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We are very excited to announce the very first Young Researchers' Conference on negation taking place in Frankfurt am Main in May 2026! The conference has two main goals: to foster exchange among doctoral and postdoctoral researchers working on negation and to investigate negation from a range of theoretical and empirical perspectives. By bringing together young researchers from different disciplines and methodological backgrounds, the event offers a space for feedback, discussion, and collaboration, encouraging new ways of thinking about how negation functions in language and cognition.

SalCoS is a comparative syntax workshop hosted by the University of Salzburg. It's the third of its kind, following LeiBieCos in Leiden 2024 and BieLeiCos in Bielefeld 2025. The -CoS workshop series is an annual event that brings together researchers in comparative syntax from across Europe and beyond. Its primary goal is to foster dialogue, exchange and collaboration among scholars.

The conference theme is “A Confluence of Corpus Research in the Age of AI”. We welcome abstracts on both traditional and innovative corpus-based approaches to the study of English. While contributions that engage with the theme - particularly the intersections between corpus research and AI - are especially encouraged, submissions need not be focused on AI. Relevant research areas include, but are not limited to: corpus linguistics, historical linguistics, computational linguistics, natural language processing, statistics, data science, sociolinguistics, multilingualism, (socio)phonetics and second language acquisition.

While love and desire are often treated as personal and private matters, they are also sites of conflict, negotiation, and power. Historically, controlling expressions of desire has been used to enforce social hierarchies, gender norms, and colonial power. Even today, conflicts over consent, domestic violence, LGBTQ+ rights, and cross-cultural misunderstandings reveal the urgent need to better understand how love and desire are communicated. Addressing these questions is not only of academic interest but also has practical relevance for public health, education, migration policy, and social cohesion. This three-day conference aims to bridge disciplinary divides to illuminate how better communication about love and desire can help address these real-world challenges.

EPICS XII seeks to bring together practitioners in pragmatics and discourse analysis who are interested in the interaction between these two disciplines for the analysis of digital communication and discourse for a variety of practices and in distinct sites.

La setena edició de les Jornades de Lingüística Catalana a Viena se celebrarà del 28 al 29 de maig de 2026. La temàtica se centrarà en els marcadors discursius i en els processos de pragmaticalització. Les propostes de presentació cal que s'enviïn en format PDF a l'adreça indicada i han d'incloure un àbstract anònim que no ha de superar dues pàgines, amb bibliografia inclosa. La data límit d'enviament és el 18 de gener de 2026.

The International Conference on Middle English (ICOME) started in the mid-1990s as a bi- /triennial conference and has been organised by leading universities in the field of the history of English across Europe (Poznań, Helsinki, Dublin, Vienna, Naples, Cambridge, Murcia, Stavanger, Florence, Glasgow, Málaga, etc.). Traditionally, ICOME gathers researchers working on both Middle English language and literature, including perspectives on variation and change, textual and manuscript studies, literary and cultural approaches, language contact, pragmatics and narratology. The 14th edition of ICOME will be held on 3–6 June 2026 on the idyllic Au peninsula, located on the southwestern shore of Lake Zurich (Schloss Au) in Switzerland. The theme of the conference will be “Travel and Travelling”. We encourage papers dealing with any aspect of the theme, e.g. Middle English lexis of travel, medieval English travellers and travel writing, important journeys and pilgrim routes, travelling texts and manuscripts, etc. Papers unconnected to the conference’s theme are also welcome. Moreover, we will host a round table dedicated to teaching Middle English and organise an excursion to Einsiedeln, where participants will visit the Abbey and walk a stretch of the Way of St. James, following in the footsteps of medieval pilgrims.

Neurolinguistics in Sweden (NLS) is happy to announce its second conference and calls for the submission of abstracts for presentation. NLS is a network of researchers investigating language in the brain. The aim of the network is to promote research within the broad field of neurolinguistics in Sweden and neighboring countries. NLS 2026 will be hosted by Stockholm University through a collaboration between the Departments of Linguistics, Psychology, and Swedish Language and Multilingualism, and the Stockholm University Brain Imaging Centre (SUBIC).

