Syntax of Uralic Languages 4

SOUL4

SOUL4 will be hosted online on 14–16 June 2022.

Originally, SOUL4 was to be organized by the Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg as an in-person event in 2021, and was then postponed by a year due to Covid. In March 2022 the event was transferred to online space.

Organizers of SOUL4

About SOUL

The Syntax of Uralic Languages (SOUL) is a series of conferences organized biannually for linguists working on, or having an interest in, Uralic languages. Over the last few years, the syntax of the Uralic languages has become an exciting field of study in linguistic theory. With its wealth of yet-to-be-charted domains of (morpho)syntactic phenomena, wide range of variation as well as family-specific characteristics, the Uralic family offers an abundant source of insights for theories of human language with respect to topics like word order change, contact phenomena, information structure, subordination, finiteness, negation, aspect, possession, agreement, evidentiality and many more.

SOUL seeks to provide a forum to present and discuss topical issues in syntax and its grammatical interfaces in present-day or older Uralic languages, including both comparative work as well as studies of single languages or dialects, pursued from any theoretical or empirical perspective. It is the aim of the series to advance research by fostering a productive exchange of results and ideas across different linguistic frameworks, promoting further integration and cross-fertilization of current directions of inquiry in the field.

Past conferences

• SOUL 3, 2019, Tartu, Estonia

• SOUL 2, 2017, Budapest, Hungary

• SOUL 1, 2015, Oulu, Finland