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We invite you to participate in the International Scientific Linguistics Conference RELEVANT ISSUES IN BALTIC LANGUAGE RESEARCH, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Professor and linguist Marta Rudzīte (1924–1996) from the University of Latvia. The conference will take place in Riga, on November 14–16, 2024.

PROGRAMME

We invite you to a two-week Lithuanian language winter course!

The course will take place at Vilnius University from 6 January 2025 to 17 January 2025.

Registration is open until 23 December 2024.

More information and registration here: https://www.flf.vu.lt/en/lsk/courses/winter-course.

In recent years, the field of linguistics has seen an increasing demand for corpus-based analysis of natural language data amidst a general revival of interest in the empirical foundations of linguistic theory. Contemporary digital corpora offer yet unprecedented opportunities for all kinds of linguistic research, where traditional linguistic analysis in its various theoretical and methodological paradigms originating in part in different philological and linguistic traditions of the past co-exists with and is reinforced by advanced statistical and corpus-linguistic methods made possible by modern data processing and annotation techniques. Since corpora can be used in both synchronic and diachronic analyses of language material, they provide an ideal basis not only for effectively utilizing traditional and already established methods, but also for developing new theoretical and empirical approaches to studying the grammatical system of natural languages and language varieties.
 
The Department of Latvian and Baltic Studies of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Latvia is pleased to announce the 10th international conference on Grammar and Corpora (G&C), which will be held on-site at the University of Latvia (House of Science, Jelgavas Street 3, Riga) from Thursday, 26 June 2025, to Saturday, 28 June 2025.
 
The conference continues the series of “Grammar and Corpora” conferences, which began in Prague, at Charles University, in 2005. Subsequently, G&C conferences have been held at various locations and universities: in Liblice (2007), Prague (2012), Warszaw (2014), Mannheim (2009, 2016), Paris (2018), Kraków (2020) and Ghent (2022). The 2025 “Grammar and Corpora” conference in Riga, at the University of Latvia, seeks to provide a forum for exchange of novel and creative ideas between researchers interested in studying various aspects of grammar and its interfaces, in the broadest sense, using different types of corpora and corpus-linguistic approaches, methods and techniques.
 
We welcome submissions that contribute to our theoretical and practical understanding and knowledge of the structure, patterns and regularities of the grammatical system of natural languages using corpora and corpus-linguistic methods in the description and theoretical analysis of individual languages, language varieties and language contacts. Although our special focus is on the Baltic languages (Latvian and Lithuanian), submissions are equally welcome for Germanic languages, including English, Romance, Finno-Ugric, Slavic and other languages.
 
Relevant topics and areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
1) the use of corpora in the analysis of grammatical patterns (incl. inflectional and derivational morphology, syntax and phonetics) in individual languages and language varieties, as well as from contrastive, typological and cognitive perspectives
2) exploring the relationship between discourse and grammar using different types of corpora
3) grammar–semantics interface in corpus analysis
4) derivational morphology, creativity and corpora
5) application and development of tools, methods and techniques for grammar-related analysis of corpus data
6) the relative characteristics (and combinations) of different types of corpora in the study of various aspects of grammar
7) statistical and quantitative methods in studying synchronic and diachronic phenomena in grammar
8) the use of corpus-linguistic methods in historical linguistics
9) language change, its representation and analysis in different types of corpora
 
Submission of abstracts
We invite submissions for 20-minute presentations (plus 10 minutes for questions and discussion). The conference is held on-site, and the conference language is English.
The deadline for submissions is 30 December 2024. Abstracts should be submitted through https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gc2025 (you may have to register first). Each participant may submit up to two abstracts – one as the only or the first author and another as a co-author.
Notification of acceptance will be given by 27 March 2025.
 
Abstracts should be anonymous and clearly state the research questions, methodology, data types and sources and (expected) results. Abstracts should be 500 words or less, excluding references and figures, typed in Times New Roman 12 pt and submitted as Word or PDF files through https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gc2025.
 
Each submission will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers from the scientific committee.
 
IMPORTANT DATES
30 December 2024 – deadline for abstract submission
27 March 2025 – notification of acceptance/rejection
10 April 2025 – registration opens
15 May 2025 – deadline for revised abstracts, if accepted
01 May 2025 – end of early-bird registration
26 June – 28 June 2025 – conference
 
More info see https://gcc.lu.lv/en/
 
The conference is organized under the auspices of the Latvian Research Council’s project “Database of Latvian Morphemes and Derivational Models (DLMDM)” (No. lzp-2022/1-0013).

Latvian Language Institute, Faculty of Humanities, University of Latvia, invites you to the international scientific conference "From the first book to digital texts: the development of language in 500 years" to commemorate the 152nd anniversary of the academician Jānis Endzelīns. The conference is dedicated to the 500th anniversary of the first book published in Latvian, and will cover the development of language over the last five centuries, including early texts, written language, grammar, onomastics, dialectology, terminology, lexicology, lexicography, sociolinguistics, and digitisation of texts.

