Newsletter October 2022

This is the 172nd 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 October 2022 as well as short reports about events, presentations, etc. in September 2022.

New to Konstanz

We are very pleased to welcome Tafseer Ahmed Khan and Emanuel Souza de Quadros to the CLGroup.

Tafseer will still be known to some of you, he did his dissertation on case in Indo-Aryan in 2009 at the University of Konstanz and worked on the Urdu ParGram grammar. He has since worked at various universities in Pakistan as a lecturer in NLP and has recently also branched out into software development. He will be joining us as a postdoc to work on LFG related things, as well as visualization and NLP for South Asian languages.

Manu has most recently been completing his PhD at Yale University and will join us as a postdoc via a stay in Brazil as part of the EXC 2035 The Politics of Inequality, where he will be focusing on issues of election mobilization in Latin America in the project “Mobilizing Inequality”. Manu’s PhD deals with Categorial Grammar and the issue of integrating probabilistic information into its architecture, a topic we also hope to pursue during his time in Konstanz.

Visiting Konstanz

Welcome to Bozhil Hristov of the University of Sofia, who is visiting Konstanz this autumn on a Humboldt Research Fellowship.

Welcome also to Lisa Gotthard of the University of Edinburgh, who is visiting Konstanz in October and November to work with George Walkden on the SILPAC project.

Events at/by the Department

Department and Research Colloquium in October

Conferences, Workshops and Presentations

In October

• Regine Eckardt will present at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest on October 6th, 17.30. The title of the talk will be Rhetorical questions as justifications.
  More informations can be found here.
   
• Antje Strauß will be presenting a poster entitled Tackling endogenous theta oscillations in primary auditory cortex at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language held from October 6th-8th in Philadelphia, US.
   
• Andreas Trotzke and Laura Reimer will give a talk on Comprehending non-canonical and indirect speech acts in German at Linguistic Evidence 2022 (Université Paris Cité) on October 6th-8th.
   
• Maria Ferin, Miriam Geiss, Tanja Kupisch and Theo Marinis will give a talk with the title Rhetorical questions in heritage acquisition: optionality at the syntax-pragmatics interface the third conference on Heritage Language Syntax (HLS3), in Paris, October 20th-21st.
   
• Angelika Golegos, Lisa Hindelang, Anna Czypionka & Theo Marinis will present a poster titled Comprehension of pronouns in adult Italian and Greek L2 learners of German at the Bilingualism Matters Research Symposium 2022 in Edinburgh, 25th-26th October.

In September

• Henri Kauhanen presented a poster entitled A critical population threshold for contact-induced simplification at the Joint Conference on Language Evolution Kanazawa, Japan, online, 5th-8th September.
   
• Tina Bögel, Romi Hill, Justin Hofenbitzer, and Tianyi Zhao gave a talk on The prosody-syntax interface: theoretical assumptions and computational implementation on September 7th at the University of Edinburgh.
   
• Tanja Kupisch and Anika Lloyd-Smith presented a talk entitled Can policies change language use? North Sámi in Sweden and Norway at the 5th Saami Linguistics Symposium from 22nd-23rd September in Tartu.
   
• Qi Yu presented a poster entitled An Experimental Study on Ad Hoc Compounds in Political Discourse at The 9th Experimental Pragmatics Conference. This is a joint work with Regine Eckardt (Uni Konstanz), Fabian Schlotterbeck (Uni Tübingen) and Britta Stolterfoht (Uni Tübingen).
   
• Georg A. Kaiser gave a talk together with Maia Duguine (IKER Bayonne, UMR5478) titled Repérer des particularités morphosyntaxiques du français à l’aide d’Astérix, le Gaulois (‘Identifying morphosyntactic peculiarities of French using Astérix, the Gaul') at the 13th Congress of the Frankoromanistenverband in Vienna on Friday, September 23th.
   
• Anamaria Bentea gave two presentations at GALA 15 (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition) in Frankfurt, 22nd-24th September:

  * Cross-linguistic Influence in Complex Syntactic Structures: The Case of Multiple Interrogatives in Bilingual Children (with Theo Marinis)
  * A’-dependencies in acquisition: The role of pronominal interveners (with Ur Shlonsky and Stephanie Durrleman)

• Miriam Geiss presented a poster entitled How children convey attitude in speech – canonical and non-canonical questions by German monolingual children at GALA 15, September 22nd-24th.
   
• Maria F. Ferin, Miriam Geiss, Theodoros Marinis and Tanja Kupisch presented a poster entitled The acquisition of non-canonical questions in Italian: lexical and syntactic markers in elicited production at GALA 15.
   
• Andreas Trotzke gave a talk on Eine pragmatische Grammatik für die Schule at the 27. Deutscher Germanistentag (Universität Paderborn) on September 25th-28th.
   
• Angelika Golegos, Maria Andreou, Dafni-Vaia Bagioka, Franziska Baumeister, Anna Czypionka, Theodoros Marinis, Eleni Peristeri, Vasileia Skrimpa & Arhonto Terzi presented a poster titled Development and validation of a verbal and non-verbal False Belief task battery for Theory of Mind at the 8th Conference "Language Disorders in Greek" (LDG8) in Thessaloniki, Greece, 30th September to 1st October.

More News

• George Walkden will be running a workshop on Investigating language change using parsed corpora at Aarhus University on October 4th.
   
