36.2998, Confs: Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop 37 (Switzerland)

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Date: 06-Oct-2025
From: Andreas Trotzke [trotzke at ds.uzh.ch]
Subject: Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop 37


Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop 37
Short Title: CGSW 37

Date: 10-Nov-2025 - 11-Nov-2025
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Meeting URL: https://www.ds.uzh.ch/de/tagungen/CGSW37

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Syntax
Language Family(ies): Germanic

The 37th edition of the Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop (CGSW 37)
will take place on November 10 and 11 in the beautiful city of Zurich,
Switzerland.
Invited Speakers:
Gillian Ramchand (University of Oxford)
Martin Salzmann (University of Potsdam)
Martina Wiltschko (UPF Barcelona)
Jan-Wouter Zwart (University of Groningen)
Workshop Organizers:
Andreas Trotzke & Guido Seiler
Full Program:
November 10, 2025
Chair: Guido Seiler
09:30 - 10:30 Martin Salzmann: NP-ellipsis in German: Against
evacuation movement and in favor of N-stranding NP-ellipsis
10:30 - 11:00 Eric Haeberli and Manuela Schönenberger: Word order
variation in verb clusters, usage data, and their implications:
Evidence from a variety of Swiss German
11:00 - 11:30   Coffee break
Chair: Mirjam Marti Heinzle
11:30 - 12:00 Marco Coniglio, Julia Bacskai-Atkari and Chiara De
Bastiani: The grammaticalization of wh- relative pronouns in English
and German: a comparative perspective
12:00 - 12:30 Nele Arnold and Andreas Blümel: Insights from two case
studies in the diachrony of Germanic NPs: A reanalysis
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
Chair: Stefan Savić
14.00 - 14.30 Gianina Iordachioaia and Jeannique Darby: Complex event
structure with the zero suffix in English deverbal nominals
14:30 - 15:00 Wesley Lincoln: Syntax and semantics of also in
Singlish: Evidence of joint Chinese and Malay influence
15:00 - 15:30 Anne-Li Demonie and Pamela Goryczka: Agreement puzzles
in Germanic possessives
15:30 - 15:45 Business meeting
15:45 - 16.15 Coffee break
Chair: Andreas Trotzke
16:15 - 16:45 Squid Tamar-Mattis and Oddur Snorrason: Germanic
pseudo-coordination and bare verb constructions as distinctness
repairs
16:45 - 17:15 Marijke De Belder: The syntax of fractional numbers in
West-Germanic languages
17:15 - 18:15 Jan-Wouter Zwart: Comparative Germanic syntax and
Minimalism today
19:30 - Conference dinner + dinner speech by a CGSW veteran!
November 11, 2025
Chair: Laura Reimer
09:30 - 10:30 Martina Wiltschko: What’s in a mirative and how did it
get there? Evidence from German dialects
10:30 - 11:00 Engela de Villiers and Theresa Biberauer: Let's become
more speaker-oriented! A case of pseudo-let imperatives in Afrikaans
11:00 - 11:30   Coffee break
Chair: Andreas Trotzke
11:30 - 12:00 David Diem: Verb-first under evaluatives and psych verbs
in Alemannic German
12:00 - 12:30 Tobias Frick and Leonie Strickler: The development of an
embedded V2 word order in a Swiss German language island
12:30 - 14:00   Lunch break
Chair: Guido Seiler
14:00 - 14:30 Paul Zodl: How much Basque is in Yiddish? The diachrony
of N-indefinites and negative concord
14:30 - 15:00 Chiara Riegger, George Walkden and Tina Bögel: Swabian
null subjects at the syntax-phonology interface
15:00 - 15:30 Lieke Hendriks: On the quantitative pronoun er in
Brabantic split topicalization
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
Chair: Stefan Savić
16:00 - 16:30 Leah S. Bauke and Dennis Wegner: Double modals in
Standard German, Standard English and dialects of English
16:30 - 17:30 Gillian Ramchand: Det var godt!: On the experiential
past tense in Mainland Scandinavian
More Info: https://www.ds.uzh.ch/de/tagungen/CGSW37.html



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