Bielefeld Leiden Comparative Syntax Conference 2025
BieLeiCoS 2025

Date: 22-May-2025 – 23-May-2025
Location: Bielefeld, Germany
Contact Person: Fabian Zöfelt
Meeting Email: bieleicos2025@uni-bielefeld.de
Web Site: https://t1p.de/BieLeiCoS2025

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2025

Meeting Description:

BieLeiCoS 2025 is a workshop on Comparative Syntax organized by Bielefeld University and Leiden University. The two day workshop will take place at Bielefeld University, Germany, on Thursday 22 May and Friday 23 May 2025.

Invited speaker: to be announced

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.

Call deadline: January 15, 2025
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:

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. 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 January 15, 2025.

Conference Website: https://t1p.de/BieLeiCoS2025