The University of British Columbia is pleased to host a joint conference bringing together SULA (Semantics of Under-represented Languages in the Americas) and TripleA (Semantics of Languages of Africa, Asia, Australia and Oceania) on May 12 -15, 2026. This will be the first time that these conferences will be combined into one joint event. The conference also marks the 25th Anniversary of SULA, which took place for the first time in 2001.
The goal of the conference is to bring together researchers working on languages or dialects which which are under-represented in the literature on formal semantics. We especially encourage abstract submissions from those whose work involves primary fieldwork or experimentation as well as analysis. We strongly encourage the participation of graduate students.
There will be a Speaker Panel on Indigenous perspectives on linguistics research and language revitalization.
The call for papers is now closed.
Learn more about SULA and its previous editions [here], and more about TripleA can be found [here].
Invited speakers:
Ana Laura Arrieta Zamudio (University of British Columbia)
Heather Burge (University of Alaska Southeast)
Reginald Duah (University of Ghana)
Herman Fillmore (Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California)
Terrance Gatchalian (University of Toronto)
Zahra Mirrazi (University of Göttingen)
Roberta Pires de Oliveira (Federal University of Santa Catarina)
Justin Royer (Université de Montréal)
Eve Suharwardy (University of Manchester)
We graciously acknowledge financial support from:
- Canadian Linguistic Association / Association canadienne de linguistique
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
- Language Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia
- Office of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation, University of British Columbia
We acknowledge that the University of British Columbia Point Grey campus is located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and Səl̓ílwətaɬ Nations. We at UBC Linguistics consider this land acknowledgment to be an opportunity to show our commitment towards reconciliation and the recognition of Indigenous peoples. Please visit https://native-land.ca/ or https://maps.fpcc.ca/languages to learn more about these places, peoples and languages.