Newsletter July 2021

This is the 157th 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 July 2021 as well as short reports about events, presentations, etc. in June 2021.

Visiting Konstanz

We welcome Francesco Beltrame, doctoral student at the Scuola Universitaria Superiore Pavia, who is from June to October 2021 a guest of the project P2 of the Research Group ‘Questions at the interfaces’.

Events at/by the Department

in June

• On June 10th and June 17th the project P6 of the RU (virtually) hosted a workshop on GAMs where Cesko Voeten (Leiden University, Fryske Academy) shared his expertise on the topic. The workshop was divided into two sessions: A talk on the rationale and statistical theory behind GAMs on Thursday, June 10th and a hands-on session in which real problems related to the work in the RU were discussed on Thursday 17th.
   
• The Conference on Multilingualism 2021 (COM2021) took place online from 23rd – 25th June 2021 organised by the Department of Linguistics, the project The Multilingual Mind, and the Centre for Multilingualism.
   
• COM2021 was followed by the Symposium of the European Civil Society Platform for Multilingualism (ECSPM). The theme of this year’s symposium was Multilingualism in Higher Education in Europe (28th-29th June 2021, online). Within this symposium Prof. Theo Marinis from the ERUA consortium coordinated the panel: Multilingual policies and practices of European University Alliances on Tuesday, 29th June.
  
  Representatives from European University Alliances that have multilingualism as a priority presented and discussed how their alliance is addressing issues of language policies, plurilingual pedagogies, as well as other activities related to multilingualism. Participants of the panel were Prof. Dr Olaf Bärenfänger (representing the ARQUS University Alliance), Prof. Fred Weerman (representing the EPICUR University Alliance) and Dr Evdokia Karavas (representing the CIVIS University Alliance).

Department and Research Colloquium in July

Department and Research Colloquium in June

Conferences, Workshops and Presentations

in July

• Grazia Di Pisa is presenting a conference paper entitled Grammatical Gender Agreement in Italian as a Heritage Language: A Self-Paced Reading Study" within the open session "Multiple perspectives of heritage languages”.
   
• A number of members of our department are presenting at the 13th International Symposium on Bilingualism, taking place online from 10th-14th July 2021, in Warsaw:
  
  Anika Lloyd-Smith is giving a talk entitled The nature of phonological and syntactic transfer beyond the initial state within the thematic session "Going beyond the initial stages in L3/Ln acquisition research", chaired by Jennifer Cabrelli and Eloi Puig-Mayenco.
  
  Marieke Einfeldt, Luisa Dautner and Tanja Kupisch will give a talk entitled Cross-linguistic influence in trilingual first language acquisition of affricates and fricatives: The role of regional variation.
   
• Svenja Schmid, Anja Weingart, Carmen Widera and Georg A. Kaiser will give a talk at the V International Conference on Philology and Diachronic Linguistics (V CILH: Diachronic Constellations) at Unicamp in Brazil from July 19th-23th, 2021 on Word order and information structure in ‘why’ interrogatives in Romance languages.

in June

• Julia Bacskai-Atkari gave a talk entitled Relative clauses in South Slavic and the predictability of morphosyntactic features at the 14th European Conference on the Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL-14) 2nd – 4th June 2021, at the University of Leipzig.
   
• Anamaria Bentea and Theo Marinis gave a talk at ISBPAC 2021 on June 3rd: Acquisition of Multiple Wh-dependencies in Romanian heritage children.
   
• Tanja Kupisch gave a keynote at the Thirteenth Heritage Language Institute (University of North Carolina) on June 7th, 2021. The title of her talk was Heritage Bilingualism with (Dual) Bidialectalism.
   
• Qi Yu, Aikaterina-Lida Kalouli and Diego Frassinelli gave a poster presentation at the Shared Task session of the workshop Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL), June 10th, 2021: KonTra at CMCL 2021 Shared Task: Predicting eye movements by combining BERT with surface, linguistic and behavioral information.
   
• George Walkden gave an invited talk at the International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL) in Leiden (online) on 11th June. The title of the talk was Parataxis and hypotaxis in the history of English.
   
• Alexandra Rehn gave a talk at the 12th International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics (INGL) with the title Agreement in German (indefinite) DPs.
   
