Publications and Talks

Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft

Sprachwissenschaftliches Seminar

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

Belfortstraße 18

79085 Freiburg im Breisgau
Germany

Telephone: +49761-203-3165

E-Mail: uta.reinoehl(at)linguistik.uni-freiburg.de

Consultation hour: by arrangement

Corpora

Casaretto, Antje, Jakob Halfmann, Natalie Korobzow, Daniel Kölligan & Uta Reinöhl. 2023. The morphologically glossed Rigveda - The Zurich annotation corpus revised and extended. Hosted by VedaWeb - Online Research Platform for Old Indic Texts. University of Cologne.

Books and Edited Publications

Dana Louagie & Uta Reinöhl (eds). 2022. Typologizing the Noun Phrase. Special Issue of Linguistics 60 (3).
Reinöhl, Uta. 2016. Grammaticalization and the Rise of Configurationality in Indo-Aryan. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Reinöhl, Uta. 2010. Zum Begriff der Renovation im Rahmen der Grammatikalisierungstheorie. Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (ms).

Papers and Contributions to Conference Proceedings

Reinöhl, Uta & T. Mark Ellison. Accepted. Metaphor forces argument overtness. To appear in Linguistics.
Casaretto, Antje & Uta Reinöhl. Subm. Identifying discourse functions without formal clues – Secondary predicates and related functions in Vedic Sanskrit.
Reinöhl, Uta. Subm. Discontinuous nominal expressions in Vedic Sanskrit – Forms and functions.
Ellison, T. Mark & Uta Reinöhl. 2022. Compositionality, Metaphor, and the Evolution of Language. International Journal of Primatology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-022-00315-w.
Louagie, Dana & Uta Reinöhl (eds). 2022. Typologizing the Noun Phrase. Special Issue of Linguistics 60 (3).
Louagie, Dana & Uta Reinöhl. 2022. "Typologizing nominal expressions: the noun phrase and beyond", in: Dana Louagie & Uta Reinöhl (eds). Typologizing the Noun Phrase. Special Issue of Linguistics 60 (3), 659-714.
Reinöhl, Uta. 2022. Locating Kera’a (Idu Mishmi) in Its Linguistic Neighbourhood: Evidence from Dialectology. In Mark W Post, Stephen Morey & Toni Huber (eds.), Ethnolinguistic Prehistory of the Eastern Himalaya, 232–263. Leiden: Brill.
Casaretto, Antje, Dimmendaal, Gerrit J., Hellwig, Birgit, Reinöhl, Uta, Schneider-Blum, Gertrud. 2020. Roots of Ergativity in Africa (and Beyond), Studies in African Linguistics 49, 111-140.
Reinöhl, Uta. 2020. Continuous and discontinuous nominal expressions in flexible (or “free”) word order languages. Patterns and correlates, Linguistic Typology 24, 71-111.
Reinöhl, Uta. 2020. What are and what aren’t complex nominal expressions in flexible word order languages?, Language Typology and Universals 73, 57-79
Kölligan, D., Neuefeind, C., Kiss, B., Mondaca, F., Reinöhl, U. & P. Sahle. 2019. VedaWeb – on the Role of Annotations in Analyzing Ancient Indo-Aryan Texts. To Appear in: Proceedings of the Historical Corpora and Variation Conference (HiCoV). Cagliari, Italy. 4.04-05.04.2019.
Kiss, B., Kölligan, D., Mondaca, F., Neuefeind, C., Reinöhl, U. & P. Sahle. 2019. It Takes a Village: Co-developing VedaWeb, a Digital Research Platform for Old Indo-Aryan Texts. In Steven Krauwer & Darja Fišer (eds.), Workshop Proceedings. Twin Talks: Understanding Collaboration in DH. Fourth Digital Humanities Conference in the Nordic Countries 2019 (DHN2019), 35-44. Copenhagen, Denmark. 05.03.2019.
Ellison, T. Mark & Uta Reinöhl. 2018. Metaphorical extension and the evolution of configurationality. In Christine Cuskley et al. (eds.), The Evolution of Language, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference, Torun, Poland, 2018.
Reinöhl, Uta & Antje Casaretto. 2018. When grammaticalization does NOT occur. Prosody-syntax mismatches in Indo-Aryan. Diachronica 35(2). 238-276.
Reinöhl, Uta & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2017. Renewal: A figure of speech or a process sui generis?. Language 93(2). 381–413.
Reinöhl, Uta. 2016. A single origin of Indo-European primary adpositions? Unveiling the Indo-Aryan branch-off. Diachronica 33(1). 95-130.
Reinöhl, Uta. 2013. Reassessing Indo-Aryan postpositions in the Sprachbund debate. Preproceedings of the International Conference on Language Contact in India. February 6-8, 2013, 170-184.

Reviews, etc.

Reinöhl, Uta. 2018. Review of Eystein Dahl & Krzysztof Stroński (eds.). 2016. Indo-Aryan ergativity in typological and diachronic perspective. Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics 5(1). 111-121.
Reinöhl, Uta & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2011. Review of Christoph Schroeder et al. (eds.). 2008. Secondary Predicates in Eastern European Languages and Beyond. Linguistic Typology 15(1). 131-139.

