MLA Commons | LSL General Linguistics | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/general-linguistics/ Activity feed for the group, LSL General Linguistics. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:42:45 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 60e58ef91341856422c21d3b0fff0f51 Randall Gess started the topic MLA 2026 Session: Romance Linguistics in the forum General Linguistics https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/general-linguistics/forum/topic/mla-2026-session-romance-linguistics-4/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 20:04:00 -0500 The Modern Language Association’s (MLA) Executive Committee of the LSL Forum on Romance Linguistics welcomes you to our session at the MLA’s 2026 Annual Convention in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

We hope to see you on Friday, January 9th at 5:15 @ MTCC – 205A
Presentations
 The Curious Case of Interconsonantal S in Old French , Francisco Antonio…[Read more]

]]> 0 827fab9a82e1ed0fedaeaba2c2f395bd Laura Francis started the topic LSL Language Change - Call for Papers - MLA 2026 in the forum General Linguistics https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/general-linguistics/forum/topic/lsl-language-change-call-for-papers-mla-2026-4/ Wed, 12 Mar 2025 23:11:45 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

The LSL Language Change Forum is seeking papers for the following panels at the 2026 MLA Annual Conference in Toronto from January 8-11. Please see the panel information below and consider submitting an abstract. We would love to hear from you:

Pedagogy and Intergenerational Language Change

How do linguistic features passed…[Read more]

]]> 0 55cd17f3e4e46389816d15d1c5e4e918 Catherine Fountain started the topic Join the General Linguistics Forum Committee! in the forum General Linguistics https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/general-linguistics/forum/topic/join-the-general-linguistics-forum-committee/ Tue, 14 Jan 2025 02:13:46 -0500 Colleagues in the MLA’s Language Study and Linguistics (LSL) forums, please consider nominating yourself or a colleague to serve on the LSL General Linguistics Forum Committee. We currently have two open positions on the committee; one member would begin serving immediately and continue through January 2028, and the other would begin serving on t…[Read more]

]]> 0 4848b9435d8081711fe305db75ae7aac Catherine Fountain started the topic Nominations for the LSL General Linguistics Forum Committee in the discussion General Linguistics https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/general-linguistics/forum/topic/nominations-for-the-lsl-general-linguistics-forum-committee/ Fri, 12 Jan 2024 14:17:00 -0500 Colleagues in the MLA’s Language Study and Linguistics (LSL) forums, please consider nominating yourself or a colleague to serve on the LSL General Linguistics Forum Committee. Forum Committee members help to organize a guaranteed session at the annual MLA conference, bolster and promote activity in linguistics in the MLA, and get to meet and…[Read more]

]]> 0 f7e0ac9dc7ef5a5523ca5e7c87fb22b5 Carla Suhr started the topic Calls for Papers: LSL Romance Linguistics Forum in the discussion General Linguistics https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/general-linguistics/forum/topic/calls-for-papers-lsl-romance-linguistics-forum-2/ Sat, 14 Jan 2023 23:20:08 -0500 The Romance Linguistics Forum of the Modern Language Association welcomes a wide range of participants and approaches to Romance Linguistics to its 2024 panel. We invite abstracts exploring any area of Romance Linguistics, especially those involving real-world interfaces such as fieldwork, digital data, interdisciplinary projects or courses, and…[Read more]

]]> 0 55f36f3c02316ad6de93a50c113d8c7b Amanda Boomershine started the topic 2023 General Linguistics Forum: in the discussion General Linguistics https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/general-linguistics/forum/topic/2023-general-linguistics-forum/ Wed, 21 Dec 2022 17:57:58 -0500 We’d like to invite you to Session 269 on January 6 at 12pm via Zoom to hear presentations on Language in Society: Issues of Equity & Access.

]]> 0 d585f49fc120e5dcbaf3cf9197215284 Amanda Boomershine edited the post 2023 - 2028 General Linguistics Forum EC Member Needed in the group LSL General Linguistics https://generallinguistics.mla.hcommons.org/2022/01/13/2023-2028-forum-ec-member-needed/ Thu, 13 Jan 2022 18:16:43 -0500 Hi! I am the 2022-2023 chair of the General Linguistics Forum and we are taking nominations for a new member for the forum’s executive committee. The term is for 5 years (2023 – 2028). We are especially […]

]]> ba290c8f69c22ecdf050a20081d15a40 José Angel García Landa deposited A Comparison between the French and RP English Vowel Systems in the group LSL General Linguistics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1589974/ Mon, 27 Nov 2017 05:40:16 -0500 This is a paper in comparative phonology, which undertakes a detailed comparative analysis of the standard British English RP (Received Pronunciation) vowel system, and that of standard French, including some observations on regional varieties.

