1. The Conference

1. The Annual Conference

The 31st GLOW Colloquium 2008

took place in Newcastle upon Tyne. For information about the conference and call for papers, see their website:

The 31st GLOW Colloquium, March 26-28

There are evidently no abstracts available on their website.


The 30th GLOW Colloquium 2007

took place in Tromsø, Norway, the northern-most univeristy in the world. The Tromsø Web-site has evidently been closed; I will try to put up the abstracts in PDF format.


The 29th GLOW Colloquium 2006

was held in Barcelona.
General Session: April 6-8, 2000, Workshops on April 5.

Again, no topic (decided by unanimous vote of the general assembly following the recommendation of the local organizers and the board).

There were four workshops: (1) adjuncts/modifiers, (2) acquisition of the syntax/semantics of number, (3) phonological phrasing, (4) approaches to opacity.

Please note: The deadline for abstracts was again be November 1, 2005, not December. The early deadline is important, as the abstracts will be graded by outside reviewers. The final selection will be done by the local organizers and members of the board based on the reviews.

Their website http://seneca.uab.es/ggt/glow2006/ is still open, but doesn't provide the Abstracts, so we are providing (most of) them here.


The 28th GLOW Colloquium 2005

was held in at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.
General Session: March 31-April 2, 2005

The theme of the general session wass again free.

There were three workshops Note: the last two were two day workshops:

Invited speakers for the main session are Irene Heim (MIT) and Howard Lasnik (U. Maryland).

Main program (preliminary):

The priliminary program of the Main Session:

Preliminary Program, pdf format
Preliminary Program, plain text

Their website is apparently no longer available, so we are providing the abstracts on this site.
All accounted for except Schane's...



The 5th GLOW in Asia conference


will be held October 5-7, 2005, in India at the University of Delhi and the Jahwarla Nehru University. See their homepage for details:
GLOW Asia 2005

The 27th GLOW Colloquium 2004

took place at

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Philosophy

Thessaloniki, April 19-21, 2004

Invited speaker: Noam Chomsky (MIT)

Theme of the Colloquium: Free

Abstracts were invited on any topic related to, inspired by, or promoting the fundamentals of (older or more recent developments of) Generative Grammar at all levels (phonology, morphology, syntax-semantics as well as interfaces).

The Program for the conference (without abstracts).

NEW, Mar.17: The Abstracts have been added to the Thessaloniki site. (They are in PDF format, so if you don't have the Acrobat Reader, you can download it for free from Adobe Acrobat Downloads.)

In addition to the main Colloquium, there will be three Workshops on the 18th of April:

  1. WORKSHOP I: Tense, Aspect, Modality.   Program I (without abstracts).
  2. WORKSHOP II: Theoretical approaches to language contact.   Program II (without abstracts).
  3. WORKSHOP III: Markedness in Phonology.   Program III (without abstracts).

To attend the conference, you need to be a GLOW Member in addition to registering for the conference. If you pre-register and become a member prior to the conference, note that the membership and payment is submitted to the Tilburg GLOW address, and the conference pre-registration and payment to Thessaloniki.

There is a participation form in RTF format on the Thessaloniki site. If your browser cannot read the entire form, you can use the HTML version here and send it by FAX (+30 2310 997419 / +30 2310 997542) or regualar Post to:

Melita Stavrou
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Department of Linguistics
Faculty of Philosophy
GR 541 24 - Thessaloniki, Greece

For abstracts and further practical information regarding registration, travel, hotels, etc. visit the GLOW 2004 conference website: www.auth.gr/del/GLOW2004.

You may also contact: Melita Stavrou (staurou@lit.auth.gr).

Previous conferences:

Information, programs and (selected) abstracts of previous GLOW conferences are available on-line (if we have them electronically); otherwise in issues of the GLOW Newsletter.


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