Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics (Workshop @ÖLT49)

Date: 05-Dec-2025 - 08-Dec-2025
Location: Klagenfurt, Austria

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

Submission Deadline: 01-Sep-2025

We are pleased to announce the third edition of the 'Current issues in syntax, semantics, and pragmatics' workshop. Like in the previous years, the workshop will be part of the ÖLT (49th Austrian Linguistics Conference), which takes place December 5-8, 2025 in Klagenfurt, Austria. The workshop aims to create opportunities for researchers to discuss their original, unpublished work related to any of the fields mentioned in its title as well as at the interfaces. We invite submissions for oral presentations (20mins talk + 10mins discussion) of theoretical and/or empirical contributions investigating the syntax, semantics, or pragmatics of natural language phenomena. Since this workshop is not limited to a particular topic or language researched, we also strongly encourage submissions dealing with linguistic phenomena from languages other than German.

Abstract Guidelines:

Abstracts should not exceed 300 words. References, formulas, tables/figures, and glosses of examples from languages other than English as well as the respective paraphrases are *not included* in the word count. Examples (no matter whether glossed or not) should be interspersed in the text, rather than collected at the end. Please make sure to adhere to the unified style sheet for linguistics (available here: https://clas.wayne.edu/linguistics/resources/style). Submissions must be anonymous and must not reveal the identities of the authors in any way. At most two submissions per (co-)author are permitted, only one submission may be single-authored. Please send your abstracts in PDF format to [email protected] no later than September 1st, 2025.

Important Dates:

Abstract submission deadline: 1st of September 2025 (23:59 CEST)
Notification of decision: 15 September 2025
Conference: 5-8 December 2025

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact [email protected] or [email protected] at any time.

We look forward to seeing you in Klagenfurt!