GLOW Linguistics

Today at 15:00 CET! The zoom link was sent to all members and everyone who signed up. For those of you who were late; no worries, the lecture will be available on YouTube after the weekend.

The slides can be found HERE.

The 48th GLOW Conference will take place on April 21-23, 2026, at the University of Siena (Italy) and will be preceded by a satellite workshop “Less documented languages in formal linguistics: empirical problems and theoretical perspectives”, to be held at the University of Florence on April 20, 2026. For further information please visit the conference website: https://www.congressi.unisi.it/glow48/

Instructions for submission:

• Submission closes on December 2
• The abstract must be submitted electronically using OpenReview: click here
• Abstracts must be in PDF format.
• Abstracts must not exceed two pages of A4 paper, including figures. References can be included on an additional page.
• Abstracts should have 2.5 cm margins on all sides, set in a font no smaller than 12 points.
• Submissions are limited to one individual and one joint abstract per author, or two joint abstracts per author.
• We recommend that authors create an OpenReview account at lest 15 days before the submission deadline.
• Each abstract must indicate whether it is to be considered for a talk or poster.

The umbrella topic of this year’s GLOWing lectures is Linguistics and the World we live in. Our first lecture takes place on Friday, November 21, 15:00 CET and features Michelle Sheehan & Eloisa Pilati discussing about why language teaching needs linguistics. If you’re not a GLOW member, sign up for the Zoom link HERE.

The Call for Papers for GLOW48 (Siena, April 2026) is out!
https://linguistlist.org/issues/36/3038/

The dates, speakers and discussants of the upcoming GLOWing lecture series are almost finalized-find all information here: https://glowlinguistics.org/upcoming-glowing-lectures/ and don’t forget to join us for our first lecture on Linguistics in Education (Michelle Sheehan & Eloisa Pilati) on November 21!

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!

Mark your calendars: GLOW 48 will be hosted by the University of Siena and takes place from April 21-23, 2026.

Our 7th GLOWing lecture will feature Athulya Aravind and Adriana Belletti, discussing about language acquisition. Join us on May 16, 15:00 CEST on Zoom. Slides: HERE

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!