Best student presentations at GLOW48

Together with the local organizers, the GLOW board awarded three prizes for the best student presentations at GLOW48 in Siena. The winners were:

Best talks (ex aequo, 150€ each):

  • János Egressy (UCLA): Williams Cycle effects and successive cyclicity unified
  • Quynh-Giang Dang (UPenn): Northern Vietnamese Negative Particle Questions: A Head-Movement Analysis

From left to right: Susi Wurmbrand (GLOW chair), János Egressy (student prize winner), Jan Casalicchio (local organizer), Valentina Bianchi (local organizer)

Best poster (200€):

  • Nadine Abdel-Rahman (UC Santa Cruz): Two Paths to Superlatives in Palestinian Arabic

From left to right: Susi Wurmbrand (GLOW chair), Jan Casalicchio (local organizer), Nadine Abdel-Rahman (student prize winner), Valentina Bianchi (local organizer)

GLOW48: registration and program

The final program for GLOW 48 (for both the main session and the satellite workshop) is now available on the GLOW48 webpage (https://www.congressi.unisi.it/glow48/).

In addition, registration is now open. In the registration form you can also register for the social dinner, which will take place on Wednesday 22nd at the restaurant San Desiderio (https://www.ristorantesandesiderio.com). Please note that the deadline for registering to both the conference and the social dinner is Sunday, 5th of April.

We are happy to inform you that thanks to the van Riemsdijk Foundation, we are able to offer free registration for all the MA-students and PhD-students who will deliver a talk, or who are the first author of a poster (note that if you are delivering a talk, the order of authors does not matter). If you belong to this category, please fill in the form for free waivers that you find in the “Registration” section of our webpage.

Finally, we would like to remind you that everybody needs to be a GLOW member to attend our conference. You can pay the membership fee here: https://glowlinguistics.org/membership. If you have any questions about the membership, please get in touch with Markus Pöchtrager (markus.poechtrager@univie.ac.at).

Please make sure to book accommodation soon. Siena is a beautiful medieval, but small town, and it might be hard to find a suitable place if one does not book in advance. The university cannot offer any accommodation, nor can it help with the search for legal reasons.

We are looking forward to welcoming you in Siena!

Venues for GLOW 49, 50 & 51

We are happy to announce the venues for the next three GLOW colloquia:

  • GLOW 49 (2027): Lisbon, Portugal (main organizers: Marcel den Dikken, Anabela Gonçalves and Ana Lucia Santos)

  • GLOW 50 (2028): Utrecht, the Netherlands (main organizer: Norbert Corver)

  • GLOW 51 (2029): Bayonne, Basque Country, France (main organizer: Aritz Irurtzun)

The exact results of the votes were:

Lisbon: 138 in favour, 2 against (98.58 % vs. 1.42%)
Utrecht: 117 in favour, 6 against (95.12% vs. 1.95)
Bayonne: 121 in favour, 4 against (96.8 % vs 1.3%)

Thanks to all members for voting. We are very much looking forward to seeing many of you in the upcoming years!

GLOWing lectures mailing list

We now have a GLOWing lectures mailing list! If you are not a GLOW member, but still wish to attend the GLOWing lectures, you are welcome to sign up to our mailing list (alternatively, you can also become a GLOW member, which we in general recommend).

To sign up for the mailing list, send an e-mail to sympa@mlist.is.ed.ac.uk with an empty subject and the following message body (where YOUR NAME stands for your given and family name(s)):

SUBSCRIBE glowing-lectures YOUR NAME

The zoom link for each lecture will be distributed a day before the lecture via this list (and to all active GLOW members).

Note: if you have signed up for a GLOWing lecture before (via the online form), you are NOT automatically transferred to the list. Please subscribe!

GLOW48: Call for Papers

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.