Newsletter June 2023

This is the 180th 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 2023 as well as short reports about events, presentations, etc. in May 2023.

Events at/by the Department

Department and Research Colloquium in June

Department and Research Colloquium in May

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

Conferences, Workshops and Presentations

In June

• On 2nd June, Molly Rolf is giving a talk entitled Case Loss Due To L2-difficulty In The Balkan Sprachbund at HiSoN in Brussels.
   
• Luisa Geib, Marieke Einfeldt will present a joint work with Katharina Zahner-Ritter (University of Trier) on Prosodic marking of allegedly attractive vs. unattractive objects in child-directed speech at the Phonetics and Phonology of Europe (PaPE) conference, taking place in Nijmegen June 2-4th.
  
  At the same conference, Marieke Einfeldt, Ekaterina Kazak (University of Manchester), Angela James, Rita Sevastjanova, Daniela Wochner, Katharina Zahner-Ritter (University of Trier), Nicole Dehé and Bettina Braun are presenting their work on The relevance and weighting of prosodic cues in question interpretation.
   
• Tamara Rathcke is invited to give a plenary talk at the Phonetics & Phonology in Europe conference, taking place 2nd-4th June at Radboud University in Nijmegen. She is presenting her work on rhythm.
   
• Bettina Braun will give a talk on Development of native listening in light of dialectal variation at the workshop Native Listening: a Canteen of Cutlery – Meeting in Memory of Anne Cutler taking place in Nijmegen June 6-7th.
   
• Tamara Rathcke is an invited speaker at the workshop organised by the UK-South Korea Prosody Network, taking place 20th-22nd June at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Seoul. She is presenting her work on rhythm.
   
• Svenja Schmid and Laura Hund will give a talk titled Podcasts as spoken language corpora: A resource to improve speech rhythm in the classroom of FLE at the Workshop Spoken language corpora as a teaching-learning resource for French as a foreign language taking place in Orléans from 29th to 30th June.

In May

• Molly Rolf presented her doctoral work on the relationship between case and adpositions at CGG32. Slides to the talk found here, and the abstract here.
   
• Qi Yu presented 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.
   
• George Walkden gave a talk titled Sources for question particles at the SyntaxLab at the University of Cambridge on 2nd May and at the Angus McIntosh Centre talk series at the University of Edinburgh on 17th May.
   
• On May 4th, Tamara Rathcke gave 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 presented 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 also presented a poster with David Diem titled Doubling by movement within and from PP in Alemannic German.
   
• On May 16th, Colin Davis presented 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 presented a talk titled Late adjunction in diminutives and English plural ablaut at a colloquium at the University of Leipzig.
   
• Maribel Romero gave an invited talk on Revisiting High Negation Questions at the workshop “The Semantics of Biased Questions”, at the University of Toronto May 17th-18th, 2023.
   
• Georg A. Kaiser presented 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.

More News

• In the first 10 days of June, Diego Frassinelli visits the Language and Cognition Lab at UCL.
   
• On June 19th-21st, Georg Kaiser and Svenja Schmid organize a workshop titled Introduction to digital corpus creation and annotation for all department members and students who are interested. This workshop will be taught by Rayan Ziane (Université de Caen Normandie) and includes the following topics: digitization of text, document structuring and segmentation, and automated syntax annotation. More details will be announced soon.
   
• A postdoctoral position is available working with Prof. George Walkden on the historical syntax of English. Deadline is 30th June - see the link for details!
   
• In May Angelika Golegos joined the research group of Sharon Unsworth (Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University) for one month as part of the Konstanzia MEiN programme (Mentoring with Experts and international Networking).
   
