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Review: AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW The following books are now available for review on the LINGUIST List. If you would like to become a reviewer for one of the books announced in the AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW posting, you will need to follow steps 1-4 explained below: Step 1: Go to https://linguistlist.org/reviews/request Step 2: You will be asked to log in or create an account. Step 3: Update your personal information and add reviewer specific information on why you would be a good reviewer for the books you wish to select. Step

Review: AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW

Review: Laurie Bauer (2025) SUMMARY “How do we invent new words? How do we understand words that we have never heard before? What are the limits on the kinds of words we produce? How have linguists and grammarians dealt with the phenomenon of creating new words, and how justified are their ways of viewing such words?” (Bauer, 2025) Published by Cambridge University Press, Reflections on English Word-Formation, by Prof. Laurie Bauer, presents a comprehensive and reflective exploration of English word formati

Review: Laurie Bauer (2025)

Review: Applied Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics: Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung, Union der deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften (eds.) (2025) SUMMARY As the editors of the present volume explain, the aim of the publication is to address a set of questions concerning the German language in Europe: Where in Europe is German spoken? How did this come about? What is the status of the German language in Europe? How does it interact with other languages? How does German fit into a multilingual repertoire? How can the vitality of German be assessed? [9] These questions are approached in two distinct ways: the first part of the volume pres

Review: Applied Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics: Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung, Union der deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften (eds.) (2025)

Software: KokborokBERT - Masked Language Model for Kokborok MWire Labs has released KokborokBERT, a masked language model (MLM) for the Kokborok language of Northeast India. The model was developed through domain-adaptive fine-tuning of XLM-RoBERTa-base on a curated Kokborok corpus (372,850 tokens). Training was conducted for 13 epochs on an NVIDIA A40 GPU. Validation Results: -Zero-shot XLM-R Perplexity: 396.69 -KokborokBERT Perplexity: 5.90 ~67× reduction in modeling error The model is designed to support downstream tasks such as named en

Software: KokborokBERT - Masked Language Model for Kokborok

FYI: New Research Square for Computational Psycholinguistics Computational Psycholinguistics discord server is an experimental research square for people working on the cross-section of NLP and Psychology to connect, discuss ideas, learn from each other, and pick up collaborators. You can join by following the link below https://discord.gg/2DUHmcnY6Z

FYI: New Research Square for Computational Psycholinguistics

FYI: Webinar 6 March: Challenges and Initiatives in Radio Language Policy Implementation in Nigeria Webinar Series: Conversations on Language Policy in Africa Challenges and Initiatives in Radio Language Policy Implementation Registration link: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/8a16b3f8-87d3-4c8c-a3a1-a6cee8f9600c@d400387a-212f-43ea-ac7f-77aa12d7977e Abstract The concern of radio language policy in Nigeria is uneven. The multiannual broadcasting, which overtly appears in Nigerian radio, is the subject of this webinar. It explores radio stations implementation of the legal posit

FYI: Webinar 6 March: Challenges and Initiatives in Radio Language Policy Implementation in Nigeria

Qs: Spanish-Speaking Participants Needed ¿Eres hispanohablante y te gustaria participar en un estudio relacionado con el lenguaje y la IA? Ayúdanos respondiendo un cuestionario de 15 minutos, solamente necesitas un dispositivo electrónico y unos audífonos. El cuestionario te tomará alrededor de 10-15 minutos. Ingresa al link: https://lablinguisticaunam.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_57HV9rizfy9GYCy

Qs: Spanish-Speaking Participants Needed

FYI: New Database of Flora and Fauna Terms in Traditional Great Andamanese Languages The aim of this database is to provide information on the designations of biota (flora, fauna, etc.) in the traditional Great Andamanese languages, i.e. these languages as they were documented from the mid-19th to the early 20th centuries. The current version covers Akabea and Akajeru/North Andamanese. The database can be accessed here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18748966

FYI: New Database of Flora and Fauna Terms in Traditional Great Andamanese Languages

FYI: New Editor-in-Chief Intercultural Pragmatics Intercultural Pragmatics welcomes Marta Dynel (University of Łódź) as its new Editor-in-Chief, as of January 2026. Joining her on the editorial team are Monika Kirner-Ludwig (University of Innsbruck) and Wei Ren (Beihang University) as Associate Editors. Intercultural Pragmatics is an international forum for pragmatic research across languages and cultures. The journal makes a special effort to cross disciplinary boundaries, welcoming submissions from all areas of pragmatics and its interface

