37.506, Calls: 10th International Symposium of Linguistics (Romania)

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Date: 04-Feb-2026
From: Alexandru-Cosmin Nicolae [alexandru.nicolae at unibuc.ro]
Subject: 10th International Symposium of Linguistics

Full Title: 10th International Symposium of Linguistics
Short Title: SIL10

Date: 21-May-2026 - 23-May-2026
Location: Bucharest, Romania
Contact Person: Adina Dragomirescu
Meeting Email: adina.dragomirescu at unibuc.ro
Web Site: https://lingv.ro/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics;
Morphology; Syntax; Typology
Language Family(ies): Romance

Call Deadline: 22-Mar-2026

Call for Papers:
The “Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics of the
Romanian Academy invites you to participate in The 10th International
Symposium of Linguistics (Bucharest, May 21-23, 2026) which also
hosts, in this edition, The International Colloquium “Romanian
Academic Lexicography. The Challenges of Computerization” – AcadLexi
and The research workshop The Grammar of Spoken Language.
The symposium continues the tradition of scientific meetings organised
by the “Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics.
The conference is open to national and international researchers with
an invitation to participate in debates on various fields of
linguistics, and on analyses of the Romanian language from
comparative, synchronic and diachronic, perspectives.
The conference is open to national and international researchers with
an invitation to participate in debates on various fields of
linguistics, and on analyses of the Romanian language from
comparative, synchronic and diachronic, perspectives.
Venue: “Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics,
Bucharest, 13, Calea 13 Septembrie, second floor (East Wing)
Keynote Speakers:
-       Greville Corbett, University of Surrey, UK
-       Norma Schifano, University of Cambridge, UK
Themes/sections:
-       historical linguistics, history of the Romanian language,
philology
-       morphology and syntax
-       lexicology, lexicography, phraseology
-       dialectology, geolinguistics and onomastics
-       phonetics, phonology
-       Romance linguistics
-       pragmatics and stylistics
1. This year, the symposium also hosts, in a hybrid format, the 15th
edition of the International Colloquium “Romanian Academic
Lexicography. The Challenges of Computerization” – AcadLexi, organized
by the Department of Lexicography and Etymology of the “Iorgu Iordan –
Alexandru Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy,
Bucharest; the Department of Lexicology and Lexicography of the
“Alexandru Philippide” Institute of Romanian Philology, Romanian
Academy – Iași Branch; the Department of Lexicology and Lexicography
of the “Sextil Pușcariu” Institute of Linguistics and Literary History
of the Romanian Academy – Cluj-Napoca Branch, in collaboration with
the Department of Lexicography of the “Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu”
Institute of Romanian Philology, Moldova State University. The
objectives of the colloquium include disseminating recent results of
lexicographic research from national and European projects, presenting
existing tools and resources for the compilation of (academic)
dictionaries, as well as presenting further results obtained in
linguistic and philological research.
2. The symposium also hosts a research workshop dedicated to spoken
language, The Grammar of Spoken Language, organized by Andra
Vasilescu, University of Bucharest and The „Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru
Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics  (vasilescu.andra at gmail.com) and
Cecilia Popescu, University of Craiova and The „Iorgu Iordan –
Alexandru Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics
(cecilia.popescu at edu.ucv.ro). The thematic focus of the workshop
builds on one of the research directions included in the research plan
of the “Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics:
The Grammar of Spoken Romanian. The workshop aims to bring to the fore
methodological, descriptive, and theoretical issues relevant to the
study of the grammar of spoken language as an emergent, dynamic,
interactional, fluid system, constructed and negotiated within
contextualized communicative practices. Unlike grammatical approaches
that investigate idealized language forms, a grammar of spoken
language examines how linguistic structures are spontaneously produced
in face-to-face interaction between real interlocutors. These
interlocutors have particular identities, engage with partially
different discourse worlds, think and interpret messages almost
simultaneously with their production, receive and transmit information
