36.2777, Confs: Onward and Upward, or Not: Form-meaning mismatches in Modality, Agreement, and Negation (Germany)

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Subject: 36.2777, Confs: Onward and Upward, or Not: Form-meaning mismatches in Modality, Agreement, and Negation (Germany)

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Date: 16-Sep-2025
From: Rishabh Suresh [rishabh.suresh at uni-goettingen.de]
Subject: Onward and Upward, or Not: Form-meaning mismatches in Modality, Agreement, and Negation


Onward and Upward, or Not: Form-meaning mismatches in Modality,
Agreement, and Negation
Theme: Syntax-semantics of modality, agreement, and negation

Date: 14-Nov-2025 - 14-Nov-2025
Location: Göttingen, Germany
Contact: Rishabh Suresh
Contact Email: rishabh.suresh at uni-goettingen.de

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Semantics; Syntax

Submission Deadline: 05-Oct-2025

A syntax-semantics workshop "Onward and Upward, or Not: Form-meaning
mismatches in Modality, Agreement, and Negation" will take place in
Georg-August-University Göttingen on 14th November 2025. The topics of
this workshop include negation, modality and agreement. The workshop
is celebrating the achievements and contributions of Hedde Zeijlstra
and his colleagues to the study of the syntax-semantics interface. The
workshop will include 6 invited talks and a poster session.
Invited Speakers:
 - Sabine Iatridou (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
 - Malte Zimmermann (Universität Potsdam)
 - Hadil Karawani (Universität Konstanz)
 - Sandhya Sundaresan (Stony Brook University)
 - Beste Kamali (University of Amsterdam)
 - John Bailyn (Stony Brook University)
We invite everyone to submit abstracts for poster presentations.
Submissions are limited to two abstracts, with at most one
single-authored paper. The order of authors should reflect the
contribution to the paper; equal contribution has to be indicated.
Call for papers deadline: 5th October 2025
Notification of acceptance: 20th October 2025
Abstract Guidelines:
 - Please submit the abstracts via email to
onward-and-upward-or-not at googlegroups.com.
 - PDF format;
 - Maximum 1 page A4 Abstract (excl. references, incl. examples,
tables and figures);
 - 2.5 cm (1 inch) margins;
 - 12pt;
The submission(s) must be anonymous and not reveal the identity of the
author(s) in any way (be sure to remove metadata from the file);
Abstracts which do not comply with these guidelines may be excluded
from the reviewing process.
Poster Guidelines:
Please bring your poster already printed in A0 size, vertical format.
You may display your poster shortly before the poster session begins.



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