Call for papers

The 16th Syntax and Semantics Conference in Paris (CSSP 2025) will take place on November 12-14, 2025 at UPS Pouchet (CNRS & Université Paris 8), Paris.

CSSP invites papers combining empirical inquiry and formal explicitness, and favours comparisons between different theoretical frameworks. We welcome submissions using theoretical, experimental or computational methods in:

  • syntax,
  • semantics,
  • pragmatics,
  • the syntax-semantics interface,
  • the semantics-pragmatics interface,
  • language acquisition: syntax-semantics-pragmatics.

The conference proceedings are published by Language Science Press.

Submission: We invite submissions for 40 minute presentations (including 10 minutes for discussion). Submissions are expected to describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work, hence submissions should be up to 5 pages plus an extra page for references. The submission must be anonymous. The same person can submit one abstract as author, and one as co-author, or two with different co-authors.

Instructions for submissions, style templates for abstracts, and details on the selection procedure are available here: https://conf.llf-paris.fr/cssp2025/?submission.

Invited Speakers

  • Corien Bary (Radboud University Nijmegen)
  • Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (SFL, CNRS & U. Paris 8)
  • Rui Chaves (University at Buffalo, SUNY)