Sinn und Bedeutung 30 will take place at Goethe University Frankfurt from September 23-27, 2025. The conference is jointly organized by the Institute of Linguistics, the Institute of English and American Studies, and the Institute of Philosophy. 

It will feature a three-day main session (Sept. 24-26) and two one-day special sessions.

Special Session I is titled The Linguistic Status of Demonstrations (LingDem) (Sept. 23) and will be held in cooperation with the Priority Program ViCom.

Special Session II will be held in cooperation with the CRC NegLab and is titled Philosophical and Linguistic Approaches to Negation (PhilLingNeg) (Sept. 27). This collaboration has been an incredible enrichment for our event, and we are deeply grateful for the support provided by NegLab. We believe that this special session represents a fruitful collaboration that brings together linguists and philosophers who discuss linguistic phenomena as evidence (or counter-evidence) for the complex or non-classical nature of negation.

We are pleased to announce that we can offer interpretation between English and American Sign Language / International Sign for Special Session I (LingDem).

Conference website: https://vicom.info/sub30/

Invited speakers (main session):

• Magdalena Kaufmann(University of Connecticut)
• Orin Percus(University of Nantes)
• Julia Zakkou(University of Düsseldorf)

Invited speakers (special sessions):

The Linguistic Status of Demonstrations (LingDem) (Sept. 23)

• Floris Roelofsen(University of Amsterdam)

Philosophical and Linguistic Approaches to Negation (PhilLingNeg) (Sept. 27)

• Elena Herburger(Georgetown University)

A call for abstracts will be published soon (December 2, 2024 at the latest), in English and International Sign.

Organizers:
Kathryn Barnes, Cornelia Ebert, Kurt Erbach, Lennart Fritzsche, Janek Guerrini, Cécile Meier, Carolin Reinert, Frank Richter, Manfred Sailer, Theresa Stender, Sebastian Walter, Eleonora Zani, Alexandra Zinke

Email: sub30@vicom.info