This is a list of recurring

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conferences. Included are also a list of organisations that hold recurring meetings under the same name.

By geographical location

International

Association for Laboratory Phonology The Association for Laboratory Phonology is a non-profit professional society for researchers interested in the sound structure of language. It was founded to promote the scientific study of all aspects of phonetics and phonology of oral and sign l ...

(LabPhon) * Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL) * International Conference on Sociolinguistics *

International Congress of Linguists The International Congress of Linguists (ICL) takes place every five years, under the governance of the Permanent International Committee of Linguists (PICL) / Comité International Permanent des LinguistesCIPL. The 19th ICL was held in Geneva, Swi ...

(ICL) *

International Society for the Linguistics of English The International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE), founded in 2008, is a learned society of linguists. The organization's goals are to promote the study of the English Language at an international level, with a particular focus on the ...

(ISLE) *

Southeast Asian Linguistics Society The Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS) is a linguistic society dedicated to the study of languages and linguistics in mainland and insular Southeast Asia. It was founded in 1991 by Martha Ratliff and Eric Schiller. Paul Sidwell is currently ...

(SEALS)

North America

American Dialect Society The American Dialect Society (ADS), founded in 1889, is a learned society "dedicated to the study of the English language in North America, and of other languages, or dialects of other languages, influencing it or influenced by it." The Society ...

(ADS) *

Canadian Linguistic Association The Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA; French: Association canadienne de linguistique, ACL) is the principal professional organization of linguists in Canada. Yearly meetings are held, usually at the end of May, in which members present scho ...

(CLA) * Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) *

Linguistic Society of America The Linguistic Society of America (LSA) is a learned society for the field of linguistics. Founded in New York City in 1924, the LSA works to promote the scientific study of language. The society publishes three scholarly journals: ''Language'', ...

(LSA) *

North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics The North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL) is an annual academic conference that focuses on research in Chinese language and linguistics. The conference was first held in 1989 at Ohio State University, as the Northeast Conferen ...

(NACCL) * West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) *

Western Conference on Linguistics The Western Conference on Linguistics, usually known as ''WECOL'', is an annual conference held in rotating locations in the western part of the United States and Canada since 1988. Papers for presentation are chosen by a selection committee with th ...

* Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas (WSCLA)

South America

* Associação Brasileira de Linguística (ABRALIN)

Europe

* Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) *

Days of Swiss Linguistics The Days of Swiss Linguistics (DSL) (German: Tage der Schweizer Linguistik (TSL), French: Journées de linguistique suisse (JLS), Italian: Giornate della linguistica svizzere (GLS)) is a series of linguistics conferences held biennially at one of t ...

(DSL) *

Generative Linguistics in the Old World GLOW is an international organization to further the study of generative grammar, founded in 1977 and based in the Netherlands. Its activities include its annual spring linguistics conference and periodic summer schools. In the past, GLOW published ...

(GLOW) * International Conference on Sociolinguistics ("ICS") * Moscow Student Conference on Linguistics (MSCL) *Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology (COMELA)
4th International ESP Conference
Nis, Serbia

Asia

*Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology (CALA) *GLOW in Asia

Africa

West African Linguistic Society The West African Linguistic Society (abbreviated as WALS) is an academic scholarly society formed in 1965 to foster and encourage research in the West African languages and literature as well as provide a permanent forum for interaction and exchan ...

(WALS) *African Assembly on Linguistic Anthropology (AFALA)

Australia

By subfield

Phonetics

Acoustical Society of America The Acoustical Society of America (ASA) is an international scientific society founded in 1929 dedicated to generating, disseminating and promoting the knowledge of acoustics and its practical applications. The Society is primarily a voluntary orga ...

(ASA) *

(LabPhon) *

New Sounds ''New Sounds'' was originally a 10" LP compiling previously released 78 rpm records on the Blue Note label. A CD reissue with the same name and cover appeared in 1991, but while using many of the same personnel, had only two tracks in common with ...

* INTERSPEECH *

International Congress of Phonetic Sciences The International Phonetic Association (IPA; French: ', ''API'') is an organization that promotes the scientific study of phonetics and the various practical applications of that science. The IPA's major contribution to phonetics is the Interna ...

