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:  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 (details will follow).

• 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.

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