37.2312, Confs: 12th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (Croatia)

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Date: 09-Jul-2026
From: Davor Krsnik [dkrsnik at m.ffzg.unizg.hr]
Subject: 12th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference


12th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference
Short Title: ICLC-12

Date: 21-Oct-2027 - 23-Oct-2027
Location: Zagreb, Croatia
Contact: Davor Krsnik
Contact Email: iclc12 at m.ffzg.hr
Meeting URL: https://iclc12.ffzg.unizg.hr/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Genetic Classification;
Text/Corpus Linguistics; Translation; Typology
Subject Language(s): Multiple languages (mul)

Submission Deadline: 31-Jan-2027

We are pleased to announce that the 12th International Contrastive
Linguistics Conference (ICLC-12) will be organised by the Faculty of
Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia, and
will be held on 21–23 October 2027.
The ICLC conference series, running since 1998, aims to promote
fine-grained cross-linguistic research involving two or more languages
from a broad range of theoretical and methodological perspectives.
Following the successful editions in Mannheim and Prague, ICLC-12
seeks to bring together researchers from different linguistic
subfields and neighboring disciplines to continue the
interdisciplinary dialogue on comparing languages, foster the
development of an international community, and advance new areas of
cross-linguistic and contrastive linguistic research.
As comparative and contrastive approaches continue to play an
important role in linguistic research, ICLC-12 will provide a platform
for the presentation of new work, the discussion of current
developments in the field, and reflection on future directions in
contrastive linguistics.
We welcome submissions exploring topics including but not restricted
to:
 - Comparison of two or more languages on any linguistic level and in
relation to any linguistic discipline
 - Theoretical approaches in relation to contrastive linguistic
research
 - Methodologies used in contrastive linguistic research
 - Use of corpora in contrastive studies
 - Contrastive linguistic research and other disciplines (linguistic
or not)
 - Multiculturality, multimodality and multilingualism
 - Language-specific and cross-linguistic contrastive studies
 - Contrastive studies and foreign language teaching and learning
 - Contrastive studies and translation studies
 - Contrastive studies and machine translation
 - Croatian language in contrastive linguistic research
Please note that the conference will be held onsite and that its
language will be English.
Submissions:
We invite submissions that report empirical research, articulate clear
research questions or hypotheses, describe the research design and
methodology, provide theoretical contributions, and present
preliminary or anticipated findings.
There are three submission categories:
 - talks (20 minutes + 10 minutes for discussion)
 - posters
 - panel discussions.
The authors should specify their preference for talks or posters in
the submission, but the program committee may suggest a different
category.
Topics and participants (3-5) for panel discussions are proposed by
the author of the submission, who will also chair the discussion.
Conference Fees:
 - Early-bird regular: € 180
 - Early-bird reduced (PhD students): € 100
 - Late regular: € 230
 - Late reduced: € 150
Authors who present a talk or poster AND participate in a panel
discussion pay only one conference fee.
The conference fee covers:
 - participation in the conference
 - conference materials
 - refreshments during coffee breaks
 - guided city tour
Keynote Speakers:
Ranko Matasović, University of Zagreb
Ranko Matasović was born in Zagreb in 1968. In 1995 he received his
Ph.D. from the University of Zagreb where he is currently full
professor and Head of the Chair of Comparative Indo-European
Linguistics. In 1997-1998 he was a Fulbright fellow at the University
of Wisconsin (Madison) and in 2003-2004 he became a Humboldt fellow at
Bonn University. He was also a visiting scholar or guest professor in
the universities of Oxford, Vienna, Leiden, Heidelberg, Athens
