ICAL13: 13th International Colloquium on Armenian Linguistics

ICAL13, dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Hratchia Adjarian's birth, will be held at Inalco from November 18 to 20, 2026.
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This periodic meeting is intended to enable specialists in the field to exchange their unpublished work, both recent and in progress, and to encourage possible collaborations. Submissions are accepted in all subfields of Armenian linguistics (non-exhaustive list):

 

  • phonetics,
  • morphology,
  • syntax,
  • etymology,
  • pragmatics and discourse,
  • lexicology,
  • dialectology,
  • sociolinguistics,
  • transmission, acquisition and didactics,
  • automatic language processing.

In addition to the intrinsic scientific quality of submissions, the topicality of the topics addressed as well as the fact that they have not been the subject of previous publication will be a criterion for their acceptance by the scientific committee.

The thematic session "Digital Armenian"

A poster session (1h), combined with two round-table discussions (2 × 1h), will highlight recent advances in the automatic processing of Armenian, in computer vision applied to heritage, and in the digitization, structuring and dissemination of linguistic and cultural data. This session will welcome contributions on projects in progress, intermediate or complete results in the field of digital humanities for the Armenian language: constitution of databases, creation of online corpora, annotation tools, methods for extracting, analyzing and enhancing heritage documents, etc. Representative applications include automatic recognition of Armenian manuscripts, assisted transcription and lemmatization of ancient or dialectal texts, indexing and segmentation of audiovisual archives, 3D reconstruction of monuments, detection of epigraphic and ornamental motifs, and the creation of collaborative platforms for lexical and dialectological exploration.

Recommendations to authors:

Whether poster or oral communication, the abstract submitted should:

  • be written in Armenian, English or French

  • be preceded by five keywords in two languages (among Armenian, English or French)

  • clearly show the problem addressed, the empirical data and the methodology and/or theoretical framework used

  • be submitted in duplicate, one anonymized, the other including the name, title and affiliation as the author wishes them to appear on the program

  • have a maximum length of two pages, including examples and references

  • be submitted to https://ical13.sciencesconf.org/ (before submitting a proposal, an account must be created on the platform)
  • for the thematic session, if accepted, posters must be written in English or French, and printed in A0 landscape format on the day of the session
  • Contact: View e-mail.

 

Guest Speakers

Charles de Lamberterie and Hratch Martirosyan will give two lectures focusing on the scientific legacy of Hratchia Adjarian, born in 1876 in Constantinople, doctor of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris) and researcher at the Institute of Linguistics of the Armenian Academy of Sciences that bears his name.

Organizing Committee

  1. Anaïd Donabédian-Demopoulos, INALCO, CNRS, SeDyL, IRD

  2. Victoria Khurshudyan, INALCO, CNRS, SeDyL, IRD

  3. Chahan Vidal-Gorene, École nationale des chartes, PSL, Calfa

  4. Samuel Chakmakjian, INALCO, CNRS, SeDyL, IRD/ERTIM

Scientific Committee:

  1. Bernard Coulie, UCLouvain

  2. Peter Cowe, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)

  3. Anaïd Donabédian-Demopoulos, INALCO, CNRS, SeDyL, IRD

  4. Victor Katvalian, Language Institute, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia

  5. Victoria Khurshudyan, INALCO, CNRS, SeDyL, IRD

  6. Petr Kocharov, Julius-Maximilian University Würzburg

  7. Daniel Kölligan, Julius-Maximilian University Würzburg

  8. Charles de Lamberterie, Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres

  9. Hratch Martirosyan, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)

  10. Robin Meyer, University of Lausanne

  11. Vladimir Plungian, Vinogradov Russian Language Institute

  12. Pollet Samvelian, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, CNRS, Lattice

  13. Andrea Scala, University of Milan

  14. Chahan Vidal-Gorène, École nationale des chartes, PSL, CALFA

Provisional timetable:

 

  • April 30, 2026: deadline for submission of bids

  • June 20, 2026: notification of acceptance

  • September 20, 2026: Announcement of symposium program and practical information

download the call for papers - English and French versions

ICAL13 - fr (75.28 KB, .pdf)

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ICAL13 - en (78.65 KB, .pdf)

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