lu and me. It grew out of Ynaru Lu's masther thesis and will appear in 2027 in the Journal of Linguistics.

Have fun.

https://lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009505

#linguistics #language #Chinese #syntax #morphology #semantics #HPSG

New Insights into Theoretical Syntax from Asian Languages This book brings together some of the most prominent linguists working in the field of East and Southeast Asian syntax to create a special collection of papers which highlight new developments in the ...

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Chimpanzees are natural scientists Humans and chimpanzees share the potential to rationally revise their beliefs

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Explore the intersections of #literarytheory, #linguistics and #artificialintelligence in Cambridge’s new collection of chapters and articles: 🤖📚 https://cup.org/42HqvR8

Free to read (where not already #openaccess) until 30 Nov. @modernlanguage.bsky.social

Books: The Lexico-Semantic Representation of Words in the Mental Lexicon: Wang (2025) Speech production is a core component of human communication, allowing individuals to express meaning and engage with others seamlessly. This thesis explores the mechanisms underlying language production in native Mandarin Chinese, with a particular focus on semantic and lexico-syntactic features involved in word production. The investigation is structured around three key studies. First, a picture-word interference (PWI) experiment examines the influence of animacy—a semantic feature—on lang

Books: The Lexico-Semantic Representation of Words in the Mental Lexicon: Wang (2025)

Our special issue on ‘Parallelism in the Architecture of Language’ is now published! Huge thanks to all contributing authors, reviewers, Eva, Neil, and the topiCS journal team for their excellent work 📚🗣️🧠🤖🙏🏻
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Confs: GLOW Syntax Workshop Less documented languages is an umbrella term meant to cover a vast variety of languages that are more difficult for scholars to access for a variety of reasons. Some of them concern the lack of written attestations or of an official status in education or administration, the small size of the speech community, the limited transmission from one generation to another – conditions that generally go together with minority or endangered status. However, it is possible to consider under the same head

Confs: GLOW Syntax Workshop

The LSA Bloomfield Book Award Committee is pleased to announce that Norbert Hornstein has been selected as the winner of the Leonard Bloomfield Book Award in 2026 for his book, The Merge hypothesis: A theory of aspects of syntax (Cambridge University Press, 2024)! #LSA2026 #NewOrleans #Bloomfield

Today, the #INNSightForum welcomes its second external speaker, Liina Pylkkänen (@liinapy.bsky.social)!

Join us as we explore language processing to take a glance into the brain’s temporal dynamics at 11:15 a.m. in the Suddath Seminar Room (IBB 1128) or online | 🗓️ neuro.gatech.edu/innsight-for...

Confucius would say:"If terminology is not corrected, then what is said cannot be followed. If what is said cannot be followed, then work cannot be accomplished." 名不正则言不顺，言不顺则事不成.

Out Now!

Reflections on English Word-Formation by Laurie Bauer of @vicuniwgtn.bsky.social

#Linguistics #LangSky 🐦🐦

Calls: 38th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics Call for Papers: The 38th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-38) will be held from May 8–10, 2026 at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., USA. Launched in 1989, the NACCL conference series has become a major academic platform for Chinese language and linguistics research in North America and beyond. Conference Dates: May 8–10, 2026 Location: Washington, D.C., USA Website: https://eall.columbian.gwu.edu/naccl-38 Email: naccl-38@gwu.edu Co-chairs:

Calls: 38th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics