Newsletter June 2019

This is the 132nd issue of the Newsletter published by the Department of Linguistics at the University of Konstanz. It covers informations about the plans of the members of the department in June 2019 as well as short reports about events, presentations, etc. in Mai 2019.

Visiting Konstanz

We welcome Erin Pretorius (University of the Wester Cape) and Kari Kinn (University of Oslo) who will both be visiting Konstanz in June.

We also welcome Dr Arpita Bose from the University of Reading who is visiting the department from 27th-30th June and will give lectures on bilingualism and adult neurological impairments as well as on word production at the MA in Multilingualism. 

Events at/by the Department

in June

We are pleased to announce several interesting workshops that our department will host this month:

• Workshop: Expressing Evidence, 6th-8th (6th-7th in room V 1001 and 8th in room E 402) organized by Regine Eckardt, Todor Koev, Natasha Korotkova, and Sven Lauer.
• L3 Workshop: Multilingual Language Acquisition, Processing and Use, 7th-8th in room R 512 organized by Tanja Kupisch, Anika Lloyd-Smith, Marieke Einfeldt, Sonja Gumbsheimer, and Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares.
• Workshop: Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop 34 (CGSW 34), 14th-15th in K 7  organized by Andreas Trotzke and George Walkden.

There will be also two extra talks on aspects of Scandinavian syntax by visiting researchers later in the month, from 17:00 to 18:30 in D 247:

• Tuesday 18th June: Hannah Booth (Ghent University): How to fill the prefield in Icelandic: the diachrony of Stylistic Fronting and expletives
• Tuesday 25th June: Kari Kinn (University of Oslo): Stability and change in American Norwegian nominals

in May

• An extraordinary workshop in honor of Frans Plank was organized by Miriam Butt and Carsten Eulitz and took place on 24th. Invited speakers were Ekkehard König ('Ein ewiges Hin und Her': Directional Deixis in German [seen from a comparative perspective]) Walter Breu (Bairische Grammatik im Vergleich) and Aditi Lahiri (Why phonological features? Evidence from diachronic, historical, synchronic and experimental data).
  
   

Department and Research Colloquium in June

Department and Research Colloquium in May

Conferences, Workshops and Presentations

in June

• Andreas Trotzke will give an invited talk on Functional categories, expressive meaning, and the notion of emphasis for intensity at Universidad de Alcalá on June 6th.

• Sandy Ciroux will present a poster entitled Multimodal Communicative Acts: What Words Cannot Do without a Hand at the LingCologne2019, a conference on multimodality taking place from the 6th to the 7th June at the Universität zu Köln.
  
  
• Doris Penka, Maribel Romero and Bettina Braun will present a poster on Licensing of NPIs in High Negation Polar Questions: Evidence from ‘either’ at the XPRAG 2019 conference at the University of Edinburgh, June 19th-21st.
  
  
• The babylab team is attending the Workshop on Infant Language Development (WILD) taking place from 13th to 15th June 2019 in Potsdam:
  
  

  - Nathalie Czeke, Katharina Zahner, Jasmin Rimpler, Bettina Braun & Sónia Frota. German infants fail to discriminate Portuguese rising vs. falling contours. (poster based on collaborative work with Sónia Frota in Lisbon.)

  - Katharina Zahner. The effect of pitch accent type on German infants’ stress perception: Summing up. (poster)
  
  
• Members of the department are presenting their work at the 3rd Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE) conference that will be held from 17th to 19th June 2019 in Lecce, Italy:
  
  

  - Bettina Braun & María Biezma. Prenuclear L*+H but not L+H* leads to the activation of alternatives in German. (poster)

  - Nicole Dehé & Bettina Braun. Icelandic question intonation. (poster)

  - Jenny Yu (MARCS, Sydney) & Katharina Zahner. Compensation strategies in non-native English and German productions: Evidence for prosodic transfer and adjustment. (oral presentation)

• Sophie Kutscheid, Katharina Zahner and Bettina Braun are presenting a poster at Prominence between Cognitive Functions and Linguistic Structures (June 20th, COFLIS) - a Satellite Workshop at PaPE. The title of the poster is Underlying mechanisms in the perception of metrical prominence – The role of occurrence frequency of different pitch accent types.
  
  
• Andreas Trotzke and Eva Wittenberg will give a talk on Mogst a weng a Schnitzala? A psycholinguistic approach to modality in the Bavarian nominal domain at the ICLAVE 10 conference/Leiden University on June 26th-28th.

in May

• Natasha Korotkova presented at the workshop Evaluative language on May 6th-7th in Paris. The talk was entitled Find (joint work with Pranav Anand, UCSC).
  
