SalCoS
Salzburg Comparative Syntax Workshop

University of Salzburg, Austria, May 21-23 2026

SalCoS is a comparative syntax workshop and the third of its kind, following LeiBieCos in Leiden 2024 and BieLeiCos in Bielefeld 2025. The -CoS workshop series is an annual event that brings together researchers in comparative syntax from across Europe and beyond. Its primary goal is to foster dialogue and collaboration among scholars. SalCoS 2026 is hosted by the Department for Linguistics of the University of Salzburg.

SalCoS will feature:

• one keynote lecture: Laura Kalin
  
  

• two panel discussions:

  • invited speaker: Mark Baker

  • invited speaker: Doreen Georgi

  • panel discussants: Jonathan Bobaljik, Jutta Hartmann, Filipe Hisao Kobayashi
    
    

• 16 presentations (à 30min + 10min Q&A) selected from submitted abstracts

• 10 poster presentations (with 2min lightning talks), selected from submitted abstracts
  
  

• one-to-one mentoring sessions pairing senior with junior researchers

Organizers:

• Magdalena Lohninger

• Caroline Gardner

• Franziska Keller

• Anita Riedl

Contact: salcos.workshop@gmail.com or magdalena.lohninger@plus.ac.at