Newsletter April 2022

This is the 166th 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 April 2022 as well as short reports about events, presentations, etc. in March 2022.

New to Konstanz

We welcome Makiko Hirakawa, Professor of Linguistics at Chuo University in Japan. Makiko is an expert on First and Second Language Acquisition, Heritage Bilingualism, and English language instruction. Makiko has a formal syntax background but she has also been concerned with how to link theoretical approaches to bilingual language acquisition with teaching in practise. Makiko will be in Konstanz until March 2023. She will be in GF 109. If you come by her office, say Hello.

We welcome Tianyi Zhao who will be joining the department as a doctoral researcher in the DFG-AHRC-project Prosodic structure at the interface between language and speech on April 1st.

Events at/by the Department

Department and Research Colloquium in April

Conferences, Workshops and Presentations

In April

• There are several members of the department presenting at the In_equality Conference 2022, taking place from 6th-8th April at the Bodenseeforum:

* Rusen Yasar, Anika Lloyd-Smith, Fabian Bergmann, Sven-Patrick Schmid, Tanja Kupisch & Katharina Holzinger are presenting a poster entitled: Feelings of discrimination in egalitarian societies: The Sámi and majority populations in Sweden and Norway.

* Anika Lloyd-Smith, Rusen Yasar & Tanja Kupisch are presenting a talk on their project Ethnic Policies: The Sámi in Norway and Sweden at the meeting of the advisory board on Tuesday 5th April.

* Judit Vári; Tamara Rathcke; Aleksandra Cichocka are presenting a talk entitled Is charisma a male phenomenon? A perceptual study of British political leaders on Thursday, 7th.

• Laura Hund, Anika Lloyd-Smith & Tanja Kupisch are presenting a talk entitled Can policies change language use? A study of North Sámi at the ASLA symposium on Friday 8th April in Stockholm.
   
• Anna Czypionka is giving an invited talk at the University of Amsterdam, ACLC group meeting on April 8th, Title: Sentence processing at the syntax-pragmatics interface: The role of ASD-related psychological measures.
   
• Andreas Trotzke will give an invited talk on Information structure and expressivity at the Université Paris Nanterre/CNRS UMR 7114 Modèles, Dynamiques, Corpus on April 12th.
   
• Fernanda Barrientos will present a talk entitled: Don't buy, recycle? Acquiring new features versus feature redeployment in L2 vowel perception at the New Sounds conference on Thursday 21st of April in Barcelona, Spain.
   
• Josef Bayer is an invited speaker at the - live - Conference Language Diversity, Linguistic Theory and Cultural Identity in South Asia that will be held at Yale University, April 29th-30th, 2022. The title of his talk is Discourse particles as functional heads. A comparison of German and Bangla.

In March

• On March 18th, Regine Eckardt presented at the Final Conference of the Graduiertenkolleg 1808 “Ambiguity” at Tübingen. The title of the talk was Ambiguity at the Speech Act Level? and the talk discussed linguistic modelling between bare sentence and the utterance level.
   
•  Natasha Korotkova gave a talk Hearsay and (non-)commitment at the workshop "Commitments in grammar and discourse" during the 44th meeting of the DGfS.

More News

• Tanja Kupisch has been guest professor at the University of Palermo, where she has taught a course on Language Acquisition (Linguistics Acquisizionale) in March-April.
   
• Deniz Özyıldız, Ciyang Qing, Floris Roelofsen, Maribel Romero and Wataru Uegaki, from the project "Cross-linguistic investigation of meaning-driven combinatorial restrictions in clausal embedding" are giving a talk entitled Cross-linguistic patterns in the selectional restrictions of preferential predicates at the GLOW 45 workshop on Typological generalizations and Semantic Theory (April 26th, Queen Mary University London).
   
• Julia Bacskai-Atkari is starting her DFG project on Asymmetries in relative clauses in West Germanic (BA 5201/2). The main objective of the project is to gain new insights into the syntactic and morphological factors underlying relativisation characteristic of European languages, with a focus on the distribution of relative markers in West Germanic in particular. The project has a total duration of 36 months (from April 2022 to March 2025).
   
• Anna Czypionka is teaching a block course in neurolinguistics at the University of Amsterdam in April and into May.
   
• Alexandra Rehn visited Ghent University March 21st-25th as part of her collaboration with Hannah Booth. During her stay she gave a talk in the DiaLing (Diachronic and Diatopic Linguistics) Group on Parallel adjectival inflection - a new perspective from Alemannic and a second talk together with Hannah Booth on OCP effects in Germanic possession in the G4 group.
   
• The project "Universal preferences for natural concepts" organized a workshop "Natural concepts", to tooke place on March 9th-11th, 2022.
   
• Julia Bacskai-Atkari has been appointed as a Privatdozentin at the University of Potsdam.
   
