Newsletter July 2022

This is the 169th 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 July 2022 as well as short reports about events, presentations, etc. in June 2022.

Events at/by the Department

In July

On July 28th, Diego Frassinelli (linguistics) and Caterina Moruzzi (philosophy) organise a one-day workshop on The Present and Future of AI. Five invited speakers will present their work on aspects crucial in Artificial Intelligence. At the same event, our students will present their scientific posters on topics related to the various talks. The event is funded by the "Transdepartmental Teaching Programm" of the Zukunftkolleg. For registering for the event and for more infos, please visit this page: https://sites.google.com/view/ai-konstanz.

In June

After more than three years, the MultiMind project came to an end. For this occasion, the MultiMind Final Conference took place from 27th-29th June 2022 in a hybrid format in Konstanz, Germany.

The conference consisted of two parts, one for non-academic stakeholders on the 27th June and one for academic audiences on the 28th and 29th June. On the 1st day we presented the policy reports for speech and language therapists, psychiatrists, and teachers. On the 2nd and 3rd day, the 15 MultiMind early-stage researchers presented their most important results followed by a discussion on each day. The conference was concluded with a round table on further directions on the 3rd day.

Department and Research Colloquium in July

Department and Research Colloquium in June

Conferences, Workshops and Presentations

In July

• Christiane Ulbrich, Nicole Dehé, Moritz Jakob and Meike Rommel will present a poster entitled On Faroese intonation: comparing intonation patterns of the two Faroese varieties spoken in Vestmanna (Streymoy) and in Klaksvik (Borðoy) at the Workshop Small languages big ideas, 30th June-1st July, University of Oldenburg.
   
• Tamara Rathcke is invited to give a talk to the Prosody Discussion Group of the University of Michigan. She will be presenting her work on the role of prosody in the “speech-to-song illusion”. The meeting will take place on 1st July (online).
   
• Anja Weingart & Georg Kaiser will present a talk at the XXX Congreso Internacional De Lingüística y Filología Románicas, 4th.-9th July 2022, Universidad de La Laguna: Una herramienta web para la anotación lingüística. Aplicando los principios FAIR a un corpus de textos paralelos de lenguas (y variedades) románicas.
   
• George Walkden will be giving a talk titled From questions in syntax to questions in discourse: Old English hwæþer at the “Sentence Grammar/Discourse Grammar” workshop in Tübingen on Friday 8th July.
   
• Qi Yu will present a paper entitled 'Again, Dozens of Refugees Drowned': A Computational Study of Political Framing Evoked by Presuppositions at the Student Research Workshop of NAACL 2022 Seattle/online, July 10th-15th.
   
• Tina Bögel will present a talk on The prosody-syntax interface: A computational implementation on July 12th at the LFG 22 in Groningen.
   
• Anja Weingart will present a poster at the International Congress on Syntax In honour of Professor Ana Maria Brito, 13th -15th July 2022, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto. The title is: Clitic doubling in European Portuguese: evidence for a ‘matching principle’ at the syntax-semantics interface.
   
• Antje Strauß will present a poster entitled Tackling endogenous theta oscillations in primary auditory cortex at the SAMBA conference taking place from July 14th, 2022 to July 15th, 2022 at the University of Salzburg, Austria.

In June

• George Walkden presented at the 23rd Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference at NYU (virtually), 8th-10th June, with a talk titled Sources for question particles.
   
• Julia Bacskai-Atkari gave a talk entitled Subject-object asymmetries and the development of relative clauses between Late Middle English and Early Modern English at the 42nd TABU Dag, Groningen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 9th-10th June 2022.
   
• Angelika Golegos and Kaja Gregorc held a talk at the Research colloquium on language development at the Free University of Berlin entitled Measuring Working Memory in German-speaking children through a new Listening Span Task on the 15th of June 2022.
   
• Alexandra Rehn gave a talk entitled The defective indefnite paradigm - a new perspective from non-standard varieties at the Workshop Partition and Individuation in Germanic and Slavic, 15th to 17th June, University of Stuttgart.
   
• June 21st 2022, Anna-Maria Waibel and Carsten Eulitz presented at the research colloquium of the Lurija institut a talk entitled Möglichkeiten und Grenzen bei Einzelfallanalysen von ereigniskorrellierten Hirnpotentialen: ein Vergleich von Auswertemethoden zur Detektion des N400-Effekts.
   
•  Also Antje Strauß gave a talk entitled Der Rhythmus, wo man mit muss? Theta-Oszillationen im Auditorischen Kortex auf dem Prüfstand at the Lurija research colloquium on 21st June (online).

More News

• Congratulations to Frederik Hartmann and Aikaterini-Lida Kalouli, who have both been awarded this year's City of Konstanz Prize for their excellent doctoral dissertations. The awards ceremony will take place on Monday 18th July in the City Archives.
   