• Aikaterini-Lida Kalouli, Rebecca Kehlbeck, Rita Sevastjanova, Oliver Deussen, Daniel Keim and Miriam Butt presented their paper Is that really a question? Going beyond factoid questions in NLP at the 14th International Conference of Computational Semantics (IWCS 2021), online from June 16th to June 18th.
   
• Hannah Booth and Christin Beck gave a talk on V1, V2 and information structure in the history of Icelandic on June 18th at the 12th International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics (NGL12), which took place online (organized by the University of Oslo).
   
• Anamaria Bentea presented joint work with Stephanie Durrleman on Number mismatch and intervention: The case of relative clauses headed by celui/celle in French at The Romance Turn conference on June 18th.
   
• The following members of our department presented their work at the 4th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe conference (PaPE 2021), from June 21st to 23rd in Barcelona (held online): 
  
  Katharina Zahner-Ritter, Moritz Jakob, Monika Lindauer and Bettina braun gave a with the title Child-directed-speech is not affected by recording setting: Preliminary results on Southern German and Swiss German.
  
  Bettina Braun, Ursula Fischer and Katharina Zahner-Ritter gave a talk on Do features of child-directed speech correlate with children’s success in building towers?.
  
  Sophie Kutscheid, Katharina Zahner-Ritter, Adrian Leemann and Bettina Braun presented a poster entitled Different pitch accents affect perceived focus position in German wh-questions.
  
  María Biezma, Bettina Braun, and Angela James (virtually) presented a poster entitled The prosody of information-seeking and echo wh-questions in English.
  
  Also Nicole Dehé and Daniela Wochner presented a poster: Voice quality and speaking rate in Icelandic rhetorical questions.
   
• Anja Weingart, Georg A. Kaiser and Svenja Schmid gave a talk at the International Symposium on Parallel Corpora: Creation and Applications in Vitoria-Gasteiz on Creating multilingual parallel corpora: the UV2 application on June 24th 2021.
   
• Natasha Korotkova gave several invited talks this month: colloquium of the English Department at the University of Stuttgart (moved from April), talk at the Oberseminar English Linguistics at the University of Tübingen, and an invited talk at the TripleA workshop for semantic fieldworkers.
   
• Alexandra Rehn and Hannah Booth gave a talk at the 35th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop (CGSW) with the title OCP effects in Germanic possession: dialectal and diachronic evidence.
   
• Qi Yu gave a poster presentation entitled Compound-coinages as sources of attitudinal meaning at the 17th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA), June 27th - July 2nd, 2021.
   
• Anna Czypionka and Tanja Kupisch gave an invited talk at the Methodology Workshop on the Testing of Genericity, June 28th 2021, NTNU Trondheim. Title: How to measure genericity: Felicity ratings, reaction times, corpora.
   
• Tanja Kupisch has discussed, together with Terje Lohndal, Heritage Languages in the Linguistics Flash-Mobs series (Epic Battles in History) hosted by the Universities of Padova and Firenze.

More News

• Congratulations to Anna Czypionka who was awarded a grant from the Internationalisation Funding in the Excellence Strategy for hybrid co-teaching with N. Schiller at the University of Leiden (NL) in the autumn semester 2021; she also was awarded an Independent Research Grant by the Zukunftskolleg The role of timing and interindividual variation in NPI licensing illusions.
  Besides Anna  is teaching a class at the LOT summer school on the topic Web-based psycholinguistic experiments from July 5th to 9th 2021.
   
• Benazir Mumtaz, Massimiliano Canzi, and Miriam Butt have been accepted for an oral presentation at Interspeech 2021 taking place in Brno, Czech Republic in August 2021. The title of their presentation is Prosody of Case Markers in Urdu. For more details visit: https://www.interspeech2021.org.
   
• Benazir Mumtaz, Saba Urooj and Sarmad Hussain have also been accepted for an oral presentation on Acoustic and Prosodic Correlates of Emotions in Urdu Speech at Interspeech 2021 in Brno, Czech Republic, August 2021. This is part of an on-going cooperation between the University of Konstanz and the Center for Language Engineering at the University of Engineering and Technology (UET), in Lahore, Pakistan.
   
• Benazir Mumtaz and Miriam Butt will present a talk on Prosodic Phrasing in Interaction with Word Order and Case Marking in Urdu/Hindi at an SLE 2021 workshop on "Word Order and Prosody” in Athens, Greece in September. Further details can be found here.
   
