{"conference_events":{"events":[{"id":1385,"guid":"047b7dc1-130a-4efb-b7ac-78fd8050ffa3","title":"Abschlussfeier","language":"","subtitle":null,"description":"77th StuTS funeral party","duration":14400,"time_slots":48,"logo":null,"type":"other","do_not_record":false,"track":null,"abstract":"STUK\r\nNürnberger Str. 42, 04103 Leipzig","speakers":[],"start_time":"2025-05-17T20:00:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-18T00:00:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Social events","id":181}},{"id":1342,"guid":"2828d906-1d49-4363-b9b0-e91ed44c2d5f","title":"Acoustic analysis of Turkish vowel formants: A methodological perspective","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":"Acoustic Analysis of Turkish Vowel Formants: A Methodological Perspective\r\nThis study investigates the formant frequencies of vowels in Standard Turkish, addressing methodological inconsistencies identified in previous research. A preliminary meta-analysis of existing studies revealed significant variation in reported vowel formants, largely attributable to discrepancies in data elicitation materials, vowel environments, recording equipment, and participant age. Additionally, only a limited number of studies apply vowel normalisation, further complicating cross-study comparisons.\r\nTo address these challenges, I developed a transparent and replicable methodology for analysing Turkish vowel formants, aiming to establish a systematic framework for future research. Voice recordings were collected in a sound-isolated environment using the read-aloud method from 20 participants (five women and five men across two age groups: 18–29 and 30–40). The recordings spanned various phonetic contexts, including isolated words and structured environments such as /hVd/, /bVd/, /bVt/, /hVdVt/, and /bVdVt/, yielding a total of 1,280 vowel tokens (64 per speaker).\r\nThe analysis was conducted using VowSpace, a Python-based open-source desktop application developed specifically for this study. VowSpace facilitates the acquisition, visualization, normalization, and linguistic analysis of vowel data from audio files. I applied Lobanov normalization to reduce speaker-specific anatomical variation while preserving linguistic distinctions. The normalized data was then used to visualize the vowel space of Standard Turkish, offering a clearer representation of vowel distributions.\r\nBy emphasizing methodological transparency and reproducibility, this study offers a foundational resource for future acoustic research on Turkish vowels. The resulting dataset will be made openly available to support continued efforts in the systematic description of Turkish vowel acoustics. Furthermore, by refining methods for analyzing vowel formants in underrepresented languages, this work contributes to cross-linguistic phonetic comparisons and supports broader typological investigations. I hope that the methodological insights presented here will inform future studies of vowel systems across languages, ultimately enriching the universal literature on vowel acoustics and variation.\r\n\r\n \r\nAydın, Ö., \u0026 Uzun, İ. P. (2020). Ünlü formant normalizasyonu: R programlama dilinde bir uygulama. In İ. P. Uzun (Ed.), Kuramsal ve uygulamalı sesbilim: Kavramlar, terimler (pp. 297-322). Seçkin Yayıncılık.\r\nKaya, A. Ç. (2024). VowSpace: A Vowel Formant Analysis Application [Poster presentation]. 37th National Linguistics Congress, Kocaeli, Türkiye. The Linguistics Association.\r\nKendall, T., \u0026 Vaughn, C. (2015). Measurement variability in vowel formant estimation: A simulation experiment. M. Wolters vd. (Yay. haz.), Proceedings of the International Congress on Phonetics (ICPhS) 2015. International Phonetic Association.\r\nKent, R., \u0026 Vorperian, H. K. (2018). Static measurements of vowel formant frequencies and bandwidths: A review. Journal of Communication Disorders, 74, 74-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2018.05.004\r\nRathcke, T., vd. (2017). The beauty in a beast: Minimising the effects of diverse recording quality on vowel formant measurements in sociophonetic real-time studies. Speech Communication, 86, 24-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2016.11.001\r\nZhang, C., Jepson, K. \u0026 Chuang, Y., (2024) Investigating differences in lab-quality and remote recording methods with dynamic acoustic measures. Laboratory Phonology 15(1). https://doi.org/10.16995/labphon.10492","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Phonetics/Phonology","abstract":"In this talk, a methodological approach to analyzing Turkish vowel formants will be presented, and inconsistencies identified in previous studies will be addressed through a systematic and replicable framework. A newly developed dataset of 1,280 vowel tokens from 20 speakers will be analyzed and demonstrated using VowSpace, an open-source tool developed for this research, to visualize and normalize vowel data with the Lobanov method. Beyond Turkish, it will be shown how careful methodological design can enhance cross-linguistic phonetic research and contribute to the broader typological literature on vowel systems.","speakers":[{"guid":"1ac59e0a-3e97-5a5b-a3f8-2c2c6ab57725","id":1118,"image":"/system/people/avatars/000/001/118/original/cpm35_2024-10-15_201134.202.jpg?1743470451","name":"Ali Çağan Kaya","public_name":"Ali Çağan Kaya","abstract":"My name is Çağan. I am currently majoring in linguistics at Hacettepe University, Türkiye and am a research intern at AU-BRC laboratories. Linguistics is my greatest passion. Within it, constructed languages, phonetics \u0026 phonology, cognitive linguistics and computational linguistics are my favorite subjects. I also enjoy traveling around, fishing, wearing colorful shirts, photography, coding, and playing the guitar.","description":null,"links":[{"url":"https://alicagankaya.com","title":"My Website"}]}],"start_time":"2025-05-15T14:00:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-15T14:30:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 2.116","id":172}},{"id":1369,"guid":"01929ed7-a203-4b9c-8b9e-12f554112023","title":"Adverbial focus constructions in Yucatec Maya","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":"Special changes to Yucatec verbal morphology can occur in certain combinations of aspect-mood inflection and focus-fronting: When an adverbial of time is focused in a completive or subjunctive sentence, otherwise obligatory preverbal aspect markers can be elided. The same may happen with focused manner adverbials in incompletive sentences. Further, when manner adverbials are focused in completive sentences, either a special suffix or an auxiliary marks the clause, as in example (a) (Bohnemeyer 2002, Vapnarsky 2013). Focused locations, on the other hand, may cause a special clitic marker to appear, but incite no change to verbal inflection (Verhoeven 2007).\r\nDescriptions of the exact form and use of some of these constructions are in disagreement, and they have not been related systematically to the more well-described system of argument focus. \r\nAs part of my Master’s thesis, I elicited judgments on these constructions from a native speaker. The data corroborate previous reports, but also suggest that all dedicated verbal marking for adverbial focus in Yucatec is optional to some degree. This is to say that in all contexts where a verbal form specific to the semantic category of the focus (i.e. time, manner) was accepted, an unspecific one (b) was judged as acceptable as well.\r\nI sketch an analysis in which the available focus constructions for a given target depend on its argumenthood as well as its hierarchical position within syntax as informed by semantics (following Ernst 2004), instead of its semantics directly.\r\n\r\n(a) the unique „manner focus“ construction – no preverbal perfective marker, focus suffix\r\nma’lóob wèen-Ø-ik-en\r\nwell sleep-compl-mfoc-1sg\r\n‘I slept WELL.’\r\n\r\n(b) the equally acceptable generic construction – preverbal perfective marker, no focus suffix\r\nutsil h wèen-Ø-en\r\nwell pfv sleep-compl-1sg\r\n‘I slept WELL.’\r\n\r\nReferences\r\nBohnemeyer, Jürgen. 2002. The grammar of time reference in Yukatek Maya. Munich: Lincom Europa.\r\nErnst, Thomas. 2004. The syntax of adjuncts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.\r\nVapnarsky, Valentina. 2013. Is Yucatec Maya an omnipredicative language? Predication, the copula and focus constructions. STUF-Language Typology and Universals 66(1). 40–86.\r\nVerhoeven, Elisabeth. 2007. Experiential constructions in Yucatec Maya: A typologically based analysis of a functional domain in a Mayan language. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.","duration":1500,"time_slots":5,"logo":null,"type":"talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Syntax","abstract":"In this talk, I provide a paradigmatic overview and interrelation of focus constructions in Yucatec Maya with special attention to adverbial focus. Based on information compiled from the literature and elicitations conducted with a native speaker, I argue that structural parallels between different argument and adverbial focus constructions correspond to natural positional classes within syntax.","speakers":[{"guid":"8e6c9390-75d4-5a20-a75c-47ad2549da13","id":520,"image":"/system/people/avatars/000/000/520/original/frab1.jpg?1745848613","name":"Hendrik Pigola","public_name":"Hendrik Pigola","email":"hendrik.pigola@proton.me","abstract":"PhD Student @ HU Berlin\r\nCurrently working on: Changes in the aspectual system of Yucatec Maya\r\nFields: Typology, aspect semantics/pragmatics, syntax\r\nInterests: analogy, grammaticalization, extended exponence, diachronic approaches to irregularity","description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-17T11:50:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-17T12:15:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 2.216","id":173}},{"id":1368,"guid":"c68a80fe-b42e-4fbd-9516-73213de9418c","title":"Alle sind in Leipzig... außer Fritz - der ist auf der StuTS vortragen!","language":"en","subtitle":"The Absentive in German","description":"References:\r\nAbraham, W. (2008). Absent Arguments on the Absentive: An Exercise in Silent Syntax. Grammatical Category or Just Pragmatic Inference? STUF, 61(4), 358–374.\r\nFortmann, C., \u0026 Wöllstein, A. (2019). On the So-called Absentive - in German. Studia Linguistica. A Journal of General Linguistics, 73(3), 604–649.\r\nHaslinger, I. M. (2007). The Syntactic Location of Events. Aspects of Verbal Complementation in Dutch. Utrecht: LOT (diss., Univ. van Tilburg).\r\nMuller, H. (2016). The Absentive in German. New York: NYU Arts Science (hons. th., New York Univ.).\r\nSvenonius, P. (2012). Structural Decomposition of Spatial adpositions. Ms., Universitetet I Tromsø. Available at  \u003chttp://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/001776\u003e.\r\nThe title of the talk is a reference to: König, S. (2009). Alle sind in Deutschland... außer Fritz Eckenga - der ist einkaufen! OPAL, 4, 42–74.","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Syntax","abstract":"Let’s rephrase the last part of the title, which contains an absentive construction as its predicate: Fritz ist auf der StuTS vortragen. Two questions could warrant this as an answer: Wo ist Fritz? / Was macht Fritz? From this follows intuitively that the predicate tells us two kinds of information: about Fritz’s location and activity.\r\nCurrent analyses of the absentive are unsatisfactory both from a syntax and a semantics perspective. Haslinger’s (2007) approach requires modifying Principle B of Binding theory to account for disjoint spatial indexes on the sentential subject and PRO. This approach makes predictions that contradict empirical evidence. Abraham (2008) posits a motion verb GO, unexpressed in the final realisation of the absentive. This does not account for the absentive’s static properties. Finally, Muller (2016) assumes the existence of a silent particle AWAY. Her analysis relies heavily on a strong semantics of both absence and remoteness, which Fortmann \u0026 Wöllstein (2019) show are not part of the truth-conditional meaning of the absentive. I propose instead extending Svenonius’s (2012) account of PPs to the absentive, decomposing it into a Path and Place element. This is advantageous for both formal and empirical reasons and leads to correct predictions.","speakers":[{"guid":"f3f9fd01-138d-56c8-9ea2-e598cb818906","id":1119,"image":"/system/people/avatars/000/001/119/original/IMG_4796.JPG?1743511534","name":"Iulia Sucutardean","public_name":"Iulia Sucutardean","abstract":"Currently M.St. Modern Languages (Oxford) \u0026 M.A. German as a Foreign / Second Language (Leipzig). Previously B.A. Linguistics \u0026 History (Berlin). Broadly interested in language testing and assessment - esp. speaking / listening and multimodal components, second language acquisition, syntax and semantics of verbal complexes, corpus linguisitics \u0026 quantitative research methods. ","description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-15T14:40:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-15T15:10:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 4.116","id":175}},{"id":1363,"guid":"4c9f2907-229d-416b-b924-bfcfdbfcd511","title":"An Introduction to Toki Pona","language":"en","subtitle":"The minimalist constructed language with only 137 \"words\"","description":null,"duration":3300,"time_slots":11,"logo":null,"type":"workshop","do_not_record":false,"track":"Other","abstract":"In this workshop, you will learn the basics of Toki Pona, a constructed language that aims for minimalism to declutter your mind and encourage reflection on the world around you. Toki Pona was created by Sonja Lang in 2001. Its core vocabulary consists of 137 words, and its grammar is intentionally kept simple. Today, Toki Pona is one of the most popular constructed languages. \r\n\r\nThis workshop will teach you how to form basic sentences in Toki Pona. After introducing the language's history, purpose, and key grammar rules, I will provide translation exercises for discussion. The workshop doesn't require any prior knowledge of the language. You don't need to bring any materials; just something to write with. \r\n\r\nHow would you express a thought with only 137 morphemes?","speakers":[{"guid":"8859c7d5-5993-5d37-9526-cadaf19a8915","id":1130,"image":null,"name":"Nele Swoboda","public_name":"Nele Swoboda","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-16T15:30:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-16T16:25:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 2.116","id":172}},{"id":1317,"guid":"d1d5869b-468c-4f37-b726-32fb2bd1ff0a","title":"(Apparent) extraction of determiners from noun phrases in Old Saxon","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":"Abstract\r\n\r\nLanguages differ w.r.t. the optionality of determiners: In German, they are generally not omissible. Singular count nouns must be preceded by a determiner. Contrary to that, Russian allows singular count nouns to stand without a determiner. There is an empirical generalization that these two types of languages show different behavior for the extraction of determiners from noun phrases. Russian allows Left Branch Extraction (LBE) (Bošković, 2005: 15) in (1a), German does not (Ross, 1967: 207) in (1b).\r\n\r\n(1a) Kakie(i) čitajet on [ t(i) knigi ] ? (Russian)\r\n'Which books does he read?'\r\n\r\n(1b) * Welche(i) liest er [ t(i) Bücher ] ? (German)\r\n\r\nIn my talk, I discuss the status of Old Saxon (OS) w.r.t. these two types of languages. OS has no obligatory determiners, five morphological cases and rich morphological inflection on the noun (Cathey, 2000: 29), which resembles Russian. Theoretical work on the syntax of noun phrases (Blümel, 2024) would therefore predict that determiners can be extracted from noun phrases in OS, which I tested in a corpus study with the Reference Corpus Old German (ReA) (Zeige et al., 2022). I found instances of (apparent) LBE with two types of determiners: wh-determiners and possessives. For the wh-determiners, only phonologically light adverbs and pronouns like in (2) may intervene between the determiner and the noun, for the possessives, also verbs occur in this position like in (3).\r\n\r\n(2) huilic im thar biliði uuarð fon hebanuuanga hêlag gitôgit (Hel_06, 433)\r\n'which holy sign there was shown to them'\r\n\r\n(3) nu ik thie hier mînemo scal iungron befelhan (Hel_66, 5614)\r\n'Now I will entrust you to my servant here.' \r\n\r\nSo LBE is possible in OS, but underlies some restrictions. This might reflect that OS could be on its way from a language of the Russian-type to one of the German-type (analyzed as NP- and DP-languages by Bošković, 2005).\r\n\r\n\r\nReferences\r\n\r\nBlümel, Andreas (2024). Labeling Theory and the Nominal Phrase. In Jiayi Lu, Erika Petersen, Anissa Zaitsu, and Boris Harizanov (Eds.), Proceedings of the 40th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, pp. 11–21. Cascadilla Proceedings Project.\r\nBošković, Željko (2005). On the locality of left branch extraction and the structure of np. Studia linguistica 59(1), pp. 1–45.\r\nCathey, James (2000). Old Saxon. München: Lincom Europa.\r\nRoss, John (1967). Constraints on variables in syntax. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Modern Languages and Linguistics. Thesis.