SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

WORKSHOP PROPOSALS AND GENERAL SESSION PAPERS

58th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea

26 – 29 August 2025

University of Bordeaux Montaigne

http://www.societaslinguistica.eu/SLE2025

The Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) and the University Bordeaux Montaigne are pleased to announce the “58th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2025)”, to be held in Bordeaux, 26-29 August 2025.

SLE meetings provide a forum for high-quality linguistic research from all (sub)domains of linguistics. The upcoming edition of the SLE meeting will also host a round table of experts to discuss topics of special linguistic interest.

The deadline for all abstracts is 15 January 2025. Notification of acceptance/rejection will be by 31 March 2025.

Plenary speakers

  • Livio Gaeta (Università di Torino) Presidential address
  • Dagmar Divjak and Petar Milin (University of Birmingham)
  • Carmelo Alessandro Basile (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle), winner of the Best Postdoc paper at SLE 2024
  • Sandra Cronhamn and Anna Hjortdal (Lund University), winners of the Best PhD paper at SLE 2024

ROUND TABLE: “How to do linguistics with AI; how to do AI with linguistics”

A short description of the round table will be available in advance on the SLE website. We encourage all SLE members to submit their questions, comments, points for discussion prior to the meeting by emailing the conference manager (sle.cm@kuleuven.be).

Workshop proposal: submission guidelines

  • deadline for workshop proposal: 20 November 2024
  • notification of workshop’s acceptance/rejection: 15 December 2024
  • deadline for abstract submission: 15 January 2025

Workshops are organized in 30 minute slots (20 min. presentation, 5 min. discussion, 5 min. room change). Workshops contain minimum 10 slots:

  1. an introductory paper by the convenor(s) or by a keynote speaker, which summarizes previous research, specifies the approach(es) to be taken and sets the scope of the papers to be presented;
  2. minimum eight papers;
  3. a final discussion on the topics covered by the papers, methodological issues and questions for future research.

Workshop proposals must contain:

  • five keywords;
  • a description of the topic and research questions (between 900 and 1,100 words excluding references and glosses);
  • a (provisional) list of workshop participants and their provisional abstracts (max. 300 words per abstract); at least 6 abstracts but it is advised to submit 2-3 more; please notice that all abstracts will be later reviewed by SLE Programme Committee.

Workshop convenors are encouraged to announce their proposal on the conference website (via the conference manager sle.cm@kuleuven.be) and on the Linguist List as a session of SLE 2025, as well as other fora in the linguistic area of the workshop.

How to announce a Workshop on the Linguist List:

Go to linguistlist.org and select: “Conferences” 4 “Submit conference info” 4 step 1: select August 2025 4 submit 4 step 2: select “58th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea” 4 at step 3: Enter information, go to Session information and click on “Add session”. Fill in the required fields, upload your proposal by clicking on “Add session call” and submit. Linguist List session calls are limited to 3,800 characters (all included).  

ATTENTION: Workshop proposals must be submitted as one file in pdf and sent to the chair of SLE workshops Karolina Grzech (karolina.grzech@upf.edu) and to the conference manager (sle.cm@kuleuven.be) by 20 November 2024. Notification of acceptance/rejection will be by 15 December 2024. After a workshop proposal has been accepted, the convenors will be requested to invite all preliminary workshop participants to submit their full abstracts in EasyChair before 15 January 2025. The link for workshop abstract submission will be available in the Third Call for Papers (published by 15 December). Accepted workshop proposals will be published on the conference webpage. Other authors interested in the workshop may submit their papers to the workshop at the conference general call. Finally, all abstracts submitted to the workshop in EasyChair will be reviewed individually by the Programme Committee and the workshop convenors.

General session papers and posters: submission guidance

  • deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2025
  • notification of acceptance/rejection: 31 March 2025

Abstracts should clearly state the research questions, approach, method, data and (expected) results. They should not contain the names of the presenters, nor their affiliations or addresses, or any other information that could reveal their authorship. They should not exceed 500 words (including examples, excluding references). Abstracts should have the same title as the entry submitted via EasyChair. Some guidelines about how to write a good abstract can be found under the tab “How to write a good abstract”.

