36.1638, Confs: Trends and Problems in Comparative Germanic Linguistics / Internationale Nachwuchstagung der Vergleichenden Germanischen Sprachwissenschaft (Sweden)

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Subject: 36.1638, Confs: Trends and Problems in Comparative Germanic Linguistics / Internationale Nachwuchstagung der Vergleichenden Germanischen Sprachwissenschaft (Sweden)

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Date: 22-May-2025
From: Mirjam Marti Heinzle [mirjam.marti at ds.uzh.ch]
Subject: Trends and Problems in Comparative Germanic Linguistics / Internationale Nachwuchstagung der Vergleichenden Germanischen Sprachwissenschaft


Trends and Problems in Comparative Germanic Linguistics /
Internationale Nachwuchstagung der Vergleichenden Germanischen
Sprachwissenschaft

Date: 19-Sep-2025 - 20-Sep-2025
Location: Uppsala Universitet, Department of Scandinavian Studies,
Sweden
Contact: Matteo Tarsi
Contact Email: uppsala.germanic.conference at gmail.com
Meeting URL:
https://www.uu.se/en/department/scandinavian-languages/research/seminars-and-conferences/conferences/ugc

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
Language Family(ies): Germanic

The symposium aims to bring to the fore the most pressing and engaging
problems in comparative Germanic linguistics within a variety of
research domains, including but not limited to linguistic
reconstruction, runology, poetics, and phylogeny (conference hompage:
http://www.uu.se/tpcgl25)
Organizing committee: Matteo Tarsi, Eric T. Lander, John Ankarström
Call for Papers: The deadline for abstracts has passed.
Deadline for registration: Please register before the 1 of September
2025.
Contact uppsala.germanic.conference at gmail.com for any remaining
questions.
Program:
DAY 1, SEPTEMBER 19 (Engelska Parken – Building 16, room 16-0043)
08:30-09:45 REGISTRATION and welcome FIKA (Engelska Parken – Building
16, foyer)
09:45-10:00 WELCOME ADDRESS by Marco Bianchi (Head of Department -
Scandinavian Languages)
10:00-11:00 KEYNOTE 1: J. Salmons (Madison) - Pre- and Proto-Germanic
obstruent phonology
11:00-12:00 SESSION 1 (Chair J. Salmons)
J. Schalin (Independent) - The non-front main-stressed vowels in Early
Old Nordic, a reconstruction
J. U. Nielsen (Uppsala) - Some unusual reflexes of Pre-Proto-Germanic
*g(w) before resonants
12:00-13:00 LUNCH
13:00-14:00 KEYNOTE 2: M. Schulte (Agder) - The periodization of
Northwest Germanic anew
14:00-15:00 SESSION 2 (Chair M. Schulte)
S. den Hertog (Leiden) - Waves across the Atlantic: The genetic
position of Faroese
S. Jacobsson (Uppsala) - The Old Dalecarlian phonemes *ū2 and *ȳ2
15:00-16:00 COFFEE BREAK
16:00-17:00 KEYNOTE 3: R. Kim (Poznań) - Old methods, new insights
Gothic nominal inflection and relative chronology
17:00-18:00 SESSION 3 (Chair R. Kim)
T. Ahmad (Poznań) -  A comparison in Transitivity prominence: Old
Norse and Old English
D. Hrbek (Osnabrück) - Negation from the Low Countries to the North
Sea Shore: Jespersen’s Cycle in the History of Dutch, Frisian, and Low
German
18:15-19:00 VISIT TO CAROLINA MANUSCRIPT EXHIBITION
20:00 CONFERENCE DINNER (Domtrappkällaren, St. Eriks gränd 15)
DAY 2, SEPTEMBER 20 (Engelska Parken – Building 16, room 16-0043)
10:00-11:00 KEYNOTE 4: S. Neri (Munich/Basel) - Ein ererbter
Archaismus im Germanischen: Das hypostatische Suffix urgerm. *-ba-
11:00-12:30 SESSION 4
F. Erhard (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften) - Zur Etymologie
von bair. El / Öl
G. Samberger (Würzburg) - The *-wandja-suffix in Old Norse and its
relationship with nd-formations
C. Scheungraber (Independent) - Of Sword and Spirit: Light Warriors
and Animistic Power in Germanic (and Indo-European) Heroic Quests
12:30-13:30 LUNCH BREAK
13:30-14:30 KEYNOTE 5: M. Males (Oslo) - The importance of the poetic
record
15:00-16:00 COFFEE BREAK
16:00-17:00 KEYNOTE 6: V. Heyd (Helsinki) - The origins of Germanic
from the perspective of Prehistoric Archaeology
17:30-18:30 GUIDED TOUR OF UPPSALA RUNESTONES



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