Lecture Series "Language, Communication & Cognition"
This is the new Lecture Series "Language, Communication & Cognition", organized by the linguistics departments of Freiburg. Researchers from Freiburg and guests present their current research in weekly meetings. Everyone interested in linguistics is invited to join!
The lecture series will take place on Fridays, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m in HS 1021, KG 1.
Winter semester 2023/24
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
| 27 Oct 2023 | Svenja Bonmann (Cologne), Jakob Halfmann (Würzburg), Natalie Korobzow (Würzburg) |
Deciphering the unknown Kushan script |
| 03 Nov 2023 | tba | tba |
| 10 Nov 2023 | Paul Widmer (Zurich) | tba |
| 17 Nov 2023 | Sandro Sessarego (Austin, Texas) | Language Revitalization and Cultural Activism: Strategies to Document the Afro-Hispanic Varieties of the Americas |
| 24 Nov 2023 | Nina Dobrushina (Tübingen) | tba |
| 01 Dec 2023 | tba | tba |
| 08 Dec 2023 | tba | tba |
| 15 Dec 2023 | Peter Arkadiev (FRIAS, Freiburg) | tba |
| Winter break | ||
| 12 Jan 2024 | tba | tba |
| 19 Jan 2024 | Carolin Müller-Spitzer & Samira Ochs (IDS Mannheim) | Corpus-linguistic approaches to person reference |
| 26 Jan 2024 | tba | tba |
| 02 Feb 2024 | tba | tba |
| 09 Feb 2024 | James Costa (Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle) | tba |
Summer semester 2023 (finished)
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
| 21/04 | T. Mark Ellison (Cologne) | Prominence and Boundaries |
| 28/04 | Anssi Peräkylä (Helsinki / FRIAS fellow) | Vulnerability of self in social interaction |
| 05/05 |
Ilja Seržant (Potsdam) |
Aspects of diachronic typology of DOM systems |
| 12/05 | Jesús Francisco Olguín Martínez (Berlin) | 'Let alone’: A typological perspective |
| Bridge day and Pentecost break | ||
| 09/06 | Ghil'ad Zuckerman (Adelaide) | The Spread of a Revival Language: The Case of Israeli, a.k.a. Modern Hebrew |
| 16/06 | Søren Wichmann (Kiel) | Homelands of the world's language families: two new approaches |
| 23/06 | Kirsten Culhane (Freiburg) | Typologising the prosodic foot beyond iambs and trochees |
| 30/06 | Ferdinand von Mengden (Berlin) | Emergent Grammar and Recontextualization |
| 07/07 | Kumari Mamta (MPI EVA, Leipzig) | Numeral Systems of South-Asian Languages |
| 13/07 | Salikoko Mufwene (Chicago) | HPCL-Lecture: Individuals, Community, and Language Evolution - Hermann Paul, Ferdinand de Saussure, and William Labov (! Thursday, 6.15 pm, Aula) |
Winter semester 2022/23 (finished)
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
| 21/10 | Uta Reinöhl (Freiburg) | HPCL-MV |
| 28/10 | Erik Schleef (Salzburg) | Social meanings and the perception of feature clusters: On the co-occurrence of pragmatic markers with silent pauses / HPSL-Day |
| 04/11 | Lars Bülow (LMU Munich) | Variation und Wandel der Relativsatzeinleitung in Österreich und darüber hinaus. Eine horizontale und vertikaler Perspektivierung |
| 11/11 | Nikolaus Himmelmann (Cologne) | Constraints at the prosody-syntax interface: prosodic evidence for syntactic constructions? |
| 18/11 | Simon Pröll (Freiburg) | Variation und Wandel im Wolgadeutschen - quantitative Blicke auf die Entstehung von Dialektkontinua |
| 25/11 | Eva Zehentner (Zurich) | Verb-attached PPs in the history of English: Stability and change |
| 02/12 | Daniel Jacob (Freiburg) | Routinisierung – Ritualisierung – Institutionalisierung. Das Soziale an der Grammatik, an Beispielen aus den Romanischen Sprachen |
| 09/12 | Christoph Rühlemann (Freiburg) |
Examining multimodality in interaction: Outlines of the Freiburg Multimodal Interaction Corpus (FreMIC) and interim results |
| 16/12 | Miriam Locher (Basel) | "what does hyung mean please?”: From moments of teaching and learning about Korean (im)politeness to conflict negotiations among fan viewers on an online streaming platform of Korean TV drama |
| 13/01 | Laura Becker (Freiburg) | Coding efficiency in grammar - Diachronic by-product or driver of functional adaptation? |
| 20/01 | ----------- | Lehrplanung Dach-MA, online |
| 27/01 | Matías Guzman Naranjo (Freiburg) | Bayesian modeling of spatial typology |
| 03/02 | Karin Madlener-Charpentier (Basel) | Path under construction: Herausforderungen im Erwerb von Konstruktionen räumlicher Sprache im Deutschen als Zweitsprache |