Presentations will last 20 minutes, allowing 5 min. for discussion and 5 min. for speaker and room changes.

Abstracts are submitted via EasyChair within the SLE Members’ Area: https://societaslinguistica.eu/members/login/ Please keep in mind that SLE is a members’ association run by and for members. Hence, the person submitting an abstract has to be an SLE member.

Please notice that SLE 2025 is an on-site conference. For the convenience of SLE members, the plenary sessions will be streamed. The general session talks will take place on-site. The workshop convenors may opt for a self-supported hybrid format.

Submitting multiple papers

In order to guarantee diversity, one person may be the first author of only one submission of any kind (workshop paper, general session paper, poster, or workshop proposal); nobody is allowed to present or co-present more than two papers at an SLE conference (including workshops). You can co-author more than two papers but you cannot figure among the co-presenters at the conference (i.e. if you co-author more than two papers, you will have to play a background role).

Presenting a poster

The SLE 2025 meeting will have one or two poster sessions for both senior and junior researchers. In order to foster interaction, all other sessions will be suspended during the poster session. Posters will be displayed in a gathering area and may remain available during the rest of the conference. The maximum size of the poster is usually 1.20 m (vertical) x 1 m (horizontal). For more information about how to make a good poster, click here.

Reviewing procedure

Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by three referees. Workshop abstracts receive two evaluations by Programme Committee members and one by the workshop convenors. Abstracts submitted to the general session and to the poster session will be evaluated by three members of the Programme Committee. The threshold for acceptance is the same for general session papers, posters and workshop papers.

Prize for the best presentation and the best poster

At SLE conferences there are prizes for the following categories (see Award winners):

  • best oral presentation by a PhD student,
  • best oral presentation by a postdoc, and
  • best poster.

Applicants can mark the option for each of the award categories in EasyChair upon abstract submission.

Rules

PhD students should not have completed their PhD before the conference. Postdocs should have completed their PhD not earlier than three years before the year of the conference (2022 for the SLE 2025 conference). All posters will be eligible for the best poster prize.

A shortlisted paper may be co-authored. Co-authored papers should be presented at the conference by the nominee, who will also have to be the first author of the paper.

Prizes

The first prize in each of the three categories is 500 Euros. The winners of the first prizes in the PhD and Postdoc categories are also awarded a 20+5 mins. plenary talk at SLE 2026 (Osnabrück). The 2nd and 3rd prizes will receive a three-year SLE membership. The best poster will be invited to be published on the SLE website.

Important dates

20 November 2024: workshop proposals submission deadline

15 December 2024: notification of workshop acceptance

15 January 2025: deadline for submission of all abstracts

31 March 2025: notification of paper acceptance

1 April 2025: early bird registration starts

1 May 2025: full fee registration starts

31 May 2025: closing registration date for participants with a paper

31 July 2025: closing registration date for participants without a paper, and for co-authors of papers were at least one author has already registered.

Please note that papers for which none of the authors has registered by 31 May will not be scheduled. The schedule will be published online in June after the registration deadline. The schedule will then be modified only in the event of cancellations.

Registration

Registration will open on 1 April 2025. SLE meetings are member-only conferences. That is, all participants will have to be(come) members of the Societas Linguistica Europaea to be able to register.

The SLE meeting in Bordeaux

How to get to Bordeaux

The basic information on traveling to Bordeaux can be found here: https://www.bordeaux-tourism.co.uk/transport/how-get-bordeaux .

Information on public transportation can be found here: https://www.bordeaux-tourism.co.uk/transports.

Venue of the conference

All the activities of the Bordeaux SLE meeting will be held at the Bordeaux Montaigne University, Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Domaine Universitaire, Esplanade des Antilles, F-33607 Pessac Cedex (https://www.u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr/en/contact/access-map.html). The Bordeaux Montaigne University campus is located 6 km away from the centre of Bordeaux, in the municipality of Pessac. Through the courtesy of Bordeaux Métropole Tourist Office all the participants of the SLE meeting will have access to free public transport in Bordeaux during the event + 2 days.

