Newsletter of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Konstanz
Issue CLXXV: January 2023
This is the 175th 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 January 2023 as well as short reports about events, presentations, etc. in December 2022.
Events at/by the Department
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 |
Department and Research Colloquium in December
| 01.12 | Petra Schumacher (Universität zu Köln): Demonstrative pronouns and perspectival anchoring |
| 15.12 | Chiara Melloni (Università di Verona): Morphological skills in developmental dyslexia |
Conferences, Workshops and Presentations
In January
- Raquel Montero and Maribel Romero will present a talk entitled Examining the Meaning of Polarity Subjunctive in Peninsular Spanish at NELS53, taking place in Göttingen from 12th to 14th January.
In December
- Frederik Hartmann and George Walkden gave a talk titled Syntax vs. phonology in language relatedness at the AMC Symposium in Edinburgh on Wednesday 7th December.
- On December 10th, Nicole Dehé presented an invited colloquium talk at the Sun Yat-Sen University in China (virtual talk) entitled The function(s) of prosody in discourse.
More News
- The photo exhibition organised 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!
- On Friday 9th December the Cambridge University European Theatre Group performed William Shakespeare’s Hamlet at the Unitheater. The visit has been arranged by George Walkden, a former ETG member.
- On October 26th the research group "Questions at the Interfaces (FOR2111)" successfully organised a movie night in cooperation with the Office of Equal Opportunities and the University Cinema Lumière.
The movie night opened with a short talk on the resistance of language by George Walkden. George's talk was followed by a screening of Nu Shu: A Hidden Language of Women in China - a documentary about a secret written language that was developed by a group of women from the Hunan province to resist the oppression of the patriarchal society of feudal China.
We thank all members of the department who joined us on this lovely evening. Special Thanks go to George for agreeing to say a few words before the movie and to Irene Wolke who willingly took over the communication with the Office of Equal Opportunities and the University Cinema Lumière.
Publications by Members of the Department
- 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.
- Walkden, George. 2022. Review of Matthias Friedrich & James M. Harland (eds.), Interrogating the "Germanic": a category and its use in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages (de Gruyter, 2021). Journal of Germanic Linguistics 34(4), 420-427. (online access)
- Bentea, Anamaria and Durrlemann, Stephanie. 2022. Person Matters: Relative Clauses in the Acquisition of French, Isogloss 8(5)/2. (online access)
- Bentea, Anamaria and Marinis, Theodoros. 2022. Multiple wh-interrogatives in child heritage Romanian: On-line Comprehension and Production, “Frontiers in Psychology”, 13:1018225. (online access)
Acquisitions of the Library
- Herschensohn, Julia Rogers: Bilingualism, language development and processing across the lifespan
- Wold, Astri Heen: The dialogical alternative: towards a theory of language and mind
- Bielefeld, Hans-Ulrich: Soziolinguistik und Empirie: Beiträge zu Problemen der Corpusgewinnung und -auswertung
- Althaus, Hans Peter: Lexikon der germanistischen Linguistik
- Siewert, Klaus: Wörterbuch deutscher Geheimsprachen: Rotwelschdialekte
- McKenzie, Robert M.: Implicit and explicit language attitudes: mapping linguistic prejudice and attitude change in England
- Gümüşay, Kübra: Speaking and being: how language binds and frees us
- Zimmermann, Jörg: Sprache und Welterfahrung
- Bosque, Ignacio: Glosario de términos gramaticales
- Junković, Zvonimir: Jezik Antuna Vramca i podrijetlo kajkavskoga dijalekta: dijakronijska rasprav
- Laskowski, Roman: Language maintenance - Language attrition: the case of Polish children in Sweden
- Vygotskij, Lev Semenovič: Denken und Sprechen
- Gipper, Helmut: Gibt es ein sprachliches Relativitätsprinzip? Untersuchungen zur Sapir-Whorf-Hypothese
- Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie; Band 69
- Studi di grammatica italiana; Volume 40
- Zeitschrift für Balkanologie; 58 (2022)
- Archiv für Orientforschung; Band 55 (2022)
- Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins; 136 (2020)
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