BieL­ei­CoS 2025

In­vi­ted spea­ker:

•  The­re­sa Bi­ber­au­er (Uni­ver­si­ty of Cam­bridge, Stel­len­bosch Uni­ver­si­ty)

In­vi­ted spea­kers for the panel ses­si­ons are:

• Panel on Com­pa­ra­ti­ve Syn­tax and Ty­po­lo­gy: András Bárány (The Uni­ver­si­ty of Edin­burgh)
• Panel on Cor­pus Me­tho­do­lo­gy and Re­sour­ces: Anne Breit­barth (Ghent Uni­ver­si­ty)

Ac­cep­ted talks and pos­ter pre­sen­ta­ti­ons:

Talks

• Al­ber­to Fras­son "A Form-​Copy ana­ly­sis of Be­la­ru­si­an, Ma­ce­do­ni­an and Slo­vak how-​complements"
• Eka­te­ri­na Ge­or­gi­e­va, Franc Marušič, Petra Mišmaš, Rok Žaucer "A case for the Clause-​Mate Con­di­ti­on"
• Fer­nan­do Gia­c­in­ti, Fran­ces­co Costan­ti­ni "Sub­ject cli­tics in Bi­siac: cur­rent sys­tem and dia­chro­nic evo­lu­ti­on"
• Fa­bi­an Heck, Lei Liu "On the tre­at­ment of mi­ni­ma­li­ty vio­la­ti­ons – a com­pa­ra­ti­ve ar­gu­ment"
• Jens Hop­per­diet­zel, Hay­dar Batu­han Yıldız "Case do­mains in dou­ble cau­sa­ti­ves: Mor­pho­lo­gi­cal vs. ana­ly­ti­cal cau­sa­ti­ves"
• Ivona Kučerová, Edgar Onea "NP2 co­pu­lar agree­ment re­vi­si­ted: Evi­den­ce from pre­sen­ta­tio­nal con­texts"
• Mag­da­le­na Lohnin­ger "[A’/A] Pro­bes & the mo­vement they in­vo­ke"
• Irina Mo­ro­zo­va, Sjef Bar­biers "Pre­di­ca­ti­on, Mo­di­fi­ca­ti­on, and the Pos­ses­si­on of Di­men­si­on"
• Jo­han­nes Mur­sell, Ka­tha­ri­na Hart­mann "Clause-​medial focus mar­king – the per­spec­ti­ve from West-​African lan­guages"
• Adri­an Ste­go­vec "On the cor­re­la­ti­on bet­ween pro­noun type and per­son restric­tions"
• Ris­h­abh Su­resh "Ne­ga­ti­on as a “Floa­ting” Fea­ture"
• Ömer Tabak, Ömer Demi­rok "Indo-​Iranian Root Sup­ple­ti­on: A Lo­ca­li­ty Pa­ra­dox"
• Jen­ne­ke van der Wal & Pa­trick N. Ka­n­am­piu "Pre­ver­bal focus in Kîîtha­ra­ka bet­ween cleft and FocP"

Al­ter­na­te Talk / Pos­ter

• Éva Dékány, Eka­te­ri­na Ge­or­gi­e­va "Where pas­si­ves and PPs meet: the case of Ud­murt"

Pos­ter

• Paul Roger Bas­song,  Ed­mond Os­so­ko, Jeff Ster­ling Ngami "Verb doubling at the in­ter­faces"
• Núria Bosch, The­re­sa Bi­ber­au­er "V2 all the way down: Ger­ma­nic in­no­va­tions in the em­bed­ded CP of German-​Italian bi­lin­gu­als"
• Gur­meet Kaur, Joeri Vinke, Hedde Zei­jl­s­tra "On person-​based ho­no­ri­fics and re­fe­ren­ti­al fea­tures in syn­tax"
• Tom­ma­so Mat­ti­uz­zi, Ce­ci­lia Po­let­to "There is more than one ‘em­pha­tic’ ne­ga­ti­on: cor­rec­tion and con­tras­ti­ve con­fir­ma­ti­on"

The re­gis­tra­ti­on is now open. You can re­gis­ter here. We are loo­king for­ward to see you in Bie­le­feld!

