36.1743, Confs: Cross-clausal Dependencies Workshop (Germany)

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Date: 02-Jun-2025
From: Szilvia Daczó & Fabian Zöfelt [ccd at uni-bielefeld.de]
Subject: Cross-clausal Dependencies Workshop


Cross-clausal Dependencies Workshop
Short Title: CCD

Date: 29-Oct-2025 - 31-Oct-2025
Location: Bielefeld, Germany
Contact: András Bárány, Szilvia Daczó, Jutta M. Hartmann, Anke
Himmelreich, and Fabian Zöfelt
Contact Email: ccd at uni-bielefeld.de
Meeting URL: https://t1p.de/A01-CrossClausalDep25

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Syntax

Submission Deadline: 01-Jul-2025

Invited speakers: Kriszta Szécsényi (University of Deusto) and Stefan
Keine (UCLA)
Subproject A01 “Creativity in morphosyntax: The role of analogy” of
the Bielefeld University Collaborative Research Centre 1646
“Linguistic Creativity in Communication” is organising a three day
workshop (Wednesday afternoon to Friday midday) on long-distance
dependencies in October 2025. A01 studies long-distance movement (in
particular islands) and long-distance agreement phenomena and explores
the role of structural similarities between generally acceptable and
unacceptable long-distance dependencies.
The workshop will focus on long-distance movement and long-distance
agreement dependencies and aims to shed light on questions regarding
the syntactic configuration of clauses involving long-distance
dependencies, the properties of domains involved in long-distance
dependencies, as well as the role of pragmatic and semantic context
for the acceptability of long-distance dependencies.
While there has been extensive work on islands (for overviews see
Phillips 2013a,b, Szabolcsi & Lohndahl 2017, Sprouse & Villata 2021),
movement dependencies of different types (wh-movement, topicalization,
focus movement) and to a lesser degree on long-distance agreement (see
Boeckx 2009, Bhatt & Keine 2017 for overviews and Polinsky & Potsdam
2001, Bhatt 2005, Keine 2013, Ozarkar 2020 for work on particular
languages and phenomena), there is less work explicitly comparing
long-distance dependencies of various types and/or across different
languages (but see e.g. Börjesson & Müller 2020, Mursell 2020). We are
particularly interested in work that relate their findings in movement
dependencies to properties of agreement and vice versa.
We invite submissions dealing with long-distance movement and
agreement dependencies, in particular work that focuses on:
The role and properties of domains in long-distance movement and
agreement dependencies:
 - Are long-distance dependencies always successive–cyclic (a.o.
McCloskey 2002, Bošković 2014, van Urk 2015, den Dikken 2018)?
 - Does long-distance agreement require some kind of intermediate
proxy or movement between the agreement controller and target (Boeckx
2009, Keine 2013, Le-Sourd 2018)?
 - To what extent, if at all, can long-distance agreement relations be
reduced to movement (Chandra 2007, Hammerly & Mathieu 2025)?
The structural configuration, integration and interaction of complex
clauses and the consequences for long-distance dependencies:
 - How are subordinate structures integrated into superordinate
structures? (cf. a.o. Frey, Meinunger & Schwabe 2016, Axel-Tober et
al. 2023 and articles therein. See also Moulton 2009, Hartman 2012,
Elliott 2020, Wurmbrand & Lohninger 2023.)
 - How do long-distance dependencies into complements differ from
those into adjuncts and how can we account for these differences?
(a.o. Chaves 2022)
 - What are the effects of finiteness?
 - What is the role of event structure and situations in the
acceptability of long-distance dependencies? (a.o. Truswell 2007,
2011)
The possible space of variation across languages:
 - Are there universal domains for long-distance dependencies? (a.o.
Sprouse et al. 2016)
 - What are the points of variations in the structural configuration
and morphological expression of movement dependencies? (a.o. Bošković
2012)
Improvements of acceptability in long-distance dependencies through
repeated exposure (facilitation, satiation) or through context:
 - Can repeated exposure to identical or structurally similar
experimental items lead to improved acceptability? If so, what factors
influence these effects? (a.o. Luka & Barsalou 2005, Snyder 2000,
2022)
 - What is the role of context and plausibility in the acceptability
of long-distance dependencies? (a.o. Hofmeister & Sag 2010, Abeillé et
al. 2020, Culicover, Varaschin & Winkler 2022)
We welcome work applying different qualitative and quantitative
methodology, as well as papers with a focus on theoretical
argumentation.
We invite abstracts for 30-minute presentations (+ 10-minute
discussion). You may submit at most two abstracts, of which only one
may be single authored.
Please submit your abstract via EasyAbs:
https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/CCD/
Submission deadline: Tuesday, 2025-07-01 23.59 CEST
Notification of acceptance: End of August
Format:
 - A4, 2.5cm margin
 - No more than two pages (including references)
 - No smaller than 11pt
More Information:
Workshop webpage: https://t1p.de/A01-CrossClausalDep25
Project webpage:
https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/projekte/a01/



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