Newsletter September 2020

This is the 147th 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 September 2020 as well as short reports about events, presentations, etc. in August 2020.

New to Konstanz

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!

Conferences, Workshops and Presentations

in September

• Cory Bill, Todor Koev, and Maryam Mohammadi will present 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 has been moved online this year. But the authors are excited to adopt new technologies in disseminating linguistic knowledge.
   
• Natasha Korotkova is giving 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 will be presenting a paper entitled I was like, ‘[GESTURES]’, which will be published in the proceedings of GESPIN2020.
   
• Bettina Braun and Katharina Zahner are giving a talk at the Phonetik & Phonologie (P&P) on September 10th-11th, 2020 (Trier, virtual conference). The talk is entitled Prosodic classification of serious and non-serious game situations using infant-directed-speech.
  Another virtual talk at the P&P2020 will be 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 will give 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 will take 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

• 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".
   
• Larry Moss, Lasha Abzianidze, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Hai Hu, Thomas Icard, Aikaterini-Lida Kalouli and Hitomi Yanaka organised the 1st Workshop on Natural Logic and Machine Learning (NALoMA 2020) as part of WeSSLLI 2020 (Web NASSLLI). The workshop took place from July 12th to July 17th.
   
• The LFG20 conference took place on-line at the end of June and featured the following Konstanz contributions:
  • Mary Dalrymple, Agnieszka Patejuk and Mark-Matthias Zymla. XLE+Glue – A new tool for integrating semantic analysis in XLE
  • Miriam Butt, S Rajamathangi and Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran. Mixed Categories in Tamil via Complex Categories
  • Tina Bögel and Lea Raach. Swabian ‘ed’ and ‘edda’: Negation at the interfaces
  • Hannah Booth. Syntactic configurationality and discourse configurationality in Old Icelandic: evidence from distributional differences across clause types

Video contributions and slides remain on-line.

Publications by Members of the Department

• 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.
   
• 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.
   
• 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.
   
• Bögel, Tina. 2020. German case ambiguities at the interface: production and comprehension. In G. Kentner and J. Kremers (eds), “Prosody in Syntactic Encoding”. Linguistische Arbeiten 573: 51-84. Berlin: de Gruyter.
   
• Butt, Miriam, Jabeen, Farhat and Tina Bögel. 2020. Ambiguity resolution via the syntax-prosody interface: the case of kya 'what' in Urdu/Hindi. In G. Kentner and J. Kremers (eds.), “Prosody in Syntactic Encoding”. Linguistische Arbeiten 573: 85-118. Berlin: de Gruyter.
   
• Aubanel, Vincent, Clemence Bayard, Antje Strauß, and Jean-Luc Schwartz (in press). The Fharvard Corpus: A phonemically-balanced French sentence resource for audiology and intelligibility research. Speech Communication (online access).

Acquisitions of the Library

• Videsott, Paul: Manuale di linguistica ladina
• Ilari, Rodolfo: História semântica do português brasileiro
• Sibgatullina, Gulnaz Rifkhatovna: Languages of Islam and Christianity in post-Soviet Russia
• Kaljuga, Marika: Russian prepositional phrases: a cognitive linguistic approach
• Sun, Linlin: Flexibility in the parts-of-speech system of classical Chinese
• Fornell, Ines: Hindi bolo!; Teil 1
• Romanische Forschungen; 131. Band (2019)
• Germanisch-romanische Monatsschrift; Neue Folge, Band 69 (2019)
• Linguistic typology; Volume 23

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