LAGB - CFP: The 24th Meeting of the International Circle of Korean Linguistics (ICKL)

The 24th Meeting of the International Circle of Korean Linguistics (ICKL 2026) will be held at the University of Sheffield in Sheffield, United Kingdom from 1 to 3 July, 2026. The conference will celebrate the 50th anniversary of ICKL’s founding in 1975. ICKL 2026 is being planned as a fully in-person event.

We are happy to confirm the following invited speakers at ICKL 2026:

- Hae-Sung Jeon, University of Lancashire

- Yoonhee Kang, Seoul National University

- George Tsoulas, University of York

The conference theme is Variation and diversity in Korean linguistics. Variation and diversity are at the heart of linguistics research. They also describe the field of Korean linguistics which is expanding into new empirical domains, new fields of interdisciplinary and collaborative study, and greater global participation from diverse researchers and scholars. The conference aims to bring a wide diversity of language researchers together from around the world, including established researchers and students in Master’s and PhD programs conducting their own research.

ICKL 2026 welcomes abstracts for individual papers on any aspect of Korean language and linguistics including (in alphabetical order):

- Bilingualism & multilingualism

- Computational Linguistics

- Corpus Linguistics

- First/Second Language Acquisition

- Historical-Comparative Linguistics

- Language Learning and Teaching

- Linguistic Anthropology

- Morphology

- Natural Language Processing

- Phonetics

- Phonology

- Pragmatics & Discourse

- Psycholinguistics

- Semantics

- Sociolinguistics

- Syntax

Presenters will be encouraged to submit their work for consideration to Korean Linguistics (https://benjamins.com/catalog/kl), the journal of ICKL publishing high quality and state-of-the-art research in Korean linguistics.

The abstract submission portal can be accessed via:

https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/79237/submitter

Participants will need to sign up for a free account with Oxford Abstracts where they can directly input their abstract and other information. Abstract contents should include no more than 500 words and give no indication of the author's identity. Submissions must be in English. Abstracts will be reviewed by relevant experts.

Key Dates:

Abstract submission deadline: November 30, 2025

Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2026

Registration deadline: April 30, 2026

Please direct any enquiries to ickl2026@sheffield.ac.uk

For more information about ICKL and previous conferences please visit:

http://ickl.net/

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