Newsletter April 2021

This is the 154th 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 2021 as well as short reports about events, presentations, etc. in March 2021.

New to Konstanz

We welcome Angela James, who joins the project P6 of our RU Questions at the Interfaces on April 1st.

Events at/by the Department

The lecture series The Multilingual Mind will start again on the 13th April and will run until June 2021. The lectures will take place every Tuesday from 17.00 until 18.30 (CEST/UTC+02). The first talk will be by Erika Hoff (Florida Atlantic University) on Why bilingual development is not easy, but possible. Please visit the MultiMind website for more information.

Department and Research Colloquium in April

Conferences, Workshops and Presentations

in April

•  Natasha Korotkova is giving two invited talks in April, at the UMass Amherst Semantics workshop on the 16th and at the Linguistics Colloquium at the University of Stuttgart on the 27th.
   
• Ramona Baumgartner is an invited speaker in a series of Online-Workshops about supportive measures for literacy development in early childhood and primary school for educators, teachers and parents. Original title: Familiy Literacy in der Grundbildung: Ein Workshop zur Förderung der Lese- und Schreibfähigkeiten von Kindergarten- und Grundschulkindern und möglicher Unterstützungsangebote für Eltern.
  
  The next workshop in the series will take place on Thursday, 29th April 2021, 6-7.45 pm, information and registration here.

in March

• Marieke Einfeldt, Angelika Golegos, Kaja Gregorc and Monika Lindauer gave a talk Frühkindliche Sprachentwicklung und Mehrsprachigkeit (early language development and multilingualism) for the Tagesmütterverein Landkreis Konstanz on March 3rd.
   
•  On March 5th Tamara Rathcke gave a talk at the Sorbonne University: Is language rhythm in the ear of the beholder? A sensorimotor synchronisation approach to the cross-linguistic study of rhythm.
   
• George Walkden gave a talk at the University of Geneva on 16th March with the title Complexity as L2-difficulty: sociohistorically responsive features in syntactic change.
   
• Anika Lloyd-Smith presented a talk entitled L3 English in Italian-German bilinguals: Comparing accent with syntax at the AAAL 2021 Virtual Conference, 20th-23rd March 2021, in Georgia.
   
• Anika Lloyd-Smith, Henrik Gyllstad and Tanja Kupisch presented a poster entitled Lexical proficiency as a measure of language vitality in North Sámi at the digital XVIII International Conference on Minority Languages, 24-26 March, in Bilbao.
   
• Bettina Braun gave a keynote talk on Using imitation and meaning tasks to tap into the (phonological) status of pitch accents at the Münster conference on linguistic representations and language processing, which took place March 25th to March 27^th (https://www.uni-muenster.de/Promotionskolleg-Sprachwissenschaft/Aktuelles/lirlap/index.html).

More News

• Ramona Baumgartner from the Centre for Multilingualism is now part of the coordination team of the European Reform Universities Alliance (ERUA). She started in March and will be the contact person for the faculty of humanities within the University of Konstanz. She is also working on the sub-group multilingualism together with Theo Marinis and ERUA partners. The first ERUA-calls are out, please check the ERUA-website and get in touch with Ramona Baumgartner for any questions and ideas.
   
• The department and the Centre for Multilingualism are cooperating with the vhs Grundbildungszentrum on literacy development within the family. In this context all the cooperation partners were interviewed by Kirsten Astor from the Südkurier. You can read the complete interview here.
   
• The 22nd Diachronic Generative Syntax conference will be taking place at Konstanz (virtually) from 19th-22nd May 2021, along with a workshop on Syntactic Change in Progress. Register for free and see the programme here. The registration deadline is May 1st.
   
• Theo Marinis will give an invited talk at the Fachtag Grundbildung „Vom Projekt zum Programm: Nachhaltige Wege zur Förderung der Literalität in der Familie“ on Tuesday 4th May 2021 on the topic Die Bedeutung der Literalität in mehrsprachigen Familien. The program and registration information can be found here.
   
• We are very pleased to inform that following Konstanz linguists are active at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (Linguistic Society of Germany):
  
  Miriam Butt was elected Chair of the Executive committee of the DGfS at this year's annual meeting. At the same meeting, Geroge Walkden was elected into the 2022 program committee and Nicole Dehé joined the editorial team of the society’s journal, the Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft. Andreas Trotzke continues on as an elected member of the advisory board.
   
• Diego Frassinelli and Gabriella Lapesa (IMS, University of Stuttgart) organized the Computational Linguistics Tutorial at the DGfS 2021 conference (University of Freiburg). The title of the tutorial is: Friendly Distributional Semantics: from theory to practice.
   
