FYI: May 2026 Newsletter - LDC

Qs: The Etymologies of Hungarian nap 'sun' and nép 'people'

Summer Schools: LOT Summer School 2026 (Hybrid)

Jobs: Sociolinguistics: Open Rank Position in Sociolinguistics, University of Oxford

Calls: Languages and Language at the Crossroads of Disciplines 2026

Jobs: Japanese Family; English, Japanese; Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics: Associate Professor (junkyōju) or Assistant Professor (sennin kōshi) in Japanese Linguistics (with tenure), Tsuda University

Confs: Encountering the Human(ities): Anxiety, Storytelling, Futurity

Confs: Forma y análisis en lingüística Maya 8 / Form and Analysis in Mayan Linguistics 8

Confs: Retrieval-Augmented Generation Enabled by Knowledge Graphs Workshop

FYI: Language Intervention Networking Seminar Series

Calls: Giornate Italiane di Linguistica Sperimentale

Confs: 3rd Workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era @ EMNLP 2026

Confs: 21th Annual LESLLA Symposium: Bridging Languages: Literacy, Plurilingual Repertoires, New Languages

Calls: Exclamation: Form(s) and Function(s)

Confs: 12th International Conference Building Cultural Bridges

Confs: Oral Tradition: New Directions for the Analysis of Linguistic-Typological Change

Confs: Linguistics Practices, Migration, and Identities: Connecting Research with Community Voices

Confs: Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis 6

Confs: SELCS Annual Conference 2026

FYI: Condividere metodi, costruire ricerca. Giornata conclusiva dei seminari "Discorsi sul metodo a.a. 2025-2026"

FYI: ELAN Office Hours / Listening Session

Support: Ancient Greek (to 1453); Discourse Analysis, General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics: PhD, Université Côte d'Azur

FYI: Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series – Seminar 9

Confs: 1st International Meeting on Morphology of Underrepresented Languages and Varieties

Confs: 14th Conference of the International Gender and Language Association

Confs: Theoretical Linguistics at School

Confs: International Symposium on Tourism, Communication, and Translation

Confs: Satellite Workshop at LabPhon20 - Whistled Languages of the World: Phonetic, Phonological, and Neurocognitive Insights into an Alternative Speech Modality

Calls: Experimental Approaches to the Perception and Production of Language Variation 2026

Calls: Discourse Expectations: Theoretical, Experimental and Computational Perspectives

Confs: 11th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar

Confs: 9th International H-INET Conference

Confs: L’étymologie dans la poésie française (XIVe-XVIIe siècle)

Calls: International Conference on Phonetics and AI in Language Education

Confs: Black Sea as a Literary and Cultural Space 4 and Beyond: Inter-Reflections of Translation and Literature

Calls: Ontology As Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics 6

Calls: Telling the Truth? Authorship, Audiences and Authenticity Across Discourse, Texts and Narratives

Calls: 2026 Seoul International Conference on Linguistics

FYI: German and Spanish Speakers Needed for Study about Language Processing

Confs: 15th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer-Assisted Language Learning

Summer Schools: Language, Speech, and AI: An Online Forensics Summer School (2026)

TOC: Babel Vol. 72, No. 3 (2026)

TOC: Applied Pragmatics Vol. 8, No. 1 (2026)

Books: Towards Building Anti-Racist Communities: Austin and Eisenstein Ebsworth (eds.) (2026)

Books: Teaching Conceptual Understanding in Multilingual Classrooms: Van Eerdewijk and McCracken (2026)

Books: Exploring Restorative Intercultural Practices: Diamond, Sitholé, and Phipps (eds.) (2026)

Books: Alianzas Familiares in Multilingual Education: Johnson and Murillo (eds.) (2026)

Books: A Framework for Task-Based Learning and Teaching: Willis, Leeming, and Harris (2026)

Confs: Contemporary Perspectives on Language and Literatures in English

Calls: New Ways of Analyzing Variation 54