FYI: New Editor-in-Chief Intercultural Pragmatics

Jobs: Computational Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Neurolinguistics, Phonology, Syntax: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Michigan Description: The Department of Linguistics at the University of Michigan invites applications for a one-year Postdoctoral Research Fellow, with the possibility of renewal for a second year, to work with Dr. Huteng Dai on computational modeling of language acquisition. The postdoc will play a central role in developing publishable research that connects formal inductive biases, modern language modeling, and human language acquisition. We are especially interested in candidates who are excit

Jobs: Computational Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Neurolinguistics, Phonology, Syntax: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Michigan

Jobs: General Linguistics, Neurolinguistics: University Professor (W3) of General Linguistics with a Focus on Neurolinguistics, FB05 Philosophy & Philology, JGU Mainz, Germany Description: Tasks and Expectations: The Faculty is seeking applications from leaders in the field who will make a significant contribution to shaping interdisciplinary linguistics with a strong focus on research and cooperation in conjunction with other linguistic disciplines at JGU. The successful candidate will represent the field of General Linguistics with a focus on Neurolinguistics in its full breadth in research and teaching and will collaborate closely with the professorship in Gene

Jobs: General Linguistics, Neurolinguistics: University Professor (W3) of General Linguistics with a Focus on Neurolinguistics, FB05 Philosophy & Philology, JGU Mainz, Germany

Jobs: General Linguistics, Language Documentation, Typology: University Professor (W2) of General and Comparative Linguistics with a Focus on Linguistic Typology and Linguistic Diversity, FB05 Philosophy & Philology, JGU Mainz, Germany Description: Tasks and Expectations: The Faculty is seeking applications from scholars who will make a significant contribution to shaping interdisciplinary linguistics with a strong focus on research and cooperation in conjunction with other linguistic disciplines at JGU. The successful candidate will represent the field of General and Comparative Linguistics with a typological focus in appropriate breadth in both research and teaching and will work closely with the professorship specializi

Jobs: General Linguistics, Language Documentation, Typology: University Professor (W2) of General and Comparative Linguistics with a Focus on Linguistic Typology and Linguistic Diversity, FB05 Philosophy & Philology, JGU Mainz, Germany

Calls: 1st Cantonese Applied Linguistics Conference and 9th Forum on Cantonese Linguistics Joint Conference Call for Papers: Please scroll down for English version. 滑下查看標準漢語版本。 敬啟者： 第一屆粵語應用語言學研討會 × 第九屆粵語語言學論壇（CALA-1 × FoCaL-9）聯合會議會由香港粵語應用語言學學會（CALA）同香港語言學學會（LSHK）一齊主辦，香港理工大學專業及持續教育學院語文及傳意學部（LC, CPCE, PolyU）合辦，將於2026年7月4號（星期六）喺香港理工大學西九龍校園舉行。希望大家嚟分享最新研究進展，聽吓同儕意見，促進跨院校嘅交流同合作。 【特邀講者】（按姓氏英文排序） 林珮怡博士 （愛丁堡大學） 劉藴怡博士 （香港理工大學專業及持續進修學院） 梁慧敏教授 （香港理工大學） 【兩大主題】 - 粵語應用語言學 （例如語言獲得、人工智能與語言科技、語文或語言教育（教與學）、跨文化傳意與移民研究、流行文化中的語言、教學語言、語言評估、數碼人文等）；同埋 - 粵語理論語言學（例如語音學、音系學、形態學、句法學、語義學、心理語言學、神經語言學等）。 歡迎教研人員、

Calls: 1st Cantonese Applied Linguistics Conference and 9th Forum on Cantonese Linguistics Joint Conference

Confs: 2026 Seoul International Conference on Linguistics The Linguistic Society of Korea (LSK) is pleased to announce the 2026 Seoul International Conference on Linguistics (SICOL-2026), to be held on August 10–11, 2026 at Sungshin Women’s University in Seoul, Korea (Participation mode: in person). Recent advances in artificial intelligence—particularly large language models (LLMs)—have reshaped how language is processed, modeled, and analyzed. As AI systems increasingly simulate aspects of linguistic competence and performance, foundational questi

Confs: 2026 Seoul International Conference on Linguistics

Confs: 1st Workshop on Centering Social Perception in Natural Language Processing at ICWSM 2026 The First Workshop on Centering Social Perception in Natural Language Processing (NLPercep’26) will be co-located with the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM’26) and will take place on Tuesday, May 26, 2026 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Deadline for paper submission: March 10, 2026 Social perception plays a central role in how language is interpreted: readers form impressions about intent, politeness, credibility, identity, and more from subtle linguistic cues

