List of linguistics conferences

This is a list of recurring linguistics conferences. Included are also a list of organisations that hold recurring meetings under the same name.

By Geographical Location

International

• Association for Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon)
• Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)
• Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL)
• International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL)
• International Conference on Sociolinguistics ("ICS")
• International Gender and Language Association (IGALA)
• International Morphology Conference
• South Asian Language Analysis (SALA)
• Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL)
• International Congress of Linguists (ICL)

North America

• Berkeley Linguistic Society (BLS)
• Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD)
• Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA)
• Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS)
• Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition - North America (GALANA)
• Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT)
• International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC)
• Language Creation Conference (LCC)
• Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
• Linguistics Association of the Southwest (LASSO)
• Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL)
• Montreal-Toronto-Ottawa Phonology Workshop (MOT)
• North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL)
• North East Linguistic Society (NELS)
• Penn Linguistics Colloquium (PLC)
• UCLA Indo-European Conference
• Texas Linguistics Society (TSLX)
• West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL)
• Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal Semantics Workshop (TOM)
• Western Conference on Linguistics
• Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas (WSCLA)

Europe

• Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW)
• Going Romance
• International Conference on Sociolinguistics ("ICS")
• Romance Linguistics Seminar (Cambridge)
• Society of Italian Linguistics
• Sociolinguistic Symposium
• Moscow Student Conference on Linguistics (MSCL)
• The International Maastricht-Łódź Duo Colloquium "Translation and Meaning"
• The International Conference on Italian Studies of the University of Craiova, Romania

Asia

• Generative Linguistics in the Old World - Asia (GLOW Asia)

Africa

• Linguistic Association of Nigeria
• West African Linguistic Society (WALS)

By Subfield

Phonetics

• Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
• Association for Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon)
• New Sounds
• International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS)

Phonology

• Association for Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon)
• Manchester Phonology Meeting (MFM)
• Montreal-Toronto-Ottawa Phonology Workshop (MOT)

Morphology

• International Morphology Conference

Syntax

• Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference (DIGS)

Semantics

• Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT)
• Semantics of Under-Represented Languages of the Americas (SULA)
• Sinn und Bedeutung

Core Theory (all of the above)

• Berkeley Linguistic Society (BLS)
• Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA)
• Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS)
• Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW)
• Moscow Student Conference on Linguistics (MSCL)
• North East Linguistic Society (NELS)
• West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL)
• Western Conference on Linguistics

Psycholinguistics

• CUNY Conference on Language Processing
• Association for Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon)

Cognitive Linguistics

• Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language (CSDL)
• International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLC)

Sociolinguistics and Variation

• International Gender and Language Association (IGALA)
• International Conference on Methods in Dialectology ("Methods")
• International Conference on Sociolinguistics ("ICS") ]
• New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV)
• Sociolinguistics Symposium
• International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE)

Acquisition

• Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD)
• European Second Language Association (EUROSLA)
• Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA)
• Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition - North America (GALANA)
• Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA)

Computational Linguistics

• Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
• International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC)
• International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing)

Pragmatics

• Experimental Pragmatics (Biennual; XPrag)
• XPrag.de Workshops

Miscellaneous

• Language Creation Conference (LCC)

By Language Family

Indo-European

• UCLA Indo-European Conference
• East Coast Indo-European Conference (ECIEC)

Germanic

• Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop (CGSW)
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS)

Romance

• Going Romance
• Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL)
• Romance Linguistics Seminar (Cambridge)
• Symposium on Luso-Hispanic Linguistics (SLHL)

Slavic

• Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL)

Indo-Iranian

• International Conference on Iranian Linguistics (ICIL)

Languages of Asia

• Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS)

Sino-Tibetan

• International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL)
• North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL)
• International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL)
• Himalayan Languages Symposium (HLS)
• Northeast Indian Linguistics Society (NEILS)

Austronesian

• Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)
• International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (ICAL)
• Philippine Linguistics Congress (PLC)
• International Symposium on Malay/Indonesian Linguistics (ISMIL)
• International Symposium On The Languages Of Java (ISLOJ)
• International Conference on Oceanic Languages (COOL)

Austroasiatic

• International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics

Papuan

• Workshop on the Languages of Papua (WLP)

Altaic

• Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL)
• Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference
• International Conference on Turkish Linguistics (ICTL)

Dravidian

• International Seminar on Dravidian Linguistics (ISDL) / Dravidian Linguistics Association (DLA)

Languages of Africa

• World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL)
• Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics (CALL); usually in Leiden, Netherlands
• Nuba Mountain Languages Conference (NMLC)

Afro-Asiatic

• Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages (BICCL)
• Italian Meeting of Afro-Asiatic Linguistics
• Afro-Asiatic Congress

Languages of the Americas

• Semantics of Under-Represented Languages of the Americas (SULA)
• Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas (WSCLA)
• Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA)
• International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages (ICSNL)
• Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL)

Caribbean Languages, including creoles

• Society for Caribbean Linguistics

Auxiliary languages

• International Interlingua Conference
• Various national and regional Interlingua conferences

Areal/Non-Genetic

• South Asian Language Analysis (SALA)
• International Conference on Languages of Far East, Southeast Asia and West Africa (LESEWA)
• Linguistic Society of India (LSI)