Call for papers
The 21st International Congress of Linguists (ICL) will be held from 8 to 14
September 2024 in Poznań. We invite abstracts for Sections, Focus streams, and
Workshops. 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).
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. The (extended) deadline is 01
February 2024 (12.00 PM CET).
Submission link for ICL abstracts: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icl2024poznan
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 30 April 2024.
The topics of Sections, Focus streams, and Workshops, which will be held at ICL 2024 are the
following (please click the title for a PDF description):
Sections
1. Historical Linguistics (convenor: John Charles Smith)
2.
Language Evolution and the Origins of Language (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)
6. Discourse and Cognition (convenor: Veronika Koller)
7.
Multimodal language, grammar and diversity (convenor: Asli Özyürek)
8.
Psycholinguistics, Developmental Linguistics (convenor: Guillaume Thierry)
9.
Neurolinguistics and Clinical Linguistics (convenor: Monika Połczyńska-Bletsos)
10. Quantitative, Mathematical and Computational Linguistics
(convenor: Chu-Ren Huang)
11. Language in Society, Variation and Change (convenor: Nicole Nau)
12.
Language Policy, Multilingualism, Education Development and Migration (convenor: Helder
De Schutter)
13.
Grammar Writing, Documentation and Data Collection (convenor: Aimée Lahaussois)
14.
Slavic Languages (convenor: Jadranka Gvozdanović)
15. Lexicography and Lexicology (convenors: Robert Lew and Sylwia
Wojciechowska)
16. Usage-based approaches to syntax and semantics (convenor: Stephen Wechsler)
17.
General session (convenor: Ik-Hwan Lee)
Focus streams
1. Decolonizing approaches to language diversity and reclamation
(convenor: Justyna Olko)
2.
Cognitive Translation & Interpreting Studies (convenor: Ricardo Munoz Martin)
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)
7. Historical Sociolinguistics (convenor: Wim Vandenbussche)
8.
Corpus Linguistics (convenor: Maciej Ogrodniczuk)
9. Language and Legal Practice (convenor: Nancy Niedzielski)
10.
Productive Signs: Evolutionary, Typological, and Cognitive Dimensions of Word Families
(convenor: Johann-Mattis List)
11. Current
Perspectives on Historical Metaphor (convenor: Krzysztof Nowak)
12.
Modern developments in dialectology and variation linguistics (convenor: Stavroula
Tsiplakou)
Workshops
1.
Modelling holistic clinical assessment of linguistically diverse speech, and an example
(convenor: Elena Babatsouli)
2.
Healthcare, language, and inclusivity (convenors: Kayo Kondo, Andreas Musolff, Sara
Vilar-Lluch, Tachen Zhou)
3.
Interlinguistics (convenors: Ilona Koutny and Nicolau Dols Salas)
4. Historical sociolinguistics: Norwegian and Ukrainian language planning –
similarities and differences (convenor: Ernst Håkon Jahr)
5. Prefixes and suffixes in current theories of grammar (convenor: Bartosz
Wiland)
6. Alignment
and Argument Morphosyntax in Synchrony and Diachrony (convenor: Eystein Dahl)
7. All shades
of iconicity: Ideophones, onomatopoeia, and sound symbolism (convenors: Maria Flaksman,
Kathryn Barnes, and Aleksandra Ćwiek)
8.
Experimental and corpus-based approaches to ellipsis (convenors: Gabriela Bîlbîie and
Max Bonke)
9.
Heritage language research through the lens of psycho-/neurolinguistics and individual
differences (convenors: Figen Karaca & Onur Özsoy)
10.
Kaaps linguistics in contemporary South Africa (convenor: Quentin Williams)
11. Diachronic dynamics and typology of similarity and identity avoidance (convenors:
Erika Just, Laura Dees, Catalina Torres Orjuela, and Thomas Huber)
12. At the
fringes of modality: new insights on its definitions, limits, and categories (Francesca
Dell’Oro and Elisabetta Magni)
13.
Languages, Work and Social Practices (convenors: Felix K. Ameka and Deborah
Hill)
14.
Expanding the research horizons of the P-demotion domain: the crosslinguistic variation,
diversity, and boundaries (convenors: Katarzyna Janic, Krzysztof Stroński, and Mohammad
Tavakoli)
15.
Child language data as a challenge to language acquisition theories (convenors: Natalia
Gagarina, Elitzur Dattner, Wolfgang Dressler, and Dorit Ravid)
16. Phonetic cross-linguistic similarity (convenors: Anna Balas and
Romana Kopečková)
17. Subjective Correlates: From subtlety to stereotype (convenors: Dennis Preston, Nancy
Niedzielski, and Kevin McGowan)
