Introduction

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.

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 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)

Programme

The latest version of the programme can be accessed here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19BtpF1JQGLrKlAKCbucm8xxPcMLErlZ_/view?usp=sharing

Practical information

*** REGISTRATION: https://inscription-evenement.univ-lille.fr/RALFe2025/ ***

DELPASIMO 3 and RALFe 2025 will be held at the Maison de la Recherche, located on the Pont de Bois campus of the University of Lille (Faculty of Humanities), room F0.44

For detailed directions to the venue, please refer to the following guide: https://drive.google.com/file/d/121CvJiDu-NH4ji1PntDwrwKCXlxSwlWj/view?usp=sharing

As there are no hotels in the immediate vicinity of the university campus, we recommend securing accommodation in the city center of Lille, which is just a 15-minute metro ride from the conference venue. For more information about public transportation in Lille, visit: https://www.ilevia.fr/ 

If there are any issues with the metro, you can always take a regular train to Pont de Bois from Lille Flandres station. The train ride takes less than 10 minutes; the train station in Pont de Bois (https://maps.app.goo.gl/AkWKnBe7PasWXbrA8) is a 10-minute walk from the conference site.

Note however that there is only one train per hour: in the morning, there are departures at 8:08, 9:08 and 10:08. Tickets can be purchased through the app SNCFConnect (to visualize the train journeys, under ‘Mode de transport’, select only the option ‘Train’: this will filter out all the metro connections).

Registration is mandatory. The fee covers lunch as well as refreshments during coffee breaks.

Full rate (tenured researchers, professors, and postdocs):

  • only DELPASIMO (1 day): 35 € 
  • only RALFe (2 days): 65 €
  • RALFe + DELPASIMO (full 3 day package): 80 €

Reduced rate (students):

  • only DELPASIMO (1 day): 20 € 
  • only RALFe (2 days): 35 €
  • RALFe + DELPASIMO (full 3 day package): 40 €

Registration is free of charge for members of STL.

On the evening of June 5, a conference dinner will be held (36.50 € per person). Please note that pre-registration and pre-payment through the registration platform are required to secure your spot.

Poster

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Contact

The conference organizers are Lieven Danckaert, Luca Gasparri, Cédric Patin, Christopher Piñón, Gerhard Schaden and Tanja Temmerman. For any inquiries, they can be contacted at ralfe2025@univ-lille.fr.

About RALFe

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.

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. 

Attention: The new deadline for submission of abstracts is February 16, 2025.

Notification of acceptance: End of March, 2025.
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