Applied Linguistics
Computational Linguistics
Corpus Linguistics
Diverse
Historical Linguistics
Neuro- and Psycholinguistics
Phonetics and Phonology
Social Program
Sociolinguistics
Theoretical Linguistics
Typology and Variational Linguistics
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Typology and Variational Linguistics 8
A cross-linguistic comparison of content interrogatives
A “lost” language of Northern Germany
This workshop will give a crash course in Wangerooge Frisian, a now extinct minority language of Northern Germany. We will discuss the linguistic sources,...
A set-theoretic typology of casemorphs
I'll give a summary of case syncretism and case containment in languages across the world. Then I'll classify them into groups based on the number of...
Einführung in die Amazonistik
Dieser Workshop gibt eine Einführung amazonistische Linguistik.
Finitheit in Abchasisch
Der Begriff "Finitheit" wird häufig verwendet, um zwischen bestimmten Arten von Verben zu unterscheiden – zum Beispiel zwischen "finiten" Verben und...
Indeklinable pränominale Adjektive – ein Versuch der Typologisierung
Wie sich sowohl im mündlichen als zunehmend auch im schriftlichen Sprachgebrauch beobachten lässt, können Wörter wie super, lila oder probeweise in die Rolle...
Introduction to Khinalug
In this talk I will give a short introduction to the East-Caucasian language Khinalug. The talk gives an introduction to sociolinguistics, phonology and the...
Ostoberdeutsche Reflexe im Hexenverhörprotokoll Fürsteneck 1703
Im Vortrag werden die Ergebnisse der linguistischen Analyse des Hexenverhörprotokolls Fürsteneck 1703 im Rahmen einer Bachelorarbeit vorgestellt. Die...
Theoretical Linguistics 4
Are adpositional phrases any other than adjuncts? A case study on the argument structure of Basque motion verbs
A working man's merge
This talk presents a mediating perspective on computational phrase composition between naïve additive composition and complex latent representations from...
'Nothing is something': How to read memes, readymades, and meaning
This is a work-in-progress chapter of my MA thesis on the lifespans of internet memes.
The different kinds of verbal number suppletion
In my talk I want to introduce the phenomenon of verbal number suppletion and talk about its different types. Furthermore I want to present the different...
Phonetics and Phonology 4
Are temporal properties of speech influenced by auditory feedback?
That auditory feedback plays a significant role in online speech monitoring and thus in speech production, has been shown using real-time auditory feedback...
Morphological Contexts of Final Schwa Apocope in German
Schwa constitutes a word-final morpheme to mark the case and number of nouns in German. Its status as a morpheme has been debated and reduced to a solely...
Pitch please!
In der Arbeit wurde die Stimmtonänderung einer Drag Queen In- vs. Out-of-Drag betrachtet. Für die Analyse wurde auf die Python Bibliothek Parselmouth...
T-glottallization in the speech of British youth on the example of the TV series Sex Education
The text discusses the phenomenon of T-glottaling in British English and how it is increasingly becoming a common feature among British youth. The article...
Historical Linguistics 6
Bemirschreibe, was gedirfällt
Wenn die litauische Sprache für etwas bekannt ist, dann für ihre (vermeintliche) Archaizität. Im Gegensatz zu anderen indogermanischen Sprachen hat das...
Ditransitive GIVE-construction in three Hainan Min-Chinese: Interaction between inherited structures and contact-induced changes
This presentation discusses the historical development of ditransitive GIVE constructions in Hainan-Min Chinese. I identified the origin and the historical...
Interne und gemischte Rekonstruktion: Wie man etwas über die Vergangenheit isolierter Sprachen erfährt
Das klassische Vorgehen bei der Rekonstruktion von Protosprachen besteht darin, Daten aus verwandten Sprachen zu vergleichen. Was aber, wenn es keine...
Linguistic Necromancy
In one of the former StuTS I overheard the conversation of two participants talking about the pronunciation of a word in a dead language. One of them claimed...
"Perfekt perfekt?" - Zur diachronen Verwendung und Funktion doppelter Perfektbildungen in frühneuzeitlichen deutsch-französischen Fremdsprachenlehrwerken
Der Vortrag gib Einblick in das laufende Hausarbeitsprojekt und liefert erste Ergebnisse der manuellen Korpusrecherche. Im Sinne einer nachhaltigen Forschung...
Trees, Waves and Friends
Languages can be related, everyone knows this. Usually linguists use a tree to display relationships between languages. But trees are not the only model for...
Corpus Linguistics 4
Die Funktionen von Anführungszeichen in der Deutschen Gebärdensprache (DGS)
Thema meiner Studie sind die Anführungszeichen-Gebärden im Referenzkorpus der Deutschen Gebärdensprache, die ich mithilfe des Analyseprogramms DGS-ANNIS in...
