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2024. v, 134 pp.
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Introduction: A speech-act(ion) perspective on commenting
Rita Finkbeiner & Robert Külpmann | pp.?287–293
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Is commenting an expositive illocutionary act?
Marina Sbisà | pp.?294–317
Cause and comment: Two functions of non-finite causal constructions
Martin Konvi?ka | pp.?318–338
Specified compliments in comments to politicians’ Facebook posts: Champion, loser, or both?
Pnina Shukrun-Nagar & Zohar Livnat | pp.?339–366
Sisterhood
2024. iii, 97 pp.
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Measuring the linguistic similarity of discourse from open-world role-playing games to the real world through an additive multidimensional analysis
Daniel H. Dixon | pp.?1–30
Variation-Based Distance and Similarity Modeling: A new way of measuring distances between registers
Xu Zhang & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi | pp.?31–59
Linguistic variation beyond the Indo-European web: Analyzing Turkish web registers in TurCORE
Selcen Erten-Johansson,
2024. iii, 83 pp.
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Investigating the Chinese cultural mind through Chinese-American cross-cultural films: Implications for teaching culture to Chinese language learners
Han Luo & Georgia Salvatore | pp.?1–25
基于体演文化开发中高级汉语视听说课程
柴冬临 | pp.?26–45
Exploring the Chinese AWCF Platform’s value in improving CSL learners’ writing performance in a ChatGPT context
Yicheng Yang & Ye Tian | pp.?46–68
Book reviews
Chunsheng Yang. 2024. Chinese Sociolinguistics
2024. iii, 175 pp.
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“People should get their booster”: Stance towards Covid vaccination in news and academic blogs
Hang (Joanna) Zou & Ken Hyland | pp.?447–471
Case and agreement variation in contact: A multifactorial investigation of it-clefts across World Englishes
Yi Zhang & Ming Yue | pp.?472–506
Down-sampling from hierarchically structured corpus data
Lukas S?nning | pp.?507–533
Assessing the potential of LLM-assisted annotation for corpus-bas
2025. iii, 197 pp.
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Non-past and past verb stems in Tangut
Mathieu Beaudouin | pp.?1–21
A typology of alternative questions in Chinese and other East Asian languages
Xinyi Li | pp.?22–77
Pseudo matrix sluicing constructions in Mandarin Chinese
Chi-Ming Louis Liu | pp.?78–122
Foot-shift and disyllabification in the history of Chinese: With a revisit of syllabic structures of Old Chinese
Huibin Zhuang, Pusong Zhao & Shengli Feng | pp.?123–154
Lig
2025. v, 126 pp
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Introduction: Approaches to Machine Translation
Mahdieh Fakhar, Monica Vilhelm & Paz Díez-Arcón | pp.?1–4
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Powerful variables for knowledge representation and bracketing prediction
Juan Rojas-Garcia | pp.?5–30
Machine translation post-editing through emotional narratives: A methodological approach
María del Mar Sánchez Ramos | pp.?31–47
Machine translation of tourism reviews: Quality assessment and localization
Carmen Rosa-Sorlozan
We are excited to announce the release of the first parsed corpus of spoken Dutch dialects, the Gesproken Corpus van de zuidelijk-Nederlandse Dialecten (GCND). This resource offers extensive data for linguistic research and is now accessible online.
Corpus Highlights:
? Speakers: 1,206 individuals, with the eldest born in 1871.
? Geographical Coverage: 639 distinct locations.
? Audio Data: Over 430 hours of recordings across 650 sessions.
? Transcriptions: Over 600 time-aligned, highly de
We are delighted to announce that we are kicking off our new LRC seminar series on Wednesday 5th Feb with a talk by Lars Bokander (J?nk?ping University, Sweden) working on a project with Swansea’s own Vivienne Rogers, Brian Rogers (Digital Humanities) and Paul Meara together with placement students Tesni Galvin and Rhea Ray. The talk discusses the ongoing validation of the LLAMA tests originally developed by Paul Meara in 2005.
