59th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea
Short Title: SLE2026

Date: 26-Aug-2026 - 29-Aug-2026
Location: Osnabrück, Germany
Contact: Anna Kisiel
Contact Email: [email protected]
Meeting URL: https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2026/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Philosophy of Language

Submission Deadline: 15-Jan-2026

The Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) and the Osnabrück University are pleased to announce the “59th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2026)”, to be held in Osnabrück, 26-29 August 2026.

SLE meetings provide a forum for high-quality linguistic research from all (sub)domains of linguistics. The upcoming edition of the SLE meeting will also host a round table of experts to discuss topics of special linguistic interest.

Workshop Proposals: Submission Guidelines
Workshops will be organized in 20 minute slots (20 min. presentation, 5 min. discussion, 5 min. room change). Each workshop comprises:
1) an introductory paper by the convenor(s) or by a keynote speaker, which summarizes previous research, specifies the approach(es) to be taken and sets the scope of the papers to be presented;
2) minimum of eight papers;
3) a slot for a final discussion on the topics covered by the papers, methodological issues and questions for future research.
Further details can be discussed with the SLE Conference Manager ([email protected]).

Workshop proposals must contain:
- five keywords
- a description of the topic and research questions (between 900 and 1.100 words).
- a (provisional) list of workshop participants and their provisional abstracts (max. 300 words per abstract)
Workshop convenors are encouraged to announce their proposal on the conference website (please send it to the conference manager [email protected]) and on the LinguistList as a session of SLE 2026 (for detailed instructions how to do this, see https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2026/first-call-for-papers/), as well as other fora in the linguistic area of the workshop.

Workshop proposals must be submitted as one file in pdf and be sent to the chair of SLE workshops Aneta Kopecka ([email protected]) and to the Conference Manager ([email protected]).

Attention: The deadline for the submission of workshop proposals is 20 November 2025. Notification of acceptance/rejection of workshop proposals will be by 15 December 2025.
In the second step, workshop abstracts should be submitted via EasyChair by 15 January 2026, for which acceptance/rejection will be announced by 31 March 2026.

Organizers:
Chair of the local organising committee: Alexander Bergs (Osnabrück University)
SLE Conference Manager: Anna Kisiel (KU Leuven)
SLE Treasurer: Nikolaos Lavidas (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
SLE Secretary: Maria Rosenberg (Umeå University)