36.2790, Calls: 34th Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (Italy)

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Subject: 36.2790, Calls: 34th Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (Italy)

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Date: 17-Sep-2025
From: Tommaso Sgrizzi [tommaso.sgrizzi at iusspavia.it]
Subject: 34th Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe

Full Title: 34th Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics
in Europe
Short Title: ConSOLE34

Date: 28-Jan-2026 - 30-Jan-2026
Location: Pavia, Italy
Meeting Email: console34 at iusspavia.it
Web Site: https://console34.github.io/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Call Deadline: 01-Oct-2025

Call for Papers:
The 34th edition of the Conference of the Student Organization of
Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE) will take place on January 28-30,
2025, at IUSS Pavia (Italy).
ConSOLE is an annual conference for graduate (Master, PhD) and
advanced undergraduate (Bachelor) students of Linguistics. It aims to
provide students worldwide with the opportunity to present their
research to an international audience. More information about SOLE
(Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe), previous conferences,
as well as the ConSOLE proceedings published by the SOLE board can be
found at: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/series/sole
Confirmed Invited Speakers:
- Anna Maria Di Sciullo (UQAM)
- Andrea Moro (IUSS Pavia, Scuola Normale Superiore)
- Gilliam Ramchand (Oxford)
- Vieri Samek-Lodovici (UCL)
- Marco Tettamanti (Milan Bicocca)
Submission Instructions:
For the main session, we invite abstract submissions for both oral
presentations (20-minute talk plus additional 10 minutes for questions
and discussion) and poster presentations. We welcome abstracts from a
wide range of linguistic subfields (e.g., language acquisition,
morphology, phonetics/ phonology, semantics/ pragmatics, syntax) and
methodologies (e.g., computational, experimental, fieldwork,
theoretical).
The theme of this edition of ConSOLE is movement. Movement is, in many
theoretical traditions, one of the most fundamental and far-reaching
notions in linguistics: it captures the fact that units of language
are not always interpreted where they are pronounced, nor pronounced
where they are first merged. Displacement, reordering, and shifting
can be observed at many levels of grammar, from word-internal
morphology to large-scale syntactic configurations, and in certain
phonological and semantic phenomena as well.
What makes movement so intriguing is both its pervasiveness and its
diversity. Syntactic theories account for phenomena like wh-movement,
topicalization, scrambling, or raising by invoking displacement
operations, while phonologists have described processes such as tone
shift, metathesis, and prosodic restructuring in movement-like or
reordering terms. In syntax-semantics interface research, covert
movement has been hypothesized as a way of modeling scope and binding.
Morphological systems, too, may exhibit movement-like effects, for
instance in affix placement and alignment. Finally, from a
computational perspective, movement phenomena present important
challenges for parsing algorithms and machine learning models, which
must handle non-local dependencies and long-distance relationships
between elements.
This year’s theme aims to encourage a conversation across domains. Why
is movement such a pervasive property of language? What motivates it,
and what role does it play in grammar and interpretation? Is there
unified notion of movement underlying its many manifestations, or are
we dealing with distinct mechanisms that only appear similar? How do
locality conditions, intervention effects, and interface restrictions
shape the possibilities for movement? What do typological and
experimental data tell us about the universality or variation of
movement phenomena?
ConSOLE34 will also host a Neurolinguistics Workshop (keynote speaker:
Marco Tettamanti), welcoming cutting-edge research in
neurolinguistics, language acquisition, and cognitive science,
focusing on the neural foundations and developmental trajectories
underlying language abilities, throughout the lifespan. To apply,
visit https://console34.github.io/workshop/
Travel Grants:
The organizing committee will allocate part of the conference budget
to travel grants for student presenters (both oral presentations and
posters). These grants will be assigned via an internal selection
process based on qualitative and demographic criteria to ensure fair
and equitable distribution of available funds. For more informations,
visit: https://console34.github.io/grants/
Submission criteria (Main Session):
- Only original research that has not been published or accepted for
publication at the time of submission can be presented.
- Language for the abstracts and presentations should be English.
- One author may submit at most one abstract as sole author and one
abstract as co-author (or two co-authored abstracts).
- Authors should specify whether they would like to be considered for
oral or poster presentation (or for both).
- Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format. The files must be
anonymous and not reveal the identity of the author(s) in any form (be
sure to remove metadata from the file).
- Abstracts are limited to a maximum of 2 A4 pages (including
references, examples, tables, appendices, etc.) and must have 1.5 cm
margins on all sides, with a font no smaller than 12pt set in Times
New Roman (or a similar font).
- Abstracts not complying with these guidelines may be excluded from
the reviewing process.
Submissions closes on October 1st, 2025 (CET).
Notification of acceptance will be sent on November 21st, 2025. Please
check your junk or spam folder if you do not receive a letter of
decision.

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