Full Title: Emerging Topics in Typology 2025
Short Title: ETT2025

Date: 03-Jun-2025 - 05-Jun-2025
Location: Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Contact Person: Saskia Dunn
Meeting Email: [email protected]

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2025

Meeting Description:

Following the success of the 2021 workshop series and the 2024 conference, Emerging Topics in Typology (ETT) 2025 will return for a third edition, this time at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, from the 3rd to 5th of June 2025. This is a conference organised by and for PhD students in diversity linguistics and typology. We welcome abstracts on a range of topics in diversity linguistics (quantitative and qualitative typology, language documentation and description), and particularly welcome talks on ongoing projects and works in progress.

Invited Keynote speakers
· Annika Tjuka (MPI-EVA)
· Sandra Auderset (University of Bern)

Conference registration will be free for all participants, and will be open to anyone with an interest in the conference topics (including non-PhD students). Registration will open on the 1st of March 2025.

For more information, see the website of the conference: https://www.eva.mpg.de/linguistic-and-cultural-evolution/events/2025-emerging-topics-in-typology/ or email [email protected].

Organisers:
Frederic Blum (MPI-EVA)
Saskia Dunn (Leiden University)
Anita Obenaus (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
Silvie Strauß (Universität Leipzig)

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS:

Abstracts should be a maximum of 500 words (excluding references). Additional examples and figures (up to one A4 page total) may also be included. Abstracts should demonstrate a link to typological and/or descriptive themes. The call for abstracts is open to all current PhD students. Abstracts should be submitted via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=ETT/2025/Conference. Please note that it is necessary to make a profile on OpenReview; new profiles created without an institutional email will go through a moderation process that can take up to two weeks, but new profiles created with an institutional email will be activated automatically. If this causes any issues, please contact the organisers by email: [email protected].

The deadline for submissions is 31st January 2025. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by the 1st of March 2025.

Accepted abstracts will be presented at the conference as 20-minute oral presentations, followed by 10 minutes for discussion. All talks will be streamed online.

Deadline: Jan. 31, 2025