36.3546, Calls: 5th International Conference on the Neglected Aspects of Motion Event Description (Canada)

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Subject: 36.3546, Calls: 5th International Conference on the Neglected Aspects of Motion Event Description (Canada)

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Date: 18-Nov-2025
From: Lise Fontaine [Lise.Fontaine at uqtr.ca]
Subject: 5th International Conference on the Neglected Aspects of Motion Event Description


Full Title: 5th International Conference on the Neglected Aspects of
Motion Event Description
Short Title: NAMED
Theme: Motion Event Expression in the Nominal Domain

Date: 21-May-2026 - 22-May-2026
Location: Trois-Rivières, Canada
Contact Person: Lise Fontaine
Meeting Email: named at uqtr.ca
Web Site: https://named26.wordpress.com

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax;
Typology

Call Deadline: 01-Dec-2025

Final Call for Papers:
We are pleased to announce the 5th NAMED conference which will be held
at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières in Canada.  Please see
our website for details and the CFP (https://named26.wordpress.com).
We are especially excited to have the following plenary speakers join
us for NAMED 2026 :
Denis Bouchard, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Bert Cappelle, Université de Lille, France
Eric Corre, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3, France
Liesbet Heyvaert, KU Leuven, Belgium
Sally Rice, University of Alberta, Canada
Researchers are invited to submit abstracts which relate to the broad
area of motion event description and/or more specifically to the theme
of the nominal encoding of motion. Related typological and diachronic
studies are also welcome. See below for the full CFP and for details
on how to submit an abstract.
Abstract Submission:
We invite abstracts for NAMED 2026 for 30-minute oral presentations
(20 minute talk + 10 minutes for questions) or for poster
presentations.
Clearly indicate the research aim(s); methods and data and
(anticipated) results.
State whether the abstract presents work for an oral presentation or a
poster presentation.
Include 5 keywords.
Please submit your abstract in .doc and .pdf via EasyAbs.
Abstracts should not exceed 500 words (excluding references).
The language of the conference is English
For questions related to the conference, please contact us at:
named at uqtr.ca



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