37.1387, Confs: 26th Workshop on Cantonese (Hong Kong)

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Subject: 37.1387, Confs: 26th Workshop on Cantonese (Hong Kong)

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Date: 10-Apr-2026
From: Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee [tszmlee at cityu.edu.hk]
Subject: 26th Workshop on Cantonese


26th Workshop on Cantonese
Short Title: WOC-26
Theme: Everything in one wok: Cantonese in multilingual environments

Date: 30-May-2026 - 30-May-2026
Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Contact: Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee
Contact Email: tszmlee at cityu.edu.hk
Meeting URL: https://lshk.org/events/woc/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics;
Language Acquisition; Linguistic Theories; Sociolinguistics
Subject Language(s): Yue Chinese (yue)
Language Family(ies): Sino-Tibetan

Submission Deadline: 30-Apr-2026

The 26th Workshop on Cantonese (WOC-26)
Everything in one wok: Cantonese in multilingual environments
Saturday, 30 May 2026
We are pleased to announce that the Twenty-Sixth Workshop on Cantonese
(WOC-26) is jointly organised by The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong
(LSHK) and the Department of Linguistics and Translation, City
University of Hong Kong (LT department, CityUHK). The workshop will be
held in person on Saturday, 30 May 2026, at CityUHK.
The theme of WOC-26 is “Everything in one wok: Cantonese in
multilingual environments”. We warmly invite scholars and students to
share their work on all areas of Cantonese linguistics. We are
particularly interested in research that is relevant to (but not
limited to) language contact, multilingualism, code-mixing, language
changes, grammaticalization, language acquisition and so on, leading
to deeper insights into the analysis of Cantonese or contributing to
theoretical and applied linguistics.
Submission of Abstracts:
Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks with 10 minutes for
discussion. Presentations can be given in Cantonese, English, or
Mandarin.
Abstracts may be written in Chinese or English and should be limited
to one A4 page, including the author(s) name(s), affiliation, and
e-mail address(es).
Please submit your abstract in PDF format via OpenReview
(https://openreview.net/group?id=lshk.org/WOC/2026)
Registration Fee:
The WOC-26 registration fee is HKD$160 (non-refundable). Important
Dates
 - Deadline for submissions: 30 April 2026
 - Notification of acceptance: 9 May 2026 (via e-mail)
Upon completing registration, presenters will be granted a 1-year LSHK
affiliated membership!
If you have further questions, please contact the WOC organising
committee through excom+woc at lshk.org .
For details and updated information, please visit:
http://lshk.org/events/woc/ .



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