Oct. 9-10, 2026, Florida State University
About FLYM
The Florida Linguistics Yearly Meeting is an annual conference that brings together researchers across subfields of linguistics, including phonetics/phonology, syntax, first and second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology and computational linguistics. The 2026 meeting will be held at Florida State University Oct. 9-10, and the theme is “Native American and Indigenous Languages and Contact."
The FSU Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics is delighted to invite submissions for the FLYM to be held Oct. 9-10, 2026. The theme for this year’s conference is "Native American and Indigenous Languages and Contact." We will be inviting submissions in any area of linguistics. In the spirit of the theme, we particularly welcome submissions focused on Native American and Indigenous languages and language contact (involving any language). The conference will include sessions for oral presentations and posters.
This year, we are also excited to announce that our keynote speaker will be Rosa Vallejos Yopán, Ph.D., from the University of New Mexico.
Submission instructions:
Please submit your abstract via easyabs.
Abstracts should be anonymous and a maximum of 500 words, excluding references.
Abstract deadline: July 15, 2026
Final notification of acceptance: Aug. 17, 2026
Rosa Vallejos-Yopán is a professor of linguistics at the University of New Mexico. She specializes in the documentation and analysis of Amazonian languages, with an emphasis on morphosyntax, language documentation, language contact and bilingualism. Since 1997, she has conducted in-situ fieldwork as well as several interconnected projects driven by a desire to find a balance between her academic work and her commitment to the communities with whom she works. She has published numerous articles on Kukama (Tupí-Guaraní), Secoya (Tukano) and Amazonian Spanish. Her most recent publications address topics such as the conceptualization of space, the conceptualization of color, the categorization of entities, and the emergence of grammar. She is the author of "A Grammar of Kukama-Kukamiria: A language from the Amazon" (Brill 2016), co-author of "Diccionario kukama-castellano" (Formabiap 2015), co-editor of "Nonverbal predication in Amazonian languages" (John Benjamins 2018), and co-editor of "Morfosintaxis: Una mirada desde las Americas" (forthcoming). Vallejos-Yopán also collaborates with language communities in orthography design, teacher training and the creation of school materials to support their own language maintenance efforts. She teaches courses and mentors students on projects dealing with linguistic structures and the role languages have in the lives of people as repositories for their identity, collective memory, and cultural history. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Hans Rausing Endangered Language Program and the Endangered Language Fund.
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FSU Interdisciplinary Data Science Master's Degree Program
Department of Anthropology
Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics
FSU Humanities Center
Native American and Indigenous Studies Center
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