37.279, Calls: Vienna Workshops on Portuguese Linguistics 3: Mapping Pronouns Across the Lusophone World (Austria)

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Subject: 37.279, Calls: Vienna Workshops on Portuguese Linguistics 3: Mapping Pronouns Across the Lusophone World (Austria)

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Date: 19-Jan-2026
From: Irene Fally [irene.fally at univie.ac.at]
Subject: Vienna Workshops on Portuguese Linguistics 3: Mapping Pronouns Across the Lusophone World


Full Title: Vienna Workshops on Portuguese Linguistics 3: Mapping
Pronouns Across the Lusophone World
Short Title: VPL3

Date: 24-Sep-2026 - 25-Sep-2026
Location: Vienna, Austria
Web Site: https://vpl.univie.ac.at

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition; Linguistic Theories;
Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Syntax
Subject Language(s): Portuguese (por)
Language Family(ies): Ibero-Romance; Romance-based

Call Deadline: 20-Apr-2026

Call for Papers:
Pronominal systems represent one of the most fertile testing grounds
for understanding grammar as a symbolic system adapted to a stochastic
cognitive environment. Pronouns are minimal in descriptive content but
maximal in context dependency: they enable reference-tracking without
lexical repetition, interact closely with information structure, and
frequently give rise to mismatches between form and meaning (Onea et
al. 2023).
The 2026 edition of the Vienna Workshops on Portuguese Linguistics,
held on 24–25 September 2026 at the University of Vienna, takes this
as its starting point. This edition is dedicated entirely to pronouns
and pronominal systems across the Lusophone world and related
varieties. By focusing on pronouns, we aim to examine how different
systems encode reference, salience, argument structure, and
information status, and how these processes vary across Portuguese in
Europe, Brazil, Africa, and Portuguese-based creoles.
The workshop invites contributions on any aspect of pronominal
grammar, including but not limited to: clitic doubling, null objects,
reference tracking, person and animacy effects, case and alignment
patterns, pronominal allomorphy, discourse-prominence, restructuring,
acquisition trajectories, experimental findings, or typological
comparisons. Approaches may be theoretical, variationist, data-driven,
corpus-based, typological, or acquisition-oriented (L1, L2, heritage).
Abstracts presenting original, unpublished research are invited from
scholars working on Portuguese varieties worldwide, Galician, and
Portuguese-based creoles.
We invite anonymized abstract submissions for oral presentations or
posters via Easyabs
(https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/VPL3/). Abstracts should
be no longer than 500 words (excluding references), a second page
containing examples, graphs or tables may be included. Please submit a
word or pdf file. Abstracts can be submitted in Portuguese or English.
Each abstract will be reviewed by two reviewers.
We want to encourage early-career researchers to submit their work in
this area. To this end we offer two partial travel grants for PhD
students to present their work. If you want to apply for the travel
grant please indicate this in the abstract submission process.
Multiple submissions: Any one person can submit up to two abstracts,
they may be the first author of only one submission and can be
co-author/presenter on another one.



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