Jan. 28, 2026 - Jan. 30, 2026
The 34th edition of the Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE) will take place on January 28-30, 2025, at IUSS Pavia (Italy).
ConSOLE is an annual conference for graduate (Master, PhD) and advanced undergraduate (Bachelor) students of Linguistics. It aims to provide students worldwide with the opportunity to present their research to an international audience. More information about SOLE (Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe), previous conferences, as well as the ConSOLE proceedings published by the SOLE board can be found at: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/series/sole
Confirmed Invited Speakers
- Anna Maria Di Sciullo (UQAM)
- Andrea Moro (IUSS Pavia, Scuola Normale Superiore)
- Gilliam Ramchand (Oxford)
- Vieri Samek-Lodovici (UCL)
- Marco Tettamanti (Milan Bicocca)
Submission instructions:
For the main session, we invite abstract submissions for both oral presentations (20-minute talk plus additional 10 minutes for questions and discussion) and poster presentations. We welcome abstracts from a wide range of linguistic subfields (e.g., language acquisition, morphology, phonetics/ phonology, semantics/ pragmatics, syntax) and methodologies (e.g., computational, experimental, fieldwork, theoretical).
The theme of this edition of ConSOLE is movement. Movement is, in many theoretical traditions, one of the most fundamental and far-reaching notions in linguistics: it captures the fact that units of language are not always interpreted where they are pronounced, nor pronounced where they are first merged. Displacement, reordering, and shifting can be observed at many levels of grammar, from word-internal morphology to large-scale syntactic configurations, and in certain phonological and semantic phenomena as well.
What makes movement so intriguing is both its pervasiveness and its diversity. Syntactic theories account for phenomena like wh-movement, topicalization, scrambling, or raising by invoking displacement operations, while phonologists have described processes such as tone shift, metathesis, and prosodic restructuring in movement-like or reordering terms. In syntax-semantics interface research, covert movement has been hypothesized as a way of modeling scope and binding. Morphological systems, too, may exhibit movement-like effects, for instance in affix placement and alignment. Finally, from a computational perspective, movement phenomena present important challenges for parsing algorithms and machine learning models, which must handle non-local dependencies and long-distance relationships between elements.
This yearβs theme aims to encourage a conversation across domains. Why is movement such a pervasive property of language? What motivates it, and what role does it play in grammar and interpretation? Is there unified notion of movement underlying its many manifestations, or are we dealing with distinct mechanisms that only appear similar? How do locality conditions, intervention effects, and interface restrictions shape the possibilities for movement? What do typological and experimental data tell us about the universality or variation of movement phenomena?
ConSOLE34 will also host a Neurolinguistics Workshop (keynote speaker: Marco Tettamanti), welcoming cutting-edge research in neurolinguistics, language acquisition, and cognitive science, focusing on the neural foundations and developmental trajectories underlying language abilities, throughout the lifespan. To apply, visit https://console34.github.io/workshop/
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The organizing committee will allocate part of the conference budget to travel grants for student presenters (both oral presentations and posters). These grants will be assigned via an internal selection process based on qualitative and demographic criteria to ensure fair and equitable distribution of available funds. For more informations, visit: https://console34.github.io/grants/
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- Only original research that has not been published or accepted for publication at the time of submission can be presented.
- Language for the abstracts and presentations should be English.
- One author may submit at most one abstract as sole author and one abstract as co-author (or two co-authored abstracts).
- Authors should specify whether they would like to be considered for oral or poster presentation (or for both).
- Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format. The files must be anonymous and not reveal the identity of the author(s) in any form (be sure to remove metadata from the file).
- Abstracts are limited to a maximum of 2 A4 pages (including references, examples, tables, appendices, etc.) and must have 1.5 cm margins on all sides, with a font no smaller than 12pt set in Times New Roman (or a similar font).
- Abstracts not complying with these guidelines may be excluded from the reviewing process.
Submissions closes on October 1st, 2025 (CET).
Notification of acceptance will be sent on November 21st, 2025. Please check your junk or spam folder if you do not receive a letter of decision.
Submissions open: Sept. 4, 2025 - Oct. 1, 2025
Abstract review period: Oct. 2, 2025 - Nov. 1, 2025
Contact Email: [email protected]