• Tamara Rathcke (in collaboration with Diego Frassinelli and Stephan Streuber) received funding from the Cluster of Inequality to study political charisma. The project aims to understand how the perception of political charisma is influenced by social, ethnic and regional attributes of the speaker, potentially creating inequalities in the distribution of power in politics. This research will involve collaboration of linguistics with computing science, politics and political psychology. The project is currently recruiting a post-doctoral researcher - come and join the cross-disciplinary team!
   
• Diego Frassinelli is a fellow of the 4th Intercontinental Academia on Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence. In his project, he wants to investigate cultural aspects of language and to leverage interdisciplinarity to identify and model such very rich and diversified information with computational approaches.
   
• The textbook Sprache und Kontext by Regine Eckardt, to appear in September 2021 with deGruyter, is nearing completion (see cover). It offers an introduction to pragmatics with special focus on German phenomena like the meaning of particles, information structure and word order, and the Jespersen cycle in historical pragmatics.
   
• The Second Workshop on NAtural LOgic Meets MAchine Learning (NALOMA 2021), co-located with the 14th International Conference of Computational Semantics (IWCS 2021) and organised by Aikaterini-Lida Kalouli and Larry Moss, will take place on the 16th of June. Registrations for the main conference and the workshop are open!

Publications by Members of the Department

• Oliviéri, Michèle, Georg A. Kaiser, Katerina Palasis, Michael Zimmermann & Richard Faure. 2020. Quand la dialectologie, l’acquisition et la dialectologie se parlent: étude comparative des pronoms sujets en français et en occitan. In: J. Sibille (éd.), “La microvariation syntaxique dans les langues romanes de France. Actes du colloque Symila”, Toulouse, 11-12 juin 2015. Limoges: Lambert-Lucas, 81–98.
   
• Sophie Kutscheid, Katharina Zahner-Ritter, Adrian Leemann & Bettina Braun (2021): How prior experience with pitch accents shapes the perception of word and sentence stress, Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2021.1946109.
   
• Brehmer, Bernhard, Steinbach, Dominika & Vladimir Arifulin (2021): Heritage languages and the ʻmultilingual boostʼ: Intercomprehension skills of Russian and Polish heritage speakers in Germany. "Multilingua 2021", 1-20 (online first).
   
• Rathcke, Tamara, Falk, Simone & Dalla Bella, Simone: Music to Your Ears: Sentence Sonority and Listener Background Modulate the “Speech-to-Song Illusion”, "Music Perception" (online access)
   
• Hannah Booth and Christin Beck. 2021. Verb-second and verb-first in the history of Icelandic. “Journal of Historical Syntax 5(28)”. pages 1-53. (online access)
   
• Kupisch, Tanja, Nadie Kolb, Yulia Rodina & Olga Urek. Foreign Accent in Pre- and Primary School Heritage Bilinguals. “Languages” (forthcoming).
   
• Rathcke, Tamara, Lin, Chia-Yuan, Falk, Simone & Dalla Bella, Simone Tapping into linguistic rhythm, "Laboratory Phonology - Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology" (online access)
   
• Cognola, Federica, & George Walkden. 2021. Pro-drop in interrogatives across older Germanic and Romance languages. In Sam Wolfe & Christine Meklenborg (eds.), “Continuity and Variation in Germanic and Romance”, 97-136. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (online access)
   
• Jäger, Agnes, & George Walkden. 2021. Comparison and gradation in West Germanic. In Götz Keydana, Wolfgang Hock & Paul Widmer (eds.), Comparison and gradation, 281–348. Mouton Handbooks of Indo-European Typology 1. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (online access)
   
• Zhang Ye, Rong Ding, Diego Frassinelli, Jyrki Tuomainen, Sebastian Klavinskis-Whiting, and Gabriella Vigliocco (2021). Electrophysiological signatures of second language multimodal comprehension. In “Proceedings of the 43th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society”. Vienna.
   
• Frassinelli Diego, Gabriella Lapesa, Reem Alatrash, Dominik Schlechtweg and Sabine Schulte im Walde. Regression Analysis of Lexical and Morpho-Syntactic Properties of Kiezdeutsch. In “Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial). Online event”.
   
• A paper by P1 was accepted for publication in the "Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2020". Authors: Anna Czypionka, Mariya Kharaman, Josef Bayer, Maribel Romero and Carsten Eulitz Title: Licensing Question-Sensitive Discourse Particles: Evidence from Grammaticality Judgments, Self-Paced Reading and EEG Studies.

