Call for papers

Call for Papers

18th Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL 18)

We are pleased to announce the 18th Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL 18), to be held on September 22–24, 2025, at the University of Wrocław, Poland. FDSL 18 will feature a main session and a workshop on Formal Approaches to Historical Slavic Linguistics. We invite submissions for 35-minute slots (25/30-minute presentations followed by 5/10-minute discussions).

We look forward to your contributions and to an engaging discussion on formal approaches to Slavic linguistics!

Main Session

Invited speakers: Marko Simonović (University of Graz), Marta Ruda (Jagiellonian University), Berit Gehrke (Humboldt University of Berlin), Peter Arkadiev (University of Potsdam)

We invite contributions dealing with formal aspects of Slavic linguistics, including but not limited to syntax, morphology, phonology, semantics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, and computational linguistics. We encourage submissions that engage with both theoretical and experimental approaches, contribute to cross-linguistic comparisons, and explore new methodologies or data sources relevant to Slavic languages. Papers that address interfaces between different linguistic components or provide insights into understudied Slavic varieties are particularly welcome.

Workshop on Formal Approaches to Historical Slavic Linguistics

Invited speaker: Hakyung Jung (Seoul National University)

We are pleased to invite submissions for the Workshop on Formal Approaches to Historical Slavic Linguistics, to be held as part of the Formal Description of Slavic Languages conference. This workshop aims to bring together scholars working on diachronic aspects of Slavic languages from a generative perspective. In comparison to studies on Germanic and Romance languages, research on Slavic diachrony has so far been relatively limited. Therefore, we intend to foster discussions on language change in Slavic. We welcome contributions that adopt a formal approach to the study of language, which address any aspect of diachronic Slavic linguistics, including:

• Phonological, morphological, semantic, and syntactic change in Slavic languages

• Language contact and its impact on language change

• Corpus-based approaches to diachronic variation in Slavic languages

• Grammaticalization and degrammaticalization

• Typological shifts and isolated changes versus parametric changes in Slavic

• Methodological developments in historical linguistics

Abstract Submission

Abstracts must not exceed 2 pages (including examples, graphs, references). They should have 2.5 cm or 1 inch margins, and should be single-spaced, in a font size not smaller than 12 pt.

Examples, graphs, etc., should be intertwined in the text (rather than placed at the end).

Abstracts must be anonymous (nothing in the abstract or the document should identify the authors) and must be submitted in PDF format.

Please submit abstracts via OpenReview, indicating whether the abstract is intended for the main session, the special session, or either.

Submissions are restricted to either one single- and one co-authored paper, or two co-authored papers, per individual.

Please note that OpenReview has a moderation process for registering users with non-institutional email addresses, which may take several days to complete. Therefore, we strongly encourage applicants using non-institutional email addresses to register early, even if they plan to submit their abstracts at a later date. 

Important dates

Extended abstract submission deadline: June 8th, 2025 (23:59 CEST, UTC +2) June 1, 2025 (23:59 CEST, UTC +2)

Notification of acceptance: mid-late July 2025

Conference dates: September 22–24, 2025

Important links

Conference website: https://sites.google.com/view/fdsl-18

Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=FDSL/2025/Conference