Full Title: Onward and Upward, or Not: Form-meaning Mismatches in Modality, Agreement, and Negation
Theme: Syntax-semantics of modality, agreement, and negation

Date: 14-Nov-2025 - 14-Nov-2025
Location: Göttingen, Germany
Contact Person: Rishabh Suresh
Meeting Email: [email protected]

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Semantics; Syntax

Call Deadline: 05-Oct-2025

Call for Papers:

A syntax-semantics workshop "Onward and Upward, or Not: Form-meaning mismatches in Modality, Agreement, and Negation" will take place in Georg-August-University Göttingen on 14th November 2025. The topics of this workshop include negation, modality and agreement. The workshop is celebrating the achievements and contributions of Hedde Zeijlstra and his colleagues to the study of the syntax-semantics interface. The workshop will include 6 invited talks and a poster session.

Invited Speakers:
- Sabine Iatridou (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Malte Zimmermann (Universität Potsdam)
- Hadil Karawani (Universität Konstanz)
- Sandhya Sundaresan (Stony Brook University)
- Beste Kamali (University of Amsterdam)
- John Bailyn (Stony Brook University)

We invite everyone to submit abstracts for poster presentations. Submissions are limited to two abstracts, with at most one single-authored paper. The order of authors should reflect the contribution to the paper; equal contribution has to be indicated.

Call for papers deadline: 5th October 2025
Notification of acceptance: 20th October 2025

Abstract Guidelines:
- Please submit the abstracts via email to [email protected].
- PDF format;
- Maximum 1 page A4 Abstract (excl. references, incl. examples, tables and figures);
- 2.5 cm (1 inch) margins;
- 12pt;
The submission(s) must be anonymous and not reveal the identity of the author(s) in any way (be sure to remove metadata from the file);
Abstracts which do not comply with these guidelines may be excluded from the reviewing process.

Poster Guidelines:
Please bring your poster already printed in A0 size, vertical format. You may display your poster shortly before the poster session begins.