Perspectives on Germanic Syntax

As part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie funded project Verb valency in Germanic: diachronic analysis and reconstruction of protolinguistic scenario (VALGER, project no. 101150253) the research group Linguistics in Pavia, sponsored by the journal North-Western European Language Evolution (NOWELE, John Benjamins), is organizing a two-day symposium dedicated to the study of Germanic syntax.

The symposium will take place at the University of Pavia on Thursday 16 and Friday 17 April 2026.
We invite abstracts that address any topic relevant to the study of syntax in Germanic, with a particular focus on diachronic and/or comparative analyses of syntactic phenomena. We welcome proposals from any theoretical perspective and particularly encourage junior researchers such as ABD doctoral students (or anyway well into their doctoral research) or researchers at the postdoctoral level to submit abstracts.