The Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia) is pleased to announce the 21st Conference on Typology and Grammar for Young Scholars, which will be held in Saint Petersburg, 21–23 November 2024.

Invited Speakers:

• Leonid Kulikov (Ghent University — Université catholique de Louvain), “Labile verbs and transitivity oppositions in Indo-European and beyond: Evidence for a diachronic typology of lability”
• Konstantin Pozdniakov (INALCO – LLACAN (CNRS)), TBA

Submissions from young researchers (35 years old and younger) working in any area of linguistic typology, corpus linguistics, grammar and phonology are welcome. Each talk selected for presentation will be allotted 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes of discussion. The official languages of the conference are Russian and English. Abstracts can be written in either language. Note that the abstract should not exceed 4000 characters (counting spaces), excluding references and abbreviations, otherwise it will be rejected on formal grounds. In the abstract, please specify the problem, methods and findings of the research. One individual may be involved in a maximum of two abstracts (maximum of one as sole author).

The deadline for abstract submission is 8 September 2024. Anonymous abstracts should be submitted via the conference website.

All inquiries can be addressed to the conference email box: youngconfspb@gmail.com. 

The decision of the Organizing Committee on acceptance/rejection of submissions will be announced to authors no later than 23 September 2024.

There is no participation fee.

The conference will most probably be held both onsite (Institute for Linguistic Studies RAS in Saint Petersburg, Russia) and online (Zoom), this information will be updated later. If needed, online participation will be possible for all accepted presentations.

Conference email: youngconfspb@gmail.com

Conference website: https://www.youngconfspb.com/e/main 

For submissions in English: https://www.youngconfspb.com/e/abstract-submission.

For submissions in Russian: https://www.youngconfspb.com/podacha-tezisov.

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: 8 September 2024

Notification of acceptance: no later than 23 September 2024

Conference: 21–23 November 2024

Organizing Committee:

Elizaveta Zabelina, Junior Research Fellow, ILS RAS (Chair)

Natalia Logvinova, Junior Research Fellow, ILS RAS (Secretary)

Maksim Fedotov, PhD student, LLACAN (CNRS) – INALCO

Olga Kuznetsova, Research Fellow, ILS RAS

Valeriya Modina, PhD student, City University of New York

Valeriya Olishevskaya, PhD student, Research Assistant, ILS RAS

Natalia Zaika, Leading Research Fellow, Head of the Department of Linguistic Typology, ILS RAS

Arseny Vydrin, Senior Research Fellow, ILS RAS