The University of Oregon Department of Linguistics is pleased to be hosting the 2025 Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute, in Eugene, OR, USA from July 7 to August 8, 2025.

We have a real site now! Check it out here:

https://center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/

The Institute is the largest and most prestigious summer school for linguistics in the world, and has been held since 1928. Eugene is a city of ~170,000 people, home to the University of Oregon, located at the southern end of the beautiful Willamette Valley. Within a 90-minute drive, you will find snow-capped mountains, a gorgeous coastline, wild hot springs, deserted ocean beaches, top-notch wineries, and more. (The picture above is from the coast).

The theme of the Institute is “Language in Use” and we currently have particular strengths in

  • Typology
  • Descriptive and functional morphosyntax
  • Usage-based, learning-theoretic and constructivist approaches to language acquisition
  • Language variation and change, including frequency effects therein
  • Construction grammar and formulaic language
  • Information-theoretic and probabilistic approaches to linguistic theory
  • Bayesian and connectionist approaches to speech and language processing
  • Statistical methods in linguistic data analysis

Some courses will be held on Monday & Thursday; others on Tuesday & Friday (except for Field Methods, which will be 4 days a week). Wednesdays and weekends will host tutorials, workshops and conferences.

While the full website will be unveiled in the fall, you can currently find here

Feel free to contact me with any questions at vkapatsi@uoregon.edu  

Vsevolod (Volya) Kapatsinski on behalf of myself, Kaori Idemaru and Spike Gildea, co-directors