SinFonIJA is a traveling conference that covers topics from all areas of theoretical linguistics, comparative linguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, sociolinguistics, language acquisition and discourse analysis. It was first organised in Nova Gorica in 2008 and got its name from the Slovenian SINtaksa FONologija In Jezikovna Analiza ‘Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis’. Over the past 17 years it has been organised in Brno, Budapest, Dubrovnik, Graz, Kraków, Ljubljana, Niš, Nova Gorica, Novi Sad, Sarajevo, Udine, and Vienna i.e. the many cities within the area of the former Austro-Hungarian empire and/or Yugoslavia.