Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the third edition of ConCorDial, a conference dedicated to diachronic corpus linguistics, to be held on 12–13 November 2026 at the Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry, Saint-Charles campus, Montpellier, France. The conference will be held in hybrid format (in-person attendance is preferred). The accepted languages of communication are French and English.
THEME: Continuities, Innovations, Transitions — Linguistic and Methodological Challenges Building on the two previous editions (Grenoble 2022, Lyon 2024), ConCorDial III invites contributions on the construction, modelling, and exploration of diachronic textual data. The conference is organised around four thematic areas: 1. Corpus construction & interoperability (heterogeneity of sources, normalisation, metadata, diachronic variation) 2. Quantitative & qualitative diachronic analysis (corpus-based studies of lexical, (morpho-)syntactic, semantic or discursive phenomena) 3. Text genres in diachrony (emergence, disappearance and mutation of genres; modelling and classification) 4. LLMs & generative AI for historical text (tagging, segmentation, lemmatisation, normalisation, genre classification)
Contributions may address any period in the history of French or other languages.
SUBMISSION Abstracts of 300–500 words (excluding references) should be submitted in the language of the proposed presentation (French or English) via the conference website. Please submit both an anonymised version (pasted into the submission form) and an identified version (Word or PDF) including name(s) and affiliation(s). Submission site: https://concordial.sciencesconf.org
KEY DATES
Abstract submission deadline: 14 June 2026 Notification of acceptance: 12 July 2026 Final abstract version: 1 October 2026 Registration: 1 September – 15 October 2026
We look forward to welcoming you in Montpellier. The ConCorDial III organising committee Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry https://concordial.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/1