Trends and problems in comparative Germanic linguistics
(Internationale Nachwuchstagung der vergleichenden germanischen Sprachwissenschaft)
Friday 19 and Saturday 20 September 2025
The Department of Scandinavian Languages at Uppsala University organizes the symposium Trends and Problems in Comparative Germanic Linguistics, which will take place in Uppsala on Friday 19 and Saturday 20 September 2025.
The symposium aims to bring to the fore the most pressing and engaging problems in comparative Germanic linguistics within a variety of research domains, including but not limited to linguistic reconstruction, runology, poetics, and phylogeny.
Invited speakers
- The origins of Germanic from the perspective of Prehistoric Archaeology (Volker Heyd — University of Helsinki)
- Old methods, new insights: Gothic nominal inflection and relative chronology (Ronald I. Kim — Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
- The Importance of the Poetic Record to Germanic Language History (Mikael Males — University of Oslo)
- Ein ererbter Archaismus im Germanischen: Das hypostatische Suffix urgerm. *-ba- (Sergio Neri — University of Basel)
- Pre- and Proto-Germanic obstruent phonology (Joseph Salmons — University of Wisconsin–Madison)
- The periodization of Northwest Germanic anew (Michael Schulte — University of Agder)
Read the abstracts here (pdf) Pdf, 205 kB.