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Newsletter of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Konstanz

Issue CLXXVIII: April 2023

This is the 178th 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 April 2023 as well as short reports about events, presentations, etc. in March 2023.

New to Konstanz

Dr. Ulrike Schneider joined the department. She is acting as substitute professor of English and general linguistics in the summer semester 2023 and winter semester 2023-4, replacing George Walkden, who is on research leave. Welcome, Ulrike!

Events at/by the Department

Department and Research Colloquium in April

13.04 Maria Teresa Guasti (Università degli Studi di Milano, Bicocca): Language Acquisition within Meaning First
20.04 Pilar Pérez Ocón (Universidad de Alcalá): When uno (‘one’) is the speaker: on the values of the determiner uno in Spanish
27.04 Malinka Pila (Universität Konstanz): The Resian verb system under German and Romance influence

in March
- 01.03. Talk: Dag Haug (Oslo) Rule-based semantic interpretation using glue semantics for Universal Dependencies.

Conferences, Workshops and Presentations

In April

  • Colin Davis and David Diem will present a poster titled Doubling by movement within and from PP in Alemannic German at GLOW (Generative Linguistics in the Old World) 48 in Vienna on Thursday, April 13th.
     
  • Molly Rolf is giving a talk at the 32nd Colloquium on Generative Grammar conference, 24-26th April at the University of the Basque Country in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. The title is Mixed realisations of KP are L2-difficult, triggering language change.

In March

  • Diego Frassinelli gave an invited talk at the Department of Humanities (University of Florence). The title of the talk was: Classifying Concrete vs. Abstract Words Using Textual and Visual Representations.
     
  • On March 16th-17th, Georg Kaiser organized together with Maia Duguine (CNRS-IKER UMR5478, Bayonne) a workshop V2, or not V2, that is the question: On verb plaement in interrogatives. Two members of our deparment, Josef Bayer and Svenja Schmid, also participated in the workshop and gave a presentation.
     
  • Miriam Butt gave a talk at the University of Jaffna in Sri Lanka on Building Resources: Language Comparison and Analysis on March 28th. She also met with the Vice Chancellor of the university, who signed a Memorandum of Understanding between the University of Jaffna and the University of Konstanz.

More News

  • A reminder that abstract submissions are now open until April 14th for the Musical Minds: Exploring cognitive links between language and music two-day workshop held at the University of Konstanz in Germany on 2th7-28th July 2023.

    With this two-day interdisciplinary workshop, we aim to bring together a range of researchers interested in the links between language and music in order to discuss the current status quo, and facilitate discussions on how to further advance the field.

    Submissions can cover a wide range of topics related to cognition, perception, learning or production that link music and language. The planned program will include keynote lectures, presentations and round tables with ample time for discussion and socialising.

    Confirmed speakers for the keynote lectures are Dr. Lieke van Maastricht (Radboud University) and PD Dr. Daniela Sammler (Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics).

    For details on the workshop and how to submit an abstract, please check out the website.
     
  • We are very excited to to hear that Katerina Kalouli will be awarded the Wilhelm von Humboldt Dissertation Prize at this year’s DGfS Conference for her Konstanz dissertation Hy-NLI: a Hybrid system for state-of-the-art Natural Language Inference. The prize will be shared with Maria Bardají i Farré, who wrote on Nominalization in Totoli and other western Austronesian languages.
     
  • Christin Beck will join the DFG Center for Advanced Studies Words, Bones, Genes, Tools at the University of Tübingen for a four month fellowship from March-June 2023. During the fellowship, Christin will collaborate with Marisa Köllner, working on developing a new methodology for investigating lexical semantic change across language stages which combines the usage of contextualized language models and phylogenetic methodologies for cognate identification. More on the project can be found here.

Publications by Members of the Department

  • Lloyd-Smith, A., Bergmann, F., Hund, L., & Kupisch, T. 2023. Can policies improve language vitality? The Sámi languages in Sweden and Norway. Frontiers in Psychology, 14. (online access)
     
  • Bayer, J. 2023. Deutsche Partikeln als funktionale Köpfe. „Linguisten-Seminar. Forum japanisch-germanistischer Sprachforschung“. Band 5. München: Iudicium Verlag. 9-39 (online access)
     
  •  Schwarze, Christoph. 2023. Lexical prepositions governing bare nouns in French. In: Natascha Pomino, Eva-Maria Remberger and Julia Zwink (eds.). “From Formal Linguistic Theory to the Art of Historical Editions. The Multifaceted Dimensions of Romance Linguistics”. Vienna: V&R unipress, Vienna University Press. 201-212.
     
  • Anika Lloyd-Smith and Tanja Kupisch co-published a Policy Paper entitled Why Language Matters: Inequality perceptions among the Sámi in Sweden and Norway to mark International Mother Language Day, which took place this year on 21st February. You can read the paper here.
     
  • Lloyd-Smith, A., & Kupisch, T. (2023). Methodological challenges in working with Indigenous communities. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13(1). (online access)
     
  • Pila, M. 2023. Strutture slave e romanze in contatto: il periodo ipotetico nelle varietà slovene del Friuli. [Slavic and Romance structures in contact: the hypothetical period in the Slovene varieties of Friuli]. In: F. Biagini & O. Inkova (eds.), “Lingue slave e lingue romanze a confronto: dalla frase al testo” (=mediAzioni, 36), A177-A192. (online access)

Acquisitions of the Library

  • Ruiz García, María A.: Diachronic semantic change: the case of the Spanish frequentative aspect : marker "saber" "know"
  • Culpeper, Jonathan: Introducing linguistics
  • Hofer, Barbara: A multilingual development framework for young learners: early multi-competence in South Tyrol
  • Weijer, Jeroen Maarten van de: Syllable, Stress, and Sign
  • Pheiff, Jeffrey: Definite articles in Low Saxon dialects: a case study in grammaticalization
  • Canut, Cécile: Langue
  • Koch-Weser Ammassari, Elke: Comunicazione e mass media: teoria e ricerca
  • Sarangi, Srikant: Language, bureaucracy and social control
  • Koev, Kol'o: Phenomenology as a dialogue: Fenomenologijata kato dialog
  • Kjolseth, Rolf: Zur Soziologie der Sprache: ausgewählte Beiträge vom 7. Weltkongreß der Soziologie
  • Études germaniques; 76e année, no. 1-4 = 301-304 (2021)
  • Germanistik <Tübingen>; Band 62 (2021)
  • English language and linguistics; Volume 26
  • AION; Volume 44 (2022): Sezione di filologia e letteratura classica
  • Studi italiani di filologia classica; Quarta Serie, Volume 20, Fascicolo 1 = 115 Annata
  • Studi di grammatica italiana; Volume 41
  • Le français dans le monde; 2022 = n° 438-443
  • Zeitschrift für französische Sprache und Literatur; Band 130 (2020)
  • Interaction through language: sociolinguistic research, cases and applications
  • Proceedings of the ... International Congress of Linguists; 10. Bucarest, 28 aout - 2 sept. 1967, 1

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