Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS, German Linguistics Association)
and University of Freiburg’s Hermann Paul Centre for Linguistics (HPCL)

43^rd DGfS Annual Conference: “Modelling and Evidence”

DGfS Annual Conferences have established themselves as an attractive forum for linguists from all over the world to present and discuss their current research. Pre-conference satellite events on 23 February will include a corpus-linguistics tutorial, an outreach event for language teachers, and the annual meeting of the Linguistic Pragmatics working group. Registration will be open from 1 November 2020 (with early bird-rates applying until 31 December 2020).

The conference motto is an invitation to reflect on the manifold productive tensions between theoretical/conceptual innovation and new ways of acquiring, annotating and analysing empirical data – across the whole range of linguistic sub-disciplines and using data from a broad range of languages for demonstration. The following internationally renowned colleagues have agreed to give keynote talks:

Geert Booij (Leiden University), “Modeling morphological knowledge: What counts as evidence?”

Martine Grice (Universität zu Köln), “Autosegmental-metrical phonology – Not only pitch accents and edge tones”

Eitan Grossman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “Universals of phonological segment borrowing? Questions, evidence, methods, findings”

Marianne Mithun (University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB)), “Adding the prosodic dimension to subordination and its emergence”

Devyani Sharma (Queen Mary University London), “The exception proves the rule?: Sociolinguistic theory in a changing world”

Programme

Overview of the plenary lectures here.

Overview of the working groups with all summaries/abstracts of the presentations here.

Contact: Prof. Dr. Christian Mair
Conference webpage: dgfs2021.uni-freiburg.de