(Georgia, USA), Leipzig and Hokkaido (Sapporo, Japan). In 2012 he
became a member of Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and in 2022
a member of Academia Europaea (London). His research is focused on
Indo-European, Celtic and Slavic languages, as well as on language
typology. Ranko Matasović was awarded the Croatian Academy's Prize for
a lasting contribution to science (in 2002) and the Croatian
Philological Association's Bulcsú László Prize in 2019. He published
more than 200 articles and sixteen books, including Gender in
Indo-European (Heidelberg 2005), Etymological Dictionary of
Proto-Celtic (Leiden 2008), Slavic Nominal Word-Formation (Heidelberg
2016) and An Areal Typology of Agreement Systems (Cambridge 2018).
Barbara Kerovec, University of Zagreb
Barbara Kerovec is an associate professor at the Section of Turkish
Studies, Department of Hungarian and Turkish Studies, Faculty of
Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. She earned a BA
in French language and literature and Turkology from the Faculty of
Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (2001), and a PhD
in linguistics from the same institution with a dissertation entitled
A cognitive linguistic analysis of spatial relations in Turkish and
Croatian (2012). She completed additional training in the Turkish
language at TÖMER (University of Ankara) in 2006, and spent an
eight-month study period at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul
(2007–2008).
Since 2005, she has been employed at the Department of Hungarian and
Turkish Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University
of Zagreb. She teaches contemporary Turkish language courses at both
undergraduate and graduate levels. From 2017 to 2019, she served as an
external associate at the Department of Turkish Language and
Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of
Tuzla.
Her research interests focus on the contrastive analysis of Turkish
and Croatian, as well as on the relationship between semantics and
grammar. She is the author of approximately twenty scholarly articles,
co-author of a scholarly monograph Turski i hrvatski u usporedbi i
kontrastiranju. Sintagma i jednostavna rečenica (Ibis grafika), and
co-editor of two edited volumes: Lexicalization Patterns in Color
Naming: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective (John Benjamins Publishing) and
Turkologu u čast. Zbornik povodom 70. rođendana Ekrema Čauševića (FF
Press).
Gaëtanelle Gilquin, UC Louvain
Gaëtanelle Gilquin is a Professor of English Language and Linguistics
at the University of Louvain and one of the directors of the Centre
for English Corpus Linguistics. She earned a Master’s degree from
Lancaster University and her PhD from the University of Louvain. She
was a visiting researcher at Stanford University and Northern Arizona
University.
Prof. Gilquin specialises in corpus linguistics and its use for
theoretical purposes (especially within the framework of cognitive
linguistics and construction grammar) and for pedagogy (including
data-driven learning). She is interested in learner corpus research
and in how contrastive linguistics can shed light on certain aspects
of second language acquisition. She is one of the editors of the
Cambridge Handbook of Learner Corpus Research and of Linking up
Contrastive and Learner Corpus Research. She has published in journals
such as the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Corpus
Linguistics and Linguistic Theory or Languages in Contrast.
Prof. Gilquin has been involved in the compilation of several corpora
including the Louvain International Database of Spoken English
Interlanguage (LINDSEI) and the Multilingual Editorial Corpus
(MULT-ED). She has recently started compiling the Process Corpus of
English in Education (PROCEED), a corpus that represents the writing
process of L1 English, L1 French and L2 English novice writers.
Hilde Hasselgård, University of Oslo
Hilde Hasselgård is Professor of English language and linguistics at
the university of Oslo. Much of her research focuses on corpus-based
contrastive linguistics, chiefly comparing English and Norwegian. The
comparisons typically concern lexicogrammar, for example the use of
adverbials, catenative verbs, and the postmodification of nouns. Some
