Program overview

TUESDAY, MARCH 4TH 2025

8:45 am – 6 pm

Annual Meeting of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Linguistische Pragmatik (Working Group on Linguistic Pragmatics)

Metapragmatik: Wenn Sprachgebrauch zum Thema wird

1 – 5 pm

Tutorial in Computational Linguistics

Lexical Semantic Change Detection (LSCD)

from 7 pm

Warm-up

Restaurant Caipiranha: https://www.caipiranha-mainz.de/

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5TH 2025

8 am – 6:15 pm

Registration

9 – 9:30 am

Conference opening and welcome address

9:30 – 10:30 am

Keynote 1: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Dare to be different: linguistic diversity and change in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea

10:30 – 11 am

Award ceremony

11 – 11:30 am

Break

11:30 – 12:30 am

Keynote 2: Annemarie Verkerk

The evolutionary dynamics of language: universals, rates of change, and explanations

12:30 am – 1:45 pm

Lunch break

1:45 – 3:45 pm

Workshops

3:45 – 4:30 pm

Break

Poster session Computational Linguistics (Part 1)

4:30 – 6 pm

Workshops

6:30 – 8 pm

Reception by the City of Mainz

Mayor Nino Haase

Alte Mensa, University Campus

THURSDAY, MARCH 6TH 2025

8:30 am – 6:15 pm

Conference office

9 – 10:30 am

Workshops

10:30 – 11:15 am

Break

Poster session Computational Linguistics (Part 2)

Publishers' exhibition

11:15 – 12:45 am

Workshops

12:45 am – 1:45 pm

Lunch break

Publishers' exhibition

1:45 – 2:45 pm

Workshops

3 – 6:15 pm

General Meeting of the DGfS

(Admission from 2:30 pm)

7 pm

Conference dinner

University canteen

FRIDAY, MARCH 7TH 2025

8:30 am – 2:30 pm

Conference office

9 – 10 am

Keynote 3: Gerhard Jäger

Tracking the change that leads to typological variation

10 – 11 am

Keynote 4: Alex François

Dialexification: an empirical tool for observing trends in semantic shift

11 – 11:45 am

Break

11:45 am – 2:15 pm

Workshops