36.2456, Confs: 19th International Spring Forum of the English Linguistic Society of Japan (Japan)

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Date: 19-Aug-2025
From: Yohei Takahashi [takahashi.yohei at nihon-u.ac.jp]
Subject: 19th International Spring Forum of the English Linguistic Society of Japan


19th International Spring Forum of the English Linguistic Society of
Japan

Date: 23-May-2026 - 24-May-2026
Location: Matsue-shi, Shimane, Japan
Contact: Masaki Yasuhara (Chair)
Contact Email: forum-elsj at kaitakusha.co.jp
Meeting URL: http://elsj.jp/about-the-elsj-spring-forum/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics;
Morphology; Semantics; Syntax

Submission Deadline: 01-Dec-2025

We are happy to announce that The English Linguistic Society of Japan
19th Spring Forum is to be held as described below. All presentations
and discussions will be conducted in English. All abstracts must be
written in English.
Forum Dates: 23-May-2026 - 24-May-2026
Location: Shimane University (Matsue Campus), Shimane, 1060
Nishikawatsu-cho, Matsue-shi, Shimane-ken, 690-8504, Japan
Contact: forum-elsj at kaitakusha.co.jp
We invite abstracts for (A) oral presentations (each a 20-minute talk
plus a 10-minute discussion period), (B) poster presentations, and (C)
proposals for workshops (presentations and discussion for
approximately two hours) in the following area(s) of linguistics:
1) phonetics and phonology,
2) morphology and lexicology,
3) syntax,
4) semantics,
5) pragmatics and discourse analysis,
6) historical linguistics,
7) corpus linguistics and descriptive grammar,
8) cognitive linguistics,
9) sociolinguistics,
10) psycholinguistics,
11) neurolinguistics,
12) other fields.
An individual may submit a maximum of two papers but can be the first
author of only one of them. (Papers for a workshop are excluded from
this count). No changes in the title or authors are allowed after the
abstracts or workshop proposals have been submitted. Orally presented
papers may be published in JELS. Note that, to submit a paper to JELS,
the author, or one author in the case of joint research, must be a
member of the English Linguistic Society of Japan. Please see below
for the Guidelines for Submission of Abstracts and Workshop Proposals
for the ELSJ International Spring Forum.
Important dates for the ELSJ 19th International Spring Forum
Forum Dates: May 23 – May 24, 2026
Abstract/Proposal Submission Deadline: 11:59 p.m. JST on December 1,
2025
Notification of Acceptance: on or after January 19, 2026
Guidelines for Submission of Abstracts and Workshop Proposals for the
ELSJ International Spring Forum
1. Papers should be concerned with descriptive or theoretical studies
of English (synchronic or diachronic), general linguistic theories, or
the comparison of English with other languages (especially Japanese).
The area(s) of linguistics addressed by the papers should be on the
list in section 5 below.
2. Only work that will remain unpublished at the time of the
presentation may be submitted. Papers concurrently submitted to other
conferences, English Linguistics or other journals, or books of any
kind will not be considered.
3. Using a 12-point font on A4 or letter-size paper, the maximum
length of an abstract is two pages and that of a workshop proposal is
three pages, including references, tree diagrams, and tables. The
width of the margins is 1 inch all around. All material must be
included in a single PDF file. For the title of the abstract,
capitalize the first letter of every content word. Also, capitalize
the first letter of both parts of the hyphenated word (ex. South-East)
and the first letter of the words after the colon.
4. Abstracts/workshop proposals should include the title of the paper
or workshop at the top of the first page, but they must not include
the name(s) of the author(s) or organizer(s) or any information that
identifies them.
5. Abstracts and workshop proposals must be submitted electronically
in PDF format with “file creator” property unspecified through
https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=elsjsf19
by 11:59 PM, Monday, December 1, 2025 (JST).
Please indicate keywords for your submission and your preference for
oral, poster, or workshop sessions in the field entitled “Keywords” of
the EasyChair submission link.
Please see our website for more details.



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