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Sprachwissenschaftliches Seminar
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Belfortstraße 18

79085 Freiburg im Breisgau

E-Mail: maria.vollmer(at)linguistik.uni-freiburg.de

 

Publikationen

  • Vollmer, Maria. Accepted. The mysterious clitic =ju/=ji in Warlpiri: Topic marker, definiteness marker, or something else? To appear in Carmel O’Shannessy, James Gray, and Denise Angelo (eds.), Projecting voices: Studies in language and linguistics in honour of Jane Simpson, Canberra: Asia-Pacific Linguistics.
  • Schnell, Stefan, Geoffrey Haig, Nils Norman Schiborr, Maria Vollmer. 2023. Are referent introductions sensitive to forward planning in discourse? Evidence from Multi-CAST. In Alessandra Barotto & Simone Mattiola (eds.), Discourse phenomena in typological perspective [Studies in Language Companion Series 227], 231-268. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • Vollmer, Maria. 2023. Comparing zero and referential choice in eight languages with a focus on Mandarin Chinese. Studies in Language.
  • Haig, Geoff, Maria Vollmer and Hanna Thiele. 2022. Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji) DoReCo dataset. In Seifart, Frank, Ludger Paschen and Matthew Stave (eds.), Language Documentation Reference Corpus (DoReCo) 1.1. Berlin & Lyon: Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft & Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage (UMR5596, CNRS & Université Lyon 2). https://doreco.huma-num.fr/languages/nort2641. doi: 10.34847/nkl.ca10ez5t
  • San, Nay, Martijn Bartelds, Mitchell Browne, Lily Clifford, Fiona Gibson, John Mansfield, David Nash, Jane Simpson, Myfany Turpin, Maria Vollmer, Sasha Wilmoth, and Dan Jurafsky. 2021. Leveraging pre-trained representations to improve access to untranscribed speech from endangered languages. In Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU)doi: 10.1109/ASRU51503.2021.9688301.
  • Vollmer, Maria. 2020. Warlpiri ELAN dictionary. Online available in Github. If you would like access to the dictionary, please send me an e-mail.
  • Vollmer, Maria. 2020. Multi-CAST Mandarin. In Haig, Geoffrey & Schnell, Stefan (eds.), Multi-CAST: Multilingual corpus of annotated spoken texts. (https://multicast.aspra.uni-bamberg.de/#mandarin)
  • Vollmer, Maria. 2019. How radical is pro-drop in Mandarin? A quantitative corpus study on referential choice in Mandarin Chinese. MA Thesis, University of Bamberg.
  • Haig, Geoffrey & Maria Vollmer & Thiele, Hanna. 2019. Multi-CAST Northern Kurdish. In Haig, Geoffrey & Schnell, Stefan (eds.), Multi-CAST: Multilingual corpus of annotated spoken texts. (multicast.aspra.uni-bamberg.de/#nkurd, 13.9.2019)
  • Hadjidas, Harris and Maria Vollmer. 2015. Multi-CAST Cypriot Greek. In Haig, Geoffrey and Schnell, Stefan (eds). Multi-CAST: Multilingual Corpus of Annotated Spoken Texts. (multicast.aspra.uni-bamberg.de/#cypgreek, 13.9.2019)

 

