BieLeiCoS 2025

Announcement

We are delighted to announce BieLeiCoS 2025, a workshop on Comparative Syntax organized by the universities of Bielefeld and Leiden. The two day workshop will take place at Bielefeld University, Germany, on Thursday 22 May and Friday 23 May 2025.

Invited speaker:  Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge, Stellenbosch University)

Besides the regular conference, there will be two panel sessions on Thursday afternoon: one on  Comparative Syntax and Typology and one on Corpus Methodology and Resources.

Invited speakers for the panel sessions are:

• Panel on Comparative Syntax and Typology: András Bárány (The University of Edinburgh)
• Panel Corpus Methodology and Resources: Anne Breitbarth (Ghent University)

Main information:

• Call deadline: January 31, 2025 (extended deadline)
• Notification: Mid/End of February 2025
• Conference: Thur 22 / Fr 23 May 2025

The workshop will be preceded by a workshop on Wednesday May 21 on “Creativity in Generative Syntax” (Details and separate call for papers will follow).

Call for Papers

EXTENDED DEADLINE: January 31 2025 23:59 CET

For the general comparative syntax session, we invite abstracts for 30-minute presentations (+ 10 min discussion) on any topic in comparative generative syntax.

We particularly welcome papers explicitly addressing synchronic or diachronic properties of un(der)studied varieties and/or phenomena, and papers concerned with more general questions, concerning, e.g., the relation between comparative syntax and linguistic typology, syntax-interface mappings, and our understanding of language as a cognitive system. We also encourage papers concerned with methodologies for modern comparative generative syntax.

Submission guidelines

Anonymous abstracts should not exceed 800 words (without references). Please use 12-point Times New Roman font, with single spacing and margins of at least 2.54cm/1 inch. Abstracts should be uploaded in pdf format via EasyAbstracts here: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/BieLeiCoS/

 

The submission deadline is extended to January 31 2025 23:59 CET

For more information, please contact the organizers Jutta Hartmann, Szilvia Daczó, and Fabian Zoefelt via the following email address: bieleicos2025@uni-bielefeld.de