• Also congratulations to Frederik Hartmann who will take up an assistant professorship in Computational Linguistics at the University of North Texas starting January.
   
• Lisa Gotthard, who has been working with George Walkden on the project Modelling lexical diffusion in syntax, will be taking up a permanent position as Lecturer in English language at the University of Edinburgh. Congratulations to Lisa!
   
• Regine Eckardt, together with Donka Farkas (UCSC), will teach a class on (Noncanonical) Questions at the Cretling 2022 Summer School, taking place at Crete between July 18th - July 29th, 2022. Details can be found here.
   
• In June, Natasha Korotkova was at the North American Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (NASSLLI). She gave an invited talk entitled Refining find at the workshop "Subjectivity in semantic interpretation" (joint work with Pranav Anand) and teaching a class Futurity, evidentiality, and modality: Cross-disciplinary perspectives (joint work with Fabrizio Cariani).
   
•  News form the ERUA (European Reform University Alliance):
  
  * ERUA multilingualism workshop

  The second ERUA multilingual workshop Plurilingual pedagogies took place at Paris 8 on Thursday 30th June in the frame of the journée d’étude: “Plurilinguismes, transculturalités et créativités: Dialogues autour de pratiques éducatives”.

  * ERUA multilingualism pitch talk on didactic concepts
  Ramona Baumgartner (UKON coordination Faculty of Humanities and ERUA Multilingualism activities) has been invited to the panel of the UNITA alliance “IDEAs Innovation in Didactics for the European Alliances summer school” on Wednesday 6th July 2022. Multilingualism experts and colleagues from various alliances will share and discuss practises and concepts that have been developed within the framework of the European Universities Initiative with students and staff.

  * ERUA’s societal transfer connecting educational pathways and community needs
  Ramona Baumgartner and Dr. Eva Dade (ERUA coordination) are invited to present at the event series “Bildungswege - Integrationsprozesse durch Bildung – Möglichkeiten, Perspektiven, Schnittstellen” on Thursday 21st July 2022, day 3 of the event series with the thematical focus on “Hochschule/Arbeit” organized by the „Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt (FGZ)“. The ERUA team will highlight examples of community building activities that foster the creation of sense of belonging on the basis of two key areas of the ERUA Konstanz workpackage „Reimagining Community“ (diversity and multilingualism). These actions have been created within existing and joint newly developed alliance resources for societal transfer activities.

  The event will take place at the Mettnau-Schule in Radolfzell. Conference language is German. Please register for individual sessions or the whole event.

Publications by Members of the Department

• Smit, Eline Adrianne; Milne, Andrew J.; Sarvasy, Hannah S.; Dean, Roger T. Emotional responses in Papua New Guinea show negligible evidence for a universal effect of major versus minor music 2022, in in PLOS ONE (online access).
   
• Hejná, Michaela, & George Walkden. 2022. A history of English. Textbooks in Language Sciences. Berlin: Language Science Press. (online access)
   
• Widera, Carmen. 2021. O uso de ele em construções impessoais em português europeu – um estudo experimental. In C. Barbero & M. Tomaz (eds.), "Textos Selecionados do XIII & XIV Fórum de Partilha Linguística", 103-118. Lisboa: NOVA FCSH - CLUNL. (pdf)
   
• Widera, Carmen. 2022. L'emploi du pronom sujet explétif il en français moderne: Une analyse micro-diachronique de l'oral. Langages 226 (2/2022), 55-68. (pdf)
   
• Eckardt, Regine, & George Walkden. 2022. A particle-like use of hwæþer: Wisdom’s questions in Boethius. In Xabier Artiagoitia, Sergio Monforte & Arantzazu Elordieta Alcibar (eds.), Discourse particles, 41-64. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (pdf)
   
• Djärv, Kajsa. 2022. On the interpretation and distribution of embedded main clause syntax: new perspectives on complex discourse moves in "Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 7(1)" (online access)

Acquisitions of the Library

• Liu, Yi: Social change and language change: the language development under Covid 19
• Brown, Owen: Soziale Effekte auf die Variation in siebenbürgisch-sächsischen Verbclustern
• Kates, Joshua: A new philosophy of discourse: language unbound
• Pucher, Michael: Akustische Phonetik und ihre multidisziplinären Aspekte
• Thielmann, Winfried: Wortarten: eine Einführung aus funktionaler Perspektive
• Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris; Tome 115 (2020)
• Muttersprache; Jahrgang 131 (2021)
• Iberoamericana <Madrid>; Año 21, no 76-78 (2021)
• Iberoromania; número 95 (2022)
• Lessico etimologico italiano; Volume 17: cōnfōrmis
• Romance philology; Volume 74 (2020)
• Zeitschrift für slavische Philologie; Band 77 (2021)

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