GLOW (linguistics society)

GLOW is an international organization to further the study of generative grammar, founded in 1977 and based in the Netherlands. Its activities include its annual spring linguistics conference and periodic summer schools. In the past, GLOW published a newsletter that discusses current intellectual (and organizational) issues in the study of generative grammar. The GLOW name originally stood for "Generative Linguistics in the Old World."

It was founded in an attempt to provide an annual meeting for European researchers in Generative Grammar who felt themselves largely excluded from other organizations in the late 1970s. Its founding document, the so-called GLOW Manifesto authored by Jan Koster, Henk van Riemsdijk and Jean-Roger Vergnaud, declared that "generative linguistics acquired a new momentum in Europe after Chomsky's [1973 paper] 'Conditions on transformations'" and sought to reflect that momentum with a new organization.

By the beginning of the 21st century, GLOW had emerged as one of the leading organizations in linguistics internationally, as well as in Europe. "Sister conferences" to the annual GLOW meeting in Europe have been organized under the rubric "GLOW Asia" in Japan, Korea and India, and the European GLOW conference itself has travelled as far south as Morocco (and as far north as Tromsø). The 2015 Colloquium was held in Paris, the 2016 meeting took place Göttingen, in 2017 Leiden was the host, in 2018 Budapest, in 2019 Oslo.

GLOW in Asia conferences

There have been 14 GLOW in Asia conferences as listed below:

Edition	City	Institute	Date	Conference website
II	Nagoya, Japan	Nanzan University	September 1999
III	Taipei, Taiwan	National Tsing Hua University	January 4 – 6, 2002	[1]
IV	Seoul, Korea	Seoul National University	August 21 – 23, 2003	[2]
V	Delhi, India	University of Delhi and Jawaharlal Nehru University
VI	Hong Kong	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	December 27-29, 2007	[3]
VII	Hyderabad, India	The English and Foreign Languages University	February 25-28, 2009	[4]
VIII	Beijing, China	Beijing Language and Culture University	August 12-14, 2010	[5]
IX	Tsu, Mie, Japan	Mie University	September 4-6, 2012	[6]
X	Taipei, Taiwan	National Tsing Hua University	24-26 May, 2014	[7]
XI	Singapore	National University of Singapore	20-22 February, 2017	[8]
XII	Seoul, Korea	Dongguk University	6-9 August, 2019	[9]
XIII	Hong Kong	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	4-7 August, 2022	[10]
XIV	Hong Kong	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	6-8 March, 2024	[11]

External links

• GLOW home page
• GLOW manifesto