We are happy to accommodate a selected number of theme sessions. You can find the Call for Papers for each theme session below.
Highlighting Social and Areal Variation in Grammar
Organizers: Markus Pluschkovits, Anja Wittibschlager, Claudia Mattes (University of Vienna)
Call for Papers: https://gac2027.phil.hhu.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/CfP_social_variation.pdf
Usage-based approaches to multilingualism: Insights from corpus data
Organizers: Antje Quick (Leipzig University) and Nikolas Koch (University of Greifswald)
Call for Papers: https://gac2027.phil.hhu.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/CfP_multilingualism.pdf
Storyboards for data collection in African languages
Organizers: Jens Fleischhauer & Ruben van de Vijver (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf)
Call for Papers: https://gac2027.phil.hhu.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/CfP_data_collection.pdf
Challenges in Figurative Language Annotation
Organizers: Toke Hoffmeister & Carolin Brandt (Marburg University)
Call for Papers: https://gac2027.phil.hhu.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/CfP_figurative_language.pdf
Nonverbal predicates in spontaneous oral discourse: What corpus data can tell us about grammatical constructions
Organizers: Katharina Haude & Yvonne Treis (CNRS)
Call for Papers: tba
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.