56th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society
Short Title: NELS 56

Date: 17-Oct-2025 - 19-Oct-2025
Location: New York, USA
Contact: Gary Thoms
Contact Email: [email protected]
Meeting URL: https://wp.nyu.edu/artsampscience-nels56/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 01-Jun-2025

We are pleased to announce that the 56th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS 55) will be hosted by New York University in New York, New York, from October 17 to October 19, 2025. Keynote speakers will be announced at a later date.

We invite abstracts for 20-minute talks and posters on any theoretical or formal aspect of natural language, including but not limited to phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and their interfaces. There will be a special session on the topic 'Idiosyncrasy and grammar', which submitters can elect to put their abstract forward for upon submitting. Full details about the special session and the invited speakers will be released soon.

Abstract Guidelines:

Abstracts, including references and data, must not exceed two A4 or letter pages, have 2.54 cm (1 inch) margins on all sides, and be set in Times New Roman with a font size no smaller than 11pt. Examples, tables, graphs, etc. must be interspersed into the text of the abstract, and not collected at the end. The submission must not reveal the identity of the author(s) in any way. Submissions are limited to two per author, with at most one paper being single-authored. Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format through the NELS 56 abstract submission page on Oxford Abstracts by June 1st, 2025 at 23:59 Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4).

Note: NELS 56 will give preference to new work. For this reason, authors will be asked on the Oxford Abstracts submission page to indicate if your work is under review for publication or has been accepted for presentation at another major conference.

Timeline:

Submission deadline: June 1st, 2025 at 23:59 Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4)
Notification of decisions: mid July
Conference dates: October 17th-19th, 2025.

Conference venue: New York University, Washington Square campus, New York City
Meeting email: [email protected]