{"conference_events":{"events":[{"id":1578,"guid":"a05e316f-ba11-4c6e-8f9b-457d00c61bed","title":"„Absolutes Unding, bei uns wird nicht gedopt“ –   Wahrheitsverfälschung und -verhüllung von Doping im Radsport","language":"de","subtitle":"Eine exemplarische, linguistisch-pragmatische Analyse","description":null,"duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"Talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"German Linguistics","abstract":null,"speakers":[{"guid":"8c2ef120-c9d0-5373-af2c-2a864a8a5383","id":1397,"image":null,"name":"Melissa Hofmann","public_name":"Melissa Hofmann","abstract":"Ich studiere derzeit den Masterstudiengang Anwendungsorientierte Interkulturelle Sprachwissenschaft (ANIS) an der Universität Augsburg mit der Sprachkombination Deutsch + Französisch. Im gleichnamigen Bachelorstudiengang lag mein linguistischer Schwerpunkt auf der Anglistik und Frankoromanistik, außerdem lernte ich Schwedisch und Italienisch.\r\n\r\nMich interessieren besonders Thematiken der Angewandten Sprachwissenschaft und Fremdspracherwerbsprozesse.","description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2026-11-20T16:20:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-20T16:50:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"S 15 ","id":233}},{"id":1588,"guid":"ba093c7d-7ea2-4083-8c35-0a7e1fcc2de4","title":"Acoustic correlates of word stress in Turkish converbs","language":"en","subtitle":"Keywords: converbs, word stress, acoustics, Turkish","description":"In Turkish, converbs function as non-finite verbal adjuncts that encode distinct semantic relations, such as manner with -(y)ARAK and temporal sequence with -(y)INCA (Sezer, 1983; Göksel \u0026 Kerslake, 2005; Bağrıaçık, 2018). Turkish converbs provide a suitable testing ground for investigating how suffixation shapes word stress (see Kabak \u0026 Vogel, 2001; Inkelas \u0026 Orgun, 2003; Kamali \u0026 Samuels, 2008; Güneş, 2015; Erguvanlı Taylan, 2015; Özçelik, 2017). Converbial suffixes (e.g., -(y)ArAk and -(y)IncA), which deviate from the default word-final stress, constitute a rich domain for examining the acoustic realization of stress in Turkish. This study aims to examine these two converb types acoustically. It investigates whether they differ in   f0, duration, and intensity, proposing that converb type systematically shifts the acoustic realization of stress. To this end, the present study addresses two main research questions (RQs): (a) What are the acoustic correlates of stress in Turkish manner converb (-(y)ArAK) and the temporal converb (-(y)IncA)? (b) To what extent do these correlates differentiate stress between the two converb types in Turkish? To answer the RQs, a production experiment is conducted to examine the acoustic correlates of the manner converb (-(y)ArAK) and the temporal converb (-(y)IncA) embedded in the carrier sentences (see (1)): \r\nTarget sentences for the converb types\r\nManner converb \r\n-(y)ArAk\r\nGeçen\r\nlast\r\nhafta\r\nweek\r\ngarson\r\nwaiter \r\nadam-ın\r\nman-GEN\r\nhesab-ı\r\nbill-ACC\r\nöde-yerek\r\npay-CVB.MAN\r\nçorba-yı\r\nsoup-ACC\r\niç-tiğ-i-ni\r\ndrink-NMLZ-3SG.POSS-ACC\r\nbelirt-ti\r\nstate-PST\r\n\r\n\r\n‘Last week the waiter stated that the man drank the soup by paying the bill.’\r\nTemporal converb \r\n-(y)IncA\r\nGeçen\r\nlast\r\nhafta\r\nweek\r\ngarson\r\nwaiter \r\nadam-ın\r\nman-GEN\r\nhesab-ı\r\nbill-ACC\r\nöde-yince\r\npay-CVB.TEMP\r\nçorba-yı\r\nsoup-ACC\r\niç-tiğ-i-ni\r\ndrink-NMLZ-3SG.POSS-ACC\r\nbelirt-ti\r\nstate-PST\r\n\r\n\r\n‘Last week the waiter stated that the man drank the soup when he paid the bill.’\r\n\r\n\r\n\tThirty native speakers of Turkish (24 F, 16 M) produced target sentences such as those illustrated in (1). The experiment consisted of two converb types in Turkish: manner (-(y)ArAk) and temporal (-(y)IncA). There were 120 stimuli in total: 60 target sentences (30 items × 2 converb types) and 60 fillers containing the negation marker (-mA) in Turkish. The production data were acoustically analyzed using the ProsodyPro script (Xu, 2013) package in Praat (Boersma \u0026 Weenink, 2026) for f0 (Hz), mean intensity (dB), and duration (ms). Data were analyzed using a linear mixed-effects model (LMM) in R (R Core Team, 2026) to determine the word stress pattern of converb types in Turkish affirmative sentences. Our results from the LMM showed a significant effect for the temporal converb (-(y)IncA) compared to the manner converb (-(y)ArAK). Overall results suggest that the two converb types in Turkish differ in their f0, duration, and mean intensity. Accordingly, these values were higher on the suffix than on the root in the manner converb, whereas the temporal converb did not bear a higher f0 peak on the suffix. \r\nReferences\r\nBağrıaçık, M. (2018). Conversion in Turkish: An overview. Word Structure 11(2), 148–174. https://doi.org/10.3366/word.2018.0122\r\nBates, D., Mächler, M., Bolker, B. \u0026 Walker, S. (2015). Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using lme4. Journal of Statistical Software, 67(1), 1-48. https://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v067.i01. \r\nBoersma, P., \u0026 Weenink, D. (2026). Praat: Doing phonetics by computer (Version 6.4.44) [Computer software]. https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/\r\nErguvanlı Taylan, E. (2015). The Phonology and Morphology of Turkish. Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Yayınevi. \r\nGöksel, A. \u0026 Kerslake, C. (2005). Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar. Routledge.\r\nGüneş, G. (2015). Deriving Prosodic Structures. LOT Publications\r\nInkelas, S. \u0026 Orgun, C. O. (2003). Turkish stress: A prosodic constraint-based analysis. Journal of Linguistics, 39(1), 139-161.\r\nKabak, B. \u0026 Vogel, I. (2001). The phonological word and stress assignment in Turkish. Phonology, 18(3), 315-360.\r\nKamali, B., \u0026 Samuels, B. (2008). The syntax of Turkish pre-stressing suffixes (Unpublished presentation). Harvard University.\r\nÖzçelik, Ö. (2017). Prosodic Systems of Azerbaijani and Turkish: A Comparative Analysis.\r\nR Core Team. (2026). R: A language and environment for statistical computing. [Computer software]. https://www.r-project.org/\r\nSezer, E. (1983). The Stress Pattern of Turkish. Cornell University Working Papers in Linguistics.\r\n","duration":3600,"time_slots":12,"logo":null,"type":"Poster","do_not_record":false,"track":"Phonetics and Phonology","abstract":"This study acoustically investigates word stress in Turkish manner  -(y)ARAK and temporal  -(y)INCA converbs using production experiment data. Analyzing f0, duration, and intensity via Linear Mixed-Effect Models (LMM), the expected findings suggest that the two converb types systematically differ in their acoustic correlates and stress realization patterns.","speakers":[{"guid":"4a621c40-0818-5fc8-88fe-2b0c457ab803","id":1378,"image":null,"name":"Dilsad Simay","public_name":"Dilsad Simay","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2026-11-19T15:30:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-19T16:30:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"Atrium (Philosophikum)","id":256}},{"id":1611,"guid":"d84e972e-5d9c-4658-82ab-8f7685eac2b0","title":"\"Alles für Stadt und Verein\"","language":"en","subtitle":"Exploring the connection between a city and its football club on transgressive stickers","description":null,"duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"Talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Sociolinguistics","abstract":"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 talk discusses referencing schemes on such stickers under the framework of semiotic landscapes. To do so, 252 stickers were recorded at the Ruhrstadion in Bochum, Germany, home of the second division side VfL Bochum 1848. Results testify of direct referencing strategies (e.g., through the club's logo and name) as well as indirect strategies, drawing connections to the city's history of coal mining or old postal code. These schemes can be interpreted as proof of the club's deep rooting in the local culture and its relevance for identity construction of the area.","speakers":[{"guid":"8973fe58-fecb-5f95-a9dc-369315dfcce8","id":1434,"image":null,"name":"Jan-André Diederich","public_name":"Jan-André Diederich","email":"j.diederich@uni-koeln.de","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[{"url":"https://sprachlabor.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/team-kontakt/jan-andre-diederich","title":"Profil"}]}],"start_time":"2026-11-20T12:05:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-20T12:35:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"S 57 ","id":225}},{"id":1568,"guid":"31df0d7b-5102-4700-bd5c-52aa40262f28","title":"“Auf einmal ich geh Pause“:  Morphologische und syntaktische Innovationen in der multiethnischen Jugendsprache Wiens","language":"de","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"Talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Sociolinguistics","abstract":"1.\t„Wenn ich so Flugzeug bin und ich hab kein WLAN“\r\n2.\t„Auf einmal die reden schlecht über mich hinter meinen Rücken“\r\n3.\t„Aber deren neueste Lied ist FaceTime“\r\n\r\nDiese drei Aussagen von Wiener Jugendlichen wirken auf den ersten Blick ungrammatisch. In (österreichischem) Standarddeutsch sind sie das auch – nicht jedoch in multiethnischer Jugendsprache.\r\n\r\nWie in vielen urbanen Zentren Europas hört man auch im deutschsprachigen Raum neue Sprecharten unter Jugendlichen in Gebieten, in denen hohe Anteile von Bevölkerung mit Migrationshintergrund wohnhaft sind. Neben Besonderheiten in der Aussprache und Lexis zeichnet sich multiethnische Jugendsprache vor allem durch morphologische und syntaktische Abweichungen von der Standardsprache aus. Während sie in Deutschland bereits seit den frühen 2000ern untersucht wurden, gibt es keine eingehende Dokumentation innovativer Strukturen in Österreichs urbanen Zentren.\r\n \r\nUm diese Forschungslücke zu füllen, widme ich mich in meinem Masterarbeitsprojekt der Sprache Jugendlicher in Wien. Dabei wird die Forschung von der Frage geleitet, welche Regeln, bzw. Tendenzen das Auftreten nicht-standardsprachlicher morphologischer und syntaktischer Phänomene befolgt. Die Analyse basiert auf Sprachaufnahmen von Sprecher:innen zwischen 12 und 15 Jahren, aufgenommen in einem multiethnischen und einen monoethnischen Gebiet Wiens. Dies ermöglicht eine Abgrenzung genereller jugendsprachlicher Phänomene von spezifisch multiethnisch jugendsprachlichen Phänomenen.\r\n\r\nIn meinem Vortrag gehe ich auf drei innovative Strukturen ein. Dabei handelt es sich um artikel- und präpositionslose Nomina (vgl. Bsp. 1), Abweichungen von der Standardkasus- und Standardgenusflexion (vgl. Bsp. 2 und 3), sowie der Verbdrittstellung (vgl. Bsp. 3). Anhand der Daten zeige ich, dass die Phänomene nicht willkürlich auftreten, sondern eigenen grammatischen Regeln folgen. Darüber hinaus demonstriere ich, dass multiethnische Jugendsprache in Wien von morphosyntaktischer Reduktion und informationsstruktureller Expansion geprägt ist. Da multiethnische Jugendsprache als dynamischster Aspekt des Deutschen oftmals instabile Bereiche der Grammatik aufzeigt, lassen diese Tendenzen Rückschlüsse auf Entwicklungen in der deutschen Umgangssprache zu. \r\n","speakers":[{"guid":"65ecb8ea-fca0-561d-8acd-ce835787b847","id":1390,"image":null,"name":"Katharina Eder","public_name":"Katharina Eder","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2026-11-20T10:55:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-20T11:25:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"S 57 ","id":225}},{"id":1605,"guid":"acd091c0-c5e1-489b-8649-76ed4f7fbbe5","title":"Austronesian Voice Typology and the Historical Development of the Indonesian Type: Insights from Borneo and Beyond","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"Talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Typology and General Linguistics","abstract":"Austronesian symmetrical voice languages have typically been classified into two groups, namely Philippine- and Indonesian-type languages, a distinction made on purely typological grounds. While the former are viewed as more conservative, similarities within the latter are attributed to shared innovations. Nevertheless, as noted by Himmelmann (2002), in contrast to the relatively homogeneous Philippine type, Indonesian-type is often used as an umbrella term encompassing all kinds of non-Philippine characteristics, resulting in a vague category defined by exclusion. This is especially apparent in transitional areas such as Borneo, where one can encounter both types forming a heterogeneous typological continuum. While the transitional nature of areas such as Borneo and Sulawesi has long been noted, a systematic investigation of these areas is still pending. This talk addresses this gap by means of a typological survey of the languages of Borneo. We gathered grammatical data from 44 Bornean languages with regard to the voice system, morphology, NP markers, and sets of pronouns, among others.\r\nThe results confirm the transitional status of Bornean languages, with some of them not clearly fitting the description of a symmetrical voice system. The main finding is that, although most languages have not preserved all typical Philippine conservative traits, they have not yet developed many of the innovations that define prototypically Indonesian-type languages, the main outliers being Malayic languages, which closely resemble Indonesian in this respect. Conversely, Philippine traits are mostly restricted to Sabahan and North Sarawakan languages.\r\nBy means of a series of typological maps, we present an overview of the geographical distribution of each feature. We then discuss how these findings can provide new insights into the diachronic development of the Indonesian type as well as help further identify its defining features and the languages that conform to it.