We are delighted to announce a workshop on "Cross-clausal Dependencies" (CCD) organized by the project A01 of the CRC 1646 from Bielefeld University. The three day workshop will take place at Bielefeld University, Germany, from Wednesday 29 October to Friday 31 October 2025.
Krisztina Szécsényi (University of Deusto)
Stefan Keine (UCLA)
Renuka Ozarkar (University of Mumbai; she will participate online)
Please use this link to register for the CCD.
The final programme will be published here shortly.
On Wednesday, we host a warm-up event with talks by project members of A01 presenting our project work and results.
On Thursday and Friday, the accepted talks will be presented as well as the invited speakers will give the keynote talks.
The workshop will take place in two different rooms in the main building:
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We recommend staying at one of the following options:
B&B HOTEL Bielefeld-City
Europa Platz 2, 33613 Bielefeld
0521 304330 or +49 521 304330
We have arranged for 10 rooms for the period of 28th October to 1st Novemeber, 2025.
One room costs 81,90€ per night (breakfast included). Sign-ups close on the 10th of October.
Please make your room reservation using the pre-arranged code. We will send you the code in a separate email. Please note, the discount code for the B&B rooms is only valid by e-mail and cannot be booked via the website.
Alternatively, the university’s Boardinghouse has a very limited number of guest apartments available. This costs 65,00€ per night (no discount or breakfast available). This must be organised privately.
Boardinghouse Campus Bielefeld
Morgenbreede 2-4, 33615 Bielefeld
+49 521 106 886 50
e-mail: Boardinghouse@stwbi.de and boardinghouse-campus-bielefeld@stwbi.de
If another accommodation is wished for, we recommend booking early.
By plane
The following airports are the closest to the city of Bielefeld, from closest to furthest:
Some but not all airports have direct trains to Bielefeld Hauptbahnhof (Hbf) — this is the main rail-way station.
For more information, please click here.
Should you have Visa-related queries, please contact the organisers at ccd@uni-bielefeld.de.
By train
Bielefeld is well-connected, with various InterCity and Regional trains to choose from.
For planning, we recommend using the following websites:
Deutsche Bahn
trainline
mobiel (the transport company of Stadtwerke Bielefeld GmbH; in German).
All of these providers also have a corresponding smartphone application to use.
By tram (StadtBahn)
There are four tram lines within Bielefeld.
To get to the University from Bielefeld Hbf, take the tram line 4 in the direction of Lohmannshof to the stop Universität (5 stops, ≈8 minutes). The other main stop of line 4 is Jahnplatz in the city centre (6 stops, ≈9 minutes).
Single-journey tickets, 4-journey tickets, and day-tickets can be bought at vending machines at the major stops. Please do not forget to validate your ticket once inside the tram.
Note: Unfortunately, Google Maps does not show the tram as an option for public transport in the city.
By bus
There is a plethora of bus lines in Bielefeld.
We suggest using the following websites:
The line 31 stops at the University (stop Universität). The route is more suburban than central.
For ticket information, see above. Additionally, single-journey tickets may be bought from the bus driver in cash.
By taxi
Taxis are available directly in front of the main railway station. The fare to the university is around 18€.
To order a taxi by phone, please dial:
0521 97 111 or +49 521 97 111 (Bieta Taxi).
For more information and ways to use this taxi service, please visit:
Subproject A01 “Creativity in morphosyntax: The role of analogy” of the Bielefeld University Collaborative Research Centre 1646 “Linguistic Creativity in Communication” is organising a three day workshop (Wednesday afternoon to Friday midday) on long-distance dependencies in October 2025. A01 studies long-distance movement (in particular islands) and long-distance agreement phenomena and explores the role of structural similarities between generally ac- ceptable and unacceptable long-distance dependencies. The workshop will focus on long-distance movement and long-distance agreement depend- encies and aims to shed light on questions regarding the syntactic configuration of clauses involving long-distance dependencies, the properties of domains involved in long-distance dependencies, as well as the role of pragmatic and semantic context for the acceptability of long- distance dependencies.
While there has been extensive work on islands (for overviews see Phillips 2013a,b, Szabolcsi & Lohndahl 2017, Sprouse & Villata 2021), movement dependencies of different types (wh-movement, topicalization, focus movement) and to a lesser degree on long-distance agree- ment (see Boeckx 2009, Bhatt & Keine 2017 for overviews and Polinsky & Potsdam 2001, Bhatt 2005, Keine 2013, Ozarkar 2020 for work on particular languages and phenomena), there is less work explicitly comparing long-distance dependencies of various types and/or across different languages (but see e.g. Börjesson & Müller 2020, Mursell 2020). We are particularly interested in work that relate their findings in movement dependencies to properties of agreement and vice versa.
We invite submissions dealing with long-distance movement and agreement dependencies, in particular work that focuses on:
We welcome work applying different qualitative and quantitative methodology, as well as papers with a focus on theoretical argumentation.
We invite abstracts for 30-minute presentations (+ 10-minute discussion). You may submit at most two abstracts, of which only one may be single authored.
Please submit your abstract via EasyAbs
Extended submission deadline: Sunday, 2025-07-13 23.59 CEST
Notification of acceptance: End of August
Format:
Please find the references in the .pdf file (CCD_CFP.pdf)