• 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 was 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

• Eline Smit & Tamara Rathcke, together with Keller, P. E. from the University of Aarhus/Denmark, have published an opinion piece on Tuning the Musical Mind: Next Steps in Solving the Puzzle of the Cognitive Transfer of Musical Training to Language and Back. The piece appeared in the interdisciplinary, open-access journal "Music & Science, 6”. (online access)
   
• Golegos, A., & Marinis, T. (2023). Pronoun resolution in Greek: Stress is not a cue for disambiguation. “Studies in Greek Linguistics”, 42, 163-172. (online access)
   
• 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)

Acquisitions of the Library

• Giralt Mirón, Clara: Analysis of clitic pronouns in Catalan through machine translation from Spanish to Catalan
• Castellano, Chiara Anna: Can broadcast media be used for training foreign language learners' proficiency and pronounciation? evidence from a perception study of German learners of English
• Tabata, Risako: The influence of audio-visual integration on the phonological perception of English by native speakers of Japanese
• Wong, Hiu Yan Fiona: Influence of L2 on the development of phonological awareness in Cantonese speakers
• Lakoff, Robin Tolmach: Language and woman's place: text and commentaries
• Scheungraber, Corinna: Altgermanische und altkeltische Theonyme: die epigraphische Evidenz aus der Kontaktzone: ein Handbuch zu ihrer Etymologie
• Attardo, Salvatore: Eye tracking in linguistics
• Tsivelekidou, Anna: Gender bias in Greek: a study of common gender profession nouns : evidence from empirical data and word vectors
• Schuhmacher, Ines: Legasthenie und Fremdspracherwerb: Erfahrungen legasthener L2-Lerner im Englischunterricht
• Milovanović, Kristina: An LFG/XLE approach to mixed agreement and pro drop in Serbian
• Acquaviva, Paolo: Number in the world's languages: a comparative handbook
• Hernández Cornejo, Matías: The phonetic and phonological natue of the Old English /r/: a systematic literature review
• Berg, Kristian: Wort - Satz - Sprache: eine Hinführung zur Sprachwissenschaft
• Suzuki, Seiichi: The metrical organization of the Old English Genesis : the anglo-saxon foundations and old saxon adaption
• Suzuki, Seiichi: The pictorial organization of the Old English Genesis: the touronian foundations and anglo-saxon adaptation
• Schäfer, Lea: Syntax and morphology of Yiddish dialects: findings from the language and culture archive of Ashkenazic Jewry
• Roberts, Ian G.: Beginning syntax: an introduction to syntactic analysis
• Buridant, Claude: Grammaire du français médiéval: (XIe-XIVe siècles)
• Stolac, Diana & Jim Hlavač: A linguistic landscape of Rijeka
• Kujjah, Hasan: Handbook of oriental studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik: Section 1 , The Near and Middle East
• Langages; Colin 225-228 (2022)
• Language learning journal: Routledge: Volume 50 (2022)
• Deutsche Sprache; E. Schmidt 50. Jahrgang (2022)
• Deutsch als Fremdsprache; E. Schmidt 58. Jahrgang (2021)
• Informationen Deutsch als Fremdsprache: De Gruyter: Band 49 (2022)
• Muttersprache; Gesellschaft für Deutsche Sprache Jahrgang 132 (2022)
• The Germanic review: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group: Volume 97 (2022)
• Zeitschrift für Germanistik; Lang Neue Folge, 32 (2022)
• French studies; Oxford Univ. Press Volume 76
• Italica ; Dept. Volume 98 (2021)
• Situation de la langue française
• Bi- and multilingualism between conflict intensification and conflict resolution: Ethno-linguistic conflicts, language politics and contact situations in post-Soviet Ukraine and Russia, 2017, Gießen, Veranstaltung: Discourse and practice of bilingualism: contemporary Ukraine and Russia/Tatarstan / edited by Daniel Müller and Monika Wingender
• Suvremena lingvistika; Godina 48, Svezak 1 = Broj 93 and Svezak 2 = Broj 94
• Journal of Semitic studies; Oxford Univ. Press Volume 67
• Rivista degli studi orientali: Fabrizio Serra: Nuova serie, volume 94 (2021)

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