Confs: 1st Workshop on Centering Social Perception in Natural Language Processing at ICWSM 2026

Confs: Pre-workshop at Neurolinguistics in Sweden 2026: Stable Perception of Spectral Information We are please to invite you to participate in the half-day workshop Stable perception of spectral information across contexts: From normalization to adaptive category representations, taking place on the morning of June 11th, 2026, in Stockholm, Sweden. The workshop is open to all and free of charge. It serves as a pre-conference workshop to NLS2026. The conference has recently extended its abstract submission deadline to March 2, 2026. We warmly encourage you to consider submitting your work.

Confs: Pre-workshop at Neurolinguistics in Sweden 2026: Stable Perception of Spectral Information

Confs: International Conference on Minority Languages and Multilingualism in European Schools: Practices, Challenges, and Future Prospects It is great pleasure to announce the celebration of the International conference on minority languages and multilingualism in European schools: practices, challenges, and future prospects that will take place in Donostia/San Sebastian July 9th, 2026. You may find the full CfP information here. This conference aims to analyse and gain a deeper understanding of the situation of minority languages in European schools. The conference welcomes both theoretical and empirical academic contributions

Confs: International Conference on Minority Languages and Multilingualism in European Schools: Practices, Challenges, and Future Prospects

Confs: Annual Taal & Tongval Colloquium On Friday November 27, 2026 the annual Taal & Tongval Colloquium wil take place at the KANTL in Ghent. This year’s theme is Language Variation and AI. The Colloquium will be organized by the KANTL (Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal en Letteren), the Dutch Language Institute (Leiden), Ghent University, and the University of Antwerp. There will be three keynote lectures, by: - Dong Nguyen – Utrecht University - Yanzhu Guo – Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris - Hugo

Confs: Annual Taal & Tongval Colloquium

Books: Syntactic Variation from Individuals to Populations: Dunn (2026) This Element presents a computational theory of syntactic variation that brings together (i) models of individual differences across distinct speakers, (ii) models of dialectal differences across distinct populations, and (iii) models of register differences across distinct contexts. This computational theory is based in Construction Grammar (CxG) because its usage-based representations can capture differences in productivity across multiple levels of abstraction. Drawing on corpora representing

Books: Syntactic Variation from Individuals to Populations: Dunn (2026)

Books: Informal Digital Learning of English: Lee (2026) As globalization spreads, English has become a lingua franca. Emerging technologies (e.g., Artificial Intelligence) now make learning English more accessible, affordable, and tailored to each learner. Social media and digital platforms immerse users in English, offering interactive, personalized, and engaging experiences that fuel Informal Digital Learning of English (IDLE). Research spanning more than ten regions has found that IDLE brings a wide range of benefits, including greater motivation,

Books: Informal Digital Learning of English: Lee (2026)

Books: The Discriminative Lexicon: Heitmeier, Chuang, and Baayen (2026) The 'Discriminative Lexicon Model' is a new theory of how we process words, which moves radically away from most standard theories of morphology. This book introduces the Discriminative Lexicon from both a practical and a theoretical perspective. The first half explains the basic theory and the main parts of 'JudiLing', the Julia package implementing the theory. This is complimented by theory boxes introducing the core concepts underlying the model, such as Matrix Multiplication and the Rescorla

Books: The Discriminative Lexicon: Heitmeier, Chuang, and Baayen (2026)

Books: Linguistic Representations of Women in Old English Prose: Cichosz and Dobrogoszcz (2026) This Element traces the origins and earliest manifestations of gender bias in the English language. The analysis is based on a corpus of Old English prose texts, written between the ninth and the eleventh centuries. The results are interpreted in the historical, cultural and literary context of Anglo-Saxon England and early medieval Europe. The investigation shows a significant difference in the way women and men are presented in Old English texts, with the former clearly associated with family

Books: Linguistic Representations of Women in Old English Prose: Cichosz and Dobrogoszcz (2026)

Books: Critical Realism in Applied Linguistics: Bouchard and Zotzmann (eds.) (2026) Through conceptual and empirical means, this timely volume looks at how critical realism, a specific approach to the philosophy of science, helps uncover and refine assumptions about what constitutes valid knowledge in applied linguistics, how scholars can create it, and how applied linguistics can improve as an interdisciplinary strand of the social sciences. With contributions from leading and up-and-coming scholars in the field, the book covers a range of topics, from language, language learn

