http://linguistlist.org Latest FYI Issues en-us Copyright 2008-2017 The LINGUIST List linguist@linguistlist.org linguist@linguistlist.org http://backend.userland.com/rss Tue, 20 Apr 2021 20:20:03 EST 60 http://linguistlist.org/images/lllogo-large.png http://linguistlist.org http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1375.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1375.html 2021-04-19T21:17:40Z Dear colleague, We are editing a special issue in Languages on "Current Issues in Linguistic Landscapes” and we invite you to submit a paper sharing your research in the field. The special issue focuses both on the development of methods in documentation, analysis and visualization of linguistic landscapes and theories/results stemming from these methodologies. To date, research on linguistic landscapes has mainly focused on multilingual and multiethnic urban areas. Hence, we particularly wel http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1374.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1374.html 2021-04-19T21:17:40Z We are planning to edit a special issue (SI) of the journal “Languages” on Greek morphosyntax under the (working) title: ‘New glances at the morphosyntax of Greek’. We invite you to contribute to our SI with submissions on any topic of Greek (Standard or varieties of it) which is subject to either a morphological, a syntactic or a morphosyntactic analysis. Although the theoretical perspective will be the central one of the volume, experimental, as well as contributions on second language morp http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1370.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1370.html 2021-04-19T21:17:40Z We invite proposals for monographs and edited volumes to be considered for publication in our 2020-launched book series with Routledge, titled Routledge Research on New Waves in Pragmatics, edited by István Kecskés (State University of New York, Albany, USA) and Monika Kirner-Ludwig (University of Innsbruck, Austria). This book series is an initiative of the American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA) and aims at producing volumes that present the latest trends and lines of research in the field http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1368.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1368.html 2021-04-19T21:17:40Z The eminent Brazilian linguist of French origin, Henri RAMIREZ, published a new comprehensive book on Arawakan languages. It is Enciclopédia das Línguas Arawak, acrescida de seis novas línguas e dois bancos de dados, Curitiba (Brazil): Editora CRV, 4 volumes, 1136 pages, 2020 (published at the end of March 2021, as a paper edition and as an e-book. Volume I contains a new version of his Baniwa-Koripako grammar of 2001. Volume II is about the Japurá-Colombia subgroup. It contains a new clas http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1366.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1366.html 2021-04-19T21:17:40Z In the past months, the VOICE CLARIAH project has developed an enhanced and updated web interface for VOICE, the Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English. VOICE is a one-million-word, computer-readable, open-access corpus of spoken English as a lingua franca (ELF) interactions that was built at the University of Vienna and first released in 2009. We are now launching VOICE 3.0 Online BETA, a pre-release test version of the new VOICE web interface developed by the VOICE CLARIAH team at th http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1363.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1363.html 2021-04-19T21:17:40Z John Benjamins is pleased to announce a new journal for 2022: Journal of Uralic Linguistics (JUL), edited by Anders Holmberg (University of Newcastle) and Balázs Surányi (Research Institute for Linguistics HAS, Budapest). Linguistic research on Uralic languages has been undergoing profound and multi-layered renewal as well as extraordinary expansion in recent years. This shift has been marked by the extension of in-depth linguistic work on general linguistic topics of current interest to an e http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1362.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1362.html 2021-04-19T21:17:40Z Dear List members, We would like to announce the new editorial set-up of the CADAAD Journal (Critical Approaches to Discourse across Disciplines. As of January 2021, the editors are Bertie Kaal and Lise-Lotte Holmgreen. We continue to welcome contributions in a broad range of topics and transdisciplinary theory and approaches, with a focus on discourse. Further information about the aims & scope of the journal and instructions for submission can be found at: http://CADAADJournal.com The http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1361.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1361.html 2021-04-19T21:17:40Z In this newsletter: New Publications: X-SRL: Parallel Cross-lingual Semantic Role Labeling TAC KBP English Sentiment Slot Filling – Comprehensive Training and Evaluation Data 2013-2014 ________________________________________ New publications: (1) X-SRL: Parallel Cross-lingual Semantic Role Labeling was developed by Heidelberg University, Department of Computational Linguistics and the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS). It consists of approximately three million words of G http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1353.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1353.html 2021-04-19T21:17:40Z 32nd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information - ESSLLI 2021 26 July -14 August, 2021, Online https://www.esslli.eu We are happy to announce that ESSLLI 2021 will be held as an online event in the period 26 July -14 August. The school offers an excellent program of courses and workshops and the well established Student Session. In view of the online format, the program is spread over three weeks so as to facilitate attendance. Details on the schedule will be posted on the w http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1329.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1329.html 2021-04-19T21:17:40Z On April 22, join for a panel from the International Language Testing Association's Graduate Student Assembly Webinar Series: "Diverse career paths for language assessment researchers: A panel discussion with language assessment professionals from industry, government, and academia." Click here to register! https://rb.gy/wbunko http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1328.