Newsletter November 2023

This is the 185th 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 November 2023 as well as short reports about events, presentations, etc. in October 2023.

Events at/by the Department

Department and Research Colloquium in November

Department and Research Colloquium in October

In October

20.10 Die spinnen, die Römer! Wie Asterix und Obelix die deutsche Sprache eroberten ... (at Hedicke's Terracotta, Konstanz)

Conferences, Workshops and Presentations

In November

• There are four posters from the department at this year's Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 48)
  *Rhetorical questions in bilingual acquisition: optionality at the syntax-discourse interface. Maria Ferin, Miriam Geiss, Theodoros Marinis and Tanja Kupisch
  *Syntactic Processing in Child Heritage Language Bilinguals: An Eye-tracking Study of Which-questions in Romanian. Anamaria Bentea and Theodoros Marinis
  *Bilingualism Effects On Theory Of Mind In Children With DLD. Clémence Gordon-Dana, Anamaria Bentea and Stephanie Durrleman
  *The comprehension of clefts in French: what's Person got to do with it? Stephanie Durrleman, Ur Shlonsky and Anamaria Bentea
   
• Sigríður Björnsdóttir and George Walkden are presenting at the Discourse Grammar/Sentence Grammar workshop in Wuppertal on 4th November with the title The rise of raising in Early Modern English.
   
• On 9th-10th November, Nicole Dehé will be in Reykkavík, Iceland, attending the kick-off workshop of the research project Regional pronunciation, attitudes and real-time change, chaired by Ásgrímur Angantýsson and Finnur Friðriksson, funded by the Icelandic Research Fund, of which she is a co-proposer. She will be giving a talk titled Icelandic prosodic phonology: previous research and available data.
   
• Anamaria Bentea will give a talk on Myths/realities about multilingualism and practical tips on keeping multilingualism in the family to families in Karlsruhe at the Rumänisch-Deutsche Vereinigung in Baden-Württemberg. This is part of the project Scoala romaneasca Ilinca / Ilinca Romanian School funded by the Department for Romanians Abroad. The event will take place on November 11th.
   
• George Walkden is giving an invited talk at the Amsterdam Centre for Language and Communication on 16th November.
   
• Anamaria Bentea and Theodoros Marinis will give an online talk entitled Which-questions with and without number mismatch: Comparing comprehension and production in Romanian monolingual children and adults at the 8th Bucharest Conference on Language Acquisition, Bucharest 17th-18th November 2023.

In October

• The 37th South Asian Language Analysis Roundtable (SALA-37) conference took place in Venice from October 4th-7th, featuring three Konstanz talks:
  *Benazir Mumtaz and Miriam Butt
  The prosody of alternative vs. polar questions in Urdu
  *Miriam Butt and Aditi Lahiri
  Pertinacity and Light Verbs Revisited
  *Tafseer Ahmed, Miriam Butt, and Lucrezia Carnesale
  Experiencers vs. Agents in Urdu/Hindi Nominalized Verbs of Perception
   
• Anna Huggenberg, Bettina Braun and Marieke presented their poster entitled Realisation of stops in Zurich German and Swiss Standard German at Phonetik & Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum (P&P) 2023 which was be held from Friday 6th to Saturday 7th October 2023 in Bern, Switzerland.
   
• On October 8th, Regine Eckardt presented at the Workshop “Suspense”, organized by Edgar Onea and Tilmann Köppe at the Karl-Franzens University Graz. Her talk will be on Hot news. How QuDs create suspense and closure in newspaper texts.
   
• Tanja Kupisch gave a keynote speech at the International Conference on Multilingualism and Multilingual Education (ICMME) at the University of Malta from 12th to 13th October 2023.
   
• On October 20th, Josef Bayer and Patricia Cabredo Hofherr organized in Paris a Workshop in honor of Hans-Georg Obenauer, who passed away in November 2019. Information can be found under this link.
   
• The research group Complexity in Derivational Morphology: Theory and Theoretical Evidence presented two posters at the SNL 2023 conference in Marseille, France, 24th-26th October 2023. The programme of the conference is available here.
  *Poster 1 (A36, October 24th, 2023).
  Anna Gupta, Charles Redmon, Frans Plank, Aditi Lahiri, Carsten Eulitz. The role of morpho-phonological complexity in word recognition: an ERP study of German nouns.
  *Poster 2 (A32, October 24th, 2023).
  Charles Redmon, Anna Gupta, Aditi Lahiri, Frans Plank, Carsten Eulitz. Neural signatures of conversion and stress alternation in English noun-verb recognition.
   
• Angelika Golegos and Theo Marinis presented a poster entitled Is "he" the tiger or the hedgehog? Individual differences in children's processing of pronoun ambiguity in German. at the conference MPaL Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, 25th-27th Oktober.