\r\nZeige, Lars Erik, Gohar Schnelle, Martin Klotz, Karin Donhauser, Jost Gippert, and Rosemarie Lühr (2022). Deutsch Diachron Digital. Referenzkorpus Altdeutsch. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. http://www.\r\ndeutschdiachrondigital.de/rea/, Access: 24.02.2025.","duration":1500,"time_slots":5,"logo":null,"type":"talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Syntax","abstract":"Languages differ w.r.t. the optionality of determiners: In German, they are generally not omissible. Singular count nouns must be preceded by a determiner. Contrary to that, Russian allows singular count nouns to stand without a determiner. There is an empirical generalization that these two types of languages show different behavior for the extraction of determiners from noun phrases. Russian allows Left Branch Extraction (LBE) (Bošković, 2005: 15), German does not (Ross, 1967: 207). In my talk, I discuss the status of Old Saxon (OS) w.r.t. these two types of languages. OS has no obligatory determiners, five morphological cases and rich morphological inflection on the noun (Cathey, 2000: 29), which resembles Russian. Theoretical work on the syntax of noun phrases (Blümel, 2024) would therefore predict that determiners can be extracted from noun phrases in OS, which I tested in a corpus study with the Reference Corpus Old German (ReA) (Zeige et al., 2022). I found instances of (apparent) LBE with two types of determiners: wh-determiners and possessives. For the wh-determiners, only phonologically light adverbs and pronouns may intervene between the determiner and the noun, for the possessives, also verbs occur in this position. So LBE is possible in OS, but underlies some restrictions. This might reflect that OS could be on its way from a language of the Russian-type to one of the German-type (analyzed as NP- and DP-languages by Bošković, 2005).","speakers":[{"guid":"64564858-678c-5191-b971-0509e360d464","id":1109,"image":null,"name":"Nele Arnold","public_name":"Nele Arnold","email":"nele.katharina.arnold@student.hu-berlin.de","abstract":"I am a PhD student in linguistics at Humboldt University and Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS) in Berlin. My main interests lie in (generative) syntax, morphology, language contact and language change. The languages I work on are mainly German, German dialects and historical stages, French and French-based creoles as well as Slavic languages (Russian, Lower Sorbian).","description":null,"links":[{"url":"https://www.leibniz-zas.de/en/personen/details/arnold-nele/nele-arnold","title":"https://www.leibniz-zas.de/en/personen/details/arnold-nele/nele-arnold"}]}],"start_time":"2025-05-16T11:20:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-16T11:45:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 2.316","id":174}},{"id":1360,"guid":"2e087db6-3840-4a7a-81f5-4a78d8d14652","title":"Are all reflexives valency-reducing? Insights from verbal reflexives","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Typology and Variational Linguistics","abstract":"Reflexives are usually marked in one of two ways: through independent pronouns (e.g. myself/yourself/himself in English) or through verbal morphology (e.g. í:- in Creek (Martin 2011)). While much typological research has focused on independent reflexives or on reflexive systems as a whole (e.g. Geniusiene 1987), verbal reflexives remain understudied. This presentation reports on an exploratory cross-linguistic study of the morphological, semantic, and syntactic properties of verbal reflexives. Drawing on descriptive grammars and other written sources, I analyze data from 17 languages. I focus on the question what verbal reflexives can reveal about the theoretical modeling of reflexives - especially regarding the widespread assumption that reflexives reduce a verb’s number of arguments (Faltz 1977, Dik 1983, Heaton 2018). \r\n\r\nBased on patterns of positional distribution, semantic functions, and interactions with ergative alignment, I show that verbal reflexives exhibit considerable variation. While some support a valency-reducing analysis, others are more neutral, and one even presents clear counter-evidence. These findings challenge the idea that reflexives uniformly function as valency-reducing devices, highlighting the need for a more nuanced account.\r\n\r\nThis presentation is based on research conducted for my bachelor’s thesis and aims to contribute to a deeper typological understanding of reflexive systems.\r\n\r\nReferences:\r\nDik, Simon C. 1983. On the status of verbal reflexives. In Liliane Tasmowski \u0026 Dominique Willems (eds.), Problems in syntax, 231–255. New York, NY: Springer.\r\nFaltz, Leonard M. 1977. Reflexivization: A study in universal syntax. Berkley, CA: University of California dissertation.\r\nGeniusiene, Emma. 1987. The typology of reflexives. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.\r\nHeaton, Raina. 2018. Intransitivizing morphology. Language and Linguistics Compass 12(12). 1–25.\r\nMartin, Jack B. 2011. A grammar of Creek (Muskogee). Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.","speakers":[{"guid":"8895f0eb-8c32-5221-bc5b-63804f70f26e","id":1143,"image":null,"name":"Rebecca Lethgo","public_name":"Rebecca Lethgo","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-17T15:20:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-17T15:50:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 2.316","id":174}},{"id":1319,"guid":"def7347d-7376-4d52-8ce1-507ac5967636","title":"A Secret Queer Language: Politics, History, and Ethics of  Lubunca","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":"Lubunca is a secret contact language spoken by the queer community in Turkey, particularly by trans sex workers. It originates from the Romani word lubni (‘female prostitute’), combined with the Turkish suffix -ca, commonly used for language names (Kontovas 2012). Beyond its role as a communicative tool, Lubunca serves as a means of secrecy, an identity marker, and a vehicle for solidarity (Çakar 2023). This study explores Lubunca’s socio-historical development, linguistic structure, and ethical considerations in researching secret languages spoken by marginalized communities.\r\nEmploying a descriptive-analytical approach, this study draws from historical sources, sociolinguistic research, and critical discourse analysis within the framework of queer linguistics. Given the scarcity of academic studies on Lubunca, the analysis also incorporates non-academic sources, including magazine articles and interviews with speakers. A key focus is on Lubunca’s lexicon, which exhibits features of language contact and strategic modification for secrecy, as well as its grammatical structure, which largely follows Turkish while incorporating elements that obscure meaning for outsiders.\r\nThe study highlights how Lubunca’s evolution is shaped by shifting socio-political dynamics, particularly in response to increased LGBTQ+ visibility and activism in Turkey. As Lubunca gains wider recognition, it undergoes partial relexification, with new speakers adapting and expanding the lexicon while maintaining its function as a secret code (Magid 2017). This raises important ethical questions regarding the documentation and analysis of secret languages, necessitating careful methodological considerations to avoid exposing the community to harm. \r\nBy examining Lubunca’s historical trajectory, linguistic features, and ethical concerns, this paper aims to contribute to a broader understanding of how marginalized communities use language to navigate power structures. The findings highlight the need for ethical guidelines in researching secret languages spoken by marginalized groups, initiating a discussion on their classification and lexicon.\r\n","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Sociolinguistics","abstract":"Lubunca, a secret contact language used by the queer community in Turkey, especially by trans sex workers, serves as a tool for secrecy, identity, and solidarity. This study explores its socio-historical development, linguistic structure, and ethical considerations through a descriptive-analytical approach rooted in queer linguistics. By drawing on historical sources, sociolinguistic research, and non-academic materials like interviews and magazine articles, the study investigates Lubunca’s lexicon, which reflects language contact and strategic modifications for secrecy, while its grammar remains predominantly Turkish. The study also highlights how socio-political changes, including the increasing visibility of LGBTQ+ communities in Turkey, have shaped the emergence and evolution of Lubunca, with a particular focus on the partial relexification as new speakers adapt its vocabulary. Finally, the study raises ethical concerns surrounding the documentation of secret languages, initiating a discussion on their classification and lexicon in the context of marginalized communities.","speakers":[{"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":"2025-05-17T16:00:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-17T16:30:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 4.216","id":176}},{"id":1386,"guid":"b69e0525-0e2f-4a79-84e0-c3dcd87cdd2d","title":"City tour","language":"","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":5400,"time_slots":18,"logo":null,"type":"other","do_not_record":false,"track":null,"abstract":"Meet at GWZ\r\nThree tours are available, two to the city centre and one to the Battle of Nations memorial.","speakers":[],"start_time":"2025-05-15T17:15:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-15T18:45:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Social events","id":181}},{"id":1381,"guid":"2e528495-9ac1-4cca-bc4c-fc37fde34434","title":"Closing Plenary","language":"","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":2400,"time_slots":8,"logo":null,"type":"other","do_not_record":false,"track":null,"abstract":null,"speakers":[],"start_time":"2025-05-17T17:50:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-17T18:30:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Bibliotheca Albertina","id":178}},{"id":1337,"guid":"96ff5bd3-ed6a-4a42-9b30-43c883d55035","title":"Constructing Economic Leadership: A Discourse Analysis of Azerbaijani Political Rhetoric on the New Silk Road","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":"This study investigates the role of political discourse in shaping Azerbaijan’s economic and geopolitical identity within the context of the New Silk Road, particularly China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the Middle Corridor. By applying Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), the research scrutinizes speeches delivered by President Ilham Aliyev and other key Azerbaijani leaders between 2015 and 2024, uncovering how linguistic tools—such as metaphors, modality, and evaluative language—construct narratives that position Azerbaijan as a strategic \"bridge,\" \"hub,\" and \"reliable partner\" in regional connectivity.\r\n\r\nThe analysis reveals how these recurring rhetorical patterns reinforce themes of national sovereignty, economic leadership, and international collaboration, while simultaneously legitimizing state policies and authority. The study demonstrates that political leaders strategically deploy discourse to advance economic diplomacy, enhance geopolitical influence, and shape domestic and international perceptions.\r\n\r\nBy bridging political linguistics and international relations, this research contributes to a deeper understanding of how language functions as a tool of soft power and policy legitimization in the context of global infrastructure and trade initiatives. The findings offer insights into the intersection of rhetoric, economic strategy, and statecraft, highlighting Azerbaijan’s evolving role in Eurasian connectivity.","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":"/system/events/logos/000/001/337/original/Uam.jpeg?1744450732","type":"talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Other","abstract":"This study explores how Azerbaijani political leaders, particularly President Ilham Aliyev, employ language to craft national economic narratives tied to the New Silk Road, focusing on China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the Middle Corridor. Using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), the research examines speeches from 2015 to 2024, identifying rhetorical strategies such as metaphors, modality, and evaluative language to frame Azerbaijan as a regional \"bridge,\" \"hub,\" and \"reliable partner.\" These linguistic patterns reinforce narratives of sovereignty, economic leadership, and international cooperation while legitimizing state authority. The findings highlight the strategic use of discourse in economic diplomacy and geopolitical positioning, contributing to broader insights in political linguistics and international relations.\r\n\r\n","speakers":[{"guid":"f0de310b-c4cb-5f60-ae27-249fac7ccc36","id":1128,"image":null,"name":"Zinyat Samadzade","public_name":"Zinyat Samadzade","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-17T11:50:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-17T12:20:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 2.115","id":171}},{"id":1354,"guid":"7f8f50af-b44a-4c63-ae95-c101a51c1b31","title":"Czech “mít+infinitive” and German “sollen” as evidential and modal markers","language":"en","subtitle":"Key words: evidentiality, modal verbs, German, Czech, typology, language contact","description":null,"duration":1500,"time_slots":5,"logo":null,"type":"talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Typology and Variational Linguistics","abstract":"Evidentiality, which we understand as the verbal marking of the information source (Aikhenvald, 2004, p. 1), is a feature that, according to many linguists, is not present in most European languages. (Aikhenvald, 2004; Plungian, 2010).  In this talk I will show, using the example of the German verb “sollen” and the Czech “mít+infinitive” (“to have”+infinitive) that although one cannot speak of “true evidentiality” in the form of morphological marking, Czech and German have a quite grammaticalized means of marking that the uttered information has been mediated.\r\nThe two verbs in question are classified as “modal verbs” in the grammars, but in my talk I show, based on a questionnaire study, that a more or less clear boundary can be drawn between modal and evidential use of “sollen”/”mít+infinitive”. Furthermore, I propose a fourfold typological differentiation of indirect mediated evidentials for both languages, to which I add the Czech marker “prý” and the German conditional mood (Konjunktiv I). Finally, I address the question of language contact and evidentiality, since the evidential construction “have+infinitive” exists in all West Slavic languages and is more or less identical in meaning to the German “sollen”.\r\n\r\nAikhenvald, A. Y. (2004). Evidentiality (Repr). Oxford Univ. Press.\r\nDiewald, G., \u0026 Smirnova, E. (2010a). Evidentialy in German: Linguistic realization and regularities in grammaticalization. Mouton de Gruyter.\r\nDiewald, G., \u0026 Smirnova, E. (2010b). Introduction. Evidentiality in European languages: The lexicalgrammatical distinction. In G. Diewald \u0026 E. Smirnova (Eds.), Linguistic Realization of Evidentiality in European Languages (pp. 1–14). DE GRUYTER MOUTON. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110223972.1\r\nDiewald, G., \u0026 Smirnova, E. (with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft). (2010c). Linguistic realization of evidentiality in European languages. De Gruyter Mouton.\r\nMortelmans, T. (2000). On the “Evidential” Nature of the “Epistemic” Use of the German Modals müssen and sollen. Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 14, 131–148. https://doi.org/10.1075/bjl.14.08mor\r\nPlungian, V. (2010). Types of verbal evidentiality marking:an overview. In G. Diewald \u0026 E. Smirnova (Eds.), Linguistic Realization of Evidentiality in European Languages (pp. 15–58). DE GRUYTER MOUTON. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110223972.15\r\nSmirnova, E., \u0026 Diewald, G. (Eds.). (2013). Kategorien der Redewiedergabe im Deutschen: Konjunktiv I versus sollen. Zeitschrift Für Germanistische Linguistik, 41(3), 443–471. https://doi.org/10.1515/zgl-2013-0024\r\nVan Der Auwera, J., \u0026 Plungian, V. A. (1998). Modality’s semantic map. Linguistic Typology, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.1515/lity.1998.2.1.79\r\nWiemer, B. (2010). Hearsay in European languages: Toward an integrative account of grammatical and lexical marking. In G. Diewald \u0026 E. Smirnova (Eds.), Linguistic Realization of Evidentiality in European Languages (pp. 59–130). DE GRUYTER MOUTON. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110223972.59\r\n Wiemer, B. (2018). Evidentials and Epistemic Modality. In A. Y. Aikhenvald (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality (1st ed., pp. 85–108). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198759515.013.4\r\nWiemer, B., \u0026 Socka, A. (2022). Evidential marking in Polish. In B. Wiemer \u0026 J. I. Marin-Arrese (Eds.), Evidential Marking in European Languages (pp. 457–522). