The 31st Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop
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31st Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop
Wallenberg Research Center, STIAS, Stellenbosch, RSA
10 Marais Road
Stellenbosch
7600
Stellenbosch, ZA
December 1, 2016 – December 3, 2016
* Importance Notice: Change of Dates
Given the high quality of the abstracts that CGSW 31 received, we are pleased to announce that the conference has been extended by half a day and will now be running from 1-3 December, starting after lunch on the 1st, instead of 2-3 December as initially planned.
Invited Speakers
Roland Hinterhölzl (Venice)
Jason Merchant (Chicago)
Tarald Taraldsen (Tromsø)
About
The 31st edition of the Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop will be a historic one as this will be the first CGSW to be held in Africa. Stellenbosch University in South Africa’s beautiful Western Cape Province will be hosting this meeting, which will take place on 1-3 December 2016, at the Wallenberg Research Centre at the Stellenbosch Intstitute for Advanced Study (STIAS).
Given the location of the conference, we are very interested in research focusing on lesser studied Germanic varieties, particularly those that have developed and/or been used in contact situations, including “extraterritorial” varieties of continental Germanic. Papers focusing on “non-standard” varieties and on phenomena like code-switching are also very welcome, as are papers considering how aspects of the structure of non-Germanic languages spoken in southern Africa (may) have impacted on the structure of Germanic languages spoken in this part of the world.
Organisers
Theresa Biberauer (Submissions & Review): samtb23@gmail.com
Erin Pretorius (Local Organiser:): erink@sun.ac.za
Kate Huddlestone (Support with the online conference system): katevg@sun.ac.za
Lauren Onraët (Registration & Administrative Support): linguis@sun.ac.za
Anthea Joseph (Administrative Support)
Submissions
Submissions open on 15 February 2016 and will close on 31 May 2016 at midnight. Authors will be notified by 1 July 2016 whether their submissions have been successful.
To submit an abstract for CGSW 31, it is necessary to create a login on the conferences.sun system. Follow this link to the submissions page, where you will be prompted to register on the site before making a submission: http://conferences.sun.ac.za/index.php/cgsw31/cgsw31/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions
Reviewers
We would like to extend a big thank-you to all of our reviewers, listed below, whose enthusiastic willingness to contribute to CGSW 31 we appreciate enormously.
History
CGSW has taken place annually for just over thirty years (the history of the conference, maintained by Prof Jan-Wouter Zwart, can be accessed here: http://www.let.rug.nl/~zwart/cgsw/history.htm), and constitutes a meeting of an international community of generative syntacticians working to understand the structure of Germanic languages.