When: Wed 5th Feb
Time: 12noon-12.50pm GMT
Zoom link: https
I am looking for a home for my linguistics library of over 1300 books. Funds are available to ship the entire library anywhere in the world. The library has over 300 books on pidgin and creole languages, including the Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures. Other subject areas (with approximate book numbers) are: Pacific languages and linguistics (150), dialects and language variation (150), applied linguistics, language acquisition and bilingualism (150), general linguistics (95), South
Greetings, Linguists!
The February 2025 issue of Speculative Grammarian—the premier scholarly journal featuring research in the neglected field of satirical linguistics—is now available online for your browsing pleasure.
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The editors and publishers of Speculative Grammarian are pleased to announce that another issue of our esteemed journal is now available. This issue offers many excellent articles, including an historic “announcement” “from” the Editor-
In collaboration with researchers from Leiden University, Cambridge University and Florida State University, I am currently conducting a scoping review of the literature on phonetics, phonology or prosody of code-switching in bilinguals. This scoping review will first be submitted as a Research Master thesis at Leiden University, with the aim of subsequent publication in a journal. While I am doing a systematic search through several databases, I would also like to ask if you have any work regar
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The Department of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Syntax with an initial appointment for the 2025-2026 academic year and renewable for up to two additional years. In addition to conducting research, the successful candidate will help organize Penn Syntax Lab meetings and will participate in the intellectual life of the department and the broader community of language researchers at Penn. The University of Pennsylvania
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Lecturer of Hindi Language
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The Department of Asian and Asian American Studies (AAAS) at Stony Brook University, a flagship campus of the SUNY system, seeks to appoint a full-time Lecturer in Hindi. The initial appointment, beginning Fall 2025, is for two years, with the possibility of renewal. The successful applicant will be expected to teach Hindi language courses at all levels, for both heritage and non-heritage students, with the possibility of teaching cours
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.
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Final Call for Papers:
EXTENDED DEADLINE
Abstracts for both oral and poster presentations should be written in English and limited to 500 words, with one extra page to include examples, references, tables and figures.
Abstracts should be anonymous, in Word or .rtf (rich text) format and in standard 12-point Times New Roman font, with margins of 1 inch. No more than one single-authored and one co-authored abstract will be considered. All abstracts will undergo a double blind review proce
Focus: The Summer Institute offers intensive immersive classes in a variety of languages. The languages and courses below are typically offered, though offerings can change based on enrollment, need, and interest. For more information, visit https://linguistics.illinois.edu/languages/summer-institutes/summer-institute-languages-muslim-world/course-descriptions
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Summer Institute for the Languages of the Muslim world (SILMW) is a program offered by the Less Commonly Taught Languages
Focus: The Summer Institute for the Languages of the Muslim World offers an introductory course in Modern Standard Arabic for high school students with limited or no prior knowledge of the language. The purpose of this Summer Arabic language Program is to familiarize students with Arabic writing and sound systems and to enable them to develop basic proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
Participating high school students will take intensive beginning Arabic classes with Uni
We are pleased to announce the ITAP Annual Conference 2025, which will be held in blended format (online and at Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain) on June 26-27, 2025.
The main theme of the conference will be Resources for L2 pragmatics teaching across instructional contexts. The following scholars have accepted to be the keynote speakers:
Dr Veronika Timpe-Laughlin (Educational Testing Service, Princeton, US)
Dr J. César Félix-Brasdefer (Indiana University Bloomington, US)
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Welcome to AMLI 2025
The fifth conference on Approaches to Migration, Language, and Identity (AMLI 2025) takes place at Liverpool Hope University from Monday 8th to Tuesday 9th September, 2025.
Migration is one of the defining forces shaping the modern world. In the current landscape of continuous population flows driven by conflicts, climate change and economic pressures, migration is reshaping societies and foregrounding issues of language, identity and belonging. With
Le Réseau Linguistique de l’énonciation se propose depuis 2018 de réunir des représentant.es des théories de l’énonciation, sans privilégier une approche spécifique, pour permettre une confrontation de points de vue. Il se veut un espace d’échanges qui invite par différentes modalités de parole (tables rondes, ateliers sur des objets partagés, conférences thématiques) à aborder la pluralité tout en questionnant, dans le cadre des recherches exposées, les formes d’appropriation, entre continuité(