Social programme

There will be a welcome reception on Tuesday evening (included in the registration fee), a walking tour in Bordeaux’s historical city centre on Wednesday (included in the registration fee) and a conference dinner and party on Thursday evening (not included in the conference fee). On Friday afternoon and on Saturday, there will be a number of activities. If you’re planning a longer stay, you can find more information about what to do and see in Bordeaux or the region here: https://www.bordeaux-tourism.co.uk/.

Accommodation

We recommend the hotels in the centre or close to tramway line B. Information on accommodation and a selection of hotels with special arrangements for SLE 2025 will be published later on the conference website.

Programme committee

  • Chair of workshops: Karolina Grzech (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
  • Chair of the general session: Olga Krasnoukhova (Universiteit Leiden)

Members: Werner Abraham (University of Vienna) • Karin Aijmer (University of Gothenburg) • Shanley Allen (University of Kaiserslautern) • Cormac Anderson (MPI-SHH Leipzig) • Reili Argus (Tallinn University) • Linda Badan (Ghent University) • Jóhanna Barðdal (Ghent University) • Dorothee Beermann (NTNU Trondheim) • Spyridoula Bella (University of Athens) • Valeria Belloro (Autonomous University of Querétaro) • Theresa Biberauer (Cambridge University, University of Stellenbosch) • Walter Bisang (University of Mainz) • Anna Bondaruk (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin) • Kasper Boye (University of Copenhagen) • Wayles Browne (Cornell University) • Concepción Cabrillana (University of Santiago de Compostela) • Anne Carlier (Sorbonne University) • Michela Cennamo (University of Naples Federico II) • Bernard Comrie (University of California, Santa Barbara) • Denis Creissels (University of Lyon) • Sonia Cristofaro (Sorbonne Université) • Hubert Cuyckens (KU Leuven) • Pierluigi Cuzzolin (University of Bergamo) • Andriy Danylenko (Pace University) • Jesus De La Villa (Autonomous University of Madrid) • Walter De Mulder (University of Antwerp) • Nicole Delbecque (KU Leuven) • Nina Dobrushina (National Research University Higher School of Economics) • Adina Dragomirescu (Institute of Linguistics Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti, Bucharest) • Michael Dunn (Uppsala University) • Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań) • Martin Ehala (University of Helsinki) • Victoria Escandell-Vidal (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) • Urtzi Etxeberria (CNRS-IKER) • Caleb Everett (University of Miami) • Thorhallur Eythorsson (University of Iceland) • Benjamin Fagard (CNRS) • Teresa Fanego (University of Santiago de Compostela) • Ad Foolen (Radboud University Nijmegen) • Livio Gaeta (University of Turin) • María Del Pilar García Mayo (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU) • Antonio García-Gómez (University of Alcalá) • Michalis Georgiafentis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) • Klaus Geyer (University of Southern Denmark) • Anna Giacalone (University of Pavia) • Chiara Gianollo (University of Bologna) • Spike Gildea (University of Oregon) • Alessandra Giorgi (University of Venice) • Francisco Gonzálvez García (University of Almería) • Eitan Grossman (Hebrew University) • Eva Hajičová (Charles University in Prague) • Camiel Hamans (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań) • Bjorn Hansen (University of Regensburg) • Alexander Haselow (University of Rostock) • Martin Haspelmath (MPI-SHH Leipzig) • Katharina Haude (CNRS) • Dag Haug (University of Oslo) • Lars Hellan (NTNU Trondheim) • Eugen Hill (University of Cologne) • Hans Henrich Hock (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) • Aritz Irurtzun (CNRS-IKER) • Andra Kalnača (University of Latvia, Riga) • Katalin É. Kiss (Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) • Seppo Kittila (University of Helsinki) • Ekkehard Koenig (FU Berlin) • Bernd Kortmann (University of Freiburg) • Lívia Körtvélyessy (P. J. Šafárik University in Košice) • Martin Kümmel (Friedrich Schiller University