General Information

Call for Papers :: Keynote speakers :: Programme Committee :: Local Organizing Committee :: Conference Office :: Theme Sessions :: Important dates

Call for Papers

The last Call for Papers can be found here.

Keynote speakers

We are happy to announce the following plenary speakers:

• Bernard Comrie, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
• Seana Coulson, University of California at San Diego
• Holger Diessel, Jena University
• Stefan Th. Gries, University of California at St. Barbara
• Günter Radden, Hamburg University
• Gerard Steen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Programme Committee

• Kerstin Fischer, Syddansk Universitet, Sonderborg, Denmark
• Mirjam Fried, Princeton University
• Stefan Fuhs, University of Jena
• Stefan Th. Gries, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Martin Hilpert, ICSI, Berkeley
• Olaf Jäkel, University of Flensburg
• Birte Lönneker-Rodman, ICSI, Berkeley
• Klaus-Uwe Panther, University of Hamburg
• Hans-Jörg Schmid, LMU Munich
• Doris Schönefeld, University of Leipzig
• Arne Zeschel, Syddansk Universitet, Sonderborg, Denmark

Local Organizing Committee

• Doris Schönefeld, English Studies, Leipzig University (head)
• Matthias Irmer (conference office)
• Christina Witt (conference office)



• Klaus-Dieter Baumann, Applied Linguistics and Translation, Leipzig University
• Balthasar Bickel, Linguistics, Leipzig University
• Elisabeth Burr, Romance Studies, Leipzig University
• Martin Haspelmath, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
• Thomas Pechmann, Linguistics, Leipzig University
• Michael Tomasello, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
• Gerhild Zybatow, Slavic Studies, Leipzig University

Conference Office

Department of English Studies, University of Leipzig
Beethovenstr. 15, office 5.305
04107 Leipzig, Germany
tel: +49 (0)341 97 37 433
fax: +49 (0)341 97 37 329
email: gcla08 AT uni-leipzig.de

Theme Sessions

In addition to the general sessions, there will be 6 theme sessions dedicated to particular issues in Cognitive Linguistics.

Important dates