13th Southern African Microlinguistics Workshop
Short Title: SAMWOP-13

Date: 26-Nov-2025 - 28-Nov-2025
Location: Makhanda, South Africa
Contact: Will Bennett
Contact Email: [email protected]
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/ru.ac.za/samwop-13

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Phonetics; Phonology; Semantics; Syntax
Subject Language(s): Afrikaans (afr)
Southern Sotho (sot)
Tswana (tsn)
Xhosa (xho)
Language Family(ies): !Kwi; Central Narrow Bantu S; Juu; Khoe-Kwadi; West Germanic

Submission Deadline: 01-Aug-2025

SAMWOP is an annual event that brings together linguists working in the area of Southern African microlinguistics (broadly defined as linguistics which focuses on the structure of language as opposed to, for example, its sociological or educational role in society). This includes researchers based in Southern Africa working in various areas of theoretical and general linguistics, including phonetics, phonology, morphology and syntax, as well as those based elsewhere working on e.g. South African Bantu languages, Afrikaans and Khoisan languages, as well as other African languages, particularly from neighbouring countries.

SAMWOP provides an opportunity for longer presentations and in‐depth discussion, with no parallel sessions and with both 60min and 30min slots available (the latter being earmarked for students). The workshop fosters a friendly and collaborative atmosphere with a flexible setup and room for informal discussion. SAMWOP is an important forum for research and networking, especially for junior researchers and students. There is no conference fee.

Call for Papers:
We invite abstracts for long presentations (40-minute talks followed by 20 minutes of discussion) and also for short presentations (20-minute talks followed by 10 minutes of discussion, earmarked for students) on any aspect of the phonetics, phonology, morphology, and/or syntax of one or more southern African language(s).

A special issue of Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus (SPiL Plus) is typically published following each SAMWOP event, and attendees will be encouraged to submit their papers.