• Congratulations to Anamaria Bentea who has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship funded by the EU within Horizon 2020 to conduct research on Processing and Production in Heritage Speakers: The Role of Disambiguating Cues in collaboration with Theo Marinis and Tanja Kupisch. The project will start in September 2021.
   
• The Second Natural Logic Meets Machine Learning Workshop (NALOMA’21), organised by Aikaterini-Lida Kalouli and Larry Moss, was accepted and will be organised as part of the 14th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS) 2021. The entire conference will be held online. NALOMA’21 invites submissions on all theoretical and computational aspects of Natural Language Inference and Natural Logic. For more information, visit https://typo.uni-konstanz.de/naloma21/
   
• Ramona Baumgartner (Linguistics) and Dr. Elisabeth Maué (Wirtschaftspädagogik) received a Tandem-Fellowship by the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung in the last round of their joint funding initiative together with the Stifterverband "Fellowships für Innovation in der Hochschullehre". The interdisciplinary project aims to develop a digital teaching tool to prepare teachers for their digital and face-to-face teaching experiences in linguistically heterogenous classrooms. The project started in March and over the next five semesters the tool will be developed and implemented in practical scenarios through joint student partnerships with the aim of its transfer and application in other teacher education courses. You can find a press release by the University with further links about the project here.

Publications by Members of the Department

• Miriam Butt and Ida Toivonen edited the LFG20 Proceedings, which are now on-line at CSLI Publications.
   
• Butt, Miriam, Rajamathangi, S. and Sarveswaran, Kengatharaiyer. Mixed Categories in Tamil via Complex Categories. In M. Butt and I. Toivonen (eds.) Proceedings of the LFG'20 Conference, 68-88. CSLI Publications. (online access)
   
• Laura González López & Andreas Trotzke. 2021. ¡Mira! The grammar-attention interface in the Spanish left periphery. The Linguistic Review. Ahead-of-Print. (online access)
   
• Di Pisa, G., Soares, S. M. P., & Rothman, J. 2021. Brain, mind and linguistic processing insights into the dynamic nature of bilingualism and its outcome effects. “Journal of Neurolinguistics”, 58, 100965.
   
• Bayram, F., Rothman, J., Di Pisa, G., & Slabakova, R. (2020). Current trends and emerging methodologies in charting heritage language bilingual grammars. In Montrul, S. and Polinsky, M. (Eds.) (in progress and under contract). “The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics. Cambridge,” UK: Cambridge University Press.
   
• Patra, A., Bose, A. and Marinis, T. (2021). Semantic context effects in monolingual and bilingual speakers. “Journal of Neurolinguistics”, 57. (online access)
   
• Bentea, A. and Marinis, T. (forthcoming) Not all wh-dependencies are created equal: processing of multiple wh-dependencies in Romanian children and adults. Applied Psycholinguistics.
   
• Czypionka, Anna, Maribel Romero and Josef Bayer. 2021. Question-sensitive discourse particles at the interfaces of syntax, semantics and pragmatics – an experimental approach. "Glossa: a journal of general linguistics" 5(1): 24. 1–34. DOI. (online access)
   
• Vihman, Virve-Anneli, & George Walkden. 2021. Verb-second in spoken and written Estonian. “Glossa: a journal of general linguistics” 6(1): 15, 1-23. (online access)

Acquisitions of the Library

• Gao, Xiuan: Speaker-oriented expressions at the syntax-pragmatics interface in Chinese speakers' L" English
• Henle, Paul: Language, thought, and culture
• L'Homme, Marie-Claude: Lexical semantics for terminology: an introduction
• Pittner, Karin: Deutsche Syntax: ein Arbeitsbuch
• Rauth, Philipp: Ditransitive Konstruktionen im Deutschen: Geschichte und Steuerung der Objektabfolge im Mittelfeld
• Lühr, Rosemarie: Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Althochdeutschen; Band 7. quaderna - skazzôn
• Altmayer, Claus: Zugehörigkeiten: Ansätze und Perspektiven in Germanistik und Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache
• Feliú Arquiola, Elena: En torno a la denominada "concordancia adverbial" en español: tres casos de variación
• Alvord, Scott M: Spanish in the United States: attitudes and variation
• Mediendidaktisches Symposium DaF/Z <1., 2017, Wien> Digitale Medien in Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache
• Kleines Kuriositätenkabinett der deutschen Sprache
• Cultura e identità nazionale nella storia della grammatica<Veranstaltung> <2019, Mailand>: Cultura e identità nazionale nella storia della grammatica: atti del convegno internazionale di studi: Milano, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 6-7 maggio 2019
• Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde; 74.1938, Repr. 1967

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