Applied Linguistics
Cognitive Linguistics
Computational Linguistics
Corpus Linguistics
Dialectology
Discourse Analysis
English Linguistics
German Linguistics
Historical Linguistics
Language Acquisition
Language Documentation
Morphology
Neuro- and Psycholinguistics
Other
Phonetics and Phonology
Pragmatics
Romance Linguistics
Semantics
Sociolinguistics
Syntax
Theoretical Linguistics
Typology and General Linguistics
Workshop
Events by track
German Linguistics 3
Phonetics and Phonology 5
Acoustic correlates of word stress in Turkish converbs
This study acoustically investigates word stress in Turkish manner -(y)ARAK and temporal -(y)INCA converbs using production experiment data. Analyzing f0,...
Linguistic Knowledge as a Resource for AI, Digital Education and Cross-Cultural Business Communication in the Multilingual World
Lippenmuskelaktivität und Betonung - Eine EMG-Untersuchung
Looking deep into prosodic structure: How phonological theory learns from prosody
Stressed Vowels in Batsbi
This presentation reports on an exploratory acoustic investigation of stressed vowels in Batsbi (Tsova-Tush), an endangered Nakh language spoken in a single...
Sociolinguistics 12
"Alles für Stadt und Verein"
Stickers of football clubs can be seen everywhere in the city. But what do they tell us about the connection between the club, the city and its fans? This...
“Auf einmal ich geh Pause“: Morphologische und syntaktische Innovationen in der multiethnischen Jugendsprache Wiens
1. „Wenn ich so Flugzeug bin und ich hab kein WLAN“ 2. „Auf einmal die reden schlecht über mich hinter meinen Rücken“ 3. „Aber deren neueste Lied ist...
Between Arabic and German: linguistic contact and identity in German Gangsta Rap
My thesis investigates the influence of diaspora languages on contemporary German, with particular attention to Arabic, in the context of the migration...
Code-Mixing in den Linguistic Landscapes von Hongkong
Die Arbeit untersucht empirisch das Phänomen des kontaktinduzierten Code-Mixings auf Schildern der Straßen Hongkongs. Dabei ist Code-Mixing zwischen...
Geschlechtergerechte Sprache in der Politik Frankreichs - Korrelationsanalysen mithilfe von Instagram
Im Fokus dieser Masterarbeit steht eine produktionsorientierte Analyse von Instagrambeiträgen französischer Politiker:innen, die Aufschluss darüber geben...
"Have you had the surgery?"
Politeness appears to decline in conversation with minorities. This observation motivated the study for my BA thesis, which more specifically looks at the...
Idiolinguistics in Action: Exploring Affect and Entrenchment at the Individual Level
Linguistic research often seeks patterns that generalize across speakers and communities. But what can we learn when we take the individual speaker as our...
"If they cease to function, they cease to live": Exploring pain communication among the Bolivian Quechua people
Reproduction of Gender Sensitive Language effects on Job listing views
Open science as a movement has created more opportunities for high-quality linguistic research. Through increased access and transparent scientific...
Shitty signs? An analysis of signs in bathrooms at the University of Cologne
The Divergence of Sino-Korean Vocabulary in North and South Korea:
The Impact of Multilingualism and its Implications for Language Use and Well-Being among First-Generation Russian-Speaking Immigrant Students in Germany
Typology and General Linguistics 7
Austronesian Voice Typology and the Historical Development of the Indonesian Type: Insights from Borneo and Beyond
Austronesian symmetrical voice languages have typically been classified into two groups, namely Philippine- and Indonesian-type languages, a distinction made...
Cavineña, or, (almost) Everything is an Enclitic
Conceptual metaphors involving body parts in Taruma (South America)
Talk about conceptual metaphors involving body part vocabulary in Taruma (Guyana, South America)
Does writing influence spoken language?
It has long been claimed that subordination is more common in writing (Chafe 1982: 35–52; Ong 1982: 36–38; inter alia). Furthermore, in languages with a long...
Grammaticalization Paths
This work is the result of a collaborative term paper project for a seminar on aspect and language change; we want to present it here in order to present our...
?jetzt mach mal ja doch aber halblang!: Discourse particle stacking in Manadonese, a Malay-based creole
Wie die Sprachwissenschaft zur Empirie fand (und findet)
Theoretical Linguistics 2
Because is Why!
Modern Hebrew has many causal conjunctions, which differ both in their syntactic distribution and in the types of causality they express. Here, the...