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1328.html 2021-04-19T21:17:40Z The Surrey Morphology Group is pleased to announce the launch of the Surrey Lexical Splits Database, available at https://lexicalsplitsdb.surrey.ac.uk/. The database offers a novel perspective on morphological typology, charting the range of possible deviations from canonical paradigms, and comprises 300 records taken from 50 languages, covering 27 families. Interactive visualisations of fieldwork data from Chichimec (Oto-Manguean, Mexico) and Skolt Saami (Finno-Ugric, Finland) are accessible th http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1327.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1327.html 2021-04-19T21:17:40Z When? Thu 29 April, 16:00 GMT (UTC +0) Book your place here: http://tiny.cc/OED-HT-tour Join the OED editorial team for a virtual tour of the OED Historical Thesaurus, covering: - What is the Historical Thesaurus of the OED, and how is it different from other thesauri? - The structure of the Historical Thesaurus - Examples of using it for different research purposes - The future of the Historical Thesaurus - Q&A time: we want to address your usage barriers and needs when using http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1326.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1326.html 2021-04-19T21:17:40Z Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the programme of the Lecture series 'The Multilingual Mind’ for the summer semester (https://www.multilingualmind.eu/lecture-series-2021). The lecture series will start again on the 13th of April and will run until the 15th of June 2021. The lectures will take place every Tuesday from 17.00 until 18.30 (CEST/UTC+02). This semester they will be hosted by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Jagiellonian University, University of Konstanz, U http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1325.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1325.html 2021-04-19T21:17:40Z Mango Languages is pleased to announce our new Dissertation Awards program, which supports exceptional dissertation research at the intersection of second language acquisition and educational technology. We invite advanced PhD candidates to submit applications on our website (see link below). Details: - Mango Languages will award 2 grants in the amount of $1,000 per grant. - Applications are due on June 15th, 2021. - Applicants will be notified by September 1st, 2021. - Applicants must be http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1292.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1292.html 2021-04-19T21:17:40Z The Semitistisches Forschungkcolloquium, convened by the Seminar für Semitistik und Arabistik – Semitistik of Freie Universität Berlin, will take place on Wednesdays, 4-6pm CEST (online via Cisco WebEx). The full program and further relevant information are available at: https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/semiarab/semitistik/Aktuelles/Semitistisches-Forschungskolloquium-2021.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1286.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1286.html 2021-04-19T21:17:40Z Asian EFL Journal (Scopus indexed) http://www.asian-efl-journal.com/ is looking to recruit new reviewers to join its editorial board. Candidates should have completed studies at MA level or be in the process of completing (or have completed) Doctorate studies in Applied Linguistics/TESOL. Those with reviewing experience are preferred but candidates with no experience will be given guidance and mentoring in how to review. Inquiries and applications (with a resume including a list of publications) http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1285.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1285.html 2021-04-19T21:17:40Z Renewed Call for Papers Editors: Thomaï Alexiou & Athanasios Karasimos The great interest regarding this book and the fact that a number of colleagues asked more time to do research due to COVID restrictions, led us to the decision to renew this present call for papers. We invite you, therefore, to submit abstracts for chapters to be included in our edited book titled ‘CLIL-ing through board games. Challenge accepted!’ which is likely to be published by De Gruyter Mouton. The new-age bo http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1238.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1238.html 2021-04-19T21:17:40Z Gamification of education, using game mechanics for educational purposes, is a new exciting direction that promotes deeper engagement and reduces performance anxiety. We invite chapter proposals for an edited collection "Games for students of linguistics”. The collection aims to bring together games that would help students of linguistics to develop and practice the fundamental concepts in Phonetics & Phonology, Syntax & Morphology, and Semantics & Pragmatics. Examples of the games and gamif http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1237.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1237.html 2021-04-19T21:17:40Z Dear Colleagues, we are glad to announce two lectures within the series "Languages, writings and societies in Langobard Italy. Paths of Historical Sociolinguistics" to be held on 04/12/2021 and 04/29/2021 at the University of Naples "Federico II", Department of Humanities (online on the digital platform Microsoft Teams). Those interested in participating are invited to write to infolatinitaslangobarda@unina.it for registration. Programme_04.12.2021: https://inbox.unina.it/horde/imp/a http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1236.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-1236.html 2021-04-19T21:17:40Z Call for Proposals for Chapters and Case Studies Russian as a Foreign Language: Dynamic Teaching for Dynamic Times Do you teach Russian as a foreign, second, or heritage language? Do you employ fun and engaging strategies instead of or in addition to a textbook that have your students beg for more Russian? Please consider submitting a proposal for a chapter or a case study in the edited volume Russian as a Foreign Language: Dynamic Teaching for Dynamic Times. We would like to hear from var