We are pleased to announce that the 8th ‘Rencontres Autour de la Linguistique Formelle’ (RALFe 2025) will be held at the University of Lille (France) from June 4 to June 6, 2025.
Since it was first organized in 2010 – originally under the name ‘Rencontres d’Automne de Linguistique Formelle’ – RALFe has established itself as one of the leading conferences on the formal study of language organized annually in France, welcoming contributions on phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, as well as on topics situated at the interfaces between these various modules. Submissions may be couched in any formal theoretical framework. Apart from purely theoretical studies, we also encourage submissions adopting an experimental approach, as well as those that address topics related to language acquisition, lesser-studied language varieties and sign languages.
The two days of the main conference will be preceded by a one-day workshop ‘Des Langues Pas Si Mortes 3’, which is devoted to the formal grammar of historical languages, primarily from a synchronic (rather than diachronic) perspective. DELPASIMO 3 will take place on June 4.
RALFe 2025 and DELPASIMO 3 are organized by the lab ‘Savoirs, Textes, Langage’ (STL, UMR 8163), hosted at the University of Lille. The confirmed invited speakers for the conference are:
Henriëtte de Swart (Utrecht University)
Caterina Donati (Université Paris Cité/Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle)
Pavel Iosad (University of Edinburgh)
Adèle Jatteau (University of Lille, invited speaker for DELPASIMO 3)
Call for papers
We now invite abstract submissions for oral and poster presentations at the workshop or at the main session: please indicate whether you want your submission to be considered for DELPASIMO 3 or for the general conference.
Oral presentations will be 20 minutes long, followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Abstracts should be anonymous and no longer than two A4 pages, including tables, figures and examples, in 12-point Times New Roman, with margins of at least 2,5 cm / 1 inch. Bibliographical references may be added on a separate page. Submissions for the conference (workshop and main session combined) are limited to a maximum of one individual and one joint abstract per author.
The deadline for submission of abstracts is January 31, 2025.
Notification of acceptance: March 10, 2025.
Contact
The conference organizers are Lieven Danckaert, Luca Gasparri, Cédric Patin, Christopher Piñón, Gerhard Schaden and Tanja Temmerman. For any further inquiries, they can be contacted at ralfe2025@univ-lille.fr.
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