Full Title: The 18th International Conference on Role and Reference Grammar
Short Title: RRG2025

Date: 14-Jul-2025 - 15-Jul-2025
Location: Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Contact Person: Kiyoko Toratani
Meeting Email: [email protected]
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/rrg2025/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2025

Meeting Description:

The 18th International Conference on Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) will take place as an in-person meeting on July 14 and July 15, 2025, at Kobe University, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan.

The committee invites proposals on original research relating to any aspect of linguistics that uses Role and Reference Grammar (Van Valin and LaPolla 1997; Van Valin 2005, 2023; Bentley, Mairal Usón, Nakamura and Van Valin 2023). We encourage papers dealing with further elaboration of RRG in areas such as morphology, syntax, semantics, information structure, as well as language processing and language change. Papers on lesser studied languages and those that adopt a comparative or a typological approach are especially welcome.

Keynote speakers
- Lilián Guerrero (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
- Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (University at Buffalo, The State University of New York / Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)

Scientific committee
- Sergio Ibáñez (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
- Hideki Kishimoto (Kobe University)
- Ranko Matasović (University of Zagreb)
- Wataru Nakamura (Tohoku University)
- Rainer Osswald (Heinrich Heine University)
- Luis Paris (Universidad Nacional de Cuyo/CONICET)
- Joy Wu (National Taiwan Normal University)

Organizers
- Hideki Kishimoto (Kobe University)
- Kiyoko Toratani (York University)
- Prashant Pardeshi (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics)

Call for Papers:

Submissions are invited for 25-minute oral presentations.

Please submit an anonymous one-page abstract, not exceeding 500 words, including examples (references and tables/figures may be on the second page), by Jan. 31, 2025, in PDF format, via EasyAbs system on the Linguist List:

https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/RRG2025/

Please use a few representative words from the title as the filename (e.g., aktionsart_korean_verbs.pdf) to maintain the file’s anonymity.
Authors may submit one individual and/or one co-authored abstract.

Important dates:
- Abstract submission: Jan 6-31, 2025
- Notification of acceptance: Feb. 28, 2025
- Conference dates: July 14 and July 15, 2025