Cognitive Science; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics

Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik GmbH

Speech Translation; Human Interpretation; Multilingual AI Assistant; Speech Processing; Human-Computer Interaction

Human-Computer Interaction, User Experience, Virtual Reality,    Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics

Ce colloque bisannuel offre aux chercheuses et chercheurs, professeures et professeurs qui s’intéressent aux variétés de français et à la francophonie nord-américaine une occasion de partager leurs travaux et leurs réflexions en la matière, quelles que soient les approches théoriques et méthodologiques mobilisées par leurs recherches. Il est aussi prévu des présentations étudiantes avec un prix (à la fois symbolique et pécunier) décerné à la meilleure présentation évaluée par un jury de chercheuses et chercheurs aguerri(es).

Email: lfdi2026@uvic.ca

General Linguistics; Lexicography; Morphology; Phonology; Sociolinguistics

The Department of Translation and Interpretation Studies at the Faculty of Philology of Vilnius University cordially invites you to the international conference Translation at the Crossroads of Ideologies and Cultures to discuss a multilevel role and complex positionality of translation and translators in changing historical, social, political, and communicational settings.

The University of Nevada, Reno is excited to host the Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang) in summer 2026. The institute provides a cutting-edge training program for new and established scholars, community language activists, and other language workers engaged in language documentation, revitalization, and reclamation. The institute consists of two components: two weeks of workshops on a diversity of relevant topics and a week of in-depth practica, in which participants apply their knowledge and skills to document and analyze understudied and threatened languages. We offer a model for other academic institutions seeking collaborative work with a variety of different communities.

Our theme for CoLang 2026 is “Strengthening Solidarity, Overcoming Obstacles, Forging our Future.”

Diverse cultures, languages, worldviews, and human experiences characterize the world that we live in. Diversities reflect the multitude of domains related to us and our lives, such as language, culture, gender, ethnicity, and age. Diversity is a lens through which we gain insights into the various perspectives and experiences that shape us and our world. By acknowledging and studying diversities in interaction, we open our research and ourselves to a wealth of knowledge that broadens our understanding of ourselves and the world around us and creates positive social change. Thus, diversity is a force fueling innovation and progress. The theme of ICCA2026—Diversities, Language, Interaction—highlights the multiplicity of diversities and brings a diversity lens to our research on language and interaction.

Diversities, Language, Interaction

Spoken and Written Discourse in Historical Sources

The International Conference on Language Variation in Europe, ICLaVE, is the premiere forum for research on language variation in Europe and elsewhere. It brings together scholars of languages and language varieties in Europe and elsewhere to discuss current empirical, methodological, and theoretical issues related to the study of language variation and change, broadly conceived.

The first International Conference on Speech, Multimodal, and Advanced Communication Systems, ICSMACS’26, is a prominent event that brings together researchers, academics, engineers, and industry professionals to discuss advancements in speech processing, natural language processing, multimodal human-computer interaction, and advanced communication systems. The conference seeks to promote information sharing and multidisciplinary cooperation among specialists in various domains.

Grammatical systems, such as case, gender, and TAM, can differ dramatically even among closely related languages, sometimes expanding to cross-linguistically unusual proportions or contracting to just a few core distinctions. This workshop explores the underlying parameters that drive large-scale systemic expansion and contraction. While much research has focused on the grammaticalization of individual constructions, less is known about how new and existing categories interact in the most expansive systems, or what motivates their growth or reduction. The workshop aims to explore how expansive systems inform our understanding of linguistic organization and change.

The 16th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology will be organized by the Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage (DDL), CNRS, and will be held at the Lumière University of Lyon, France, on 1-3 July 2026. DDL has a long history of studying minority languages, writing grammatical descriptions, doing field research in South America, Africa, Northeast and Southeast Asia, Australia, the Caucasus and Europe, and working on phonological, grammatical and semantic typology.

