37.926, Confs: 61st Linguistics Colloquium 2026 – Rethinking Language Comparison: Contrastive Linguistics between Corpora and AI (Italy)

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Date: 04-Mar-2026
From: Organising Committee [lingcoll2026 at gmail.com]
Subject: 61st Linguistics Colloquium 2026 – Rethinking Language Comparison: Contrastive Linguistics between Corpora and AI


61st Linguistics Colloquium 2026 – Rethinking Language Comparison:
Contrastive Linguistics between Corpora and AI
Short Title: LingColl 2026

Date: 09-Sep-2026 - 12-Sep-2026
Location: Pavia, Italy
Meeting URL: https://lingcoll26.unipv.it

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     German (deu)

Submission Deadline: 03-May-2026

The 61st Linguistics Colloquium will take place at the University of
Pavia, Italy, from September 9 to 12, 2026.
Founded in Hamburg in 1966, the Linguistics Colloquium has since been
hosted in almost 20 countries. It provides a platform for the study of
language and languages in all areas of linguistics and warmly welcomes
researchers from diverse theoretical backgrounds. The colloquium is
distinguished by its cooperative and open culture of discussion:
innovative ideas meet critical reflection, and the exchange of
research results is actively promoted. Its aim is to create an
inspiring space where new approaches, methods, and perspectives can be
jointly discussed and developed.
In addition, contrastive linguistics will be a focal point at this
year’s colloquium. Since its beginnings, contrastive linguistics has
undergone significant development, expanding both its methodological
and conceptual scope. Today, language comparison is no longer limited
to language pairs but can involve multiple languages. It integrates
geographical and sociolinguistic dimensions, extends its focus to
semantic, pragmatic, textual, and discourse-linguistic levels, and
also takes into account historical stages and diachronic comparisons
within a single language.
Moreover, contrastive linguistics has increasingly established itself
as a theoretically reflective discipline: analysing a language in the
light of another allows for the identification of linguistic phenomena
that might otherwise remain unnoticed or inadequately explained.
Recent advances have been particularly driven by the use of large
corpora and digital methods. AI-supported analytical methods are
expected to provide further developments in the near future.
The planned conference will focus on current theoretical,
methodological, and applied approaches in contrastive linguistics,
with a particular emphasis on German in comparison with other
languages. Its aim is to bring together research that empirically
investigates systematic differences and similarities across languages
and highlights their relevance for applied contexts.
Thematic Focus (including, but not limited to):
Contrastive Analyses in the Areas of:
- Phonetics and phonology
- Morphology and syntax
- Semantics and lexicon
- Phraseology and pragmatics
- Text and discourse
Corpus-Based, Corpus-Driven, and AI-Supported Approaches:
- Contrastive corpus linguistics
- Comparative corpus annotation
- Corpus-based analyses of phraseological patterns, collocations, and
constructions
- Quantitative and qualitative methods
- Use of AI, NLP, and LLMs in contrastive research
Methodological and Theoretical Issues:
- Comparability of data and corpora
- Modelling linguistic differences at the word, phrase, and discourse
levels
- Interfaces between linguistics, corpus linguistics, computational
linguistics, and AI
Applied Perspectives, including:
- German as a foreign and second language (DaF/DaZ)
- Specialized and professional language
- Phraseodidactics and discourse-oriented language teaching
- Lexicography, phraseography, and terminology work
- Translation studies, interpreting, and contrastive discourse
analysis
- Language teaching and language comparison in the classroom
We welcome contributions that are theoretically informed as well as
empirically oriented, including work that bridges basic research and
application. Submissions presenting innovative methods or new
resources are particularly encouraged.
In addition, in keeping with the tradition of the Linguistics
Colloquium, presentations from all other areas of linguistics may be
proposed.
Submission:
- Abstracts (approx. 300 words) can be submitted until May 3, 2026.
- Notification of acceptance will be sent by May 15, 2026.
Conference Languages:
The conference languages are German and English.
Registration:
Registration deadline: 30 June 2026
Registration Fee:
- Participants with a regular income: €200.00
- Participants without a regular income (PhD candidates, scholarship
holders): €100.00



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