(ICPhS)

Phonology

Annual Meeting on Phonology Annual may refer to: * Annual publication, periodical publications appearing regularly once per year **Yearbook ** Literary annual * Annual plant * Annual report * Annual giving * Annual, Morocco, a settlement in northeastern Morocco * Annuals (b ...

(AMP) *

(LabPhon) *

Manchester Phonology Meeting The Manchester Phonology Meeting (abbreviated and stylised as mfm) is an annual linguistic conference, held at Hulme Hall in Manchester, in the United Kingdom, from 1993 - 2018, and at other venues at the University of Manchester from 2019. Submi ...

(MFM)

Morphology

American International Morphology Meeting American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, pe ...

(AIMM)

Syntax

Dependency Linguistics
(Depling)

Semantics

Sinn und Bedeutung In the philosophy of language, the distinction between sense and reference was an idea of the German philosopher and mathematician Gottlob Frege in 1892 (in his paper "On Sense and Reference"; German: "Über Sinn und Bedeutung"), reflecting the ...

Semantics and Linguistic Theory Semantics (from grc, σημαντικός ''sēmantikós'', "significant") is the study of reference, meaning, or truth. The term can be used to refer to subfields of several distinct disciplines, including philosophy, linguistics and compu ...

(SALT)

Core theory (all of the above)

* North East Linguistics Society (NELS) *

(GLOW) * West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) *

(CLA) * Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) * Moscow Student Conference on Linguistics (MSCL) *

Psycholinguistics

Cognitive linguistics

Documentary linguistics

Sociolinguistics and variation

International Gender and Language Association The International Gender and Language Association (IGALA), is an international interdisciplinary academic organization that promotes research on language, gender, and Human sexuality, sexuality. Claire Maree is its current president. History Th ...

(IGALA) * International Conference on Sociolinguistics ("ICS") * New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV)

Second Language Acquisition

European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing The European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW) is an academic association supporting scholarly activity in academic writing. The association was first established in 1999 with the first conference being held in 2001. The E ...

* Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA) * Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA) * Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition - North America (GALANA) *

Boston University Conference on Language Development Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- most ...

(BUCLD) *

European Second Language Association The European Second Language Association (EuroSLA) is a learned society for researchers with an interest in second language and second language acquisition. History EuroSLA was established in Colchester, the United Kingdom, in 1989 and the first ...

(EuroSLA) * Annual Conference of the Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA) * Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL) * Symposium on Second Language Writing
4th International ESP Conference
Nis, Serbia

Language Testing

* Language Testing Research Colloquium (LTRC)

Computational linguistics

Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Annual may refer to: *Annual publication, periodical publications appearing regularly once per year **Yearbook **Literary annual *Annual plant *Annual report *Annual giving *Annual, Morocco, a settlement in northeastern Morocco *Annuals (band), a ...

(ACL) *

International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation The International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation is an international conference organised by the European Language Resources Association every other year (on even years) with the support of institutions and organisations involved ...

(LREC) *

International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics CICLing (International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing; before 2017 known under the name International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics) is an annual conference on c ...

(CICLing)

Pragmatics

Onomastics

* Mainzer Namentagung

Miscellaneous

By language family

Indo-European

Germanic

Romance

Slavic

* Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL)

Indo-Iranian

Uralic/Finno-Ugric

* International Finno-Ugric Students’ Conference (IFUSCO)

Languages of Asia

(SEALS)

Sino-Tibetan

* International Conferences on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL) * Himalayan Languages Symposium (HLS) * International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL) *

(NACCL)

Austronesian

* International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (ICAL) *

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association The Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) is a learned society that hosts forums for collaborative research on Austronesian languages. Founded in 1994 at the University of Toronto, AFLA is now administered from the University of Weste ...

(AFLA)

Austroasiatic

* International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics (ICAAL)

Papuan

* Workshop on the Languages of Papua (WLP)

Altaic

Dravidian

Languages of Africa

* World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL)

Afro-Asiatic

Languages of the Americas

* Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) *

Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) is an international organization founded in 1981 devoted to the study of the indigenous languages of North, Central, and South America. SSILA has an annual winter meeti ...

(SSILA

Caribbean languages, including creoles

Auxiliary languages

Areal/non-genetic

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