Abstract Submission
Your abstract should be submitted via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=GaC/2027/Conference
Abstracts must be submitted via OpenReview as PDF files. Submission will open on July 20, 2026. The submitted files must be anonymous, i.e., they must not contain the authors’ names, affiliations, or any other information that could reveal their authorship. In the submission form, please indicate which presentation category you submit for (oral / poster / special session / either). Upload of abstracts on OpenReview must be complete by October 15, 23.59h (anywhere on earth).
Important: Submissions will be handled via OpenReview. You will need to register for an OpenReview account if you don’t have one yet. In rare cases, this can take up to two weeks, so please make sure to register for an OpenReview account ahead of time. (That being said, GaC is small enough that we can accept last-minute submissions via email if you absolutely don’t manage to register for an account in time.)
We invite submissions for 20’ oral presentations (+ 5’ for discussion + 5’ for speaker and room changes) as well as posters. The conference is held on-site in Düsseldorf. The conference language is English.
Abstracts should clearly state the research questions, framework, methodology, data and (expected) results. They should not exceed 500 words (including examples, tables and figures; excluding references, abbreviation lists etc.), and should be formatted on A4 paper with 1in/2.5cm margins, in a 12pt font.
Each participant may submit up to two abstracts (across sessions and categories) – one as sole or first author, and one as a co-author.
Each submission will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers.
Abstracts submitted for theme sessions will be reviewed by one theme session organizer and one external reviewer within the regular review process. If more submissions to a theme session are accepted than the session can accommodate, the theme session organizers will make a selection. Accepted submissions not selected by the session organizers will be moved to the general session.
Invited topics
The main goal of the GaC conference series is to explore ways in which corpus-linguistic methods can inform our understanding of the grammars of human languages. As such, we welcome submissions that connect grammar and corpora in any possible way.
In addition to the general session, the conference will feature a limited number of theme sessions. We host the following theme sessions (for further details see our Theme Sessions page).
- Highlighting Social and Areal Variation in Grammar
- Usage-based approaches to multilingualism: Insights from corpus data
- Storyboards for data collection in African languages
- Challenges in Figurative Language Annotation
- Nonverbal predicates in spontaneous oral discourse: What corpus data can tell us about grammatical constructions
For GaC11’s general session, we particularly encourage submissions within the following focus areas:
- Corpus-based morphosyntactic typology
- Compilation and annotation of corpora for low-resource languages
- Individual differences and group-specific variation in corpus data
Further relevant topics for submissions include, but are not limited to:
- description of grammatical phenomena based on corpus data – in a single language or from a cross-linguistic and/or diachronic perspective
- corpus data as evidence for, or challenge to, theories of grammar
- corpus-based analyses at the interface of grammar and semantics
- annotation of corpus data for grammatical parameters
- quantitative corpus studies on synchronic or diachronic grammatical variation
- child language corpora and grammatical patterns in child language
- development of novel corpus-linguistic methods for grammatical analysis
- comparison between corpus data and other types of language data (e.g. from elicitation or experiments)
In the case of theme session papers, one of the two reviewers will be one of the theme session convenors.