Call for Papers

The conference theme is The Times They Are A-Changin'. We invite all submissions on corpus-based approaches to English, and especially abstracts addressing the theme of the conference, such as submissions engaging with language change, shifting methods, new corpus materials or interdisciplinary approaches.
Pre-Conference Workshops

We invite proposals for pre-conference workshops on Tuesday, 18 May 2027. If you would like to convene a workshop (full or half day), please send your proposal as a Word document (.docx) by 31 October 2026 directly to the organisers at . The proposal should contain the title of the workshop, name and contact details of the organisers and of the proposed participants as well as a short description of the topics to be discussed (between 400 and 700 words, excluding references). Please use APA style of referencing. Notifications of workshop acceptance will be sent out in mid-November 2026. If the workshop is accepted, workshop conveners will be responsible for putting the individual abstracts together, including peer reviewing. This should be completed and notified to the conference organisers before 20 December 2026.
 
Abstracts

The call for abstracts opens on 1 October 2026 and closes on 1 December 2026. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by January 2027. Abstracts should be between 400 and 500 words (excluding references) and should clearly state research question(s), approach, data, method and (expected) results. Please use APA style of referencing. Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts if at least one paper is co-authored. We invite abstracts for the following presentation formats:

  • Full paper: 20 + 10 mins discussion
  • Short paper/Work-in-progress report: 10 + 5 mins discussion
  • Software demonstration: 20 + 10 mins discussion
  • Poster: on display and presented in special poster session

We will send out more information on abstract submission before the call opens. 
Bursaries

 John Sinclair Bursary: 300 EUR to the best paper by an early-career ICAMEr. Eligible candidates should indicate their bursary application in the abstract submission procedure. Eligible applicants are doctoral students or postdoctoral researchers who defended their PhD no earlier than three years before the year of the conference.

Stig Johansson Bursary: 150 EUR to the best poster presentation.