Newsletter October 2020

This is the 148th 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 October 2020 as well as short reports about events, presentations, etc. in September 2020.

New to Konstanz

We welcome Meike Rommel to the department. Meike will be joining Nicole Dehé's team as of October 2020.

October 2020 marks the start of George Walkden’s ERC-funded project STARFISH. The project’s three doctoral students, Gemma McCarley, Raquel Montero Estebaranz and Molly Rolf, will also be arriving in Konstanz in October to begin their work. Say hello to them if you see them!

Leaving Konstanz

We wish all the best for her future to Nathalie Czeke who is leaving the University of Konstanz to start a PhD position at the University of Leeds. She will be working as an Early Stage Researcher in the Childhood Deafness and Communication Research Marie Sklodowska Curie Innovative Training Network.

Conferences, Workshops and Presentations

in October

• On 8th October, Regine Eckardt and George Walkden will be presenting a joint work on Unembedded whether-questions as pedagogical questions in Old English at the International Workshop on Discourse Particles hosted by the University of the Basque Country.
   
• Benazir Mumtaz, Tina Bögel, and Miriam Butt will present a paper on Lexical stress in Urdu"at Interspeech 2020 (online talk).
   
• Anika Lloyd-Smith is presenting an online talk entitled Phonological and syntactic CLI: The same but different at the Second Language Research Forum (SLRF 2020) at the Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee (23.-25. October).

in September

• Cory Bill, Todor Koev, and Maryam Mohammadi presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 25. Their paper, called "Believe” is Strong but Subjective: Experimental Evidence from Hedging, argues that hedging uses of “believe” (as in <<I believe the Giants will win the game, but I'm not sure they will>>) do not show that “believe” conveys non-maximal certainty but rather that it conveys high but subjective certainty. Unfortunately, due to the Covid-19 outbreak, the conference was online this year.
   
• Natasha Korotkova gave a talk entitled Find, must and conflicting evidence" (joint work with Pranav Anand) at Sinn und Bedeutung 25, virtually hosted by University College London and Queen Mary University of London. Video and slides are available here.
   
• On the 8th of September, Sandy Ciroux presented a paper entitled I was like, ‘[GESTURES]’, which will be published in the proceedings of GESPIN2020.
   
• Bettina Braun and Katharina Zahner gave a talk at the Phonetik & Phonologie (P&P) on September 10th-11th, 2020 (Trier, virtual conference). The talk was entitled Prosodic classification of serious and non-serious game situations using infant-directed-speech.
  Another virtual talk at the P&P2020 was given by Katharina Zahner, Sophie Kutscheid and Bettina Braun Towards unravelling the source of the bias for high pitch in stress processing: Evidence from an exposure-test paradigm using eye-tracking.
   
• Maribel Romero gave a plenary talk at Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM): "Or not" alternative questions, focus and discourse structure. University of Pennsylvania, September 16th-18th, 2020.
   
• Maribel Romero took part as invited speaker at the 13th Conference on Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis (SinFonIJA 13). Research Institute for Linguistics at Budapest, September 24th-26th, 2020.

More News

• Congratulations to Katharina Zahner who gave an interview about the BabySpeechLab’s research on infant-directed speech for the magazine wireltern.ch. The recently published article is available here.
   
• We announce that there will be a workshop on Mental Health, Resilience and Personal Ressources targeted to PhD student and post-docs in the department of linguistics, organised by the Mittelbau and funded by the FOR2111. Date: December 8th - 9th, 9-12 am.
  Please register here.
  (closing date: October 5th)
   
• We congratulate Tina Bögel who received a 1-year research stipend for a stay at the Phonetics Laboratory of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, with a project on "The integration of prosodic structure into computational grammars".

Publications by Members of the Department

• Wackernagel, Jacob. 2020 [1892]. On a law of Indo-European word order [Über ein Gesetz der indogermanischen Wortstellung]. Edited and translated by George Walkden, Morgan Macleod and Christina Sevdali. Classics in Linguistics 7. Berlin: Language Science Press. (online access)
   
• Butt, Miriam, Annette Hautli-Hanisz and Verena Lyding (eds.). 2020. LingVis: Visual Analytics for Linguistics. CSLI Publications.
   
