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Newsletter of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Konstanz

Issue CXLI: March 2020

This is the 141st 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 March 2020 as well as short reports about events, presentations, etc. in February 2020.

New to Konstanz

We welcome to our department Qi Yu who in March will join the project Framing Inequalities within the Cluster of Excellence The Politics of Inequality (EXC 2035) as a PhD student. She will be working on the linguistic cues of framing with Regine Eckardt and Miriam Butt.

Events at/by the Department

in February

  • At the Ringvorlesung on 5th February Georg Kaiser gave a talk on Bilingualism matters - or not … – Bilingualism, monolingualism and language conflict.

Department and Research Colloquium in February

13.02

PhD Candidates Talk

Katharina Kaiser Word order alternations in French and Brazilian Portuguese wh-in-situ interrogatives - an experimental study

Carmen Widera 'ele' in impersonal constructions in contemporary European Portuguese – expletive subject or discourse element?

Conferences, Workshops and Presentations

in March

  • Petr Biskup will give an invited talk Modifizierende Präfixe im Slavischen at the Universität Innsbruck on March 2nd.
     
  • Miriam Geiß, Sonja Gumbsheimer, Anika Lloyd-Smith, Svenja Schmid & Tanja Kupisch will give a talk entitled VOT in German-dominant heritage speakers of Italian at DGfS 2020, the 42nd Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society, from March 4th to 6th, 2020 in Hamburg.
     
  • On 12th March, Nicole Dehé will present her work on Prepositions and the relative vulnerability of lexicon and morpho-syntax in Heritage Icelandic at Simon Fraser University, Bristish Columbia, Canada.
     
  • Nicole Dehé is invited speaker at the joint Simon Fraser University/University of British Columbia Linguistics NOW colloquium, held on 13th March 2020, in Vancouver, BC, Canada. She will present a work on the prosody of rhetorical questions in German, English, Icelandic and Chinese (which is joint work with Bettina Braun, Marieke Einfeldt, Daniela Wochner and Katharina Zahner).
     
  • Antje Strauß will be giving an invited talk on Dissociating the roles of bottom-up driven neural entrainment and top-down cortical tracking for speech perception by means of electric brain stimulation at a Workshop on Current advances in Neurolinguistics – Oscillations, Language & the Brain, 23rd-24th of March, at the University of Zurich.
     
  • On March 26th, Regine Eckardt will deliver a plenary talk at the 5th Conference on Formal Diachronic Semantics, to be held at Jerusalem.
    The title of the talk is The perfect expression: preterite and perfect in Southern German.
     
  • Natasha Korotkova is giving a talk entitled The subjective heart of evidentiality at the workshop Semantic Universals in the Modal and Attitudinal Domain at GLOW 43 in Berlin, on March 31st.

in February

Travelling

Natasha Korotkova is spending part of February and March as a visiting researcher at the Formal Linguistics Research Group (GLiF) at the University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, where she is teaching a mini-course The notional category of evidentiality and giving a colloquium talk entitled Find, must and conflicting evidence on March 12th.

More News

  • We call your attention to an article of Süddeutsche Zeitung of March 3rd, Wie sollte man mit Babys sprechen? of Nora Ederer, and congratulate Bettina Braun and Katharina Zahner who are mentioned as experts.
     
  • Ryan Bochnak, together with colleagues from the University of Manchester (Margit Bowler, Emily Hanink, and Andrew Koontz-Garboden) are organizing a workshop at the DGfS annual meeting in Hamburg, March 4-6. The title of the workshop is: "Variation in the Lexical Semantics of Adjectives and their Crosslinguistic Kin". The programme may be found here.
     
  • The first issue of the new John Benjamins journal Pedagogical Linguistics, co-edited by Andreas Trotzke and Tom Rankin, is now published. Since the first years will be crucial for setting the highest standards for this new journal, members of our department are encouraged to spread the word among colleagues, students, and friends, and to tell them about the option to submit relevant work to Pedagogical Linguistics: https://benjamins.com/catalog/pl
     
  • Congratulations to Katharina Zahner who was one of the winners of the Zukunftskolleg’s mentorships and is now an associated fellow at the Zukunftskolleg. Together with her proposed mentor, Prof. Anne Cutler (MARCS Institute, University of Western Sydney), she will be working on a project entitled Towards promoting awareness for the teaching and learning of prosody in a foreign language. Prof. Cutler will be visiting her mentee for one week in June 2020. At the end of the visit, there will be a related workshop TiPToP: Trends in pedagogical transmission of prosody on June 24th-25th.
     
  • We would like to announce a workshop on Trends in pedagogical transmission of prosody (TiPToP) to be held on June 24th-25th, University of Konstanz, Germany.

    TiPToP attempts to bridge the gap between prosodic research and research on teaching practices by bringing together researchers working on cross-linguistic aspects of prosody, on prosody in L2 acquisition, and the teaching of prosody.

    The workshop is organised by Katharina Zahner (University of Konstanz, Questions at the Interfaces, SpeechNet Bawü), Marieke Einfeldt (University of Konstanz, Questions at the Interfaces), Nadja Schauffler (University of Stuttgart, SpeechNet Bawü) and Thanh Lan Truong (University of Tübingen, SpeechNet Bawü).

    TiPToP is funded by a mentorship program of the Zukunftskolleg of the University of Konstanz and the Research Unit Questions at the Interface at the University of Konstanz. The workshop is a SpeechNet BaWü event.
    Everybody in the department is welcome!

Publications by Members of the Department

  • Gómez González, María Ángeles & Nicole Dehé. 2020. The pragmatics and prosody of variable tag questions in English: Uncovering function-to-form correlations. "Journal of Pragmatics" 158: 33-52.
     
