October 4, 2025
Submission deadline for the
proceedings
is January 31, 2026
September 5, 2025
The
book of abstracts
has now been published.
August 29, 2025
The
conference program has now been posted.
May 14, 2025
Notifications are out! Of 259 submissions, 21.2% were accepted as talks and 15.8% as posters.
Materials archive
All publicly shared handouts, slides, and posters are available in the
SuB30 OSF repository.
Sinn und Bedeutung 30 (SuB30) will take place in-person at Goethe University Frankfurt from September 23-27, 2025. The conference is jointly organized by the Institute of Linguistics, the Institute of English and American Studies, and the Institute of Philosophy. It will feature a three-day main session (September 24-26) and two one-day special sessions. Special Session I is titled Beyond Descriptive Meaning: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Demonstrations and Depictions (LingDem) (September 23) and will be held in cooperation with the Priority Program ViCom. Special Session II will be held in cooperation with the CRC NegLaB and is titled Philosophical and Linguistic Approaches to Negation (PhilLingNeg) (September 27).
We are pleased to announce that we can offer interpretation between English and International Sign for Special Session I (LingDem).
All papers presented at the conference will be published in a SuB30 volume following the conclusion of the conference.
| Important dates | |
|---|---|
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December 2, 2024 |
Abstract submission opens |
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March 9, 2025 |
Submission deadline |
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March 31, 2025 |
Submission deadline LingDem |
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May 16, 2025 |
Notification |
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June 2, 2025 |
Registration opens |
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September 23, 2025 |
Special Session LingDem |
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September 24-26, 2025 |
Main session |
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September 27, 2025 |
Special Session PhilLingNeg |
Important dates:
December 2, 2024
Abstract submission opens
March 9, 2025
Submission deadline
March 31, 2025
Submission deadline LingDem
May 16, 2025
Notification
June 2, 2025
Registration opens
September 23, 2025
Special Session LingDem
September 24-26, 2025
Main session
September 27, 2025
Special Session PhilLingNeg
Invited speakers (main session):
(University of Connecticut)
(University of Nantes)
(University of Düsseldorf)
Special sessions:
Beyond Descriptive Meaning: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Demonstrations and Depictions (LingDem) (September 23)
Invited speaker:
Floris Roelofsen (University of Amsterdam)
Philosophical and Linguistic Approaches to Negation (PhilLingNeg) (September 27)
Elena Herburger (Georgetown University)
Special sessions:
Beyond Descriptive Meaning: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Demonstrations and Depictions (LingDem) (September 23)
Floris Roelofsen
(University of Amsterdam)
Philosophical and Linguistic Approaches to Negation (PhilLingNeg) (September 27)
Elena Herburger
(Georgetown University)
Organizers:
Kathryn Barnes, Cornelia Ebert, Kurt Erbach, Lennart Fritzsche, Janek Guerrini, Cécile Meier, Carolin Reinert, Frank Richter, Manfred Sailer, Sebastian Walter, Eleonora Zani, Alexandra Zinke
Thank you to our sponsors, the Goethe University Frankfurt, the Alfons und Gertrud Kassel-Stiftung, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, ViCom, and NegLaB, for their generous support of Sinn und Bedeutung 30.
Email: sub30@vicom.info
Photo credits: Rudy Balasko / Shutterstock.com