10th International Symposium of Linguistics

21-23 mai 26, Bucharest (Roumanie)

Date : 21-23 mai 2026
Lieu : Bucharest, Roumanie
Contact : Adina Dragomirescu <adina.dragomirescu@unibuc.ro>
Site de l’événement : lien
Date de soumission : 22 mars 2026
Notification aux auteurs : 31 mars 2026
Inscription à la conférence : 1-30 avril 2026 (350 leis / 70 euros)

Informations pratiques :

The fee covers the conference kit, coffee breaks, and two lunches.
Accommodation and transport costs are to be covered by the participants.
The papers selected by the scientific committee shall be published in the journals edited by the „Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics, and the papers from International Colloquium “Romanian Academic Lexicography. The Challenges of Computerization” –AcadLexi 2026 will be published in AcadLexi series, with “Presa Universitară Clujeană” Publishing House (previous volumes can be consulted at: https://philippide.ro/volume_acadlexi.html)
Length of presentation: 20 minutes (+ 10 minutes for discussion).
Talks can be given in Romanian, English or French.

Formulaire d’inscription : (à envoyer le adina.dragomirescu@unibuc.ro, avant le 22 mars 2026) :

First name:
Last name:
Scientific degree/title:
Institution of affiliation / place of work:
Telephone:
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Title of presentation:
Section (general session, workshop; see the list below):
Abstract: (200 – 250 words):
References:
The file that will comprise the participation form should be named according to the following template:
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Argumentaire :

The “Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy invites you to participate in The 10th International Symposium of Linguistics (Bucharest, May 21-23, 2026) which also hosts, in this edition, The International Colloquium “Romanian Academic Lexicography. The Challenges of Computerization” – AcadLexi and The research workshop The Grammar of Spoken Language.

The symposium continues the tradition of scientific meetings organised by the “Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics. The conference is open to national and international researchers with an invitation to participate in debates on various fields of linguistics, and on analyses of the Romanian language from comparative, synchronic and diachronic, perspectives.

The conference is open to national and international researchers with an invitation to participate in debates on various fields of linguistics, and on analyses of the Romanian language from comparative, synchronic and diachronic, perspectives.

Venue: “Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics, Bucharest, 13, Calea 13 Septembrie, second floor (East Wing)

1. This year, the symposium also hosts, in a hybrid format, the 15th edition of the International Colloquium “Romanian Academic Lexicography. The Challenges of Computerization” – AcadLexi, organized by the Department of Lexicography and Etymology of the “Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest; the Department of Lexicology and Lexicography of the “Alexandru Philippide” Institute of Romanian Philology, Romanian Academy – Iași Branch; the Department of Lexicology and Lexicography of the “Sextil Pușcariu” Institute of Linguistics and Literary History of the Romanian Academy – Cluj-Napoca Branch, in collaboration with the Department of Lexicography of the “Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu” Institute of Romanian Philology, Moldova State University. The objectives of the colloquium include disseminating recent results of lexicographic research from national and European projects, presenting existing tools and resources for the compilation of (academic) dictionaries, as well as presenting further results obtained in linguistic and philological research.

2. The symposium also hosts a research workshop dedicated to spoken language, The Grammar of Spoken Language, organized by Andra Vasilescu, University of Bucharest and The „Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics (vasilescu.andra@gmail.com) and Cecilia Popescu, University of Craiova and The „Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics (cecilia.popescu@edu.ucv.ro) The thematic focus of the workshop builds on one of the research directions included in the research plan of the “Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics: The Grammar of Spoken Romanian. The workshop aims to bring to the fore methodological, descriptive, and theoretical issues relevant to the study of the grammar of spoken language as an emergent, dynamic, interactional, fluid system, constructed and negotiated within contextualized communicative practices. Unlike grammatical approaches that investigate idealized language forms, a grammar of spoken language examines how linguistic structures are spontaneously produced in face-to-face interaction between real interlocutors. These interlocutors have particular identities, engage with partially different discourse worlds, think and interpret messages almost simultaneously with their production, receive and transmit information through multiple channels, and dynamically negotiate information, interpersonal relations, turn-taking, and language use. Within this research paradigm, emphasis is placed on how cognitive processes, pragmatic variables, sociocultural factors, and discursive constraints shape grammatical structures – namely morphosyntactic, lexico-semantic, and phonological structures at both micro- and macrotextual levels. After several centuries during which grammar focused primarily on formulating rules of the literary norm (classical grammar), of language as a system (Saussurean structuralism), or of linguistic competence (Chomskyan generativism), the systematic study of actual language use, speech, and performance began to take shape toward the end of the 1970s. Subsequently, this line of inquiry has been increasingly rigorously theorized, and today corpus-based grammars, especially those grounded in spoken data, attract growing interest among linguists (Hopper 1987; Biber, Johansson, Leech, Conrad & Finegan 1999; Hopper & Bybee 2001; Carter & McCarthy 2015; Haselow 2017; Steensig et al. 2025, among others). This new orientation represents a natural development in linguistic research, leading to an integrative perspective on the complex relationship between language as an abstract system of rules and language as a concrete manifestation in use.

Within the workshop, we will explore and jointly reflect on a wide range of issues involved in the study of spoken language, including:
– Theories of spoken language;
– The relationship between written and spoken language;
– Corpus-based methodologies (methodological challenges in describing spoken language using oral corpora; annotation issues in defining units of analysis for spoken language; methodological innovations enabling more empirically grounded descriptions of spoken language, etc.);
– Units of spoken language;
– Aspects of meaning construction (thematic progression; information structure; parenthetical, metadiscursive, and appositive constructions; multiactivity and mixed syntax; hyper-elaboration; under-elaboration; simplification; brevity; discursive incoherence and inconsistency; vagueness, imprecision, ambiguity; phatic sequences, etc.);
– Structures specific to oral interaction (ellipsis, incremental structures, anacoluthon, lexical disruptions, slips of the tongue, repetitions, etc.);
– Discursive polyphony and its formal manifestations in oral interaction;
– Stance in spoken interaction;
– Discourse and pragmatic markers specific to spoken interaction;
– The construction of interpersonal relations (consensus vs. conflict, dominance vs. subordination, empathy, playfulness, humor, irony, sarcasm, etc.);
– Turn-taking management (transitions, interruptions, holding the floor, overlaps, latched turns, diagraphs, silences, disfluencies, etc.);
– Variation, use, and change (frequency, flexibility, contextual adaptation; lexical and grammatical variation in speech; the role of spoken interaction in processes of language change, etc.);
– The multimodal construction of meaning: the relationship between paraverbal (intonation, rhythm, pauses), nonverbal (gesture, gaze, body movement), and verbal elements;
– Contrastive, typological, and plurilingual perspectives.

Conférenciers invités :

– Greville Corbett, University of Surrey, UK
– Norma Schifano, University of Cambridge, UK

Thèmes & sections :

– historical linguistics, history of the Romanian language, philology
– morphology and syntax
– lexicology, lexicography, phraseology
– dialectology, geolinguistics and onomastics
– phonetics, phonology
– Romance linguistics
– pragmatics and stylistics