Books: Critical Realism in Applied Linguistics: Bouchard and Zotzmann (eds.) (2026)

Confs: Register Effects in Sentence and Discourse Processing Organizers: Natalia Gagarina & Kateryna Iefremenko (ZAS), Pia Knoeferle, Mingya Liu, Katja Maquate, Valentina Nicole Pescuma & Stephanie Rotter (HU) Date: September 7-8, 2026 Venue: Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS), Conference Room, Ground floor, Meierottostraße 8, 10719 Berlin, Germany Website: https://sfb1412.hu-berlin.de/event/workshop-register-effects-in-sentence-and-discourse-processing/ The Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS) are pl

Confs: Register Effects in Sentence and Discourse Processing

Confs: Perspectives at the Interface of Cognitive Linguistics and the Linguistics of Religion: New Spiritualities, Expressions and Methods Please submit your abstract as a PDF (max. 500 words excl. references) until 6 April 2026 to: dgkl2026@uni-bremen.de A selection of the contributions are intended to be published in an anthology. „Religion and Spirituality are among the most language dependent of human activities“ (Bouma / Aarons 2004: 351). Following this premise, both German-language research in the Linguistics of Religion (Fritzsche et al., eds. 2023, Lasch/Liebert 2025) and the English-language discourse on the nex

Confs: Perspectives at the Interface of Cognitive Linguistics and the Linguistics of Religion: New Spiritualities, Expressions and Methods

Books: Applications of Corpus Linguistics Gavin Brookes; Niall Curry; Robbie Love (eds.) Bridging the gap between linguistic theory and practice, this timely book demonstrates the transformative potential of corpus linguistics research and methods across a wide range of contexts. With contributions from a diverse range of authors, this book provides contemporary reflections on both established applications in language education, as well as emergent contexts in which corpus methods are driving social change, such as the media and law. Each chapter provides case studies that clearly d

Books: Applications of Corpus Linguistics Gavin Brookes; Niall Curry; Robbie Love (eds.)

Confs: BioNLP Workshop and Shared Tasks @ ACL 2026 BIONLP 2026 and Shared Tasks @ ACL 2026 https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/BioNLP_Workshop Tentative Important Dates: (All submission deadlines are 11:59 p.m. UTC-12:00 “anywhere on Earth”) Paper submission deadline: April 17 (Friday), 2026 Notification of acceptance: May 4 (Monday), 2026 Camera-ready paper due: May 12 (Tuesday), 2026 Workshop: July 3 OR 4, 2026 Please watch for the updates! Submission Instructions: Two types of submissions are invited: full papers and short papers. Fu

Confs: BioNLP Workshop and Shared Tasks @ ACL 2026

Confs: MultiplEYE Final Conference – Advancing Multilingual Eye-tracking-while-reading Research The MultiplEYE COST Action invites the research community to submit abstracts to its final international conference on eye-tracking-while-reading, bringing together work from psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, NLP, and eye-tracking methodology. Date and Venue: The conference will take place on 20-21 August 2026, in Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia, at the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, “Ss. Cyril and Methodius” University – Skopje. Purpose and scope of the conf

Confs: MultiplEYE Final Conference – Advancing Multilingual Eye-tracking-while-reading Research

Confs: 5th International Conference - Terminology – Heritage and Modernity The Arnold Chikobava Institute of Linguistics at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, in cooperation with the Vukol Beridze Association of Terminology of Georgia, is pleased to announce the 5th International Conference “Terminology: Heritage and Modernity,” to be held in Tbilisi, Georgia, in October 2026. The conference is dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the Institute of Linguistics and its Department of Scientific Terminology. It aims to bring together scholars working in termi

Confs: 5th International Conference - Terminology – Heritage and Modernity

FYI: Publication of the Parallel European Corpus of Informal Interaction (PECI) The program area “Oral corpora” at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS Mannheim) is pleased to announce that the “Parallel European Corpus of Informal Interaction” (PECI) has been released this week as part of version 2.25 of the “Database for Spoken German” (DGD). The corpus is now available online for scientific research and academic teaching purposes after registration: https://dgd.ids-mannheim.de/ The PECI corpus is a multilingual comparative corpus of spoken everyday socia

FYI: Publication of the Parallel European Corpus of Informal Interaction (PECI)