Bielefeld Leiden Comparative Syntax Conference 2025
Short Title: BieLeiCoS 2025

Date: 22-May-2025 - 23-May-2025
Location: Bielefeld, Germany
Contact: Fabian Zöfelt
Contact Email: [email protected]
Meeting URL: https://t1p.de/BieLeiCoS2025

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax

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: Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge, Stellenbosch University)

As part of the conference, there will be two panel sessions on Thursday afternoon: one on Comparative Syntax and Typology (invisted speaker: András Bárány) and one on Corpus Methodology and Resources (invited speaker: Anne Breitbarth).

Registration is now open until May 5, 2025. Please register here: https://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/jhartmann25/cgi/bieleicos2025/index.php .

IMPORTANT: As there will be a commercial fair in Bielefeld at the same time, accommodation might be difficult to find for the conference date, thus we strongly advise to book a hotel before April 20, see the conference website for details.

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

***Conference programme BieLeiCoS 2025*** (22-23 May, Thurdsay-Friday)

Wednesday, 21 May 2025
Pre-conference workshop on “Linguistic Creativity in Generative Syntax”, see details here: https://t1p.de/A01-LinCreGG2025

Thursday, 22 May 2025

09:25-09:30 Opening remarks
09:30-10:10 Keynote (Theresa Biberauer)
10:10-10:50 A case for the Clause-Mate Condition (Ekaterina Georgieva, Franc Marušič, Petra Mišmaš & Rok Žaucer)
10:50-11:10 Coffee break
11:10-11:50 On the correlation between pronoun type and person restrictions (Adrian Stegovec)
11:50-12:30 Subject clitics in Bisiac: current system and diachronic evolution (Fernando Giacinti & Francesco Costantini)
12:30-13:30 Lunch break
13:30-14:30 Panel: Methodology -- Corpus Linguistics:
Bad data, better data, and where to find them: On using (parsed) (historical) corpora to study syntactic variation and change (Invited speaker: Anne Breitbarth)
14:30-16:00 Panel: Typology (Invited speaker: András Bárány)
16:00-16:20 Coffee break
16:20-17:00 [A’/A] Probes & the movement they invoke (Magdalena Lohninger)
17:00-17:40 On the treatment of minimality violations – a comparative argument (Fabian Heck & Lei Liu)
17:40-17:50 Coffee break
17:50-18:30 A Form-Copy analysis of Belarusian, Macedonian and Slovak how-complements (Alberto Frasson)
19:00-22:00 Conference dinner

Friday, 23 May 2025

09:30-10:10 NP2 copular agreement revisited: Evidence from presentational contexts (Ivona Kučerová & Edgar Onea)
10:10-10:50 Predication, Modification, and the Possession of Dimension (Irina Morozova & Sjef Barbiers)
10:50-11:10 Coffee break
11:10-11:50 Preverbal focus in Kîîtharaka revisited (Jenneke van der Wal & Patrick N. Kanampiu)
11:50-12:30 Clause-medial focus marking – the perspective from West-African languages (Johannes Mursell & Katharina Hartmann)
12:30-13:30 Lunch break
13:30-14:30 Poster session
14:30-15:00 Coffee break
15:00-15:40 Case domains in double causatives: Morphological vs. analytical causatives (Jens Hopperdietzel & Haydar Batuhan Yıldız)
15:40-16:20 Indo-Iranian Root Suppletion: A Locality Paradox (Ömer Tabak & Ömer Demirok)
16:20-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:10 Negation as a “Floating” Feature: evidence from Tamil (Rishabh Suresh)
17:10-17:15 Closing

List of poster presentations:

Where passives and PPs meet: the case of Udmurt (Éva Dékány & Ekaterina Georgieva) -- Alternate Talk
Verb doubling at the interfaces (Paul Roger Bassong, Edmond Ossoko & Jeff Sterling Ngami)
On person-based honorifics and referential features in syntax (Gurmeet Kaur, Joeri Vinke & Hedde Zeijlstra)
V2 all the way down: Germanic innovations in the embedded CP of German-Italian bilinguals (Núria Bosch & Theresa Biberauer)
There is more than one ‘emphatic’ negation: correction and contrastive confirmation (Tommaso Mattiuzzi & Cecilia Poletto)