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110726077-011\r\n","speakers":[{"guid":"a465090f-ef04-5c78-9d33-4a83bd165bad","id":1140,"image":null,"name":"Šimon Kinc","public_name":"Šimon Kinc","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-17T11:50:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-17T12:15:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 2.316","id":174}},{"id":1340,"guid":"812ec74c-2289-4af2-ab63-60369b1c1226","title":"Dehumanisierung in der Konstruktion von Feindbildern","language":"de","subtitle":null,"description":"Die bewusste sprachliche Abwertung von Gruppen und Einzelpersonen ist ein zentrales Element ideologischer Kommunikation. In diesem Vortrag wird untersucht, wie Sprache zur Konstruktion von Feindbildern genutzt wird – insbesondere durch Mechanismen der Dehumanisierung. Anhand aktueller Beispiele aus politischen, medialen und alltäglichen Diskursen wird gezeigt, wie sprachliche Mittel wie Metaphern, Kategorisierungen oder Passivierungen dazu beitragen, Menschen als „anders“, „gefährlich“ oder „nicht menschlich“ darzustellen. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf der Frage, welche ideologischen Funktionen diese Strategien erfüllen und wie sie gesellschaftliche Wahrnehmungen sowie Handlungsbereitschaften beeinflussen können. Ziel ist es, ein sprachwissenschaftliches Problembewusstsein für die Rolle von Sprache in gesellschaftlichen Machtverhältnissen zu fördern und Möglichkeiten der kritischen Analyse aufzuzeigen.","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Applied Linguistics","abstract":"Der Vortrag zeigt anhand ausgewählter Beispiele, wie Sprache zur Dehumanisierung und ideologischen Konstruktion von Feindbildern eingesetzt wird. Analysiert werden sprachliche Mittel, mit denen Gruppen oder Individuen abgewertet und als „anders“ oder „bedrohlich“ dargestellt werden. Ziel ist es, ein kritisches Bewusstsein für die Rolle von Sprache in gesellschaftlichen Machtverhältnissen zu fördern.","speakers":[{"guid":"df4858eb-253e-5b06-a7a4-3c13d10dd76a","id":722,"image":"/system/people/avatars/000/000/722/original/Lisa_Portraitfoto.jpg?1744557130","name":"Lisa Felden","public_name":"Lisa Felden","email":"lisa.felden@uni-muenster.de","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-17T15:20:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-17T15:50:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 2.115","id":171}},{"id":1361,"guid":"f90cd065-0462-4b4d-92ba-9c3b71bbc7ce","title":"Die Untersuchung lexikalisch-semantischer Zweifelsfälle mit kontrastiven korpuslinguistischen Methoden. ","language":"de","subtitle":"Das Beispiel vegan/vegetarisch.","description":"Referenzen:\r\nBelica, Cyril (1995): Statistische Kollokationsanalyse und -clustering. Korpuslinguistische Analysemethode. http://corpora.ids-mannheim.de/ (24.04.2025).\r\nKühn, Peter (2010): Wörterbücher / Lernerwörterbücher. In: Helbig, Gerhard / Götze, Lutz / Henrici, Gert / Krumm, Hans-Jürgen (Hrsg.): Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache. Ein internationales Handbuch. 1. Halbband. Berlin / New York: De Gruyter Mouton.\r\nStorjohann, Petra (2023): Sprachliche Zweifelsfälle. Lexikalisch-semantische, flexivische und wortbildungsbedingte Zweifelfälle. Heidelberg: Winter.","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Semantics","abstract":"Sprachliche Zweifelsfälle stellen ein alltägliches sprachliches Phänomen dar. Insbesondere lexikalisch-semantische Zweifelsfälle mit semantischen Ähnlichkeiten (z.B. effektiv vs. effizient) führen hinsichtlich ihrer Bedeutungsunterscheidung und ihrer korrekten kontextuellen Verwendung oft zu Unsicherheiten. Trotz der Allgegenwärtigkeit dieses sprachlichen Phänomens werden lexikalisch-semantische Zweifelsfälle und ihre Abgrenzung voneinander in allgemeinen Wörterbüchern jedoch meist nur unzureichend behandelt. Das erschwert es wiederum sowohl DaF-Lernenden als auch Muttersprachler*innen semantisch ähnliche Ausdrücke zuverlässig voneinander zu unterscheiden.\r\nDer Vortrag stellt ein methodisches Vorgehen zur Untersuchung lexikalisch-semantischer Zweifelsfälle mit semantischen Ähnlichkeiten vor. Ziel ist es, eine klare Unterscheidung dieser Ausdrücke zu ermöglichen und ihr kontextsensitives Verhalten besser zu verstehen. Am Beispiel des Wortpaars vegan/vegetarisch wird gezeigt, wie semantisch-diskursive Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten solcher Zweifelsfälle mithilfe kontrastiver korpuslinguistischer Methoden analysiert werden können. Dabei wird die Verwendung der beiden Adjektive anhand einer Kookkurrenzanalyse und der Interpretation von Self-Organising-Maps in realen Kontexten untersucht.\r\nDie daraus entstehenden gebrauchsorientierten Bedeutungsprofile der Ausdrücke ermöglichen eine kontrastive Betrachtung und bieten eine wertvolle Hilfestellung sowohl für den Fremdspracherwerb als auch für die lexikografische Praxis. Im Vortrag werden alle Analyseschritte und Interpretationsvorgänge detailliert und schrittweise vorgestellt, sodass dieser eine praktische Einführung in die Arbeit mit verschiedenen korpuslinguistischen Werkzeugen zur Untersuchung semantisch ähnlicher Ausdrücke bietet.","speakers":[{"guid":"7ee33af4-ea16-5b5d-b115-de5c01452f9f","id":1110,"image":null,"name":"Melissa Roth","public_name":"Melissa Roth","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-16T14:40:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-16T15:10:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 2.216","id":173}},{"id":1332,"guid":"58d29381-c36f-497c-9498-6d5e498cea1b","title":"Differenzielle Objektmarkierung ist nicht einheitlich: Beflaggung versus Indexierung","language":"de","subtitle":null,"description":"1) Persisch (Lazard 1998: 82): differenzielle Beflaggung (DOF)\r\n            a.         Ân ketâb =râ xând-am.\r\n\r\n                        das Buch =ACC lesen.PST-1SG\r\n                        'Ich habe dieses Buch gelesen.'\r\n            b.         Ketâb xând-am.\r\n                        Buch gelesen.PST-1SG\r\n                        'Ich habe ein Buch gelesen.'\r\n(2) Mauwake (Trans-Neuguinea; Berghäll 2015: 97; 216):Differenzielle Indexierung (DOI)\r\n\r\n            a.         Emeria wia=amukar-e-k.\r\n                        Frau 3PL.ACC=schimpfen-PST-3SG\r\n                        'Sie hat die Frauen gescholten.'\r\n            b.         Bom=iya kateres=iya fuurk-a-mik.\r\n                        Bombe=COM Patrone=COM Abwurf-PST-3PL\r\n                        'Sie warfen Bomben und Patronen ab.'","duration":3300,"time_slots":11,"logo":null,"type":"keynote","do_not_record":false,"track":"Keynote","abstract":"In diesem Vortrag vergleiche ich differenzielle Objektbeflaggung (DOF), wie in (1), mit differentieller Objektindexierung (DOI), wie in (2), sowie mit zwei Arten von differenzieller Subjektmarkierung (DSF und DSI, analog zu DOF und DOI). Es stellt sich heraus, dass das Verhalten der beiden Typen der differenziellen Markierung in den Sprachen der Welt unterschiedlicher ist, als manchmal angenommen wird, und ich schlage vor (in Anlehnung an Comrie 1979; Just 2024), dass die beiden Typen unterschiedliche Erklärungen haben. Damit widerspreche ich einer in letzter Zeit häufig geäußerten Ansicht, nach der beide Typen gleich erklärt werden sollten (z.B. Kalin 2018).","speakers":[{"guid":"aacb0ab9-0858-5a02-899a-20d166706ba1","id":1153,"image":null,"name":"Martin Haspelmath","public_name":"Martin Haspelmath","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-17T16:40:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-17T17:35:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Bibliotheca Albertina","id":178}},{"id":1329,"guid":"ebff7bf9-0da9-4973-bc3a-a3d46f499d7b","title":"Elefant, Tiger \u0026 Idiolektale Kohärenz","language":"de","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":3300,"time_slots":11,"logo":null,"type":"keynote","do_not_record":false,"track":"Keynote","abstract":"Die Sprachsituation in Leipzig und allgemein im Ostmitteldeutschen ist durch starken Dialektabbau bei gleichzeitig relativ großer Distanz zum Standard geprägt. Das DFG -Projekt „Individuelle Variation im Lebenslauf (IVaL)“ untersucht mit einer real time-Panelstudie, wie die einzelnen Mitglieder an diesen Veränderungen der größeren Gemeinschaft teilhaben. Als Datengrundlage dient die Zoo-Doku-Soap „Elefant, Tiger \u0026 Co.“ (ETC), welche das Personal des Leipziger Zoos begleitet und seit 2003 wöchentlich im MDR ausgestrahlt wird. Statt den gesellschaftlichen Sprachwandel in real time widerzuspiegeln, zeigen die meisten der untersuchten Einzelpersonen sprachliche Stabilität. Gleichzeitig wird die individuelle Variation maßgeblich von der jeweiligen Kommunikationssituation beeinflusst: Bei ETC sprechen die untersuchten Personen hauptsächlich zur Kamera, aber auch zu ihren Kolleg*innen und zu den Tieren, vier Personen sind zusätzlich in Talkshows aufgetreten. Erste Analysen zeigen, dass die regionalsprachliche Ausprägung der phonetisch-phonologischen Variablen mit abnehmender Formalität steigt. Die genaue Ausgestaltung dieser unterschiedlichen Kommunikationssituationen ist jedoch höchst individuell.","speakers":[{"guid":"aacb0ab9-0858-5a02-899a-20d166706ba1","id":1151,"image":null,"name":"Simon Oppermann","public_name":"Simon Oppermann","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-16T09:30:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-16T10:25:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Bibliotheca Albertina","id":178}},{"id":1318,"guid":"d03a1525-0d31-425b-91a3-ed2abc857f5b","title":"Featuring French Fashion: Loanwords in Vogue magazine ","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":"This talk is based on my \"Zulassungsarbeit\" (Gymnasiallehramt) and will be held in English - prior knowledge of French is not required.  \r\n\r\nReferences:\r\nBurresi, Aldo, Gaetano Aiello and Simone Guercini. 2005. “Un programma di ricerca per il marketing della moda”. Il marketing della moda: temi emergenti nel tessile-abbigliamento. Ed. Aldo Burresi. Florence: Firenze University Press. 173–178. \r\nGutiérrez Fernández, Carla and Lucila María Pérez Fernández. 2020. “Loanwords in the Field of Fashion: A Denominative Need or a Stylistic Resource?”. RILEX Revista sobre investigaciones léxicas 3.2: 56–77.\r\nOrr, Emily M. 2017. “The American Woman as a Fashion Muse”. The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s. Eds. Sarah D. Coffin and Stephen Harrison. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art Publishing. 140–198. \r\nSchultz, Julia. 2012. Twentieth Century Borrowings from French to English: Their Reception and Development. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.\r\nZenner, Eline, Laura Rosseel and Andrea Simona Calude. 2019. “The Social Meaning Potential of Loanwords: Empirical Explorations of Lexical Borrowing as Expression of (Social) Identity”.  Ampersand 6: 1–4. ","duration":1500,"time_slots":5,"logo":"/system/events/logos/000/001/318/original/Screenshot_2025-05-10_135729.png?1746878266","type":"talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Sociolinguistics","abstract":"Paris is not only the city of love, but also THE fashion capital par excellence. Elegance, sophistication and erotic seduction are just some of the characteristics attributed to French fashion. The whole world follows the dictates of the Paris fashion shows with great interest - and fashion magazines such as Vogue report on them. Using a corpus based on several issues from Vogue US between the 1920s and 1980s, this talk will look at how this dominance of French fashion is reflected in the English language. Are there modern borrowings? In which fields are these mainly to be found and why? Is it possible to acquire prestige and competence through language and how do these reflect contemporary trends? Are there noticeable diachronic changes? We will discuss these questions using an interdisciplinary approach at the interface between lexicology, etymology, corpus linguistics and cultural studies. ","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). ","description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-15T16:30:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-15T16:55:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 4.116","id":175}},{"id":1331,"guid":"3f4669f8-c86d-48b1-9642-13297f6f5aee","title":"Forschung im Bereich Phonetik DaF/DaZ","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":3300,"time_slots":11,"logo":null,"type":"keynote","do_not_record":false,"track":"Keynote","abstract":"Phonetik ist langweilig und trocken? Absolut nicht! Die Forschung in diesem Bereich ist vielfältig und spannend. Diese Keynote gibt einen kleinen Einblick in unterschiedliche Forschungsbereiche wie die Untersuchung und Beschreibung von Lernendenaussprache, die Messung von Effekten eines Aussprachetrainings und unerwartete, bisher nicht erklärbare Phänomene in der Aussprache mancher Deutschlernenden. ","speakers":[{"guid":"aacb0ab9-0858-5a02-899a-20d166706ba1","id":1152,"image":null,"name":"Silvia Dahmen","public_name":"Silvia Dahmen","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-17T09:30:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-17T10:25:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Bibliotheca Albertina","id":178}},{"id":1362,"guid":"2b692dbc-d532-4c68-b476-5a9cec8cb190","title":"From Mother Tongue to Cultural Symbol","language":"en","subtitle":"Intergenerational Language Shift in Turkey’s Georgian-Speaking Community","description":"This talk explores the gradual decline of the Georgian language in Turkey through a sociolinguistic lens, focusing on the generational shift observed among ethnic Georgian communities. While Georgian has historically been spoken within families and small communities, its use has diminished significantly over time. This study is based on survey data collected from 74 participants across three age groups and provides a quantitative look at language proficiency, language use, and attitudes toward learning Georgian.\r\n\r\nThe findings reveal a clear generational pattern: older participants maintain higher fluency, while younger generations are increasingly disconnected from the language. Despite this, a large majority of respondents consider the Georgian language to be culturally important and express interest in learning or improving their skills. This contrast between symbolic value and practical use raises questions about the sustainability of heritage languages without institutional or community-based support.\r\n\r\nIn this talk, I will present visualized survey results and reflect on their implications for language maintenance efforts. I will also briefly discuss the methodology, including participant recruitment and survey design, to provide insight into how the data was collected and interpreted. The goal is to contribute to broader discussions on minority language preservation, while offering concrete insights from a case study within Turkey's multicultural context.\r\n","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":"/system/events/logos/000/001/362/original/flags-turkey-and-georgia-on-a-white-background-vector-27698864.png?1745487019","type":"talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Sociolinguistics","abstract":"This study investigates the intergenerational decline of the Georgian language among ethnic Georgian communities in Turkey. Based on survey data from 74 participants across three age groups (17–30, 31–50, 51–70), the research identifies a clear generational shift in language proficiency, with fluency dropping from 81% in the oldest cohort to just 10% in the youngest. Despite this decline, a strong majority (87.8%) of participants expressed that the Georgian language holds cultural importance, and over 80% showed interest in learning or improving their Georgian skills. The findings highlight the growing gap between symbolic appreciation and active use of the language. The study calls for targeted revitalization efforts, such as formal education opportunities and community-based initiatives, to support the continued transmission of Georgian in Turkey. By focusing on the lived experiences of community members, this research contributes to the broader discourse on heritage language preservation.\r\n","speakers":[{"guid":"a6d59f59-5292-5c0d-acb2-86fbbf0c23c7","id":930,"image":"/system/people/avatars/000/000/930/original/modified.jpg?1745486315","name":"Ömer","public_name":"Ömer","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-17T15:20:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-17T15:50:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 2.116","id":172}},{"id":1322,"guid":"4ef03fd8-e8da-4d0d-aafa-997a1331d52b","title":"German argument permutation is syntactic until it's prosodic","language":"en","subtitle":"Fixing syntax","description":"Keywords: word order, focus, stress, binding\r\n\r\nBüring, Daniel (2001): \"Let's Phrase it! Focus, Word Order, and Prosodie Phrasing in German Double Object Constructions\". Competition in syntax 49, p. 101-137.\r\nFéry, Caroline (2011): \"German sentence accents and embedded prosodic phrases\". Lingua 121.13, p. 1906-1922.\r\nLenerz, Jürgen (1977): \"Zur Abfolge nominaler Satzglieder im Deutschen\". Narr, Tübingen.","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Theoretical Linguistics","abstract":"Argument permutation in German subordinate clauses has been debated for decades. What feature(s) condition the alternation of arguments in \"... dass der Fritz der MARIA das Buch gegeben hat / dass der Fritz das Buch der MARIA gegeben hat / ....