11th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-11)
Date: September 17–19, 2025
Venue: Charles Univesity, Faculty of Arts, Prague, Czech Republic
The Faculty of Arts at Charles University in Prague is pleased to announce the 11th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-11), which will take place from September 17 to 19, 2025, in Prague.
The ICLC conference series, running since 1998, aims to promote fine-grained cross-linguistic research comprising two or more languages from a broad range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. Following the success of ICLC-10 in Mannheim 2023, ICLC-11 wants to bring together researchers from different linguistic subfields and neighboring disciplines to continue the interdisciplinary dialog on comparing languages, to foster the development of an international community and to advance possible new areas of cross-linguistic research.
We invite abstracts on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:
- Comparison of phenomena in two or more languages addressing topics from any area and level of linguistic analysis:
- Studies on lexicon, phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax and morphosyntax, semantics, pragmatics as well as topics such as register and socio-cultural context; we particularly welcome papers dealing with linguistic complexity
- Research on the interplay between language-specific description, cross-linguistic generalizations, and the development of linguistic theory
- Methodological challenges and solutions in cross-linguistic research:
- Utilization of language corpora and issues of linguistic annotation: multilingual corpora, learner corpora, and multimodal corpora; Universal Dependencies
- Comparability issues, tertia comparationis, language universals
- Experimental and naturalistic interaction data
- Research including low-resourced languages
- The role of artificial intelligence and new digital tools in linguistic analysis and their impact on research paradigms
- Contrastive linguistics in touch with related disciplines:
- Approaches to language comparison based on theoretical frameworks: generative, model-theoretic, functional or cognitive (such as construction grammar)
- Historical and variationist perspectives in contrastive linguistics, registers, multimodality, pragmatics, interculturality
- Cognitive and psycholinguistic approaches to bilingualism and multilingualism
- Sociolinguistic approaches, language policy implications of contrastive linguistics
- Studies on language contact and its effects on linguistic structures
- Language acquisition and language teaching and learning
- Translation studies
Please note that the conference will be held onsite and that its language will be English.
Submission requirements
We seek submissions that present empirical research, well-defined research questions or hypotheses, details of the research approach and methods, theoretical insights, and (preliminary/expected) results. There are two submission categories: talks (20 minutes + 10 minutes for discussion), and posters. The authors should specify their preference in the submission, but the program committee may suggest a different category.
Abstracts should adhere to the following guidelines:
- Size in words: 400–500 words, excluding an additional page with a list of references and (if any) numbered examples, tables or figures.
- Include 5 semicolon-separated keywords below the title.
- Abstracts should be submitted as pdf files, in English, anonymized, and without obvious self-reference. Please remove your name from the metadata of the submitted file.
- Each person may submit only one paper (talk or poster) as the first author.
- There is no limit on co-authored submissions, but presenting more than one paper by a single person is discouraged.
- Your abstracts should be submitted via the Open Review conference management system (see Abstract submission steps below).
All submissions will undergo a double-blind peer review process, evaluated on originality, relevance, quality and adherence to the Submission Requirements.
Abstract submission steps
- Go to https://openreview.net/group?id=ICLC/2024/Conference
- Click on Login (top right), then login by Email and Password or sign up (see below).
- In the Add box, click on [ICLC 2024 Conference Submission].
- Fill in the form, including 5 comma-separated Keywords and the TL;DR box (a short sentence describing your submission.)
Then, upload your abstract as an anonymized PDF.[1]
- [Submit].
To sign up:
- Click on [Sign Up] under New User?
- Follow the instructions.
- The platform assumes that you create your own profile, preferably with an email address that uses an institutional domain.
- With a public email address you may experience a delay of up to 2 weeks before the profile is activated.
- The profile also requires that you share some basic academic information about yourself, which is used to support the review procedure, but you don’t need to provide too much detail. Generally, the most recent affiliation and position is enough.[2]
Preliminary Program
- Parallel Oral Sessions
- Poster Sessions
- Keynote Speakers:
We are honored to have three distinguished keynote speakers:
- Sabine De Knop (Université Saint-Louis, Bruxelles, Belgium)
- Volker Gast (Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany)
- Dan Zeman (Charles University, Prague)
- Panel Discussion
Important Dates
- 24.02.2025: Deadline for abstract submission
- 26.05.2025: Notification of acceptance
- 02.06.2025: Registration opens
- 16.06.2025: Deadline for revised abstract submission
- 30.06.2025: Last day for early bird registration
- 01.09.2025: Online registration closes
- 16.09.2025: Arrival, Registration, Get-together
- 17–19.09.2025: Conference
Organizing Committee
- Mirjam Fried (chair) 1)
- Viktor Elšík 1)
- Jana Kocková 2)
- Michal Křen 1)
- Olga Nádvorníková 1)
- Alexandr Rosen 1)
1) Charles University, Faculty of Arts
2) Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Slavonic Studies
Program Committee
TBA
Contact Information
[1] To check if your name appears in the pdf file metadata, open the pdf file in Adobe Acrobat Reader and click on Document properties in the menu (listed under the File menu in MacOS). The Author box should be empty. If your name appears in the Author box, you can remove it in your source document and re-export. To remove it from the pdf file, you need Adobe Acrobat Pro or a third-party software.
[2] Quoted from OpenReview FAQ: The institutional domain does not have to be an academic institution, like a university or research institution. It can be any company that you are working in right now. When filling out the profile details for registration, there is a section that will ask for your Education and Career History and it will require a current position. For the role you can type “Independent Researcher” and set that as your current position. If you do not have a company domain, you can use a personal email.