More News

• There will be a production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest in English at Hedicke’s Terracotta on the evening of Tuesday December 12th, performed by the European Theatre Group (ETG) of the University of Cambridge, and co-hosted by Anglistik at the University of Konstanz. Tickets are on sale here.
   
• The Centre for Multilingualism participated with an information stand at the event Konstanz is(s)t international (23.09.23) at the Münsterplatz in Konstanz. Anna Czypionka, Muna Schönhuber and Simone Waitz met children and adults who came to the stand and gave information about language development and multilingualism. People took part in a wheel of fortune game that tested their knowledge about languages and multilingualism.
   
• George Walkden featured on the podcast A Language I Love Is… with Danny Bate, talking about Old Saxon. You can listen to the podcast or find out more here
   
• The General Assembly of the Deutschen Romanistikverband unanimously approved at its general meeting in Leipzig the proposal of Georg Kaiser und Anne Kraume that the next Romanistiktag take place in Constance from 22nd-24th.September 2025.

Publications by Members of the Department

• Müller, Natascha, Tanja Kupisch, Katrin Schmitz, Katja Cantone & Laia Arnaus Ggil. 2023. Einführung in die Mehrsprachigkeitsforschung (4. Auflage). Tübingen: Narr.
   
• Ferin, Maria, Henrik Gyllstad, Ilaria Venagli, Angelica Zordan and Tanja Kupisch. 2023. LexVen: A quick vocabulary proficiency task for Venetan. "Isogloss". Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 9(1). (online access)
   
• W. Breu, M. Pila (eds.), L’Aspettualità nel contatto linguistico: lingue slave e oltre [Aspektualität im Sprachkontakt] (= Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici; 53). Firenze: Firenze University Press. 2023. (online access)
   
•  Pila, M., 2023. Aspektualität im Resianischen und die Rolle des Sprachkontakts. In: W. Breu, M. Pila (eds.). "L’aspettualità nel contatto linguistico: lingue slave e oltre" (= Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici; 53). Firenze: Firenze University Press, 129-158. (online access)
   
• Pila, M., 2023. L’imperfetto resiano fra tempo, aspetto e modo [Das resianische Imperfekt zwischen Tempus, Aspekt und Modus], "Balcania et Slavia" vol. 3, Nr. 1 (2023), 81-125. (online access)
   
• Walkden, George, Miriam Butt & Georg A. Kaiser (eds.). 2023. Proceedings of the 22nd Diachronic Generative syntax (DiGS) Conference. Special issue of Journal of Historical Syntax, 7(6-19). (online access)
   
• Schwarze, Christoph. 2022. L'arbitraire du signe : une illusion? Le symbolisme phonétique selon Georges Bohas testé sur l'allemand. "Bulletin de la Société de linguistique de Paris". 117. fasc. 1. 1-28.
   
• Trotzke, Andreas. 2023. Pedagogical linguistics: Connecting formal linguistics to language teaching. "Language 99", e153-e175.

Acquisitions of the Library

• Ghaemi, Tina: Comprehension of subject and object who- and which-questions in Farsi-speaking adults, monolingual and heritage bilingual children
• Mehraliyeva, Aygul: Contrasting the morphology and syntax of the embedded clauses in Azerbaijani and English
• Khmara, Ekaterina: Language use and attitudes in Belarus
• Doroski, Leah: Neg-raising: intensity of the attitude report
• Riegger, Chiara: Old Saxon Vowel Epenthesis: An analysis of manuscripts M, C, and V
• Shao, Jingjing: Optimizing front-end processing for TTS of Mandarin Chinese dialects: an exploration of linguistic features
• Cambon, Agathe: A study on the relationship between voice pitch values of French female politicians and the perception of their leadership skills
• Pasedag, Benedikt N.: Kontinuität und Wandel in historischen Partizipialkonstruktionen: diachrone Untersuchung zu Partizip-Präsens-Konstruktionen im Althochdeutschen, Mittelhochdeutschen und Frühneuhochdeutschen
• Beißwenger, Michael: Korpusgestützte Sprachanalyse: Grundlagen, Anwendungen und Analysen
• Adamou, Evangelia: Understanding language contact
• Modern language quarterly: Volume 83 (2022)
• Volapükabled: Jaro 1 (29)
• Colloquia Germanica: Band 55
• Journal of the short story in English/Université d'Angers, Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche sur la nouvelle et la langue anglaise: 2021 = 76/77
• Studi e saggi linguistici/Istituto di Glottologia dell'Università; 60 (2022)
• Wiener slavistisches Jahrbuch: Neue Folge 11 (2023)

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