OASIS 6 (Ontology As Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics 6) will take place at the Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa, 13-16 October, 2026.

The OASIS conference series aims to promote conversation across different disciplines that interface with semantics, using ontological questions as shared reference points. The broad questions in the background are these:

1. What basic ontological building blocks do we use to talk and think about the world?
2. How do these building blocks get combined? 
3. And how do grammatical and cognitive phenomena motivate the answers to the first two questions?    

For more information, see the OASIS credo.

Invited speakers:

Enoch Aboh, University of Amsterdam

Ofra Magidor, University of Oxford

Linnaea Stockall, Queen Mary University of London

Satellite session: Creoles as windows on language and cognition

This special session will focus on Creoles as full-fledged natural languages that emerged in certain socio-historical environments shaped by European colonial expansion. For any given theory of Creole formation, those contexts involve language contact and innovation through complex processes of language acquisition, therefore providing a particular starting point for research on how conceptual categories are mapped into diverse grammatical systems.

For more information, please check the website.

Contact: oasis6lisboa@letras.ulisboa.pt