\r\n","speakers":[{"guid":"6c81b00f-2c3d-5754-9d8d-42a72679604e","id":1417,"image":null,"name":"Sergio Pardo Doña","public_name":"Sergio Pardo Doña","abstract":"Austronesian symmetrical voice languages have typically been classified into two groups, namely Philippine- and Indonesian-type languages, a distinction made on purely typological grounds. While the former are viewed as more conservative, similarities within the latter are attributed to shared innovations. Nevertheless, as noted by Himmelmann (2002), in contrast to the relatively homogeneous Philippine type, Indonesian-type is often used as an umbrella term encompassing all kinds of non-Philippine characteristics, resulting in a vague category defined by exclusion. This is especially apparent in transitional areas such as Borneo, where one can encounter both types forming a heterogeneous typological continuum. While the transitional nature of areas such as Borneo and Sulawesi has long been noted, a systematic investigation of these areas is still pending. This talk addresses this gap by means of a typological survey of the languages of Borneo. We gathered grammatical data from 44 Bornean languages with regard to the voice system, morphology, NP markers, and sets of pronouns, among others.\r\nThe results confirm the transitional status of Bornean languages, with some of them not clearly fitting the description of a symmetrical voice system. The main finding is that, although most languages have not preserved all typical Philippine conservative traits, they have not yet developed many of the innovations that define prototypically Indonesian-type languages, the main outliers being Malayic languages, which closely resemble Indonesian in this respect. Conversely, Philippine traits are mostly restricted to Sabahan and North Sarawakan languages.\r\nBy means of a series of typological maps, we present an overview of the geographical distribution of each feature. We then discuss how these findings can provide new insights into the diachronic development of the Indonesian type as well as help further identify its defining features and the languages that conform to it.","description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2026-11-20T16:20:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-20T16:50:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"S 22 ","id":234}},{"id":1577,"guid":"9e388fda-fdfa-43b8-829d-2e9b98b1abb6","title":"Because is Why! ","language":"en","subtitle":"On the use of lama as a causal conjunction in Modern Hebrew","description":"In this talk, we will look in depth at the causal conjunction \"lama\" in colloquial Modern Hebrew. Some corpus data will be presented, showing that \"lama,\" as a causal conjunction, can cover three types of causality, which were also attributed to the causal conjunction \"ki\" by Livnat and Yatziv (2003). These types both revolve around causal relations between real-world events in the content of the utterance, as well as the reasoning of illocutionary acts. \r\nThe talk then turns to the restricted syntactic distribution of \"lama\" clauses, namely, that they are bound to the final position with regard to the main clause. \r\nTo understand it and study whether it interacts with pragmatic/semantic inferences, this distribution is compared with parallel cases in English, Japanese, and Chinese in which a causal clause is final-posed. We will conclude that \"lama\" clauses do not share the pragmatic inferences with final position causal clauses in those languages. \r\nHowever, like Modern Hebrew, where causal conjunctions differ in structure and meaning, it is evident that German also has two distinct causal conjunctions: \"weil\" and \"denn.\" We will see how \"lama\" and \"denn\" share analogous characteristics. This could lead us to adopt for \"lama\" the same semantic explanation Scheffler (2005) suggested for \"denn\" - that it is a coordinative conjunctive that triggers conventional implicatures.\r\nThen, we will see that when derived from question words, causal conjunctions across many languages share the same syntactic restrictions and are bound to final positions. \r\nFinally, in light of data on \"lama\" and two other conjunctions in Modern Hebrew, \"ki\" and \"biglal ʃe-\", we will discuss the idea of embedment and whether it should be considered scalar rather than binary. ","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"Talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Theoretical Linguistics","abstract":"Modern Hebrew has many causal conjunctions, which differ both in their syntactic distribution and in the types of causality they express. Here, the colloquial causal conjunction \"lama\", which is derived from the question word \"why\", is examined. In this talk, we will discuss the different and various causality types that \"lama\" can cover, as well as its restricted distribution and how it is connected (or not connected) to its semantics and pragmatics","speakers":[{"guid":"e9800b01-eba9-5a6d-bd71-102b3cc36d25","id":1401,"image":null,"name":"Yuval Schieber","public_name":"Yuval Schieber","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2026-11-21T13:00:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-21T13:30:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"S 82 ","id":226}},{"id":1587,"guid":"f659e4ed-97df-44fb-a59d-011eed2a0aae","title":"Between Arabic and German: linguistic contact and identity in German Gangsta Rap ","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"Talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Sociolinguistics","abstract":" My thesis investigates the influence of diaspora languages on contemporary German, with particular attention to Arabic, in the context of the migration processes that have shaped Germany over the past three decades. The first part focuses on Kiezdeutsch, drawing on sociolinguistic research that conceptualizes it as a multi-ethnolectal variety of German, rather than an impoverishment of the standard language. Particular attention is given to KiDKo, a digital corpus documenting instances of Kiezdeutsch in both monolingual and multilingual urban contexts. Kiezdeutsch is approached here as a communicative resource serving different social functions: as a Kontaktsprache also used by speakers without a migrant background, as a Jugendsprache to distance oneself from  adult speakers, and as a means of negotiating boundaries between categories such as Deutscher and Ausländer. \r\nThe second part examines Migrant Hip Hop and its subsequent development into German Gangsta Rap as cultural and linguistic spaces in which contact between German and minority languages becomes particularly visible. It focuses on the use of minority languages as markers of identity and as resources for self-representation and self-narration.\r\nLastly, the thesis analyses the lyrics of five songs, predominantly in German but containing varying numbers of Arabic loanwords and expressions. The analysis identifies five main pragmatic functions of Arabic: everyday and culturally specific vocabulary; expressions of affection and solidarity; religious expressions; interjections; and vocabulary associated with criminal activity. These findings suggest that Arabic elements in German rap function not merely as lexical borrowings, but as flexible linguistic resources through which speakers express affect, cultural affiliation, social relationships, and several other aspects of identity.\r\n\r\n\r\n","speakers":[{"guid":"4b64bba9-06b5-5838-903d-1b934af05f46","id":1383,"image":null,"name":"Iris ","public_name":"Iris ","abstract":"Bachelor degree in Languages, Literatures and Intercultural Studies at University of Florence (Italy).","description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2026-11-20T16:50:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-20T17:20:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"S 22 ","id":234}},{"id":1599,"guid":"c658c587-4506-4935-80ed-6462ff10310e","title":"Be Water, My Friend — But Don't Get Arrested","language":"en","subtitle":"Conceptual Metaphors and Corpus Evidence of BE WATER in Reddit Discourse between 2019–2020 on the 2019 Hong Kong Protests","description":null,"duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":"/system/events/logos/000/001/599/original/lihkg_pig.jpg?1792795345","type":"Talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Corpus Linguistics","abstract":"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 martial art, Jeet Kune Do. A previous qualitative study (Wong, 2023) mapped how protesters projected the source domain WATER onto new target domains, but its analysis drew on a limited set of sources. This paper revisits these mappings at a larger scale, asking how users of r/HongKong applied the metaphor, which discussion themes it appeared in, and which mappings the earlier study may have overlooked. First, collected all posts and comments from r/HongKong published in 2019 and 2020 and filtered them for protest relevance using a validated dictionary with 561,471 comments. I then examined 634 candidate instances of BE WATER, identified 623 metaphorical uses, and used BERTopic to identify 31 discussion themes in texts where WATER was masked. The metaphor occurred more frequently than expected in discussions of anthems, students and universities, international responses, and violence versus peaceful protest, but less frequently in discussions of police brutality. Approximately 70% of uses endorsed or advised the tactic, while others reported on it, used it to name the movement, or referred directly to Lee. The findings confirm the tactical mapping identified in the earlier study and reveal naming as an additional mapping. They also show how the metaphor was used in debates over violent and peaceful resistance, and how topic modelling can help reveal the role it played in these discussions.\r\n","speakers":[{"guid":"ef90af5b-118e-5349-a110-811df413e59f","id":1414,"image":"/system/people/avatars/000/001/414/original/IMG_7565.jpeg?1792795883","name":"Alyson W.Y. Wong","public_name":"Alyson W.Y. 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","language":"en","subtitle":"How to test the reproducibility and robustness of published studies in the language sciences","description":"Please register for this workshop beforehand: https://terminplaner.dfn.de/public/bookings/52fa8967-8ecf-4320-b46a-67ab9b662661. \r\n\r\nDear workshop participants,\r\n\r\nWe are really looking forward to meeting you all on Saturday afternoon!\r\n\r\nTo participate in the hands-on part of our workshop, you will need to bring a laptop (a tablet will unfortunately not suffice) and have installed both R and RStudio prior to the workshop. If you already have these installed, please update them to the latest version.\r\n\r\nYou will find details installation instructions here: https://elenlefoll.github.io/RstatsTextbook/4_InstallingR.html#installing-r-and-rstudio.\r\n\r\nAlternatively, you can simply come and listen and try things out later at home. We will share all our materials after the workshop.\r\n\r\nBest,\r\n\r\nElen \u0026 Ali","duration":5400,"time_slots":18,"logo":null,"type":"workshop","do_not_record":false,"track":"Workshop","abstract":null,"speakers":[{"guid":"cbe4c0bf-4240-5662-bf11-6fb130fe720c","id":1450,"image":null,"name":"Dr. Elen LeFoll","public_name":"Dr. Elen LeFoll","email":"elefoll@uni-koeln.de","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]},{"guid":"164362d0-8331-5686-bd4a-26360b3a80e7","id":1117,"image":"/system/people/avatars/000/001/117/original/WhatsApp_Image_2026-05-04_at_13.09.58.jpeg?1778836879","name":"Ali Yıldız","public_name":"Ali Yıldız","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2026-11-21T13:45:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-21T15:15:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"S 78","id":253}},{"id":1581,"guid":"38fb665d-db31-4577-9000-733786991d1e","title":"Cartographic Erasure: Critical Toponymy, Africanisms, and Female Names in Brazilian Quilombola Territories","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":3600,"time_slots":12,"logo":null,"type":"Poster","do_not_record":false,"track":"Language Documentation","abstract":null,"speakers":[{"guid":"c0495d07-60cd-594d-96d0-614251a9e2de","id":1403,"image":null,"name":"Nágila Sana","public_name":"Nágila Sana","email":"nagilakelli@gmail.com","abstract":"Nágila Kelli Prado Sana is a PhD candidate in Linguistics at the Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso (UNEMAT). 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However, even though having a body is a shared human experience everywhere, metaphors involving the human body are not universal across all languages (see, e.g., Yu 2007, Ibarretxe-Antuñano 2013, Gibbs 2017). Rather, research on Basque, Mandarin Chinese and Australian Indigenous languages indicates that body metaphors are often culturally specific to some extent (see Ibarretxe-Antuñano 2013, Yu 2007, Evans \u0026 Wilkins 2000). This shows the importance both of including underrepresented languages in cognitive linguistic research and of integrating their respective cultural context into the analyses (see also Rice 2017 for an overview of the contributions of Indigenous language research to the field of cognitive linguistics). Conceptual metaphors involving body part vocabulary are also found in Taruma, a highly endangered and as of yet undescribed Indigenous language of Guyana (see Eberhard et al. 2025): examples include doya ada ‘house head’, i.e., ‘roof’, or achirahĩ ‘think’ being derived from achi ‘eye’. Following Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff \u0026 Johnson 1980), these can be analyzed as A HOUSE IS A BODY and as COGNITION IS VISUAL PERCEPTION, respectively. The study proposed here is a qualitative exploration of conceptual metaphors in Taruma colexificatons and lexical items derived from body part terms. The aim is to categorize the semantic domains that feature in body part metaphors, and to attempt to provide some socio-cultural context for these mappings.