Full Title: Third Rencontres of Young Researchers in Historical Linguistics

Date: 04-Dec-2025 - 05-Dec-2025
Location: Grenoble, France
Web Site: https://rencontreslh3.sciencesconf.org

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Language Family(ies): Indo-European

Call for Papers :

After a first edition in Lyon (2019), and a second cancelled due to the pandemic (2020), the third Rencontres of young researchers in historical linguistics will be held for a third time in Grenoble on the 4th and 5th of December, 2025. The conference aims to provide a forum for young researchers working on the history of Indo-European languages to present their work, whether it focuses on diachronic evolutions of languages or past synchronic states.

Invited Speakers:
- Bernard Combettes (ATILF, Univ. De Lorraine)
- Ariane Pinche (CIHAM, CNRS)

Important dates:
Abstracts deadline: 28 March 2025
Notification: Late June
Conference dates: 4-5 December 2025

Submission instructions:
We invite submissions for 20 minutes talks (followed by 10 minutes of discussion). The languages of communication are French and English.

We welcome work addressing methodological or theoretical issues, or comprising case studies, in all approaches, including but not limited to: syntax, morphology, phonology, phonetics, semantics, lexicology, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and dialectology.

The programme is principally aimed at young researchers: PhD students, Temporary Teaching Researcher Assistants (ATERs), post-doc and PhDs up to the first year of a permanent contract (lecturers or equivalent). We strongly encourage work by master’s degree students. We do accept group submissions.

Anonymized abstracts of between 300 and 500 words, exclusive of a bibliography, are to be submitted to:
https://rencontreslh3.sciencesconf.org

Local organizing committee:
Timothée Celeyron | Univ. Grenoble Alpes (LIDILEM)
Iris Fabry | Univ Grenoble Alpes (LIDILEM)
Tanguy Lemoine | Univ. Grenoble Alpes (LITT&ARTS)
Laurie Raymond | Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc (LLSETI) ; Projet ANR LIBEX
Zeina Tmart | ENS de Lyon (IHRIM)