\" (Lenerz 1977) has been attributed to different modules of the grammar. Solving this conundrum thus yields consequences for the assumed structure of the grammer alltogether: whether phonological and syntactic constraints apply at the same time (Büring 2001) or whether the syntax is built entirely in the phonology (Féry 2011), among other analyses. In this presentation I will argue that argument permutation is syntactic until it is phonological. If all syntactic features are checked, certain permutations occur solely post-syntactically in the phonology through PF-movement to align with the semantic requirements, 'fixing' the syntactic structure.","speakers":[{"guid":"1362bf3b-1cad-569d-a157-f21e96fc2608","id":880,"image":null,"name":"Kit Grigoleit","public_name":"Kit Grigoleit","abstract":"MA linguistics student at Leipzig University\r\n\r\ninterested in process ordering at syntax-PF and deriving the structure of grammar from boundaries at the interfaces.\r\n\r\nworking on syntactic and phonological domains in verbs \u0026 clauses and what Phase Theory can (not) do.","description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-16T14:00:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-16T14:30:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 2.316","id":174}},{"id":1339,"guid":"f4eef24c-2268-4030-a29d-a85a9595a1a3","title":"Gesprochen – gehört – bewertet: Zur Dialektwahrnehmung und -bewertung des Sächsischen (speziell im Raum Chemnitz)","language":"de","subtitle":null,"description":"Referenzen \r\n\r\nAnders, Christina A. 2010. Wahrnehmungsdialektologie: das Obersächsische im Alltagsverständnis von Laien. Berlin / New York: de Gruyter.\r\n\r\nKiesewalter, Carolin. 2019. Zur subjektiven Dialektalität regiolektaler Aussprachemerkmale des Deutschen. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. \r\n\r\nPurschke, Christoph \u0026 Philipp Stoeckle. 2019. Perzeptionslinguistik arealer Sprachvariation im Deutschen. In Herrgen, Joachim \u0026 Jürgen Erich Schmidt (Hg.), Deutsch: Sprache und Raum - Ein Internationales Handbuch der Sprachvariation, 844–860. Berlin: De Gruyter.\r\n\r\nTrillhaase, Kerstin. 2021. Der Einfluss der deutschen Dialekte Obersächsisch und Mittelbairisch auf die Wahrnehmung der Persönlichkeit. Berlin: Logos.\r\n","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Sociolinguistics","abstract":"Das Sächsische gilt als einer der am stärksten stigmatisierten Dialekte des Deutschen. Besonders im medialen und öffentlichen Diskurs hat es ein Negativprestige – von sprachlicher Inkorrektheit bis hin zu mangelnder Intelligenz. Doch worauf basiert diese Abwertung: auf tatsächlichen sprachlichen Eigenschaften oder vielmehr auf sozialen Zuschreibungen? Und welche Faktoren beeinflussen diese Wahrnehmung?\r\nIn einer explorativen Untersuchung wird der Fokus auf die vorerzgebirgische Region um Chemnitz gelegt. Ziel ist es, die sprachbezogenen Einstellungen zum Sächsischen sowohl innerhalb als auch außerhalb der Region zu erfassen. Zudem soll untersucht werden, wie sich Menschen mit der Region und dem lokalen Dialekt identifizieren, da gerade das weitverbreitete Negativimage die Haltung zur eigenen Sprachverwendung beeinflussen und zu negativer Selbsteinschätzung führen kann. \r\nNeben einem onlinebasierten Fragebogen, der Einstellungen, sprachliche Wahrnehmung und Identifikation erfasst, kommen auch Hörproben und leitfadengestützte Interviews zum Einsatz, um gezielt Aussprachemerkmale bewerten zu lassen. \r\nDiese Untersuchung versteht sich als explorative Annäherung an die Wahrnehmung des Sächsischen am Beispiel des Vorerzgebirgischen im Raum Chemnitz, mit dem Ziel, erste Einblicke in Eigen- und Fremdzuschreibungen sowie phonetische Bewertungen zu gewinnen.\r\n","speakers":[{"guid":"f4158a86-1daf-5b08-b0e1-00112c53e70d","id":1129,"image":null,"name":"Emilia Zimmermann","public_name":"Emilia Zimmermann","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-15T15:50:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-15T16:20:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 4.116","id":175}},{"id":1374,"guid":"7a1c30ab-8054-4f55-92d2-f10229ab5421","title":"Heaven’s Vault: Sprache als Gameplay","language":"de","subtitle":"„Ancient“ und dessen Übersetzungsmechanik in Heaven’s Vault (2019) aus linguistischer und kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive","description":null,"duration":1500,"time_slots":5,"logo":null,"type":"talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Other","abstract":"In einer Zeit, in der Conlangs (konstruierte Sprachen) in Filmen, Serien und auch Videospielen immer häufiger anzutreffen sind, habe ich für eine Seminararbeit untersucht, welche Möglichkeiten und Fallstricke Sprache, wenn sie nicht nur der Atmosphäre dient, als zentrales Element des Gameplays in Videospielen mit sich bringen kann.\r\nUntersucht wurde das Spiel Heaven’s Vault (inkle 2019), in welchem man als Archäologin Aliya Elasra versucht, eine alte Zivilisation und ihre ungewöhnliche Sprache anhand von Textartefakten zu verstehen.\r\nMit linguistischen und kulturwissenschaftlichen Methoden versucht dieser Vortrag zu verstehen, welche Aspekte der vom Entwicklerstudio gewählten Herangehensweise ihr Ziel erreichen, und wo, durch die Art und Weise der Umsetzung, das Gameplay der Handung nicht gerecht wird und auf diese Weise ludonarrative Dissonanz (vgl. Hocking 2007) erzeugt.","speakers":[{"guid":"cdefd54d-4bee-5a4b-963c-69c1e4362924","id":1147,"image":null,"name":"Jonas Hübel","public_name":"Jonas Hübel","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-15T14:40:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-15T15:05:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 4.216","id":176}},{"id":1364,"guid":"2a7b0832-db74-452f-b1fe-a8cbbd1e1ff6","title":"How to PhD: The First Year and Narrowing Your Research Subject","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":"Starting a PhD in linguistics can feel like being dropped into a vast, chaotic landscape with no clear map. You're expected to “find a topic,” narrow it down, read everything, and somehow become a researcher — all at once. In this talk, I reflect on my first year of the PhD: what helped me narrow down my research subject (and what didn’t), how I dealt with overwhelm and self-doubt, and what I wish I had known when I started. This is not a “how-to” guide or expert advice — it’s an open, down-to-earth account of one student’s early research journey. The talk is aimed at students in linguistics who are considering a PhD, just starting one, or feeling lost somewhere in between. There will be room for discussion at the end, and audience input is welcome","duration":3600,"time_slots":12,"logo":null,"type":"workshop","do_not_record":false,"track":"Other","abstract":"n honest and informal talk about the first year of a linguistics PhD: how to deal with ambiguity, doubt, and the challenge of turning broad interests into a viable research topic. No advice, just experience.","speakers":[{"guid":"dc508c09-6bf4-52af-afe8-ca4e25c50ed8","id":1090,"image":null,"name":"Ates Calisir","public_name":"Ates Calisir","abstract":"PhD student in the RTG program: From-meaning mismatches.\r\nMy disseration topic is Question-Conditional Link","description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-16T15:30:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-16T16:30:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 4.216","id":176}},{"id":1343,"guid":"73d54e3b-db06-478d-8b3b-29e1ed76266c","title":"Is there a gene for grammar? Asking for a linguist. ","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Neuro-/Psycholinguistics","abstract":"From the discovery of the so-called ‘language gene’ FOXP2 to the rise of genome-wide association studies (GWAS), language and language-related disorders have increasingly become central topics in genetic research. But how much does it actually reveal? And what kinds of questions should linguists be asking in response?\r\n\r\nThis talk is an open exploration of what we can (and cannot) learn from genetic research on language. Drawing from studies on FOXP2 and Developmental language disorder (DLD), I reflect on what it means when a gene is “associated” with language difficulties, why that doesn’t necessarily imply causality, and how motor control, brain development, and gene regulation all complicate our understanding of linguistic ability.\r\n\r\nI also consider what linguists can contribute to this growing field, including more precise language phenotyping and theoretical perspectives that go beyond outdated binary models. This is not a talk with final answers, but an invitation: to think together, question the foundations, and find new paths between genome and grammar.","speakers":[{"guid":"7415536c-51cd-54ad-9a8e-54ec426e5ee2","id":989,"image":null,"name":"Santina S. Kemper","public_name":"Santina S. 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My current interest is verbal morphology of small Siberian languages (Itelmen, Ket).","description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-15T15:50:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-15T16:20:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 2.116","id":172}},{"id":1358,"guid":"edd0193b-16bc-403c-941a-39a18b472508","title":"Kamassisch - völlig von Sinnen","language":"de","subtitle":"Ein typologischer Kurztrip in die Welt der kamassischen Perzeptionsverben","description":"In jeder Sprache der Welt, so Aikhenvald und Storch (2013: 14), finden sich lexikalische Elemente, die das Phänomen der Wahrnehmung beschreiben. Eine Studie Vibergs (1993) belegt, dass das Verb für die Sinnesmodalität SEHEN in elf von elf untersuchten europäischen Sprachen zu den 20 am häufigsten verwendeten Verben gehört und somit den Nuklearverben zuzuordnen ist.\r\nIn meinem Vortrag möchte ich eine meiner letzten Hausarbeiten präsentieren, in der ich mich mit dem System der Perzeptionsverben im Kamassischen beschäftigt habe. Diese ehemals im Sajangebirge in Südsibirien gesprochene Sprache gehörte zu den samojedischen Sprachen und gilt seit 1989 als ausgestorben (vgl. Klumpp 2022: 817).\r\nZiel der Arbeit war es, einen Überblick über das Spektrum der Perzeptionsverben im Kamassischen zu verschaffen und die Ergebnisse in den vorhandenen Forschungsrahmen einzuordnen. Dabei lag der Schwerpunkt auf den nach Viberg (2001) prototypischen Perzeptionsverben SEHEN, HÖREN, RIECHEN, SCHMECKEN und TASTEN. Das theoretische Fundament für die Untersuchung bildeten Vibergs (1984, 1993, 2001, 2019) Entwurf einer Perzeptionsverbentypologie sowie die Rezeption seiner Arbeit im wissenschaftlichen Diskurs. Die Leitfrage der vorliegenden Arbeit lautete somit wie folgt: Welche Perzeptionsverben finden sich im Kamassischen und lassen sich Vibergs typologische Überlegungen auf sie anwenden? Zur Beantwortung dieser Leitfrage wurden zwei Sprachdatenquellen herangezogen: Als primäre Quelle diente das Kamassisch-Korpus des Projekts INEL (Gusev et al. 2023), die gewonnenen Ergebnisse wurden durch den Einsatz des von Joki (1944) herausgegebenen Kamassischen Wörterbuchs von Kai Donner ergänzt.\r\nReferenzen (Auswahl):\r\nAikhenvald, Alexandra \u0026 Storch, Anne. 2013. Linguistic Expression of Perception and Cognition: A Typological Glimpse. In Aikhenvald, Alexandra \u0026 Storch, Anne (Hrsg.), Perception and Cognition in Language and Culture. Leiden: Brill, 1-45.\r\nGusev, Valentin \u0026 Klooster, Tiina \u0026 Wagner-Nagy, Beáta. 2023. INEL Kamas Corpus. Version 2.0. Archived at Universität Hamburg. In: The INEL Corpora of Indigenous Northern Eurasian Languages. Online: \u003chttp://hdl.handle.net/11022/0000-0007-FC25-4\u003e, letzter Zugriff: 4.2.2025.\r\nJoki, Aulis (Hrsg.). 1944. Kai Donners Kamassisches Wörterbuch nebst Sprachproben und Hauptzügen der Grammatik. Bearbeitet und herausgegeben von A.J. Joki. Helsinki: Finnisch-Ugrische Gesellschaft.\r\nKlumpp, Gerson. 2022. Kamas. In Bakró-Nagy, Marianne \u0026 Laakso, Johanna \u0026 Skribnik, Elena (Hrsg.), The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 817-844.\r\nViberg, Åke. 1984. The Verbs of Perception: A Typological Study. In Butterworth, Brian \u0026 Comrie, Bernard \u0026 Dahl, Östen (Hrsg.), Explanations for Language Universals. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 123-162.\r\nViberg, Åke. 1993. Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Lexical Organization and Lexical Progression. In Viberg, Åke \u0026 Hyltenstam, Kenneth (Hrsg.), Progression and Regression in Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 340-385.\r\nViberg, Åke. 2001. Verbs of Perception. In Haspelmath, Martin et al. (Hrsg.), Sprachtypologie und sprachliche Universalien: Ein internationales Handbuch. (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft 20.2). Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1294-1309.\r\nViberg, Åke. 2019. Phenomenon-Based Perception Verbs in Swedish from a Typological and Contrastive Perspective. Syntaxe \u0026 Sémantique 20(1), 17-48.\r\n","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Semantics","abstract":"Das Phänomen der Wahrnehmung ist nicht nur für die Psychologie, Neurobiologie und Philosophie, sondern auch für die Sprachwissenschaft ein Schlüsselthema: Vermutlich jede Sprache der Welt weist lexikalische Elemente auf, die beschreiben, wie wir unsere Umwelt mit unseren Sinnen erfassen. In meinem Vortrag präsentiere ich eine erste Analyse der Perzeptionsverben im Kamassischen, einer ausgestorbenen samojedischen Sprache, die in Südsibirien gesprochen wurde. Für den Zweig der samojedischen Sprachen fehlt eine systematische linguistische Untersuchung dieser Verbkategorie bislang völlig. Das erste Teilziel meiner Arbeit ist es, das Spektrum dieser Verben im Kamassischen möglichst umfänglich abzubilden, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf den nach Viberg „prototypischen“ Sinnesmodalitäten Sehen, Hören, Tasten, Riechen und Schmecken liegt. In einem zweiten Schritt gehe ich der Frage nach, wie sich das Kamassische hinsichtlich bestehender typologischer Ansätze verhält. Das theoretische Fundament meiner Arbeit bildet die Typologie der Perzeptionsverben nach Viberg sowie deren Resonanz in der linguistischen Forschungsgemeinschaft. Für meine Untersuchung habe ich Sprachdaten aus dem Kamassisch-Korpus des Projekts INEL an der Uni Hamburg sowie aus dem Kamassischen Wörterbuch des Ethnographen Kai Donner verwendet.","speakers":[{"guid":"f18223fa-a48f-5eac-b0bc-af333c8e296b","id":872,"image":null,"name":"Eva Schleitzer","public_name":"Eva Schleitzer","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-16T14:00:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-16T14:30:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 2.216","id":173}},{"id":1382,"guid":"bbfef8d1-aa28-498a-a50f-81fb61d7e841","title":"KasuS-Arbeitstreffen","language":"de","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":5400,"time_slots":18,"logo":null,"type":"bufata","do_not_record":false,"track":"KasuS","abstract":null,"speakers":[],"start_time":"2025-05-16T13:20:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-16T14:50:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 1.315","id":170}},{"id":1378,"guid":"039f0efd-bfcb-479f-bed8-532cb866d199","title":"Kasus-Plenum","language":"","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":6000,"time_slots":20,"logo":null,"type":"bufata","do_not_record":false,"track":"KasuS","abstract":null,"speakers":[],"start_time":"2025-05-17T13:00:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-17T14:40:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Bibliotheca Albertina","id":178}},{"id":1379,"guid":"5bb34c49-b2a5-47b0-89df-6d349a6b5738","title":"Kasus-Vernetzungstreffen","language":"","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":2400,"time_slots":8,"logo":null,"type":"bufata","do_not_record":false,"track":"KasuS","abstract":null,"speakers":[],"start_time":"2025-05-15T13:10:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-15T13:50:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 1.315","id":170}},{"id":1346,"guid":"08cf6b75-7d1c-4ee2-adbd-1f7eec7d9e3e","title":"KI-Schreibwerkstatt","language":"de","subtitle":"Wissenschaftliches Schreiben im KI-Zeitalter (Teil 2)","description":"Der Workshop ist eine Fortsetzung des KI-Workshops der StuTS 76 in Marburg und führt den dort begonnenen Diskurs weiter. Er basiert teilweise auf dem Minikurs \"KI-Schreibwerkstatt: Umgang mit Chatbot und Co.\", der Teil einer fächerübergreifenden Schlüsselqualifikation in der Schreibwerkstatt der Universität Stuttgart ist. Der Workshop wird im Rahmen eines Peer-Tutorings von Mete Saltik durchgeführt, um einen Austausch auf Augenhöhe zu ermöglichen. Im Juni 2024 gewann er in einem Live-Voting die studentische AI Innovation Challenge des KI-Campus und des Stifterverbands und wurde für seine professionelle Umsetzung gelobt. Auch Mitarbeitende an der Uni Stuttgart besuchen zu Fortbildungszwecken den Kurs","duration":3600,"time_slots":12,"logo":null,"type":"workshop","do_not_record":false,"track":"Applied Linguistics","abstract":"Generative KI-Tools sind längst Teil des wissenschaftlichen Alltags und werden immer häufiger von Studierenden und Lehrenden genutzt. Dennoch fehlt es an vielen deutschen Universitäten bislang an klaren Regelungen für den Umgang mit LLMs – und eine einheitliche Linie scheint schwer realisierbar. In diesem Workshop diskutieren wir gemeinsam zentrale rechtliche, ethische und praktische Fragen: Was bedeutet Eigenständigkeit im Zeitalter von KI? Können KI-generierte Texte als Plagiate gelten? Und wie können wir an unseren jeweiligen Instituten den Einsatz von künstlicher Intelligenz mitgestalten?","speakers":[{"guid":"32e90091-0733-57c7-8710-5b850b911cf9","id":1097,"image":null,"name":"Mete Saltik","public_name":"Mete Saltik","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-17T10:40:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-17T11:40:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 2.116","id":172}},{"id":1333,"guid":"edb61f5c-df52-437e-90e8-a5c164f29e38","title":"Korpusbasierte Lexikografie für Nichtcomputerlinguist*innen ","language":"de","subtitle":null,"description":"Weiterführende Literatur (nicht vorausgesetzt um dem Vortrag folgen zu können)\r\nB. T. Sue Atkins, \u0026 Michael Rundell. (2008). The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography. OUP Oxford.