3rd International Conference on the Asturian Language
Short Title: ICAL3
Theme: Distinctiveness, Identity, and Officiality

Date: 16-Apr-2026 - 17-Apr-2026
Location: Madrid, Spain
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/ical3-asturian-language/home

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Language Documentation; Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics
Subject Language(s): Asturian (ast)
Language Family(ies): Romance

Submission Deadline: 01-Dec-2025

Call for papers for the “3rd International Conference on the Asturian Language: Distinctiveness, Identity, and Officiality”
We invite 20-minute (plus 10-minute discussion) presentation proposals on the following general and/or specific topics:

General Topics:
- Study of the distinctive properties of the Asturian language in phonology and phonetics, morphology, lexis, syntax, semantics, pragmatics. Linguistics and history.
- Typological and comparative studies on the Asturian language and its dialectal forms.
- The standardisation process of the Asturian language: selection of a norm, codification of form, elaboration of function, and acceptance by the community. The varieties of the Asturian language.
- Literature in Asturian: relevance of the historical collections and the role of modern Asturian literature.
- Learning and teaching of the Asturian language
- Officiality: consequences in education, economy, politics, etc.

Guidelines for Submissions:
Submissions should include the following information:
- Author's name
- Affiliation
- E-mail address
- Paper title
- An abstract with a maximum of 500 words, excluding references

Abstracts must conform to the following guidelines:
- Abstracts must be submitted in MS Word format (*.doc or *.docx).
- Abstracts must have no more than 500 words of narrative text. References do not count towards this 500-word limit.
- The title of the abstract should appear at the top of the page but does not count as part of the 500-word limit.
- Abstracts must not exceed two A4 pages in length, must have 2 cm margins on all sides, must be set in Times New Roman with a font size 12 pt, and the first lines of paragraphs should be used. The text must be justified, with 1 line-spacing used for running text. No exceptions to these requirements are allowed. This means that all content (i.e. narrative text, titles, examples, tables, figures, captions, and references) must fit in two pages.
- Examples, tables, graphs, etc. must be interspersed into the text of the abstract, rather than collected at the end.
- The “References” section should immediately follow the end of the text, without beginning a new page. The heading "References" should be justified, set in 12 pt Times New Roman bold, with one blank line above and one below. The references themselves should be in 10 pt Times New Roman, justified on both sides.

The official languages of the conference are English, Asturian and Spanish. All paper proposals are assumed to represent original and unpublished work.
Email for abstract submission: [email protected]
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/ical3-asturian-language/home
Publication:
The authors of the best contributions will be invited to submit an article to a special volume to be published by Peter Lang.