Societas Linguistica Europaea

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The Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) is a Europe-focused professional society for linguists. It was founded in 1966 [1] to advance linguistics, the scientific study of human language. The SLE has over 1,000 individual members and welcomes linguists of all kinds. Through its website, its annual meetings, and its journals Folia Linguistica and Folia Linguistica Historica , the SLE works to disseminate current research in linguistics and facilitate communication within the discipline.

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The first president of the SLE was André Martinet, elected in 1966. Particularly active members in the first decades were Werner Winter (president in 1991) and Jacek Fisiak (president in 1972 and 1982). In the years before 1990, the SLE was an important meeting place for linguists from western Europe and eastern Europe. Meetings and presidents alternated between western Europe and eastern Europe.

Publications

The SLE publishes two journals, Folia Linguistica (on all areas of general linguistics) and Folia Linguistica Historica (specifically on historical linguistics).[ citation needed ]

Meetings

The SLE organizes an annual four-day conference in the summer, with a program of talks, plenary speakers, symposia, and poster sessions for researchers to share their work. In 2020 and 2021, the Annual Meetings of the SLE took place digitally, due to the COVID-19 restrictions on traveling and gatherings. The 53rd Annual Meeting did not take place as originally planned, from 26 to 29 August 2020 at the University of Bucharest. As a result the 55th Annual Meeting is now expected to take place from 24 to 27 August 2022 at the University of Bucharest. [2]

Meetingplacestart dateend date
58 University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France20252025
57 University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland21 August 202424 August 2024
56 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece29 August 20231 September 2023
55 University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania24 August 202227 August 2022
54Digitally30 August 20213 September 2021
53Digitally26 August 20201 September 2020
52 Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany21 August 201924 August 2019
51 University of Tallinn, Tallinn, Estonia29 August 20181 September 2018
50 University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland10 September 201713 September 2017
49 University of Naples, Napoli, Italy31 August 20163 September 2016
48 Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands2 September 20155 September 2015
47 Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland11 September 201414 September 2014
46 University of Split, Split, Croatia18 September 201321 September 2013
45 Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden29 August 20121 September 2012
44 University of La Rioja, Logroño, Spain8 September 201111 September 2011
43 Vilniaus Universitetas, Vilnius, Lithuania2 September 20105 September 2010
42 University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal9 September 200912 September 2009
41 University of Bologna, Forlí Campus, Italy17 September 200820 September 2008
40 University of Joensuu, Joensuu, Finland28 August 20071 September 2007
39 University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany30 August 20062 September 2006

Presidents

The following persons have been president of the Societeas Linguistica Europaea: [3]

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References

  1. "About Societas Linguistica Europaea".
  2. "Meetings". societaslinguistica.eu. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
  3. "Presidents and Annual Meetings of the Societas Linguistica Europaea" . Retrieved 28 July 2012.