Applied Linguistics
Computational Linguistics
Corpus Linguistics
Diverse
Historical Linguistics
Neuro- and Psycholinguistics
Phonetics and Phonology
Sociolinguistics
Theoretical Linguistics
Typology and Variational Linguistics
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Typology and Variational Linguistics 10
A Hidden Conjoint-Disjoint Distinction in Hausa
In this presentaion, I'll compare the Hausa verb grades to the conjoint-disjoint distinction made in Zulu verbs, showing both commonalities and differences...
Coronaleugnen via Telegram
Wie sprechen Coronaleugner*innen? Gibt es einen Soziolekt oder zumindest sprachliche Merkmale, die die Mitglieder dieser Protestbewegung teilen? Können...
Demonstratives in Bahaso Melayu Pakning
Bahaso Melayu Pakning (BMP), also known as Siak Malay, is a variety of Malay spoken in the Bengkalis regency in Riau province, Indonesia. Together with a...
Differential Object Marking in Tukanoan languages
This talk presents a typological-diachronic account of Differential Object Marking (DOM) in the Tukanoan language family of Northwestern Amazonia.
High Valyrian
High Valyrian - Greenberg’s (1966) Universals and Chomsky’s (1981) Binding Theory Greenberg (1966: 110-113) names 45 language universals for natural...
Long, thin and flexible snakes and songs
The system of classifiers in Amazonian languages is known for being typologically challenging in terms of the distinction between grammaticalized noun...
Nouny on the outside, verby on the inside: die Morphosyntax baskischer Verbalnomen
Verbalnomen sind eine infinite Verbform mit nominalen Eigenschaften, die im Baskischen unter anderem für Komplement- und Adverbialsätze verwendet wird....
SAY-complementizers and forms they allow
SAY-complements are clausal arguments marked by a particle grammaticalized from a general utterance verb, a so-called SAY-complementizer. Verbs of saying are...
Some verbs are lighter than others
There are three verbs in Korean that can serve as head to its causative construction, namely ha- ‘do’, sikhi- ‘order’ and mantul- ‘make/produce’. While ha-...
Stories from the Field
Some linguists consider field work and language documentation as the supreme discipline in linguistics, for others it is a mere means of data collection...
Applied Linguistics 7
Analyse von (Rechts)Populismus und Verschwörungstheorien
Verschwörungstheorien wurden durch die Coronapandemie ab 2020 ein gesellschaftlich brisantes Thema, ähnlich wie Rechtspopulismus durch die sogenannte...
Die Polyfunktionalität der temporalen präpositionalen Wortverbindungen
Präpositionale Wortverbindungen (PWVs) sind Untersuchungsgegenstand des PREPCON-Projekts des Leibnitz-Instituts für Deutsche Sprache unter der Leitung von...
Extramural Activities And German Students’ Proneness to Errors
A good productive vocabulary is essential for good quality writing (Nation 2013: 263). Researchers are thus looking for ways to improve a learner’s...
Fake News oder Falschnachrichten? Lexikalische Zweifelsfälle bei neologistischen (Quasi-)Synonymen
Die Neologismenforschung des Deutschen ist durch „lexikographische Dominanz und wenig linguistische Auseinandersetzung“ (Elsen 2021: 113) geprägt. Daher sind...
“He don’t speak English but he communicates” – Interaction Patterns and Discourse Strategies in Veterinarian-Client-Pet Health Communication”
Interactions in health are not limited to human medicine and healthcare – rather, they can also pertain to animals and their needs and welfare. In...
Informal language features in students’ argumentative essays in L2 French
In this talk I will focus on the transfer of language features from informal conversational language to the written texts of students of French language at...
Vortrag Mehrsprachigkeit/Sprachenlernen in der tertiären Bildung
Mehrsprachigkeit und Mehrsprachigkeitsförderung an österreichischen Universitäten im Kontext von (inter-)nationaler Sprachenpolitik ,Mehrsprachigkeit‘ und...
Neuro- and Psycholinguistics 4
Anna fährt zur StuTS, er hat viel Spaß. But what about Alex?
"Anna fährt zur StuTS, er hat viel Spaß" will immediately identified as ungrammatical by most native German speakers, but what happens if we changed the...