• K. Sarveswaran successfully completed his dissertation on A Deep Syntactic Parser for the Tamil Language this September at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Sarves spent some of his dissertation time at our department via DAAD funding and has been jointly supervised by Professor Gihan Dias and Miriam Butt. Congratulations to Sarves!
   
• Last year, Prof. Dr. Hanna Fischer initiated a professional network for female linguists.
  It's a registered association now, gathering linguists across philologies and different stages of careers (working in academia or not). Students are welcome, too!
  Together, transparency, mutual support and the cohesion of FLINTA* in linguistics are to be promoted where competition or intransparency make professional action and careers difficult.
  More information can be found on the website: linguistica-ev.org. Feel free to contact Sarah Warchhold if you have further questions. Note: so far it's mainly german-speaking.
   
• We congratulate Anamaria Bentea who was awarded a 5-year Research fellowship at the Zukunftskolleg. Her project, Cross-linguistic influence in multilingual children and adults: evidence from the real-time processing of Romanian wh-questions will investigate language acquisition and processing of Romanian in a multilingual context in Germany, the UK, and Romania.
   
• A collaborative project application by Christiane Ulbrich and Nicole Dehé on the topic Language of the Faroe Islands - promotion of mobility and targeted development of competence in linguistics to secure the future of a small island language was recommended for funding by the selection committee as part of the Baden-Württemberg-STIPENDIUM program for students - BWS plus. The project will be carried out in collaboration with Hjalmar Petersen (Faculty of Faroese Language and Linguistics at the University of the Faroese Islands). The student and staff mobility involve both research and training activities over the period of three years starting in October 2022.

Publications by Members of the Department

• Hägele, David, Christoph Schulz, Cedric Beschle, Hannah Booth, Miriam Butt, Andrea Barth, Oliver Deussen and Daniel Weiskopf. 2022. Uncertainty visualization: Fundamentals and recent developments. it - Information Technology. (online access)
   
• Butt, Miriam. 2022. Case Markers in Indo-Aryan. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics.  (online access)
   
• Kauhanen, H., (2022) A bifurcation threshold for contact-induced language change, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 7(1). (online access)
   
• Siskou, Wassiliki, Clara Giralt Mirón, Sarah Molina Raith, Miriam Butt. 2022. Automatized Detection and Annotation for Calls to Action in Latin-American Social Media Postings. In the Proceedings of the 6th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (LaTeCH-CLfL 2022) at the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling22).
   
• Butt, Miriam. 2022. Dative subjects and Differential Object Marking. In Chiara Gianollo, Łukasz Jędrzejowski and Sofiana I. Lindemann (eds.) Paths through meaning and form: Festschrift offered to Klaus von Heusinger on the occasion of his 60th birthday. USB Monographs. (online access)
   
• Kaiser, Georg A. 2022. Was zählt, wenn nichts zählt? Zur Bestimmung von Nullsubjekten am Beispiel von Asterix’ 'Goldener Sichel’. In Chiara Gianollo, Łukasz Jędrzejowski and Sofiana I. Lindemann (eds.) Paths through meaning and form: Festschrift offered to Klaus von Heusinger on the occasion of his 60th birthday. USB Monographs. (online access)
   
• Trotzke, Andreas. 2022. Specificity and modal particles. In Chiara Gianollo, Łukasz Jędrzejowski & Sofiana I. Lindemann (eds.), “Paths Through Meaning and Form: Festschrift Offered to Klaus von Heusinger on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday”, 244-246. Köln: Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln.
   
• Christoph Schwarze. 2022. Zurück zu Kratylos? In: Chiara Gianollo u.a. (Hgg.) “Paths Through Meaning and Form: Festschrift offered to Klaus von Heusinger on the occasion of his 60th birthday”. Cologne: © Chiara Gianollo, Łukasz Jędrzejowski und Sofiana Lindemann. 221-224.

Acquisitions of the Library

• Englert, Charlotte: Zwischensprachliche Einflüsse bei multiromanischen Lernern
• Zoméro, Ekaterina: Trilingual's language competition through the prism of lexical transfer and cognates
• Jäger, Ludwig: Der gestische Ursprung der Sprache: die Entstehung der menschlichen Sprachfähigkeit und die Bedeutung gestisch-visueller Kommunikation
• Kircher, Ruth: Research methods in language attitudes
• Chen, Jiaqi: The role of the media on the acquisition of vowels by L2-learners of English
• Bau, Matthias: Vergessene Klassiker der Sprachwissenschaft? zur Einführung und Erinnerung
• Ganslmayer, Christine: Historische Wortbildung: Theorien - Methoden - Perspektiven
• Zouogbo, Jean-Philippe Claver: Linguistique pour le développement: concepts, contextes et empiries
• Fröhlich, Rabea: Variaciones del castellano hablado en la provincia de Arequipa: un estudio empírico de aspectos fonético-fonológicos y morfosintácticos en el sur del Perú
• Solovʹev, Leonid V.: Povestʹ o Chodže Nasreddine
• The Germanic review; Volume 96 (2021)
• Oxford German studies; Volume 50 (2021)
• Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik; Band 46 (2021)
• Italian studies; Volume 76 (2021)
• Italianistica; Anno 50 (2021)
• Italienisch; 44. Jahrgang, 1 (2022) = 87
• Revista internacional de linguística iberoamericana: volumen 20,1 = N°1 (39)
• Romania; 147e année (2021) = Tome 139
• Slavic and East European journal; Vol. 65 (2021)
• Russkij jazyk za rubežom; 2021, no 1- 6 = 284 - 289

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