Full Title: Cross-clausal Dependencies Workshop
Short Title: CCD

Date: 29-Oct-2025 - 31-Oct-2025
Location: Bielefeld, Germany
Contact Person: András Bárány, Szilvia Daczó, Jutta M. Hartmann, Anke Himmelreich, and Fabian Zöfelt
Meeting Email: [email protected]
Web Site: https://t1p.de/A01-CrossClausalDep25

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Syntax

Call Deadline: 13-Jul-2025

2nd Call for Papers:

Invited speakers: Kriszta Szécsényi (University of Deusto) and Stefan Keine (UCLA)

Subproject A01 “Creativity in morphosyntax: The role of analogy” of the Bielefeld University Collaborative Research Centre 1646 “Linguistic Creativity in Communication” is organising a three day workshop (Wednesday afternoon to Friday midday) on long-distance dependencies in October 2025. A01 studies long-distance movement (in particular islands) and long-distance agreement phenomena and explores the role of structural similarities between generally acceptable and unacceptable long-distance dependencies.

The workshop will focus on long-distance movement and long-distance agreement dependencies and aims to shed light on questions regarding the syntactic configuration of clauses involving long-distance dependencies, the properties of domains involved in long-distance dependencies, as well as the role of pragmatic and semantic context for the acceptability of long-distance dependencies.

While there has been extensive work on islands (for overviews see Phillips 2013a,b, Szabolcsi & Lohndahl 2017, Sprouse & Villata 2021), movement dependencies of different types (wh-movement, topicalization, focus movement) and to a lesser degree on long-distance agreement (see Boeckx 2009, Bhatt & Keine 2017 for overviews and Polinsky & Potsdam 2001, Bhatt 2005, Keine 2013, Ozarkar 2020 for work on particular languages and phenomena), there is less work explicitly comparing long-distance dependencies of various types and/or across different languages (but see e.g. Börjesson & Müller 2020, Mursell 2020). We are particularly interested in work that relate their findings in movement dependencies to properties of agreement and vice versa.

We invite submissions dealing with long-distance movement and agreement dependencies, in particular work that focuses on:

The role and properties of domains in long-distance movement and agreement dependencies:
- Are long-distance dependencies always successive–cyclic (a.o. McCloskey 2002, Bošković 2014, van Urk 2015, den Dikken 2018)?
- Does long-distance agreement require some kind of intermediate proxy or movement between the agreement controller and target (Boeckx 2009, Keine 2013, Le-Sourd 2018)?
- To what extent, if at all, can long-distance agreement relations be reduced to movement (Chandra 2007, Hammerly & Mathieu 2025)?

The structural configuration, integration and interaction of complex clauses and the consequences for long-distance dependencies:
- How are subordinate structures integrated into superordinate structures? (cf. a.o. Frey, Meinunger & Schwabe 2016, Axel-Tober et al. 2023 and articles therein. See also Moulton 2009, Hartman 2012, Elliott 2020, Wurmbrand & Lohninger 2023.)
- How do long-distance dependencies into complements differ from those into adjuncts and how can we account for these differences? (a.o. Chaves 2022)
- What are the effects of finiteness?
- What is the role of event structure and situations in the acceptability of long-distance dependencies? (a.o. Truswell 2007, 2011)

The possible space of variation across languages:
- Are there universal domains for long-distance dependencies? (a.o. Sprouse et al. 2016)
- What are the points of variations in the structural configuration and morphological expression of movement dependencies? (a.o. Bošković 2012)

Improvements of acceptability in long-distance dependencies through repeated exposure (facilitation, satiation) or through context:
- Can repeated exposure to identical or structurally similar experimental items lead to improved acceptability? If so, what factors influence these effects? (a.o. Luka & Barsalou 2005, Snyder 2000, 2022)
- What is the role of context and plausibility in the acceptability of long-distance dependencies? (a.o. Hofmeister & Sag 2010, Abeillé et al. 2020, Culicover, Varaschin & Winkler 2022)

We welcome work applying different qualitative and quantitative methodology, as well as papers with a focus on theoretical argumentation.
We invite abstracts for 30-minute presentations (+ 10-minute discussion). You may submit at most two abstracts, of which only one may be single authored.

Please submit your abstract via EasyAbs: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/CCD/

Extended submission deadline: Sunday, 13th of July, 23.59 CEST
Notification of acceptance: End of August

Format:
- A4, 2.5cm margin
- No more than two pages (including references)
- No smaller than 11pt

More Information:
Workshop webpage: https://t1p.de/A01-CrossClausalDep25
Project webpage: https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/projekte/a01/