Newsletter of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Konstanz
Issue CLXXVI: February 2023
This is the 176th 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 February 2023 as well as short reports about events, presentations, etc. in January 2023.
Events at/by the Department
Department and Research Colloquium in February
| 02.02 | Katerina Palasis and Richard Faure (Université Côte d'Azur): Wh-fronting in adult Colloquial and child French: Triggers at the syntax-semantics interface |
| 09.02 | PhD Students' Talk Maria Ferin: Rhetorical questions in Italian: lexical-syntactic marking in monolingual and bilingual elicited productions |
Department and Research Colloquium in January
| 12.01 | PhD Students' Talk Saira Bano: Morphophonological Alternations in Hazaragi Suffixation and Prefixation: Evidence for Underspecification Chen-An Chang: Taiwanese Daodi-Questions in Despair: Empirical Studies of Triggering Emotive Agreements |
| 19.01 | Amalia Arvaniti (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen): Prominence and RPT reconsidered |
| 26.01 | Martin Pfeiffer (Universität Potsdam): Dialect-standard variability in early childhood: Preliminary observations from a corpus study |
On February 3rd, from 8:20 am - 4:30 pm, Georg A. Kaiser is organizing in room E 402 a workshop entitled L’interrogation en français et son acquisition. The workshop is part of a master course Interrogation im Französischen in which invited speakers as well as students will give a lecture. No registration is necessary and only selected lectures can be attended.
Conferences, Workshops and Presentations
In February
- Colin Davis and David Diem will present a poster titled Doubling, Focus, and Extraction from PP in Alemannic German at the 48th Incontro di Grammatica Generativa in Florence on Friday 17th February.
- David Diem will give a talk titled Alemannic verb doubling is the overt realization of a head movement chai' at the 48th Incontro di Grammatica Generativa in Florence on Friday 17th February.
- Colin Davis reports the following poster presentation for February 2023: Anti-locality explains the interaction of subjects and parasitic gaps. Incontro di Grammatica Generativa 48, University of Florence.
In January
- Raquel Montero and Maribel Romero presented a talk entitled Examining the Meaning of Polarity Subjunctive in Peninsular Spanish at NELS53, taking place in Göttingen from 12th to 14th January.
More News
- The LFG’22 Proceedings are now on-line via our new host, the KIM at the University of Konstanz. The proceedings are edited by Miriam Butt, Jamie Y. Findlay and Ida Toivonen and feature the following Konstanz contributions:
Tina Bögel The prosody-syntax interface: A computational implementation
Miriam Butt, Maria Biezma The syntax and interpretation of Urdu/Hindi polar kya
Jessica Zipf Italian pronouns in a CALL setting
- The recently published paper Emotional responses in Papua New Guinea show negligible evidence for a universal effect of major versus minor music of Eline Adrianne Smit, Andrew J. Milne, Hannah S. Sarvasy, Roger T. Dean was selected as 2022 PLOS One highlight.
- In the current Winter Quarter of 2023, Todor Koev ("Parenthetical Meaning", Emmy Noether) will be on an exchange abroad at Stanford University, being hosted by Dr. Judith Degen.
- The photo exhibition organized by the Centre for Multilingualism and the MultiMind project Beyond the border. Migration and multilingual signs at European borderscapes was on display at the library of the University of Konstanz (28 Nov - 23 Dec 2022) and can now be viewed online.
The exhibition is part of the ongoing project Beyond the border. Migration and multilingual signs at European borderscapes by photographer Luca Prestia and sociolinguist Federico Faloppa that looks at different European borders, or “borderscapes”, with the intention to observe those strips of land and collect and record traces of presences, passages, interactions: acts of resilience, resistance, and existence. It looks at these borderscapes without judging and without resorting to the usual categorisations that we are used to from the media’s common representation of the so-called “refugee problem”.
- Congratulations to George Walkden who is a member of the Advisory Board of Language Science Press from January 2023 .
