Heritage languages and their speakers have become the focus of various areas of linguistic research, particularly because the grammar of heritage speakers provides a provide a window of opportunity to observe language change and contact between grammars.  

Heritage Language Syntax is a workshop first organized at the University of Utrecht within the ERC Microcontact (https://microcontact.sites.uu.nl/hls-2/) focusing on the syntax of heritage grammars.

After an in-person edition in Paris in 2022, the 4th edition of Heritage Language Syntax (HLS 4) will take place in Konstanz.

We invite abstracts for oral presentations on any topics in heritage and/or minority language syntax and syntactic processing, with particular attention to structural aspects of heritage languages, how these are shaped by cross-linguistic influence or transfer from the heritage speakers’ dominant language, how language attrition impacts on this and whether it leads to different representational outcomes in the heritage grammar.

Invited speakers

• Jill Jegerski (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
• Tanja Kupisch (University of Konstanz, UiT The Arctic University of Norway)
• Natalia Meir (Bar-Ilan University)
• Monika S. Schmid (University of York)

Submission Guidelines

Abstracts should be fully anonymous and no longer than 500 words maximum (Times New Roman, size 12, with one additional page for examples, figures, tables, and references). Submissions are limited to a maximum of one individual and one joint abstract per author. 

Presentations will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion.

Abstracts can be submitted through EasyChair no later than 31 March 2023. Notification of acceptance will be given by 30 April 2023.

Organising Committee

• Anamaria Bentea
• Maria Ferin
• Angelika Golegos
• Kaja Gregorc
• Theo Marinis
• Elena Soare
• Elisabeth Süß

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to hls2023@uni-konstanz.de