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Python Programming for Linguistics and Digital Humanities: Applications for Text-Focused Fields by Martin Weisser is an introduction to Python programming written with students of linguistics, digital humanities and social sciences in mind, that is for students with no background in computer science. The main purpose of the book is to introduce the basic concepts of programming and the programming language Python to those with no prior experience in programming in order to equip them wi
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The volume (356 pages) comprises 11 chapters, each presenting a distinct paper. The introduction 鈥� authored by the editor 鈥� provides a general overview of the volume. The book is divided into two parts: the first part (six chapters) focuses on face-to-face interactions, while the second part (five chapters) examines humor in public contexts (e.g., TV shows) and private mediated interactions (e.g., instant messaging apps).
The aim of the volume is to explore interactional humor 鈥� define
Our next meeting will be on聽September 30 at 10 AM in room 002. Simon LiVolsi will be presenting the following on laryngeals in Kanien’k茅ha: Abstract: The Northern Iroquoian language Kanien’k茅ha has two laryngeals: /h/ and /蕯/. While previous analyses have syllabified these segments into the onset or coda, I argue that the laryngeals may be […]
Sinn und Bedeutung 29 took place at the Consorzio Universitario Mediteraneo Orientale in Noto, Italy last week. Presentations and posters by current 不良研究所 affiliates include: Matthieu Paill茅 (PhD ’22), Brian Buccola (PhD ’15), Bernhard Schwarz, Luis Alonso-Ovalle, Willie Myers, Jonny Palucci, Esmail Moghiseh (PhD ’24), Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine (Post-doc ’14-’15), Aron Hirsch (Post-doc ’17-’19)
Katya Morgunova and Terrance Gatchalian聽(不良研究所) will be presenting a talk 鈥淚ntentive aspect, Purposives, and their Results in Kanien鈥檏茅ha.鈥澛燭he meeting will take place on聽Monday, September 30 at 3pm in Room 002聽of the 不良研究所 linguistics department.聽Their abstract is below: While existing work on Northern Iroquoian universally acknowledges the distinction between state and event verbs, some works also […]
At this week鈥檚 MCQLL meeting, Laurestine Bradford will present ” Quantitative Analyses of Aspectual Phenomena”We will be meeting this Wednesday, October 2, at noon. Meetings are held in person in room 117 of the 不良研究所 Linguistics department and on zoom at聽https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/82524506850. Abstract: The study of verbal aspect concerns the shapes of events in time (aspectual […]
Call for Papers:
Modern Iranian Jewish Languages: Thematic Issue of the Journal of Jewish Languages
The Iranian language family has included many Jewish languages, such as Judeo-Persian, Juhuri (Judeo-Tat), Bukharian (Judeo-Tajik), Judeo-Shirazi, Judeo-Hamedani, Judeo-Yazdi, and Judeo-Kashani. While there has been much research on medieval Judeo-Persian writing, scholarship on contemporary spoken varieties is underrepresented (see reviews in Borjian 2014, 2015; Gindin 2003; Lazard 1968; Shalem
Call for Papers:
Abstracts are invited for oral and poster presentations from graduate/postgraduate students and research scholars (MPhil/PhD) working in the field of language and linguistics. We encourage presentations in the following (and related) areas:
- Phonetics and Phonology
- Morphology
- Syntax
- Semantics
- Pragmatics
- Sociolinguistics
- Psycholinguistics
- Historical Linguistics
- Typology
- Language documentation
- Computational Linguistics
- Cognitive Linguistics
- S
鈥榃onders of the World鈥� | The Journal of Languages, Texts, and Society Conference 2024
9.30鈥�9.45* Welcome and introduction
Kat Rolfe & Qizhu Zhao | University of Nottingham
Conference organising team
9.45鈥�10.45 Panel 1. Histories and Herstories
鈥樷�淥ut On Their Geg鈥�: Women, class and popular performance in Belfast鈥�
Claire Murphy | Queen鈥檚 University Belfast
鈥楢n Ironic Representation of Women as 鈥淓difices of Nature鈥� in Mahapatara鈥檚 鈥淪ummer鈥� using Peter H眉hn鈥檚 Narratological Framework鈥�
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鈥榃onders of the World鈥� | The Journal of Languages, Texts, and Society Conference 2024
9.30鈥�9.45* Welcome and introduction
Kat Rolfe & Qizhu Zhao | University of Nottingham
Conference organising team
9.45鈥�10.45 Panel 1. Histories and Herstories
鈥樷�淥ut On Their Geg鈥�: Women, class and popular performance in Belfast鈥�
Claire Murphy | Queen鈥檚 University Belfast
鈥楢n Ironic Representation of Women as 鈥淓difices of Nature鈥� in Mahapatara鈥檚 鈥淪ummer鈥� using Peter H眉hn鈥檚 Narratological Framework鈥�
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Symposium About Language and Society, Austin (SALSA):
January 17-18, 2025
The University of Texas at Austin
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Erin Debenport, University of California Los Angeles
The Symposium About Language and Society, Austin (SALSA) is an annual conference that brings together scholars from around the world who study the social life of language. We are now accepting submissions for SALSA XXIX, which will take place January 17-18, 2025. The deadline for submissions is November 5, 2024.
