The Vienna Conference on Word Order, Headedness and Linearization

Short Title: WOHL2026

Date: 01-Jul-2026 – 03-Jul-2026
Location: Vienna, Austria
Contact: Tamás Halm
Contact Email: tamas.andras.halm@univie.ac.at
Meeting URL: https://wohl2026.eu/

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics; Syntax; Typology

Submission Deadline: 31-Jan-2026

The Department of Linguistics at the University of Vienna is pleased to announce The Vienna Conference on Word Order, Headedness and Linearization (WOHL2026), to be held on July 1-3, 2026. This conference brings together linguists working on linearization, headedness and word order from various perspectives: theoretical, experimental, psychological, typological and diachronic. The conference includes a main session (July 1 and 2) and a one-day workshop (July 3) dedicated to truncated clauses: deficient clauses which, by their very minimality, have the potential to offer new empirical evidence bearing on linearization, headedness and word order.

Important Dates:
Abstract submission deadline: January 31, 2026
Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2026
Conference dates: July 1-3, 2026

Organizers:
Tamás Halm (University of Vienna)
Kriszta Eszter Szendrői (University of Vienna)

Invited Speakers:
Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge) (confirmed)
Guglielmo Cinque (Università Ca’ Foscari) (confirmed)
Caterina Donati (CNRS / Université Paris Cité) (confirmed)
Ad Neeleman (University College London) (confirmed)

Call for papers (and other additional information): https://wohl2026.eu/