Date: February 20–21, 2025.

Venue: University of Latvia.

Conference languages: Latvian, Lithuanian, English, and German.

Duration of the presentation: 20 minutes presentation + 5 minutes discussion.

Important dates:

December 31, 2024: Deadline for submission of an abstract (2500–3000 characters including spaces) online http://lavi.lu.lv/en/ conferences-2025/

January 15, 2025: The notification of acceptance/rejection.

Conference fee: 80 EUR (due on February 15, 2025). The fee covers a certificate of attendance, participant's folder, book of conference abstracts, coffee breaks, author's copy of the journal ‘Linguistica Lettica’. 

Submitted articles on the basis of presentations will be blind reviewed. After the acceptance, the article will be published in the journal ‘Linguistica Lettica’. 

More information about our conferences on our website: www.lavi.lu.lv.

The International Congress of Balticists is a conference that brings together researchers of the Baltic languages every five years in Vilnius or Riga. First organized in 1964, it will be held for the 14th time in 2025 at Vilnius University.

The conference page: https://www.baltistukongresas.flf.vu.lt/en/

We are pleased to invite WORKSHOP PROPOSALS on current topics in Baltic linguistics for the 14th International Congress of Balticists.

Find Call for Workshops here: https://www.baltistukongresas.flf.vu.lt/.../call-for...

Welcome to the 7th International Conference of Applied Linguistics LANGUAGES AND PEOPLE, 25–27 September 2025, at Vilnius University, Lithuania.

Conference Themes

• Sociolinguistics
• Language policy
• Discourse analysis
• Translation
• Language teaching and learning
• Language acquisition
• Language testing
• Corpus linguistics
• Psycholinguistics
• Sign language
• Pragmatics

Deadlines submission of abstracts: 17 February 2025 submission of workshop proposals: 3 February 2025
Contact person (Ms) Lina Vaškevičienė lina.vaskeviciene@flf.vu.lt
More information: https://litaka.lt/en/

The Department of Latvian and Baltic Studies at the University of Latvia invites submissions of abstracts for the 60th International Academic Conference in Honour of Prof. Arturs Ozols “The language system, morphemics and derivational morphology”, to be held on March 20–21, 2025.

The focus of the 2025 conference is on the grammatical and lexical system of language, its architecture, description and interpretation from a synchronic and diachronic perspective, with a particular emphasis on morphemics and word formation.

Participants are invited to present their research focusing on, but not limited to, the following main thematic areas:

1) methodological approaches to morphemic analysis, problem cases;

2) allomorphism, its different facets and manifestations;

3) morpheme polyfunctionality;

4) borderline cases in delimiting morphemes, words and constructions;

5) the formal and semantic diversity of derivational morphology, incl. various non-straightforward cases;

6) links and relationships between word formation and inflection;

7) derivational morphology and derivational motivation, cases of asymmetry;

8) derivational models and types, derivational semantics;

9) creativity in word formation;

10) word formation in terminology.

We expect submissions from different standpoints (e.g., general, areal, typological, cognitive, functional, contrastive, quantitative, etc.) and theoretical frameworks with material from Latvian and other languages.

Conference languages – Latvian, Lithuanian and English.

Conference format – in person.

Presentations – 20 minutes (15-minute talk, 5 minutes for questions).

Conference fee – 60 EUR. The fee covers coffee breaks.

Abstracts – 250–500 words (excluding references) plus the list of references.

Applications (containing information regarding the name, surname and academic affiliation of the participant(s) – a university, a research institute, etc.) and abstracts should be sent to lvling.conf@lu.lv by January 27, 2025, with the reference “the 60th International Academic Conference in Honour of Prof. Arturs Ozols”. Each individual may submit up to two abstracts: one as sole or first author, one as second author.

Notifications of acceptance will be given no later than February 10, 2025.

For additional information, visit https://aok.2025.lu.lv/en/

We invite students from the centers of the Baltic studies to participate in the second International School of Baltistics at the Faculty of Philology of Vilnius University. It will be held from 28 to 30 November 2024.

The students will have the opportunity to listen to lectures by Baltistics on different topics. They will also take part in seminars and network with students from other centers.

·         Fluency in Lithuanian at A2/B1 level is required.

·         Participation is free of charge, and we will also provide travel, accommodation and lunch.

·         The number of participants is very limited.

Registration is open until 20 October at: https://forms.gle/w8CEv4UWapVFXVYk9

If you have any questions, please contact ernesta.kazakenaite@flf.vu.lt

It is organized by Department of Baltic studies at Vilnius University, financed by the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport. More information on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/events/1705150723358372

We invite you to a seminar/discussion on key challenges in multicultural learning settings, organised by the Centre for Educational Excellence. The workshop is relevant to teachers and lecturers working with international student groups, but all are welcome. The discussion will take place on 17 September 2024, 18:00-19:30 on the MSTeams platform. Please see the invitation for more information.

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We are pleased to invite foreigners to register for Lithuanian language and culture winter courses. Please complete the registration form by 14 October. Registration form.