Nov. 21, 2025 - Nov. 22, 2025
https://lls.unibuc.ro/conferinte/conferinta-internationala-flls/
Long-distance dependencies remain a central area of investigation across linguistic fields: syntax, semantics, pragmatics and language acqusition. They pose fundamental questions about clause structure, locality, and cross-linguistic variation, while also providing a rich opportunity for experimental work.
This workshop invites contributions that address movement and agreement across clause boundaries, with a focus on the mechanisms and constraints that govern such dependencies.
We invite contributions that stem from one or more of the following questions:
• What syntactic, semantic and/or pragmatic properties characterize domains that allow or block long-distance dependencies?
• Can long-distance agreement be fully reduced to movement, or does it involve independent mechanisms?
• What is the role of context, discourse, and processing in shaping the acceptability of LDDs?
• How do languages differ in how they encode or restrict LDDs, and what can this tell us about universal vs. language-specific grammar?
• When do children reach adult-like proficiency with respect to both long-distance dependencies and the constraints that govern them?
Invited speaker: Jon Sprouse (New York University Abu Dhabi)
The conference fee is 250 RON (teaching staff) / 125 RON (PhD students) and it will be paid in the account of the FLLS Alumni Association. Payment details will be made available upon presentation acceptance.
Workshop webpage: https://lls.unibuc.ro/conferinte/conferinta-internationala-flls/
Submission instructions:
Paper proposals (2-page abstracts, including references) in English and can be sent directly to the following email address: [email protected]
Submission deadline: 25 October 2025
Notification of acceptance: 2 November 2025
Submissions open: Aug. 1, 2025 - Oct. 25, 2025
Contact Email: [email protected]