CRC 1646

A01: Creativity in (morpho)syntactic variation. The role of analogy

A01 investigates the role of analogy in the formation of novel, creative morphological forms and syntactic structures both within and across languages. In particular, the project hypothesises that the existence of a grammatical structure can lead to novel, structurally similar expressions which are well-formed in a specific context, even though they are not accepted as grammatical by the speech community. We investigate this hypothesis experimentally for long-distance agreement in Hungarian, as well as embedded clauses in German and other languages.

Events

• 15th November 2025 | Project-internal workshop with PD. Dr. Lutz Gunkel (IDS Mannheim)
• 31st March 2025 | Project-internal workshop with Prof. Ph.D. Radek Šimík (Charles University, Prague)

with a public talk by Radek Šimík (collaborative research with Daniela Kořánová; Charles University Prague):

Restrictions on left branch extraction as a window argument to structure and basic word order

• 21st May 2025 | pre-conference workshop "Linguistic Creativity in Generative Grammar" (conference: BieLeiCoS2025)