Linguistic Evidence

The Linguistic Evidence conference series is a meeting place for linguists who wish to improve the empirical adequacy of linguistic theory and linguistic analysis. A central aim is to more closely integrate data-driven and theory-driven approaches to the study of language systems, language behaviour, and language functions. Interdisciplinary work in which linguistics cooperate with academics in adjacent fields is particularly welcome.

Conferences of the series:

Linguistic Evidence 2020

Linguistic Theory Enriched by Experimental Data

Online Proceedings: The online proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2020 have been published via the publishing system of the Tübingen University library and can be found here.

You can download the programme of LE 2020 here.

Invited Speakers:
Regine Eckardt (Universität Konstanz)
Mirjam Ernestus (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Rebecca Tollan (University of Delaware)

Linguistic Evidence 2018

Experimental Data Drives Linguistic Theory

Online Proceedings: The online proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2018 have been published via the publishing system of the Tübingen University library. They can be found here.

You can download the programme of LE 2018 here.

Invited Speakers:
David I. Beaver (Universität Texas, Austin)
Edward A. Gibson (MIT)
Valentine Hacquard (Universität Maryland)
Barbara Hemforth (Universität Paris Diderot)

Linguistic Evidence 2016

Empirical, Theoretical, and Computational Perspectives

Online Proceedings: The online proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2016 have been published via the publishing system of the Tübingen University library. They can be found here.

You can download the programme of LE 2016 here.

Special Session: Semantics and Pragmatics Interface Phenomena – Theory Building and Testing

Invited Speakers:
Harald R. Baayen (University of Tübingen)
Mante Nieuwland (University of Edinburgh)
Christiane von Stutterheim (University of Heidelberg)
Tessa Warren (University of Pittsburgh)

Linguistic Evidence 2014

You can download the programme of LE 2014 here.

You can download the poster programme of LE 2014 here.

Special Session: Empirical Approaches to Information Structure

Invited Speakers:
Florian Schwarz (University of Pennsylvania)
Thomas Weskott (Universität Göttingen)
Wolfgang Raible (Universität Freiburg)

Linguistic Evidence 2013

organized by HU Berlin

Website of LE 2013

Linguistic Evidence 2012

You can download the programme of LE 2012 here.

You can download the poster programme of LE 2012 here.

Special Session: Language Change and Cross-Linguistic Language Variation

Invited Speakers:
Marco Baroni (Trento)
Amy Rose Deal (UC Santa Cruz)
Elsi Kaiser (Southern California)

Linguistic Evidence 2010

Special Session: Experimental Semantics

Invited Speakers:
Shravan Vasishth (Potsdam)
Pienie Zwitserlood & Christian Dobel (Münster)
Martin Hackl (MIT)
Lisa Matthewson (British Columbia)

Linguistic Evidence 2008

Special Session: Empirical Methods in Syntax and Semantics

Invited Speakers:
Greg Carlson (University of Rochester)
Lyn Frazier (University of Massachusetts)
Rada Mihalcea (University of North Texas)
Hubert Haider (Universität Salzburg)

Linguistic Evidence 2006

Invited Speakers:
Steven Bird (University of Melbourne, University of Pennsylvania)
Joan Bresnan (Stanford University)
Harald Clahsen (University of Essex)
Mark Steedman (Edinburgh University)
Janet Pierrehumbert (Northwestern University, Illinois)

Linguistic Evidence 2004

Invited Speakers:
Harald Baayen (MPI Nijmegen)
Christiane Fellbaum (University of Princeton/Ak.d. Wiss. Berlin)
Manfred Krifka (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Anthony Kroch (University of Pennsylvania)
Carson Schuetze (UCLA)