Germanic Sandwich 9

Thursday 11 April 2024 - Friday 12 April 2024

Lancaster University - United Kingdom

The 9th international Germanic Sandwich workshop - on the contrastive study of Dutch, English and German - will be hosted by the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University on 11-12 April 2024.


Consistent with its geographical intermediate location, Dutch has been argued to occupy a linguistic position in between German and English. The case for this relationship was first made in a detailed way by the Dutch linguist C.B. van Haeringen in 1956 and has been the subject of a now well-established series of Germanic Sandwich workshops.


Like the previous editions in Berlin (2005), Sheffield (2008), Oldenburg (2010), Leuven (2013), Nottingham (2015), Munster (2017), Amsterdam (2019) and Cologne (2022), the 9th Germanic Sandwich workshop in Lancaster will be dedicated to contrastive research on various aspects of the neighbors and close relatives that Dutch, English and German are.


The workshop welcomes studies of (dis)similarities between these three languages from a synchronic and/or a diachronic perspective and covering domains such as phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and/or pragmatics. It is also open to contrastive work dealing with - among other things - psycholinguistics and language acquisition and to comparisons with other (West) Germanic languages like Afrikaans and Frisian.


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