“Is this gun cake or fake?”
In this talk, we present a corpus-based study of nine counterfactual German adjectives that allegedly behave privatively. Since Partee’s (2010) influential...
Korpuslinguistische Analyse von verba sentiendi im Georgischen und Baskischen.
Sie sind eben unterschiedlich
German has a range of modal particles, uninflected words that do not have a rich meaning in themselves but instead act as metalingual expressions that...
Neuro- and Psycholinguistics 3
Ein "Paradigmen"wechsel in der Konstruktionsgrammatik
Is my name more special than yours?
In research on anaphora resolution researchers usually assume the gender of their stimuli. Men are male, fathers are male, surgeons are male, and Phillips...
Wenn Stances meine Sprache wären
In diesem Vortrag soll versucht werden, eine Erweiterung der Stancetaking-Theorie zu schaffen, mit dem expliziten Fokus auf den Positionierungsprozessen...
Sociolinguistics 12
Er, sie, dey?
"Ey jo, und, wie fandest du gestern Schule?"
Gegenstand dieses Vortrags ist die Sprache von Jugendlichen in der Stadt Graz, wobei besonderer Fokus auf mehrsprachigen Jugendlichen liegt. Ziel ist es,,...
From huswif to slut - A diachronic look into the pejoration of women terms
Language plays a large part in how society treats women and thus, it needs to be looked at closer. Women’s rights activism has been on the rise due to...
Genitive Variation in English
This is a work-in-progress presentation of my MA thesis on genitive variation in English.
Language variation and digital place-making. How online (language) rooms are constructed, perceived and utilized by German-speaking Twitter users
With an ever-growing public and scientific interest in digital communication, the question arises as to whether and how traditional linguistic...
Lowkey, I Think He's Cringe
Increasingly, English slang words, such as "cringe," are being adopted by German teens, mainly due to language contact through the internet and social media....
Migrationsbedingte Mehrsprachigkeit im rätoromanischen Sprachgebiet
Im Schweizer Kanton Graubünden ist die rätoromanische Sprache in einigen Gemeinden nach wie vor sehr vital: Dort wachsen die Bewohner nicht nur mit der...
Obstacles for intergenerational language transmission. The case of Talysh in Azerbaijan
Talysh is a language of an ethnic group that forms a significant minority in Azerbaijan. The number of speakers has been estimated from 100.000 up to 1...
Perception of Formal Register of Azerbaijani and Attitudes Towards Avoiding Morphonological Processes
The Azerbaijani language has gone through changes in pronunciation over many years, which has become more apparent recently. Unlike Turkish, known for its...
Register and Style Variation in Instant Messaging: An Audience Design Approach
Computer-mediated communication (CMC), and particularly synchronous electronic registers such as instant messaging (IM), feature distinctive conversational...
Social Motivations and Developments of English/German Code-Switching Patterns:
Presenting my MA thesis on English/German code-switching in the speech of L1 German speakers.
Understanding figurative constructions in political cartoons: A case study of the 2019 Hong Kong Protest
Political cartoon, as a form of critical discourse, is an illustration published on the editorial or comment pages containing a political or social message...
Diverse 3
Exemplarische Kommunikationsprobleme bei Menschen mit pragmatisch- kommunikativen Entwicklungsstörungen am Beispiel der fiktiven Figur des Dr. Sheldon Cooper
Als Teildisziplin der Linguistik beschäftigt sich die Pragmatik nicht nur mit verbalen, sondern auch mit nonverbalen Aspekten der Kommunikation; Mimik und...
LaTeX Workshop
Tired of relabelling all of your 150 examples manually every time you open your thesis document? Want to do it the right way and create your very own...
Text analysis without Strg + F
POV: Du möchtest einen Text statistisch auswerten, der nicht in existierenden Korpusanalyse-Tools verfügbar ist, und überlegst, Textstellen manuell zu...
Computational Linguistics 2
Exploring Automation in The Analysis of Creative Shifts Found in News Translations: Machine vs Human Translation
The project presents the results of a research including the translation of a collection of news from English to Chinese in two modalities: MT and HT. An...
Is a typologically, genetically different language like European languages?
Yue is a Sinitic language spoken in Southern China which consists of numerous dialects including Cantonese. While we know that Yue is typologically and...
Applied Linguistics 3
Language Policy Issues in Tunisia: Mismatch between Local Needs and Central Decisions
The Role of Metaphor and Speaker Reliability in Reasoning
While the persuasive nature of metaphors is well known, previous research has focused on the effect of the metaphor frame on reasoning. So far, the question...
Verbatim memory during reading in L1 and L2
This talk presents the structure, methods, and some preliminary findings from the DFG project “retention of surface linguistic information during reading in...
Social Program 1
Lightning Talks