이번 학술대회의 주제는 ‘한국어 언어학의 다양한 접근법’입니다. 언어학 연구의 핵심에는 변이와 다양성이 있습니다. 그리고 한국어 언어학은 새로운 경험연구와 간학제적인 협력 연구로 그 영역을 넓히고 있을 뿐만 아니라 다양한 연구자들의 전지구적 참여도 늘어나고 있습니다. 이러한 맥락에서 이번 학술대회는 교수, 연구원, 대학원생을 포함하여 세계 곳곳에서 활동하고 있는 언어 연구자들의 넓은 다양성을 한 곳에 모으고 교류하는 장이 되었으면 합니다. 더우기 이번 학술대회는 1975년에 창립한 ICKL의 50주년을 축하하는 뜻깊은 자리가 될 것입니다.

For over two decades, the BICLCE conference series has been a forum for researchers who are interested in the linguistics of contemporary English. It is open to different theoretical and methodological perspectives. Previous conferences were held in Edinburgh (2005), Toulouse (2007), London (2009), Osnabrück (2011), Austin TX (2013), Madison WI (2015), Vigo (2017), Bamberg (2019), Ljubljana (2022) and Alicante (2024). BICLCE 2026 wishes to continue this long-standing tradition of exploring contemporary English.

WoProc 2026 continues the legacy of the International Morphological Processing Conference (MoProc)—a biennial event that, since 1999, has brought together researchers from around the world to exchange ideas and discuss advances in morphological processing. As in the previous edition (WoProc 2024 in Belgrade), the scope of the conference has been broadened to include contributions on all aspects of word processing (including within sentence contexts). While the focus remains on psycholinguistic research, we also welcome work from neurocognitive, computational, and related perspectives.

Institut de Linguistique française – FR 2393 – CNRS

Le dixième Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française est organisé par une équipe ayant eu en charge l’organisation des précédents CMLF, et par des membres de l’Université d’Artois. L’unité de recherche GRAMMATICA (Université d’Artois) coordonne la gestion administrative et matérielle du congrès. Au total, ce sont dix-neuf laboratoires qui portent le CMLF 2026, en participant à son fonctionnement scientifique et budgétaire. Une telle organisation est exceptionnelle par son ampleur et par la volonté de partenariat scientifique qu’elle révèle.

CADAAD is an open and inclusive community of scholars critically engaged with discourse and its role in society. Rooted in inter- and trans-disciplinary research, CADAAD brings together perspectives from across the humanities and social sciences to explore the complex relationship between language, power, and ideology. Our biennial conferences serve as key moments for dialogue, collaboration, and the sharing of innovative research in critical discourse studies. The 2026 conference in Valladolid marks the 20th anniversary of the conference series, and it will continue this tradition, offering a dynamic space for scholars at all stages—including PhD students and early career researchers—to present their work and engage with a global network of critical discourse analysts.

Le thème du 8e Colloque international d'écolinguistique sera « Faire l'expérience de la diversité bio-culturelle et la mettre en langues ». Il mettra l'accent sur l'expérience sensorielle et située, proposera des ateliers, aussi bien en intérieur qu'en extérieur, ainsi que les communications scientifiques et conférences plénières habituelles. Il sera multilingue.

Sommergarten 2026 will provide a new collective where students, teachers, scholars, and other interested community members can share and discuss research on the intersections between language learning, culture, and pedagogy. Although research shows that the importance of learning about our societies and cultures is widely recognized, a number of studies reveal that many language educators find culture distinctly difficult to teach, and/or in some cases feel they possess inadequate cultural knowledge or awareness themselves. This has implications for students who are in need of cultural learning opportunities, yet lack access to them or participate in educational activities that are poorly designed and implemented. Sommergarten’s inaugural symposium will serve as a shared space where those involved and interested in language education can discover efforts across the globe to increase cultural learning, as well as consider various scholarly perspectives on improving and sustaining our abilities to teach it.