\r\nKlosa-Kückelhaus, A. (2024). Internet Lexicography: An Introduction. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111233758\r\n\r\n","duration":3600,"time_slots":12,"logo":null,"type":"workshop","do_not_record":false,"track":"Applied Linguistics","abstract":"Vortrag: Korpusbasierte Lexikografie für Nichtcomputerlinguist*innen \r\nFriederike Manthey \r\n\r\nAnhand eines von mir erstellten, beispielhaften Wörterbuchs Afrikaans-Deutsch für Lernende des Afrikaans, werde ich verschiedene Fertigkeiten, die zur Erstellung eines korpusbasierten Wörterbuchs benötigt werden, präsentieren. \r\nDieser Vortrag richtet sich gezielt an Linguist*innen, die keinen computerlinguistischen Schwerpunkt haben und basiert auf dem Seminar Corpus Lexicography, das ich an der Universität Leiden besucht habe. \r\nBeginnen werde ich mit den Präliminarien, d.h. mit. der Festlegung der Sprache, Zielgruppe und ob es sich um ein mono- oder bilinguales Wörterbuch handeln soll. Danach werde ich die Makro- und Mikrostruktur, die Selektion eines Korpus’ und die Korpusverarbeitung (mit Sketch Engine oder NoSketch Engine) besprechen. \r\nHier werde ich auf die Nutzung der in SketchEngine vorhandenen Korpora z.B. durch das Erstellen von Häufigkeitslisten, die als Vorläufer zu Schlagwortlisten dienen können, eingehen.\r\nAuch auf die Visualisierung der zu implementierenden Daten, durch Datenmodellierung mit UML, werde ich eingehen.\r\nAbschließend werde ich erklären, wie ich meine Daten in Lexonomy implementiert habe, um ein korpusbasiertes, digitales Wörterbuch zu erstellen. \r\nDer Vortrag soll dabei so gestaltet sein, dass die Zuhörer*innen die Möglichkeit haben, während des Zuhörens eigene Ideen zu entwickeln, die hoffentlich während der Konferenz diskutiert werden können und so ausreifen können. \r\n","speakers":[{"guid":"2747e116-9c79-5ee1-acc5-ddb5d9852af3","id":1116,"image":null,"name":"Friederike Manthey ","public_name":"Friederike Manthey ","email":"fmanthey@smail.uni-koeln.de","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-16T15:30:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-16T16:30:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 2.216","id":173}},{"id":1371,"guid":"362ec71c-c1cf-45b9-821f-66604264fbf4","title":"LLMs syntactically adapt their language use to their conversational partner","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":"The presentation will go deeper in the analysis that was used to find alignment throughout long conversations. I will further explain a more in depth analysis that further looks into the rate to which syntactic adaptation takes place. I will try to make the explanations as comprehensive as possible to encourage a critical discussion of the results in the end (if there is enough time for discussion).","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Computational Linguistics","abstract":"It has been frequently observed that human speakers align their language use with each other during conversations. In this talk, I present an analysis on whether large language models (LLMs) exhibit the same behavior of conversational adaptation. The findings show that LLM agents end up making more similar syntactic choices as conversations go on, confirming that modern LLMs adapt their language use to their conversational partners in at least a rudimentary way.","speakers":[{"guid":"1805487a-1736-558a-83f5-a77dbcc8a73b","id":1146,"image":null,"name":"Florian","public_name":"Florian","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-16T14:00:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-16T14:30:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 4.216","id":176}},{"id":1347,"guid":"80cb747e-704d-4757-926c-20f88865191d","title":"Maschinelle Übersetzung und die Genus-Sexus-Kongruenz:","language":"de","subtitle":"DeepL’s Pronominalisierung von ‘das Mädchen’ ","description":null,"duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Applied Linguistics","abstract":"In dieser Studie wurde untersucht, in welchen Fällen das maschinelle Online-Übersetzungstool DeepL, bei der Übersetzung des hybriden Substantivs ‚das Mädchen‘ genus- oder sexuskongruent pronominalisiert. Neben den grammatikalischen Faktoren wie dem Pronomentypen (Personal- und Possessivpronomen) und semantischen Faktoren wie der Definitheit wurde auch erforscht, inwieweit pragmatische Faktoren, wie das Alter der Referentin und stereotype (männliche/weibliche/positive/negative) adjektivische Zuschreibungen die Pronominalisierung beeinflussen. ","speakers":[{"guid":"9d904917-aa49-5afe-9cd6-a5c0ddf626d3","id":1135,"image":null,"name":"Tiziana Ilie","public_name":"Tiziana Ilie","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-16T14:00:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-16T14:30:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 2.116","id":172}},{"id":1345,"guid":"664eb305-c5e4-43a3-a222-45c7ca41bc03","title":"Monolinguale Feldforschung","language":"de","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":3600,"time_slots":12,"logo":null,"type":"workshop","do_not_record":false,"track":"Other","abstract":"Ein essentieller Teil der Dokumentation bedrohter Sprachen ist Feldforschung. Normalerweise kann man dabei auf eine Lingua Franca zurückgreifen, etwa eine offizielle Landessprache, doch nicht immer ist diese Option gegeben. In solchen Fällen muss man sich durch geschickte Elizitation die Grundlagen der Sprache erschließen, um diese dann selbst zur weiteren Elizitation zu benutzen. Dabei kann es leicht zu Missverständnissen kommen, durch die der Spracherwerbs- und -analyseprozess erschwert wird. Durch gezielte Fragen mit Bezug auf die nähere Umgebung und Einbeziehung der Körpersprache können Phonetik/Phonologie, Morphosyntax, Lexik sowie Semantik der Sprache auch ohne Übersetzung oder metasprachliche Befragung schrittweise analysiert werden.\r\nIn diesem interaktiven Workshop wollen wir diese Situation nachstellen. Hierfür ist ein feldforschungserfahrener Linguistik-Alumnus zu Gast, der einen monolingualen Informanten in einer noch nicht näher spezifizierten Sprache simuliert. Elizitierfreudige Teilnehmende können so versuchen, so viel wie möglich über diese unbekannte Sprache in Erfahrung zu bringen.\r\nAnschließend sollen die Erkenntnisse und Methoden kurz ausgewertet und aufgelöst werden.\r\n\r\nVorkenntnisse: Keine, aber Kurs „Feldforschungsmethoden“ von Vorteil.\r\n","speakers":[{"guid":"e044b3bc-4caf-52b9-8310-74645a4a1268","id":1131,"image":null,"name":"Ronja Sturm","public_name":"Ronja Sturm","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-17T10:40:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-17T11:40:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 2.316","id":174}},{"id":1376,"guid":"a6ac5242-81c8-4f5c-9f19-aed144af0fe7","title":"Moroccan Darija: Sociocultural and Psychological Motivations for Code-switching","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":"Drawing from foundational definitions of code-switching as the use of two or more linguistic varieties within a single speech event (Woolard 2004), we start with the assumption that language choices are not random but follow discernible patterns influenced by both internal and external factors. These include speaker identity, audience design, topic, power relations, and perceived prestige of the language varieties in use. Furthermore, psychological elements such as speaker intention, emotional expression, and subconscious language preference are considered essential to understanding why certain switches occur in particular contexts.\r\n     We will explore how Moroccan speakers employ code-switching as a form of translanguaging, responding flexibly to communicative demands while also negotiating social alignment and group belonging. I will be preliminary hypotheses regarding patterns in language choice and switching behavior, based on situational and communicative cues, which will allow for reflexion on how speakers may internalize translanguaging norms while remaining unaware of the underlying motives for their language behavior.\r\n","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Sociolinguistics","abstract":"     Code-switching—the alternation between two or more linguistic varieties within a single discourse event—remains a defining feature of multilingual communities. In Morocco, this phenomenon unfolds amid a complex interplay of languages including Darija, Modern Standard Arabic, French, Amazigh, and occasionally English or Spanish. This talk investigates the socio-cultural and psychological motivations that underlie code-switching practices among Moroccan Darija speakers. Drawing on prior sociolinguistic theories, the study proposes that while translanguaging is a familiar norm in Morocco’s multilingual ecology, the motivations behind language choice often operate beneath the level of conscious awareness. The analysis aims to uncover systematic patterns in the forms and functions of code-switching, shaped by situational and communicative factors. By examining these patterns, the talk offers insights into how language use in Morocco reflects broader issues of identity, power, and social alignment.","speakers":[{"guid":"e7be09e9-fc71-5d64-9008-9fdc86f026a3","id":1148,"image":null,"name":"Dina Kaicer","public_name":"Dina Kaicer","email":"dkaicer@smail.uni-koeln.de","abstract":"Linguaphile navigating student life in Germany ;)","description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-17T16:00:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-17T16:30:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 2.116","id":172}},{"id":1370,"guid":"bd89afcd-97e2-453d-8f26-909a742daeff","title":"(Nicht-)Sprechen über Gefühle - Narrative Interviews zum emotionalen Ausdruck von Trauergefühlen","language":"de","subtitle":null,"description":"Emotionen galten \"lange als irrelevante Begleiterscheinungen, marginale Nebeneffekte oder bloße Störfaktoren\", denen in der (linguistischen) Forschung nur wenig Beachtung geschenkt wurde (Schwarz-Friesel 2013: 1). In alltäglichen Interaktionen werden auch heute noch insbesondere tendenziell negativ konnotierte Gefühle häufig als Störfaktoren bewertet und wahrgenommen. Ihr Ausdruck (oder Nicht-Ausdruck) sowie ihre soziale Akzeptanz werden durch Gefühlsnormen reguliert (Hochschild 1979). \r\nVor diesem Hintergrund habe ich im Rahmen meiner Masterarbeit das Verhältnis von Sprache und emotionalem Ausdruck am Beispiel von Trauergefühlen nach Verlusterfahrungen untersucht. Die Themen Trauer und Tod sind in unserem Kulturkreis in vielen Kontexten tabuisiert und werden buchstäblich totgeschwiegen - gerade deshalb kann die Erforschung des Ausdrucks von Trauer Aufschluss darüber geben, welche Faktoren die Verbalisierung von Gefühlen begünstigen oder erschweren. \r\nDie Fragen, die im Rahmen meiner psycholinguistischen Arbeit mit Hilfe von zwei narrativen Interviews qualitativ beantwortet werden sollten, lauteten unter anderem: Wann, wie und mit wem wird über Tod und Trauer gesprochen (oder geschwiegen)? Und was sagen die Antworten auf diese Fragen über das übergeordnete Verhältnis von Sprache und emotionalem Ausdruck aus? Der Vortrag gibt einen Einblick in die Theorie, die Methodik und die wichtigsten Ergebnisse der Arbeit.\r\n\r\nHochschild, A. R. (1979). “Emotion work, feeling rules, and social structure.“ American Journal of Sociology, 85(3), 551–575. https://doi.org/10.1086/227049 \r\nSchwarz-Friesel, M. (2013). Sprache und Emotion. 2. Auflage. Stuttgart/Tübingen: Francke.","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Neuro-/Psycholinguistics","abstract":"Vortrag über Theorie, Methodik und Ergebnisse der Masterarbeit zum Thema Sprache und emotionaler Ausdruck, untersucht am Beispiel von zwei narrativen Interviews zum Sprechen über Trauergefühle bei Verlusterfahrungen.","speakers":[{"guid":"09dcf426-96e8-5cd3-b3d5-1784f67c08a2","id":960,"image":null,"name":"Laura Di Lizio","public_name":"Laura Di Lizio","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-15T16:30:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-15T17:00:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 4.216","id":176}},{"id":1380,"guid":"8cb90f17-165b-40af-88b1-65d027a1d907","title":"Opening Plenary","language":"","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":3000,"time_slots":10,"logo":null,"type":"other","do_not_record":false,"track":null,"abstract":null,"speakers":[],"start_time":"2025-05-15T09:30:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-15T10:20:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Campus Jahnallee, Hörsaal 2 Süd","id":177}},{"id":1341,"guid":"e51e506f-8fa0-4c64-8ec8-3c87591e6f40","title":"Populismus kontern – Gesprächsstrategien gegen unfaire Argumentation","language":"de","subtitle":null,"description":"„Früher war alles besser – heute darf man ja gar nichts mehr!“\r\nPopulistische Rhetorik bedient sich häufig vereinfachender Narrative, emotionalisierender Sprache und sogenannter Killerphrasen, um komplexe Themen zuzuspitzen und argumentative Auseinandersetzung zu erschweren. Der Workshop bietet einen praxisorientierten Einstieg in den Umgang mit solchen Kommunikationsstrategien – insbesondere in informellen Gesprächssituationen, z. B. im Alltag, auf der Arbeit oder in sozialen Medien.\r\n\r\nNach einer kurzen Einführung in sprachliche Merkmale populistischer Argumentation (z. B. dichotome Weltsicht, Appell an den „gesunden Menschenverstand“) erarbeiten wir gemeinsam konkrete Gesprächsstrategien: Wie lassen sich unfaire Argumente entlarven? Wann lohnt sich ein Gespräch, wann nicht? Und welche kommunikativen Mittel stehen zur Verfügung, um Eskalation zu vermeiden oder produktive Impulse zu setzen?\r\n\r\nIm Anschluss üben die Teilnehmenden in Kleingruppen den Umgang mit schwierigen Gesprächspartner*innen in einem Rollenspiel.\r\n\r\nVorkenntnisse: keine erforderlich\r\nGeplante Aufgaben: Analyse kurzer Gesprächsausschnitte, Rollenspiele in Gruppen, Reflexion im Plenum","duration":3300,"time_slots":11,"logo":null,"type":"workshop","do_not_record":false,"track":"Applied Linguistics","abstract":"Der Workshop vermittelt praxisnahe Strategien für den Umgang mit populistischer Rhetorik und unfairen Gesprächstechniken. Nach einer gemeinsamen Analyse typischer Merkmale populistischer Argumentation trainieren die Teilnehmenden in Rollenspielen konkrete Gesprächssituationen und erarbeiten Mittel zur Deeskalation und konstruktiven Kommunikation.","speakers":[{"guid":"df4858eb-253e-5b06-a7a4-3c13d10dd76a","id":722,"image":"/system/people/avatars/000/000/722/original/Lisa_Portraitfoto.jpg?1744557130","name":"Lisa Felden","public_name":"Lisa Felden","email":"lisa.felden@uni-muenster.de","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-16T15:30:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-16T16:25:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 2.316","id":174}},{"id":1351,"guid":"b7ea5631-10cf-4dfa-a015-a253ea263a8a","title":"Portmanteau Agreement as an Epiphenomenon","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":"The analysis is couched in the framework of Inflectional Morphology in Harmonic Serialism (Müller 2020).\r\nReferences: \r\nBauer, Mark (to appear): Itelmen Subject-Object Agreement in Harmonic Serialism. John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia.\r\nFenger, Paula (2018): ‘Multiple agreeing persons is not that special: Restrictions on person\r\nportmanteaux’, University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 24(1), 66.\r\nGeorgi, Doreen (2013): Deriving the distribution of person portmanteaux by relativized probing. In: NELS 42: Proceedings of the Forty-Second Annual Meeting of the North East\r\nLinguistic Society. University of Massachusetts, Graduate Linguistics Students Association\r\nAmherst, pp. 155–168.\r\nMüller, Gereon (2020): Inflectional Morphology in Harmonic Serialism.. Equinox, Sheffield.\r\nStarke, Michal (2001): Move Dissolves Into Merge. Phd thesis, University of Geneva.