Newsletter May 2023

This is the 179th 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 May 2023 as well as short reports about events, presentations, etc. in April 2023.

Events at/by the Department

Department and Research Colloquium in May

Department and Research Colloquium in April

in May

On May 15th, Maciej Karpiński will give a talk on gesture and speech in the Research Collquium on Phonetics and Phonolgy by Bettina Braun.

Conferences, Workshops and Presentations

In May

• Qi Yu will present a paper entitled Towards a more in-depth detection of political framing at the workshop LaTeCH-CLfL of EACL 2023 May 1st-6th, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
   
• On May 4th, Tamara Rathcke is giving an invited talk at University College London Does language hit the beat? Studying rhythm across languages and populations by means of sensorimotor synchronisation.
   
• On May 5th, Colin Davis will present a poster at West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 41 titled Anti-locality Explains the Restricted Interaction of Subjects and Parasitic Gaps and on the same day, he will also present a poster with David Diem titled Doubling by movement within and from PP in Alemannic German.
   
• On May 16th, Colin Davis will present a talk titled Unifying phrase-level and word-internal ordering: Superlative Adjectives and the Final-Over-Final Condition at a colloquium at the University of Potsdam and on May 17th, he will present a talk titled Late adjunction in diminutives and English plural ablaut at a colloquium at the University of Leipzig.
   
• Maribel Romero will give an invited talk on Revisiting High Negation Questions at the workshop “The Semantics of Biased Questions”, to be held at the University of Toronto May 17th-18th, 2023.
   
• Georg A. Kaiser will present a paper titled Subjects and null subjects in (Brazilian) Portuguese and beyond. Results from a parallel text study at the the Lisbon Festschrift for Mary Kato in Lisbon on Wednesday, March 24th.

In April

• Colin Davis and David Diem presented 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.
   
• Saira Bano presented a poster titled The Hazaragi Ezafe and its Morphophonological Alternations in NACIL (North American Conference on Iranian Linguistics 3) from 21st-23rd April at UCLA (University of California Los Angeles).
   
• Friederike Hohl and Bettina Braun gave a talk at the 10th Language and Technology Conference in Poznań on April 22nd entitled Using amplitude envelope modulation spectra to capture differences between rhetorical and information-seeking questions.
   
• Molly Rolf gave 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.
   
• Alexandra Rehn gave a Poster presentation with the title OCP effects in Germanic possession at the 47th GGS conference (Generative Grammatik des Südens) in Berlin on April 28th.

More News

• The Erasmus+ project "Teacher Education about Multilingualism" (TEAM) has launched its open access online course. Theo Marinis and the AG Multilingualism at the Department of Linguistics in Konstanz are coordinating the linguistics module of the course. The project,coordinated at AMU, Poznan, aims at educating and supporting teachers and trainee teachers who work in multilingual classrooms in order to create inclusive and effective learning environments that foster language development and academic success for all students. A portion of the course resources are already accessible on the project Youtube channel. The complete open access online course will be available soon on Moodle. Follow the project on social media to stay up to date.
   
• George Walkden is on an Erasmus Teaching Mobility visit to the University of Cambridge, UK, in the first week of May. Subsequently he will be a visiting researcher in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh between May and August 2023.

Publications by Members of the Department

• Kauhanen, Henri, Sarah Einhaus & George Walkden. 2023. Language structure is influenced by the proportion of non-native speakers: A reply to Koplenig (2019). Journal of Language Evolution, Advance articles. (online access)
   
• Björnsdóttir, Sigríður Mjöll. 2023. Predicting ineffability: Grammatical gender and noun pluralization in Icelandic. “Glossa: a journal of general linguistics” 8(1), 1–40. (online access)
   
• Walkden, George. 2023. Review of Elly van Gelderen, Third Factors in Language Variation and Change (Cambridge University Press, 2021). “English Language and Linguistics”, First View. (online access)
   
• 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.

Acquisitions of the Library

• Lay Brander, Miriam: Einführung in die Lateinamerikastudien: ein Handbuch
• Ribeiro, Djamila: Wo wir sprechen: schwarze Diskursräume
• Smirnov, Igorʹ Pavlovič: Vtoroe načalo (v iskusstve i sociokulʹturnoj istorii)
• Germanisch-romanische Monatsschrift; Neue Folge, Band 72 (2022)
• Italian journal of linguistics; Pacini Volume 33 (2021)
• Linguistic inquiry; MIT Pr. Volume 53 (2022)
• Linguistics; Volume 60 (2022)
• Linguistische Berichte; Buske (2019) = Heft 257-260
• Linguistische Berichte; Heft 269-272 (2022)
• Jahrbuch für internationale Germanistik; Jahrgang 54, Heft 2
• Vocabolario dei dialetti della Svizzera italiana; [Volume 9]
• Polonica; Tom 42 (2022)
• Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft: Band 171 (2021)
• The Nuzi Workshop at the 55th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (July 2009, Paris)

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