  
• Anna Czypionka gave a talk at the meeting Dimensions of wh-words: a German-Italian question time (May 6th-8th, Villa Vigoni, Menaggio, Italy; presentation in 4th discussion forum on May 7th).
  
  
• Ryan Bochnak gave an invited lecture at the 24th Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of Languages of the Americas (WSCLA), which was held at the University of Maryland on May 9th-11th. His talk was on Graded Futures in Washo.
  
  
•  Theo Marinis gave the talk The development of multilingualism & multiliteracy in children in three states in India: results from the project Multilingualism & Multiliteracy at the Language, Society, and Ethnography Seminar Series, University of the Aegean, 14th May 2019
  
  
•  In the frame of the Gesture-Sign Workshop Prague 2019, which took place from the 16th to the 17th May, Sandy Ciroux presented the poster Give a Hand: An Experimental Pragmatic Study of Multimodal Communicative Acts at the Univerzita Karlova.
  
  
• From May 17th to May 19th Eva Csipak and Maribel Romero were at Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 29, UCLA, to give a talk: Counterfactual biscuit conditionals: A temporal remoteness account.
  
  
•  Julia Bacskai-Atkari presented a poster entitled Relative features and lower complementisers in West-Germanic comparatives at the workshop Germanic Sandwich 2019 (GS2019) at the University of Amsterdam, 23rd–24th May.

Travelling

From 3rd June to 20th July 2019 Nicole Dehé will be a visiting researcher at the Department of Linguistics, Simon Fraser University, Canada. She will be working with Prof. Nancy Hedberg and will be conducting research in the area of prosody and its relationship to syntax.

More News

The SFB-TRR 161 is going into a second round of funding. Linguistics is a part of this enterprise with project D02, in which Christin Schätzle will continue to work on the visualization of historical change, with special reference to Icelandic and Indo-Aryan. Miriam Butt is the PI.

The Center for Multilingualism of our University is going to be five years old. You are cordially invited to take part in the anniversary celebration „Mehrsprachigkeit in Konstanz, Europa und der Welt. Perspektiven und Projekte für die Zukunft“ on July 5th at the ALM (Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg in Konstanz) between 9:00 and 18:00. Please register here.

The first two-week long MultiMind training school on multilingualism took place from 6th-17th May 2019 in Lesvos/Greece. Twenty early Stage Researchers from 12 academic and non-academic organisations participated in the training school that provided an introduction to theoretical, developmental, educational and neuroscience aspects of multilingualism as well as training in research methods, communication, dissemination and ethics. The training school included a visit to schools and NGOs that provide language teaching to refugees.
The second MultiMind training school will be from 1st-5th July 2019 and will focus on multilingualism and neuroscience. It is organised at the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience & Neurodynamics (CINN) at the University of Reading. The training school is aimed at students who wish to gain knowledge or incorporate cognitive neuroscience approaches in their research. The course schedule and the registration procedure can be found here. This training school is open to all students.

The first meeting of the newly founded network of Erasmus+ Departmental Coordinators from the Philologies took place in Konstanz on 2nd and 3rd May 2019. Christina Bohle, Institutional Erasmus+ Coordinator at the Philipps-Universität Marburg and Melanie Hochstätter, Erasmus+ Coordinator for the Faculty of Humanities in Konstanz, jointly invited colleagues from their respective partner institutions to this inaugural meeting to discuss topics relevant in student and staff mobility and internationalisation in general.

Publications by Members of the Department

• Theo Marinis published the paper Terzi A, Marinis T, Zafeiri A and Francis K (2019) Subject and Object Pronouns in High-Functioning Children With ASD of a Null-Subject Language. Front. Psychol. 10:1301. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01301
   
• Walkden, George. 2019. The many faces of uniformitarianism in linguistics. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 4(1): 52, 1-17. (online access)
  
  
•  Following paper of Natasha Korotkova has beeen accepted for publication: The embedding puzzle: constraints on evidentials in complement clauses. To appear in: Linguistic Inquiry.

Acquisitions of the Library

• Kümmel, Miriam: Ellipsis detection: machine learning vs. rule-based document classification
• Schätzle, Christin: Dative subjects: historical change visualized
• Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris; Tome 112
• Discourse studies; Volume 20
• Journal of linguistic anthropology; Volume 27
• Language, cognition and neuroscience; Volume 33
• Language learning; Volume 68
• Linguistic analysis; Volume 41
• Linguistic inquiry; Volume 49
• Linguistische Berichte; 2018 = Heft 253-256
• Revista española de lingüística; 47 (2017)
• Sprachwissenschaft; Band 43 (2018)
• Studia linguistica; Volume 72
• Voprosy jazykoznanija; 2018
• Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie; Band 134 (2018)

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