The "Chair of French Linguistics" (Institute of Language Sciences, University of Neuchâtel) in collaboration with the "Sens Texte Informatique Histoire" laboratory (Faculty of Letters, Sorbonne University) are organising an international conference to be held in Neuchâtel (Switzerland) from the 14th to the 16th of May 2025. It will explore the question of the coherence and boundaries of the adverbial class by integrating theoretical, contrastive, typological and quantitative perspectives.