The par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on fee is €40. Pay­ment in­for­ma­ti­on will be sent via email after re­gis­tra­ti­on.

We re­com­mend stay­ing at one of the fol­lo­wing op­ti­ons:

B&B HOTEL Bielefeld-​City
Eu­ro­pa Platz 2, 33613 Bie­le­feld
0521 304330 or +49 521 304330

We have ar­ran­ged for 40 rooms for the pe­ri­od of 21-24 May, 2025 (3 nights). If you would like to ar­ri­ve on 20th May 2025 this is also pos­si­ble as we have re­ser­ved 20 rooms for early ar­ri­val.

One room costs 81,90€ per
night (dou­ble bed, break­fast in­clu­ded). Sign-​ups close on the 20th of April.

Plea­se make your room re­ser­va­ti­on using the pre-​arranged code: BieL­ei­Cos Uni­ver­si­ty Bie­le­feld

Plea­se note, the dis­count code for the B&B rooms is only valid by e-​mail and can­not be book­ed via the web­site.

Al­ter­na­tive­ly, the uni­ver­si­ty’s Boar­ding­house has a very li­mi­ted num­ber of guest apart­ments avail­able. This costs 65,00€ per night (no dis­count or break­fast avail­able). This must be or­ga­nis­ed pri­va­te­ly.

Boar­ding­house Cam­pus Bie­le­feld
Mor­gen­bree­de 2-4, 33615 Bie­le­feld
+49 521 106 886 50
e-​mail: Boar­ding­house@stwbi.de and boardinghouse-​campus-bielefeld@stwbi.de

If ano­ther ac­com­mo­da­ti­on is wis­hed for, we re­com­mend book­ing early. This is es­pe­cial­ly im­portant due to a po­pu­lar fair which will take place in Bie­le­feld du­ring the con­fe­rence.

Lo­ca­ti­on

Zen­trum für in­ter­dis­zi­pli­nä­re For­schung (ZiF)
(Cent­re for In­ter­di­sci­pli­na­ry Re­se­arch)
Me­tho­den 1
33615 Bie­le­feld
room TBA

ZiF is a buil­ding at:
Bie­le­feld Uni­ver­si­ty
Uni­ver­si­täts­stra­ße 25
33615 Bie­le­feld

Cam­pus map 
Over­view map of Bie­le­feld city – Bie­le­feld uni­ver­si­ty con­nec­tions
 

How to get here?

By plane

The fol­lo­wing air­ports are the clo­sest to the city of Bie­le­feld, from clo­sest to fur­thest:

 

• Pa­der­born/Lipp­stadt (≈20-​26km)
• Han­no­ver (≈110km)
• Dort­mund (≈110km)
• Düs­sel­dorf (≈190km)
• Cologne-​Bonn (≈200km)
• Frank­furt am Main (≈320km).

Some but not all air­ports have di­rect trains to Bie­le­feld Haupt­bahn­hof (Hbf) — this is the main rail-
way sta­ti­on.

For more in­for­ma­ti­on, plea­se click here.

Should you have Visa-​related que­ries, plea­se con­tact the or­ga­nisers at bieleicos2025@uni-​bielefeld.de.

By train

Bie­le­feld is well-​connected, with va­rious In­ter­Ci­ty and Re­gio­nal trains to choo­se from.

For plan­ning, we re­com­mend using the fol­lo­wing web­sites:

• Deut­sche Bahn
• train­line 
• mo­biel (the trans­port com­pa­ny of Stadt­wer­ke Bie­le­feld GmbH; in Ger­man).

All of these pro­vi­ders also have a cor­re­spon­ding smart­pho­ne ap­p­li­ca­ti­on to use.

By tram (Stadt­Bahn)

There are four tram lines wit­hin Bie­le­feld.

