37.909, Confs: Workshop at SinFonIJA 19: Cliticization in Slavic and beyond. Theory, Data and Change (Austria)

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Date: 03-Mar-2026
From: Jelena Zivojinovic [jelena.zivojinovic at uni-graz.at]
Subject: Workshop at SinFonIJA 19: Cliticization in Slavic and beyond. Theory, Data and Change


Workshop at SinFonIJA 19: Cliticization in Slavic and beyond. Theory,
Data and Change
Short Title: CLITISLAV

Date: 30-Sep-2026 - 02-Oct-2026
Location: Graz, Austria
Contact: Jelena Zivojinovic
Contact Email: jelena.zivojinovic at uni-graz.at
Meeting URL:
https://sites.google.com/view/sinfonija19/workshops/w1-clitislav

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics;
Language Acquisition; Syntax

Submission Deadline: 15-Apr-2026

Clitics are a highly prominent category in Slavic languages, which
raises fundamental questions about the interfaces between syntax,
morphology, phonology, and information structure. They occupy a
theoretical middle ground between words and affixes, and their
placement often reflects complex interactions among syntactic
position, prosodic structure, and discourse-related constraints
(Franks & King 2000; Bošković 2001, 2008, 2016; Milićević 2023,
a.m.o.). Slavic languages, with their rich clitic inventories, provide
an ideal testing ground for competing models of cliticization and for
exploring how grammatical architecture constrains linearization.
In addition to long-standing debates on the definition and status of
clitics, recent advances in experimental methods, corpus linguistics,
and comparative micro-typology have opened new perspectives on how
clitic systems are acquired, processed, and diachronically reanalyzed
(Kosta 2013; Kolaković et al 2022; Marelj 2024, a.o.). These
developments invite renewed discussion of both classic and emerging
issues, including the nature of second-position effects or the role of
prosody.
This workshop aims to explore primarily, but not exclusively, Slavic
cliticization from theoretical, descriptive, comparative, and
methodological perspectives. Both synchronic and diachronic studies
are welcome, and contributions on under-described varieties are
especially encouraged.
We invite contributions on any aspect of cliticization, including but
not limited to the following research questions and related issues:
a) What theoretical criteria distinguish clitics from affixes and
independent words?
b) Is clitic placement best explained through language-specific
morphosyntactic constraints, interface conditions (syntax–prosody), or
broader cross-linguistic generalizations?
c) How do clitics attach to prosodic hosts?
d) How should the differences between distinct classes of pronouns
(clitic, weak, and strong) be modeled? Are these differences purely
morphophonological – with their distribution regulated by information
structure – or do they encode deeper syntactic and semantic
differences?
e) How can recent empirical and computational methods – e.g.,
experimental syntax, corpus analysis, eye-tracking, EEG, etc – shed
new light on clitic placement, prosodic integration, and
information-structural effects?
f) How does language contact contribute to the emergence,
restructuring, or loss of clitic systems?
g) What syntactic and discourse-related factors license or restrict
phenomena such as clitic doubling, and how does doubling interact with
definiteness, animacy, and information structure?
Invited Speakers:
Krzysztof Migdalski (University of Wrocław)
Iliyana Krapova (University of Venice)
Abstracts:
We invite submissions for 20-minute talks (+10 minutes discussion).
Formatting: Times New Roman 12 pt, single-spaced, standard margins.
Abstracts must be anonymous and must be submitted in PDF form via
Oxford Abstracts at
https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/81699/submitter.



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