37.2027, Confs: 6th Conference on the Syntax of Uralic Languages (Hungary)

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Date: 09-Jun-2026
From: Éva Dékány [dekany.eva at nytud.hu]
Subject: 6th Conference on the Syntax of Uralic Languages


6th Conference on the Syntax of Uralic Languages
Short Title: SOUL6

Date: 24-Jun-2026 - 26-Jun-2026
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Contact: Éva Dékány, Barbara Egedi, Ekaterina Georgieva
Contact Email: soul6 at nytud.hu
Meeting URL:
https://nytud.hu/esemeny/syntax-of-uralic-languages-6-soul6

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax

The 6th Syntax of Uralic Languages (SOUL6) conference will take place
in the ground floor lecture hall of ELTE Research Centre for
Linguistics (1068 Budapest, Hungary, Benczúr utca 33).
24 June (Wednesday)
9:15–9:30  Opening
Invited talk
9:30–10:30  Timofey Arkhangelskiy: Studying Uralic dialects: Luxury or
necessity?
10:30–11:00  Coffee break
Session 1
11:00–11:30  Marcel den Dikken: Dative alternation: An integrated
syntax for ditransitives, have-sentences and possessive DPs
11:30–12:00  Vsevolod Masliukov & Svetlana Toldova: One suffix, two
abstract morphemes: the -dʹum suffix in Forest Nenets
12:00–13:30 Lunch
Session 2
13:30–14:00  Mari Saraheimo & Erika Asztalos: A newly emerging past
tense in Udmurt and  the factors affecting its aspect
14:00–14:30  Nikolett F. Gulyás & Eszter Napsugár Tóbiás: On the
so-called compound past tenses in Komi-Permyak
14:30–14:45  Coffee break
14:45–16:30 Lightning talks + poster session
Josefina Budzisch: Dialectal variation in word order in Selkup: A
corpus-based syntactic study and the role of Russian influence
Idaliia Fedotova: Collective universal quantifiers within NPs in Kazym
and Surgut Khanty
Kata Kubínyi, Anne Tamm & Gabriella Tóth: On the division of labour
between Px- and Cx-numeral heads in Hungarian and Mari partitive
phrases
Levente Máthé: The relativizing capacity of the Meadow Mari negative
participle
Polina Pleshak & Gábor Alberti: Person hierarchy in Moksha
Mari Siiroinen: Different strategies for developing future tense in
written Finnish throughout history
Sándor Szeverényi & Kitti Vojter: Toward a typology of knowledge
transfer constructions: syntactic, morphological and
semantic-pragmatic pattern
Maria Usacheva & Hasmik Jivanyan: From causal conjunction to
contrastive focus marking: the case of clause-final Russian-loaned
*potomušto* 'because' in Beserman
Session 3
16:30–17:00  Egor Kashkin: The relation between restrictive focus and
emphatic assertion of identity (case study of the particle lač in Hill
Mari)
17:00–17:30  Lena Borise, Katalin Gugán & Balázs Surányi: Information
structure as a hindrance to contact-induced word order change: the
case of Surgut Khanty
25 June (Thursday)
Invited talk
9:30–10:30  Aleksandra Belkind: Properties of short object scrambling
in Kazym Khanty
10:30–11:00  Coffee break
Session 4
11:00–11:30  Svetlana Toldova & Pavel Belov: Accusative vs. ablative
nominalizations as sentential complements in Forest Nenets
11:30–12:00  Aigul Zakirova: Polyfunctional non-finite form -šaš in
Mari: from future/irrealis non-finites to imperative-like modal forms
12:00–13:30 Lunch
Session 5
13:30–14:00  Irina Burukina & Aigul Zakirova: I wish I understood: 1SG
optative construction in Meadow Mari
14:00–14:30  Cecília Sarolta Molnár & László Fejes: Marking
non-canonical questions in canonical texts: The case of Hungarian and
Udmurt
14:30–15:00  Szabó Veronika, Farkas Judit, Takó Tünde & Alberti Gábor:
The accusative benn-pronouns in Hungarian partitive or camouflage
constructions
15:00–15:30  Coffee break
Session 6
15:30–16:00  Irina Burukina & Nathan Dwyer: Mari causatives causing
trouble
16:00–16:30  Anastasiia Kriukova & Natalia Serdobolskaya: Different
positions for different direct objects: DOM in Tatyshly Udmurt
16:30–17:00 Polina Pleshak: Hill Mari DOM: the case of long-distance
selection
17:00–17:15 Closing (Proceedings, business meeting)
SOUL6 will be followed by the MixPAC Workshop on Mixed Projections on
26 June (Friday):
https://nytud.hu/syntax-of-uralic-languages-6-mixpac-workshop-on-mixed-projections



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