CONFERENCE VENUE
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. From the city centre it can be reached by tram B (stop Montaigne – Montesquieu). 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 conference (26-29 August).
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.
PROGRAMME
All the information concerning the scientific programme can be found in the tab Schedule. You will receive a printed copy of the short schedule with your conference pack at the Reception Desk. All changes to the schedule will be announced on the information board at the registration as well as in the tab Schedule-changes. The conference app will be kept up-to-date.
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
Oral presentations are allocated 25 minutes. The actual presentation should be 20 minutes, leaving 5 minutes for questions. A further 5 minutes are reserved for room changes. The presenters are kindly asked to upload their slides during a break before their session; morning presenters can do so at the end of the last session on the day before or arrive earlier and upload it in the morning.
The session rooms are located in the section H (Bâtiment H) of the Rosa Bonheur building, on ground and first floors.
POSTER SESSION
The poster session will take place on Wednesday 27 and Thursday 28 August, overlapping with the morning coffee breaks. The poster session takes place in Hall administratif, close to Registration Desk. The coffee break will be served at the Patio Rosa Bonheur.
SLE PRIZES
Prizes are awarded in the categories of
- best presentation by a PhD student,
- best presentation by a Postdoc,
- best poster presentation.
The presentations will be reviewed by the members of the SLE 2025 Programme Committee present at the conference.
Plenary speakers
- Livio Gaeta (Università di Torino) Presidential address: Handle with care: the dangerous relations between language contact and linguistic theory
- Dagmar Divjak and Petar Milin (University of Birmingham): Top-down wisdom versus bottom-up noise: can data (ever) replace linguistic expertise?
- Carmelo Alessandro Basile (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle), winner of the Best Postdoc paper at SLE 2024: Charting modal change in Singapore English: evidence from contemporary corpus and survey data
- Sandra Cronhamn and Anna Hjortdal (Lund University), winners of the Best PhD paper at SLE 2024: To have or not to have a nominal classification system: trade-offs between speaker and listener needs
ROUND TABLE: “How to do linguistics with AI; how to do AI with linguistics”
Keynote speakers: Emily M. Bender (University of Washington), Claire Larsonneur (University Paris 8), Benoît Le Blanc (École nationale supérieure de cognitique – INP Bordeaux) and Christian Ludwig (Free University of Berlin)
Moderators: Guillaume Desagulier (Bordeaux Montaigne University) and Stéphanie Roussel (University of Bordeaux)
The description of the round table topic can be found here. 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).
REGISTRATION
The Reception Desk is situated in Hall administratif, the main lobby of the Administration building. The opening times of the Reception Desk are as follows: Monday (25 Augustus) 16.00-18.00, Tuesday through Thursday (26-28 August): 8.30-18.00; Friday (29 August): 8.00-14.00.
Wi-fi
Wireless Internet is available in the venue either via Eduroam or a dedicated wifi connection. Please follow these instructions to connect to wifi.
RECEIPTS AND CERTIFICATES
For receipt of payment please contact our Treasurer at sle.treasurer.uoa@gmail.com or in person. The SLE office will be located in room M002. Certificates of attendance will be sent after SLE 2025, in the first weeks of September.
WELCOME RECEPTION (included in the registration fee)
The welcome reception will take place on Tuesday, 26 August at 19:30, in the City Hall Bordeaux – Palais Rohan; Place Pey Berland. It is free for all participants but pre-registration is necessary.
LUNCHES AND COFFEES (included in the registration fee)
Buffet lunches as well as morning and afternoon coffee and snack will be served at Patio Rosa Bonheur.
For those who wish to grab a snack at the venue, there are coffee and snack machines at several points in the university building (Hall administratif, Bâtiment H ground floor).
CONFERENCE DINNER
The conference dinner will take place on Thursday 28th August, from 20:00 to 00:00 at Le Café Maritime (1, Quai Armand Lalande, 33300 Bordeaux).
The dinner is only open to pre-registered participants – please bring your dinner ticket with you; food and drinks are served between 20:00 and 22:00. We welcome non-registered participants to join us for a drink and a chat after 22:00.
For any questions and assistance on the spot, please contact the local organisers at sle2025ATu-bordeaux-montaigne.fr or the conference manager Anna Kisiel at sle.cmATkuleuven.be.
PUBLISHERS
The conference will be attended by representatives of Cambridge University Press, De Gruyter Brill, Edinburgh University Press, John Benjamins, Language Science Press, and Routledge.
The publishers can be found in the Administration building, next to the reception desk.
