Formal Diachronic Semantics 10
Short Title: FoDS 10

Date: 16-Oct-2025 - 18-Oct-2025
Location: Austin, USA
Contact: Ashwini Deo
Contact Email: [email protected]
Meeting URL: https://sites.utexas.edu/fods10

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Pragmatics; Semantics

Submission Deadline: 15-Jul-2025

Formal Diachronic Semantics 10 (FoDS 10) will be hosted by the Linguistics Department at the University of Texas, Austin from October 16 to October 18 2025. In keeping with its tradition, FoDS brings together scholars interested in the exploration of the semantic and pragmatic aspects of diachronic processes in natural languages from a formal perspective. FoDS has been meeting yearly since 2016.
It being the 10th Anniversary of FoDS, we will be marking it with presentations from some key researchers in Diachronic Semantics, creating a space to collectively think about relevant issues in diachronic semantics and pragmatics.

Invited talks:
Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Sigrid Beck (University of Tuebingen)
Regine Eckardt (University of Konstanz)
Remus Gergel (University of Saarland)
Chiara Gianollo (University of Bologna)

We invite submission of abstracts for 30-minute oral presentations (with an additional 10 minutes for questions) or poster presentations on topics that address semantic change from within the paradigm of formal semantics/pragmatics. These may include case studies, studies of trends, corpus results, as well as formal theories of meaning change in specific domains. We also welcome research at the interfaces with syntax and other areas, as long as the research makes a contribution to the area of formal diachronic semantics. We welcome papers that address methodological questions in the field. Submissions are limited to one individual and one joint abstract per author (or two joint abstracts per author).

Abstracts must be anonymous, in PDF format, 2 pages (A4 or letter), in a font size no less than 12pt, and with margins of 1 inch/2.5cm. Please submit abstracts on Oxford Abstracts no later than July 30 2025.

Oxford Abstracts submission link: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/79167/submitter

Deadline for abstracts: July 15 2025
Notifications of acceptance: July 31 2025