Other Specialties: Sign Languages, Language Acquisition, Computational Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Interactional and Multimodal Dynamics Description: The French National Research Centre (CNRS) will soon be recruiting researchers in linguistics. Recruitment is done by a national competition, but applicants are asked to select one or more research labs to which they would like to be assigned, and the lab's official consent and support are crucial. SFL (Structures Formelles du Langage: htt

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The final program of the conference is available here: https://possession.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/LA_POSSESSION_Programme_4.pdf The website of the conference: https://possession.sciencesconf.org/?forward-action=index&forward-controller=index&lang=en Languages spoken at the conference: French and English Organising committee: Angelina Aleksandrova (Université Paris-Cité) Véronique Lagae (Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France) Vassil Mostrov (Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-

The Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS) invites scholars to submit abstracts for the 35th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS 35), to be held at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, from 3 - 5 June 2026. The conference will be in the form of a hybrid event, although we strongly encourage in-person participation. SEALS 35 welcomes contributions addressing linguistic issues related to languages spoken in Southeast Asia, particularly those from

One 4-year PhD position in the project ‘The Cyclic Integration approach to clitics and the syntax-prosody mapping’ as part of the DFG Research Unit ‘Cyclic Optimization’ Starting date: March 1, 2026 Salary: Fully Funded Position Deadline: December 15, 2025 The DFG Research Unit ‘Cyclic Optimization’ starting its second phase on March 1 2026 with 13 new research positions explores the interaction of cyclicity and optimization in all areas of grammar: phonology, morphology, syntax, and sem

The two 4-year PhD positions announced here are part of the subproject 'The derivation of clause-embedding predicates' (PI: Barbara Stiebels) of the Research Unit (RU) 'Cyclic optimization', whose second funding period will start in March 2026. The starting date of the positions will also be March 1st, 2026. Salary: E 13 TV-L, 65% part-time The position is fully funded, including social security, health insurance, and other benefits. The specific salary follows the pay scale of the German pu

The DFG Research Unit ‘Cyclic Optimization’, starting its second phase on March 1 2026 with 13 new research positions, explores the interaction of cyclicity and optimization in all areas of grammar: phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. The two PhD positions announced here are part of the subproject ‘The Clash of Negation and Imperatives through the Lense of Cyclic Optimization’ (PI: Paula Fenger). The subproject investigates the morphosyntactic variation across imperatives and prohibit

Incoming mobility grants - EFL project Empirical Foundations of Linguistics EFL, funded by Université Paris Cité, is one of the largest consortiums in the language sciences across the world, with over 180 members, providing an excellent infrastructure for linguistics in the Paris region. It brings together expertise on more than 150 languages, and diverse methods of inquiry, thanks to its interdisciplinary perspective. Researchers in the consortium share an approach to language which is groun

Postdoctoral Researcher in Linguistics at the Center for the Human Past, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University

Postdoctoral position in global philology, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University

LAL is an international conference organized by the Faculty of Ethnolinguistics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań since 2016. With more than 30 years of tradition in teaching and researching languages and cultures of Asia, we bring together researchers working in various subfields of Asian linguistics. We welcome contributions from a wide range of areas in linguistics, including, but not limited to, the following, as well as session proposals on current topics: - Pragmatics - Semantics

An academic position as a Assistant Professor in Southeast Asian Studies is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.

The proposed workshop aims to explore and understand what’s special about body part noun incorporation compared to other types of incorporation found across the world’s languages. Which particular body part terms tend to be incorporated, and what might this reveal about universal patterns in linguistic structure and meaning? By bringing together researchers working on diverse languages, this workshop seeks to uncover the distinctive characteristics, functions, and typological tendencies of body

Contrasting modes of cultural evolution: Kra-Dai languages and weaving technologies - Volume 7

Call for Papers: The study of modality in logic is as old as logic itself. Modern propositional and predicate logic replaced notions like ‘necessary’ and ‘possible’, traditionally used to define what it means for a proposition to follow from other propositions, by quantification over ways to interpret the non-logical symbols of the language. But the study of reasoning with the modalities themselves has continued in logic, with the modern tools now available. Early syntactic studies of systems

Description: The International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Language Sciences is offering two fully-funded PhD Fellowship for four years (2026-2030) with a preferred start-date in September or October, 2026. The IMPRS for Language Sciences invites applications for TWO PhD fellowships that are funded by the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science. The goal of the scheme is to enable young researchers to pursue interdisciplinary research projects in the language sciences,

APLL is a conference for the presentation of research on any aspect of the linguistics of Austronesian and Papuan languages. Invited Speakers: - Mary Walworth - Yusuf Sawaki We invite you to present at APLL18 on any aspect of the linguistics of Austronesian and Papuan languages. Talks will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of discussion. To apply for a timeslot for your talk, please send us an abstract of your topic. Abstracts can be up to one A4 page, including everything excep