Sessions

The topics of Sections, Focus streams, and Workshops, which will be held at ICL 2024 are given below. The “description” links go to PDF summaries of each event; you can also view abstracts of talks by convenors by following the “opening talk abstract” links.

Sections
1. Historical Linguistics (convenor: John Charles Smith) [description]
2. Language Evolution and the Origins of Language (convenor: George van Driem) [description]
3. Linguistic diversity, Language Contact and Areal Typology (convenor: Peter Bakker) [description]
4. Phonetics, Phonology and Phonetic Typology (convenor: Marzena Żygis) [description] [Convener's talk]
5. Morphology, Syntax and Morphosyntactic Typology (convenors: Anne Abeillé & Jong-Bok Kim) [description]
6. Discourse and Cognition (convenor: Veronika Koller) [description]
7. Multimodal language, grammar and diversity (convenor: Asli Özyürek) [description]
8. Psycholinguistics, Developmental Linguistics (convenor: Guillaume Thierry) [description]
9. Neurolinguistics and Clinical Linguistics (convenor: Monika Połczyńska-Bletsos) [description]
10. Quantitative, Mathematical and Computational Linguistics (convenors: Chu-Ren Huang and Emmanuel Chersoni) [description]
11. Language in Society, Variation and Change (convenor: Nicole Nau) [description]
12. Language Policy, Multilingualism, Education Development and Migration (convenor: Helder De Schutter) [description]
13. Grammar Writing, Documentation and Data Collection (convenor: Aimée Lahaussois) [description]
14. Slavic Languages (convenor: Jadranka Gvozdanović) [description] [opening talk abstract]
15. Lexicography and Lexicology (convenors: Robert Lew and Sylwia Wojciechowska) [description]
16. Usage-based approaches to syntax and semantics (convenor: Stephen Wechsler) [description]
17. General session (convenors: Jae Woong Choe and Hye-Sook Kim) [description]
18. General section (convenors: Piotr Gasiorowski and Jacek Witkoś)


Focus streams
1. Decolonizing approaches to language diversity and reclamation (convenor: Justyna Olko) [description]
2. Cognitive Translation & Interpreting Studies (convenor: Ricardo Munoz Martin) [description]
3. Advances in the Digital Humanities (convenors: Raymond Siemens, Jan Rybicki, and Maciej Eder) [description]
4. Sign Language (convenor: Paweł Rutkowski)
5. Urban Linguistic Diversity (convenor: Anne Pauwels) [description]
6. Investigating the Indigenous languages of the Americas: History and prospects (convenors: Luca Ciucci and Marcin Kilarski) [description]
7. Historical Sociolinguistics (convenor: Wim Vandenbussche) [description]
8. Corpus Linguistics (convenor: Maciej Ogrodniczuk) [description] [opening talk abstract]
9. Language and Legal Practice (convenor: Nancy Niedzielski) [description]
10. Productive Signs: Evolutionary, Typological, and Cognitive Dimensions of Word Families (convenors: Jessica Nieder and Kellen Parker Van Dam) [description] [opening talk abstract]
11. Current Perspectives on Historical Metaphor (convenor: Krzysztof Nowak) [description]
12. Modern developments in dialectology and variation linguistics (convenor: Stavroula Tsiplakou) [description]


Special panels
1. DELAD/CLARIN workshop: Collecting and Sharing Corpora for Language and Speech Disorders [link]
2. Language documentation: How far have we come and where do we need to go from there (organized by Mandana Seyfeddinipur) [description]
3. ZOO Digital workshop: Is AVT doomed because of AI? Workshop on the not-yet-extinct type of translation (convenors: Mariusz Arno Jaworowski, Maria Kuczek) [description]

Workshops
1. Modelling holistic clinical assessment of linguistically diverse speech, and an example (convenor: Elena Babatsouli) [description]
2. Healthcare, language, and inclusivity (convenors: Kayo Kondo, Andreas Musolff, Sara Vilar-Lluch, Tachen Zhou) [description]
3. Interlinguistics (convenors: Ilona Koutny and Nicolau Dols Salas) [description]
4. Historical sociolinguistics: Norwegian and Ukrainian language planning – similarities and differences (convenor: Ernst Håkon Jahr) [description]
5. Prefixes and suffixes in current theories of grammar (convenor: Bartosz Wiland) [description]
6. Alignment and Argument Morphosyntax in Synchrony and Diachrony (convenor: Eystein Dahl) [description]
7. All shades of iconicity: Ideophones, onomatopoeia, and sound symbolism (convenors: Maria Flaksman, Kathryn Barnes, and Aleksandra Ćwiek) [description]
8. Experimental and corpus-based approaches to ellipsis (convenors: Gabriela Bîlbîie and Max Bonke) [description]
9. Heritage language research through the lens of psycho-/neurolinguistics and individual differences (convenors: Figen Karaca & Onur Özsoy) [description]
10. Kaaps linguistics in contemporary South Africa (convenor: Quentin Williams) [description]
11. Diachronic dynamics and typology of similarity and identity avoidance (convenors: Erika Just, Laura Dees, Catalina Torres Orjuela, and Thomas Huber) [description]
12. At the fringes of modality: new insights on its definitions, limits, and categories (Francesca Dell’Oro and Elisabetta Magni) [description]
13. Languages, Work and Social Practices (convenors: Felix K. Ameka and Deborah Hill) [description]
14. Expanding the research horizons of the P-demotion domain: the crosslinguistic variation, diversity, and boundaries (convenors: Katarzyna Janic, Krzysztof Stroński, and Mohammad Tavakoli) [description]
15. Child language data as a challenge to language acquisition theories (convenors: Natalia Gagarina, Elitzur Dattner, Wolfgang Dressler, and Dorit Ravid) [description]
16. Phonetic cross-linguistic similarity (convenors: Anna Balas and Romana Kopečková) [description]
17. Subjective Correlates: From subtlety to stereotype (convenors: Dennis Preston, Nancy Niedzielski, and Kevin McGowan) [description]