VIII Spanish Dialects Meeting

Bellaterra (Barcelona), October 22-23,  2026
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Welcome

Call for papers

Program

Dates

Organization

Contact

Welcome

The VIII Spanish Dialects Meeting will take place at the Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) on 22–23 October 2026.

The aim of the meeting is to bring together researchers working on dialectal variation in Spanish morphosyntax, from theoretical, empirical, and applied perspectives, fostering dialogue between traditional approaches and recent methodologies.

Call for papers

We invite submissions for oral presentations on any aspect of dialectal variation in Spanish within the domains of formal morphology and syntax, considering both diachronic and synchronic approaches.

Use of Digital Resources

Proposals that make use of online resources and digital corpora for the study of dialectal variation will be especially welcome, such as (non-exhaustive list):

  • ASinEs
  • ALPI
  • PRESEEA
  • CORPES XXI
  • COSER
  • Online dialect atlases and repositories
  • Computational tools applied to dialect data

This focus reflects the growing relevance of open and reproducible data in contemporary dialectological research.

Special Thematic Panel

The conference will include a special panel dedicated to the role of dialectal variation in secondary education and high school. Abstracts are welcome on, among other topics:

  • The treatment of dialectal variation in the classroom
  • Teaching materials and curriculum
  • Language attitudes and dialect diversity
  • Transfer of dialectological knowledge to teaching
  • Pedagogical proposals based on real variation data.

We invite submissions for 40-minute presentations (30 minutes talk + 10 minutes discussion). Proposals must be anonymous and should be sent in PDF format to: spadisyn@gmail.com

Abstracts must be written in Times New Roman 12, single-spaced, with 2.5 cm margins, and must not exceed two pages, including examples and references. Each author may submit one single authored abstract and one co-authored abstract, or two co-authored abstracts

Program

To be announced

Invited Speakers

Important dates

Abstract submission deadline: 1 May 2026

Notification of acceptance: 31 May 2026

Preliminary program: 1 July 2026

Conference: 22–23 October 2026

Organization

Local Organizing Committee

Cristina Buenafuentes (UAB)
Javier Fernández-Sánchez (UAB)
Ángel J. Gallego (UAB)
Jaume Mateu (UAB)
Juan Romero (UAB)
Assumpció Rost (UAB)
Carlos Sánchez-Lancis (UAB)

Permanent Organizing Committee

Ignacio Bosque (UCM)
Inés Fernández Ordóñez (UAM)
Ángel J. Gallego (UAB)
Francisco Ordóñez (Stony Brook University)
Cristina Sánchez López (UCM)

Contact

VIII Spanish Dialects Meeting

Departamento de Filología Española
Edificio B
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona)
TEL +34 93 581 12 16

This workshop is organized within the research project “Microparameters and networks of variation within Romance languages” (PID2021-123617NB-C41),
funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities