Institute for Modern Linguistic Research

GeNSLing 2016

The 4th Conference in General, Nordic and Slavic linguistics for graduate and doctoral students(GeNSLing 2016) will take place October 12-14, 2016 at Moscow State Pedagogical University and Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.


GeNSLing 2016 conference is organized as a session of the “Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters 2015” conference (TMP 2015). GeNSLing welcomes the submission of abstracts focussing on the problems of Germanic and Slavic linguistics as well as discussing various descriptive and theoretical issues.


Keynote speakers:

• Tatiana Nikitina (LLACAN, Paris)
• Dmitri Sitchinava (Russian Language Institute, Moscow)

Working languages of the conference are English and Russian.

The deadline for abstract submission is June 20, 2016. One-page anonymous abstracts (12 point font, 1 point spacing, margins 2,5 cm) in DOC and PDF formats should be sent to gensling2016@iling-ran.ru. The subject of the e-mail letters must say “Abstract Gensling 2016 Name” with the author(s) name(s). Authors are asked to include the title of the paper, the name(s) of the author(s), their affiliation, email and phone number in the body of the email. Abstracts that do not comply with these instructions will not be considered.


Each participant may submit one single-authored paper proposal and one co-authored paper proposal.


Notifications of acceptance or rejection will be sent out by email by July 24, 2016.


The proceedings of the conferences “Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters 2016” and “Gensling 2016” will be published in December 2016. The 2014 and 2015 proceedings are downloadable here .

Organizing committee:

• Maria Konoshenko (chair)
• Oleg Belyaev
• Maria Koroleva
• Alexander Piperski
• Roman Ronko
• Maria Trubicina