\r\nThe data for this research stems from my fieldwork with the Taruma, which included word list elicitation as well as recordings of culturally significant topics. The vocabulary elicitation was based on the Intercontinental Dictionary Series, which includes 22 semantic domains (Key \u0026 Comrie 2023). The lexical items were then entered into a FLEx database (SIL International 2025), which currently comprises approximately 950 entries, in preparation for a Taruma dictionary. Despite the comparatively low number of lexical items, the variety of semantic domains included in the data nevertheless makes it possible to show tendencies regarding conceptual metaphors in body part vocabulary: in colexifications, the domains appearing most frequently relate to the natural world, such as plants or landscape features, and to items from everyday life, such as tools. In derived words, the body serves as source for emotions and cognition. This shows that in Taruma, the human body constitutes a central source domain used to make sense of the environment, both natural and man-made, while also being used to form words for cognitive processes like thinking. While this reflects tendencies common in many languages (see, e.g., Tjuka 2024 for a systematic analysis of body-object colexifications in 396 language varieties), the exact mappings in Taruma are also influenced by sociolinguistic and historical factors, such as the speakers’ Taruma-Wapichan bilingualism, as some of the colexifications are the same in Wapichan.\r\n","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"Talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Typology and General Linguistics","abstract":"Talk about conceptual metaphors involving body part vocabulary in Taruma (Guyana, South America)","speakers":[{"guid":"01d54943-010d-54bf-81c3-9d754e63d076","id":1257,"image":null,"name":"Anna Serke","public_name":"Anna Serke","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2026-11-20T11:30:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-20T12:00:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"S 85 ","id":236}},{"id":1625,"guid":"cb077354-9be7-4717-bfb8-140ed1f5a818","title":"Conlang Lab","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":3600,"time_slots":12,"logo":"/system/events/logos/000/001/625/original/Conlang_Lab_STUTS.png?1793833015","type":"workshop","do_not_record":false,"track":"Workshop","abstract":null,"speakers":[{"guid":"58502dd6-0550-5df1-b173-dcc6c45b2383","id":1402,"image":null,"name":"Emir Yaray","public_name":"Emir Yaray","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2026-11-20T14:00:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-20T15:00:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"R2.006 ","id":219}},{"id":1566,"guid":"f4d4d71d-36f9-4f9d-a5b6-1b56e472c77c","title":"„[...] der war so dümming“","language":"de","subtitle":"Das mecklenburg-vorpommersche ing-Diminutiv und sein Gebrauch","description":"Im deutschsprachigen Gebiet werden zwei Haupttypen der synthetischen Diminutivbildung unterschieden: Bildungen mit l-Suffixen wie -lein, -le oder -erl und solche mit k-/ch-Suffixen wie -chen oder -ken (Ehlers, 2011: 79; Schmuck, 2009: 35). Diese Unterteilung „wird durch das singulär in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern\r\nauftretende -ing-Suffix durchbrochen“ (Schmuck, 2009: 35). Es gilt daher als Abgrenzungsmerkmal des mecklenburg-vorpommerschen Niederdeutschen gegenüber anderen niederdeutschen Varietäten (Ehlers, 2011: 91; Müller, 1902: 39; Teuchert, 1952: 83), aber auch als „ein salienter Marker der hochdeutschen Regionalsprache“ (Ehlers, 2011: 91). Der Vortrag rekonstruiert zunächst die strittige Herkunft des Suffixes. Neben Teucherts (1952) These einer adverbialen Etymologie (-inge) wird die dominierende Annahme einer patronymischen Herkunft (-inga) diskutiert, die Schmuck (2009) mit der westfälischen Ostkolonisation nach Mecklenburg-Vorpommern verbindet. Aufbauend auf Schmucks Grammatikalisierungspfad wird der Übergang von der Zugehörigkeitsbedeutung über die patronymische Funktion zur hypokoristischen und schließlich diminuierenden Verwendung nachgezeichnet. Im zweiten Teil steht der synchrone Gebrauch in der hochdeutschen Regionalsprache im Fokus. Es wird die These aufgestellt, dass der geringere Grammatikalisierungsgrad gegenüber standarddeutschen Suffixen wie -chen den vorrangig hypokoristischen (‚kosenden‘) Gebrauch des -ing erklärt. Neben dieser dominierenden Funktion, besonders bei Verwandschaftsbezeichnungen und in der Anrede, kann -ing auch in anderer pragmatischer Funktion, z. B. zur höflichen Abschwächung einer Abweichung von sozialer Erwartung bzw. als Entschärfung einer Aussage eingesetzt werden (Ehlers, 2011: 85, 87). Abschließend diskutiert der Vortrag eine bisher übersehene Funktion: die Markierung regionaler Herkunft. Die Salienz des ing-Diminutivs im hochdeutschen Kontext, bedingt durch Seltenheit und Kontrast zum standarddeutschen -chen (Ehlers, 2011: 89), ermöglicht dessen Einsatz als indexikalischer Marker regionaler Identität.","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"Talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Dialectology","abstract":"Das ing-Diminutiv gilt als Besonderheit des mecklenburg-vorpommerschen Niederdeutschen und der hochdeutschen Regionalsprache. Der Vortrag geht seiner umstrittenen Herkunft nach und zeigt, wie sich -ing vom Ausdruck der Zugehörigkeit zum Kose- und Diminutivsuffix entwickelte. Dabei stehen seine vielfältigen Funktionen im heutigen Sprachgebrauch im Mittelpunkt: von liebevollen Anreden über die höfliche Abschwächung von Aussagen bis hin zur Markierung regionaler Identität. ","speakers":[{"guid":"f49361b3-aa81-5801-8e61-37bd8806111a","id":1384,"image":null,"name":"Lena Fahr","public_name":"Lena Fahr","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2026-11-20T16:50:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-20T17:20:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"S 15 ","id":233}},{"id":1591,"guid":"11800c1d-bddf-4ba6-8c0d-e4b67020eec1","title":"Die kognitiven Prozesse und die Wahrnehmung hinter einer polysynthetischen Sprache anhand des Beispiels Lakota","language":"de","subtitle":null,"description":"The aim of the talk is to explore the forms through which the cognitive processes of speakers of polysynthetic languages can be understood and decribed through the lense of a polysynthetic language (namely Lakota) and the combination of both cognitive data and language data.","duration":3600,"time_slots":12,"logo":null,"type":"Poster","do_not_record":false,"track":"Cognitive Linguistics","abstract":"Language processing is a major topic in psycholinguistics and cognitive science.\r\nHere, language serves as a gateway to gaining insight into the inner workings of the thought process. The\r\nweak version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, also known as linguistic relativity,\r\nis another factor in the complex interplay of the\r\ncomponents of thought.\r\nPolysynthesis is a phenomenon found in languages that are often on the periphery of\r\nacademic linguistic attention. Not only is there evidence\r\nof a different measurable (EKP-based) mental processing of\r\npolysynthetic languages or languages with polysynthetic verbs, but\r\narguments can also be found for a different perception or classification of\r\nscenarios and events in movement sequences.\r\nThrough the example given here—Lakota from the Sioux (-Catawba) language family\r\nof North America—provides an opportunity to investigate these\r\nperceptions of movement in polysynthetic contexts. The difference\r\nfrom the “classical languages” of the Old World, which researchers are attempting to identify,\r\nis that polysynthetic verb or sentence structures always possess certain\r\nslots that must be filled. These slots then refer to\r\nspace and time and are simply not\r\npresent in most English equivalents (e.g., put vs. gnaká, haglé, unpá, mahel’iyeya, otká, a’ú).\r\nThe methodology proposes and prepares a video-scenario stimulation involving Lakota participants\r\nand aims to conduct a textual analysis of Ella\r\nCara Deloria’s recordings in an effort to isolate the speakers’ intuitions.\r\n\r\n","speakers":[{"guid":"3a15a329-7f33-523a-8d2e-f2681b94e70c","id":1411,"image":null,"name":"Lorenz Schüchter","public_name":"Lorenz Schüchter","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2026-11-21T08:30:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-21T09:30:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"Atrium (Philosophikum)","id":256}},{"id":1586,"guid":"5fac2533-234a-4a30-ad57-1aa14b8e31bf","title":"Die Politisierung des Privaten: Instrumentalisierte Trauer in Todesanzeigen und Kondolenztexten zur Zeit des Nationalsozialismus","language":"de","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":3600,"time_slots":12,"logo":null,"type":"Poster","do_not_record":false,"track":"Discourse Analysis","abstract":null,"speakers":[{"guid":"fdae2350-b937-5352-9e71-a3dfe655c07c","id":1392,"image":null,"name":"Sarah Scherer","public_name":"Sarah Scherer","email":"sarah.ophelia.scherer@univie.ac.at","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2026-11-21T08:30:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-21T09:30:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"Atrium (Philosophikum)","id":256}},{"id":1632,"guid":"4123e8e5-b05a-454d-b3bf-eb6d1b04cde5","title":"Documenting child language in Papua New Guinea: Repetition and variation in child-directed and child language","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":3600,"time_slots":12,"logo":null,"type":"Keynote","do_not_record":false,"track":"Language Documentation","abstract":null,"speakers":[{"guid":"e2896433-1c5b-538c-a8c6-a9ac63d074b4","id":1445,"image":null,"name":"Prof. Birgit Hellwig","public_name":"Prof. Birgit Hellwig","email":"bhellwig@uni-koeln.de","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2026-11-20T17:30:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-20T18:30:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"Hörsaal A1 ","id":229}},{"id":1600,"guid":"b8c36f93-54a7-4997-9777-9732e6d4ca78","title":"Does writing influence spoken language?","language":"en","subtitle":"First results from a cross-linguistic study.","description":"Chafe, Wallace (1982). “Integration and involvement in speaking, writing, and oral literature”. In: Spoken and Written Language: Exploring Orality and Literacy. Ed. by Deborah Tannen. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, pp. 35–53.\r\n\r\nDąbrowska, Ewa (2020). “How Writing Changes Language”. In: Language Change: The Impact of English as a Lingua Franca. Ed. by Anna Mauranen and Svetlana Vetchinnikova. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 75–94.\r\n\r\nOng, Walter (1982). Orality and literacy: The technologizing of the word. New York: Methuen.","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"Talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Typology and General Linguistics","abstract":"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 written tradition this frequency is increased in spoken language. A more recent claim is that such languages also employ a larger number of subordination markers in spoken language (Dąbrowska 2020: 87–88). This study examines the frequency of subordination and markers thereof in three phylogenetically and areally diverse languages without a written tradition. These are Goemai (Chadic, Nigeria), Hoocąk (Siouan, USA), and Komnzo (Yam, Papua New Guinea). For this, spoken language data is used. As a secondary objective, the study investigates adverbial subordination in spoken English, a language with a long written tradition and compares it to the numbers in Goemai, Hoocąk, and Komnzo. The results of the study show that these latter three languages differ heavily in the frequency of subordination. Here, a written tradition could not be confirmed to have a major impact. This is also the case when comparing the three languages to English. Other factors such as morphological complexity might play a larger role. The picture is more complex when it comes to the number of subordination markers. Goemai, Hoocąk, and Komnzo employ a similar number of markers. Yet the internal distribution of the markers differs. The image remains largely the same when only looking at adverbial subordination. There however, English does employ the largest number of markers. Yet, the number is less than half of what was reported in the literature and the majority of markers are only very marginally used. Here, there seems to be an impact. However, other factors as well as the asymmetry in research conducted on the individual languages may play a role.","speakers":[{"guid":"d7a66257-a348-5a5a-85a3-7970c57958c9","id":1072,"image":null,"name":"Christian Klöckner","public_name":"Christian Klöckner","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2026-11-19T11:50:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-19T12:20:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"HS VIIb","id":250}},{"id":1560,"guid":"5098a1e6-2d73-48ca-8987-e21f1b217237","title":"ELAN workshop","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":3600,"time_slots":12,"logo":null,"type":"workshop","do_not_record":false,"track":"Workshop","abstract":"Workshop about the basics of using ELAN for annotating media files","speakers":[{"guid":"01d54943-010d-54bf-81c3-9d754e63d076","id":1257,"image":null,"name":"Anna Serke","public_name":"Anna Serke","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2026-11-21T14:00:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-21T15:00:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"S 82 ","id":226}},{"id":1590,"guid":"f2dd510a-b694-432e-b4b8-92488dd4f385","title":"Figuring out doxastic attitude verbs in Romanian: Aspect and entailment","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":"In this talk, I will examine the aspectual classification of change-of-state doxastic predicates in Romanian, an Eastern Romance language previously understudied on the topic. As a subclass of propositional attitude reports, these verbs describe an individual’s mental state with regards to a proposition