Culture in Language Education: Interpersonal and Intellectual Developments

Methods in Dialectology and Language Diversity is a traditionally triennial conference that originated in Canada as a forum for discussing methodological issues in dialect research. Methods conferences have progressively extended their topical range and now include the whole spectrum of regional, historical, and social language variation, as reflected in the now expanded conference name. The Methods series welcomes contributions investigating any of the world’s languages.

We are delighted to be hosting the 2026 conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association at Uppsala University, the first time that a PALA conference has taken place in Sweden. The conference theme is ‘The Philosophy of Stylistics’. The summer school will take place on 17 and 18 August. The main conference will run from 19 to 22 August.

This fifth ICOP-L2 conference will be held at Newcastle University in the North-East of England, and hosted by the University’s Applied Linguistics & Communication (ALC) research team. ALC at Newcastle has a long and proud history of research in social interaction research, and L2 interaction more specifically, dating back over 20 years.

Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE)

The Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) and Osnabrück University are pleased to announce the 59th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2026), to be held in Osnabrück from 26 to 29 August 2026. SLE meetings provide a forum for high-quality linguistic research from all (sub)domains of linguistics.

European Society for the Study of English

The rapid development of AI and its integration into translator training and translation practices have led to numerous changes in both academia (Bada & Schumacher, 2024; Loock, 2025) and the translation industry (Girletti & Lefer, 2024), hence a need for trainees and professionals to adapt to an ever-changing field. The necessity of mastering new AI skills, namely prompt engineering (He, 2024: 316), leads both lecturers and professionals to reinvent themselves more than ever. Although the recent AI developments have led to the use of MT for many text types that were considered, until recently, to be AI-resistant, human intervention is still needed to maintain professional quality standards, particularly for literary translation (Hansen & Esperança-Rodier, 2022: 185), creative domains (dubbing, subtitling, localisation) (e.g. Jiménez-Crespo, 2024: 18) and specialised translation (terminology management, polysemy) (Kübler et al., 2024).

This seminar will explore how ecological challenges and social threats—including those arising from military conflicts and the ecological and social destruction caused by war—are represented and negotiated in a wide range of ecological texts and discourses. We will investigate how such texts, whether literary or non-literary, verbal or multimodal, contemporary or historical, reflect concerns related to environmental degradation, climate change, and socio-political instability. Equally, the seminar will focus on how these texts and discourses not only depict crises but also engage in forms of resistance, propose practical solutions, and promote positive environmental and social change. Participants will examine how language shapes our understanding of ecological issues and how discourse can serve as a catalyst for action.

Internet memes and other forms of social media discourse have attracted scholarly interest across a range of disciplines for their role in establishing and maintaining social relationships and in shaping public opinion (e.g. Shifman 2014, Milner 2016, Wiggins 2019). Linguistic approaches, studying how language and image combine in ways that resemble linguistic constructions, have also gained prominence (e.g. Dancygier & Vandelanotte 2017, 2025b; Lou 2017; Zenner & Geeraerts 2018), as have studies of the humorous and emotional aspects involved (e.g. Piata 2020; Zappavigna & Logi 2024; Dancygier & Vandelanotte 2025a). In this seminar, we want to address the use of English, often alongside images and emoji, in examples of various types of metadiscourse ‘in’ social media – self-reflexive forms of the discourse itself – but also ‘on’ or ‘about’ social media – i.e. discussions that emerge in society on social media usage.

Belonging is a complex and contested issue within the queer community. Those who identify as queer often experience a complicated sense of (dis)belonging—not only when navigating heteronormative social structures that privilege heterosexuality and cisgender identities, but also within queer communities and spaces themselves. By emphasizing queer (dis)belonging, we wish to interrogate the politics of inclusion and exclusion both within and beyond queer spaces, inviting research that critically examines how queer people negotiate their identities within: i) social structures such as political systems, class hierarchies, nation states, kinship networks, and religious institutions; and ii) technologies such as AI, social media, and digital communication.

