A Germanic Sandwich is a series of workshops in which Dutch is compared with its closest Germanic neighbours, English and German. Consistent with its geographical intermediate location, Dutch has been argued to occupy a linguistic position in between German and English.
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).
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