Compounds and Aphasia
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Just take a stance
Die Identitätsentwicklung in der modernen Gesellschaft erweist sich häufig als schwierig, weil neben der Multiplizität von Optionen und der Ambivalenz von...
The Romanisation Effect
Phonaesthetics is a young and promising field which, in time, will change the way we study and conceptualise language. In everyday conversations,...
Computational Linguistics 5
Build your own Semantle-clone
An innocent letter-guessing-game called Wordle went viral in the beginning of 2022. One particular clone of this game, called Semantle1, is particularly...
DURel Annotation Tool
DURel is an annotation tool for sentence pairs of a word. The annotations are used to form sense clusters of a word and to visualize them over time. Our web...
Emotion Representation in Dialogue Systems
Emotions are an incredibly complex natural phenomenon, and their definition is a constant research struggle in many fields ranging from Philosophy all the...
Semantic Change in Computational Linguistics
Language is inherently dynamic and changing over time. However, mainstream computational models like BERT are mostly based on static corpora, and retraining...
Spraakherkenning, wa is da? — Bias in Flemish Speech Recognition
Sociolinguistic factors such as age and gender have been shown to impact the performance of various automatic speech recognition (ASR) models. Previous...
Sociolinguistics 12
"Bullshitting" aus einer metapragmatischen Perspektive
Der folgende Vortrag soll eine Art Plädoyer und Anregung zur Erforschung des sozial-sprachlichen Phänomens "Bullshit" bzw. "Bullshittings" sein. Das Konzept,...
Comparing face-to-face conversations and video calls
The change in social interaction caused by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has led to an increased use of video calls in both professional and private...
Grammatical gender selection of Norwegian nouns by native speakers of Spanish when code-switching
My thesis explores the assignment of grammatical gender in the context of insertion code-switching of Norwegian nouns into a Spanish sentence. That is,...
Guarani: Without a Textbook or a Classroom
As part of my current dissertation research, I'm exploring the role of social media in accessibility of language learning resources for lesser studied...
Interaktionale Diskursanalyse und Ethnografie in der empirischen Unterrichtsforschung
Gelebte Mehrsprachigkeit im Klassenzimmer stellt ein Thema fortwährender gesellschaftlicher Relevanz dar. Kinder haben unterschiedliche und unterschiedlich...
Language Activism
So wie wirtschafts- oder gesundheitspolitische Entscheidungen uns im Alltag berühren, so geschieht dies auch durch politische Entscheidungen in Bezug auf...
Persian-German speaking Iranians in Vienna: Migration and Language Attitudes
Poster: Exploring semiotic repertoires in Afro-Surinamese speech communities
In more recent years, the multimodal nature of social interaction has become an important focus of current research in linguistics. This line of research...
Poster: Language in Colonial Contexts.
In this poster presentation, I will briefly address a qualitative investigation or learning process that took place this year in Bogotá with the Cabildo...
The Definitional Dilemma of Gender in Language
It is difficult to contextualize the rise of gender-inclusive language within formal linguistic theory. Current theories of linguistic gender define any...
The Recent Status of English in Tunisia: Insights to Policy Makers
Language policies in Tunisia are not thought out; they evolve implicit. Arabic has a very limited role in the Tunisian higher education system. French is the...
Wo Präzis gestickt und Katzen geballert werden
Beim Soziolekt der deutschen Parkour-Community handelt es sich noch um linguistisches Neuland. Trotzdem, oder gerade deswegen, birgt er eine Fülle an...
Diverse 8
Combining Business With Pleasure
I never quite knew what I wanted to do with my life. But I did know I wanted to keep learning languages. In this session, I'll share how I combined business...
Conceptualization of colors to abstract concepts
Is “black market” in every language “black”? How about seeing “red” (being angry) or feeling “blue”? To which extent do different languages share the same...
Das Potenzial negativen Framings
Der Klimawandel ist präsenter denn je. Um die Klimakrise zu bewältigen bedarf es der richtigen Kommunikation über Fakten und notwendige Maßnahmen im Kampf...
Loneliness and Community
My research project “A comparative analysis of the metaphorical concepts for loneliness and community in Russian and English Rock music of the 1980s/1990s”...
Non-native pre- and early-service English teacher’s perceptions of neopronouns in both English and their native language: Argentina and Germany
The use of gender-neutral language, with all the different strategies that it entails, has been widely discussed not only in academic settings, but also in...