Queer (dis)belonging

In 2008, the Departments of Romance Studies and of Translation and Interpreting at the University of Innsbruck assumed responsibility for this series of conferences, originally founded in 1987 by Professor Gerd Wotjak in Leipzig. It is one of the few international events dedicated entirely to contrastive linguistics. As in previous editions, papers may address both theoretical and applied aspects of contrastive linguistics between Romance languages and German, as well as between different Romance languages. Contributions focusing on contrasts between Romance languages and other languages are also welcome.

The Hungarian Usage and Language Consulting Research Group and the Terminology Research Group of the ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics

The symposium focuses on the theme Language Management: Terminological Processes and aims to bring together researchers from diverse disciplines who are interested in how terminology is shaped, negotiated, and managed across various linguistic, social, and technological contexts.

International Society for Dialectology and Geolinguistics (SIDG)

Geolinguistics and dialectology are at a pivotal juncture in the 21st century, facing transformative challenges and opportunities that are reshaping the disciplines. Historically characterized by their adaptability to societal shifts and methodological advancements, these fields have continually evolved in response to the dynamic interplay of theoretical and empirical science. The recent surge in international collaboration has further broadened research horizons, fostering cross-border perspectives and enriching the scope of inquiry. Traditionally focused on the regional variation of individual languages, dialectology is now increasingly oriented towards typological studies and interlinguistic relationships. In an era defined by global change, the field has transcended its national boundaries to emerge as a truly international domain of study. Our conference theme, Geolinguistics across Borders, reflects this paradigm shift.

The third edition of MMSYM continues the symposium series on multimodal communication previously held in Frankfurt am Main (2024) and Barcelona (2023). The symposium aims at gaining insights into the interaction and/or co-dependence of semiotic resources in spoken and signed language. To advance our understanding of communication, the symposium aims at further integrating multimodality as an integral part of linguistics and cognitive science. This overarching goal of the symposium is rooted in the conviction that investigating multimodality is key to understanding how language and communication work. For MMSYM 2026, we welcome contributions approaching multimodal communication from different methodological and disciplinary angles. The main topic of this edition of the symposium is “Embodied communication in (inter)action”.

Organised jointly by ELAR and PARADISEC

Language documentation and archiving are key activities in the effort to preserve and support linguistic and cultural diversity globally. As new technologies emerge and evolve, new opportunities and challenges present themselves for how we record, curate, preserve, and disseminate linguistic and cultural materials. This conference invites documenters, scholars, activists, technologists, and others engaged in language documentation and archiving to present papers and posters exploring new approaches, methods, and technologies for documentation, archiving, and mobilization. We welcome critical and creative perspectives on the politics, practicalities, and possibilities for working with language documentation materials in both academic and community contexts.

RWTH Aachen University

The Translation in Transition conference series has served as a meeting site for empirical translation scholars for over ten years now. After seven successful editions of this conference series, the tradition will be continued with the 8th edition taking place in 2026 in Aachen, where a special focus will be on translation and interpreting at the intersection of various multilingual text production contexts. In keeping with tradition, the conference will make room for discussion of all strands of empirical research in translation and interpreting studies (TIS). In addition to this, the 2026 edition will host a workshop on the topic of transfer from TIS into other fields both within and outside of academia in cooperation with the newly founded Institute of Translatology

Following the successful inaugural ILANSCO 2024 in Zürich, ILANSCO2026 will focus on emerging landscapes, particularly landscapes as contested, transforming, and frontier spaces shaped by linguistic, cultural, political, and ecological forces. The conference will take place at the main building of the Czech Academy of Sciences. For this year, we invite contributions addressing the theme, “Emerging Landscapes: Languages and Landscapes in Conflict.”