Jena) • Meri Larjavaara (Åbo Akademi, Helsinki)) • Pierre Larrivée (University of Caen) • Nikolaos Lavidas (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) • Diana Lewis (Aix Marseille University) • Suliko Liiv (Tallinn University) • Maria-Rosa Lloret (University of Barcelona) • Lucía Loureiro-Porto (University of the Balearic Islands) • Silvia Luraghi (University of Pavia) • María José López-Couso (University of Santiago de Compostela) • Martin Maiden (University of Oxford) • Francesca Masini (University of Bologna) • Dejan Matic (University of Münster) • Helle Metslang (University of Tartu) • Amina Mettouchi (EPHE and CNRS LLACAN) • Susanne Maria Michaelis (Leipzig University) • Matti Miestamo (University of Helsinki) • Marianne Mithun (University of California • Santa Barbara) • Liljana Mitkovska (FON University) • Edith Moravcsik (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) • Amalia Moser (University of Athens) • Nicola Munaro (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) • Belen Méndez Naya (University of Santiago de Compostela) • Maria Napoli (University of Eastern Piedmont) • Kiki Nikiforidou (University of Athens) • Tatiana Nikitina (CNRS) • Jan Nuyts (University of Antwerp) • Karl Pajusalu (University of Tartu) • Marco Passarotti (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart) • Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) • Thomas Payne (University of Oregon) • Vladimir Plungian (Institute of Linguistics RAS • Moscow) • Lola Pons-Rodríguez (University of Seville) • Rodrigo Pérez-Lorido (University of Oviedo) • Angela Ralli (University of Patras) • Eric Reuland (Utrecht University) • Nikolaus Ritt (University of Vienna) • Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada (University of Alberta) • Anna Roussou (University of Patras) • Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez (University of La Rioja) • Cinzia Russi (The University of Texas at Austin) • Andrea Sansò (University of Insubria) • Barbara Schlücker (Leipzig University) • Stephan Schmid (University of Zurich) • Ilja Seržant (Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel) • Petra Sleeman (University of Amsterdam) • Elena Smirnova (University of Neuchâtel) • John Charles Smith (University of Oxford) • Augusto Soares Da Silva (Catholic University of Portugal) • Andrey N. Sobolev (Institute for Linguistic Studies • RAS • St. Petersburg) • Andrew Spencer (University of Essex) • Sabine Stoll (University of Zurich) • Cristina Suarez-Gomez (University of the Balearic Islands) • Magda Ševčíková (Charles University in Prague) • Inesa Šeškauskienė (Vilnius University) • Catherine Travis (Australian National University) • Beata Trawinski (IDS Mannheim) • Yvonne Treis (CNRS-LLACAN) • Jarmila Tárnyiková (Palacký University in Olomouc) • Johan van der Auwera (University of Antwerp) • Guido Vanden Wyngaerd (KU Leuven) • Arie Verhagen (Leiden University Centre for Linguistics) • Anna Verschik (Tallinn University) • Jean-Christophe Verstraete (KU Leuven) • Letizia Vezzosi (University of Florence) • Nigel Vincent (University of Manchester) • Jacqueline Visconti (University of Genoa) • Evangelia Vlachou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) • Ferdinand von Mengden (FU Berlin) • Gerry Wakker (University of Groningen) • Søren Wichmann (Leiden University) • Björn Wiemer (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) • Jacek Witkoś (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan) • Alena Witzlack-Makarevich (University of Kiel) • Magdalena Wrembel (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań) • Il-Il Yatziv-Malibert (INALCO, Paris)

Organizers

  • Chair of the local organising committee: Ana Stulic (Bordeaux Montaigne University), ana.stulic@u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr
  • SLE Conference Manager: Anna Kisiel (KU Leuven), sle.cm@kuleuven.be
  • SLE Treasurer: Nikolaos Lavidas (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), <sle.treasurer.uoa@gmail.com>
  • SLE Secretary: Maria Rosenberg (University of Umea) maria.rosenberg@umu.se

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