\r\nWoolford, Ellen (2016): ‘Two types of portmanteau agreement: Syntactic and morphological’,\r\nOptimality theoretic syntax, semantics, and pragmatics: From uni-to bidirectional optimization pp. 111–135.","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Morphology","abstract":"Portmanteau agreement,  where an affix seems to realise phi-features of both subject and object (because its distribution depends on phi-features of both arguments), constitutes a challenge for morphological theory (e.g. Georgi 2013, Woolford 2016, Fenger 2018, Bauer to appear). I argue that so-called portmanteau agreement markers do not realise both arguments, but only one argument -- either the object or the subject -- and their distribution follows from the order of morphological operations: By f-seq and/or language-specific salience hierarchies, some arguments are realised before others not only based on case but also person and number features, and so-called portmanteau markers can only surface if they are realised late in the derivation. In Lakota (Siouan, USA), for instance, more salient arguments are realised after less salient arguments, and portmanteaux are object markers that only surface when the object is realised after a more salient subject, but not when the object is realised after a less salient subject. In Itelmen (Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Russia), on the other hand,  portmanteaux are subject markers that  surface when the subject is realised after a 3rd person direct object, but not when the subject is realised before a 1st or 2nd person direct or 3rd person indirect object. ","speakers":[{"guid":"1a5a24f7-f382-5475-b02a-b23824d162ca","id":225,"image":"/system/people/avatars/000/000/225/original/178.jpg?1572299010","name":"Felicitas Andermann","public_name":"Felicitas Andermann","email":"felicity.autrehomme@gmail.com","abstract":"Eins meiner ersten erfundenen Wörter war [ˈlɪŋˌvɜːbi]. Meine Lieblingssegmente sind [e] und [ɪ]. Als Kind fand ich italienische Sprache hässlich, weil sie zu viele offene Vokale hatte, war aber gleichzeitig fasziniert von der Ikonizität italienischer Imperativendungen. Mit 15 Jahren habe ich im Französischunterricht meine Leidenschaft für Verbflexion entdeckt, mit 17 habe ich angefangen, Irisch zu lernen. \r\nÜber den Umweg der Translation bin ich schließlich zur [lɪŋ]guistik gekommen und habe letztes Semester zwei Hausarbeiten geschrieben, beide über [vɜːb]s. Wenn das mit [ˈlɪŋˌvɜːbi] kein Omen war...","description":null,"links":[{"url":"https://felicitasandermann.wordpress.com/","title":"https://felicitasandermann.wordpress.com/"}]}],"start_time":"2025-05-15T16:30:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-15T17:00:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 2.116","id":172}},{"id":1334,"guid":"36492406-08f8-4ebc-8551-1f0492bd3f1d","title":"Poster presentation ","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":1200,"time_slots":4,"logo":null,"type":"poster session","do_not_record":false,"track":"Sociolinguistics","abstract":"A presentation on my bachelor thesis on the topic: \"The Impact of Multilingualism and Its Implications on Language Use and Well-Being in First-Generation Russian-speaking Immigrant Students in Germany\"","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":"2025-05-15T15:30:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-15T15:50:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 1.315","id":170}},{"id":1335,"guid":"edfa8d74-8006-448d-83a6-60e20fe5f3f9","title":"Premodality","language":"en","subtitle":"On the Quest for Modality in Hittite","description":"Out of the three big verbal categories (tense, aspect, and modality), modality is the least researched one. While its research got resurgence in modern times through some typological and theoretical publications (i.a. Nuyts, Palmer), resaerch within modality has turned out to be more complicated as it actually can't be neatly confined to verbal or even formal constraints. As such an functional category, Palmer called modality a \"super category\". \r\n\r\nModality's definition varies widely from author to author, though a tentative definition may be to see it as \"the grammaticalization of speaker’s attitudes and opinions\" (Magni 2010: ). Modality concerns all utterances that do not assert anything in our actual world, rather they describe an irreal world of possibilty or necessity. Languages feature a wide range of means to represent modality. Research has focused mostly on the two formal categories that prevail in SAE-languages, i.e. mood and modal verbs. But how does a language encode modality that uses neither of these strategies prominently?\r\n\r\nHittite, the oldest known Indo-European (IE) language spoken around 3500 years ago in modern-day Turkey, may be such a case. In contrast to most old IE languages, it has a very simple mood system, consisting only of an indicative and imperative, meaning there is no subjunctive or optative, that may be used for modal utterances. Similarly, there is no widespread usage of modal verbs. It may be even doubtful to categorise any verbs as modal in Hittite.\r\n\r\nAs a first approach to modality in Hittite, which up till now has been understudied (see however Zorman 2010), I am surveying the claimed premodal and modal verbs of Hittite in my Master's thesis. In my talk, I will shortly introduce the theory behind modal utterances, present usual development paths to modality, and quickly survey the different strategies of expressing modality in Hittite. In the main part, I will present first results from my Master's thesis. Everything presented will still be work in progress, however, so that any feedback is appreciated.","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Historical Linguistics","abstract":"A tentative definition of modality may be to see it as \"the grammaticalization of speaker’s attitudes and opinions\" (Magni 2010: ). Modality therefore concerns all utterances that do not assert anything in our actual world, rather they describe an irreal world of possibilty or necessity. Research has focused mostly on the two formal categories that prevail in SAE-languages, i.e. mood and modal verbs. But how does a language encode modality that uses neither of these strategies prominently?\r\n\r\nHittite, the oldest known Indo-European (IE) language spoken around 3500 years ago in modern-day Turkey, may be such a case. It has a very simple mood system, consisting only of an indicative and imperative. Similarly, there is no widespread usage of modal verbs. It may be even doubtful to categorise any verbs as modal in Hittite.\r\n\r\nAs a first approach to modality in Hittite, which up till now has been understudied (see however Zorman 2010), I am surveying the claimed premodal and modal verbs of Hittite in my Master's thesis. In my talk, I will shortly introduce the theory behind modal utterances, present usual development paths to modality, and quickly survey the different strategies of expressing modality in Hittite. In the main part, I will present first results from my Master's thesis. Everything presented will still be work in progress, however, so that any feedback is appreciated.","speakers":[{"guid":"964a33fc-04bb-520c-832d-aae166631e81","id":838,"image":null,"name":"Christian Bruns","public_name":"Christian Bruns","email":"christian-bruns@online.de","abstract":"Hi, I'm Christian and I am currently studying comparative historical linguistics in Marburg, where I am focusing on Anatolian and Celtic languages. I am interested in old languages and cultures and the mechanisms of language change. I'm specialising on historical syntax and pragmatics. I enjoy anything as long as there is something functional to analyse ;).\r\nOh - Also, I have organised the 76th StuTS in Marburg! Feel free to ask me anything, if you consider to organise a StuTS yourself!","description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-16T12:00:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-16T12:30:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 2.216","id":173}},{"id":1384,"guid":"04189c5f-2279-4246-bf8d-b1f3378f7f50","title":"Quizabend","language":"","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":7200,"time_slots":24,"logo":null,"type":"other","do_not_record":false,"track":null,"abstract":"NSG room S420","speakers":[],"start_time":"2025-05-16T18:30:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-16T20:30:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Social events","id":181}},{"id":1323,"guid":"c5caf07f-67d4-417b-a6ca-ce9d39878482","title":"„Schaut derzeit am sympathischsten aus“: Begründungen für das Nutzen bestimmter Genderformen an österreichischen Hochschulen","language":"de","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Sociolinguistics","abstract":"Seit gendergerechte Sprache in den 1970ern zu einem prominenten Thema in gesellschaftspolitischen Diskussionen wurde, machten Linguist:innen eine Vielzahl an Vorschlägen zu möglichen sprachlichen Formen. So stehen Sprecher:innen heute mehrere Alternativen zum generischen Maskulinum zur Verfügung, mit denen sie Frauen und Menschen weiterer Geschlechter in der Sprache sichtbar machen können. Bisher wurde jedoch nur in geringem Maße erforscht, warum Sprecher:innen gewisse Strategien des Genderns nutzen (z.B. Gendersternchen statt Binnen-I). \r\nIm folgenden Vortrag wird eine qualitative Analyse der Begründungen, die österreichische Studierende für ihre präferierte Genderstrategie angegeben haben, vorgestellt. In einem Online-Fragebogen gaben Teilnehmende an, welche Form des Genderns sie in geschriebener und gesprochener Sprache nutzten und weshalb sie diese gewählt hatten. \r\nEine Vielzahl an Gründen traten hervor. In geschriebener Sprache wurden besonders Einfachheit und Ästhetik genannt, wobei sich kein Muster ergab, dass eine gewisse Form als besonders einfach, bzw. besonders ästhetisch bewertete. Bestimmte Formen wurden aufgrund der Inklusion nicht-binärer Personen bevorzugt, während andere wegen digitaler Barrierefreiheit präferiert wurden. In der gesprochenen Sprache stachen neben Wunsch nach Inklusion vor allem Schnelligkeit und Mangel an alternativen Strategien als Begründungen für den Glottisschlag hervor.\r\nDie Ergebnisse der qualitativen Analyse geben erstmals Auskunft über die Gründe von Sprecher:innen, gewisse Genderstrategien anderen vorzuziehen. Gerade im heutigen soziopolitischen Klima können sie Sprachpolitik sowie Bildungsrichtlinien informieren und sind richtungsweisend für weitere Studien im Bereich der feministischen Sprachkritik","speakers":[{"guid":"07b74b33-5347-599d-aa05-eea6cbafb81a","id":1017,"image":null,"name":"Katharina Eder","public_name":"Katharina Eder","email":"katharina.leonie.eder@gmx.at","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-15T14:00:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-15T14:30:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 4.216","id":176}},{"id":1375,"guid":"2ee3c85a-91fb-4a18-847a-f6b9b656097d","title":"Schönheit liegt im Auge des Betrachters – oder liegt es am Reim?","language":"de","subtitle":"Eine empirische Untersuchung des Keats-Heuristikums","description":null,"duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Neuro-/Psycholinguistics","abstract":"Der Rhyme-as-Reason-Effekt besagt, dass sprachlich kodierte Aussagen, die sich reimen, als überzeugender und wahrer wahrgenommen werden als solche, die sich nicht reimen. Der Effekt geht auf Untersuchungen zurück, in welchen die Teilnehmenden entweder sich reimende oder sich nicht reimende Aphorismen oder Werbeslogans bewerteten (McGlone \u0026 Tofighbakhsh 1999, 2000; Filkuková \u0026 Klempe 2013). Dabei zeigte sich, dass sich reimende Aphorismen als überzeugender (McGlone \u0026 Tofighbakhsh, 1999; Filkuková \u0026 Klempe, 2013) und verständlicher (McGlone \u0026 Tofighbakhsh, 2000) bewertet wurden als nicht reimende. Das Problem dieser Studien ist allerdings, dass Wörter ausgetauscht wurden, um Reime aufzulösen. Dieses Problem wurde in der aktuellen Studie gelöst, indem das lexikalische Material sowie die Bedeutung der Aussagen zwischen den Bedingungen (reimende versus sich nicht reimende Werbeslogans) konstant gehalten wurde. Dies geschah durch die simple Koordination zweier Nomen, deren Reihenfolge verändert wurde, wie in (1a) und (1b) illustriert ist:\r\n\r\n(1)\ta. Hol Schrauben und Dübel bei Elena Übel.\r\n        b. Hol Dübel und Schrauben bei Elena Übel.\r\n\r\nDie Beispiele illustrieren, dass sich durch das Umstellen der Konjunkte weder Bedeutung noch Inhalt verändert, während sich die Werbeslogans einzig darin unterscheiden, dass (1a) sich reimt und (1b) nicht. Um die Präsentation der Werbeslogans an eine reale Kaufsituation anzunähern, wurden die Testpersonen gefragt, wie viel Geld sie für die beworbenen Produkte ausgeben würden. Die Slogans wurden zudem auf Ästhetik, Verständlichkeit und Überzeugungskraft bewertet. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass gereimte Slogans im Vergleich als ästhetischer, überzeugender und verständlicher bewertet werden, während sich keine Auswirkung auf die Kaufbereitschaft zeigt. Insgesamt zeigt sich, dass der Rhyme-as-Reason-Effekt auch bei konstanter Bedeutung und konstantem lexikalischem Material messbar ist.","speakers":[{"guid":"65a03825-c784-508f-be2a-40c5fba82088","id":1132,"image":null,"name":"Felicia Boachie","public_name":"Felicia Boachie","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-17T16:00:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-17T16:30:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 2.216","id":173}},{"id":1325,"guid":"a4b3562b-650d-4eb8-bf8f-c9f3ad171cba","title":"Spanish native speakers' understanding of conversational implicatures in L2 German.","language":"en","subtitle":"A study on Interlanguage pragmatics","description":null,"duration":1500,"time_slots":5,"logo":null,"type":"talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Pragmatics","abstract":"The present study, grounded in Grice’s theory of implicatures, examines how learners of German with Spanish as their first language interpret conversational implicatures in German. Previous research has shown that L2 speakers do not always interpret implicatures in the same way as native speakers, and that factors such as language proficiency and exposure to the target language can influence this interpretation. Most studies in this area have used English as the target language. This study aims to contribute expanding the evidence base by exploring a different language. Participants included 56 native speakers of German and 52 native Spanish speakers with at least a B2 level of German. The Spanish speakers were asked about their level of proficiency in German and the length of the time they had lived in Germany. They completed a 24-item multiple-choice questionnaire containing particularized conversational implicatures in German. Results showed that non-native speakers were less likely than native speakers to accurately interpret the implicatures. Proficiency level had a significant effect on accuracy, while length of residence in Germany did not.","speakers":[{"guid":"511f2233-7d6e-5be1-897a-a1f7fce95af2","id":719,"image":null,"name":"Alejandra Bastias","public_name":"Alejandra Bastias","email":"meliandedoriath@gmail.com","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-16T14:40:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-16T15:05:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 4.216","id":176}},{"id":1353,"guid":"8307b7fd-c4c0-45fb-a516-9ab25083ce58","title":"Text Processing with Unix","language":"en","subtitle":"Dusting off a powerful software toolbox","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Textual data\" can mean CSV files, corpus data, scraped articles, interview transcripts, or drafts of papers you are preparing. \"Handling\" that data can mean transforming it into some other format or checking some properties (like counting words, searching for strings, or spell-checking). The Unix way of approaching such problems is not to write a single new program that solves a high-level task. Instead, you chain together multiple already existing programs that each solve a very basic task. Such a chaining of programs is called a pipeline: conceptually, there is a stream of text, and the programs, so-called filters, manipulate that stream. This leads to very short programs that are easy to write on the spot. In fact, for many text-related tasks, solving the problem on the command line takes fewer characters than describing it in English.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eTake the following story as illustration. In 1986, Jon Bentley asked Donald Knuth (the inventor of TeX) to write a program to solve the following problem: \"Given a text file and an integer k, print the k most common words in the file (and the number of their occurrences) in decreasing frequency.\" Knuth wrote a \"literate program\" spanning multiple pages (which, to be fair, also included its own explanation). Doug McIlroy of Bell Labs (the birthplace of Unix) replied with a program that did the job in less than 80 bytes. Instead of writing a high-level program, he simply chained together four existing Unix tools. (Find the original paper in the link list on the right.) We will see this and similar examples during the workshop.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIf time permits, we might also touch on the AWK programming language and the roff typesetting system (Unix's alternative to TeX). AWK allows us to do arbitrary computations (including statistics and Markov chains) on the input (like Python), but is specialized for use as a filter (unlike Python). Roff, unlike TeX, can emit multiple output formats besides DVI/PS/PDF, including HTML and plain text, and does so in a single pass, without producing additional files.