36.3612, Confs: Discussions on Legacy Materials 3 (France)

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Date: 21-Nov-2025
From: Aimée Lahaussois [aimee.lahaussois at cnrs.fr]
Subject: Discussions on Legacy Materials 3


Discussions on Legacy Materials 3
Short Title: DiLegMa3

Date: 16-Apr-2026 - 17-Apr-2026
Location: Paris, France
Contact: Aimée Lahaussois
Contact Email: aimee.lahaussois at cnrs.fr
Meeting URL: https://dilegma3.sciencesconf.org

Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics; Language Documentation

Submission Deadline: 30-Jan-2026

This conference is the third of the DiLegMa series, after editions
hosted in Paris in 2024 and in Bern in 2025. The conference aims to
bring together descriptive/documentary linguists who engage with
legacy materials on their language (or language group) of
specialization. Hosted by Université Paris Cité's Histoire des
théories linguistiques research group, the conference will provide
opportunities for exchange with historians of linguistics, and its
themes are therefore situated at the interface of these subdisciplines
of linguistics.
For linguists involved in language description and documentation, the
multiple crises of the last few years have in some cases made access
to field sites difficult. This has often led to a renewed interest in
exploring earlier descriptive materials— Legacy Materials — as objects
of study in their own right, and/or to complement field data collected
in person. Legacy materials frequently pose interpretational
challenges for present-day linguists. Some reasons for possible
difficulties in retrieving and/or reconstructing the original intent
and context of the materials may include the following: incomplete or
missing metadata; unfamiliar terminology, ontological systems,
frameworks; challenging presentation styles and typographies.
Notwithstanding the difficulties in accessing and engaging with them,
these materials can often be treasure troves of insights about the
people and times which produced them, and contribute in a tangible way
to our understanding of earlier practices around collecting and
producing linguistic data. Additionally, Legacy Materials may contain
data which can provide insights for diachronic work; otherwise
inaccessible lexical data; textual materials in registers or genres
missing from the contemporary corpus; morphological data necessary to
complete paradigms. At the meta-grammaticographical level, these
resources can possibly inform us about, among other things, earlier
data collection methodology, the development of data annotation and
glossing practices, the evolution of grammatical categories and their
interrelations, approaches to language description, and the changing
role of the various subfields of linguistics in descriptive work,
among others.
The conference will be held April 16th and 17th 2026 in the
magnificent Hôtel de Lauzun, home to the Paris Institute for Advanced
Studies (https://www.paris-iea.fr/fr/l-institut/l-hotel-de-lauzun).
Interested participants are invited to treat any aspect of the
recovery, rehabilitation and reuse of legacy materials.
Please submit an anonymized 1-page (maximum) abstract by January 30th,
2026 to https://dilegma3.sciencesconf.org/user/submissions.



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