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