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","duration":3600,"time_slots":12,"logo":null,"type":"workshop","do_not_record":false,"track":"Other","abstract":"\u003cp\u003eThis workshop aims to give an overview over some basic Unix utilities. If you digitally handle textual data, you most likely use a general-purpose programming language like Python for it. The goal of this workshop is to draw attention to a more traditional, often overlooked, and sometimes surprisingly more efficient way to do it. We will work directly on the command line and use the GNU coreutils for demonstration. (Non-GNU implementations work similarly, but not always identically.) People who wish to code along need access to a Unix shell (for example, by bringing a laptop running Linux or Mac), but just watching is fine too. Programming experience won't be required.\u003c/p\u003e","speakers":[{"guid":"48c8c933-19d2-55b2-9480-5e0e7edd1977","id":1126,"image":null,"name":"Daniel Kalak","public_name":"Daniel Kalak","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-17T10:40:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-17T11:40:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 2.115","id":171}},{"id":1365,"guid":"b5a85cef-31dd-4782-bfb8-1b4b781ee786","title":"The Diamond of Irrealis: Disjunctions to Questions to Conditionals","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":"Disjunctions (“or”-statements), polar/alternative questions, and conditionals (“if”-clauses) are typically analyzed as separate constructions. However, many languages show that their boundaries are far more porous than expected — morphologically, syntactically, and semantically. In this talk, I propose a typologically grounded framework called the \"Diamond of Irrealis\", which maps the space of these constructions according to their treatment of alternatives, speaker commitment, and modality. Drawing from both formal semantics and cross-linguistic patterns, I argue that these constructions are not coincidentally similar but form a natural class within the broader landscape of irrealis expressions. The goal is to rethink how we categorize and analyze such forms — not by surface function (e.g. ‘question’ vs. ‘condition’) but by their shared logical and pragmatic core. The talk will highlight data from a range of languages and discuss implications for both semantic theory and typology. This is an idea still in development, and audience feedback is welcome! ","duration":1500,"time_slots":5,"logo":null,"type":"talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Semantics","abstract":"This talk explores how disjunctions, questions, and conditionals — often treated as distinct — show deep formal and semantic overlap across languages. By examining these constructions through a cross-linguistic and typological lens, I propose a unified framework, the “Diamond of Irrealis,” to capture their shared modal and alternative-sensitive nature.","speakers":[{"guid":"dc508c09-6bf4-52af-afe8-ca4e25c50ed8","id":1090,"image":null,"name":"Ates Calisir","public_name":"Ates Calisir","abstract":"PhD student in the RTG program: From-meaning mismatches.\r\nMy disseration topic is Question-Conditional Link","description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-16T11:20:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-16T11:45:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 2.216","id":173}},{"id":1336,"guid":"883e7f3b-3885-4dd7-a42f-0613f0700135","title":"The issue of classifying German ‘früher’","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":"References\r\nKaplan, David (1989). “Demonstratives. An Essay on the Semantics, Logic, Metaphysics and Epistemology of Demonstratives and other Indexicals”. In Joseph Almog, John Perry, and Howard Wettstein (eds.), Themes from Kaplan, pp. 481–563. New York: Oxford UP. \r\nPerry, John (1997). “Indexicals and Demonstratives”. In Bob Hale \u0026 Crispin Wright (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy of Language, pp. 586–612. Oxford: Blackwell. \r\nPerry, John (2001). Reference and Reflexivity, Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. \r\nPerry, John (2013). “Temporal Indexicals”. In Heather Dyke \u0026 Adrian Bardon (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Time (pp. 486–506). West Sussex: John Wiley \u0026 Sons Ltd.","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Semantics","abstract":"Temporal adverbs are generally classified either as indexicals or as dates (Perry 2013). However, the German adverb ‘früher’ (~ ‘formerly’) poses a problem to traditional classification systems because it fits into neither of the categories. Dates are expressions which refer to specific time intervals and whose reference is context-independent (e.g. ‘on October 5th’). The class of indexicals, on the other hand, requires the utterance context to determine reference and consists of the subcategories of pure indexicals (e.g. ‘tomorrow’, ‘last week’) and true demonstratives, which require a pointing gesture for reference (e.g. ‘back then’) (Kaplan 1989, Perry 1997, 2001). Examples like (1), however, show that German ‘früher’ cannot be put into either category:\r\n(1)\tPeter war  früher     Busfahrer.\r\n        Peter was formerly bus-driver\r\n        ‘Peter used to be a bus driver.’\r\nWithout further context, the temporal reference in (1) is unspecific, which indicates that ‘früher’ cannot be a date. Yet, it does not seem to be an indexical either: it cannot be used with a pointing gesture like true demonstratives, but its reference is too vague for it to be a pure indexical.\r\nThis talk addresses this issue and argues that ‘früher’ indicates that a new category for classifying temporal adverbs is needed.","speakers":[{"guid":"f2939da9-4f9a-5090-8a82-a662598ddc16","id":1127,"image":null,"name":"Melanie Loitzl","public_name":"Melanie Loitzl","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-17T11:50:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-17T12:20:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 2.116","id":172}},{"id":1349,"guid":"d9eb9a10-458b-4e52-ae11-4206b8407285","title":"The Language of Fairness How NLP Can Reflect and Reinforce Organizational Bias","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":"As Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools become more pervasive in recruitment, claims of fairness and objectivity often mask the subtle ways language can insidiously encode and reproduce organizational bias. This paper draws on empirical insights from an interdisciplinary study of AI-driven hiring systems to examine how NLP algorithms can mirror biased linguistic patterns—embedded in resumes, job postings, and training data. Despite being framed as neutral, such systems often reflect historical hiring inequalities, leading to unintended but impactful outcome biases that disproportionately affect underrepresented candidates (Hardy et al., 2022, p. 659). This research uses Socio-Technical Systems (STS) theory as a guiding framework for examining how both the technical design of NLP models and the social context of their use contribute to fairness challenges. Transformer-based models (e.g., BERT) are analyzed not only for their semantic matching capabilities but also for their vulnerability to inherited linguistic bias. As Blodgett et al. (2020) argue, language technologies often reproduce power asymmetries because they are built on biased corpora and lack contextual sensitivity (p. 5456). Using empirical examples from organizational settings, the study shows how NLP technologies—if designed and audited inconsiderately—can entrench institutional norms and power relationships even when they seem to reduce human subjectivity. Spanning computational linguistics and ethical recruitment practice, the article contributes to ongoing debates about AI fairness with some practical insights on how recruitment technologies can be both efficient and fair.","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Other","abstract":null,"speakers":[{"guid":"380a3ab2-a800-5b32-a8a9-d6087fe5c9bf","id":1134,"image":null,"name":"Roya Samad-Zada","public_name":"Roya Samad-Zada","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-17T11:50:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-17T12:20:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 4.216","id":176}},{"id":1328,"guid":"af40e841-d559-4b74-9ab8-dd345eb9ad19","title":"The Negative Imperative Clash","language":"en","subtitle":"Why most languages cannot negate an imperative","description":null,"duration":3300,"time_slots":11,"logo":null,"type":"keynote","do_not_record":false,"track":"Keynote","abstract":"This talk focuses on the variation and generalisations in the way languages form commands and prohibitives. It is common for languages to express a command with an imperative verb: as in German ‘steh!’ or ‘geh!’. This verb form usually is the bare stem, or has special imperative marking. Expressing a negated command, a prohibitiv, in German is done by combining the imperative with negation: `Geh nicht!’. \r\n\r\nSuprisingly, this way of expressing a prohibitive is quite rare. Many languages change the form of the verb (in Spanish or Vitu an irrealis is used,  in Italian or Finnish the infinitive verb), or the amount of verbs (like in Serbo-Croatian with an auxiliary, or an additional verb in Lao or Dyirbal); other languages change the form of the negation (such as in Sinhala or Ika); and again other languages add other verbal inflectional material, other agreement, or even add complementisers  (Arapaho, Didinga, Boumaa Fijian). \r\n\r\nDespite this overwhelming variation, there are various generalisations that can be made about why a certain language forms a prohibitive in a specific way, which I will discuss in the talk: factors such as the type of negation and the location of the verb in the clause matters. ","speakers":[{"guid":"aacb0ab9-0858-5a02-899a-20d166706ba1","id":1149,"image":null,"name":"Paula Fenger","public_name":"Paula Fenger","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-15T10:30:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-15T11:25:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Campus Jahnallee, Hörsaal 2 Süd","id":177}},{"id":1326,"guid":"9fbdb1cd-c328-4ceb-abe6-299ecd478d44","title":"The Northern Subject Rule in low-class Pre-Modern Scotland","language":"en","subtitle":"On existential","description":"This will be an online event.","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Historical Linguistics","abstract":"This presentation investigates the Northern Subject Rule (NSR) in 18th and early 19th-century Scotland by analyzing ego-documents (Dekker, 2002) from the lower social strata. Drawing on the Scottish Pauper Petition Letters (ScotPP, n.d) corpus, a pioneering corpus developed at Leiden University that focuses – for the first time – on private correspondence originating from the lowest social classes of early modern Scotland, the study highlights the inflectional behavior of the verb to be and related existentials in non-standard contexts. The goal is to assess the presence of NSR among low-class Scots and to evaluate the relative strength of its two key constraints.The results suggest that the proximity constraint is more robust than previously assumed, especially in less literate writers’ texts, supporting Montgomery’s (1994) and Rodríguez Ledesma’s (2013) findings. The study also reflects how class and literacy influence grammatical variation, as lower-class writers display more frequent NSR usage. Furthermore, this research provides novel insights into syntactic variation in underexplored sociolinguistic contexts. It emphasizes the value of ego-documents in historical linguistics, calling on more researchers to utilize the newly developed database and opens avenues for further investigation of the NSR in the Scotland.\r\n\r\nDekker, R. (2002). Egodocuments and history: autobiographical writing in its social context since the Middle Ages. Verloren.\r\nMontgomery, M. (1994). The evolution of verb concord in Scots. In A. Fenton \u0026 D. McDonald (Eds.), Proceedings of the third international conference on the languages of Scotland (pp. 81-95). Canongate Academic and The Linguistic Survey of Scotland, School of Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh.\r\nRodríguez Ledesma, M. N. (2013). The Northern Subject Rule in first-person singular contexts in fourteenth-fifteenth century Scots. Folia Linguistica Historica 34: 149-172.\r\n\r\nScotPP = Scottish Pauper Petitions Corpus. Leiden Center for Linguistics. Compiled by Moragh Gordon, Jelena Prokic, Hester Groot, and Alma Strakova [in preparation].\r\n","speakers":[{"guid":"3de30609-838b-573e-892b-267ddce7d662","id":1123,"image":null,"name":"Theocharis Tzimas","public_name":"Theocharis Tzimas","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-15T14:00:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-15T14:30:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 4.116","id":175}},{"id":1344,"guid":"0940f99a-1e82-4650-9c3c-e55d40e5c059","title":"The sound of chocolate","language":"en","subtitle":"Cross-modal correspondences of vowel perception and taste","description":"Bibliography:\r\n\r\nCrisinel, A.-S., \u0026 Spence, C. (2010). A Sweet Sound? Food Names Reveal Implicit Associations between Taste and Pitch. Perception, 39(3), 417–425. https://doi.org/10.1068/p6574\r\n\r\nKlink, R. R. (2000). Creating Brand Names With Meaning: The Use of Sound Symbolism. Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice 9 (2), 27–34.\r\n\r\nNgo, M. K., Misra, R., \u0026 Spence, C. (2011). Assessing the shapes and speech sounds that people associate with chocolate samples varying in cocoa content. Food Quality and Preference, 22(6), 567–572. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2011.03.009.\r\n\r\nPathak, A., \u0026 Calvert, G. A. (2021). Sooo Sweeet! Presence of Long Vowels in Brand Names Lead to Expectations of Sweetness. Behavioral Sciences, 11(12). https://doi.org/10.3390/bs11020012.\r\n\r\nWang, Q. J., Wang, S., \u0026 Spence, C. (2016). “Turn Up the Taste”: Assessing the Role of Taste Intensity and Emotion in Mediating Crossmodal Correspondences between Basic Tastes and Pitch. Chemical Senses, 41(4), 345–356. https://doi.org/10.1093/chemse/bjw007.","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Phonetics/Phonology","abstract":"Eating is a multisensory experience, including vision, smell, touch, hearing and taste. The relationship between taste and other means of perception is an area that has been researched from a linguistic, psychological and marketing perspective. Its connection to sounds and language provides insight into the emergence of language and the relationship between signifiant and signifié. \r\nThe talk is inspired by Ngo et al. (2011) who investigated the sound and shape symbolism of chocolate. Their results suggest that chocolate with higher cacao content is associated with angular shapes and high-pitched nonce words, whereas sweeter chocolate is associated with round shapes and lower-pitched words. The purely visual presentation of the stimuli could have led to an angularity bias. Klink (2000), on the other hand, found that people would expect a lemonade with a brand name having higher-frequency frontal vowels to taste more bitter than a brand name containing lower-frequency back vowels. \r\nThe study presented aims to investigate the relationship between vowel position and the taste perception of a bitter-sweet continuum. As previous research has produced conflicting results, a new method was chosen for this study. The participants assigned auditory stimuli to taste stimuli to research a correlation between bitterness and back vowels. ","speakers":[{"guid":"5e8eaa47-d2d8-56c9-8410-fdd613609d7d","id":1133,"image":null,"name":"Sally Ahlers","public_name":"Sally Ahlers","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-15T14:40:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-15T15:10:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 2.116","id":172}},{"id":1350,"guid":"3bbe1984-9d8e-4a59-86f3-c41bef40e1eb","title":"The \"That-Trace\" effect \u0026 Anti-Locality","language":"en","subtitle":"Locality: Not too much","description":"The that-trace effect is a phenomenon in languages such as English, German, Dutch, whereas embedded sentences cannot have \"that\" being followed by what researches assume to be a \"trace\" position, i.e. a position that was at one point of the derivation be occupied but is not anymore. This is the reason for the difference between the sentences below:\r\n\r\n(i)     who did you think [CP t' [C' e [IP t would win ]]]\r\n(ii)   *who did you think [CP t' [C' that [IP t would win ]]]\r\n\r\nHowever, the picture is not as easy as the description above leads on and I will present my analysis combining findings form anti-locality research, as proposed by Erlewine (2016) and revised by Amy Rose Deal (2019). It seems that it is not the trace that is causing the problem, but the movement steps leading up to and following from that position. ","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Theoretical Linguistics","abstract":"I will present my analysis of the that-trace effect in English and German, showing that anti-locality may be a good tool to correctly derive this effect. ","speakers":[{"guid":"c2524c09-ada0-595e-b7ce-53f68a1c16f7","id":753,"image":"/system/people/avatars/000/000/753/original/Frab_Pic.jpg?1745097415","name":"Robin Ortlepp","public_name":"Robin Ortlepp","email":"robin.ortlepp@studserv.uni-leipzig.de","abstract":"I am Robin Ortlepp, currently enrolled in the MA Linguistics at the University Leipzig, Germany.  