37.1683, Confs: The Vienna Conference on Word Order, Headedness and Linearization (Austria)
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Subject: 37.1683, Confs: The Vienna Conference on Word Order, Headedness and Linearization (Austria)
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Date: 04-May-2026
From: Tamás Halm [tamas.andras.halm at univie.ac.at]
Subject: The Vienna Conference on Word Order, Headedness and Linearization
The Vienna Conference on Word Order, Headedness and Linearization
Short Title: WOHL2026
Date: 01-Jul-2026 - 03-Jul-2026
Location: Vienna, Austria
Contact: Tamás Halm
Contact Email: tamas.andras.halm at univie.ac.at
Meeting URL: https://wohl2026.eu/
Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Language Acquisition;
Psycholinguistics; Syntax; Typology
The Department of Linguistics at the University of Vienna is pleased
to announce The Vienna Conference on Word Order, Headedness and
Linearization (WOHL2026), to be held on July 1-3, 2026. This
conference brings together linguists working on linearization,
headedness and word order from various perspectives: theoretical,
experimental, psychological, typological and diachronic. The
conference includes a main session (July 1 and 2) and a one-day
workshop (July 3) dedicated to truncated clauses: deficient clauses
which, by their very minimality, have the potential to offer new
empirical evidence bearing on linearization, headedness and word
order.
All information including the conference programme and registration is
available at https://wohl2026.eu/
The Vienna Conference on Word Order, Headedness and Linearization
(WOHL2026)
Conference venue: Hörsaal 1, 1st floor, Sensengasse 3a, 1090, Vienna
Day 1 (July 1): Main session
8:30 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:10 Introductory remarks
9:10 - 10:25 Caterina Donati (LLF - CNRS/Université Paris Cité):
One linearisation, two linearisations, no linearisation: what happens
with word order when two languages are produced simultaneously
(invited talk)
10:25 - 11:00 Carlo Cecchetto (University of Milan Bicocca & SFL -
CNRS/Paris 8) & Adrien Dadone (University of Leiden):
When you do not linearize: Simultaneous production in sign languages
challenges the theories of linearization
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:35 - 12:10 Marcel den Dikken (ELTE Research Centre for
Linguistics & Centre of Linguistics, University of Lisbon):
VP- and vP-fronting inside the Germanic Mittelfeld: Word order and
information structure
12:10 - 12:45 János Egressy (UCLA):
Williams Cycle effects and successive cyclicity unified
12:45 - 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 - 15:05 Svitlana Antonyuk (University of Graz), Yanis da Cunha
(University of Graz) & Daniel Shevchenko (University of Southern
California):
Hiding in plain sight: when two syntactic constructions share a
linearization
15:05 - 15:40 Lada Pasko (Lomonosov Moscow State University
&Institute of Linguistics RAS):
OSV and OVS in Russian: Experimental evidence from Weak Crossover
15:40 - 16:15 Mitya Privoznov (Göttingen University) & Hedde
Zeijlstra (Göttingen University):
*A B and
16:15 - 16:45 Coffee break
16:45 - 18:00 Ad Neeleman (University College London):
Word order as a function of grammar and parsing (invited talk)
Day 2 (July 2): Main session
8:30 - 9:10 Registration
9:10 - 10:25 Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge):
FOFC and FOFC-type effects: Implications for linearization, variation
and change (invited talk)
10:25 - 11:00 Dimitris Michelioudakis (Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki), Natalia Chousou-Polydouri (Institute for Mediterranean
Studies - FORTH), Nikos Angelopoulos (CNRS/University of Patras),
Christos Zioutis (University of Crete) & Elena Anagnostopoulou
(University of Crete/Institute for Mediterranean Studies - FORTH):
Word order in IE: an evolutionary approach to parameter hierarchies
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:35 - 12:10 Robert Truswell (University of Edinburgh):
Wh-movement and wh in situ: Theory, typology, and diachrony
12:10 - 12:45 Erika Asztalos (ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics),
Corinna Langer (Goethe University Frankfurt) & Balázs Surányi (ELTE
Research Centre for Linguistics & Pázmány Péter Catholic University):
Does prosody compensate for lack of word order marking? Disambiguating
negated narrow focus sentences in Udmurt
12:45 - 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 - 15:05 Nikos Angelopoulos (CNRS/University of Patras),
Christos Zioutis (University of Crete), Elena Anagnostopoulou
(University of Crete/Institute for Mediterranean Studies - FORTH),
Dimitris Michelioudakis (Aristotle University), Natalia
Chousou-Polydouri (Institute for Mediterranean Studies - FORTH) &
Pavlos Pavlidis (University of Crete):
Greenberg’s U20: turning Cinque’s approach into a model of language
change
15:05 - 15:40 Poster session
15:40 - 16:10 Coffee break
16:10 - 17:25 Guglielmo Cinque (Ca' Foscari University Venice):
LF feeds linearization (or the locus of linearization in UG) (invited
talk)
19:00 - Conference Dinner
Day 3 (July 3): Workshop
8:30 - 9:10 Registration
9:10 - 9:45 Rajesh Bhatt (Umass Amherst), Carlo Cecchetto
(University of Milan Bicocca & SFL - CNRS/Paris 8), Caterina Donati
(LLF - CNRS/Université Paris Cité) & Léa Nash (SFL - CNRS/Paris 8):
Reduced structures and ergativity
9:45 - 10:20 Aleksandra Belkind (ELTE Research Centre for
Linguistics):
The size of non-inflectional constructions in German
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee break
10:50 - 11:25 Jong-Bok Kim (Kyung Hee University, Seoul): Ample
Negatives as Truncated Clause Constructions:
A Corpus-Based Investigation and Construction Grammar Approach
11:25 - 12:00 Thomas Schökler (Aoyama Gakuin University) & Shoichi
Takahashi (Aoyama Gakuin University):
Was für-Split in Sluicing: Yet Another ‘Merchant’s Wrinkle’ Ironed Out
12:00 - 12:35 Peter Ackema (University of Edinburgh) & Ad Neeleman
(University College London):
Patterns of partial ellipsis in Dutch right dislocation
12:35 - 14:10 Lunch break
14:10 - 14:45 Josep Quer (ICREA/Universitat Pompeu Fabra) & Maria
Lekakou (University of Ioannina):
Τruncated or not, these are alternative concessive conditionals
14:45 - 15:20 Marcel den Dikken (ELTE Research Centre for
Linguistics & Centre of Linguistics, University of Lisbon):
Root past participles in Dutch: The role of truncation
15:20 - 15:50 Coffee break
15:50 - 17:20 Reduced structures and grammatical theory - Roundtable
discussion (Introductory presentation: Tamás Halm - University of
Vienna & ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics)
Poster Session (Day 2, July 2) 15:05-15:40
Josefina Budzisch (University of Vienna):
Dialectal Variation in Word Order in Selkup: A Corpus-Based Syntactic
Study and the Role of Russian Influence
Kenyon Branan (Göttingen University) & Hedde Zeijlstra (Göttingen
University):
FOFC and the default status of head-finality
Francesco Pinzin (Università degli Studi di Padova) & Tommaso
Mattiuzzi (Goethe Universität Frankfurt):
Word-order information in the lexicon
Ben De Slagmulder (Ghent University):
Contact-induced word order change in Old Swedish and Middle Low German
Balázs Surányi (ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics & Pázmány Péter
Catholic University), Lena Borise (CNRS) & Katalin Gugán (ELTE
Research Centre for Linguistics):
Information structure as a hindrance to contact-induced word order
change: the case of Surgut Khanty
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