Call for Papers: RALFe 2026, the ninth edition of Rencontres autour de la linguistique formelle, France’s premier annual conference for formal linguistics, will take place at Université Paris Cité on June 3 2026 and Université Paris 8 on June 4–5 2026. Paris Cité’s Laboratoire de linguistique formelle (LLF) will host a one-day workshop entitled ‘Allomorphy across grammar’. Paris 8’s Structures formelles du langage (SFL) will host the main conference. Our invited speakers are: - Colin Phi

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Meeting Info: The Transalpine Typology Meeting is an annual meeting at different locations around the Alpes to create an open network of typologists and share insights and feedback on our research projects in a welcoming and informal context. In this regard, we warmly invite submissions for presentations on topics related to linguistic typology and comparative linguistics in general from early-career researchers (PhD students, postdoc fellows) as well as experienced scholars worldwide. Abs

The Himalayan Languages Symposium is an open, scholarly, multidisciplinary forum for scholars of Himalayan languages. Contributions are welcome on the linguistic study of any language of the greater Himalayan region, e.g., Burushaski, Kusunda, Tibeto-Burman, Indo-Iranian, Austroasiatic, Kradai, Andamanese, Nihali, Dravidian, or any other language of the area. Contributions are also invited from related disciplines, such as history, anthropology, archaeology, and prehistory, focusing on the great

Dear users, On February 3rd at 12:30 pm (CET), we are pleased to host the first session of the CrossAsia DH Lunchtalks 2026. The talk will be given by Dr. Yan Hon Michael Chung and is titled “AI for t...

From Arabia to Central Asia and eastward to Oceania, the Asia Pacific Region is known for its mosaic of peoples, languages, cultures, traditions, geographies, narratives, histories, and contemporary challenges. This region is home to ancient civilizations, major religions, artistic realizations, linguistic tapestries, mythologies, philosophies, and various human pursuits and achievements. It is from this region that the humanities is more vibrant and plays a primordial role in framing, interpret

Focus: Historical Linguistics and Generative Theory Description: The ETHL Summer School will bring together research in historical syntax, phonology, and morphology to holistically address the relation of all modules of grammar to diachronic change. Our curriculum provides a crash-course into the what and why of theoretical historical linguistics providing a comprehensive overview of this emerging discipline from both the theoretical and historical perspectives. With classes led by: -

Meeting Description: Following the success of previous editions in Helsinki (2021), Stockholm (2024), and Leipzig (2025), Emerging Topics in Typology (ETT) will return for its fourth edition in 2026, this time at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, from 15 to 17 July 2026. This is a conference organised by and for PhD students in linguistic typology and diversity linguistics. We welcome abstracts on a range of topics in diversity linguistics (quantitative and qualitative typology, languag

Le séminaire veut offrir l'opportunité aux chercheurs sur les langues contemporaines de l'Asie Orientale de présenter leurs travaux dans un cadre informel. Les travaux sur l'acquisition, l'analyse formelle et/ou sur corpus sont en particulier privilégiés. Le séminaire s'inscrit dans la…

The Italian Institute of Oriental Studies Department at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, warmly invites both members and non-members of the Italian Association of Chinese Linguistics (AILC) to participate in the 9th edition of the Study Days on Chinese Linguistics. The conference will be hosted onsite in Rome from June 17th to June 18th, 2026. Similar to past editions held in Venezia (2014), Milano (2015), Roma (2016), Napoli (2017), Milano (2018), Forlì (2021), Bergamo (2022), and Verona

What happens when Chinese is shaped by centuries of contact with Mongolic, Tungusic, Turkic, and Tibetic languages? This volume explores this question through striking case studies of lects like Tangwang and Wutun, where Chinese exhibits unexpected features such as OV word order, case suffixes, and restructured verbal morphology. Drawing on rare fieldwork data, this volume reveals how deep multilingual interaction transforms grammatical systems. It offers a unique contribution to the study of la

Please register by February 25, 2026 at: https://toki482.wixsite.com/phex2026 phex 18 (the 18th workshop on phonological externalization of morphosyntactic structure) Date: Monday, March 2nd, 2026 Venue: Chukyo University (Nagoya, Japan) + online (zoom) Contact Person: Hisao Tokizaki Meeting Email: [email protected] Web Site: https://toki482.wixsite.com/phex2026 Program (Japan Standard Time (JST) = UTC/GMT +9 hours) 10:00-10:15 Welcome 10:15-10:20 Opening 10:20-12:00 [Round

The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Geneva is advertising two positions for Ph.D. assistants in linguistics starting August 1st, 2026 (or to be agreed upon). Desired Profile: The ideal candidates have a Ph.D. research project in mind and commit to working on a thesis in the field of theoretical and/or experimental linguistics (e.g., syntax, semantics-pragmatics, prosody, psycholinguistics) within the Department of Linguistics under the supervision of Prof. Danfeng Wu and/or Dr. Mi

Other Specialties: Both previous experience in creating lexical databases and skills in programming and statistics would be desirable Description: The project "Global Basic Lexicon" (GloBasLex) is a research project of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities within the framework of the Academy Program of the German Federal and State Governments. It aims to compile a 1,000-concept basic lexicon across most of the world's languages for which dictionaries are available. The data wil

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The biannual conference of the European Association for Chinese Linguistics (EACL) will be held in Paris-Aubervilliers, Campus Condorcet, on 2-4 September 2026. This year, besides the general session dedicated to all areas of Chinese linguistics, the EACL conference will also hold a special panel on "The morphosyntax of aspect : diachrony and synchrony" and a Young Scholars Forum. The 13th EACL conference is jointly organized by the EACL executive committee, the Centre de Recherches Lingui