- Dear Department members, a new e-mail address has been created for social media: ling.socialmedia@uni-konstanz.de. Don’t hesitate to write an e-mail in case you have relevant news for Twitter and Facebook!
Publications by Members of the Department
- Florian Hintz, Yung Han Khoe, Antje Strauss, Adam Psomakas, & Judith Holler, (in press). Electrophysiological evidence for the enhancement of gesture-speech integration by linguistic predictability during multimodal discourse comprehension. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience.
- Davis, Colin. 2023. Cross-Clausal Scrambling and Subject Case in Balkar: On Multiple Specifiers and the Locality of Movement. With Tatiana Bondarenko. “Syntax”.
- Davis, Colin. 2023. The Morphology of Case and Possession in Balkar: Evidence That Oblique Cases Contain Accusative. Languages special issue: "Theoretical Studies on Turkic Languages" (ed. Jaklin Kornfilt).
- Davis, Colin. 2023. Concealed pied-piping in Russian: On left-branch extraction, parasitic gaps, and the nature of discontinuous nominal phrases. With Tatiana Bondarenko. “Syntax”.
- Davis, Colin. 2023. The Morpho-Syntactic Significance of the Unextractability of English Possessive Pronouns. “Proceedings of the 52nd annual meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS)”, volume 1. University of Massachusetts Amherst: GLSA Publications.
- Butt, Miriam and Hannah Booth. 2022. LFG and historical linguistics. In Mary Dalrymple (ed.) Dalrymple, Mary (ed.). “The Handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar”. Berlin: Language Science Press. (online access)
- Weingart, Anja and Kaiser, Georg A. 2022. Eine FAIRe Anwendungssoftware für textbasierte Forschungsdaten : Das UV2 Annotationstool. apropos : Perspektiven auf die Romania 9, 240–253. (online access)
- González López, Laura & Schmid, Svenja. 2022. Vocative, where do you hang out in wh-interrogatives?. The Linguistic Review. (online access)
- Rehn, Alexandra & Ellen Brandner. 2022. Bad data can be good data - The Significance of different Methods for syntactic Theorizing. In: Hörnig, Robin, Sophie von Wietersheim, Andreas Konietzko & Sam Featherston (Eds.), Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2020.
- Anna Czypionka, Mariya Kharaman, Josef Bayer, Maribel Romero & Carsten Eulitz. 2022. Licensing Question-Sensitive Discourse Particles: Evidence from Grammaticality Judgments, Self-Paced Reading and EEG Studies in Robin Hörnig, Sophie von Wietersheim, Andreas Konietzko & Sam Featherston (eds.), Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2020: Linguistic Theory Enriched by Experimental Data pp. 197–215 Tübingen: University of Tübingen. (online access)
- Jeretič, Paloma (ZAS Berlin) and Deniz Özyıldız, Why does neg-raising require stativity in Proceedings of the 32nd Amsterdam Colloquium.
Acquisitions of the Library
- Robbeets, Martine: The Oxford guide to the Transeurasian languages
- Auer, Peter: Kommunikation in gesellschaftlichen Umbruchsituationen: mikroanalytische Aspekte des sprachlichen und gesellschaftlichen Wandels in den neuen Bundesländern
- Elmentaler, Michael: Norddeutscher Sprachatlas (NOSA); Band 2: Dialektale Sprachlagen / Michael Elmentaler / Peter Rosenberg; unter Mitarbeit von Liv Andresen [und 5 andere]; Kartografie, Layout und Satz: Ulrike Schwedler
- Lusignan, Serge: Essai d'histoire sociolinguistique: le français picard au Moyen Âge
- Espada, Francisco: Manual de fonética: exercícios e explicações: QECR nível A2
- Quasthoff, Uta M.: Aspects of oral communication
- Rhodes, Richard A.: Eastern Ojibwa-Chippewa-Ottawa dictionary
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