and, more specifically, they encode a transition in belief. Studies on English have identified a group of change-of-state doxastics that are also factive, presupposing the truth of their complement, and referred to them as “come-to-know” verbs (e.g. discover, find out). For instance, “Mary discovered that the Earth is round” suggests that the Earth is indeed round; negating the statement, “Mary did not discover that the Earth is round”, does not affect the truth of the embedded sentence and only highlights that the subject has not yet acquired the information. My research advances the discussion of “come-to-know” predicates and their properties by investigating Romanian. First, I identified five Romanian verbs that fit in the category by using the MegaVeridicality database of English attitude verbs as a starting point; then, I checked how their entailment projects and I tested their lexical aspect using adapted diagnostics and the intuitions of a small group of native speakers.","duration":3600,"time_slots":12,"logo":null,"type":"Poster","do_not_record":false,"track":"Semantics","abstract":"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 Romanian.","speakers":[{"guid":"1bc08d59-6694-5852-bec4-82696819390b","id":1396,"image":null,"name":"Cristina Buruiană","public_name":"Cristina Buruiană","abstract":"Hi! I'm a linguistics master's student at Utrecht University, in the Netherlands. I would say my fields of interest are semantics and pragmatics; less academically, I enjoy figurative speech, idioms and puns. ","description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2026-11-21T08:30:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-21T09:30:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"Atrium (Philosophikum)","id":256}},{"id":1647,"guid":"5244d40b-3262-42a2-9efc-d0c6d0c970d5","title":"Final Plenum","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":3600,"time_slots":12,"logo":null,"type":"other","do_not_record":false,"track":null,"abstract":null,"speakers":[],"start_time":"2026-11-21T18:00:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-21T19:00:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"Hörsaal II ","id":227}},{"id":1641,"guid":"c57f5c14-5ff6-4e26-bbe2-ecd938825027","title":"Games NIght ","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":10800,"time_slots":36,"logo":null,"type":"other","do_not_record":false,"track":null,"abstract":null,"speakers":[],"start_time":"2026-11-20T19:30:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-20T22:30:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"TH Forum","id":248}},{"id":1561,"guid":"91b1fac6-a189-4a7d-93b8-6bbca64e1f15","title":" Geschlechtergerechte Sprache in der Politik Frankreichs - Korrelationsanalysen mithilfe von Instagram","language":"de","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"Talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Sociolinguistics","abstract":"Im Fokus dieser Masterarbeit steht eine produktionsorientierte Analyse von Instagrambeiträgen französischer Politiker:innen, die Aufschluss darüber geben soll, inwiefern soziodemografische Parameter, insbesondere Geschlecht, Alter und politische Orientierung, die (ausbleibende) Anwendung geschlechtergerechter Sprache beeinflussen.\r\n\r\n","speakers":[{"guid":"8259d362-73f4-5abc-93cb-6fc3729067e3","id":1377,"image":"/system/people/avatars/000/001/377/original/1790922994881.jpg?1794560124","name":"Klara Johanna Bischof","public_name":"Klara Johanna Bischof","email":"kbischof@uni-mainz.de","abstract":"My name is Klara Johanna Bischof and I am a research assistant and PHD candidate at the Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany. My research focuses on discourse analysis, cognitive cultural linguistics, and gender linguistics.\r\n\r\n","description":null,"links":[{"url":"https://romanistik.uni-mainz.de/klara-johanna-bischof-m-a/","title":"Profil JGU"}]}],"start_time":"2026-11-21T10:05:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-21T10:35:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"S 63","id":259}},{"id":1572,"guid":"9e298df0-8c63-406f-8336-9ffcef37750d","title":"Grammaticalization Paths","language":"en","subtitle":"On the Applicability of the Progressive-Imperfective Shift Proposal","description":"Grammaticalization research is a necessarily intersectional field of inquiry for multiple reasons. Firstly, tracking the development of a grammatical category requires the fusion of synchronic and diachronic approaches into cohesive accounts (Weinreich et al., 1968). Secondly, patterns of grammaticalization are conditioned by the grammar of a given language, resulting in typological differences between languages with regards to how their respective grammars may develop over time  (Bybee et al., 1994). Thirdly, cases of grammatical change have been linked to the interplay of (morpho-)syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic factors (Comrie, 1976;  Bybee et al., 1994). Theories of grammaticalization that seek to adequately explain patterns of grammatical change should thus be able to describe: (i) the properties which make grammatical categories susceptible to change in the first place, (ii) the factors which trigger and maintain dynamics of change, and (iii) the precise mechanisms driving those dynamics (Weinreich et al., 1968). \r\n\r\nThe proposal in Deo (2015) attempts to provide a comprehensive theory of grammaticalization paths on the example of unidirectional cyclic change observed for imperfective and progressive aspectual markers across multiple languages. In order to do so, it analyzes the relation between imperfective and progressive aspect in formalist, functional, and game-theoretic terms. The core idea is that the imperfective and the progressive share a semantic core but differ in their domains of quantification, which triggers multiple conversational implicatures and leads to morphologically overt progressive markers emerging alongside imperfective forms, becoming increasingly grammaticalized, and eventually generalizing to encompass the entire imperfective domain. Deo (2015) additionally conceptualizes the different stages of this cycle as distinct grammars and provides a quasi-typological classification of various languages and their historic varieties in terms of their position on the cycle. Although Deo's (2015) proposal thus offers a cohesive account of various mechanisms of aspectual change, the full extent of its crosslinguistic applicability remains to be determined. Our work aims to test the limitations of the proposal on the data from Dutch and Russian, two Indo-European languages with different systems of grammatical aspect. \r\n\r\nDutch provides an example of an emerging progressive system largely consistent with Deo's (2015) framework. Its aspectual system reflects the semantic distinction between imperfective and progressive aspect, the formal asymmetry between an unmarked imperfective and more complex progressive constructions, and gradual semantic bleaching. However, Dutch exhibits several partially overlapping constructions at different stages of grammaticalization (Lemmens, 2005). While aan het V is relatively grammaticalized and widely distributed, posture-verb constructions such as zitten te V and bezig zijn met V retain varying degrees of lexical meaning and communicative specialization (Lemmens, 2005; Flecken, 2011). Their coexistence suggests that grammaticalization does not always involve competition between an imperfective and a single progressive marker, but rather may exhibit gradual shifts in communicative competition as lexical distinctions diminish through semantic bleaching.\r\n\r\nData from Russian, by contrast, challenges the implication of universal applicability within Deo's (2015) proposal.  The formal semantic distinction between the imperfective and the progressive remains applicable. However, Russian is shown to historically lack an overt progressive marker (Wiemer \u0026 Seržant, 2017), putting the validity of its placement on the progressive-imperfective cycle into question. Instead, evidence of overt markers of genericity/iterativity (Biskup, 2024), alongside the historical development of the secondary imperfective suffix -iva-/-yva- (Silina, 1982; Wiemer \u0026 Seržant, 2017), raises questions about the role of generic meaning in aspectual grammaticalization. This suggests that an alternative analysis of the Russian imperfective system as defined by an opposition between the generic and the imperfective is potentially more informative, and gives more credence to the notion of the generic-imperfective cycle, briefly considered but ultimately dismissed by Deo (2015) on the grounds of insufficient evidence.\r\n\r\nTaken together, the two case studies suggest that the general theoretical framework proposed in Deo (2015) may have broader crosslinguistic applicability than the specific grammaticalization trajectory it uses as an example. Data from Dutch both illustrates and discusses the explanatory potential of the progressive-imperfective cycle, whereas evidence from Russian suggests that the progressive-imperfective cycle may represent only one possible developmental pathway rather than a universal trajectory. \r\n\r\nReferences\r\n\r\nBiskup, P. (2024). On imperfective suffixes in Russian. Russian Linguistics, 48(1), 14.\r\n\r\nBybee, J., Perkins, R. \u0026 Pagliuca, W. (1994). The evolution of grammar: Tense, aspect, and modality in the languages of the world. Chicago,  IL: The University of Chicago.\r\n\r\nComrie, B. (1976). Aspect: An introduction to the study of verbal aspect  and related problems. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.\r\n\r\nDeo, A. (2015). The semantic and pragmatic underpinnings of grammaticalization paths: The progressive to imperfective shift. Semantics and Pragmatics, 8.\r\n\r\nFlecken, M. (2011). What native speaker judgments tell us about the grammaticalization of a progressive aspectual marker in Dutch. Linguistics, 49(3).\r\n\r\nLemmens, M. (2005). Aspectual posture verb constructions in Dutch. Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 17(3).\r\n\r\nSilina, V. B. (1982). Istorija kategorii glagol’nogo vida [The history of the category of verbal aspect]. In R. I. Avanesov \u0026 V. V. Ivanov (Eds.), Istoričeskaja grammatika russkogo jazyka. Morfologija. Glagol [The historical grammar of Russian. Morphology. The verb] (pp. 158–279). Nauka.\r\n\r\nWeinreich, U., Labov, W. \u0026 Herzog, M. (1968). Empirical foundations  for a theory of language change. In W. P. Lehmann \u0026 Y. Malkeil (Eds.),  Directions for Historical Linguistics: A Symposium (pp. 95–188). Austin, TX:  University of Texas Press.\r\n\r\nWiemer, B., \u0026 Seržant, I. A. (2017). Diachrony and typology of Slavic aspect: What does morphology tell us? In W. Bisang \u0026 A. Malchukov (Eds.), Unity and diversity in grammaticalization scenarios (pp. 239–307). Language Science Press.\r\n","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"Talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Typology and General Linguistics","abstract":"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 ideas and develop them further based on the feedback.","speakers":[{"guid":"9efae61c-d93e-579b-9029-5d27f82cbaac","id":204,"image":null,"name":"Dan Bondarenko","public_name":"Dan Bondarenko","email":"bondared@hu-berlin.de","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]},{"guid":"6ef602d1-eedf-5ae5-94c5-96f8a65ace25","id":1398,"image":null,"name":"Christine Jongejan","public_name":"Christine Jongejan","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2026-11-21T09:30:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-21T10:00:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"S 82 ","id":226}},{"id":1596,"guid":"6e1ee311-39e3-4678-920f-731e6e8af4e2","title":"\"Have you had the surgery?\"","language":"en","subtitle":"A study on politeness in conversation with trans people","description":"This talk is based on the study I conducted for my BA thesis in linguistics at the University of Oslo. While marked as sociolinguistics, it also contains pragmatics and some semantics.\r\n\r\nPoliteness theory as created by Brown and Levinson is the very core of the analysis. I use it to examine whether the question is a face threatening action, and if so, whether it threatens positive or negative face the most. If you're familiar with sociolinguists discussing face, you might be confused as to why I'm not using Arundale's Face Constituting Theory instead. Don't worry, I will justify this choice. And if you'd like to see someone be a professional hater of a theoretical framework for a moment: this is the talk for you.","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"Talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Sociolinguistics","abstract":"Politeness appears to decline in conversation with minorities. This observation motivated the study for my BA thesis, which more specifically looks at the question \"Have you had the surgery?\" posed to trans people. This question is often inferred to mean \"What do your genitals look like?\" by the minority in question, which is an obviously rude question, so why do people ask? How does it affect the recipient? Does it threaten face, and if so, which one and how? In this talk, I will attempt to tackle those questions.","speakers":[{"guid":"5850c1bc-e8f1-57f4-bf26-6d248a0e3546","id":1408,"image":null,"name":"Tevje Michelsen","public_name":"Tevje Michelsen","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2026-11-21T13:00:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-21T13:30:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"S 63","id":259}},{"id":1629,"guid":"33d49671-8e8d-40da-9bca-a096019993b3","title":"Heritage speakers of Latvian in Germany: language biographies and language skills","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"Talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Applied Linguistics","abstract":null,"speakers":[{"guid":"d6e70eea-94e4-54b3-8c41-dfd124307107","id":1440,"image":null,"name":"Enric Wörndl ","public_name":"Enric Wörndl ","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2026-11-20T16:50:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-20T17:20:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"S 23","id":235}},{"id":1569,"guid":"bdee8d6b-8d46-4c88-83e4-e5b52d220c6e","title":"How to assess multilingual(s)?","language":"de","subtitle":"Challenges in Language Assessment in the Context of Multilingualism","description":"Literatur:\r\nDe Angelis, G. (2021). Multilingual testing and assessment. Bristol, Blue Ridge Summit: Multilingual Matters. https://doi.org/10.21832/9781800410558\r\nDe Bot, Kees. 2019. Defining and Assessing Multilingualism. In: J. W. Schwieter (Hrsg.), The Handbook of the Neuroscience of Multilingualism, 3–18. Hoboken: Wiley.