49th Annual Conference 2027
2nd – 5th March 2027
University of Jena
Foto: Henry Mühlpfordt, CC-by-SA-3.0
2005 Cologne
2002 Mannheim
2001 Leipzig
1999 Konstanz
1998 Halle (Saale)
1997 Düsseldorf
1992 Bremen
1991 Aachen
1990 Saarbrücken
1989 Osnabrück
1988 Wuppertal
1987 Augsburg
1986 Heidelberg
1985 Hamburg
1984 Bielefeld
1983 Passau
1982 Cologne
1981 Regensburg
1980 Berlin
1979 Tübingen
Straight after the conference, the secretary notifies all members of the place and overall topic of the next annual conference as well as the names and addresses of members of the Executive Committee, Advisory Board and Programme Committee.
Applications to organize a workshop (»AG«) should be submitted to the Chair of the Programme Committee (»Federführung des Programmausschusses«).
Deadline: 15th April
Once the Executive Committee, Advisory Board and Chair of the Programme Committee have made their decision, members are notified which workshops have been accepted in the June edition of the DGfS newsletter.
Deadline for newsletter contributions: 15th May
Organizers put together a programme for their workshop and provide the programme team with a complete list of talk topics and presenters. This list also includes details of planned timings.
Deadline for workshop programme: 30th September
The Executive Committee, Advisory Board and Chair of the Programme Committee assess the practicality and feasibility of the conference programme.
Meeting: in October
The complete list of individual talks is communicated to members in mid-December.
Deadline for details to be communicated: 15th November
Workshop organizers send talk abstracts to the local organizing committee for publication on the conference website and in the abstract booklet.
Deadline: 15th December
Each annual conference has between 12 and 18 workshops (»AGs«), which take place in at most 12 parallel sessions. Workshops can be long or short: short workshops have 5 hours for talks and discussion, and long workshops have 10 hours. Talks (and discussion) must be organized into one-hour or thirty-minute slots.
Workshop proposals must specify which type of worlshop is applied for (one of the following three options: »only as a short workshop«, »only as a long workshop«, »either long or short«).
Each person may present a maximum of one talk, and must stay in the workshop to which that talk belongs. However, it is possible to be listed as a co-author on other talks in the same workshop or in other workshops, as long as the talk is presented by someone else.
The timings of each workshop must be organized in such a way that it is possible for audience members to move between different workshop every hour or half-hour.
Each workshop should specify two or three alternate presenters and include these along with their title in the programme for the workshop. These presenters are contacted as alternates when workshop organizers notify accepted participants, and must commit to stepping in at short notice in place of presenters who cancel.
It is not possible to change time slots, as this creates difficulties for other conference participants. Workshop organizers should therefore find out and communicate their presenters’ time slot preferences well in advance. Online talks (e.g. Zoom, FaceTime) are strongly dispreferred.
Workshops may not run at the same time as plenary sessions or at the same time as the Annual General Meeting.
If additional workshops and poster sessions are offered, these should not overlap with special sessions or with the rest of the conference programme. Insofar as such additional workshops and poster sessions are part of the conference and should be announced as such in the DGfS newsletter, this must be agreed well in advance with the Executive Committee.
Approximately half of the workshop topics should fall under the umbrella of the overall topic of the conference. An effort is also made to take into account all core areas of linguistic research.
Applications to organize a workshop must be sent by email to the Chair of the Programme Committee by 15th April. At least one of the workshop organizers should be a DGfS member. Late submissions will not be considered.
Deadline: 15th April
Each workshop should have at least two organizers. Members of the Executive Committee, Advisory Board or Programme Committee may not organize workshops. No person may organize workshops at two consecutive annual conferences. No person may be involved in the organization of multiple workshops at the same conference.
Workshop organizers may not appear as presenters in other workshops that are running in parallel, so as not to endanger the cohesion of their own workshop.
The proposal should be no more than one A4 page long, in 12-point font, with line spacing set to 1.5. Proposals should be submitted by email in PDF format without identifying document properties. Both an anonymized and a non-anonymized form of the proposal should be included.
The template for the full (non-anonymous) proposal is as follows (with two line breaks between each point and the title in bold):
The description of the workshop’s content should contain the following:
In their spring meeting, the Executive Committee, Advisory Board and Chair of the Programme Committee decide on which workshop proposals are to be accepted and which are to be rejected. Applicants are then informed whether their workshop has been accepted. These decisions are published in the June edition of the DGfS newsletter. Justifications for the decisions will not be provided (not even on request).
As soon as their proposal is accepted, workshop organizers must collect expressions of interest from potential participants. The workshop call for papers should be advertised nationally or internationally. A maximum of two presenters may be named in advance.
Workshop organizers must put together a preliminary programme for their workshop and provide the Chair of the Programme Committee with a list of presentation topics and speakers.
Deadline for submission to the Chair of the Programme Committee: 15th September
Workshop organizers must produce a programme for their workshop with details of time slots. They should contact their presenters to find out whether they have any preferences as to time slot, and take these into account where possible. The timetable must be constructed such that conference participants can move between workshops at least every hour.
Workshop organizers must ask their participants to submit abstracts of no more than one page. They then pass these files, along with the workshop timetable, to the local organizing committee for publication in the conference brochure.
Deadline for submission to the local organizing committee: 15th December
Once the editorial deadline for the conference brochure has passed, no further changes may be made.
Workshop organizers must inform the DGfS newsletter editor if and when publications based on their workshop appear.
Three members of the Programme Committee are elected at the Annual General Meeting. The member who receives the most votes takes on the role of Chair of the Programme Committee. The university hosting the conference selects and co-opts a further member of the committee.
The Programme Committee makes suggestions as to the structure of plenary sessions and agrees upon a preliminary selection of workshop proposals.
The Executive Committee, Advisory Board and Chair of the Programme Committee decide on the final conference programme in a joint meeting.
Workshop organizers are informed of this decision. Acceptances and other proposals (for instance combining multiple workshops into one) are communicated by the Chair of the Programme Committee. Rejections are communicated to applicants by the DGfS chairperson; justifications are not provided.
The Chair of the Programme Committee sends an overview of accepted workshops to the editor of the DGfS newsletter, along with a list of proposals that were not accepted, as a single file.
At the autumn meeting of the Executive Committee and Advisory Board, the Chair of the Programme Committee reports on the progress of preparations and presents a preliminary programme of individual workshops (topics, presenters). The Executive Committee and Advisory Board assess the feasibility and practicality of the programme.
An earlier version of these guidelines was proposed at the Executive Committee meeting on 25.02.1997 in Düsseldorf, and decided upon at the joint meeting of the Executive Committee and Advisory Board in Marburg on 26.04.1997.
Changes were decided upon at joint meetings of the Executive Committee and Advisory Board in Munich on 04.11.2000 and in Marburg on 25.10.2008.
Further changes were decided upon at meetings of the Executive Committee and Advisory Board in Braunschweig on 02.10.2015 and in Frankfurt am Main on 17.05.2019.
This English translation is provided for ease of reference only, and is non-binding; for all legal and administrative purposes the German version takes precedence.