]]> 0 f1ac10f9c098192a5f1aa84254a3ba6d Robert Troyer posted an update in the group LSL General Linguistics: Dear Members of the MLA General Linguistics Forum, If you […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1588254/ Mon, 13 Nov 2017 17:25:38 -0500 Dear Members of the MLA General Linguistics Forum,
If you will be at the 2018 Convention, please join us at the Hilton Saturday evening 7:15-8:30 for a cash bar organized by the Linguistics Forums of the MLA. The event is listed on page 953 of the convention program.
710. Cash Bar Arranged by the Language Studies and Linguistics…[Read more]

]]> 0 4d1ddb096366b2e77db9db56bd916157 Yasmine Beale-Rivaya posted an update in the group LSL General Linguistics: MLA 2018 Panel: Linguistics and Social Media. This […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1575714/ Thu, 13 Jul 2017 09:53:05 -0400 MLA 2018 Panel: Linguistics and Social Media. This guaranteed session seeks papers that examine different modes, applications, and venues of social media (textual, visual, audiovisual, interactive) from a linguistic perspective.

]]> 0 f8afeae6e41216579246cf883bfbbf9a Angus Grieve-Smith deposited The Spread of Change in French Negation in the group LSL General Linguistics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1565834/ Sun, 02 Apr 2017 20:11:33 -0400 Many varieties of French have changed over the years from expressing predicate
negation (Geurts 1998) with ne alone, to the embracing construction ne … pas, and then
to postverbal pas alone (Jespersen 1917). When the increase in the frequency of
ne … pas over time is plotted on a graph, it takes the S shape of the logistic function
(Kroch 198…[Read more]

]]> 0 7388ee2d10e13c7e4a724828af4f877e Hsiang-Hua Melanie Chang deposited Interpretation of Bare and Demonstrative Noun Phrases in the Acquisition of Mandarin in the group LSL General Linguistics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/552556/ Mon, 24 Oct 2016 20:06:08 -0400 Mandarin nominals may appear bare or non-bare in various positions with different interpretations. Questions arise as to how Mandarin-speaking children interpret bare nominals, given that bare nominals can have various interpretations. On the other hand, how do they interpret non-bare nominals, such as demonstrative nominals? This experimental…[Read more]

]]> 0 d4ef044727aebd2317797afa291532df Hania Nashef deposited اهلا, hello and bonjour: a postcolonial analysis of Arab media's use of code switching and mixing and its ramification on the identity of the self in the Arab world in the group LSL General Linguistics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/546576/ Sat, 02 Apr 2016 15:18:13 -0400 Code switching is a practice exercised by multilingual speakers. Linguists define the term as the simultaneous use of more than one language. Code switching is prevalent in postcolonial countries in which the colonial language has continued to exist alongside the native language. In the past, code switching in the Arab world has been confined to…[Read more]

]]> 0 4d2ed7f8d329029f744fe035f22d5e98 Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Cocoons of Desire and Thought: Metaphor as Metafunction in the group LSL General Linguistics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/534331/ Fri, 06 Nov 2015 16:44:50 -0500 This conference paper was an invited plenary lecture for the 11th annual meeting of ICEG in January 2014. It builds upon numerous articles, essays and books the author has published on the grammar, epistemology and socio-historical aspects of metaphor and metaphorical discourse. This paper provides a model for understanding metaphor as a needed…[Read more]

]]> 0 ef255e5cc4ad856166cda8e818e3fd46 Carolina Gonzalez edited the file: Hans Boas et al. Powerpoint in General Linguistics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/91061/ Sat, 07 Feb 2015 22:35:09 -0500 0 674028f43a0661638609212581bb2a53 Carolina Gonzalez uploaded the file: Hans Boas et al. Powerpoint to General Linguistics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/91057/ Sat, 07 Feb 2015 21:19:46 -0500 0 dac9e18afc6d757065cc7301f7a666c9 Carolina Gonzalez deleted the file: Silvia Marijuan's handout from General Linguistics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/91056/ Sat, 07 Feb 2015 21:13:54 -0500 0 c817bdd6c52ab48d870096bb3b5fa90a Carolina Gonzalez uploaded the file: Silvia Marijuan's handout to General Linguistics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/91055/ Sat, 07 Feb 2015 21:11:23 -0500 Silvia Marijuan’s talk was titled ‘Spanish vernacular use in college L2 language classrooms amongst Spanish heritage speakers in Washington, DC’

]]> 0 f1c80d712f18b4d45005ec5d35f9f8c8 Carolina Gonzalez created the doc Abstracts for General Linguistics Panel 'New Approaches to Vernacular Languages in the US', Vancouver, 2015 in the group General Linguistics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/91053/ Sat, 07 Feb 2015 21:01:36 -0500 0 b34bd1c80b9833a32add00deb3d9fed0 Terrence Potter posted an update in the group LSL General Linguistics: Please plan to attend the General Linguistics panel at MLA […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/80422/ Wed, 06 Aug 2014 14:50:02 -0400 Please plan to attend the General Linguistics panel at MLA 2015! We are happy to announce that our session has been listed under the conference Presidential theme, “Negotiating Sites of Memory.”

Presentations during the session include:

1. “The Texas German Dialect Archive, Fourteen Years Later,” Hans Christian Boas, Univ. of Texas, Austin;…[Read more]

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