FIRST CfP:
The 33rd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (Norway)

Short Title: HPSG 2026

Date: 03-Aug-2026 - 04-Aug-2026

Location: Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (Bergen, Norway)

Contact: Petter Haugereid, Berthold Crysmann & Antonio Machicao y Priemer

Email: hpsg2026@easychair.org

Conference Website: https://petterha.github.io/hpsg2026/

Conference fee: 68€ (faculty) / 43€ (student)

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Computational Linguistics; Syntax; Morphology; Semantics; Cognitive Science;


Meeting Description:

The 33rd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar will be held on August 03 - August 04, 2026 at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (Bergen, Norway).

The HPSG 2026 conference will be a two-day main conference (3rd - 4th of August). It will be co-located with the DELPH-IN meeting held over the preceding week (27th - 31st of July).

Anonymous abstracts are invited that address linguistic, foundational, or computational issues relating to or in the spirit of the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Submissions should be 4 pages long, + 1 page for data, figures & references. They should be submitted in PDF format. The submissions should not include the authors’ names, and authors are asked to avoid self-references. Presentations are in-person by default, although exceptions can be negotiated.


All abstracts should be submitted by April 10, 2026, via Easychair:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpsg2026

Deadline for abstracts: 10th of April, 2026

Reviews due: 10th of May, 2026

Notification of acceptance: 15th of May, 2026

Conference: 3rd of August - 4th of August, 2026

Invited speakers: tba

Conference proceedings submission: 15 of October, 2026

All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers. Each accepted abstract will be given 30 minutes for presentation. Additionally, 10 minutes will be reserved for discussion.

A call for contributions to the proceedings will be issued after the conference. The proceedings will undergo a separate (final) round of reviews (accept/reject), to enable indexing of the proceedings. The proceedings of previous conferences are available at: https://proceedings.hpsg.xyz/