12th International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics
New dates: 14-16 June 2021 (i.e., one year postponed)!
Registration information coming early 2021
The NGL conference series (previously also known as ICNGL) provides an open forum for linguistic research in order to facilitate the exchange of ideas on Nordic (including Germanic, Finnic, Saamic and Greenlandic) and other languages, including multilingualism. Its main goals are to create and strengthen connections between researchers working on different languages, with different methodological and theoretical approaches.

The international conference of Nordic and General Linguistics (NGL) is organised under the auspices of the Nordic Association of Linguists (NAL). This will be the 12th conference, 52 years since the first one, and the third to be organised at the University of Oslo.
Keynote speakers
- Artemis Alexiadou (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
- Steffen Höder (Kiel University)
- Joe Salmons (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- Marit Westergaard (UiT-The Arctic University of Norway)
Workshops
We will keep the papers that were submitted and accepted during the spring of 2020.
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W1: Establishing phoneme inventories: argumentation and cross-linguistic comparability
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W2: Heritage languages and bilingualism: Collaboration and synthesis
Main session papers
We will keep the papers that were submitted and accepted during the spring of 2020.
Registration information coming in early 2021.
Oslo in June
The Norwegian capital is at its most beautiful in mid June, when the days are warm and long and the nights are light and short. Welcome to Oslo!
Local committee
- Ida Larsson (Conference chair)
- Hans-Olav Enger
- Patrick Grosz
- Kristin Hagen
- Anu Laanemets
- Guro Busterud
- David Natvig
Extended committee
- Derib Ado (Addis Ababa University)
- Kasper Boye (University of Copenhagen)
- Ellen Brandner (University of Stuttgart)
- Daniel Harbour (Queen Mary, University of London)
- Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh)
- Martin Hilpert (University of Neuchâtel)
- Annick De Houwer (University of Erfurt)
- Muriel Norde (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
- Tomas Riad (Stockholm University)
Previous NGL conferences
- Reykjavík, July 1969
- Umeå, June 1973
- Austin, Texas, April 1976
- Oslo, June 1980
- Århus, June-July 1983
- Helsinki, August 1986
- Tórshavn, August 1989
- Gothenburg, August 1993
- Oslo, January 1995
- Reykjavík, June 1998
- Freiburg, April 2012