The 10th Germanic Sandwich workshop – the jubilee edition – will take place on Thursday 7 May and Friday 8 May 2026 at Freie Universität Berlin. The workshop series was founded in 2005, also at Freie Universität Berlin, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the appearance of Nederlands tussen Duits en Engels (‘Dutch between German and English)’, a study by the renowned Dutch linguist C.B. van Haeringen. Subsequent editions were held in Sheffield (2008), Oldenburg (2010), Leuven (2013), Nottingham (2015), Münster (2017), Amsterdam (2019), Cologne (2022), and Lancaster (2024).

As in previous editions, A Germanic Sandwich 10 welcomes studies of (dis)similarities between these three languages from a synchronic and/or a diachronic perspective and covering domains such as phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and/or pragmatics. In addition, it is open to contrastive work dealing with – among other things – psycholinguistics and language acquisition and to comparisons with other (West) Germanic languages like Afrikaans and Frisian.

We invite abstracts for talks of 20 minutes (+ 10 minutes discussion). Anonymous abstracts of 500 words should be sent to germanic-sandwich-2026@germanistik.fu-berlin.de. The workshop languages are English, Dutch, and German. The deadline for submission is 1 December 2025.

Program

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Registration

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Venue

The workshop will take place in the Seminarzentrum which is located on the ground floor of the Rost- und Silberlaube of Freie Universität opposite the canteen directly at the entrance on Otto-von-Simson-Straße. The nearest metro station is Dahlem Dorf (U3). You can find a map of the Seminarzentrum here.

Directions and map

You can find information on how to find Campus Dahlmen and a map here.

Address

Freie Universität Berlin
Silberlaube (Erdgeschoss)
Otto-von-Simson-Str. 26
14195 Berlin-Dahlem

People

Organizing Committee

Matthias Hüning
Barbara Schlücker
Maximilian Frankowsky
Martin Konvička
Aleksandra Uttenweiler
Truus De Wilde

Scientific Committee

Jenny Audring, Leiden University
Timothy Colleman, Ghent University
Ad Foolen, Radboud University
Ann Marynissen, University of Cologne
Caitlin Meyer, University of Amsterdam
Tanja Mortelmans, University of Antwerp
Daniel Van Olmen, Lancaster University
Esther Ruigendijk, University of Oldenburg
Hans Smessaert, KU Leuven
Freek Van de Velde, University of Leuven
Arjen Versloot, University of Amsterdam
Gunther De Vogelaer, University of Münster
Ulrike Vogl, Ghent University
Ton van der Wouden, Leiden University

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