36.2805, Confs: Pushing the Boundaries of Linguistic Categorisation (France)

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Date: 17-Sep-2025
From: Juliette Cahard [julietteccahard at gmail.com]
Subject: Pushing the Boundaries of Linguistic Categorisation


Pushing the Boundaries of Linguistic Categorisation

Date: 10-Apr-2026 - 10-Apr-2026
Location: Paris, France
Contact: Juliette Cahard
Contact Email: julietteccahard at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 03-Nov-2025

We are delighted to announce that we are now receiving submissions for
our symposium entitled “Pushing the boundaries of linguistic
categorisation”. This symposium is organised by both the CELISO,
Sorbonne University and the CREA, Paris Nanterre University. It will
take place on Friday the 10th of April 2026 starting at 9 AM at the
Maison de la Recherche, Sorbonne University, 28 rue Serpente, 75006
Paris (room D323).
The importance of categorisation as a cognitive operation cannot be
overstated. Every thinking subject classify objects of thoughts within
their intellectual domain; thus, categorisation is always naturally
present and constitutes a central cognitive process that enables the
comprehension and understanding of the world around us. It operates
primarily through nouns whose sole function is to categorise (Mignot
2017: 128).
Grammatical categorisation is not only a cognitive process. It also
corresponds to the classification into the different parts of speech.
Thus, categorisation raises a number of challenges, particularly with
regard to determining where an item belongs and precisely defining the
boundaries between categories.
Proposals can address categorisation as a cognitive process, but also
issues of prototypicality and marginal cases, the categorisation of
linguistic phenomena or units, as well as the challenges or
uncertainties involved in assigning elements to categories.
Contributions may also explore the nature of category boundaries,
whether rigid or fuzzy, processes of conversion, and the relevance or
legitimacy of particular grammatical categories. Proposals can include
but are not limited to these possible topics.
You will find the detailed CFP with a selected bibliography at the
following address:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mHKgDcAxgJ3TjT3gbowifUsrQ119USts/view?usp=sharing.
This symposium is open to all researchers in linguistics. We welcome
submissions regardless of the language under investigation or the
theoretical perspective. Papers can be given in French or in English.
If you would like to participate, please send us a title, key words,
an abstract of about 300 words followed by references as well as a
short autobiography before November, 3rd 2025 to the following email
addresses:
julietteccahard at gmail.com
romain.delhem at parisnanterre.fr
caroline.marty at sorbonne-universite.fr
marie.turlais at gmail.com
Talks will last 20 minutes and will be followed by 10 minutes of
discussion.
Juliette Cahard, Romain Delhem, Caroline Marty and Marie Turlais



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