\r\nGantefort, C., Barberio, T., Busch, L. \u0026 Goltsev, E. (2025). Tackling the challenge of cons truct validity in assessing newly arrived learners’ receptive skills: Investigations on a multilingual online-based diagnostic tool. Frontiers in Communication, (10), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2025.1537384\r\nGoral, M., Antolovic, K., Hejazi, Z., \u0026 Schulz, F. M. (2024). Using a translanguaging framework to examine language production in a trilingual person with aphasia. Clinical Linguistics \u0026 Phonetics, 39(1), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2024.2328240\r\nKöhler, C. \u0026 Hartig, J. (2020). Assessment im Kontext von Mehrsprachigkeit. In:  I. Gogolin, A. Hansen, S. McMonagle \u0026 D. Rauch (Hrsg.), Handbuch Mehrsprachigkeit und Bildung, 303–308. Wiesbaden: Springer.\r\nMarx, N. (2020). Transfer oder Transversalität? – Designs zur Erforschung der Mehrschriftlichkeit. Bulletin suisse de linguistique appliquée (Numéro spécial), 15–33. https://doi.org/10.26034/ne.vals-asla.2020.1215\r\nMay, S. (2014). The multilingual turn. Implications for SLA, TESOL and Bilingual Education. New York, London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203113493\r\nNorvik, M. \u0026 Goral, M. (2022). Assessment Challenges in Acquired Aphasia in Multilingual Individuals. In: U. Røyneland \u0026 R. Blackwood (Hrsg.), Multilingualism across the Lifespan, 189–208. New York, London: Routledge. \r\nShohamy, E. (2011). Assessing multilingual competencies: adopting construct valid assessment policies. Modern Language Journal, 95(3), 418–429. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-4781.2011.01210.x \r\nTracy, R. \u0026 Schulz, P. (2012). Ein neuer Sprachtest: Linguistische Sprachstandsdiagnostik Deutsch als Zweitsprache (LiSe-DaZ). Frühe Bildung, 1(2), 111-113.\r\nVan Dijk, C., Van Wonderen, E., Koutamanis, E., Kootstra, G. J., Dijkstra, T., \u0026 Unsworth, S. (2022). Cross-linguistic influence in simultaneous and early sequential bilingual children: a meta-analysis. Journal of Child Language, 49(5), 897–929.  https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000921000337\r\n","duration":3600,"time_slots":12,"logo":null,"type":"workshop","do_not_record":false,"track":"Workshop","abstract":"Auch wenn Einsprachigkeit oftmals noch als Norm angesehen wird, ist Mehrsprachigkeit – insbesondere in unserer heutigen Gesellschaft – in vielen Kontexten nicht mehr die Ausnahme, sondern spiegelt die sprachliche Realität wider (vgl. De Bot 2019, 3). Dies erfordert auch den Einbezug von Mehrsprachigkeit in diversen Forschungs- und Praxisfeldern, die bisher vermehrt von einsprachigen Rahmenbedingungen geprägt waren und teils noch sind (vgl. z. B. May 2014, 2). Forschung zu diesem Thema fokussiert viele unterschiedliche Aspekte: Dazu zählen neben Kriterien und Faktoren für die Definition von Multilingualismus und die daraus resultierende große Individualität mehrsprachiger Personen (vgl. Norvik \u0026 Goral 2022, 189–190) beispielsweise sowohl Interaktionen zwischen beherrschten Sprachen (z. B. Van Dijk et al. 2022) als auch Fragen nach sprachübergreifenden Fähigkeiten (z. B. Marx 2020). \r\nDiese Aspekte sind auch in der Diagnostik sprachlicher Fähigkeiten von Bedeutung. Im Kontext von Multilingualismus wird die Sprachdiagnostik insbesondere mit Blick auf die Aufrechterhaltung von Gütekriterien wie Konstruktvalidität vor vielfältige Herausforderungen gestellt (vgl. Shohamy 2011, 420). Verschiedene Überlegungen zu diesem Thema verfolgen das Ziel, Mehrsprachigkeit – unter anderem durch multilinguale Testkonzeption oder Berücksichtigung in den Normwerten – in die (Sprach-)Diagnostik einzubeziehen, um eine faire und valide Kompetenztestung mehrsprachiger Personen zu ermöglichen (vgl. z. B. De Angelis 2021; Köhler \u0026 Hartig 2020). In den verschiedenen Bereichen der Sprachdiagnostik gibt es bereits erste Ansätze, die diese Überlegungen umsetzen: Bezüglich der Diagnostik von Sprachentwicklungsstörungen oder -verzögerungen integriert das Verfahren LiSe-DaZ Mehrsprachigkeit durch eine Normierung für Kinder, die Deutsch als Zweitsprache erwerben, und die zusätzliche Berücksichtigung der Kontaktmonate zur deutschen Sprache (vgl. Tracy \u0026 Schulz 2012); im schulischen Bereich soll das Assessment-Tool Allrad-M durch den Ansatz „multilingual-by-design“ (De Angelis 2021) zu einer validen Erfassung allgemeiner rezeptiver sprachlicher Fähigkeiten beitragen (vgl. Gantefort et al. 2025); auch mit Blick auf Aphasie gibt es – durch die Nutzung des Translanguaging-Prinzips bei der Diagnostik einer trilingualen Aphasikerin – erste Untersuchungen zu Effekten des Einbezugs von Mehrsprachigkeit (vgl. Goral et al. 2024). \r\nDas Ziel dieses Workshops besteht darin, diese verschiedenen Ansätze für multilinguale Diagnostik vorzustellen und einzuordnen. Dafür wird zunächst ein Überblick über relevante Grundlagen aus der Forschung zu einerseits Mehrsprachigkeit sowie andererseits Sprachdiagnostik und damit auch Testtheorie gegeben. Anhand von diesem Wissen werden – unter Einbezug von diversen sprachwissenschaftlichen Perspektiven – die Berücksichtigung von Mehrsprachigkeit in den vorgestellten Verfahren diskutiert und Herausforderungen in diesem Zusammenhang herausgearbeitet. Abschließend sollen in einem gemeinsamen Austausch konzeptionelle Ideen für den Einbezug von Mehrsprachigkeit in diagnostischen Kontexten entwickelt und potenzielle Lösungsansätze reflektiert werden. Dazu sind explizit Studierende aus allen linguistischen Teilgebieten eingeladen, um einen möglichst breiten und multiperspektivischen Blick auf die Thematik zu erlangen.\r\n","speakers":[{"guid":"8bd6b05f-6455-52ad-839b-462213e8e419","id":1115,"image":"/system/people/avatars/000/001/115/original/IMF06019-1_Kopie_klein.jpg?1743110306","name":"Anna Lena Deeken ","public_name":"Anna Lena Deeken ","abstract":"I am a student at the University of Cologne, currently studying a Master of Linguistics and additionally a 2-subject Master in Rehabilitation Sciences of People with Hearing Impairments and Adult Education/ Continuing Education. In my BA, I also studied educational science and linguistics at the University of Cologne. ","description":"Through my two master's subjects, I am especially interested in the situation and communication of people with hearing impairments and sign languages. In general, my linguistics studies were focused on multilingualism, multimodality and language acquisition. Through my work at the Mercator Institute at the University of Cologne, I also focus on topics of language assessment and language education. \r\n","links":[{"url":"https://mercator-institut.uni-koeln.de/institut/unser-team/sprache-und-profession/anna-lena-deeken","title":"Persönliche Webseite (Mercator-Institut für Mehrsprachigkeit und sprachliche Bildung)"}]}],"start_time":"2026-11-21T14:00:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-21T15:00:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"S 65","id":252}},{"id":1608,"guid":"cae1dd97-65eb-4f71-9a76-abc74e3f3f81","title":"Idiolinguistics in Action: Exploring Affect and Entrenchment at the Individual Level","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"Talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Sociolinguistics","abstract":"Linguistic research often seeks patterns that generalize across speakers and communities. But what can we learn when we take the individual speaker as our primary unit of analysis? The VolkswagenStiftung project Idiolinguistics addresses this question by shifting attention from aggregate language systems to individual linguistic behaviour and by combining intensive longitudinal language data with experimental measures of linguistic representation.\r\nAt the centre of the project is the Corpus of Situational Individual Variation (CorSIV), which follows ten speakers over 2.5 years. At repeated sampling points, the project collects digital communication, conversational recordings, sociolinguistic interviews, information about media consumption, auto-ethnographic writing, and experimental data. This creates the possibility of connecting what people encounter and produce in their everyday linguistic lives with how language is represented and processed cognitively.\r\nTo illustrate what such an approach can look like in practice, I will draw on my PhD project on affect and lexical entrenchment. The project asks whether the affective properties of words, particularly valence and arousal, contribute to lexical entrenchment beyond frequency of exposure. It combines a population-level corpus study using COCA and normative affect ratings with an individual-level study linking CorSIV exposure data, individual affective ratings, and experimental measures of lexical entrenchment.\r\nMore broadly, the talk aims to show how corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, and longitudinal research can be brought together to investigate language at the level of the individual.","speakers":[{"guid":"d8250b3a-14f8-5f1d-9752-8b24d587c301","id":1427,"image":null,"name":"Areti Andreou","public_name":"Areti Andreou","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2026-11-20T11:30:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-20T12:00:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"S 57 ","id":225}},{"id":1593,"guid":"3930249e-9933-49e7-8b01-724b3f26c313","title":"If the child knows 'dog', when is 'frog' learnt? – The effect of form-meaning overlapping on word acquisition","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"Talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Language Acquisition","abstract":null,"speakers":[{"guid":"769ef496-f398-5b15-ae15-3ec342428c96","id":1409,"image":null,"name":"Jette Ohrdorf","public_name":"Jette Ohrdorf","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2026-11-21T13:00:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-21T13:30:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"S 65","id":252}},{"id":1573,"guid":"f74c5972-f40a-4e65-8504-9dbb4d3ab592","title":"\"If they cease to function, they cease to live\": Exploring pain communication among the Bolivian Quechua people","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":"The ability to feel pain is universal to all human beings, regardless of ethnicity, gender, or age. It has been shown, however, that the exact nature of one’s pain experience, i.e. how humans perceive and react to pain, is all but universal and can differ greatly depending on one’s cultural and social identity (Craig and MacKenzie 2021). This becomes especially clear when observing pain communication in multi-cultural and multi-linguistic environments, where misunderstandings frequently occur when medical practitioners and their patients derive from different cultural backgrounds (Zborowski 1969).\r\nThis study explores how the Quechua people of Bolivia, South America, use language to describe and express painful sensations. More specifically, we investigated how the Quechua people communicate pain among their community members and in medical settings, and how cultural and linguistic barriers may lead to issues in pain diagnosis and treatment. For this purpose, we conducted semi-structed interviews with 7 native speakers of Bolivian Quechua and 12 medical practitioners (monolingual Spanish as well as bilingual Spanish and Quechua speakers) with extensive experience in treating Quechua patients. Interviews with Quechua participants were conducted in the Quechua language within different rural towns of the Cochabamba region in Bolivia, while interviews with medical practitioners were conducted in Spanish in Cochabamba City.\r\nThematic analysis of the collected material suggests that linguistic competence in the Quechua language is immensely important when treating Quechua patients. This is due to multiple reasons. The first one is the obvious communication barrier that occurs when the patient has little or no knowledge of Spanish and the medical practitioner has little or no knowledge of Quechua. In this case, patients usually must rely on family members to interpret, which can cause important information to become lost in translation (see also García Camacho 2019). The second reason is that, to understand some patients’ explanations for why they feel pain, it is necessary to have knowledge of concepts from Andean cosmovision that do not have a Spanish equivalent, such as the concept of jap’iqa (lit. grabbing or taking). It refers to the idea that when one has angered the Pachamama (the “principal deity of Andean religion” that embodies the earth itself, Bolin 1998: 32), she may take hold of one’s spirit as punishment which can result in different maladies, like pain. Without knowledge of the Quechua language, it becomes difficult to fully understand this reasoning. And thirdly, fluent command of the Quechua language is extremely important when building up trust with a Quechua patient so that they feel comfortable enough to share details about their pain. Lack of knowledge about the Quechua language may be interpreted as lack of knowledge about Quechua culture itself, which in turn makes patients more likely to see medical practitioners as outsiders and feel less comfortable with speaking freely about a highly personal topic such as pain.