FoDS 10

Call for papers

We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the workshop Formal Diachronic Semantics – FoDS 10. The main conference will take place on March 18 – 19, 2027, at the University of Konstanz. Submissions can be made via OpenReview.

We invite submission of abstracts for 30-minute oral presentations (with an additional 10 minutes for questions) or poster presentations on topics addressing semantic change from within the paradigm of formal semantics/pragmatics. These may include case studies, studies of trends, corpus results, as well as formal theories of meaning change in specific domains. We also welcome research at the interfaces with syntax and other areas, as long as the research contributes to the area of formal diachronic semantics. We welcome papers that address methodological questions in the field. Submissions are limited to one individual and one joint abstract per author (or two joint abstracts per author).

The conference is complemented by a workshop on Noise in Language Change, to take place on March 17th, 2027. The workshop focuses on the influence of irregularities, exceptions and individual speaker variation on the use and change of languages, including phonological, syntactic, morphological, orthographic, semantic and pragmatic changes. We particularly invite studies that explore the hidden structure behind noisy data and its impact on novel patterns in grammar.

A special session of the conference will be held in memory of Remus Gergel.

Abstract submission