Call for posters for the
1st International Workshop on “Language Comparison and Typology: German and the Mediterranean languages” October 12, 2018, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Comparative Linguistics; Typology; Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Syntax; Semantics; Pragmatics; Corpus Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Variation; Language Acquisition.

Description

The DeMiNeS Network “German Mediterranean Network for Linguistics” („Deutsch-Mittelmeerisches Netzwerk Sprachwissenschaft”) (2017 Humboldt Alumni Award for Innovative Networking Initiatives to Athina Sioupi) with support from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, in cooperation with the Research Unit on (Experimental) Syntax and Heritage Languages at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Artemis Alexiadou) and the Center "Language, Variation, and Migration" at the University of Potsdam, will organize a one-day workshop on “Language Comparison and Typology: German and the Mediterranean Languages”. The Workshop will be hosted by the Humboldt University Berlin (Department of English and American Studies).
The focus of the workshop is led on contributions from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches on German and/or the Mediterranean languages.
The general aim is to bring together researchers interested in contributing to deeper and more systematic descriptions and theoretical modeling of empirically oriented comparative and typological studies on morphology and syntax, semantics and pragmatics, corpus linguistics, historical linguistics, language variation and language acquisition on Language Comparison and Typology of German and/or the Mediterranean languages.

The Workshop will bring together established and early-career scholars who are interested in topics such as:

• NPs (bare nouns, mass nouns, cognates)
• V2 and Word Order Variation
• Formulaic Language
• Psych Verbs
• Space and Time

This is not an exhaustive list; Submissions do not need to be limited to the above topics.

Invited Speakers:

Artemis Alexiadou (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin & Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft) (plenary talk)
Irene Doval (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
Laurent Gautier (Université de Bourgogne)
Thanasis Georgakopoulos (National Research University, HSE, Moscow)
Roland Hinterhölzl (Università Ca Foscari)
Barbara Lübke (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
Antonio Machicao y Priemer (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Elisabeth Verhoeven (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Hélène Vinckel-Roisin (Sorbonne Université)
Heike Wiese (Universität Potsdam) (plenary talk)

The program will include a poster session for PhD students and post-doc researchers who are working on or have completed a thesis on German and/or Mediterranean languages.
Submissions are limited to one poster per author. Posters should follow a common format of A0 (ca. 84 x 120 cm) and must have portrait orientation.
Conference languages are English and German.

Submission guidelines

Please submit your proposal (max 500 words in pdf format only, margins: 2.5 cm or 1 inch, font size: 12 points, Times New Roman, spacing: single. An additional page for references, data, tables and figures can be included) by email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Submissions should be anonymous, but please state your name, affiliation as well as your current status, i.e. PhD or Postdoc, in your message.

Participation is free but please let us know if you intend to come by emailing at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Important dates

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION FOR POSTERS: 22, April 2018  1, May 2018 (to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2018

Date of the Workshop: October 12, 2018

Contact person: Athina Sioupi

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Student assistants:

Elisabeth Backes (HU Berlin)
Daniil Bondarenko (HU Berlin)
Onur Özsoy (HU Berlin)