Acquisitions of the Library

• Gohle, Christina: It's the feeling of being a guest somewhere" the multilingual experiences and difficulties of newcomers to Konstanz
• Hufer, Anne-Sophie: Language use and identity: being Sámi in Norway
• Li, Lingzhi: Tense and question particles in Chinese: a LFG approach
• Sobolev, Andrej N.: Between separation and symbiosis: Southeastern European languages and cultures in contact
• Lindner, Thomas: Flexionsparadigmen
• Breindl, Sebastian: Language policy, attitudes, and ideology: regional variation in Baden-Württemberg
• Mazzoli, Maria: New perspectives on mixed languages: from core to fringe
• Haarmann, Harald: Die seltsamsten Sprachen der Welt: von Klicklauten und hundert Arten, "ich" zu sagen
• Danesi, Marcel: Semiotics: the science of signs
• Krämer, Philipp: Spanisch in Berlin: Einstellungen zu einer globalen Sprache als lokale Fremdsprache
• Quaderer, Sophia: What are linguistic patterns and dimensions relevant for VUIs? an empirical investigation of BLUMI the "Kitschen-Talker"
• Lindenfelser, Siegwalt: Kreolsprache Unserdeutsch: Genese und Geschichte einer kolonialen Kontaktvarietät
• Schröter, Juliane: Linguistische Argumentationsanalyse
• Hansen, Sandra: Regionale und soziolinguistische Variation im alemannischen Dreiländereck: quantitative Studien zum Dialektwandel
• Czajkowski, Luise: Schreibsprachen im Übergang: Untersuchungen zum Sprachwandel im niederdeutsch-ostmitteldeutschen Übergangsraum im Spätmittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit
• Meibauer, Jörg: Sprache und Bullshit
• Ihden, Sarah: Studien zur mittelniederdeutschen und frühneuhochdeutschen Sprache und Literatur
• Eickhoff, Franziska C.: Der lateinische Begriff "otium" eine semantische Studie
• Grjasnowa, Olga: Die Macht der Mehrsprachigkeit: über Herkunft und Vielfalt
• Feliú Arquiola, Elena: Problemas de demarcación en morfología y sintaxis del español
• Losana, José Emilio: Los tiempos del pasado
• Verbickaja, Ljudmila Alekseevna: Davajte govoritʹ pravilʹno! Trudnosti sovremennogo russkogo proiznošenija i udarenija: kratkij slovarʹ-spravočnik
• Del Gaudio, Salvatore: An introduction to Ukrainian dialectology
• Dubičinskij, Vladimir V.: Leksykohrafuvannja leksyčnych paralelej: teoretyčni položennja ta ukrainsʹko-nimecʹkyj slovnyk : monohrafija = Lexikografie lexikalischer Paralellen
• Witzlack-Makarevich, Kai: Sprachpurismus im Polnischen: Ausrichtung, Diskurs, Metaphorik, Motive und Verlauf : von den Teilungen Polens bis zur Gegenwar
• International Symposium Italian-Ukrainian Contrastive Studies: Linguistics, Literary Studies, Translation <1., 2018, Kiew>: Italijs'ko ukraïns'ki kontrastyvni studiï: movoznavstvo, literaturoznavstvo, pereklad = Studi contrastivi Italo-Ucraini
• Language, cognition and neuroscience; Volume 35
• Language typology and universals; Volume 73 (2020)
• Linguistic variation; volume 20 (2020)
• Pedagogical linguistics; Volume 1 (2020)
• Rivista italiana di dialettologia; Anno 44 (2020)
• Sprachwissenschaft; Band 45 (2020)
• Zeitschrift für Fremdsprachenforschung; Band 31 (2020)
• Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur; Band 142 (2020)
• Germanistische Linguistik; 248/249-250/251 (2020)
• Journal of Germanic linguistics; Volume 32
• Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik; Band 48 (2020)
• Journal of English linguistics; Volume 47 (2019)
• Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik; Volume 68 (2020)
• Mind & language; Volume 35 (2020)
• Ad limina Alpium: VI Colloquium Retoromanistich, Cormons, dai 2 ai 4 di Otubar dal 2014
• Canadian American slavic studies; volume 54 (2020)
• Zeitschrift für Slawistik; Band 65 (2020)

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