Full Title: Germanic Sandwich 9
Short Title: GS9

Date: 11-Apr-2024 - 12-Apr-2024
Location: Lancaster, United Kingdom
Contact Person: Daniel Van Olmen
Meeting Email: [email protected]
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/germanicsandwich9/homepage

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Language Family(ies): West Germanic

Call Deadline: 01-Dec-2023

Meeting Description:

The 9th international Germanic Sandwich workshop - on the contrastive study of Dutch, English and German - will be hosted by the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University on 11-12 April 2024.

Consistent with its geographical intermediate location, Dutch has been argued to occupy a linguistic position in between German and English. The case for this relationship was first made in a detailed way by the Dutch linguist C.B. van Haeringen in 1956 and has been the subject of a now well-established series of Germanic Sandwich workshops.

Like the previous editions in Berlin (2005), Sheffield (2008), Oldenburg (2010), Leuven (2013), Nottingham (2015), Munster (2017), Amsterdam (2019) and Cologne (2022), the 9th Germanic Sandwich workshop in Lancaster will be dedicated to contrastive research on various aspects of the neighbors and close relatives that Dutch, English and German are.

The workshop welcomes studies of (dis)similarities between these three languages from a synchronic and/or a diachronic perspective and covering domains such as phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and/or pragmatics. It is also open to contrastive work dealing with - among other things - psycholinguistics and language acquisition and to comparisons with other (West) Germanic languages like Afrikaans and Frisian.

Call for Papers:

The Dutch linguist C.B. van Haeringen showed in his 1956 monograph Nederlands tussen Duits en Engels that, consistent with its geographical intermediate location, Dutch occupies a middle position between English and German in quite a systematic way as far as its linguistic structure is concerned. Van Haeringen's take on this "Germanic Sandwich" centered on how Dutch has become more analytical over time but later research, especially since the first workshop commemorating his book in 2005, has broadened the scope substantially - covering a wider range of linguistic phenomena and examining other potential explanations (e.g. of a sociolinguistic or psycholinguistic nature). The initial Germanic Sandwich workshop in Berlin has seen seven further editions in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom and the next meeting will take place in Lancaster on 11-12 April 2024.

We invite abstracts for 20-minute talks (+ 10 minutes for discussion) in which Dutch is compared to German and/or English (other Germanic languages may obviously be included too). We welcome studies with a comparative and/or typological approach, focusing on structural and/or variational aspects of these languages from a synchronic and/or diachronic perspective and are also open to research dealing with language acquisition and/or taking a psycholinguistic point of view. We especially encourage young scholars to submit their abstracts, in order to achieve a good balance between experienced and new researchers.

Abstracts should be written in one of the three conference languages (English, Dutch, German). They must be anonymous and no longer than 500 words (including examples, tables and figures but excluding references). They should be sent, as a pdf, by Friday 1 December 2023 to [email protected].

Notification of acceptance: Monday 15 January 2024.