 

• The net­work of the tram lines can be found here.
• The ti­me­ta­bles can be ac­ces­sed here.

To get to the Uni­ver­si­ty from Bie­le­feld Hbf, take the tram line 4 in the di­rec­tion of Loh­manns­hof to the stop Uni­ver­si­tät (5 stops, ≈8 mi­nu­tes). The other main stop of line 4 is Jahn­platz in the city cent­re (6 stops, ≈9 mi­nu­tes).

Single-​journey ti­ckets, 4-​journey ti­ckets, and day-​tickets can be bought at ven­ding ma­chi­nes at the major stops. Plea­se do not for­get to va­li­da­te your ti­cket once in­si­de the tram.

Note: Un­for­tu­n­a­te­ly, Goog­le Maps does not show the tram as an op­ti­on for pu­blic trans­port in the city.

By bus

There is a ple­tho­ra of bus lines in Bie­le­feld.

We sug­gest using the fol­lo­wing web­sites:

• mo­biel
• Maps and plan (go to Li­ni­en­ver­läu­fe: Bus-​Linien; in Ger­man)

The line 31 stops at the Uni­ver­si­ty (stop Uni­ver­si­tät). The route is more sub­ur­ban than cen­tral.

For ti­cket in­for­ma­ti­on, see above. Ad­di­tio­nal­ly, single-​journey ti­ckets may be bought from the bus dri­ver
in cash.

By taxi

Taxis are avail­able di­rect­ly in front of the main rail­way sta­ti­on. The fare to the uni­ver­si­ty is around 18€.

To order a taxi by phone, plea­se dial:
0521 97 111 or +49 521 97 111 (Bieta Taxi).

For more in­for­ma­ti­on and ways to use this taxi ser­vice, plea­se visit:

• Bieta (in Ger­man)
• Taxi (and smart­pho­ne ap­p­li­ca­ti­on).

tba

Abs­tracts

EX­TEN­DED DEAD­LINE: Ja­nuary 31 2025 23:59 CET

For the ge­ne­ral com­pa­ra­ti­ve syn­tax ses­si­on, we in­vi­te abs­tracts for 30-​minute pre­sen­ta­ti­ons (+ 10 min dis­cus­sion) on any topic in com­pa­ra­ti­ve ge­ne­ra­ti­ve syn­tax.

We par­ti­cu­lar­ly wel­co­me pa­pers ex­pli­ci­tly ad­dres­sing syn­chro­nic or dia­chro­nic pro­per­ties of un(der)stu­di­ed va­rie­ties and/or phe­no­me­na, and pa­pers con­cer­ned with more ge­ne­ral ques­ti­ons, con­cer­ning, e.g., the re­la­ti­on bet­ween com­pa­ra­ti­ve syn­tax and lin­gu­is­tic ty­po­lo­gy, syntax-​interface map­pings, and our un­der­stan­ding of lan­guage as a co­gni­ti­ve sys­tem. We also en­cou­ra­ge pa­pers con­cer­ned with me­tho­do­lo­gies for mo­dern com­pa­ra­ti­ve ge­ne­ra­ti­ve syn­tax.

Sub­mis­si­on gui­de­li­nes

An­ony­mous abs­tracts should not ex­ceed 800 words (wit­hout re­fe­ren­ces). Plea­se use 12-​point Times New Roman font, with sin­gle spa­cing and mar­gins of at least 2.54cm/1 inch. Abs­tracts should be uploa­ded in pdf for­mat via Ea­s­yAbs­tracts here: https://ea­s­yabs.lin­gu­ist­list.org/con­fe­rence/BieL­ei­CoS/

 

The sub­mis­si­on dead­line is ex­ten­ded to Ja­nuary 31 2025 23:59 CET

For more in­for­ma­ti­on, plea­se con­tact the or­ga­ni­zers Jutta Hart­mann, Szil­via Daczó, and Fa­bi­an Zo­e­felt via the fol­lo­wing email ad­dress: bieleicos2025@uni-​bielefeld.de