The 21st International Congress of Linguists (ICL) will be held from 8 to 14 September 2024 in Poznan. We invite (i) abstracts for Sections and Focus streams, and (ii) Workshop proposals. Sections will take place on Monday and Tuesday (9–10 September), Focus streams on Wednesday (11 September), and Workshops on Thursday and Friday (12–13 September).
(i) Sections and Focus streams
Abstracts should clearly state the research question(s), approach, method, data, and (expected) results. They should not display the names of the presenters, nor their affiliations or addresses, or any other information that could reveal their authorship. They should contain the title, five keywords, and a text between 300 and 400 words (including examples, excluding references).
Abstracts will be submitted via Easychair. Submission of abstracts will start 1 October 2023. The corresponding link will be provided. The deadline for abstract submission will be 8 January 2024 (12.00 PM CET).
Authors may apply, upon abstract submission, for a presentation or a poster. Presentations will be organized in 30 minute slots (20 min. presentation, 7 min. discussion, 3 min. room change). Posters are always displayed during one full day. Separate time slots will be included in the program in which participants can discuss with the poster presenters.
Each abstract will be reviewed anonymously by two reviewers (section/focus stream/workshop convenor + external reviewer). Notification of acceptance will be 15 April 2024.
The topics of Sections and Focus streams, which will be held at ICL 2024 are the following:
Sections
1. Historical Linguistics (convenor: John Charles Smith)
2. Evolutionary Linguistics (convenor: George van Driem)
3. Linguistic diversity, Language Contact and Areal Typology (convenor: Peter Bakker)
4. Phonetics, Phonology and Phonetic Typology (convenor: Marzena Żygis)
5. Morphology, Syntax and Morphosyntactic Typology
(convenors: Anne Abeillé & Jong-Bok Kim) ABSTRACT
6. Discourse and Cognition (convenor: Veronika Koller) ABSTRACT
7. Multimodality (convenor: Asli Özyürek) ABSTRACT
8. Psycholinguistics, Developmental Linguistics (convenor: Guillaume Thierry)
9. Neurolinguistics and Clinical Linguistics (convenor: Monika Połczyńska-Bletsos) ABSTRACT
10. Quantitative, Mathematical and Computational Linguistics (convenor: Chu-Ren Huang)
11. Language in Society, Variation and Change (convenor: <to be confirmed>) ABSTRACT
12. Language Policy, Multilingualism, Education Development and Migration
(convenor: Durk Gorter)
13. Grammar Writing, Documentation and Data Collection (convenor: Aimée Lahaussois) ABSTRACT
14. Slavic Languages (convenor: Jadranka Gvozdanović) ABSTRACT
15. Lexicography and lexicology (convenor: Robert Lew) ABSTRACT
16. Semantics and Pragmatics (convenor: Stephen Wechsler) ABSTRACT
17. General session (convenor: Ik-Hwan Lee) ABSTRACT
Focus streams
1. Language endangerment and reclamation (convenor: Justyna Olko)
2. Cognitive Translation & Interpreting Studies (convenor: Ricardo Munoz Martin) ABSTRACT
3. Advances in the Digital Humanities (convenors: Raymond Siemens, Jan Rybicki, and Maciej Eder)
4. Sign Language (convenor: Paweł Rutkowski)
5. Urban Linguistic Diversity (convenor: Anne Pauwels)
6. Investigating the Indigenous languages of the Americas: History and prospects (convenors: Luca Ciucci and Marcin Kilarski) ABSTRACT
7. Historical Sociolinguistics (convenor: Wim Vandenbussche) ABSTRACT
8. Corpus Linguistics (convenor: <to be confirmed>)
9. Language and Legal Practice (convenor: Nancy Niedzielski) ABSTRACT
10. Productive Signs: Evolutionary, Typological, and Cognitive Dimensions of Word Families (convenor: Johann-Mattis List) ABSTRACT
11. Metaphor (convenor: Krzysztof Nowak) ABSTRACT
12. Modern developments in dialectology and variation linguistics (convenor: Stavroula Tsiplakou) ABSTRACT
(ii) Workshop proposals
Workshop proposals should contain the title, convenors’ name(s), five keywords, and a description of the topic and the research question (between 500 and 1,000 words, including examples, excluding references). They are submitted to review-ICL2024@univ-tlse2.fr. The deadline for workshop proposals is 15 October 2023 (extended from 15 September 2023). Notification of acceptance will be 1 November 2023 (extended from 1 October 2023). The call for workshop abstracts will be launched on 1 November 2023 (extended from 1 October 2023). Conditions for submission of workshop abstracts will be the same as for (i) General sessions and Focus streams.