\r\nThe results of this study support the general view that linguistic competency is of crucial importance for healthcare systems with culturally diverse populations (Bouchard et al. 2012; Marquine and Jimenez 2020). \r\n\r\nReferences:\r\nBolin, Inge. 1998. Rituals of Respect: The Secret of Survival in the High Peruvian Andes. New York, USA: University of Texas Press.\r\nBouchard, Lise, Mario Incayawar \u0026 Knox H. Todd. 2012. Linguistic Approach for Understanding Pain in the Medical Encounter. Culture, Brain, and Analgesia: Understanding and Managing Pain in Diverse Populations, 0. Oxford University Press.\r\nCraig, K. D. \u0026 N. E. MacKenzie. 2021. What is pain: Are cognitive and social features core components? Paediatr Neonatal Pain 3(3). 106-118.\r\nGarcía Camacho, Angélica. 2019. Apoyo en la interacción comunicativa entre el  paciente adulto mayor quechua hablante y el  profesional de la salud castellano hablante mediante la interpretación comunitaria,  coadyuvando en la superación de las barreras  lingüísticas en el acceso a los servicios de salud  pública del hospital clínico viedma. Cochabamba, Bolivia: Universidad Mayor de San Simón Trabajo Dirigido.\r\nMarquine, María J. \u0026 Daniel Jimenez. 2020. Cultural and linguistic proficiency in mental health care: a crucial aspect of professional competence. International Psychogeriatrics 32(1). 1-3.\r\nZborowski, M. 1969. People in Pain. 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The resulting audiovisual recordings form the basis of a planned follow-up comprehension experiment, which tests which cues listeners use when identifying intended illocutionary force and whether force recognition depends on individual cues, multimodal cue configurations, contextual information, or interactions between these sources.","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"Talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Pragmatics","abstract":"Imperatives present a classic form-function mismatch in language since the same imperative utterance can be interpreted as a command, plea, permission, advice, or other speech act, while similar communicative functions can also be expressed through a range of grammatical constructions. A central challenge for linguistic theory is therefore to explain how speakers signal and hearers recognise the intended illocutionary force of an utterance when grammatical form alone does not uniquely determine interpretation. Recent research on sign languages suggests that imperative-related meanings may be associated with systematic combinations of manual and non-manual markers rather than sentence type alone. The present project investigates whether spoken-language communication likewise relies on multimodal cues in the production and recognition of imperative-related speech acts, without assuming that such cues have the same linguistic status or degree of conventionalisation as the markers described for sign languages. \r\nThe project combines a production study and a comprehension study to examine how commands, pleas, permissions, and advice are signalled and interpreted in spoken interaction. Participants will produce speech acts in controlled scenarios, allowing the analysis of linguistic form, prosody, gesture, facial expression, gaze, and posture. The resulting recordings will then be used in perception experiments investigating which cues listeners rely on when identifying intended force and how different sources of information contribute to interpretation. By linking speech-act theory, multimodal communication research, and insights from sign language linguistics, the project aims to determine the interaction of linguistic cues, context, prosody, facial expression, and gesture in the marking and recognition of illocutionary force.","speakers":[{"guid":"9c0e7f8b-3ae7-5ab6-9a70-7da3c5905b28","id":1379,"image":null,"name":"Johanna Deppe","public_name":"Johanna Deppe","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2026-11-19T12:25:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-19T12:55:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"S 85 ","id":236}},{"id":1606,"guid":"680c64db-21c2-4278-94cd-a9c27621460e","title":"Noch Angst oder schon Hoffnung? 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In \"The dog ate the damn cake\", the attitude can be construed with respect to the whole proposition (the speaker is upset that the dog ate the cake), the subject referent (upset at the dog), or the object referent (upset at the cake). How the target is resolved, and what constrains it, is debated.\r\n\r\nPragmatic accounts (Potts 2005, 2007) treat expressives as an independent speech act that can target different constituents, with the ambiguity resolved by inference. Within this tradition, the culprit hypothesis (Frazier, Dillon \u0026 Clifton 2015) holds that the attitude is preferentially construed with respect to an individual who could be held responsible for the described eventuality. A more recent proposal, the valence hypothesis (Glauch 2026), states that expressive adjectives preferentially target the discourse referent that is more negatively valenced than the other potential targets in the sentence. \r\n\r\nIf valence guides target selection, it is unclear whether the effect is categorical or continuous. Furthermore, psycholinguistic work suggests that emojis substituting for nouns are processed like words (e.g., Paggio \u0026 Ping Ping Tse 2022; Weissman et al. 2024), but this has only been tested for descriptive content. Whether expressive emojis are interpreted as non-locally as expressive adjectives is therefore unknown.\r\n\r\nThe talk presents two planned experiments on German that address these questions. They aim to test the valence hypothesis against experimental evidence and to extend the study of expressive meaning to the emoji modality.","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"Talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Semantics","abstract":"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 ate the damn cake\", the speaker may be understood as upset at the dog, the cake, or the event as a whole. Pragmatic accounts attribute this flexibility to inference, whereas syntactic accounts derive it from structural constraints. This talk examines whether the negative emotional valence of potential targets modulates this choice, and whether the effect is categorical or gradient. 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Quarto offers automatic citations, cross-references, and\r\nformatting for figures and tables, resulting in clean and well-structured documents. When the data\r\nor code changes, the results and figures are automatically updated. It therefore supports\r\nreproducible workflows that are less error-prone.\r\n\r\nIn this workshop, we will introduce a Quarto template and demonstrate how to\r\nuse Quarto for a term paper, a BA thesis, or an MA thesis in the field of linguistics. We will cover\r\nthe use of figures, tables, linguistic examples, cross-references to sections and figures, APA-style\r\ncitations, and IPA symbols.\r\n\r\nPreparation: If possible, please install R and RStudio before the workshop (a separate Quarto\r\ninstallation is not required). 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Using purpose-built corpora and sub-corpora, the project triangulates corpus linguistic techniques (collocation, keyword and concordance analyses) with corpus-informed Critical Discourse Analysis to reveal patterns in language use related to schizophrenia that may not be realised as overt discrimination or stigmatising practice. The top statistically significant 25 collocations and 30 keywords lists were qualitatively coded, with two lexical domains emerging – Medical language and Social actors. Detailed corpus-driven CDA of these findings revealed prevalent framing of schizophrenia as a legitimate medical diagnosis in both newspapers, with stigma-challenging discourses more prevalent in The Guardian (realised through clinical diagnostic framing (“diagnosed with [paranoid] schizophrenia”), person-first language encoding agency and individuality (“a person with schizophrenia”) and acknowledgement of co-morbidities (“schizophrenia and bipolar disorder”). Comparatively, in The Times, findings showed greater prevalence of stigma-reinforcing discourses (realised through condition-first language encoding genericisation (“a schizophrenic [person]”), obsolete diagnostic terminology (“paranoid schizophrenia”), and naming associated with blame (“Sutcliffe [the Yorkshire Ripper] was a paranoid schizophrenic”)). However, both newspapers showed instances of all aforementioned features, indicating that, whilst The Guardian showed greater indication of responsible, clinically-grounded reporting, the divide in representations of schizophrenia in left versus right politically leaning newspapers is not particularly marked. Furthermore, both newspapers (though more frequently The Times) constructed schizophrenia as associated with a male-centric violence rhetoric (“a schizophrenic man who stabbed his mother 33 times”), though medicalisation remained a more dominant discourse. Whilst these findings indicate schizophrenia-related reporting may have improved and now not be as problematic, negative and stigmatising as previous literature has found, more can be still be done particularly surrounding encoding individual agency of people with schizophrenia and avoiding unnecessary associations with blame, violence or a masculine rhetoric.","speakers":[{"guid":"bb082e7d-44dd-5e23-be8f-63f65c016297","id":1416,"image":"/system/people/avatars/000/001/416/original/6863B399-EF8B-493F-B67D-00D852027AA8.JPG?1792696266","name":"Laura Collins","public_name":"Laura Collins","abstract":"I am a postgraduate research student based in Cambridge, UK, with a background in linguistics and mental health activism. My research focuses on linguistic portrayals of mental illness and lived experience perspectives of these.","description":"I am a postgraduate research student based in Cambridge, UK, with a background in linguistics and mental health activism. After completing my BA (Hons) and MPhil degrees in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, I decided to combine my two passions for my PhD. My research focuses on linguistic portrayals of mental illness and lived experience perspectives of these, blending quantitative corpus linguistic methods with qualitative analysis of narratives of people living with different mental health conditions. Outside of academia, I enjoy ice skating, horse riding and hiking.","links":[]}],"start_time":"2026-11-21T09:30:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-21T10:00:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"S 78","id":253}},{"id":1610,"guid":"409104ed-aff1-4bb8-8e97-419152121c0f","title":"Reproduction of Gender Sensitive Language effects on Job listing views","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":"Intended for those interested in learning about and getting involved in open science/reproducible science practices. Knowledge of R and Quarto might be useful but not a necessity. 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I will present my paper \"Reproduction of Gender Sensitive Language effects on Job listing views\" which reproduces and performs a robustness check on the 2024 paper  “Effects of gender sensitive language in job listings: a study on real-life user interaction” by Dominik Hetjens and Stefan Hartmann which investigated whether different gender-sensitive language strategies in German made an impact on female job seekers. I will also discuss doing a robustness check to assess the reliability of their findings. The aim of this talk is to provide a real world example of a reproduction, explore the skills I developed during the process, and show off how much fun being a data detective sleuthing through research can be. Those interested in this talk should check out the Replication and Reproducibility workshop with Dr. Elen Le Foll and Ali Yildiz. 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Then, we'll take a closer look at flow (the rhythm of lyrics in a musical context) to understand how language can shape music. Lastly, we'll take a look at the words behind the music to figure out how artists bend words and phrases to communicate ideas through language.","speakers":[{"guid":"eec90824-3721-5804-9c73-d88b3bd5a2f9","id":1415,"image":"/system/people/avatars/000/001/415/original/profile-square.jpg?1794404820","name":"Pranav Singh","public_name":"Pranav Singh","abstract":"M.Sc. 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For dramas and screenplays, this is comparatively simple, since the text itself serves as the direct starting point. For comics, this is not so trivial. Because comics convey information not only through text but also through images, a simple text analysis is not sufficient here.\r\nIn this talk, I present an approach for creating a textual representation of a comic that reflects the original as accurately as possible. After that, we will look on the sentiment analysis of one manga story based on the textual representation created in this way.","speakers":[{"guid":"a3ab05a6-9adc-5ef8-a649-ffd94922a5e9","id":1439,"image":null,"name":"Jelle Psurek","public_name":"Jelle Psurek","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2026-11-19T12:25:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-19T12:55:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"R2.006 ","id":219}},{"id":1576,"guid":"8373a2d8-9c61-4f85-a865-7e1dc374e97c","title":"Shitty signs? 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Since unstressed vowels in Batsbi are frequently subject to reduction, the analysis is restricted to stressed syllables in order to provide a more stable basis for acoustic comparison. Vowel realizations are examined in three contexts: isolation, sentence-initial position, and sentence-final position.