GLOWing lectures 2025/2026

Our upcoming year of GLOWing lectures will have the umbrella topic “Linguistics and the world we live in” and feature three lectures:

  • Linguistics and Language Communities
  • Linguistics in Education
  • Linguistics and LLMs

Further, we start an additional sub-series of GLOWing lectures called “Languages deserving more attention” where a specialist of one language (family) shows what it fascinating about this language, how it contributes to our generative theories or challenges them. From 2025/26 on, these lectures will take place once a year, usually in the last slot (that is, in May or June).

Stay tuned for more information!

GLOW47: Best student presentations

At GLOW47 we awarded 3 prizes to the best student presentations. The BEST POSTER went to Madhusmitha Venkatesan (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi) for her poster on Deriving Adjectives in Heritage Tamil: Stability and Change.

The BEST TALK was shared between Katie McCann (Leipzig University) for her presentation An illusory violation of the affix ordering generalisation in Tigrinya and Anna Laoide-Kemp (University of Edinburgh) for her presentation Preverbal d’ and its interactions with the initial consonant mutation system in Irish.

We congratulate the winners for their outstanding presentations!