I enjoy thinking about different theoretical approaches to syntactical and morphological phenomena! :)","description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-16T14:40:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-16T15:10:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 2.316","id":174}},{"id":1330,"guid":"a5fe245c-11fd-4ac3-9fc0-ea81c35691fe","title":"Unlogische Positionen logischer Konnektoren","language":"de","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":3300,"time_slots":11,"logo":null,"type":"keynote","do_not_record":false,"track":"Keynote","abstract":"Dieser Vortrag beschäftigt sich mit der Position koordinativer Konnektoren (d.h. Elemente, die Konzepte wie und, aber, oder ausdrücken) in den Sprachen der Welt. Solche Konnektoren haben die Funktion, zwei syntaktische Konstituenten (Phrasen, Sätze, etc.) zu verbinden. Aus rein \"logischer\" Sicht wäre demnach die erwartbare Position für einen Konnektor die Position zwischen den diesen beiden Konstituenten. Tatsächlich ist das natürlich auch die Position, die Konnektoren in den allermeisten Sprachen der Welt einnehmen (wie im Beispiel 'ohne Schwert und ohne Schild'), aber dennoch gibt es eine ganze Reihe Sprachen, in denen Konnektoren in \"unlogischen\" Positionen auftauchen.  Ein bekanntes Beispiel stammt aus dem Latein, wo der Konnektor que nicht zwischen den beiden Konstituenten auftaucht sondern innerhalb der zweiten Konstituente (wie im Beispiel 'sine scutis sine-que ferro'). Ein seltener disktutiertes Beispiel kommt aus dem Deutschen, wo der logische Konnektor aber zwei Sätze verbindet, aber zumindest optional innerhalb des zweiten Satzes stehen kann ('Du willst nach hause, ich will aber noch bleiben.'). In diesem Vortrag werde ich die Resultate einer qualitativen typologischen Untersuchung vorstellen, in der ich die Frage beantworte, welche alternativen, \"unlogischen\" Positionierung von solchen Koordinatoren in den Sprachen der Welt möglich sind und welche nicht. Dies erlaubt uns konkrete Rückschlüsse darüber, welchen Einfluss die Logik und Bedeutung auf die Syntax einer Sprache haben und warum Sprachen sich dazu entscheiden, \"unlogische\" Reihenfolgen von Wörtern zu erlauben oder sogar vorzuziehen.","speakers":[{"guid":"aacb0ab9-0858-5a02-899a-20d166706ba1","id":1150,"image":null,"name":"Philipp Weisser","public_name":"Philipp Weisser","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-16T16:40:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-16T17:35:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Bibliotheca Albertina","id":178}},{"id":1320,"guid":"2d60ddc1-bf02-4620-9bfb-9e4f4bae1124","title":"Unselective Binder of Wh-dependency under Optimality Theory","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":"In English, the operator (Op) is base-generated at the head level, attached to wh-words, and moves overtly, violating Subjacency in both wh-islands and complex-NP islands. Chinese generates Op at the sentential level (CP), avoiding movement and island effects entirely, with Economy outranking MB. Japanese initially appears to pattern differently, with Op base-generated at the DP level, but OT analysis reveals it behaves like Chinese—sentential Op and high-ranked Economy explain the lack of genuine wh-island effects. The paper aligns with Tsai (1994) for English and Chinese but revises the analysis for Japanese, showing its Op is also sentential, prioritizing Economy over Subjacency. This result challenges prior claims (Nishigauchi 1986; Watanabe 1992) and supports Lasnik \u0026 Saito’s (1984, 1992) view that Japanese lacks true wh-islands. ","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Theoretical Linguistics","abstract":"The paper explores the unselective binding mechanism as a solution to wh-dependency across English, Chinese, and Japanese, without invoking LF movement. It adopts Optimality Theory (OT) to account for the observed differences in island effects among these languages. Three violable constraints are proposed: Minimal Binding (MB), penalizing long-distance binding; Subjacency (Sub), banning movement across more than one bounding node; and Economy (E), favoring minimal movement. The analysis underscores OT’s flexibility in deriving typological variation through constraint reranking, while unifying disparate phenomena under a single mechanistic framework. By integrating unselective binding with OT, we offer a principled account of wh-dependencies that reconciles empirical contrasts across English, Chinese, and Japanese.","speakers":[{"guid":"c2febc6f-9b19-5988-9fdd-9b466e1f1b3b","id":1114,"image":null,"name":"Yan WANG","public_name":"Yan WANG","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-16T12:00:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-16T12:30:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 2.316","id":174}},{"id":1383,"guid":"5bd13228-fb02-4856-9d20-27830da15e3b","title":"Vorstellung des Akkreditierungspools","language":"de","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"bufata","do_not_record":false,"track":"KasuS","abstract":null,"speakers":[],"start_time":"2025-05-16T10:40:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-16T11:10:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Bibliotheca Albertina","id":178}},{"id":1359,"guid":"4a68ed5c-c9b9-43b1-bd49-272ea5a2767b","title":"Weiblich, männlich oder neutral? Geschlechterspezifische Wahrnehmung unbelebter deutscher Nomen und potenzielle Einflussfaktoren","language":"de","subtitle":null,"description":"Die Studie, die diesem Vortrag zugrunde liegt, wurde im Rahmen eines Linguistik-Seminars zum Thema „Language and Cognition“ durchgeführt. Daher erfolgt im Vortrag zunächst eine kurze thematische Einführung in relevante theoretische Grundlagen und Modelle. Neben einigen sprachstrukturellen Aspekten zu Genus im Deutschen werden auch Erkenntnisse der kognitiven Linguistik zur mentalen Repräsentation von Sprache thematisiert. Außerdem werden die Ergebnisse bisheriger Forschung zu einschlägigen Themengebieten als Basis für die folgende Diskussion aufgearbeitet und das Studiendesign sowie Ergebnisse der Erhebung vorgestellt. \r\nDer Vortrag verfolgt das primäre Ziel, erste Einblicke in die Zusammenhänge zwischen den Charakteristika der jeweiligen Items und ihrer mentalen Konzeption zu erlangen. Hierdurch sollen schließlich Aspekte identifiziert werden, die eine geschlechterspezifische Assoziation von Nomen bewirken und damit Einfluss auf die diesbezügliche Sprachwahrnehmung zeigen können. Dazu werden sowohl die Bewertungen einzelner Items als auch die Einflüsse verschiedener potenzieller Faktoren betrachtet. Auf Grundlage von Theorie und bisheriger Forschung zählen zu diesen insbesondere das grammatische Geschlecht, phonologische Merkmale und auf Stereotypen basierende semantische Gruppierungen sowie das Geschlecht der Teilnehmenden. \r\nAbschließend sollen im Vortrag Limitationen dieser Studie aufgezeigt und Impulse für zukünftige Forschung zur geschlechterspezifischen Wahrnehmung von Sprache präsentiert werden. \r\n\r\nLiteratur:\r\nCharlesworth, Tessa E. S., Victor Yang, Thomas C. Mann, Benedek Kurdi, and Mahzarin R. Banaji. 2021. Gender Stereotypes in Natural Language: Word Embeddings Show Robust Consistency Across Child and Adult Language Corpora of More Than 65 Million Words. Psychological Science 32(2). 218–240.\r\nJackendoff, Ray. 2023. The Parallel Architecture in Language and Elsewhere. Topics in Cognitive Science 00. 1–10. doi: 10.1111/tops.12698 \r\n","duration":1500,"time_slots":5,"logo":null,"type":"talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Neuro-/Psycholinguistics","abstract":"Der Einfluss von Sprache auf das Fortbestehen von geschlechterbezogenen Stereotypen wird in diversen Disziplinen diskutiert (Charlesworth et al. 2021: 219). Dabei stehen im Deutschen häufig das generische Maskulinum oder die genderneutrale Sprache im Fokus. Aber manifestiert sich eine geschlechterspezifische Wahrnehmung von Sprache lediglich, wenn die Nomen belebt und personenbezogen sind? \r\nUm dies zu untersuchen, sollten die Proband:Innen der Studie 120 unbelebte deutsche Nomen hinsichtlich ihres assoziierten Geschlechts auf einer Skala zwischen „weiblich“ und „männlich“ einordnen. Eine geschlechterbezogene Wahrnehmung lässt sich dabei jedoch nicht allein auf stereotypische Assoziationen und damit primär auf die linguistische Ebene der Semantik zurückführen. Das Modell der 'Parallel Architecture' legt einen Einfluss aller linguistischen Ebenen auf die Bewertungsergebnisse der Nomen nahe, sodass sich Geschlecht auch in Form von Genus auf morpho-syntaktischer sowie phonologischer Ebene auswirken sollte (Jackendoff 2023: 2).  \r\nAnhand der Bewertungen der Items wird neben den Einflüssen der verschiedenen linguistischen Parameter auch das Geschlecht der Teilnehmenden als potenzieller Faktor unterschiedlicher Wortwahrnehmung untersucht und diskutiert. Erste Ergebnisse deuten darauf hin, dass sowohl das Genus der Nomen als auch deren geschlechterstereotypische Konnotation Auswirkungen auf die Einschätzung zeigen. Zudem ist auf Grundlage der erhobenen Daten eine Abhängigkeit der Wortbewertungen vom Geschlecht der Proband:Innen anzunehmen.  \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 25-year-old student at the University of Cologne. I am currently studying a MA Linguistics and additionally a 2-subject MA 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 as a research assistant (WHB) at the Mercator Institute at the University of Cologne, I also deal intensively with language diagnostics and language education. \r\nI am fascinated by many facets of linguistics, but my main thematic interests are in the fields of psycho- and neurolinguistics.\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":"2025-05-17T15:20:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-17T15:45:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 2.216","id":173}},{"id":1366,"guid":"e6becc8f-5382-40d7-8dc1-58209cdabcf9","title":"\"Weil bei mir Sprache auch etwas auslöst\"","language":"de","subtitle":"Ein objektiv-hermeneutischer Blick auf Vorstellungen von Sprache und Raum","description":"Diese Arbeit untersucht die sprachliche Selbstverortung im Kontext von Sprachprestige und dem Wechselspiel zwischen verschiedenen Varianten der deutschen Sprache, speziell im Raum Hannover, dem Wohnort der Gewährsperson. \r\nAnhand eines sprachbiografischen Interviews wird beleuchtet, wie die Gewährsperson ihre sprachliche Identität innerhalb der deutschen Varietätenlandschaft positioniert - insbesondere in Bezug auf das weit verbreitete Prestige des 'Hannoveraner Hochdeutschs'. \r\nZentral ist die Frage, wie diese wahrgenommene Prestige-Zuordnung mit tatsächlichen sprachwissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen übereinstimmt oder divergiert. \r\nDie Analyse zeigt auf, dass persönliche Sprachbewertungen unabhängig von empirischen Daten bestehen und tief in kulturellen und identitätsstiftenden Mythen verwurzelt sein kann. Dabei spielt die Abwertung bestimmter Dialekte, etwa der ostdeutschen, eine signifikante Rolle in der Identitätskonstruktion der Einzelpersonen. Diese Untersuchung trägt Erkenntnisse zur Variationslinguistik und Dialektologie bei, indem sie die soziolinguistischen Dynamiken zwischen Sprache, Identität und sozialem Prestige aufzeigt und vertieft.","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Communication Sciences","abstract":"Diese Arbeit bietet Einblicke in die Wechselwirkungen zwischen Sprache, Identität und sozialem Prestige in der Variationslinguistik.\r\nEs wird in den Blick genommen, wie eine Person aus Hannover ihre sprachliche Identität im Kontext von Prestige und der Vielfalt deutscher Sprachvarianten selbst wahrnimmt. Dafür wird ein sprachbiographisches Interview betrachtet. \r\nInsbesondere spielt die Abwertung 'fremder Sprache' eine Rolle in der Identitätskonstruktion. ","speakers":[{"guid":"ed4b9045-a275-5f09-9110-6136f5573621","id":1068,"image":null,"name":"Julia Hasler ","public_name":"Julia Hasler ","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-17T15:20:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-17T15:50:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 4.216","id":176}},{"id":1324,"guid":"1ca038a7-adcd-42c5-ae49-847146fe8be8","title":"\"Why so cold and distanced?\"","language":"en","subtitle":"Turn-Timing in conversation effects perceived distance of interlocutors.","description":"Silent gaps between turns in conversation are known to be interpreted as meaningful by interlocutors. Corpus linguistic research shows that the modal gap between adjacent turns is commonly very short – roughly 200 milliseconds (Kendrick \u0026 Torreira, 2014; Levinson \u0026 Torreira, 2015; Heldner \u0026 Edlund, 2010). Conversation analysts and experimental\r\npsycholinguists have investigated at what length a gap becomes meaningfully marked (Jefferson, 1989; Roberts et al., 2011; Henetz, 2017), finding that responses exceeding 600 ms can become socially and interactionally relevant. \r\nThe consequences of markedly long gaps manifest in how speakers are perceived interpersonally during a conversation (Roberts \u0026 Francis, 2013; Pearson et al., 2008). Building on this, the present study examines how inter-turn silence influences a specific aspect of interpersonal perception: perceived distance. Participants in our study were presented with dialogues modeled as telephone conversations, each featuring a question-response-pair in which either a request or an offer was followed by a positive response (‘yes’). We varied the length of the gap between question and response (200 ms vs. 720 ms vs. 1200 ms) and the language proficiency of the respondent (native vs. non-native).\r\nWe find a significant increase in perceived social distance as response times grow longer, showing that deviations from the standard 200 ms response time lead to inferences about speakers’ attitudes toward their interlocutors. Interestingly, the effect of gap length was not\r\nmodulated by whether respondents were native or non-native speakers, suggesting that longer processing times in non-native speakers – which lead to longer gaps at turn transitions – can increase perceived distance. We discuss how the gap effect relates to preference organization in conversation and how elongated gaps shape interpretations of the interlocutor and their turn.","duration":1200,"time_slots":4,"logo":null,"type":"poster session","do_not_record":false,"track":"Pragmatics","abstract":"The presentation revolves around a study that explores how overhearers perceive interlocutors' social distance within a conversation, in which the gaps between the turns have been manipulated to be longer. It turns out that the turn-timing has an ostensible effect on how speakers are perceived in their interpersonal qualities. ","speakers":[{"guid":"9cd50330-5cf0-5b83-9c06-6afd0e0f4584","id":1120,"image":null,"name":"Gizem Selvi","public_name":"Gizem Selvi","email":"gizem.selvi@swhk.ids-mannheim.de","abstract":"I'm a student at the University of Heidelberg. I study German and English for my bachelor's. I'm interested in pragmatics and psycholinguistics and have taken an internship at the Leibniz Institute of the German Language in Mannheim to further broaden this interest. I now work there as a student assistent in a project that explores how silence in conversation effects interpretation. ","description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-15T15:10:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-15T15:30:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 1.315","id":170}},{"id":1372,"guid":"c4bd3f6e-d73d-48a1-81b0-4f6e623b635f","title":"Wie man sein Inventar von Komplementsätzen sinnvoll organisiert","language":"de","subtitle":"Das Komplementierungssystem des Baskischen","description":"Sprachen besitzen typischerweise mehrere Typen von Komplementsätzen mit unterschiedlichen morphosyntaktischen Eigenschaften, die in unterschiedlichen syntaktischen oder semantischen Kontexten verwendet werden. Während es sprachübergreifende Tendenzen bei der Zuordnung bestimmter morphosyntaktischer Eigenschaften zu bestimmten semantischen Kontexten gibt, hat jede Sprache ihr individuelles Inventar von Komplementsätzen, deren jeweiliges Profil von ihren morphosyntaktischen Eigenschaften und historischen Ursprüngen ebenso geformt wird wie von den verfügbaren Alternativen.\r\nIm Baskischen, einer Sprache mit einem vergleichsweise großen Inventar, spielen neben der semantische Komplexität des Komplements vor allem der informationsstrukturelle Status, die temporale bzw. aspektuelle Beziehung zwischen Matrix- und eingebettetem Sachverhalt und die Koreferenzbeziehung zwischen den Argumenten eine Rolle bei der Verteilung verschiedener Komplementsatztypen auf semantische Kontexte. Dabei entsprechen die Zuordnungen in unterschiedlichem Maß sprachübergreifenden Tendenzen.\r\nIch werde einen Überblick über die baskischen Komplementsatztypen und ihre Verwendungskontexte geben und zeigen, welche sprachübergreifenden und sprachspezifischen Faktoren diese Zuordnung beeinflussen.","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"talk","do_not_record":false,"track":"Typology and Variational Linguistics","abstract":null,"speakers":[{"guid":"983377c9-ed05-5211-9242-7c57af730205","id":101,"image":null,"name":"Silvie Strauß","public_name":"Silvie Strauß","email":"silvie.strauss@web.de","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2025-05-17T16:00:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2025-05-17T16:30:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"GWZ 2.316","id":174}}]}}