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Newsletter of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Konstanz

Issue CLXXI: September 2022

This is the 171st 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 September 2022 as well as short reports about events, presentations, etc. in August 2022.

Conferences, Workshops and Presentations

In September

  • Henri Kauhanen will be presenting 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 will give 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 are presenting 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 will present 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 will be giving 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 will give two presentations at GALA 15 (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition) taking place 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 is presenting 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 are also presenting a poster entitled The acquisition of non-canonical questions in Italian: lexical and syntactic markers in elicited production at GALA 15.
     
  • Andreas Trotzke will give 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 will present 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.

In August

- Several members of the department presented at the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oxford, 1st-5th August:

  1. Maia Duguine and Georg Kaiser: Word order changes in Basque constituent questions
  2. Frederik Hartmann: An agent-based modelling approach to wave-like diversification of language families
  3. Henri Kauhanen: A critical threshold for the population fraction of L2 speakers necessary and sufficient to bring about contact-induced language change
  4. Gemma McCarley: Changes in Null Subjects in Latin American Spanish: a diachronic corpus study
  5. Raquel Montero Estebaranz: The Loss of Plural Concord in Quantifiers and Adjectives in Middle English
  6. Nasir A. Rizvi Syed, Saira Bano and Tooba Sahar: The Reversal of a Diachronic Morpho-syntactic Process because of Language Contact
  7. George Walkden, Gemma McCarley, Raquel Montero, Molly Rolf, Sarah Einhaus and Henri Kauhanen: Sociolinguistic typology meets historical corpus linguistics
  8. And last but not least, a keynote talk by emeritus professor Frans Plank: Patterns of suppletion in inflectional paradigms: What do you mean, “universals of language” and there aren’t any?
  • Miriam Geiss presented a poster entitled Who likes bananas?! How second language learners of German produce rhetorical questions at ISBPAC2022: 4th international symposium on bilingual and L2 processing in adults and children, 4th-5th August, UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
     
  • Nicole Dehé, Moritz Jakob, Meike Rommel & Christiane Ulbrich gave a talk titled The intonation of declaratives, polar questions and wh-questions in two varieties of Faroese at the 13th Nordic Prosody Conference held in Sonderborg, Denmark, 17th-19th August.
     
  • Regine Eckardt presented a plenary talk at the fourth international workshop "Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Application" which ook place at the Humboldt University of Berlin. The workshop was scheduled for August 22nd-24th, 2022.
    The program can be found here.
     
  • Julia Bacskai-Atkari gave a talk entitled Relative markers and subject-object asymmetries in the Wycliffe Bible at the 12th International Conference on Middle English (ICOME 12), Glasgow, University of Glasgow, 22nd-26th August 2022.
     
  • Georg A. Kaiser gave a talk together with Maia Duguine (IKER Bayonne, UMR5478) titled Basque V2 effects in diachrony at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europea in Bucharest on Wednesday, August 24th.
     
  • Güliz Günes & Nicole Dehé gave a talk titled Don't deaccent given: A challenge to radical deaccentuation accounts from Icelandic at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea held in Bucharest, Romania, 24th-27th August.
     
  • A few members of the department presented at EuroSLA 31 in Fribourg from 24th.-27th August:
  1. Anika Lloyd-Smith and Tanja Kupisch presented a talk entitled Can policies prevent language loss? The case of North Sámi
  2. Miriam Geiss, Maria F. Ferin, Theo Marinis & Tanja Kupisch presented a talk entitled Rhetorical Questions in German-dominant Heritage Speakers
  3. Angelika Golegos, Lisa Hindelang, Anna Czypionka & Theo Marinis gave a talk titled Pronoun resolution in adult L2 learners of German by speakers of two different null-subject languages.

  4. Henri Kauhanen and Fernanda Barrientos presented a talk entitled Variational Learning and the L2 acquisition of Spanish tense/aspect.

  • Antje Strauß gave a talk at the 22nd conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology which took place from August 29th till September 1st 2022 in Lille, France. Her talk was entitled: Finding endogeneous theta oscillations in primary auditory cortex -- a prerequisite for neural entrainment to speech and was presented as part of a symposium organized by Anahita Basirat on "Rhythm and cognition: theoretical challenges and rehabilitation perspectives".
     
  • Josef Bayer was invited speaker at the Linguisten-Seminar of the Japanische Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft that took place in Tokyo between 29th August and 1st September 2022. Invitations to other Japanese universities are planned.

More News

  • 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

  • Tamara Rathcke has co-authored a paper with a colleague from the Leibniz Centre of General Linguistics: Tamara Rathcke & Susanne Fuchs. Laugh is in the air: An exploratory analysis of laughter during speed dating. The article appeared in Frontiers in Communication (Language Sciences) as part of the research topic on Effective and Attractive Communication Signals in Social, Cultural, and Business Contexts.
     
  • Dehé, Nicole, Marieke Einfeldt & Daniela Wochner. 2022. The interaction of discourse markers and prosody in rhetorical questions in German. "Journal of Linguistics" (online first view).

Acquisitions of the Library

  • Appelhans, Lea: Hinreichende Bedingungen für rhetorische Fragen
  • Ball, Martin J.: Clinical sociolinguistics
  • Horn, Michelle: Gendergerechte Sprache im Russischen: gezeigt am Beispiel der Movierung
  • Coupland, Nikolas: Sociolinguistics and social theory [the theme of a meeting of the 2nd Cardiff Roundtable in Language and Communication, held at Gregory Hall (Newton, Mid Wales) in June 1997]
  • Lohmeyer, Denise: Speech and language therapy service: factors affecting the diagnosis of DLD in multilingual children : results of a questionnaire identifying knowledge and attitude of speech and language therapists in Switzerland towards diagnostic methods for multilingual children
  • Schwieter, John W.: The Cambridge handbook of working memory and language
  • Heinz, Matthias: Phonetik und Phonologie des Italienischen: eine Einführung für Studierende der Romanistik
  • Applied linguistics; Volume 42 (2021)
  • Revista Española de Lingüística; 50 (2020)
  • Theoretical linguistics; Volume 46
  • LEI - Lessico etimologico italiano: (excurrere-)
  • Lingua nostra; Volume 81 (2020)
  • Lingüística española actual; 42 (2020)
  • Revue de linguistique romane; Tome 85, nos. 337/338-339/340 (2021)
  • Studi di lessicografia italiana; Volume 39 (2022)
  • Studi francesi; Anno 65, fasc.1-3 = 193-195 (2021)
  • Zeitschrift für Balkanologie; 55 (2019)
  • Altorientalische Forschungen; Band 47 (2020)
  • Turkic languages; Volume 25 (2021)
  • Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde; Band 147 (2020)

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