Newsletter

This is the 190th 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 2024 as well as short reports about events, presentations, etc. in March 2024.

Events at/by the Department

Department and Research Colloquium in April

in April

Regine Eckardt is organizing an event for the 1300th anniversary of the Island Reichenau in cooperation with the department of Philosophy and the department of Literature-Art-Media. There will be various presentations and interactive contributions, suitable for children aged 10 and over. The event Reisen in Raum und Zeit - das Leben auf der Reichenau im Spiegel alter Manuskripte will take place on April 27th from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m in the Museum Reichenau. You can find the detailed program here

in March

21.-22.03.2024 Konstanz Linguistics Conference
The Konstanz Linguistic Conference aimed to provide early career researchers working in all fields of Linguistics an opportunity to get together in a relaxed atmosphere to present their research in oral and poster presentations and exchange ideas.

Conferences, Workshops and Presentations

In April

• On April 11th, Regine Eckardt will present at the Amsterdam Workshop on “Polar question meaning(s) across languages”, organized by Beste Kamali (University of Amsterdam). The title of her talk is Are you crazy?” — On Controversial Rhetorical Questions. You can find more information here.
   
• Chiara Riegger and George Walkden will be giving a talk on The prosody of the prefix ge- in (Early) West Germanic at the Forum for Germanic Language Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK (presenting joint work with Tina Bögel).
   
• Maryam Mohammadi will present at the 42nd WCCFL conference at Berkeley University, (12th -14th April) a paper on Speaker Attitudes Predict Epistemic Biases in Polar Questions: Evidence from Farsi, her paper is a collaboration work with Todor Koev.
   
• Maribel Romero has been invited as the 2024 speaker of the Joshua and Verona Whatmough Lecture series at Harvard University.

In March

• Angelika Golegos and Theodoros Marinis gave a talk at the Konstanz Linguistics Conference entitled Processing pronoun ambiguity in German - evidence for a developmental path in primary school children.
   
• Svenja Krieger gave an invited talk titled The syntax-discourse interface: Insights from subject positioning in Romance why-interrogatives as part of the lecture series LISTEN (Lectures on Information Structure) on March, 4th at KU Leuven.
   
• Nicole Dehé, Meike Rommel and Christiane Ulbrich gave a talk Cross-linguistic influence in phonology: The case of heritage Icelandic (cont.) on 15th March, at The New Iceland Heritage Museum, Gimli, MB, Canada and on March 19th at the University of Manitoba, in Winnipeg.
   
• Maribel Romero participated in the 5th Meeting of the DFG Network Definiteness across Domains, which took place on March 18th-19th, 2024 at the University of Ghana, with an invited talk titled On the reportative complementizer 'que' in Spanish.

Travelling

In March, Nicole Dehé, Angela James, Meike Rommel and Christiane Ulbrich were back in Manitoba for data collection as part of Dehé/Ulbrich’s DFG research project on Heritage Icelandic.

Publications by Members of the Department

• Antje Strauss (Uni Konstanz) published together with Lars Meyer (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Science) a collected volume featuring 7 book parts and 47 chapters on Rhythms of Speech and Language including two in-house authors:
   - Braun, Bettina (In press). Linguistic factors affecting amplitude modulation spectra. In: L. Meyer & A. Strauss (eds), Rhythms of Speech and Language, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
  - Rathcke, Tamara (In press). The P-center effect and the domain of beat perception in speech. In: L. Meyer & A. Strauss (eds), Rhythms of Speech and Language, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
   
• Walkden, George. 2023. Forty years of diachronic generative syntax. (Contribution to Diachrony and Diachronica: 40@40.) Diachronica 40(5), 667-669.
   