\r\nAcoustic analysis is based on vowel duration and the first two formants (F1 and F2), allowing for a preliminary assessment of vowel quality and contextual variation. Particular attention is paid to methodological challenges arising from exploratory fieldwork, including heterogeneous elicitation contexts, speaker variation and the selection of suitable acoustic measures.\r\nWhile descriptions of Batsbi phonology exist, instrumental studies of its vowel system remain limited. The present study therefore aims to contribute an initial acoustic perspective on the language and to establish a foundation for future research. Rather than presenting definitive conclusions, the talk discusses preliminary observations regarding vowel production across speakers and contexts, evaluates the usefulness of different acoustic measures, and outlines directions for a larger-scale study planned as part of an MA thesis.","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"Talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Phonetics and Phonology","abstract":"This presentation reports on an exploratory acoustic investigation of stressed vowels in Batsbi (Tsova-Tush), an endangered Nakh language spoken in a single village in eastern Georgia. The data were collected during the Zemo Alvani Field Research Week (ZAFieR) in August 2026 and consist of elicited lexical items and sentence productions from three native speakers. Using measurements of vowel duration and the first two formants (F1 and F2), the study examines vowel realization across speakers and contexts. As instrumental investigations of the Batsbi vowel system remain scarce, the project aims to provide a preliminary acoustic perspective on the language and establish a basis for future research.","speakers":[{"guid":"b547e37e-c418-5ced-8cc7-530d952769d4","id":1071,"image":null,"name":"Eva Könings","public_name":"Eva Könings","abstract":"Completed a BA in Linguistics at Universität Leipzig\r\nPart of the Organising Team for the 77th StuTS in Leipzig\r\nCurrently pursuing an MA in Linguistics at GAU Göttingen\r\n","description":"I have a strong passion for all aspects of language and linguistics. My particular interests lie in phonology and phonetics, linguistic typology, and the fascinating ways languages change and influence one another through contact. 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In this presentation, the substratum theory is tested using Thomason’s (2011) and Robbeets’ (in press) five-step methodology. Marathi, Old Marathi and Hindi are analyzed for presence or absence of prototypical Dravidian features. Here, Hindi is used to represent a prototypical Indo-Aryan language as a point of comparison. Additionally, lexical borrowings from Dravidian in Marathi are analyzed. Since Marathi seems to have borrowed a significant number of Dravidian words into its core vocabulary, yet contains many structural features prototypical of Dravidian, it is concluded that though the substratum theory remains highly likely, Kulkarni-Joshi’s (2017a) theory of lexical change through diglossia is likely at the same time. Thus, a new timeline of Marathi's evolution is proposed in which the two theories coexist together.","speakers":[{"guid":"08705d2d-cfc9-5a62-b511-719f032ba675","id":1410,"image":null,"name":"Hannah Haas","public_name":"Hannah Haas","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2026-11-20T16:50:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-20T17:20:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"S 85 ","id":236}},{"id":1635,"guid":"54276681-fb84-473d-b3fd-9d6ccc291cb9","title":"The cross-linguistics of non-bare proper names","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":3600,"time_slots":12,"logo":null,"type":"Keynote","do_not_record":false,"track":"German Linguistics","abstract":null,"speakers":[{"guid":"1e6eaaba-c133-5f27-b78a-17d873fd40e8","id":1446,"image":null,"name":"Prof. Klaus von Heusinger ","public_name":"Prof. Klaus von Heusinger ","email":"Klaus.vonHeusinger@uni-koeln.de","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2026-11-21T10:45:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-21T11:45:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"Hörsaal II ","id":227}},{"id":1584,"guid":"8919e9f8-3c92-40f8-8d21-2881d7997fd9","title":"The Divergence of Sino-Korean Vocabulary in North and South Korea:","language":"en","subtitle":"The Impact of Language Policies After the Division of the Korean Peninsula","description":null,"duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"Talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Sociolinguistics","abstract":null,"speakers":[{"guid":"42d5e66f-93d3-5a80-acc1-5891a5745841","id":1407,"image":null,"name":"Polina","public_name":"Polina","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2026-11-19T11:15:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-19T11:45:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"S 87 ","id":244}},{"id":1618,"guid":"3e7c63d4-ee34-46e0-8a7f-40d1890588c3","title":"The Effect of Task Types on Fluency","language":"en","subtitle":"A study on young, intermediate learners of English ","description":null,"duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"Talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Neuro- and Psycholinguistics","abstract":null,"speakers":[{"guid":"b9c45726-3880-5e4b-8cb0-ca0d0f216bc3","id":1399,"image":null,"name":"Linh Nguyen","public_name":"Linh Nguyen","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2026-11-21T10:05:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-21T10:35:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"S 65","id":252}},{"id":1579,"guid":"787cdf06-8578-42dc-98b8-4bd6c8aef53a","title":"The Impact of Multilingualism and its Implications for Language Use and Well-Being among First-Generation Russian-Speaking Immigrant Students in Germany","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":3600,"time_slots":12,"logo":null,"type":"Poster","do_not_record":false,"track":"Sociolinguistics","abstract":null,"speakers":[{"guid":"97b7629c-294f-5d63-8bc9-61ad63c1d6ff","id":1124,"image":null,"name":"Maria Loesche","public_name":"Maria Loesche","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2026-11-21T08:30:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-21T09:30:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"Atrium (Philosophikum)","id":256}},{"id":1633,"guid":"ea7c01fb-ca08-4e0d-883a-d868cb0d3ee2","title":"The invention of a field: Recognizing, describing, and imagining World Englishes","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":3600,"time_slots":12,"logo":null,"type":"Keynote","do_not_record":false,"track":"English Linguistics","abstract":null,"speakers":[{"guid":"9fafa789-474b-5d21-9565-1e8b404dfddc","id":1442,"image":null,"name":"Prof. Axel Bohmann","public_name":"Prof. Axel Bohmann","email":"axel.bohmann@uni-koeln.de","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2026-11-19T10:00:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-19T11:00:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"Aula 2 ","id":218}},{"id":1563,"guid":"b1844040-afba-4a6d-b2db-227ad1b3ca4d","title":"The od(d) behaviour of Polish comparatives","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"Talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Syntax","abstract":"In Polish, there are multiple constructions available for expressing the comparative. Two of them – namely those introduced by particles ‘niż’ and ‘od’, respectively – show diverging behaviours: Despite them being mostly synonymous, some syntactic environments allow for only one of these constructions, produce different ambiguities, or force certain readings.\r\nIn earlier research, the ‘od’-construction had been mostly overlooked as it’s not considered part of the standard Polish language (język ogólnopolski).\r\nA key finding was that ‘niż’ aligns with other complementisers in the Polish language, while ‘od’ behaves more like a preposition.","speakers":[{"guid":"8c9009ca-2b48-5dc6-99c9-3120a0c778a1","id":1345,"image":"/system/people/avatars/000/001/345/original/IMG-20260306-WA0015.jpg?1790078296","name":"Hannes Dryl","public_name":"Hannes Dryl","abstract":"5. semester B.A., Leipzig University ","description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2026-11-20T15:45:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-20T16:15:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"S 85 ","id":236}},{"id":1640,"guid":"092c6c9f-d40c-482b-a36a-132269d54f6c","title":"(The) Writings on the Wall - Linguistic Landscapes as a Research Method","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":3600,"time_slots":12,"logo":null,"type":"workshop","do_not_record":false,"track":"Workshop","abstract":"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 discussing ways for data collection, we will work on an actual dataset and investigate what written language in public space tells us about language connotation, use patterns and the currencies languages have in a community. In the end, we will summarize our qualitative observations and create a coding manual, facilitating a (potential) quantitative analysis.\r\n\r\nMetainfo: No previous knowledge required. Knowledge of German and English welcome, knowledge of further languages very welcome. This workshop will be held in English.","speakers":[{"guid":"8973fe58-fecb-5f95-a9dc-369315dfcce8","id":1434,"image":null,"name":"Jan-André Diederich","public_name":"Jan-André Diederich","email":"j.diederich@uni-koeln.de","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[{"url":"https://sprachlabor.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/team-kontakt/jan-andre-diederich","title":"Profil"}]}],"start_time":"2026-11-20T14:00:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-20T15:00:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"S 24 ","id":223}},{"id":1603,"guid":"88850de4-bc0d-47d1-9367-365acd900660","title":"The Yeniseian rising/falling tone: Gradient lenition as a window on the evolution of obstruents ","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":"References \r\nDalcher, Ch. 2008. Consonant weakening in Florentine Italian: A cross-disciplinary approach to gradient \r\nand variable sound change. Language Variation and Change 20(2) \r\nHill, E., S. Fries, I. Kapitonov, L. Günther, and S. Bonmann. 2026. Towards a new reconstruction of the \r\nProto-Yeniseian sound system: Part III: Word-internal consonants. International Journal of Eurasian \r\nLinguistics, pp. 124–182 \r\nJatteau, A. and M. Hejná. 2018. Gradient dissimilation in Mongolian: Implications for diachrony. Papers \r\nin Historical Phonology 3, https://doi.org/10.2218/pihph.3.2018.2821 \r\nKazakevich, O. (ed). 2026. Minority languages of Siberia as our cultural heritage: Lexicon 2.0, \r\n\u003chttps://siberian-lang.iling-ran.ru/ru/slovar\u003e \r\nOsthoff, H. and K. Brugmann. 1878. Morphologische Untersuchungen auf dem Gebiete der \r\nindogermanischen Sprachen. Leipzig: Hirzel. \r\nWerner, H. 1996. Vergleichende Akzentologie der Jenissej-Sprachen. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. \r\nWerner, H. 2002a. Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen. Vol. Band I: A–K. Wiesbaden: \r\nHarrassowitz Verlag. \r\nWerner, H. 2002b. Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen. Vol. Band II: L–Š. Wiesbaden: \r\nHarrassowitz Verlag. \r\nWerner, H. 2005. Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"Talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Historical Linguistics","abstract":"The Yeniseian languages are the only known tonal languages in Siberia. In this contribution, we \r\ninvestigate the diachrony of one of the four monosyllabic tones in the closely related Ket and Yugh, \r\nand in particular Werner’s (1996) hypothesis that it resulted from the loss of intervocalic consonants \r\nin disyllabic words and the consequent contraction of the vowels. We find that certain obstruents are \r\nsystematically lost independently in Ket and Yugh, making the so-called 3rd tone a recent phenomenon \r\nexclusive to the North-Yeniseian branch. Other consonants in Werner's (2002a,b) reference \r\ncomparative dictionary give the impression of a random distribution of loss vs. retention. Such an \r\napparently unconditioned variation is incompatible with Neogrammarian regular sound change, which \r\nmay be phonetically gradual but lexically abrupt, meaning that the realisation across tokens is expected \r\nto be consistent within the same environment at the same time or else the allophones to be \r\nphonologically conditioned (Osthoff \u0026 Brugmann 1878). Thanks to additional written and audio \r\nsources (Kazakevich 2026), however, we offer a better solution to the apparent conundrum by showing \r\nthat the apparent variation is gradient realisation, up to the acoustic impression of absence, rather \r\nthan an innate categorical distinction between loss and retention. Similar phenomena have been \r\ndescribed in other diachronic studies (e.g., Dalcher 2008; Jatteau \u0026 Hejná 2018), with the conclusions \r\nthat synchronic gradient processes can be precursor to regular Neogrammarian phonological change, \r\neven if arguably not a sound change in themselves, which is in line with the Neogrammarian Regularity \r\nPrinciple. 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Emotes help build shared repertoires and community identity, but they can also carry or mask toxic content. Whether an emote counts as toxic depends on the norms of the community using it (Mihailova, 2022). However, research has mostly examined single communities, so it remains unclear what happens when communities with different norms meet in one chat.\r\n\r\nThis study asks whether toxic emote practices travel across community boundaries. I analysed a collaborative stream in which Jynxzi, one of Twitch’s most-followed gaming streamers, visits Maya Higa’s educational Alveus Sanctuary, and compared its chat with one solo stream from each creator (216,086 messages total). Using Emotes-2-Vec (Moosavi et al., 2024), a Word2Vec-based method that infers emote meaning from context, I scored each emote by its similarity to toxic versus non-toxic words. I then compared mean emote toxicity and the share of toxic-leaning uses across streams using Kruskal-Wallis, Mann-Whitney U, and chi-square tests.