58th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea
SLE 2025

Date: 26-Aug-2025 – 29-Aug-2025
Location: Bordeaux, France
Contact Person: Anna Kisiel
Meeting Email: sle.cm@kuleuven.be
Web Site: https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2025

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Call Deadline: 20-Nov-2024

Meeting Description:

58th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea
26-29 August 2025
Université Bordeaux Montaigne
http://www.societaslinguistica.eu/sle2025

The Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) and the Université Bordeaux Montaign 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.

ORGANISERS
Chair of the local organising committee: Ana Stulic (Université Bordeaux Montaigne)
SLE Conference Manager: Anna Kisiel (KU Leuven), sle.cm@kuleuven.be
Chair of Workshops: Karolina Grzech (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Chair of the General Session: Olga Krasnoukhova (Universitteit Leiden)
SLE Treasurer: Nikolaos Lavidas (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
SLE Secretary: Maria Rosenberg (Umeå University)

2nd Call for Papers:

WORKSHOP PROPOSAL
– 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:
– 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;
– minimum eight papers;
– 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 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.

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). 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. 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.

For further details, please visit our website https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2025/second-call-for-papers/

PLENARY SPEAKERS
– Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm (Stockholm University) 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).