NELS 56: 2025-10-17 to 2025-10-19
Location: New York, USA
Hosted by New York University

Special session: Idiosyncrasy and grammar

Invited speakers:

• Sam Alxatib (The City University of New York)
• Tanya Bondarenko (Harvard University)
• Sharon Rose (UC San Diego)
• Jim Wood (Yale University)

Submission deadline: 2025-06-08
Submission page: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/78724/submitter
Conference website: https://wp.nyu.edu/artsampscience-nels56/

NELS 55: 2024-10-17 to 2024-10-18
Location: Yale University

Invited speakers:

• Vicki Carstens (University of Connecticut)
• Hannah Sande (University of California, Berkeley)
• Shane Steinert-Threlkeld (University of Washington)
• Coppe van Urk (Queen Mary University of London)

Submission deadline: 2024-06-24
Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nels55
Conference website: https://campuspress.yale.edu/nels55/

NELS 54: 2024-01-26 to 2024-01-27
Location: MIT

Invited speakers:

• Victoria Chen (Victoria University of Wellington/Te Herenga Waka)
• Doreen Georgi (Universität Potsdam)
• Benjamin Storme (Leiden University Centre for Linguistics)
• Lyn Tieu (University of Toronto)

Special sessions:

• Austronesian Languages
• Experimental methods in Linguistic Theory

Submission deadline: 2023-09-21
Submission page: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/6582/submitter
Conference website: http://nels54.mit.edu

NELS 53: Jan 12-14, 2023.
Location: Göttingen, Germany
Hosted by the University of Göttingen

Invited speakers:

• Artemis Alexiadou (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
• Elena Anagnostopoulou (University of Crete)
• Ad Neeleman (University College London)
• Aditi Lahiri (University of Oxford)
• Diane Brentari (University of Chicago)
• Viola Schmitt (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Submission deadline: Sept. 10, 2022.
Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nels53
Conference website: https://nels53.uni-goettingen.de/

NELS 51: Nov. 6-8, 2020.
Location: Montreal, Canada.

Invited speakers:
Lisa Levinson (University of Michigan)
Michal Starke (Masaryk University, Brno)
Nancy Kula (University of Essex)
Will Oxford (University of Manitoba)

Special sessions:
– Indigenous languages of North America
– Diverse framework

Extended submission deadline: Jun. 8, 2020 at 23:59 Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-5)
Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nels51
Conference website: https://sites.grenadine.uqam.ca/sites/linguistique/en/nels51

NELS 50: October 25-27, 2019.
Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Invited speakers:
Kathryn Davidson (Harvard)
Stefan Keine (USC)
Gillian Ramchand (Tromsø/CASTL)
Stephanie Shih (USC)

Special anniversary plenary:
Paul Kiparsky (Stanford)

Submission deadline: July 1, 2019 (23:59PM, EST)
Submission page:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nels50
Conference website: http://nels50.mit.edu

NELS 49: Oct. 5 – 7, 2018.
Location: Cornell University.

Invited speakers:
Magdalena Kaufmann
Maria Gouskova
Benjamin Bruening

Submission deadline: Jun. 1, 2018.
Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nels2018
Conference website: http://cornell2018.nelsconference.org/

NELS 48: Oct. 27-29, 2017.
Location: the University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland.

Invited speakes:
Angelika Kratzer
Charles Yang
Nicole Dehé
Höskuldur Þráinsson

Conference website: http://iceland2017.nelsconference.org/

NELS 47: Oct. 14 – 16, 2016.
Location: UMass Amherst

Invited Speakers:
Klaus Abels
Cleo Condoravdi
Gaja Jarosz
Roumyana Pancheva

Conference website: http://umass2016.nelsconference.org/