• The third edition of the ERUA language café took place on Saturday 12th February, as part of the First ERUA winter school "European Identities", open for the whole ERUA community. After a joint kick-off at the “coffee table” - “space” in the wonder.me language launch, with a presentation by Ramona Baumgartner (UKON) on the interplay of identity and languages, the participants wondered off to other "spaces" to practice different levels of German and French, moderated by Ynès Dovonou and Amber Mun (Paris 8) and Malika Tarhri (UKON). The winter school participants had further opportunities to discover Greek (moderated by Spyros Bofylatos, UAegean), Bulgarian (moderated by Petia Popova, UKON and Maria Stambolieva, Milka Hadjikoteva & Emanuela Svilarova, NBU) and Danish (moderated by Frida Valles, RUC) during their study week. The next edition of the language café will be organized during the summer semester. If you are interested to engage in language practice or as a moderator, or if you wish to keep informed about this or other ERUA events, write an email to erua@uni-konstanz.de.

• The book A history of English, by Míša Hejná and George Walkden, has been accepted for open-access publication by Language Science Press. (https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/346). It takes a reverse-chronological approach, focusing on the variation and change present throughout the history of English.

• Qi Yu taught a 2-day PhD seminar entitled Python for Linguists for the doctoral program in applied linguistics "Managing Languages, Arguments and Narratives in the Datafied Society“ at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), March 3rd-4th, 2022.
   
• Andreas Trotzke has been reelected as Advisory Board Member for the DGfS.
   
• Andreas Trotzke's talk in the SPAGAD lecture series is now published on YouTube and can be viewed here.

Publications by Members of the Department

• Gabriel, C. & T. Kupisch. 2022. Französisch als L3 im mehrsprachigen Klassenzimmer. In T. Klinger, J. Duarte, I. Gogolin, B. Schnoor & M. Trebbels (eds.), "Sprachentwicklung im Kontext von Mehrsprachigkeit. Hypothesen, Methoden, Forschungsperspektiven". Berlin: Springer
   
• Trotzke, Andreas & Liliane Haegeman. 2022. PP-internal particles in Dutch as evidence for PP-internal discourse structure. In Remus Gergel, Ingo Reich & Augustin Speyer (eds.), "Particles in German, English, and Beyond", 297-322. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
   
• Trotzke, Andreas & Anna Czypionka. 2022. Non-canonical questions from a comparative perspective: Introduction to the special collection. "Linguistics Vanguard" 8, 205-207.
   
• Trotzke, Andreas & Anna Czypionka. 2022. The pragmatics of surprise-disapproval questions: An empirical study. "Linguistics Vanguard" 8, 239-249.
   
• Polyanskaya, L., Manrique, H.M., Samuel, A., Marín, A., García-Palacios, A., Ordin, M. Inter-modality differences in statistical learning in bilingual environments: Phylogenetic and ontogenetic influences. "Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences". (in press)
   
• Polyanskaya, L., Manrique, H.M., Marín, A., García-Palacios, A., Ordin, M. Typological differences influence the bilingual advantage in metacognitive processing. "Journal of Experimental Psychology: General". (accepted)
   
• Dehé, Nicole & Daniela Wochner. 2022. Voice quality and speaking rate in Icelandic rhetorical questions. “Nordic Journal of Linguistics”. Online first view.
   
• Dehé, Nicole, Bettina Braun, Marieke Einfeldt, Daniela Wochner & Katharina Zahner. 2022. The prosody of rhetorical questions: A cross-linguistic view. “Linguistische Berichte” 269: 3-42.
   
• Dehé, Nicole. Prosodic evidence for the iconicity hypothesis in grammaticalization. 2021. In Wu, Fuxiang, Yang, Yonglong & Long, Haiping. “Grammaticalization and Grammatical Studies, X” (《语法化和语法研究 （十）》), pp. 429-459. Beijing: Commercial Press.
   
• Sabine Schulte im Walde, Diego Frassinelli. 2022. Distributional measures of semantic abstraction. Front. Artif. Intell. 4:796756. (online access)
   
• Antje Strauß, Tongyu Wu, James M. McQueen, Odette Scharenborg, & Florian Hintz (in press). The differential roles of lexical and sublexical processing during spoken-word recognition in clear and in noise. Cortex. (online access)

Acquisitions of the Library

• Eckardt, Regine: Sprache und Kontext: eine Einführung in die Pragmatik
• Hatcher, Anna Granville: Theme and underlying questions: two studies of Spanish word order
• Erfurt, Jürgen: Afrikanische Sprachen in Europa
• Löbner, Sebastian: Semantik: Eine Einführung
• Gutzmann, Daniel: Semantik: eine Einführung
• Ernst, Peter: Deutsche Sprachgeschichte: eine Einführung in die diachrone Sprachwissenschaft des Deutsche
• Iijima, Brenda: Eco-language reader
• Deutscher, Guy: The unfolding of language: the evolution of mankind's greatest invention
• Pöckl, Wolfgang: Einführung in die romanische Sprachwissenschaft
• Sapir, Edward: Language: an introduction to the study of speech
• Cassirer, Ernst: Language and myth
• Presse und Sprache; 65. Jahrgang (2021)
• English world-wide; Volume 42 (2021)

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