  • Dehé, Nicole & Bettina Braun. 2020. The intonation of information seeking and rhetorical questions in Icelandic. “Journal of Germanic Linguistics“ 32(1): 1-42.
     
  • Dehé, Nicole. 2019. 'Minimal adaptation' and the edges of prosodic domains. "Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism" 9(6): 833-837.
     
  • Schulte im Walde, S., & Smolka, E. (Eds.) (2020). The role of constituents in multiword expressions: An interdisciplinary, cross-lingual perspective (“Phraseology and Multiword Expressions 4”). Berlin: Language Science Press. (online access)
     
  • Smolka, E., & Ravid, D. (Eds.) (2019). What is a verb? – Linguistic, psycholinguistic and developmental perspectives on verbs in Germanic and Semitic languages. “Special Issue of The Mental Lexicon”, 14:2. John Benjamins Publishing Company. (online access)
     
  • Smolka, E., & Eulitz, C. (2020). Can you reach for the planets or grasp at the stars? – Modified noun, verb, or preposition constituents in idiom processing. In Sabine Schulte im Walde & Eva Smolka (Eds.), "The role of constituents in multiword expressions: An interdisciplinary, cross-lingual perspective" (179–204). Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3598566. (online access)
     
  • Smolka, E. (2019). Aufhören (‘stop’) activates hören (‘hear’) but not Musik (‘music’) – The difference between lexical and semantic processing of German particle verbs. “The Mental Lexicon”, 14(2), 298-318. DOI. (online access)
     
  • Andreas Trotzke. 2020. Pädagogische Linguistik -- jetzt! "Linguistische Berichte" 261, 1-23.
     
  • Andreas Trotzke & Tom Rankin. 2020. Introduction to Pedagogical Linguistics. "Pedagogical Linguistics" 1, 1-7.
     
  • Andreas Trotzke & Tanja Kupisch (eds.). 2020. Formal Linguistics and Language Education: New Empirical Perspectives. Dordrecht: Springer.

Acquisitions of the Library

  • Yu, Qi: Micro-linguistic feature detection and annotation
  • Osime, Dina: Age differences regarding the effects of memory load in syntactic processing
  • Janier, Mathilde: Argument mining: linguistic foundations
  • Jones, Howard: The Oxford guide to Middle High German
  • Aalberse, Suzanne Pauline: Heritage languages: a language contact approach
  • Codita, Viorica: Tendencias y perspectivas en el studio de la morfosintaxis histórica hispanoamericana
  • Evertz, Martin: Visual prosody: the graphematic foot in English and German
  • Hesselbach, Robert: Diaphasische Variation und syntaktische Komplexität: eine empirische Studie zu funktionalen Stilen des Spanischen mit einem Ausblick auf das Französische
  • Levis, John M.: Intelligibility, oral communication, and the teaching of pronunciation
  • Vihman, Marilyn: Phonological templates in development
  • McCready, Elin: The semantics ang pragmatics of honorification: register and social meaning
  • Gröschel, Bernhard: Das Serbokroatische zwischen Linguistik und Politik: mit einer Bibliographie zum postjugoslavischen Sprachenstreit
  • Ellis, Rod: Task-based language teaching: theory and practice
  • Luttermann, Karin: Institutionelle und individuelle Mehrsprachigkeit
  • Hampel, Alexander: Gewaltfreie Kommunikation nach Marshall B. Rosenberg: eine Analyse nach pragmatischen Gesichtspunkten
  • Lutz, Erik: Pragmatische Giraffen: Schnittstellen von gewaltfreier Kommunikation und Sprachwissenschaft
  • Wiegand, Herbert Ernst: Wörterbuch zur Lexikographie und Wörterbuchforschung, Bänder 3, 4 und 5
  • Böhm, Thomas: Die Wunderkammer der deutschen Sprache
  • Nielsen, Hans Frede: The early runic language of Scandinavia: studies in Germanic dialect geography
  • Miller, D. Gary: The Oxford Gothic grammar
  • Siemund, Peter: Speech acts and clause types: English in a cross-linguistic context
  • Talbot, Mary M.: Language and gender
  • Loporcaro, Michele: Gender from Latin to Romance: history, geography, typology
  • Schmidt, Annelie: „Sicherheit“ im öffentlichen Sprachgebrauch: eine diskurslinguistische Analyse
  • von Heusinger, Klaus: Questions in discourse; Volume 1, Semantics
  • Zimmermann, Malte: Questions in discourse; Volume 1, Pragmatics
  • Alsina, Victória: Traducción y estandarización
  • Meisner, Charlotte: La variation pluridimensionnelle: une analyse de la négation en français
  • Biskup, Petr: Prepositions, case and verbal prefixes: the case of Slavic
  • Szucsich, Luka: Areal convergence in Eastern Central European languages and beyond
  • Počepcov, Georgij Georgievič: Kognitivnye vojny v socmedia, massovoj kulʹture i massovych kommunikacijach
  • Ritter-Schmalz, Cornelia: Antike Texte und ihre Materialität: Alltägliche Präsenz, mediale Semantik, literarische Reflexion
  • Savage-Smith, Emilie, Ibn-Abī-Uṣaibiʿa, Aḥmad Ibn-al-Qāsim: Handbook of Oriental studies
  • Germanistische Linguistik, 2018
  • Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft; Band 9
  • Studi di grammatica italiana, Volume 37
  • Studi italiani di filologia classica; Quarta Serie, Volume 17, Fascicolo 2 = 112 Annata
  • Anzeiger für slavische Philologie, Band 46
  • Internationaler Slavistenkongress: Dutch contributions to the Sixtheenth International Congress of Slavists-Linguistics: Belgrade, August 20-27, 2018
  • Russian linguistics; Volume 43
  • Aramaic studies; Volume 16

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