36.3928, Calls: 59th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (Germany)

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Date: 20-Dec-2025
From: Anna Kisiel [sle.cm at kuleuven.be]
Subject: 59th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea


Full Title: 59th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea
Short Title: SLE2026

Date: 26-Aug-2026 - 29-Aug-2026
Location: Osnabrück, Germany
Contact Person: Anna Kisiel
Meeting Email: sle.cm at kuleuven.be
Web Site: https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2026/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics;
Linguistic Theories; Philosophy of Language

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2026

2nd Call for Papers:
The Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) and the Osnabrück University
are pleased to announce the “59th Annual Meeting of the Societas
Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2026)”, to be held in Osnabrück, 26-29
August 2026.
SLE meetings provide a forum for high-quality linguistic research from
all (sub)domains of linguistics. The upcoming edition of the SLE
meeting will also host a round table of experts to discuss topics of
special linguistic interest.
Plenary Speakers:
Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm, Presidential address
Steffen Hoeder, plenary speaker
Alexandra Bosshard, winner of the Best Postdoc paper at SLE 2025
Elena Shvedova, winner of the Best PhD paper at SLE 2025.
Round Table “May contain (strong) language” – linguistics at the
intersection of free speech and verbal aggression will include the
following speakers: Elin McCready, Kate Burridge and Lynne Tirrell
moderator: Bernd Kortmann
Call for Workshop Papers, General Session Papers and Posters:
The deadline for all abstracts is 15 January 2026. Notification of
acceptance will be given by 31 March 2026.
Abstracts are submitted to EasyChair via the SLE Members’ Area:
https://societaslinguistica.eu/members/login/.
Abstracts should clearly state the research questions, approach,
method, data and (expected) results. They should not contain the names
of the presenters, nor their affiliations or addresses, or any other
information that could reveal their authorship. They should not exceed
500 words (including examples, excluding references). Abstracts should
have the same title as the entry submitted via EasyChair. Some
guidelines about how to write a good abstract can be found under the
tab “How to write a good abstract”.
Presentations will last 20 minutes, allowing 5 min. for discussion, 5
min. for speaker and room changes.
Submitting an Abstract to a Workshop:
If you are submitting a workshop paper, please indicate so by
selecting the workshop of your interest. SLE2026 hosts the following
workshops:
Special Panel: Communicating linguistic research (Alexandru Nicolae &
Marc Olivier-Loiseau)
WS1 Advances in data-driven research on lexical and semantic change
(Stefano De Pascale & Haim Dubossarsky)
WS2 Body part incorporation cross-linguistically: At the crossroads of
lexicon, semantics, and morphosyntax (Anna Bugaeva & Maria
Koptjevskaja Tamm)
WS3 Clitics, clitic placement, and cliticisation (Marc
Olivier-Loiseau)
WS4 Constructions with multiple wh-words across languages (Valentina
Apresjan, Mikhail Kopotev, Piotr Sobotka & Mladen Uhlik)
WS5 Discourse coherence and clausal complementation: Diachronic
pathways and diagnostic problems (Björn Wiemer, Haiping Long & Giulia
Mazzola)
WS6 Heritage Speakers and Their Language Repertoire (Yulia Zuban, Anna
Ritter & Andromachi Tsoukala)
WS7 Intragenetic and Areal Influences in the Uralic Language Area
(Nikolett F. Gulyás, Helle Metslang & Miina Norvik)
WS8 Large Language Models for Linguistics: Applications and
Implications (Natalia Levshina & Nicole Katzir)
WS9 Linguistic Perspectives on the Expression of Necessity (Patrick
Duffley & and Olivier Duplâtre)
WS10 Measuring cross-linguistic distances (Ian Joo)
WS11 Microtypology: Zooming in to get at the big picture (Linda
Konnerth, Sandra Auderset & Sergey Say)
WS12 (Non)finiteness and Finiteness Shifts (Dominika Skrzypek &
Eystein Dahl)
WS13 Relative Clauses Across and Within Languages: Connecting
Linguistic Typology and Variationist Sociolinguistics (Silvia Ballarè,
Karen Beaman, Massimo Cerruti & Caterina Mauri)
WS14 Rethinking argument structure interactionally: Deviations from
Who Does What to Whom across the languages (Vladimir Panov, Maria
Khachaturyan & Pavel Ozerov)
WS15 Stability in the grammar of Germanic heritage and minority
languages (Patrick Mächler & Ann-Marie Moser)
WS16 Subordination and coordination in language-contact situations
(Jesús Olguín Martínez, Thomas Stolz, Nataliya Levkovych & Tom
Bossuyt)
WS17 The morphosyntax of who knows what and how in interaction
(Jenneke van der Wal, Karolina Grzech & Martina Wiltschko)
WS18 The New Arabic (Semitic) Lexicon (SLE Workshop II): Old and New
Themes and Perspectives (Abdelkader Fassi Fehri & Peter Hallman)
WS19 When sounds speak: Towards a typology of sound symbolism and
iconicity (Lívia Körtvélyessy & Thomas van Hoey)
Prize for the Best Presentation and the Best Poster:
At SLE conferences there are prizes for the following categories (see
Award winners 2025):
best oral presentation by a PhD student,
best oral presentation by a postdoc, and
best poster.
Applicants can mark the option for each of the award categories in
EasyChair upon abstract submission.
Prizes
The first prize in each of the three categories is 500 Euros. The
winners of the first prizes in the PhD and Postdoc categories are also
awarded a 20+5 mins. plenary talk at SLE 2027 (Košice). The 2nd and
3rd prizes will receive a three-year SLE membership.
Organizers:
Chair of the local organising committee: Alexander Bergs (Osnabrück
University)
SLE Conference Manager: Anna Kisiel (KU Leuven)
SLE Treasurer: Nikolaos Lavidas (National and Kapodistrian University
of Athens)
SLE Secretary: Maria Rosenberg (Umeå University)



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