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Date: 06-Dec-2025
From: Yoselin Henriques Pestana [yoselin.henriquespestana at uzh.ch]
Subject: Energeia: Online Journal for Linguistics, Language Philosophy and History of Linguistics - "Special Issue: New Methods in Linguistics – Epistemological and Theoretical Issues" (Jrnl)


Journal: Energeia: Online Journal for Linguistics, Language Philosophy
and History of Linguistics
Issue: New methNew Methods in Linguistics – Epistemological and
Theoretical Issuesods in linguistics – Epistemological and theoretical
issues
Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2026

Linguistics is currently undergoing important changes, driven mainly
by substantial methodological progress, which, in turn, opens new
paths to rethink the foundations of the discipline. Experimental
methods have become standard in linguistic research, eye-tracking and
EEG studies shed new light on language processing, and big data,
quantitative methods and AI allow for simulations and projections that
were completely unthinkable until very recent times. Tools such as R
are now an integral part of linguistic data analysis and
visualization.
The aim of this special issue is to address the potential and
limitations of new methods in linguistic research by asking, for
example: To what extent is it possible to adopt methods from the
natural and social sciences and apply them to linguistic issues? Do
the methods adequately account for the nature of the object, and may
they even make us consider the object differently? How can new methods
help to get closer to the language activity or enérgeia in the
Humboldtian sense? To what extent may experiments capture linguistic
behaviour and reflect how speakers interact? Can corpus-based
statistical modelling truly capture language dynamics, or may it risk
overlooking deeper dimensions such as individual variation, presence
of different varieties, textual traditions and the general distinction
between competence and performance? Isn’t there a danger of just
analysing whatever kind of data without certainty of how
representative they are?
We invite researchers to submit contributions with an epistemological
focus on methods in linguistics as well as texts exploring the
possibilities of specific methods (e.g. experiments, see
Zufferey/Gygax 2022; Wall et al. 2025, linguistic features and
eye-tracking studies, see Schotter/Dillon 2025; Loureda et al. 2021,
corpus studies, see Gerards in press, quantitative methods, see Mitkov
2014, using R, see Levshina 2015; Winter 2019, probabilistic
approaches, see Grafmiller et al. 2018 to name just a few examples).
Manuscripts may be submitted in English, German, or in a Romance
language. Unpublished original contributions and documents should be
submitted, considering the editorial guidelines -->
https://energeia-online.org/guidelines. Submissions will be evaluated
anonymously by two independent reviewers. The authors will be
contacted after the evaluation procedure is completed and shall
receive an evaluation report along with a request to revise their
contribution if necessary.
Submission deadline for forthcoming issue no. XI (2026): April 30,
2026
Peer Review Process Completion: June 30, 2026
Online Publication: October 31, 2026.
For more information about the journal:
https://energeia-online.org/index
References:
Gerards, David Paul (in press): Bare Partitives in Old Spanish and Old
Portuguese. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter [= Linguistische
Arbeiten/Linguistic Studies].
Grafmiller, J. / Szmrecsanyi, B. / Röthlisberger, M. / Heller, B.
(2018): “General introduction: A comparative perspective on
probabilistic variation in grammar”, Glossa 3(1): 94.
https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.690
Levshina, Natalia (2015): How to do linguistics with R: data
exploration and statistical analysis, Amsterdam: John Benjamins
Publishing Company
López Serena, Araceli (2019): La lingüística como ciencia humana. Una
incursion desde la filosofía de la ciencia, Madrid: Arco.
Loureda Lamas, Óscar / Cruz, Adriana / Recio Fernández, Inés / Rudka,
Martha (2021): Comunicación, partículas discusrivas y pragmática
experimental, Madrid: Arco.
Mitkov, Ruslan (ed.) (2022): The Oxford Handbook of Computational
Linguistics, 2nd ed., Oxford: OUP,
https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199573691.001.0001
Schotter, E., Dillon, B. (2025): “A beginner’s guide to eye tracking
for psycholinguistic studies of reading”. Behavior Research Methods,
57:68. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-024-02572-4
Wall, Albert / Obrist, Philipp / Zeugin, Senta / Santos Rebelo,
Patrick / Kabatek, Johannes (2025): “Differential Marking of inanimate
direct objects across four varieties of Spanish: Evidence for
grammatical differences from elicitation experiments», Glossa 10(1),
2025, 1–40. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.17201
Winter. Bodo (2019). Statistics for Linguists: An Introduction Using
R. Routledge eBooks.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315165547
Zufferey, Sandrine / Gygax, Pascal (eds.) (2023): The Routledge
Handbook of Experimental Linguistics. London: Routledge.

Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     History of Linguistics
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Philosophy of Language




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