Why Slovene Is Not a Pro-Drop Language (and Why Using This Term Can Be Problematic)
The poster challenges the well-established term ‘pro-drop’ and argues that it reflects an English bias. Based on corpus data from Slovene, it shows that the...
Corpus Linguistics 5
Be Water, My Friend — But Don't Get Arrested
In 2019, Hong Kong protesters adopted Bruce Lee’s “Be water, my friend” as a tactical slogan. Lee had drawn on Daoist philosophy of water in developing his...
Metaphorische Verwendungsarten der polnischen Präposition po
Den Vortrag halte ich auf Basis einer Hausarbeit aus dem letzten Semester. Es wird um metaphorische Verwendungsarten der polnischen Präposition 'po' gehen....
Present Perfect in L2 English: The Role of L1 Background and Proficiency Level in Temporal Adverbial Use
This study investigates how L1 background and proficiency affect temporal adverbial use in L2 English present perfect constructions, using written learner...
Representing Schizophrenia in British News Media: A Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Analysis
This study investigates how schizophrenia is represented in the British press from 2020-2024, examining the left politically leaning newspaper The Guardian...
(th)-variation in Nigerian English
Morphology 1
Workshop 10
Breslau or Wroclaw, /londn/ or /london/, Beijing or Peking - what languages do with foreign place names, transnationally
Can we trust linguistics research?
Conlang Lab
ELAN workshop
Workshop about the basics of using ELAN for annotating media files
How to assess multilingual(s)?
Auch wenn Einsprachigkeit oftmals noch als Norm angesehen wird, ist Mehrsprachigkeit – insbesondere in unserer heutigen Gesellschaft – in vielen Kontexten...
Let's Talk AI
Meet linguistics PhDs: Q&A session
Quarto for academic writing
Quarto is a free, open-source publishing system for literate programming, i.e. the combination of text and code in a single document. With Quarto, scientific...
(The) Writings on the Wall - Linguistic Landscapes as a Research Method
This workshop will serve as a basic introduction to the field of Linguistic Landscapes, the study of public signage. After setting the scope of the field and...
'You want war with Athena, you gonna get war': Verbal Threatening in English
Verbal threats may appear in a variety of contexts, such as ransom notes or courtroom proceedings, but also in non-forensic contexts such as everyday...
Language Documentation 3
Cartographic Erasure: Critical Toponymy, Africanisms, and Female Names in Brazilian Quilombola Territories
Documenting child language in Papua New Guinea: Repetition and variation in child-directed and child language
Prosody in Language Documentation
I will be presenting the methodological outline for the work I have been doing with LabFon at the university of Lisbon, its theoretical outline and possible...
Pragmatics 2
Dialectology 1
Cognitive Linguistics 2
Die kognitiven Prozesse und die Wahrnehmung hinter einer polysynthetischen Sprache anhand des Beispiels Lakota
Language processing is a major topic in psycholinguistics and cognitive science. Here, language serves as a gateway to gaining insight into the inner...
Noch Angst oder schon Hoffnung? Affektmobilisierung und Weaponisation of Emotions im politischen Diskurs über FRIEDEN und KRIEG
Discourse Analysis 1
Semantics 2
Figuring out doxastic attitude verbs in Romanian: Aspect and entailment
Using a poster as visual support, I will be presenting part of the research I completed for my BA thesis about factive change-of-state doxastic predicates in...
Non-local interpretations of expressive adjectives
Expressives such as "damn" convey a negative speaker attitude, but the target of that attitude is often not the expression’s syntactic sister. In "The dog...
Applied Linguistics 2
Language Acquisition 2
Computational Linguistics 3
Illusion of Intelligence
This paper asks what ChatGPT’s inability to self-correct, express uncertainty, or resist user pressure reveals about the nature of machine “understanding.”...
Sentiment Arcs in Manga: From the Page to Polarity Analysis
Sentiment analysis of literary texts is not new. In the past, for example, dramatic works by various authors have been examined to see how the sentiment of...
"W chat or L chat?" Measuring Emote Toxicity Across Twitch Communities
Live-streaming platforms such as Twitch are central meeting hubs for young people, and their chats are dominated by emotes, small images posted alongside or...
Syntax 2
English Linguistics 2
Other 1
Historical Linguistics 3
Substrate Interference from Dravidian in Marathi
In recent decades, the idea that the Indo-Aryan language family has been influenced through intimate contact with Dravidian languages has been popular among...
The Yeniseian rising/falling tone: Gradient lenition as a window on the evolution of obstruents
The Yeniseian languages are the only known tonal languages in Siberia. In this contribution, we investigate the diachrony of one of the four monosyllabic...
