https://linguistlist.org/issues/36/2960/ Workshop at SLE 2026: Constructions With Multiple Wh-words Across Languages Short Title: SLE 2026 Date: 26-Aug-2026 - 29-Aug-2026 Location: Osnabrück, Germany Contact: Valentina Apresyan Contact Email: [email protected] Meeting URL: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/wh-words-cle2026/ Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax; Typology Submission Deadline: 05-Nov-2025 Together with Piotr Sobotka, Mikhail Kopotev, and Mladen Uhlik, I am pleased to announce that we are organizing a workshop at the next meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), which will take place in Osnabrück, Germany, from 26 to 29 August 2026. If you are working on any aspect of multiple-wh words, we warmly invite you to join us and submit an abstract by 5 November 2025. You will find the workshop description below, and the full proposal along with further details here: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/wh-words-cle2026/ Convenors: Valentina Apresjan (Dartmouth College, USA) Mikhail Kopotev (University of Helsinki, Finland / Stockholm University, Sweden) Piotr Sobotka (Institute of Slavic Studies, PAS, Poland) Mladen Uhlik (Fran Ramov Institute of the Slovenian Language & University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) Meeting Description: The workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of constructions with multiple wh-words across languages, which are understood as constructions structured with two or more wh-elements that can fulfil different functions. We propose the following questions for discussion: - What semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic factors underlie the restrictions on wh-variables and their possible pairings in polypronominal wh-constructions, especially in their distributive readings? - Under what semantic and pragmatic conditions are such constructions licensed in discourse, and what communicative functions do they perform across languages? - What syntactic positions can these constructions occupy within the clause, and how do they interact with the valency requirements of the predicate (if present)? - How do frequency, idiomatization and formulaicity influence the grammatical status of these constructions across different languages? - What are the historical sources of such constructions (e.g. indirect questions > quasi-relatives > distributives), and what grammaticalization paths can be identified cross-linguistically? - Can we detect areal or genealogical patterns in the distribution and structure of these constructions, and what do such patterns reveal about contact-induced change versus independent development? - How do distributive constructions with multiple wh-words compare with other distributive strategies (lexical, morphological, or clausal) cross- linguistically? We welcome submissions that employ a range of theoretical frameworks, including but not limited to Construction Grammar, formal semantic and pragmatic analyses, corpus-based studies, cross-linguistic typological comparisons. We are particularly interested in studies that combine theoretical analysis with empirical data from diverse languages, using methodologies such as corpus linguistics, experimental pragmatics and comparative linguistics. For full information about the call please visit the workshop site at https://blogs.helsinki.fi/wh-words-cle2026/ Contact mail: [email protected] --

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