37.2159, Calls: Workshop at DGfS 2027: Clitics and Agreement Markers Across Languages: From Balkan to Bantu and Beyond (Germany)

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Subject: 37.2159, Calls: Workshop at DGfS 2027: Clitics and Agreement Markers Across Languages: From Balkan to Bantu and Beyond (Germany)

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Date: 22-Jun-2026
From: Ekaterina Levina [clitics-dgfs2027.linguistics at univie.ac.at]
Subject: Workshop at DGfS 2027: Clitics and Agreement Markers Across Languages: From Balkan to Bantu and Beyond

Full Title: Workshop at DGfS 2027: Clitics and Agreement Markers
Across Languages: From Balkan to Bantu and Beyond
Short Title: DGfS 2027
Theme: Clitics and agreement markers across languages: from Balkan to
Bantu and beyond

Date: 02-Mar-2027 - 05-Mar-2027
Location: Jena, Germany
Contact Person: Ekaterina Levina
Meeting Email: clitics-dgfs2027.linguistics at univie.ac.at
Web Site: https://www.gw.uni-jena.de/101200/dgfs-2027

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

Call Deadline: 23-Jul-2026

Call for Papers:
This workshop is organized as part of the DGfS 49th Annual Conference
2027 'Language under the Microscope – Observation, Analysis, Theory'
Workshop Description:
Clitic pronouns and agreement markers are traditionally treated as
distinct elements of grammar: clitics as (deficient) pronouns,
agreement as a purely morphological reflex of syntactic relations.
However, a growing body of work has pointed to systematic similarities
between them, raising the question of whether this distinction is
theoretically justified (Jaeggli 1982; Borer 1984; Sportiche 1996;
Roberts 2010; Kramer 2012; Zeller 2015; Dierks, Ranero & Paster 2014).
Cross-linguistically, phenomena such as clitic doubling in Balkan and
Romance languages and object agreement in languages such as Hungarian
or Bantu often show comparable distributional and interpretive
effects, including sensitivity to definiteness, specificity, animacy,
and information structure (e.g. Kallulli 2000; Den Dikken 2006; Zeller
2008; Coppock & Wechsler 2012; Baker & Kramer 2018; Angelopoulos
2019). At the same time, these systems differ considerably in their
morphophonological realization and apparent optionality. This raises a
central question: should clitics and agreement markers be analyzed as
distinct grammatical objects, or do they instantiate a single
underlying mechanism with different surface realizations?
The AG aims to clarify whether a unified analysis of clitics and
agreement is possible and what this would imply for the architecture
of grammar. It brings together research on clitics, agreement, and
related phenomena across languages. We welcome contributions that
engage with formal approaches in syntax, semantics, and pragmatics,
including theoretical analyses, empirical case studies, and
experimental investigations within formal approaches in syntax,
semantics, and pragmatics.
Invited Speakers:
Dalina Kallulli (University of Vienna)
Marcel den Dikken (Centre of Linguistics of the University of Lisbon,
Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics in Budapest)
Submission Details:
Please submit anonymous abstracts by 23 July 2026 through our
OpenReview submission page:
https://openreview.net/group?id=DGfS.de/2026/Workshop/CAMAL
We strongly encourage creating an OpenReview profile early, due to the
moderation policy for newly created profiles: New profiles created
without an institutional email will go through a moderation process
that can take up to two weeks, whereas new profiles created with an
institutional email will be activated automatically.
Abstracts should be written in English and contain a maximum of 800
words, excluding references and glosses and translations of
non-English examples.
All submissions will be considered for 20-minute oral presentations
followed by a 10-minute Q&A session at the workshop, which will be
conducted in English.
An author may submit a maximum of two abstracts, only one of which may
be single-authored.
Important Dates:
Abstract submission deadline: July 23, 2026, 23:59 (CET)
Notification of acceptance: August 31, 2026

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