Societas Linguistica Europaea
The Societas Linguistica Europaea is a professional society for linguists with a focus on Europe. It was founded in 1966 to advance linguistics, the scientific study of human language, especially in European countries. The SLE has over 1,000 individual members and welcomes linguists of all kinds. Through its website, its annual meetings, and its journals Folia Linguistica and Folia Linguistica Historica, the SLE works to disseminate current research in linguistics and facilitate communication within the discipline.
The first president of the SLE was André Martinet, elected in 1966. Particularly active members in the first decades were Werner Winter and Jacek Fisiak. In the years before 1990, the SLE was an important meeting place for linguists from western Europe and eastern Europe. Meetings and presidents alternated between western Europe and eastern Europe.
Publications
The SLE publishes two journals, Folia Linguistica and Folia Linguistica Historica.Meetings
Each year in the summer, the SLE organizes an annual meeting. The Annual Meeting is currently a four-day conference, with a program of talks, plenary speakers, symposia, and poster sessions for researchers to share their work.In 2020, the 53rd Annual Meeting of SLE will take place digitally, due to the COVID-19 restrictions on traveling and gatherings, and will not take place as originally planned, from 26th to 29th August 2020 at the University of Bucharest.
| Meeting | place | start date | end date |
| 53 | Digitally | ||
| 52 | Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany | ||
| 51 | University of Tallinn, Tallinn, Estonia | ||
| 50 | University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland | ||
| 49 | University of Naples, Napoli, Italy | ||
| 48 | Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands | ||
| 47 | Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland | ||
| 46 | University of Split, Split, Croatia | ||
| 45 | Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden | ||
| 44 | University of La Rioja, Logroño, Spain | ||
| 43 | Vilniaus Universitetas, Vilnius, Lithuania | ||
| 42 | University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal | ||
| 41 | University of Bologna, Forlí Campus, Italy | ||
| 40 | University of Joensuu, Joensuu, Finland | ||
| 39 | University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany |