Lexiques – Lexicons – Lexik

Date: 16-Dec-2026 - 18-Dec-2026
Location: Nancy, France
Contact: Hélène Vinckel-Roisin
Contact Email: [email protected]
Meeting URL: https://lexiques.sciencesconf.org/

Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics; General Linguistics

The axis “Lexique” at the research unit “Analyse et Traitement Automatique de la Langue Française” (ATILF - CNRS/UL - UMR 7118) is organizing an international conference on the topic of lexicons from December 16 to 18, 2026 at the ATILF laboratory in Nancy (France). The aim of this scientific event is to bring together junior and experienced researchers to discuss current research issues in a major field of linguistics, and one which is at the core of communication and human relations: the lexicons.

The theme of this conference is designed to include the widest possible range of research approaches in the different (sub)disciplines of linguistics, involving theoretical and empirical insights as well as methodological discussions in the field. For each of the conference’s subsections, we welcome a dialogue between diachronic and synchronic approaches, corpus and field studies, as well as analyses in monolingual and multilingual contexts. The proposed presentation should focus primarily, but not exclusively, on morphology, syntax, semantics and discourse analysis.

Proposals for presentations will therefore fit into one or more of the following subsections, which reflect the various research activities carried out at ATILF within its research groups:
- Terminology and specialized languages
- Polysemy and Ambiguity
- Modeling the Lexicon
- Phraseology
- Natural Language Processing
- Argumentation

Invited speakers:
Hans C. Boas, University of Texas, Austin
Gaëtane Dostie, Université de Sherbrooke
Sören Stumpf, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

The conference languages are German, English and French.
The deadline for submissions is August 31, 2025. Abstracts should be sent to the following address: [email protected]
Calls for papers in English, French, German and further information are available on the website: https://lexiques.sciencesconf.org/

Scientific organization committee:
The international conference “Lexicons” is the result of collaboration between the following research groups (GR) within ATILF’s “Lexique” axis under the supervision of Yvon Keromnes and Hélène Vinckel-Roisin:
GR Roman Etymological Dictionary – Eva Buchi
GR Theoretical, descriptive and applied lexicology of lexical networks – Alain Polguère, Veronika Lux-Pogodalla
GR Polysemy and lexical ambiguity – Evelyne Jacquey, Sandrine Ollinger
GR Pragmatics, Contrastive Linguistics, Corpus – Yvon Keromnes, Hélène Vinckel- Roisin, Akerke Yessenali
GR Terminology and Speech Therapy – Frédérique Brin-Henry
GR Automatic language processing – Mathieu Constant
GR Discourse markers – Mathilde Dargnat, Maeva Sillaire and Paola Herreno-Castaneda

Scientific Committee
Maxime Amblard, Université de Lorraine (France)
Vincent Balnat, Université de Strasbourg (France)
Lucie Barque, Université Paris 13 (France)
Maria-Reina Bastardas i Rufat, Université de Barcelone (Espagne)
Xavier Blanco, Université autonome de Barcelone (Espagne)
Noah Bubenhofer, Université de Zurich (Suisse)
Marie Candito, Université Paris Cité (France)
Jean-Pierre Colson, Université de Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgique)
Anne Condamines, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès (France)
Rute Costa, Université nouvelle de Lisbonne (Portugal)
Francesco Crifò, Université de Salerne (Italie)
Patrick Dendale, Université d’Anvers (Belgique)
Dmitrij Dobrovol’skij, Université de Moscou (Russie)
Ludwig Fesenmeier, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Allemagne)
Thomas François, Université catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgique)
Paolo Frassi, Université de Vérone (Italie)
Yan Greub, Université de Genève (Suisse)
Richard Huyghe, Université de Fribourg (Suisse)
Jacques Jayez, ENS de Lyon (France)
Annette Klosa-Kückelhaus, Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (Allemagne)
Marie-Claude L’Homme, Université de Montréal (Canada)
Fabio Mollica, Université de Milan (Italie)
Martina Nicklaus, Université Heinrich-Heine Düsseldorf (Allemagne)
Aurélie Picton, Université de Genève (Suisse)
Céline Poudat, Université Côte d’Azur (France)
Agata Savary, Université Paris-Saclay (France)
Frédérique Sitri, Université de Paris Est-Créteil (France)
Agnès Tutin, Université Grenoble-Alpes (France)
Anna Volodina, Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (Allemagne)
Grégoire Winterstein, Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada)
Agnès Witko, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (France)