VI Formal Linguistics Meeting in Mexico

Date: 17-Sep-2025 - 19-Feb-2025
Location: Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Tlalpan, Mexico City, Mexico
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/enallt.unam.mx/encuentrodelinguisticaformal/vi-elfm-p%C3%A1gina-principal/vi-elfm-english?authuser=0

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Phonology; Syntax

The Formal Linguistics Meeting in Mexico (ELF) aims to bring together researchers and graduate students working under formal approaches to the study of language to promote the discussion of ideas on language phenomena and their theoretical implications. We invite submission of abstracts for presentations that have as a theoretical basis any of the formal linguistic approaches (Minimalism, Optimality Theory, Formal Semantics, Distributed Morphology, HPSG, among others) to the analysis of linguistic phenomena at different grammatical levels (Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, Morphology, Phonology, and Interface studies).

Keynote Speakers:
- Mario Ulises Hernández Luna
(Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro)
- Josefina García Fajardo
(El Colegio de México, A.C.)
- Ana Clara Polakof
(Universidad de la República de Uruguay)
- Antonio Fábregas
(NTNU, Trondheim)

Abstract submission:
Only in-person presentations will be accepted: oral communication, 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for questions.

Proposal Submission: The call for proposals is open from the publication of this announcement until its closing.}

Proposals should include:
- Title of the work.
- Abstract (description of the problem, objectives, examples, main results, and bibliographic references); abstracts should be a maximum of two double-spaced pages, in Times New Roman, 12 pt., with 2.5 cm margins. The maximum length includes data, figures, diagrams, and bibliography.
- Abstracts can be submitted in Spanish or English.
- Abstracts must be completely anonymous and should be sent to the following email: [email protected] with the subject line "Proposal for ELF 25". In the body of the email, include the following information: full name, affiliation, academic degree, title of the presentation.
- Abstracts that do not comply with the above guidelines will not be considered for evaluation.

Important dates:

Deadline for submission of proposals: April 11, 2025
Notification of the verdict: May 30, 2025
Meeting Dates: September 17-19, 2025

Organizing Committee of the VI Formal Linguistics Meeting in Mexico
Marysa Georgina Neri Velázquez
Carlos de Jesús Wagner Oviedo
Hugo Carrera Guerrero
(Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia)

Permanent Committee
Rodrigo Gutiérrez Bravo (COLMEX)
Renato García González (IIA-UNAM)
María Teresa Peralta Estrada (ENALT-UNAM)