Talks (selection)

Reinöhl, Uta. Schamanismus, Sprache und Heilungsritual im östlichen Himalaya. July 12, 2022 Dienstagskolloquium "Seele - Geist - Körper". Universitätsklinikum Freiburg.
Mondaca, F., Rau, F., Neuefeind, C., Kiss, B., Kölligan, D., Reinöhl, U. & P. Sahle. C-SALT APIs - Connecting and Exposing Heterogeneous Language Resources. Digital Humanities Conference 2019 (DH2019). Utrecht, Netherlands. July 9-12, 2019.
Kölligan, D., Neuefeind, C., Kiss, B., Mondaca, F., Reinöhl, U. & P. Sahle. VedaWeb – on the Role of Annotations in Analyzing Ancient Indo-Aryan Texts. Historical Corpora and Variation Conference (HiCoV). Cagliari, Italy. April 4-5, 2019.
Kiss, B., Kölligan, D., Mondaca, F., Neuefeind, C., Reinöhl, U. & P. Sahle. It takes a village: Co-developing VedaWeb, a Digital Research Platform for Old Indo-Aryan Texts. Twin Talks: Understanding Collaboration in DH. Fourth Digital Humanities Conference in the Nordic Countries 2019 (DHN2019). Copenhagen, Denmark. March 5, 2019.
Reinöhl, Uta & T. Mark Ellison. Obligatorification stems from universal communicative requirements not syntactic reanalysis. Wither reanalysis? HU Berlin, March 1-2, 2019.
Reinöhl, Uta & T. Mark Ellison. Obligatorification in syntax. ICL 20, Capetown, July 2-6, 2018.
Reinöhl, Uta & Antje Casaretto. Secondary predicates in Vedic Sanskrit – On the challenge of identifying syntactic categories in a so-called ‚non-configurational‘ language. South Asian Language Analysis 34. June 19-21, 2018, Universität Konstanz.
Reinöhl, Uta & T. Mark Ellison. Obligatorification in syntax. March 16, 2018, Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, Australian National University, Canberra.
Reinöhl, Uta. Functions of discontinuous nominal expressions in Vedic Sanskrit. SLE, 10.-13. Sept. 2017, Zürich.
Reinöhl, Uta. Towards a Typology of Old Grams. International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL) 23, San Antonio (2017).
Reinöhl, Uta. Syntactic Paradigmatization as a Constraint on Grammaticalization - On the Rise of Participial Predicates in Indo-Aryan. International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL) 23, San Antonio (2017).
Reinöhl, Uta. Locating Kera’a (Idu Mishmi) in its linguistic neighbourhood: Evidence from dialectology. International Consortium for Eastern Himalayan Ethnolinguistic Prehistory, La Trobe University, Melbourne (Feb 8-10 2017).
Reinöhl, Uta. Exploring configurationality as a historical phenomenon. From non-configurational to (low-level) configurational in Indo-European. Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, Australian National University (November 2015).
Reinöhl, Uta. The Indo-Aryan 'alignment change' revisited. International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL) 22, Naples (July 2015).
Reinöhl, Uta. The origins of the New Indo-Aryan postpositional phrases. South Asian Language Analysis 31, Lancaster (May 2015).
Reinöhl, Uta. Disentangling semantic and formal change in grammaticalization – A case study from Indo-Aryan. Universität Zürich, Institut für Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft (8/5/15).
Reinöhl, Uta. Exploring configurationality as a historical phenomenon. Syntax of the World's Languages 6, Pavia (Sep 8-10 2014).
Reinöhl, Uta. Syntactically nouns, semantically spatial relators: Zero-valent adverbs undergoing the genitive shift in Post-Vedic Old Indic. 36. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), Marburg (March 6-7 2014).
Reinöhl, Uta. An outlier in the family: Indo-Aryan branching off from Indo-European in its route to adpositions and configurationality. Contrastive Linguistics & Diachrony (CoLiDi), Ghent (Feb 27-28 201).
Reinöhl, Uta. Syntactic variation and the rise of configurationality in Indo-Aryan. International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL) 21, Oslo (Aug 5-9 2013).
Reinöhl, Uta. Reassessing Indo-Aryan postpositions in the Sprachbund debate. Language Contact in India, Pune, India (Feb 6-8 2013).
Reinöhl, Uta. Invited talk with Nikolaus P. Himmelmann: A Note on Renovation. Journée d'étude. Autour de la grammaticalisation, Université Lille 3 (Dec 7 2012).
Reinöhl, Uta. Die Entstehung phrasaler Struktur im Indoarischen – Konstituenz als emergentes Phänomen. Sprachwandel, Munich (July 13-15 2011).

Posters

Kiss, B., Kölligan, D., Mondaca, F., Neuefeind, C., Reinöhl, U. & P. Sahle. 2018. VedaWeb - A Web-based Platform for Ancient Indo-Aryan Texts. To Appear in: Book of Abstracts of the First European Association for Digital Humanities Conference (EADH 2018 - Data in Digital Humanities). Galway, Ireland 7.12–09.12.2018.
Reinöhl, U., Kölligan, D., Kiss, B., Mondaca, F., Neuefeind, C. & P. Sahle. 2018. VedaWeb – eine webbasierte Plattform für die Erforschung altindischer Texte. In Book of Abstracts der 5. Jahrestagung der Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (DHd 2018), Köln 26.2–2.3.2018, 485–486.

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