36.2583, Confs: Perspectives on Germanic Syntax (Italy)

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Subject: 36.2583, Confs: Perspectives on Germanic Syntax (Italy)

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Date: 01-Sep-2025
From: Matteo Tarsi [matteo.tarsi at unipv.it]
Subject: Perspectives on Germanic Syntax


Perspectives on Germanic Syntax

Date: 16-Apr-2026 - 17-Apr-2026
Location: Pavia, Italy
Contact: Matteo Tarsi
Contact Email: matteo.tarsi at unipv.it
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/pavia2026

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

Submission Deadline: 08-Jan-2026

As part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie funded project Verb valency in
Germanic: diachronic analysis and reconstruction of protolinguistic
scenario (VALGER, project no. 101150253) the research group
Linguistics in Pavia, sponsored by the journal North-Western European
Language Evolution (NOWELE, John Benjamins), is organizing a two-day
symposium dedicated to the study of Germanic syntax.
The symposium will take place at the University of Pavia on Thursday
16 and Friday 17 April 2026.
We invite abstracts that address any topic relevant to the study of
syntax in Germanic, with a particular focus on diachronic and/or
comparative analyses of syntactic phenomena. We welcome proposals from
any theoretical perspective and particularly encourage junior
researchers such as ABD doctoral students (or anyway well into their
doctoral research) or researchers at the postdoctoral level to submit
abstracts.
The symposium should be considered an opportunity for open discussions
aiming to advance the discipline.
Ideally, papers should address a topic of interest either exclusively
within the Germanic language family or comparatively across multiple
language families (e.g. typologically).
Nevertheless, the focus of the proposed papers should be centered on
one or more Germanic varieties and hence aim at a better understanding
of the selected syntactic phenomena in Germanic.
Papers will be 20 minutes + 10 minutes for discussion in English or
German. Abstracts will be accepted in English or German. No poster
session is scheduled.
A special thematic issue of the journal, with selected double-blind
peer-reviewed papers from the symposium, is planned for 2027. More
details about this will be disclosed in due time.
Your abstract should be one A4 page, single-spaced, with 2.5 cm
margins and 12-point font, formatted as a PDF file. A second page with
data and figures and a third page with references are allowed.
Please send your abstract and any inquiry to matteo.tarsi at unipv.it
The deadline for submission is Thursday 8 January 2026 at 08:00
Central European Time.
The abstract (PDF file) should be anonymized. Please provide author
names and affiliations in the body of the e-mail upon submission.
Authors may submit only one abstract as first author but can also be
listed as a co-author on one additional abstract.
For additional information on the conference please visit
https://sites.google.com/view/pavia2026



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