37.2396, Calls: Workshop at DGfS 2027: Small Primitives, Big Syntax (Germany)

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Subject: 37.2396, Calls: Workshop at DGfS 2027: Small Primitives, Big Syntax (Germany)

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Date: 16-Jul-2026
From: Emir Berber, Rebecca Jarvis, Mariia Privizentseva, Francesca Ziegler, Stanislao Zompì [jarvis1 at uni-potsdam.de]
Subject: Workshop at DGfS 2027: Small Primitives, Big Syntax


Full Title: Workshop at DGfS 2027: Small Primitives, Big Syntax

Date: 03-Mar-2027 - 05-Mar-2027
Location: Jena, Germany
Web Site:
https://sites.google.com/view/potsdam-msl/events/dgfs-2027-in-jena-ag-small-primitives-big-syntax

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax; Typology

Call Deadline: 31-Jul-2026

Call for Papers:
The workshop submission deadline has been extended to July 31!
One of the central goals of syntactic typology is to reduce complex
linguistic phenomena—and the often fine-grained variation they exhibit
across languages—to a set of simpler underlying mechanisms. This
enterprise involves deriving a wide range of syntactic constructions
from constrained sets of features or other syntactic primitives that
can combine in different constellations across languages. In this
workshop, to be held at DGfS 2027 in Jena, we zoom in on these
primitives and ask two interrelated questions: (i) To what extent are
more complex phenomena in a given language determined by the presence
of simpler ones, or by specific combinations of these elements? (ii)
How much cross-linguistic variation can be accounted for through the
parametrization of simpler elements? In this workshop, we especially
invite two kinds of investigations. On the one hand, we invite work on
what particular combinations of features underlie larger syntactic
phenomena. We also encourage work that takes as its focus a small
number of primitives and how they can expand parametrically to capture
a range of syntactic variation in a factorial typology. For more
information, visit the workshop website
(https://sites.google.com/view/potsdam-msl/events/dgfs-2027-in-jena-ag-small-primitives-big-syntax).
Invited Speakers:
Klaus Abels (University College London)
Asia Pietraszko (University of Rochester)
Submission Guidelines:
Abstracts should be submitted via the workshop’s OpenReview page
(https://openreview.net/group?id=DGfS.de/2027/Workshop/small-primitives-big-syntax)
by July 31, 2026. For further guidelines, see the workshop website.



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