Call for Papers

The Centre of Linguistics of the University of Lisbon (CLUL) is pleased to host the International Conference OUR ID - Colloquium in honour of Inês Duarte. The conference, which will be held at the School of Arts and Humanities (University of Lisbon, Portugal) on January 19-20, 2023, will be a forum for researchers to present their work on topics that have been of interest to our honore. We therefore invite submissions in the field of Syntax, Educational Linguistics and Language Policy, as well as Interfaces involving Syntax.

Inês Duarte is an Emeritus Professor of the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon. She is an eminent researcher on Portuguese syntax, with a special interest in language variation and educational linguistics, and is renowned for opening new trends of collaboration at the linguistic interfaces and for inspiring young researchers to pursue innovative work. She will honour us with a plenary session on the last day of the conference.

Submissions on the following topics are welcome:

  • Syntax (theoretical, descriptive, experimental and applied studies);

  • Syntax and its interfaces with other areas of grammar;

  • Parsing: treebanks and parsing tools;

  • Syntax of varieties of Portuguese;

  • Educational Linguistics and Language Policy.

The list is not exhaustive and topics in other domains of Linguistics will also be considered.


Submissions

The languages of the conference are Portuguese and English. Abstracts are accepted in one of these languages. Each author may submit two abstracts for 20-minute oral presentations (plus 10-minute discussion): either one individually and one joint abstract, or two joint abstracts.

Abstracts are anonymous, must contain between 300 and 500 words (excluding examples and references), and should be submitted through EasyAbs: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/ourID2023


Important dates

  • Abstract submission deadline : August 31, 2022

  • Notification of acceptance: October 31, 2022

  • Conference: January 19-20, 2023

Contacts

colloquiumid@letras.ulisboa.pt