FDSL 18: Formal Description of Slavic Languages

FDSL 18: Formal Description of Slavic Languages is the eighteenth installment of a well-established biennial conference series dedicated to rigorous linguistic analysis of the Slavic language family. The conference applies formal frameworks — including generative syntax, morphology, and phonology — to the rich empirical diversity found across Slavic languages, from Russian and Polish to Serbian, Czech, Bulgarian, and beyond.

Research themes include argument structure, case systems, aspect and tense, word order, agreement, and the comparative syntax and morphology of Slavic languages viewed through the lens of current formal theory. Corpus and experimental methods are increasingly featured alongside theoretical analyses. The conference attracts formal linguists, Slavicists, and typologists from Europe and beyond, and serves as a key meeting point for those interested in what Slavic data reveal about universal and language-specific grammatical principles.

Slavic linguistics formal syntax morphology comparative Slavic languages generative grammar corpus linguistics experimental linguistics Slavic phonology