37.1946, Confs: 11th International Conference on Grammar and Corpora (Germany)

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Subject: 37.1946, Confs: 11th International Conference on Grammar and Corpora (Germany)

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Date: 30-May-2026
From: Jens Fleischhauer [fleischhauer at phil.uni-duesseldorf.de]
Subject: 11th International Conference on Grammar and Corpora

11th International Conference on Grammar and Corpora
Short Title: GaC11

Date: 30-Jun-2027 - 02-Jul-2027
Location: Düsseldorf, Germany
Contact: Jens Helfer-Fleischhauer
Contact Email: fleischhauer at phil.uni-duesseldorf.de
Meeting URL: https://gac2027.phil.hhu.de/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 15-Oct-2026

Praha 2005 – Liblice 2007 – Mannheim 2009 – Praha 2012 – Warszawa 2014
– Mannheim 2016 – Paris 2018 – Kraków 2020 – Gent 2022 – Rīga 2025 ...
... Düsseldorf 2027!
We are are happy to invite you to the 11th International Conference on
Grammar and Corpora (GaC11), which is scheduled to take place June 30
– July 2nd, 2027, at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.
GaC is a vibrant international forum for research that connects corpus
linguistics and the study of grammar – both understood very broadly.
Presentations at GaC investigate grammatical phenomena based on
corpora, report on corpus compilation and annotation, or discuss
corpus-linguistic methodology for the study of grammar – or possibly
something entirely different within the overall conference theme.
That's where you come in. We are looking forward to your submissions!
There will be no conference fee for students (including PhD students)
and for participants from lower-income countries. We will probably
announce in October this year whether there will be a small fee for
other participants (depending on the outcome of our funding
applications).
Call for Papers
The main goal of the GaC conference series is to explore ways how
corpus-linguistic methods can inform our understanding of the grammars
of human languages. As such, we welcome submissions that connect
grammar and corpora in any possible way.
In addition to the general session, the conference will feature a
limited number of theme sessions (see the Call for Theme Sessions
below).
For GaC11, we particularly encourage submissions within the following
focus areas:
 - Corpus-based morphosyntactic typology
 - Compilation and annotation of corpora for low-resource languages
 - Individual differences and group-specific variation in corpus data
Further relevant topics for submissions include, but are not limited
to:
 - description of grammatical phenomena based on corpus data – in a
single language or from a cross-linguistic and/or diachronic
perspective
 - corpus data as evidence for, or challenge to, theories of grammar
 - corpus-based analyses at the interface of grammar and semantics
 - annotation of corpus data for grammatical parameters
 - quantitative corpus studies on synchronic or diachronic grammatical
variation
 - child language corpora and grammatical patterns in child language
 - development of novel corpus-linguistic methods for grammatical
analysis
 - comparison between corpus data and other types of language data
(e.g. from elicitation or experiments)
We invite submissions for 20’ oral presentations (+ 5’ for discussion
+ 5’ for speaker and room changes) as well as posters. The conference
is held on-site in Düsseldorf. The conference language is English.
Abstracts should clearly state the research questions, framework,
methodology, data and (expected) results. They should not exceed 500
words (including examples, tables and figures; excluding references,
abbreviation lists etc.), and should be formatted on A4 paper with
1in/2.5cm margins, in a 12pt font.
Each participant may submit up to two abstracts (across sessions and
categories) – one as sole or first author, and one as a co-author.
Abstracts must be submitted via OpenReview as PDF files. Submission
will open on July 20, 2026. The submitted files must be anonymous,
i.e., they must not contain the authors’ names, affiliations, or any
other information that could reveal their authorship. In the
submission form, please indicate which presentation category you
submit for (oral / poster / special session / either).  Upload of
abstracts on OpenReview must be complete by October 15, 23.59h
(anywhere on earth). Please be aware that you will have to register on
OpenReview ahead of time.
Each submission will be reviewed anonymously by at least two
reviewers.
Call for Theme Sessions:
We can accommodate a limited number of theme sessions. If you would
like to organize a theme session, please submit a proposal (max. 1
page A4 incl. references) to the organizing committee (gac2027 at hhu.de)
by July 12, 2026. The selection of theme sessions will be announced by
July 20.
The theme session proposal can include a preliminary list of envisaged
speakers (not counting towards the 1-page limit), but an open Call for
Papers for each accepted theme session is mandatory. We are happy to
share the Call for Papers of your theme session on our conference
website. Note that all papers will have to be submitted via OpenReview
and have to undergo peer-review, but in the case of theme session
papers, one of the two reviewers will be one of the theme session
convenors.

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