| 10/02 | Anssi Peräkylä (Helsinki / FRIAS Fellow) |
Bad behaviors, spoiled identities: face work in psychiatric assessment interviews CANCELLED Will take place in the summer semester |
Summer semester 2022 (finished)
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Date |
Presenter |
Topic |
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29.04. |
neue Drittmittelprojekte in Freiburg stellen sich vor |
Achim Rabus: ContinSlav - Orthodox Slavic Linguistic Varieties at the Threshold of Modernity: Continuity and Innovation Uta Reinöhl: VedaWeb 2.0 - Developing a collaborative workspace for Old Indo-Aryan texts |
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06.05. |
Uli Reich (FU Berlin) |
Zwischen Exotismus und Missionarslinguistik: Mirativität, Evidentialität, Modalität und Fokus in amerikanischen Sprachen |
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20.05. |
Walter Bisang (Mainz) |
Parts of speech—a morphology-based typology |
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24.06. |
Helga Kotthoff (Freiburg) |
Gendern unter soziolinguistischer Perspektive |
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01.07 |
Andreas Baumann (Wien) |
What epidemiology tells us about the relationship between lexical acquisition and change |
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08.07. |
Steffen Heidinger (Graz) |
Fokusaffinität: Neue Erkenntnisse, neue Herausforderungen |
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15.07. |
Kilu von Prince (Düsseldorf) |
Word units in the Oceanic predicate complex |
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22.07. |
Hans-Jörg Schmid (München) |
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29.07. |
Daniela Marzo (Freiburg) |
Zum Sardischen von morgen |
Winter semester 2021/22 (finished)
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
| 28 Oct | Axel Bohmann | Texas English dialectology: New digital approaches |
| 04 Nov | Susanne Michaelis | The systematic contributions of substrates and lexifiers in creolization |
| 18 Nov | Daniel Jacob | Polaritätsfokus im Romanischen |
| 25 Nov |
Evelyn Ferstl |
Fragen Sie Ihren Arzt oder Apotheker! Psycholinguistische Studien zu gendersensibler Sprache |
| 02 Dec | Bernd Kortmann | The Spread of World Languages: key factors and driving forces |
| 09 Dec | Christian Mair | English, German, Pidgin: lingua-franca competition among Nigerian immigrants/sojourners in Germany |
| 16 Dec | Peter Auer | Blick und Sprache in der Interaktion - Forschungen aus dem mobilen eye-tracking-Labor |
| 13 Jan | Elisabeth Zima | Quantifizierung in der Gesprächsforschung |
| 27 Jan |
Stefan Pfänder Juan Ennis (La Plata) |
Von Jacob Grimm bis zur 'multimodalen Gestalt': dekoloniale Gedanken zu einer Archäologie der Sprachprinzipien CANCELLED Will take place in the summer semester |
| 03 Feb | Hans-Jörg Schmid |
There is nothing quite so practical as a good theory” (Kurt Lewin). CANCELLED Will take place in the summer semester on July 22, 2022. |
Summer semester 2021 (finished)
| Date | Presenter(s) | Topic |
| 22 April | Mirka Honkanen | “Push and pull: U.S.-Nigerians and African-American English on a web forum” |
| 29 April | Lotte Sommerer | “STEP BY STEP (to answering) open questions in Construction Grammar” |
| 6 May | Oliver Ehmer | “Vergangen oder abgeschlossen? Was wir aus der verkörperten Interaktion über Grammatik lernen können, am Beispiel des Spanischen Indefinido.” |
| 20 May | Alice Blumenthal-Dramé | “The Online Processing of Causal and Concessive Relations: Comparing Native Speakers of English and German.” |
| 10 June |
Uta Reinöhl, |
“Serial verbs and ‘flat’ nominal expressions - Pushing the boundaries of semantic packaging?” |
| 17 June | Achim Rabus | “Robuste Statistik, Small Data und die syntagmatische Ebene in der Variationslinguistik” |
| 24 June | Adriana Hanulikova | "Ich sehe und deswegen verstehe ich? Die Rolle der Ethnizität in der Sprachverarbeitung." |
| 1 July | Katharina Brizić | “Krieg und Frieden. Ein Beitrag zu Mehrsprachigkeit und Bildung für eine sich wandelnde Gesellschaft” |
| 8 July | Laura Becker | “Coding efficiency in inflectional morphology. Patterns and explanations” |
| 15 July | Ignacio Satti | “Requests for verification across varieties of Spanish. A comparative approach to gaze behavior and response mobilization.” |