The umbrella topic of this year’s GLOWing lectures is Linguistics and the World we live in. Our first lecture takes place on Friday, November 21, 15:00 CET and features Michelle Sheehan & Eloisa Pilati discussing about why language teaching needs linguistics. If you’re not a GLOW member, sign up for the Zoom link HERE.
The Call for Papers for GLOW48 (Siena, April 2026) is out!
https://linguistlist.org/issues/36/3038/
The dates, speakers and discussants of the upcoming GLOWing lecture series are almost finalized-find all information here: https://glowlinguistics.org/upcoming-glowing-lectures/ and don’t forget to join us for our first lecture on Linguistics in Education (Michelle Sheehan & Eloisa Pilati) on November 21!
Our upcoming year of GLOWing lectures will have the umbrella topic “Linguistics and the world we live in” and feature three lectures:
Further, we start an additional sub-series of GLOWing lectures called “Languages deserving more attention” where a specialist of one language (family) shows what it fascinating about this language, how it contributes to our generative theories or challenges them. From 2025/26 on, these lectures will take place once a year, usually in the last slot (that is, in May or June).
Stay tuned for more information!
Mark your calendars: GLOW 48 will be hosted by the University of Siena and takes place from April 21-23, 2026.
Our 7th GLOWing lecture will feature Athulya Aravind and Adriana Belletti, discussing about language acquisition. Join us on May 16, 15:00 CEST on Zoom. Slides: HERE
At GLOW47 we awarded 3 prizes to the best student presentations. The BEST POSTER went to Madhusmitha Venkatesan (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi) for her poster on Deriving Adjectives in Heritage Tamil: Stability and Change.
The BEST TALK was shared between Katie McCann (Leipzig University) for her presentation An illusory violation of the affix ordering generalisation in Tigrinya and Anna Laoide-Kemp (University of Edinburgh) for her presentation Preverbal d’ and its interactions with the initial consonant mutation system in Irish.
We congratulate the winners for their outstanding presentations!
We’re happy to welcome two new board members!
Radek Šimík and Andrew Nevins will leave the board – thanks for their many years of service and support!
With a majority of 98%, the GLOW community has agreed to hold GLOW48 at the University of Siena! The colloquium will take place in early spring 2026, exact dates follow soon.
