EVOLANG XVI: International Conference on the Evolution of Language
Short Title: EVOLANG 2026

Date: 07-Apr-2026 - 10-Apr-2026
Location: Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Contact: Dimitar Kazakov
Contact Email: [email protected]
Meeting URL: https://evolang2026.org/

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Discipline of Linguistics; General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 26-Oct-2025

The deadline for submission to EvoLang XVI (Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 7–10 April 2026) is 26 October 2025 (AoE). To submit to EvoLang XVI, use: https://openreview.net/group?id=EVOLANG.org/2026/Conference.

Please carefully read the guidelines – and further details within the provided submission templates – to prepare your submission. In addition to your submission, you will be asked to provide a 150-word summary of your contribution. If you have a problem with your submission, please email [email protected] .

Submissions may be in any relevant discipline, and should aim to make clear their own substantive claim relating to relevant, current scientific literature in the field of language evolution. Submissions which do not have clear relevance to the field or do not adhere to the guidelines may be rejected without review.

The conference languages at Evolang XVI will be English with additional accessibility support in the form of captions.

All submission information and templates can be found here: https://sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/evolang2026/submission