The Fifth AMC Symposium is scheduled for 7-9 December 2026 in person in Edinburgh.
The call for papers is now open. The deadline for abstracts is 31 July.
Background
The theme of this year’s symposium is “Types of Evidence in Historical Linguistics”
How do we know what a language was like in the past? How do we know that it has changed (or is changing)? The study of language change, and of historical linguistics more generally, uses many different kinds of evidence, including among others: comparison, written and spoken records/corpora, population dynamics, social variation, typology and linguistic theory. This symposium is intended to offer a forum to consider and compare them, and to reflect on what they can tell us.
- Which kinds of evidence exist?
- Which kinds of question can we answer on the basis of different types of evidence?
- How much data is enough?
- Which methods do we need to investigate different kinds of evidence?
- Do their results converge?
The 5th AMC Symposium will bring together specialists working with different types of evidence to discuss these questions. While we particularly encourage abstracts for regular talks and posters that engage with the key symposium themes, we also welcome abstracts on any topic in historical linguistics, including all language specialisms and sub-disciplines.
Invited speakers
- Chundra Cathcart (Zurich)
- Terttu Nevalainen (Helsinki)
- Sara Pacchiarotti (Ghent)
- Jane Stuart-Smith (Glasgow)
- David Stifter (Maynooth)
- Rob Truswell (Edinburgh)
Call for papers
We are accepting abstracts for talks and posters – details here – the deadline is 31 July.
Programme
The programme for the three days will include daily plenaries, talks and poster sessions. More details will be available in November.
Organisers
- Nikolas Gisborne
- Lisa Gotthard
- Patrick Honeybone
- Pavel Iosad
- Bettelou Los
- Warren Maguire
- Benjamin Molineaux
- Graeme Trousdale
Contact
If you need to get in touch, please email us at amc-sympo@mlist.is.ed.ac.uk