\r\n\r\nThe findings were as follows: Jynxzi’s chat used more toxic-leaning emotes (82.1%) than Maya’s (60.0%). Contrary to my hypothesis, the collab stream (79.5%) was nearly indistinguishable from Jynxzi’s solo stream rather than adapting to Maya’s, although channel-specific ridicule emotes largely disappeared. The most toxic-leaning emotes were not slurs but reaction and laughter emotes (e.g., LOL, BRUH) appearing next to insults, consistent with ambiguous negativity. Effect sizes were small, so I interpret the results as tendencies rather than firm differences between communities.\r\n\r\nIn conclusion, emote norms travel with a community rather than being set by the space it enters. This is of vital importance for creators who host collaborations and may shape what young viewers learn is acceptable interaction online.","speakers":[{"guid":"b479766b-594c-596c-91f7-d17978a4d0f8","id":1423,"image":"/system/people/avatars/000/001/423/original/me-profile-pic.jpg?1793650440","name":"Sara Podlesnik","public_name":"Sara Podlesnik","abstract":"I am a motivated third-year M.A. Applied Linguistics student at the University of Bonn, originally from Slovenia. My research interests lie in computational linguistics, computer-mediated communication (CMC), media and language, and corpus linguistics. Alongside my studies, I work part-time at Fraunhofer FKIE, where I contribute to innovative projects while sharpening my research skills and programming in Python and Linux. I am deeply curious about how language shapes and influences our daily lives, especially within online places.\r\n","description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2026-11-19T15:30:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-19T16:30:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"Atrium (Philosophikum)","id":256}},{"id":1652,"guid":"5357c3e1-b082-49f7-8245-ba2c63ddc513","title":"Welcoming Plenum","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"Orga","do_not_record":false,"track":null,"abstract":null,"speakers":[],"start_time":"2026-11-19T09:30:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-19T10:00:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"Aula 2 ","id":218}},{"id":1574,"guid":"e519b7ba-e828-4733-b4ef-7ec115b8c73f","title":"Why pain may be better than you think: Affective ratings for pain words in Bolivian Quechua","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":"Databases of affective norms aim to provide information on the affective properties of selected stimuli. Affective databases with verbal stimuli exist for a number of Indo-European languages, such as English (Bradley and Lang 1999), Italian (Montefinese et al. 2014), German (Lahl et al. 2009), or Dutch (Dimitrova et al. 2022). Few also exist for non-Indo-European languages, such as Mandarin Chinese (Ying et al. 2024) or Indonesian (Sianipar et al. 2016). However, there is a clear lack of data on non-WEIRD cultures, leading to a strong bias towards Western cultures and considerable limitations concerning the generalizability of affective properties of emotion words (Gerges et al. 2025). This is probably partly owed to the fact that, in order to ensure large participant samples, researchers usually rely on online crowdsourcing for recruitment, which some underrepresented non-WEIRD populations do not have access to. \r\nWe conducted a pilot study aimed towards the creation of a database of affective norms for pain words in Bolivian Quechua. We collected affective and psycholinguistic ratings from 17 native speakers of Quechua for two subsamples of 15 pain-related nouns (e.g. uma nanay ‘headache’), verbs (e.g. ñak'ariy ‘suffer’), adjectives (e.g. llakisqa ‘sad’), and interjections (e.g. ¡atatáw! ‘ouch!’). On the affective rating scale, we included valence and arousal, while on psycholinguistic scale, we included familiarity, concreteness, pain relatedness, pain intensity, pain unpleasantness, pain duration, location of pain, and pain cause.  The word ratings were collected in person, using visual 5-point and 3-point scales represented by circle sizes (inspired by Wnuk and Majid 2014). Instructions (adapted from Borelli et al. 2018) and stimuli were presented orally only, which allowed us to collect data from both literate and illiterate speakers. The specific subdomain of pain words had been chosen in order to facilitate future collaboration with medical practitioners. For example, a database of affective norms for pain words in Bolivian Quechua could aid in the creation of a Quechua version of the McGill Pain Questionnaire (Melzack 1975), which until today does not exist.\r\nIn this presentation we will briefly discuss the results of this pilot study and reflect on our chosen approach to adapt previous methodology for collecting affective word ratings to the Quechua people of Bolivia. For instance, some of the traditional rating dimensions used in previous affectivity studies do not always translate well to non-Western contexts, like arousal, familiarity or concreteness. Andean indigenous cultures are generally highly grounded in nature and the directly perceivable (see Bolin 1998), and as such, the Quechua language often lacks direct one-word translations for highly abstract concepts. Instead, we have paraphrased them using metaphors (e.g. sunqu ukhunchispi t’impurichin/thañirichin ‘makes our hearts boil/calm down on the inside’ for arousal scale) and used examples that the average Quechua person can relate to well (e.g. sara ‘corn’ for high familiarity, jamp’ara ‘counter’ for low familiarity). Furthermore, our conclusions could also provide valuable insights for similar studies that aim to collect affective word ratings with (potentially illiterate) non-WEIRD populations.\r\n\r\nReferences:\r\nBolin, Inge. 1998. Rituals of Respect: The Secret of Survival in the High Peruvian Andes. New York, USA: University of Texas Press.\r\nBorelli, Eleonora, Davide Crepaldi, Carlo Adolfo Porro \u0026 Cristina Cacciari. 2018. The psycholinguistic and affective structure of words conveying pain. PLOS ONE 13(6). e0199658.\r\nBradley, Margaret M \u0026 Peter J Lang. 1999. Affective norms for English words (ANEW): Instruction manual and affective ratings.\r\nDimitrova, L. I., E. M. Vissia, H. Geugies, H. Hofstetter, S. Chalavi \u0026 Aats Reinders. 2022. No Self Without Salience: Affective and Self-relevance Ratings of 552 Emotionally Valenced and Neutral Dutch Words. J Psycholinguist Res 51(1). 17-32.\r\nGerges, Marina M., Danila Shelepenkov \u0026 Vladimir Kosonogov. 2025. Advancing affective stimuli databases: challenges and solutions. [Mini Review]. Frontiers in Psychology Volume 16 - 2025.\r\nLahl, Olaf, Anja S. Göritz, Reinhard Pietrowsky \u0026 Jessica Rosenberg. 2009. Using the World-Wide Web to obtain large-scale word norms: 190,212 ratings on a set of 2,654 German nouns. Behavior Research Methods 41(1). 13-19.\r\nMelzack, R. 1975. The McGill Pain Questionnaire: major properties and scoring methods. Pain 1(3). 277-299.\r\nMontefinese, Maria, Ettore Ambrosini, Beth Fairfield \u0026 Nicola Mammarella. 2014. The adaptation of the Affective Norms for English Words (ANEW) for Italian. Behavior Research Methods 46(3). 887-903.\r\nSianipar, Agnes, Pieter van Groenestijn \u0026 Ton Dijkstra. 2016. Affective meaning, concreteness, and subjective frequency norms for Indonesian words. Frontiers in Psychology 7.\r\nWnuk, Ewelina \u0026 Asifa Majid. 2014. Revisiting the limits of language: The odor lexicon of Maniq. Cognition 131(1). 125-138.\r\nYing, Lv, Ye Ruyang, Ni Chuanbin, Wang Yeqing, Liu Qing, Zhou Yufan \u0026 Gao Fei. 2024. ANCW: Affective norms for 4030 Chinese words. 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Based on corpus data from Slovene, it shows that the term inaccurately describes a language where the absence of pronominal subjects is the default. It therefore calls for terminology that does not take English as its main point of reference. It also examines the pragmatic functions of overt pronominal subjects, such as emphasis, contrast, and topic shift.","speakers":[{"guid":"8d74d69b-58ea-525d-97d7-957f153ded31","id":1388,"image":null,"name":"Anja Spasovski","public_name":"Anja Spasovski","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2026-11-19T15:30:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-19T16:30:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"Atrium (Philosophikum)","id":256}},{"id":1636,"guid":"2bc5778f-b600-4a45-ab0e-5ae564b58a5e","title":"Wie die Sprachwissenschaft zur Empirie fand (und findet) ","language":"de","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":3600,"time_slots":12,"logo":null,"type":"Keynote","do_not_record":false,"track":"Typology and General Linguistics","abstract":null,"speakers":[{"guid":"c6f73faf-2279-5775-bd6d-f89de9a0f79e","id":1447,"image":null,"name":"Prof. Nikolaus Himmelmann","public_name":"Prof. Nikolaus Himmelmann","email":"sprachwissenschaft@uni-koeln.de","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2026-11-21T17:00:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-21T18:00:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"Hörsaal II ","id":227}},{"id":1602,"guid":"49cf4e73-679a-436a-b30c-c7ae9ed1ca9a","title":"'You want war with Athena, you gonna get war': Verbal Threatening in English","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":3600,"time_slots":12,"logo":null,"type":"workshop","do_not_record":false,"track":"Workshop","abstract":"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 interactions or reality television (Muschalik 2018; Tompkinson 2023; Neumaier 2025; Pollmeier 2025). Although verbal threatening seems to constitute a prominent part of human communication, linguistic research on the form and function of verbal threats remains underrepresented within the greater paradigm of linguistic (im)politeness. This workshop aims to introduce participants to verbal threatening in English, particularly paying attention to the questions: what is a threat and which lexico-grammatical features are associated with verbal threats. We will first consider existing perspectives on these questions, focussing on central studies on the subject-matter (e.g. Fraser 1998; Gales 2010; Muschalik 2018; Neumaier 2025), and then move on to hands-on data work. Participants do not need any prior knowledge on linguistic (im)politeness or verbal threatening.","speakers":[{"guid":"8663eef5-eb0d-50c4-b0df-1667173763f8","id":1395,"image":"/system/people/avatars/000/001/395/original/WhatsApp_Image_2026-10-28_at_18.03.06.jpeg?1793207034","name":"Lars Pollmeier","public_name":"Lars Pollmeier","abstract":"Lars Pollmeier is a master’s student in Empirical Multilingualism at TU Dortmund University and Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany). He works as a graduate assistant at the chair of English Linguistics (Prof. Dr. Buschfeld) at TU Dortmund University. He focusses on empirical and quantitative analyses. Specific research interests cover aspects of multilingualism, World Englishes, minoritized languages, and threatening language. Recently his research has centred around lexico-grammatical features of verbal threats and sociophonetics within the World Englishes paradigm.","description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2026-11-20T14:00:00.000+01:00","end_time":"2026-11-20T15:00:00.000+01:00","room":{"name":"S 83","id":257}},{"id":1571,"guid":"e19bb08a-5bb3-45ec-929e-a28d44c99248","title":"Zwischen Zirkuszauber und Zukunftsangst. Eine korpusbasierte Sprachgeschichte der Saltimbanques im Frankreich des 19. Jahrhunderts","language":"de","subtitle":null,"description":"Im Mittelpunkt steht ein Wortfeld rund um saltimbanque, forain, banquiste, bateleur und bilboquet. Die Untersuchung verbindet zwei Perspektiven: Onomasiologisch wird gefragt, welche Bezeichnungen miteinander konkurrieren und in welchen Kontexten sie auftreten. Semasiologisch wird verfolgt, wie sich Bedeutung und Wertung einzelner Wörter im Lauf des Jahrhunderts verschieben. Grundlage ist ein Korpus aus Presse, Literatur und Dokumenten, die aus dem Schaustellermilieu selbst stammen, ergänzt durch lexikographische Quellen. So lassen sich Fremd- und Selbstbezeichnungen systematisch aufeinander beziehen.\r\nSoziokulturell richtet sich der Blick auf die Spannung zwischen Darstellungen, die Not und Prekarität in den Vordergrund rücken, und solchen, die Schausteller als Künstler verklären. Gemeinsam gehen wir der Frage nach, wer wen wie nennt und ob sich bestimmte Wertungen an einzelne Bezeichnungen, Textsorten und Sprecherperspektiven knüpfen. Ansätze der historischen Soziolinguistik und der Korpuslinguistik bilden dafür den Rahmen.","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"Talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Romance Linguistics","abstract":"Im Frankreich des 19. Jahrhunderts bieten Saltimbanques als wandernde Komödianten der breiten Bevölkerung kleine Spektakel dar. Ihre Lebensbedingungen und ihre gesellschaftliche Stellung verändern sich im Zuge politischer Umbrüche und der Industrialisierung jedoch drastisch. Plötzlich werden sie verfolgt, beschimpft und zunehmend an den Rand der Bevölkerung getrieben. Dieser Beitrag geht der Entstehung des modernen Zirkus nach und fragt, wie sich der Wandel in der Terminologie niederschlägt, mit der Schausteller benannt werden und sich selbst benennen und wie diese Bezeichnungen bewertet werden.","speakers":[{"guid":"efc6c7be-6132-5b93-b1dc-f87b49dbdb4c","id":1112,"image":"/system/people/avatars/000/001/112/original/IMG_20231230_150058_750.jpg?1745837301","name":"Laura Grossmann","public_name":"Laura Grossmann","abstract":"I am studying English and French in teacher education in Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität). My main interests in linguistics are lexicology and etymology, as well as historical linguistics (Old English, Middle English, Old French) and (historical) sociolinguistics. 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