• Hautli-Janisz, Annette, Christian Rohrdantz, Christin Schätzle, Andreas Stoffel, Miriam Butt and Daniel A. Keim. 2020. Visual Analytics in Diachronic Linguistic Investigations. In Butt et al. (eds.), "LingVis: Visual Analytics for Linguistics". CSLI Publications, 87-113.
   
• El-Assady, Mennatallah and Annette Hautli-Janisz. 2020. Discourse Maps — Feature Encoding for the Analysis of Verbatim Conversation Transcripts. In Butt et al. (eds.), "LingVis: Visual Analytics for Linguistics". CSLI Publications, 115-145.
   
• Bacskai-Atkari, Julia. 2020. German V2 and Doubly Filled COMP in West Germanic. "Journal of Comparative German Linguistics". (online access)
   
• Eckardt, Regine and Qi Yu. 2020. German bloß-questions as extreme ignorance questions. “Linguistica Brunensia 68(1)“. 7-22.
   
• Korotkova, Natasha. 2020. Interrogative flip and indexical shift are distinct phenomena. "Snippets" 39:3-5.
   
• Trotzke, Andreas. 2020. Constructions in minimalism: A functional perspective on cyclicity. "Frontiers in Psychology" 11, 2152.
   
• Trotzke, Andreas & Xavier Villalba. 2020. Exclamatives as responses at the syntax-pragmatics interface. "Journal of Pragmatics" 168, 139-171.
   
• Haegeman, Liliane & Andreas Trotzke. 2020. Non-temporal dan and the grammar of V2. "Nederlandse Taalkunde" 25, 255-267.
   
• Trotzke, Andreas, Ermenegildo Bidese & Manuela Moroni. 2020. German discourse particles in the second language classroom: Teasing apart learning problems at the syntax-pragmatics interface. "Pedagogical Linguistics". Online first.

Acquisitions of the Library

• Yu, Qi: Modal particle "nur" and "bloß" in German verb-second and verb-end questions
•  Rommel, Meike: Pitch alignment in declaratives and polar questions in standard versus Heritage Icelandic
• Bräuning, Iris: Relativsatzstrategien im Alemannischen
• Gu, Yuting: The variation in the expression of possessives in German: genitive or dative?
• Li, Meiqiao: Chinesisch-Deutsch: Kontraste anhand des Wechsels der deiktischen Kategorien in der Redewiedergabe
• Roche, Jörg: Fremdsprachenerwerb, Fremdsprachendidaktik
• Jäger, Agnes: Clause structure and word order in the history of German
• Walzer, Dorothea: Medien öffentlicher Rede nach Heine: zwischen Popularität und Populismus
• De Alencar, Leonel F.: Abordagens computacionais: da teoria da gramática
• Guimarães, Maximiliano: Os fundamentos da teoria linguística de Chomsky
• Giusfredi, Federico: A study in the syntax of the Luwian language
• American journal of philology; Volume 140 (2019)
• Bulletin der deutschen Slavistik; Jahrgang 26 (2020)
• English language notes; 57
• English world-wide; Volume 40 (2019)
• Jahrbuch für internationale Germanistik; Jahrgang 52, Heft 1
• Journal of Germanic linguistics; Volume 31
• Journal of Semitic studies; Volume 64
• Linguistic variation; volume 19 (2019)
• Revue des langues romanes; Tome 122 (2018)
• Romania; 145e Année (2019) = Tome 137
• Studi di lessicografia italiana; Volume 37 (2020)
• Studi francesi; Anno 62 = Fasc. 184/186
• Studies in second language acquisition; Volume 41 (2019)
• Theoretical linguistics; Volume 44
• Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft; Band 38
• Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie; 138. Band (2019)
• Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft; Band 38
• Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik; Band 86 (2019)
• Zeitschrift für slavische Philologie; Band 75 (2019)

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