The 31st Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-31) will take place on July 2-4, 2025, hosted by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. Ca’ Foscari University is happy to invite scholars and students in relevant fields to join the event in Venice.
The International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL) is the only international professional organization devoted to the promotion of scientific research on Chinese linguistics/languages, and has held its annual conference at various leading institutions in Asia, North America, Europe, and Australia since its establishment in 1992. The event serves as an important occasion for scholars and researchers working on Chinese linguistics across the globe to present original and unpublished research work in all subfields of linguistics on a great variety of the Chinese languages or other languages of China.
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Call for papers - IACL-31 - English version | 164 KB |
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Call for papers - IACL-31 - Simplified Chinese | 327 KB |
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Call for papers - IACL-31 - Traditional Chinese | 343 KB |
Abstracts are invited for talks on any fields of Chinese linguistics or linguistic studies of languages in China. Each talk will be 20 minutes, followed by a 10-minute discussion. Submissions are limited to one individual and one joint abstract per author.
Notes: Non-IACL members must join IACL within 30 days of acceptance notification to be eligible for presentation at IACL-31.
For past winners and more information of the following awards, please go to the IACL website.
The YSA competition is an innovative attempt by the IACL to promote, recognize, and encourage scholarship by young scholars. It is held once a year in conjunction with the IACL annual conference.
A maximum of 5 (normally 2-4) finalists will be selected, each awarded a travel subsidy plus accommodation and invited to the IACL conference to give an oral presentation at a special session organized for this purpose, before a panel of judges chaired by the IACL President (the review committee of any given year may also recommend that no finalist be invited). The author of the best paper selected by the panel will be honored at the banquet of the annual conference, awarded US $1000, and presented with an award certificate.
This award is an annual prize in the amount of US $500, donated by Professor Anne Yue in memory of the eminent linguist and sinologist, Professor Mantaro J. Hashimoto. It is offered as an encouragement to young scholars who wish to devote themselves to the study of Chinese historical phonology, a field in which Professor Hashimoto was especially interested and to which he made numerous important contributions.
The prize will be administered as part of the Young Scholar Award (YSA) process. All YSA papers submitted in the field of Chinese historical phonology will automatically be concurrently considered for the MJH Award.
Title the subject of the submission email “YSA/MJH”. Applicants should follow the published YSA guidelines in preparing their submissions. All regulations, restrictions, selection criteria, and judging standards current in the YSA process will apply to papers considered for the MJH Award, with the exception that MJH submissions must deal specifically with the area of historical phonology.
This award is an annual prize in the amount of US $500, established in the honor of Professor Hsin-I Hsieh for his immense contributions to the IACL and to the field of Chinese linguistics. The award is offered as a token of encouragement to young scholars who wish to devote themselves to interdisciplinary studies in Chinese linguistics.
The prize will be administered as part of the Young Scholar Award (YSA) process. All papers with an interdisciplinary approach submitted for YSA will automatically be concurrently considered for the IRA Award.
Title the subject of the submission email “YSA/IRA”. Applicants should follow the published YSA guidelines in preparing their submissions. All regulations, restrictions, and selection criteria adopted in the YSA process will apply to the papers considered for the Interdisciplinary Research Award, with the exception that these submissions must have an interdisciplinary focus, which includes interface studies (phonology-syntax, morph-syntax, syntax-semantics, etc.), studies which combine diachronic and synchronic approaches, those that combine methodologies from different frameworks (formal, functional, typological, etc.), or those that combine linguistics and other disciplines (literature, anthropology, sociology, psychology, computer science, etc.).
The conference will occur at San Giobbe Campus, Fondamenta San Giobbe, Cannaregio 873, 30121 Venice (Italy).
From the airport you can reach Mestre or Venice (Piazzale Roma) by land (on a bus or taxi) or take the water route to Venice (Alilaguna boat or water taxi).
The Venice railway station is “Venezia Santa Lucia”. The main train companies in Italy are Trenitalia and Italo. You can purchase the tickets at the train station or online, directly from the relevant websites.
Piazzale Roma and Tronchetto are the two areas in Venice that can be reached by car and where you can find the following park terminals:
For more tourist information please visit Venezia Unica, the Official City of Venice Tourist and Travel Information website.
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