• Hartmann, Frederik, & George Walkden. 2024. The strength of the phylogenetic signal in syntactic data. “Glossa: a journal of general linguistics” 9(1), 125. (online access)
   
• Pfaff, Alexander, & George Walkden. 2024. Adjectival articles in early Germanic. In Kristin Bech & Alexander Pfaff (eds.), “Noun phrases in early Germanic languages”, 323-364. Open Germanic Linguistics 8. Berlin: Language Science Press. (online access)
   
• Bech, Kristin, Hannah Booth, Kersti Börjars, Tine Breban, Svetlana Petrova & George Walkden. 2024. Noun phrase modifiers in early Germanic: a comparative corpus study of Old English, Old High German, Old Icelandic, and Old Saxon. In Kristin Bech & Alexander Pfaff (eds.), “Noun phrases in early Germanic languages”, 71-109. Open Germanic Linguistics 8. Berlin: Language Science Press. (online access)
   
• Rehn, Alexandra, Alexander Pfaff & Svetlana Petrova. 2024. The AP-Domain in Germanic. "Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics". Oxford University Press. (online access)
   
• Piccione, Mariapaola, M. Ferin, N. Furlani, M. Geiss, T. Marinis & T. Kupisch. Forthcoming. On the role On the Role of Informal vs. Formal Experience in Italian–German Primary School Children. "Languages".
   
• Ferin, Maria, Theo Marinis & Tanja Kupisch. Forthcoming. The acquisition of rhetorical questions in bilingual children with Italian as a heritage language. "Bilingualism: Language and Cognition".
   
• Englert, C., I. Venagli, T. Kupisch. Forthcoming. When multilingualism is more than three: On the nature of gender transfer in L3+ acquisition. "Second Language Research".
   
• Laméris, Tim, Maki Kubita, T. Kupisch, J. Cabrelli, Neal Snape, J. Rothman. Forthcoming. Language change in Japanese-English bilingual returnee children over the course of five years: evidence from accent-rating. "Second Language Research".
   
• Gyllstad, Henrik, Tanja Kupisch & Lloyd-Smith Anika. Forthcoming. Development and initial validation of a yes/no vocabulary test for North Sámi. "International Journal of Applied Linguistics".
   
• Rehn, Alexandra. 2024. A new perspective on parallel inflection with reference to Old High German and Alemannic. In: Kristin Bech & Alexander Pfaff (eds.). “Noun phrases in early Germanic languages.” Berlin: Language Science Press.
   
• Dehé, Nicole and Meike Rommel. 2024. The intonation of declaratives and polar questions in Modern versus Heritage Icelandic. In: Rajiv Rao (ed.), “The Phonetics and Phonology of Heritage Languages”, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 259-279.
   
• Bayer, Josef. 2023. Syntaktische Form und interpretative Lücken. Epenthese in der Syntax. "Linguisten-Seminar. Forum japanisch-germanischer Sprachforschung". Band 6. München. Iudicium-Verlag. pp 9-44 (Lingbuzz)
   
• Barrientos, Fernanda. 2024. Out with the old, in with the new: contrasts involving new features with acoustically salient cues are more likely to be acquired than those that redeploy L1 features. Frontiers in Language Sciences 3. (online access)

Acquisitions of the Library

• Martins da Costa Sobreiro, Iara: Exploring topic-independent linguistic features for stance detection
• Er, Dilruba: Family language policies of second-generation Turkish immigrant families in Germany: an indepth analysis
• Reichmann, Naomi: The framing of the Syrian Refugee Crisis: a comparative dynamic analysis of the years 2014 - 2018
• Guida, Matteo: Hate speech detection in Italian text using deep learning techniques
• Bergelson, Mira: Multilingual Moscow: Dynamics of Language and Migration in a Capital City
• Keyser, Samuel J.: Recent transformational studies in European languages
• Jespersen, Otto: Mankind, nation and individual from a linguistic point of view
• Ahouli, Akila: Krisen und Resilienz aus germanistischen und interdisziplinären Perspektiven: Gedenkschrift für Prof. Dr. Serge A. Glitho
• Language / ed. by Bernard Bloch [u.a.]; Volume 98 (2022)
• Theoretical linguistics; Volume 48
• Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch; Band 8,1
• Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik; Band 51 (2023)
• Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik; Volume 71 (2023)
• Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien; 44. Jahrgang (2024) = 74
• Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik: Band 228 (2023)
• Bibliotheca orientalis / uitgegeven vanwege het Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten; Jaargang 79 (2022)
• The journal of Jewish studies / publ. by the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies; Vol. 74 (2023)
• Studien zur altägyptischen Kultur; Band 52 (2023)
   

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