37.2055, Confs: Syntactic Variation Across German Varieties: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives / Syntaktische Variation in den deutschen Varietäten: diachrone und synchrone Perspektiven (Italy)

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Subject: 37.2055, Confs: Syntactic Variation Across German Varieties: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives / Syntaktische Variation in den deutschen Varietäten: diachrone und synchrone Perspektiven (Italy)

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Date: 11-Jun-2026
From: Chiara De Bastiani [chiara.debastiani at unive.it]
Subject: Syntactic Variation Across German Varieties: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives / Syntaktische Variation in den deutschen Varietäten: diachrone und synchrone Perspektiven


Syntactic Variation Across German Varieties: Diachronic and Synchronic
Perspectives / Syntaktische Variation in den deutschen Varietäten:
diachrone und synchrone Perspektiven

Date: 18-Nov-2026 - 20-Nov-2026
Location: Venice, Italy

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics;
Language Documentation; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Subject Language(s): German (deu, stan1295)
                     Low German (nds, nort2627)
Language Family(ies): Germanic (germ1287)

Submission Deadline: 30-Jul-2026

Syntactic Variation Across German Varieties: Diachronic and Synchronic
Perspectives/ Syntaktische Variation in den deutschen Varietäten:
diachrone und synchrone Perspektiven, Venice, Department of
Linguistics and comparative cultural studies, Università Ca’ Foscari,
18-20 November 2026
This conference aims to discuss variation across Germanic varieties
both from a diachronic and a synchronic perspective. We welcome
abstracts on analyses focusing on any phenomenon of variation across
German / Germanic varieties couched within different theoretical
frameworks. Each talk will last 30 minutes + 10 minutes for questions.
The conference will feature a special session devoted to German
minority languages in Italy, therefore contributions on German
minority languages, also spoken in areas outside of Italy, are
particularly welcome.
We announce that the invited speakers for the main session are:
Eric Fuß (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Helmut Weiß (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
Sophia Oppermann (Universität Münster)
The invited speaker for the workshop on German minority languages is:
Birgit Alber (Free University of Bolzano)
To submit your application, please send an anonymised abstract in PDF
format to chiara.debastiani at unive.it and federica.cognola at unive.it,
providing your contact details in the email accompanying the abstract.
The abstract should not exceed 500 words, bibliography excluded.
Languages accepted: English, Italian and German.
The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 30th July.
Notification of acceptance: 1st September 2026.



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