2nd Call for Papers:
The goal of this session is to approach DOM from different perspectives, such as:
- linguistic change, both in diachrony and synchrony. The evolution of DOM throughout the history of Spanish has been governed by the scale of animacy and referentiality (Laca 2006). In Old Spanish, DOM was obligatory in canonical position (SVO) with strong pronouns and personal nouns, while in Modern Spanish it is also obligatory with certain (in)definite, human nominal phrases. Furthermore
Call for Papers:
We invite submissions for oral presentations (30 minutes + 10 minutes for questions and discussion) on the grammar of Manner Adverbials, including (but not limited to) their syntax, morphology, semantics, and pragmatics, as well as the properties of MAs at the interfaces of these fields of study. There are no restrictions as to the investigated language. In particular, we encourage researchers who study manner adverbials from a comparative perspective to submit.
Questions that
The Department of English at American University of Sharjah (AUS) seeks applicants for several full-time permanent faculty positions in composition/writing studies. Candidates should hold a PhD in Rhetoric and Composition, English for Academic Purposes, TESOL or a closely related field. We welcome applications from candidates with any specialization in composition/writing studies, including but not limited to writing pedagogy, technology and writing, academic writing, composition studies or seco
Are you a linguist specialising in Japanese or Korean? SIDE are in need of freelance native-speaking formally trained phonologists who are able to do phonemic transcription, audio analysis and other speech linguistic tasks (text-to-speech).
Successful candidates will be part of a team processing large amounts of linguistic data and carrying out a number of tasks to improve the quality of our client鈥檚 text-to-speech synthesis for Japanese or Korean.
Linguistics Requirements:
- University-level
The Department of Arabic and Translation Studies at American University of Sharjah invites applications for faculty positions at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin in Fall 2025, subject to budgetary approval. A PhD in Arabic Studies, Arabic Literature or related areas is required. The willingness and ability to teach entry-level Arabic heritage classes is essential. The ability to offer courses on the history, culture and society of the United Arab Emirates will be a distinct advantage. Ca
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Table of Contents
Articles
Honorifics in child-directed speech
Gwendolyn Hildebrandt | pp.鈥�1鈥�39
Transplanted Brazilian Portuguese in Japan: Mobility, contact, and koin茅 formation among Latin American immigrants
Kazuko Matsumoto, Akiko Okumura & Kenjiro Matsuda | pp.鈥�40鈥�66
Variation in Asian and Pacific Islander North American English: What the patterns of scholarship demonstrate about race in sociolinguistics
Andrew Cheng, Lauretta Cheng, Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales &
2024. iii, 165 pp.
Table of Contents
Articles
Mixing adjectives: A variable equivalence hypothesis for bilingual word order conflicts
Rena Torres Cacoullos & Jessica V茅lez Avil茅s | pp.鈥�609鈥�639
Frequency effects and aspect morphology with state verbs in heritage Spanish
Patrick D. Thane | pp.鈥�640鈥�667
Prosodic interaction in Cantonese-English bilingual children鈥檚 speech production
Jonathan Him Nok Lee, Regine Yee King Lai, Stephen Matthews & Virginia Yip | pp.鈥�668鈥�707
Second language learne
The Hispanic Linguistics track in Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications to the Ph.D. program for students starting their studies in the Fall Semester 2025.
Our PhD program in Hispanic Linguistics allows students to focus on applied linguistics, indigenous languages of Latin America, language acquisition, phonetics and phonology, formal semantics and pragmatics, sociolinguistics and dialectology, and syntax. Please visit https://www.umass.
I am currently looking for native European Portuguese speakers for an online experiment on vowels and foreign accent.
The study has a gift prize ruffle and a statement of participation can be issued upon request.
More info:
https://clunl.fcsh.unl.pt/procuram-falantes-nativos-as-de-portugues-europeu/
Thank you!
Yolanda Xavier
yolandaxavier@fcsh.unl.pt
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Using the OED to support historical writing
19 Sep 鈥� 05:00 PM BST | 12:00 PM EDT | 04:00 PM GMT
Book your place:
http://tiny.cc/OED-Historical-writing-LL
Editors and guest speakers will be discussing the challenges of historical writing, and how the Oxford English Dictionary, as well as the Historical Thesaurus of the OED, can be used to navigate them:
鈥� Historical accuracy
鈥� Extracting historical information from the OED and the HTOED
鈥� Cultural sensitivity and ethical considerations
鈥� The ri
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Irene Smith and James Tanner (PhD 2020) presented at Interspeech 2024, September 1-5, in Kos, Greece. The titles of the talks are below. Irene Smith,聽Morgan Sonderegger, and The SPADE Consortium. Modelled Multivariate Overlap: A method for measuring vowel merger.James Tanner, Morgan Sonderegger,聽Jane Stuart-Smith, Tyler Kendall, JeffMielke, Robin Dodsworth, Erik Thomas. Exploring the anatomy of articulation […]
At this week鈥檚 MCQLL meeting, Gaurav Kamath will present “When Words Change Meaning, Age (Almost) Doesn’t Matter”We will be meeting this Wednesday, September 18, at noon. Meetings are held both in person in room 117 of the 不良研究所 Linguistics department Abstract: A central question in the study of how language changes over lifetimes is whether […]
不良研究所 will host Understanding Obviation: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective, October 4鈥�6 at 不良研究所’s Thomson House. The full program is now available here. All are welcome to attend, but requested to register by September 22nd. Obviation is perhaps most commonly discussed in connection with languages of the Algonquian family in which (i) multiple 3rd person nominals in […]
Program
MONDAY, September 16
9:20 WORKSHOP OPENING
9:30-11.00 Manuel Garc铆a-Carpintero, "Direction of fit. A normative account" [9.30-10.15]; Comments: Nils Franz茅n [10.15-10.30]; Q&A [10.30-11.00]
11.00-11.30 COFFEE BREAK
11.30-13.00 Claudia Picazo Jaque, "Communicative distortions" [11.30-12.15]; Comments: Elin McCready/Gr茅goire Winterstein [12.15-12.30]; Q&A [12.30-13.00]
13.00-14.30 LUNCH BREAK
14.30-16.00 Nils Franz茅n, "Future contingents and the assertion problem" [14.30-15.15]; Comments:
This week, Laurestine Bradford (不良研究所) will be presenting a MULL-themed talk 鈥淲hat are the eventuality classes of Tlingit?鈥�. The meeting will take place on Monday, September 16 at 3pm in Room 002 of the 不良研究所 linguistics department. Laurestine鈥檚 abstract is below: In terms of eventuality class (or lexical aspect, or aktionsart), Tlingit verbs broadly fall into four groups: achievement, activity, state, […]
The program is available here: https://obviationworkshop2024.wordpress.com/program-and-location/
Registration for the workshop is now open: https://obviationworkshop2024.wordpress.com/registration-form/ Please register before September 22nd 2024.
WORKSHOP PROGRAMME, October 25th - October 26th, 2024
Day 1: OCTOBER 25, 2024 鈥� ROOM KOL-G-212 (R盲mistrasse 71, 2nd floor, 8006 Z眉rich)
9:00 - 9:30 Gabriela Soare Universit盲t Z眉rich, CH Welcome & Introduction
9:30 - 10:15 Iliana Krapova&Guglielmo Cinque Universit脿 Ca鈥橣oscari, IT Peculiarities of Bulgarian relative clauses and their implications
10:15-10:45 Coffee break
10:45 - 11:30 Adriana Belletti Universit脿 di Siena, IT On the complexity of a shorter structure: The case of Reduced Relative C