The Syntax of Nominal Copular Clauses Conference (SyNCC) will be held 23-24 September 2026 at Bielefeld University, Germany. SyNCC is part of the AHRC/DFG-funded SynCop project (http://syncop.info). It will focus on the syntax and semantics of sentences with a nominal predicate, aiming for a discussion with both breadth and depth. The immediate goal of the conference is to bring together both theoretical insights from in-depth analysis and a broadening of the empirical landscape to include work on un(der)-studied languages. The longer-term goal is to further advance our understanding of the principles underpinning the syntactic and semantic characteristics of non-verbal predication.

DiPVaC is a biennial international conference series showcasing cutting-edge, primarily quantitative research on variation and change in what are broadly termed discourse-pragmatic features: this includes (but is not limited to) research on discourse markers or pragmatic particles whose primary functions are interpersonal and textual (e.g., well, like, you know, comme, alors, doch, zwar, diciamo, dakedo, etc.), tag questions, silence, filled pauses, adjectives, adverbs, and general extenders.

La géographie linguistique est une méthode de recherche sur les dialectes développée à la fin du XIXe siècle afin de vérifier les hypothèses à propos de l’évolution des changements linguistiques sur la base de la représentation cartographique de la langue. Depuis son apparition, de nombreux changements se sont produits dans l’étude des variations linguistiques et dans la production d’atlas linguistiques. Les changements les plus notables ont eu lieu au cours des dernières décennies grâce à l’application de nouvelles technologies à la compilation et au traitement de l’information linguistique ainsi qu’au processus de représentation cartographique des données. Ces changements ont conduit à un renouvellement de la méthode, ainsi qu’à un intérêt croissant pour la numérisation des premiers atlas publiés et à l’émergence de nouveaux projets géolinguistiques qui visent à cette fin. Le I Congrès International de Géolinguistique Romane a donc pour but de réunir des experts, de jeunes chercheurs, des étudiants et tous ceux qui s’intéressent à la géographie linguistique des variétés romanes.

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L’objectif de ce colloque est d’étudier les TD en mettant l’accent en particulier sur les changements et les variations syntaxiques dans les langues germaniques et romanes, y compris de manière contrastive. Comme l’a observé Koch (1993 : 41), les TD peuvent être observées dans différentes aires linguistiques romanes. La question se pose de savoir si des modèles discursifs similaires existent également dans les langues germaniques et comment ces TD peuvent entraîner des changements syntaxiques. L’existence d’une même TD dans différentes aires linguistiques peut-elle favoriser les phénomènes d’interférence syntaxique ? La question du contact linguistique revêt ici une importance capitale, que ce soit dans des états de langue plus anciens ou dans le contexte actuel du plurilinguisme dans un monde globalisé.

The aim of this scientific event is to bring together junior and experienced researchers to discuss current research issues in a major field of linguistics, and one which is at the core of communication and human relations: the lexicons. The theme of this conference is designed to include the widest possible range of research approaches in the different (sub)disciplines of linguistics, involving theoretical and empirical insights as well as methodological discussions in the field. For each of the conference’s subsections, we welcome a dialogue between diachronic and synchronic approaches, corpus and field studies, as well as analyses in monolingual and multilingual contexts. The proposed presentation should focus primarily, but not exclusively, on morphology, syntax, semantics and discourse analysis.

Animamos a participar a los miembros de la Asociación de Historia de la Lengua Española (AHLE), así como a todos los investigadores interesados en los estudios diacrónicos del español. En el horizonte del V Centenario de la Universidad de Granada, se rendirá homenaje a su fundador (Carlos V) y a uno de sus alumnos más ilustres (Federico García Lorca). El Siglo de Oro y la Edad de Plata de la lengua española ocuparán un lugar destacado del Congreso, en el que se conmemorarán los 40 años de la AHLE.