Full Title: A Germanic Sandwich 10

Date: 07-May-2026 - 08-May-2026
Location: Berlin, Germany
Meeting Email: [email protected]
Web Site: https://ogy.de/sandwich2026

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Morphology; Phonology; Syntax
Subject Language(s): Afrikaans (afr)
Dutch (nld)
English (eng)
German (deu)
Western Frisian (fry)

Call Deadline: 01-Dec-2025

Call for Papers:

A Germanic Sandwich is a series of workshops in which Dutch is compared with its closest Germanic neighbours, English and German. Consistent with its geographical intermediate location, Dutch has been argued to occupy a linguistic position in between German and English.

The 10th Germanic Sandwich workshop – the jubilee edition – will take place on Thursday 7 May and Friday 8 May 2026 at Freie Universität Berlin. The workshop series was founded in 2005, also at Freie Universität Berlin, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the appearance of Nederlands tussen Duits en Engels (‘Dutch between German and English)’, a study by the renowned Dutch linguist C.B. van Haeringen. Subsequent editions were held in Sheffield (2008), Oldenburg (2010), Leuven (2013), Nottingham (2015), Münster (2017), Amsterdam (2019), Cologne (2022), and Lancaster (2024).

As in previous editions, A Germanic Sandwich 10 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. In addition, it is 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.

We invite abstracts for talks of 20 minutes (+ 10 minutes discussion). Anonymous abstracts of 500 words should be sent to [email protected]. The workshop languages are English, Dutch, and German. The deadline for submission is 1 December 2025.