Programme committee
- Chair of workshops: Karolina Grzech (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
- Chair of the general session: Olga Krasnoukhova (Universiteit Leiden)
Members: Karin Aijmer (University of Gothenburg), Gilles Authier (EPHE), Pius Wuchu Akumbu (CNRS), Reili Argus (Tallinn University), Peter Arkadiev (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz), Sandra Auderset (University of Bern), Linda Badan (Trento University), Jóhanna Barðdal (Ghent University), Antonio Benítez-Burraco (University of Seville), Henrik Bergqvis (University of Gothenburg), Theresa Biberauer (Cambridge University, University of Stellenbosch), Walter Bisang (University of Mainz), Anna Bondaruk (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin), Tom Bossuyt (Ghent University), Kasper Boye (University of Copenhagen), Dunstan Brown (University of York), Wayles Browne (Cornell University), Gabriela Bîlbîie (Université Paris 7), Anne Carlier (Sorbonne University), Agnès Celle (Université Paris Cité), Michela Cennamo (University of Naples Federico II), Bert Cornillie (KU Leuven), Silvio Cruschina (University of Helsinki), Pierluigi Cuzzolin (University of Bergamo), Sonja Dahlgren (University of Helsinki), Andriy Danylenko (Pace University), Liesbeth Degand (University of Louvain), Nicole Delbecque (KU Leuven), Patrick Dendale (University of Antwerp), Hendrik De Smet (KU Leuven), Francesca Di Garbo (CNRS), Nina Dobrushina (National Research University Higher School of Economics), Adina Dragomirescu (Institute of Linguistics Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti, Bucharest), Patrick Duffley (Laval University), Maia Duguine (CNRS), Olivier Duplâtre (Sorbonne University), Ricardo Etxepare (CNRS), Thorhallur Eythorsson (University of Iceland), Teresa Fanego (University of Santiago de Compostela), Ad Foolen (Radboud University Nijmegen), Livio Gaeta (University of Turin), Antonio García-Gómez (University of Alcalá), Caroline Gentens (KU Leuven), 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), Lenore Grenoble (University of Chicago), Eitan Grossman (Hebrew University), Eva Hajičová (Charles University in Prague), Camiel Hamans (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), Abbie Hantgan-Sonko (LLACAN-CNRS), Martin Haspelmath (MPI-SHH Leipzig), Katharina Haude (CNRS), Dag Haug (University of Oslo), Lars Hellan (NTNU Trondheim), Eugen Hill (Universität zu Köln), Hans Henrich Hock (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Katherine Hodgson (University of Cambridge), Aritz Irurtzun (CNRS-IKER), Andra Kalnača (University of Latvia, Riga), Olesya Khanina (University of Helsinki), Don Killian (University of Helsinki), Katalin É. Kiss (Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy), Seppo Kittila (University of Helsinki), Matthias Klumm (University of Augsburg), Ekkehard Koenig (FU Berlin), Anetta Kopecka (CNRS), Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm (Stockholm University), Lívia Körtvélyessy (P. J. Šafárik University in Košice), Martin Kümmel (Friedrich Schiller University Jena), Meri Larjavaara (Åbo Akademi, Helsinki), Ezra la Roi (Gent University), Pierre Larrivée (University of Caen), Chris Lasse Däbritz (University of Hamburg), Nikolaos Lavidas (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Benoît Leclercq (Université de Lille), Diana Lewis (Aix Marseille University), Suliko Liiv (Tallinn University), Maria-Rosa Lloret (University of Barcelona), Cornelia Loos (Universität Hamburg), Lucía Loureiro-Porto (University of the Balearic Islands), María José López-Couso (University of Santiago de Compostela), Martin Maiden (University of Oxford), Viviana Masia (Università RomaTre), Eric Mélac (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Helle Metslang (University of Tartu), Machteld Meulleman (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne), Matti Miestamo (University of Helsinki), George Mikros (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Marianne Mithun (University of California, Santa Barbara), Edith Moravcsik (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Lorenzo Moretti (University of Zurich), Amalia Moser (University of Athens), Nicola Munaro (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), Maria Napoli (University of Eastern Piedmont), Alexandru Nicolae (Institute of Linguistics, Bucharest), Tatiana Nikitina (CNRS), Yoko Nishina (Hiroshima University), Maryam Nourzaei (Uppsala University), Silva Nurmio (University of Cambridge), Jan Nuyts (University of Antwerp), Marc Olivier (University of Oxford), Steve Oswald (Université de Fribourg), Tania Paciaroni (University of Zurich), 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), Rodrigo Pérez-Lorido (University of Oviedo), Eric Reuland (Utrecht University), Nikolaus Ritt (University of Vienna), Neige Rochant (University of Lausanne), Cilene Rodrigues (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro), Susana Rodríguez Rosique (University of Alicante), Maria Rosenberg (Umeå university), Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada (University of Alberta), Anna Roussou (University of Patras), Jack Rueter (University of Helsinki), Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez (University of La Rioja), Cinzia Russi (The University of Texas at Austin), Iker Salaberri (University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)), María Sol Sansiñena (KU Leuven), Andrea Sansò (University of Insubria), Barbara Schlücker (Leipzig University), Stephan Schmid (University of Zurich), Jennifer Schumann (University of Fribourg), Dominika Skrzypek (Adam Mickiewicz University), Petra Sleeman (University of Amsterdam), Elena Smirnova (University of Neuchâtel), Augusto Soares Da Silva (Catholic University of Portugal), Piotr Sobotka (Instytut Slawistyki, Warsaw), Barbara Sonnenhauser (LMU Munich), Sabine Stoll (University of Zurich), Cristina Suarez-Gomez (University of the Balearic Islands), Magda Ševčíková (Charles University in Prague), Inesa Šeškauskienė (Vilnius University), Beata Trawinski (IDS Mannheim), Yvonne Treis (CNRS-LLACAN), Jarmila Tárnyiková (Palacký University in Olomouc), Johan van der Auwera (University of Antwerp), Thomas Van Hoey (KU Leuven), An Van Linden (University of Liège), Daniel Van Olmen (Lancaster University), Guido Vanden Wyngaerd (KU Leuven), Rossella Varvara (University of Fribourg), Arie Verhagen (Leiden University Centre for Linguistics), Anna Verschik (Tallinn University), Jean-Christophe Verstraete (KU Leuven), Letizia Vezzosi (University of Florence), Nigel Vincent (The University of Manchester), Max Wahlström (University of Helsinki),Gerry Wakker (University of Groningen),Søren Wichmann (Leiden University), Bjoern Wiemer (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz), Jacek Witkos (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), Magdalena Wrembel (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), Chingduang Yurayong (University of Helsinki).
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@enl.uoa.gr
- SLE Secretary: Maria Rosenberg (University of Umea) maria.rosenberg@umu.se
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