As a genre of publication, the Festschrift (see §1 as to the definition of this concept and difficulties in delimiting it) has, in my experience, come into disrepute in recent years, in Finno-Ugric/Ur...

In this data release we present kinship terms of twenty Uralic languages and information concerning the origin of these words. The kinship terms were collected with a genealogical grid of 115 kinship ...

In this interview, we talk to Peter Austin about his career in field linguists and the history of language documentation in Australia, in particular how the role of Indigenous community members has…

In this episode, we begin our exploration of American linguistics by looking at the innovative contributions of Franz Boas (1858–1942) and his circle of students.

Reconstructing Old Literary Southern Saami

In this episode, we enter the age of classical structuralism by exploring the phonological research of Roman Jakobson and his colleague Nikolai Trubetzkoy undertaken within the Prague Linguistic Ci…

2nd Call for Papers: The deadline for submitting abstracts to the 7th Saami Linguistics Symposium (SAALS 7) is coming up on 10 April! On 4–5 November 2026, the 7th Saami Linguistics Symposium will be held at Nord University in Bodø, Norway. The symposium is the continuation of a series of international symposia previously held in Tromsø 2006 and 2009, in Freiburg 2017, in Uppsala 2019, in Tartu 2022, and in Helsinki 2024. The purpose of the symposium is to give scholars an opportunity to