Konferenzbeiträge

  • Vollmer, Maria. 2023. How word order does (not) change: Warlpiri flexible word order and contact with English. Talk given at the 10th European Australianist Workshop, University of Cologne, 14-15 August. [Slides]
  • Vollmer, Maria. 2023. A corpus-based study of flexible word order, language contact and language change in Warlpiri. Talk given at the conference Grammatical Relations in Spoken Corpora (GRelSpoC), Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris, 15-16 June 2023. [Slides]
  • Vollmer, Maria. 2022. Language change in the flexible word order language Warlpiri. Talk given at the 1st International Emerging Research in Australian Studies Workshop, University of Cologne16 September 2022.
  • Vollmer, Maria. 2022. The diversity of left dislocation and its discourse functions in Warlpiri. Talk given at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Workshop Disentangling topicality effects, University of Bucharest, 26 August 2022.
  • Vollmer, Maria. 2022. Language contact, language change and flexible word order in Warlpiri. Talk given at the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Oxford, 1-5 August 2022. [Slides]
  • Vollmer, Maria. 2022. Discourse structure in Warlpiri and the clitic =ju. Euphony, topic, focus, or definiteness? Talk given at the Emmy Noether Workshop of the "Non-Gram" Group, University Freiburg, 11 April.
  • Reinöhl, Uta, Kirsten Culhane, Simon Fries, Naomi Peck and Maria Vollmer.1 2022. Emmy Noether group paper: One New Idea Constraint and flat multi-word expressions. Talk given at the Emmy Noether Workshop of the „Non-Gram“ Group, University Freiburg, 11 April. 1[Authors after first author ordered alphabetically]
  • Vollmer, Maria. 2021. Word order variation in Warlpiri. Talk held at Corpus Linguistics Summer School 2021, University of Birmingham, 5-8 July.
  • Reinöhl, Uta, Kirsten Culhane, Simon Fries, Naomi Peck, and Maria Vollmer.1 2021. Serial verbs and 'flat' nominal expressions - Pushing the boundaries of semantic packaging? Talk held at Cologne Center of Language Sciences (CCLS) Lecture Series, 5 July. 1[Authors after first author ordered alphabetically.]
  • Reinöhl, Uta, Kirsten Culhane, Simon Fries, Naomi Peck, and Maria Vollmer.2021. Serial verbs and 'flat' nominal expressions - Pushing the boundaries of semantic packaging? Talk held at the Vortragsreihe der Freiburger Sprachwissenschaften [Lecture Series of Freiburg linguistics]: Language and Communications, 10 June. 1[Authors after first author ordered alphabetically.]
  • Vollmer, Maria. 2021. Understanding morphosyntactic variation in a temporally and spatially representative Warlpiri corpus. A preliminary report on word order in clauses. Talk held at the First Global Australian Languages Workshop, 17-20 May. [Slides]
  • Peck, Naomi, Kirsten Culhane, and Maria Vollmer.1 2021. Comparing cues. A mixed methods study of intonation unit boundaries in three typologically diverse languages. Talk held at AG 10a Prosodic boundary phenomena at the 43rd Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society, 23-26 Feb 2021, Freiburg. [Slides] [If you would like access to the recording, please send me an e-mail.] 1Second and third author ordered alphabetically.
  • Vollmer, Maria. 2020. Language contact and change in Warlpiri. Talk held at Wien: 16. Sprachwissenschaftliche Tagung für Promotionsstudierende. 
  • Schnell, Stefan, Geoffrey Haig, Nils Schiborr, and Vollmer, Maria. 2020. Discourse: Introducing new referents: A corpus-based cross-linguistic perspective. Talk held at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE). [PDF and video]
  • Vollmer, Maria. 2020. A re-assessment of the rate of zero arguments in Mandarin Chinese. Talk held at The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University, 20th February 2020.
  • Vollmer, Maria. 2019. Warlpiri – Project work and PhD topic. Mainz: Non-hierarchicality in Grammar. Construction formation without word class distinction across categories and languages. 1st Workshop, September 26-27, 2019.
  • Vollmer, Maria. 2019. Is there a breakdown of ergativity in Northern Kurdish, and what factors influence it? Rouen: 4th International Conference on Kurdish Linguistics, September 2-3, 2019.
  • Vollmer, Maria. 2016. Auf der Suche nach übereinzelsprachlichen Merkmalen von Narrativität. Ein Vergleich von Erzählmustern im Chinesischen und im Deutschen. Bayreuth: Deutscher Germanistenverband. (25. Deutscher Germanistentag). [Searching for cross-linguistic characteristics of narrativity: A comparison of linguistic perspectivity in Chinese and German Narratives. (25. Day of German Studies)]
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