List of linguistics conferences

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

By geographical location

International

• Association for Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon)
• Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL)
• International Conference on Sociolinguistics
• International Congress of Linguists (ICL)
• International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE)
• Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS)

North America

• American Dialect Society (ADS)
• Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA)
• Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS)
• Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
• North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL)
• West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL)
• Western Conference on Linguistics
• 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 (DSL)
• Generative Linguistics in the Old World (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 (WALS)
• African Assembly on Linguistic Anthropology (AFALA)

By subfield

Phonetics

• Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
• Association for Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon)
• New Sounds
• INTERSPEECH
• International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS)

Phonology

• Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP)
• Association for Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon)
• Manchester Phonology Meeting (MFM)

Morphology

• American International Morphology Meeting (AIMM)

Syntax

• Dependency Linguistics (Depling)

Semantics

• Sinn und Bedeutung
• Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT)

Core theory (all of the above)

• North East Linguistics Society (NELS)
• Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW)
• West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL)
• Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA)
• Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS)
• Moscow Student Conference on Linguistics (MSCL)
• Western Conference on Linguistics

Sociolinguistics and variation

• International Gender and Language Association (IGALA)
• International Conference on Sociolinguistics ("ICS")
• New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV)

Second Language Acquisition

• European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing
• 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 (BUCLD)
• European Second Language Association (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 (ACL)
• International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC)
• International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing)

Pragmatics

• International Pragmatic Conference (IPC)
• International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA)

Onomastics

• Mainzer Namentagung
• American Name Society Annual Conference

By language family

Indo-European

Germanic

• Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC)

Romance

• Hispanic Linguistic Symposium (HLS)
• Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL)

Slavic

• Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL)

Uralic/Finno-Ugric

• International Finno-Ugric Students’ Conference (IFUSCO)
• International Congress for Finno-Ugric Studies (CIFU)

Languages of Asia

• Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS)

Sino-Tibetan

• International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL)
• Himalayan Languages Symposium (HLS)
• International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL)
• North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL)
• North East Indian Linguistics Society (NEILS)

Austronesian

• International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (ICAL)
• Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)
• International Symposium on Malay/Indonesian Linguistics (ISMIL)
• International Symposium on the Languages of Java (ISLOJ)
• Conference on Oceanic Linguistics (COOL)

Austroasiatic

• International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics (ICAAL)

Papuan

• Workshop on the Languages of Papua (WLP)

Languages of Africa

• World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL)

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 (SSILA) [1]