The 49th edition of GLOW will be held at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, Portugal, from 22 to 25 March 2027 — 35 years after the 1992 Lisbon GLOW, where Richard Kayne presented the fundamentals of his antisymmetry of syntax in his keynote address.
The main colloquium (22–24 March) has no designated theme. Contributions are welcome on all topics, in all subdisciplines of the field, from any perspective compatible with generative objectives. The organisers of GLOW49 would like to promote representation of work on varieties of Portuguese and languages in the Portuguese-speaking world, as well as work on both spoken and signed modalities of language.
The main colloquium will feature two types of oral presentation (long presentations, max. 40 minutes, and shorter presentations, max. 25 minutes, each followed by a 10-minute question-and-answer period), and a wide selection of posters. Abstract submissions are limited to a maximum of one single-authored and one co-authored abstract per person. Please note that submitting the same abstract to both the main colloquium and one or more of the workshops is not permitted.
On 25 March, there will be three workshops in parallel sessions. The topics of the three workshops are the following:
– phonology, morphology, and their interactions
– the syntax, semantics, and acquisition of control phenomena
– the morphosyntax and semantics of clausal hypotaxis
Each workshop will feature a selection of 25-minute oral presentations, each with a 10-minute question-and-answer period.
PLEASE NOTE that the deadline for submission of abstracts to both the main colloquium and the three workshops is 1 November 2026. This deadline will not be extended.
Abstracts for both the main colloquium and the three workshops should be submitted as fully anonymized PDF documents that do not exceed two single-spaced pages (A4 with 2.5 cm margins or US letter with 1 inch margins on all sides), including examples, references and tables/figures, in a font no smaller than 12pt Times New Roman. In the application form, authors are requested to provide a list of max. 5 keywords.
Abstracts should be submitted on the Oxford Abstracts platform, accessible via the following link: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/83205/submitter.
The main colloquium, the poster sessions, and the three workshops will all take place in the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, whose Campo Grande campus is conveniently located and reachable on foot, by bike, by bus and by metro from all corners of Lisbon.
Practical information about the conference can be found on the conference website: https://dkaramasov.github.io/glow49.