through multiple channels, and dynamically negotiate information,
interpersonal relations, turn-taking, and language use. Within this
research paradigm, emphasis is placed on how cognitive processes,
pragmatic variables, sociocultural factors, and discursive constraints
shape grammatical structures – namely morphosyntactic,
lexico-semantic, and phonological structures at both micro- and
macrotextual levels. After several centuries during which grammar
focused primarily on formulating rules of the literary norm (classical
grammar), of language as a system (Saussurean structuralism), or of
linguistic competence (Chomskyan generativism), the systematic study
of actual language use, speech, and performance began to take shape
toward the end of the 1970s. Subsequently, this line of inquiry has
been increasingly rigorously theorized, and today corpus-based
grammars, especially those grounded in spoken data, attract growing
interest among linguists (Hopper 1987; Biber, Johansson, Leech, Conrad
& Finegan 1999; Hopper & Bybee 2001; Carter & McCarthy 2015; Haselow
2017; Steensig et al. 2025, among others). This new orientation
represents a natural development in linguistic research, leading to an
integrative perspective on the complex relationship between language
as an abstract system of rules and language as a concrete
manifestation in use.
Within the workshop, we will explore and jointly reflect on a wide
range of issues involved in the study of spoken language, including:
 - Theories of spoken language;
 - The relationship between written and spoken language;
 - Corpus-based methodologies (methodological challenges in describing
spoken language using oral corpora; annotation issues in defining
units of analysis for spoken language; methodological innovations
enabling more empirically grounded descriptions of spoken language,
etc.);
 - Units of spoken language;
 - Aspects of meaning construction (thematic progression; information
structure; parenthetical, metadiscursive, and appositive
constructions; multiactivity and mixed syntax; hyper-elaboration;
under-elaboration; simplification; brevity; discursive incoherence and
inconsistency; vagueness, imprecision, ambiguity; phatic sequences,
etc.);
 - Structures specific to oral interaction (ellipsis, incremental
structures, anacoluthon, lexical disruptions, slips of the tongue,
repetitions, etc.);
 - Discursive polyphony and its formal manifestations in oral
interaction;
 - Stance in spoken interaction;
 - Discourse and pragmatic markers specific to spoken interaction;
 - The construction of interpersonal relations (consensus vs.
conflict, dominance vs. subordination, empathy, playfulness, humor,
irony, sarcasm, etc.);
 - Turn-taking management (transitions, interruptions, holding the
floor, overlaps, latched turns, diagraphs, silences, disfluencies,
etc.);
 - Variation, use, and change (frequency, flexibility, contextual
adaptation; lexical and grammatical variation in speech; the role of
spoken interaction in processes of language change, etc.);
 - The multimodal construction of meaning: the relationship between
paraverbal (intonation, rhythm, pauses), nonverbal (gesture, gaze,
body movement), and verbal elements;
 - Contrastive, typological, and plurilingual perspectives.
Calendar:
22 March: deadline for submitting participation forms at
adina.dragomirescu at unibuc.ro
31 March: notification of acceptance
1– 30 April: payment of conference fee (350 de lei/70 de euro)
Information:
The fee covers the conference kit, coffee breaks, and two lunches.
Accommodation and transport costs are to be covered by the
participants.
The papers selected by the scientific committee shall be published in
the journals edited by the „Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti”
Institute of Linguistics, and the papers from International Colloquium
“Romanian Academic Lexicography. The Challenges of Computerization”
–AcadLexi 2026 will be published in AcadLexi series, with “Presa
Universitară Clujeană” Publishing House (previous volumes can be
consulted at: https://philippide.ro/volume_acadlexi.html).
Length of presentation: 20 minutes (+ 10 minutes for discussion).
Talks can be given in Romanian, English or French.
Participation Form (to be sent to: adina.dragomirescu at unibuc.ro,
before March 22, 2026):
First name:
Last name:
Scientific degree/title:
Institution of affiliation / place of work:
Telephone:
E-mail:
Title of presentation:
Section (general session, workshop; see the list above):
Abstract: (200 – 250 words):
References:
The file that will comprise the participation form should be named
according to the following template:
surname.firstname_field

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