ALT-2026 : 16th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology

1-3 July 2026 Lyon (France)

ALT 2026

A huge thank you!

It was a pleasure to welcome you to Lyon for ALT 16.

Our sincere thanks to all participants, reviewers, the Programme Committee, the Association for Linguistic Typology, the teach-in instructors, and our volunteers for making ALT 16 such a success.

We wish you all the best until we meet again in two years at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada!

⚠️ Last-minute programme updates

Please note the following changes to the programme:

Rescheduled: Speech management phenomena as evidence for bondedness in Iha (Katherine Walker) has been rescheduled to 11:00 on Friday in General Session 3 (CLI.007).

Moved earlier: Typology of negation in non-verbal predications (Ljuba Veselinova) will now start at 15:30 on Friday.

Thank you for your understanding.

Conference dinner venue update

Due to an unforeseen change of plans, the conference dinner will take place at Kaïa Restaurant instead of the barge MODULO, which cancelled our reservation shortly before the conference.

An email containing further details has been sent to all registered dinner participants.

The 16th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology will be organized by the Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage (DDL), CNRS, and will be held at the Lumière University of Lyon, France, on 1-3 July 2026 with the generous support of our sponsors: Université Lumière Lyon 2, CNRS, GDR LIFT2, Association for Linguistic Typology, LabEx ASLAN, and DDL.

DDL has a long history of studying minority languages, writing grammatical descriptions, doing field research in South America, Africa, Northeast and Southeast Asia, Australia, the Caucasus and Europe, and working on phonological, grammatical and semantic typology. The conference will take place in the old part of the Lumière University, a beautiful venue located in a very dynamic part of the city with the possibility to sit in the garden or walk along the Rhône river. There are excellent public transport links (metro and tram) to other parts of the city, and numerous city bike stations are located nearby.

Lyon is the culinary capital of France and a World Heritage Site, with numerous Roman vestiges, a Romanesque Old Town, and a new quarter boasting spectacular modern architecture. The vineyards of Burgundy and the Beaujolais as well as the Cotes du Rhone are only short train rides away, as are the Alps and the Massif Central. We look forward to welcoming you in Lyon next year!