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The Linguistics Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Linguistics, to begin in the Fall of 2025. We are seeking applicants who specialize in Hispanic Linguistics or Sociolinguistics, or a combination thereof (for example, a sociolinguist specializing in the Spanish-speaking world or languages in contact with Spanish).
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate an outstanding resea
The Department of Linguistics at Rice University in Houston, Texas is seeking applications for an assistant professor to begin July 1, 2025. The candidate should have research expertise in the areas of language and gender, language and ethnicity, sociolinguistics, and discourse analysis. Major factors for consideration will be a demonstrated excellence in teaching, as well as demonstrated active participation in research activities in the desired areas. Once hired, the scholar will maintain an
The University of Arizona Department of Linguistics in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences is seeking to fill a tenure track faculty position in Iranian linguistics at the Assistant Professor level beginning in 2025. The successful applicant will have a Ph.D. in any subfield of linguistics, with a strong specialization in Iranian linguistics specifically. This is an endowed position, the Elah茅 Omidyar Mir-Djalali Professorship in Iranian Linguistics, and based on the requirements of th
PhD position in linguistics on language geography and historical linguistics
The position is embedded in the interdisciplinary Language Redux (http://www.ddl.cnrs.fr/projets/Redux/), research project, funded by a high-profile Consolidator Grant from the European Research to PI Matthias Urban (http://www.ddl.cnrs.fr/equipes/Index.asp?Langue=FR&Page=Matthias%20URBAN&Equipe=12). The project will carry out frontier research on the historical dynamics of language geographies. It will explore a new a
Sinn und Bedeutung 29聽took place at the Consorzio Universitario Mediteraneo Orientale in Noto, Italy last week. Presentations and posters by current 不良研究所 affiliates include: 路 Jonny Palucci – “Pseudo-scoping out of relative clauses: a dependent definite approach” 路 Willie Myers – “Argumentless presuppositions in Kanien’k茅ha” 路聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽Aron Hirsch and聽Bernhard Schwarz聽– “Constraining alternatives” 路 Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Bernhard Schwarz – “Decoupling amounts from their instantiations” 路聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽Luis Alonso-Ovalle聽and […]
This section focuses on the cinematic representation of romance languages from the beginnings of sound film, i.e. from the early 1930s to the present day. In addition to films, series will also be examined as an object of study, which, especially in times of numerous streaming services, are of great interest to a wide range of audiences. This results in diverse and wide-ranging objects of research that can be examined for development trends from a diachronic perspective. The following is a small
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Research group 鈥淭ranslation and Language Studies鈥� (Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology) is pleased to invite you to participate in the international conference on linguistics, discourse, media, communication, translation, cultural literacy and impact on society 鈥淚ntermediality in Communication: Translation, Media, Discourse鈥� held in Kaunas, Lithuania. You are invited to present your projects and experiences in the formats of oral or
Second Call for Papers:
We invite suggestions for papers dealing with aspects of language and society in the past. Topics and (sub)disciplines might include, but are not limited to:
- Language variation and change
- Historical multilingualism, language contact, and multilingual practices
- Language maintenance, language shift and heritage languages
- Language standardization, norms, prescriptivism and purism
- Language policy and planning in the past
- Language ideologies, beliefs and att
Call for Papers:
We invite researchers and practitioners from the helping professions and linguistics to submit proposals for contributions on the following two thematic areas:
- How are interdisciplinary collaborations in linguistics and medicine implemented in practice? What are the opportunities, but
also potential challenges and barriers that need to be overcome? (G眉lich 2006, Becker/Schedl 2017, Ilg/Maatz 2022).
- What new findings are there from interdisciplinary research projects from li