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16th International Conference on Romani Linguistics (ICRL16)
The 16th International Conference on Romani Linguistics (ICRL16), held in Vienna from 23 to 25 September 2025, was organized by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities (ACDH) and the Vanishing Languages and Cultural Heritage (VLACH) commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Mirjana Mirić, Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Balkan Studies SASA, chaired one of the conference sessions and also presented two co-authored papers: “Complementizer omission in Gurbet Romani” (with Boban Arsenijević, University of Graz) and “The adaptation of Serbian loan verbs in Gurbet Romani: an experimental approach” (with Marko Simonović, University of Graz, and Bojanа Ristić). The first paper resulted from a research fellowship awarded to Mirjana Mirić by the Austrian Academy of Sciences through the JESH program (Joint Excellence in Science and Humanities). The second presentation was the outcome of the bilateral project “What’s in a verb? Mapping Serbian verbs borrowed into Romani” (2024–2024), funded within the program of scientific and technological cooperation between the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Austria. The conference gathered numerous European scholars working on the Romani language in the fields of contact linguistics, phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, dialectology, and applied linguistics, and also featured studies of related languages such as Posha, Zargari, and Domari. Of particular importance was the diversity of methodologies employed in the presented research, ranging from corpus and database studies, experimental research, and dialectometry to ethnographic and other approaches.