studies lie at the interface between sentence grammar and text
linguistics, focusing on cohesion and thematic structure. She has also
edited numerous volumes and special issues in the field, most recently
Contrastive Corpus Linguistics: Patterns in Lexicogrammar and
Discourse (Cermakova et al. 2024). In addition to her scholarly work,
Hasselgård has co-authored textbooks in English grammar and usage for
both tertiary and secondary levels of education. See further her
homepage at https://www.hf.uio.no/ilos/english/people/aca/hhasselg/
Important Dates:
September 2026 – Second call, opening of abstract submissions
January 31 2027 – Deadline for abstract submission
April 19 2027 – Notification of acceptance
April 26 2027 – Registration opens
May 14 2027 – Deadline for revised abstract submission
August 30 2027 – Last day for early bird registration
October 1 2027 – Registration closes
October 20 2027 – Guided city tour
October 21–23 2027 – Conference
Organizing Committee
Gorana Bikić-Carić (chairperson), University of Zagreb
Bojana Mikelenić (vice chairperson), University of Zagreb
Ida Raffaelli, University of Zagreb
Daniela Katunar, University of Zagreb
Bojan Prosenjak, University of Zagreb
Davor Krsnik, University of Zagreb
Metka Bezlaj, University of Zadar
Programme Committee
Sergi Álvarez Vidal, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Maja Anđel, Sveučilište u Zagrebu
Samir Bajrić, Université de Bourgogne
Branka Barčot, Sveučilište u Zagrebu
Mia Batinić Angster, Sveučilište u Zadru
Vladimír Benko, Comenius University Bratislava
Neil Bermel, University of Sheffield
Tibor Berta, University of Szeged
Emma Betz, University of Waterloo
Mario Bisiada, University Pompeu Fabra
Hans C. Boas, University of Texas at Austin
Anna Bondaruk, Catholic University of Lublin
Adrian Chircu, Universitatea 'Babes-Bolyai' din Cluj-Napoca
Daniela Dinca, Universitatea din Craiova
Carolina Flinz, University of Milan
Mirjam Fried, Charles University
Daniel Gallego-Hernández, University of Alicante
Volker Gast, University of Jena
Francisco Gonzálvez-García, University of Almería
Pius ten Hacken, Innsbruck University
Silvia Hansen-Schirra, University of Mainz
Milena Hebal-Jezierska, University of Warsaw
Laura Herzberg, University of Mannheim
Gianina Iordachioaia, University of Graz
Andreas H. Jucker, University of Zurich
Kristina Katalinić, Sveučilište u Zagrebu
Dorothy Kenny, Dublin City University
Sabine De Knop, Université Saint-Louis, Bruxelles
Marc Kupietz, IDS Mannheim
Michal Křen, Charles University
Nina Lanović, Sveučilište u Zagrebu
Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, University of Hildesheim
Marie-Aude Lefer, Université Saint-Louis, Bruxelles
Torsten Leuschner, Ghent University
Krzysztof Loboda, Jagiellonian University
Rudy Loock, University of Lille
Óscar Loureda, Heidelberg University
Barbara Mertins, TU Dortmund
John Monfries Kirk, University of Vienna
Tanja Mortelmans, University of Antwerp
Maša Musulin, Sveučilište u Zagrebu
Stella Neumann, RWTH Aachen
Stefan M. Newerkla, University of Vienna
Arja Nurmi, University of Tampere
Olga Nádvorníková, Charles University
Antoni Oliver, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Florence Oloff, IDS Mannheim and University of Oulu
Signe Oksefjell Ebeling, University of Oslo
Anđelka Pejović, Sveučilište u Beogradu
Ivica Peša Matracki, Sveučilište u Zagrebu
Ondřej Pešek, University of South Bohemia
Éric André Poirier, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
Jurica Polančec, Staroslavenski institut
Cecilia Popescu, Universitatea din Craiova
Petr Pořízka, Palacký University Olomouc
Kristel Proost, IDS Mannheim
Marta Richter, Sveučilište u Zagrebu
Margaret Rogers, University of Surrey
Alexandr Rosen, Charles University
Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza, University of La Rioja
Witold Sobczak, Uniwersytet Łódzki
Doris Stolberg, IDS Mannheim
Jenny Ström Herold, Linnaeus University
Beata Trawinski, IDS Mannheim
Ivana Vidović Bolt, Sveučilište u Zagrebu
Hélène Vinckel-Roisin, Université de Lorraine
Jiajin Xu, Beijing Foreign Studies University
Contact Information:
iclc12 at m.ffzg.hr
Practical Info – TBA



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