Poster: Meinen Senf Dazu Geben
I will be presenting a poster in detail that will compare the German linguistics to the culinary aspects of German culture. Food and communication link...
Student Theses Replication Network in Linguistics
Our goal is to achieve better and more reliable scientific advances and generalizations, by thinking about solutions to the urging replication crisis. By...
The German and International Linguistics Olympiads
Linguistics is generally neglected in German schools. One way, however, for students to get to know linguistics are Linguistics Olympiads. Though relatively...
Corpus Linguistics 6
Der österreichische Neutralitätsbegriff als Beispiel für die sprachliche Konstruktion kollektiver Identität(en) in digitalen Kommunikationsräumen
Die politische Neutralität Österreichs gilt häufig als eine der grundlegenden Größen einer kollektiven Identität innerhalb der 2. Republik und prägt deren...
Event nominals and result nominals with -ing and -ning in Norwegian
Grammatische Fremdwortintegration diachron
Anhand der zentralen Fragestellung, wie die Integration von aus dem Englischen ent-lehnten Verben ins Deutsche verläuft, leiste ich mit meinem...
Poster: Towards a linguistic consideration of technical documentation
From the electric milk frother to the industrial bottling plant – each technical product must be accompanied by a technical document. Despite their...
Strukturtypen der Kollokationen des Wortes "Mehrsprachigkeit" in den Artikeln der Zeitschrift für interkulturellen Fremdsprachenunterricht, 26. Jahrgang.
Als Mehrsprachigkeit gilt die Fähigkeit einer Person, mehr als eine Sprache zu sprechen oder zu verstehen. Um die Verbindung des Wortes „Mehrsprachigkeit“...
The word order of complement clauses in Wangerooge Frisian
Wangerooge Frisian is a dialect of Frisian which went extinct in the early 20th century. Although it is relatively well documented and some linguistic...
Theoretical Linguistics 8
Grammaticalization patterns in Basque adpositions: from body parts to locative cases
In Basque (isolate language in south-western Europe), spatial information is expressed by two morphologically different categories of adpositions: locative...
Instrumentalisierung von Zitaten
Anhand zweier praktischer Fälle wird untersucht, wann Zitate fehlschlagen und inwiefern man dabei von Lügen sprechen kann.
Lass uns den Fokus auf die mündliche Kommunikation verschieben
Es ist allgemein bekannt, dass das Erlernen einer Fremdsprache die Entwicklung mehrerer Fähigkeiten erfordert: Schreiben, Hören und Sprechen. Wenn man jedoch...
Mehr Schein als Sein - Eine Perspektive auf Wortart und syntaktische Kategorie Adverb im Deutschen
Es ist unumstritten, dass Adverbien eine Klasse höchst heterogener Elemente sind. Durch ihre ausprägte Vielfältigkeit entziehen sie sich vor allem dem Griff...
The influence of context on Principle C in German
In my talk, I present my experimental work on the influence of context on Principle C in German. Departing from the standard approach used in experimental...
“This could be difficult only”: Investigating the use of “only” in postpositive position in Indian English
Unlike other varieties of English, Indian English was long thought not to have any syntactic structures that were unique to the variety (Lange, 2007)....
What determines adverb placement in French?
It is quite common to consider that the adverb is placed after the verb in French. But this is not always true: and as Pollock (1989) and Cinque & Rizzi...
What's in a paradigm?
This talk discusses the notion of the 'paradigm' in linguistics. This term and its uses are looked at from several perspectives, and more narrowly defined...
Historical Linguistics 6
“He taught him the hills and hills and hills of the province”
This study presents the semantic differentiation of Old Irish terms for elevated landscape features. The study combines methods and evidence from corpus...
Poster: Language Death: Westernization
How dose modern language colonization look like today? To answer this question, I will present on the effect of westernization on indigenes languages in the...
Referentielle Nullsubjekte und schwache Pronominalsubjekte im Leben des Protopopen Awwakum
Dieser Vortrag berichtet über eine Untersuchung der Verteilung der referentiellen Nullsubjekte (NS-e) und schwachen Pronominalsubjekte (SPS-e) im Leben des...
The mysterious origin of Goth. 𐌿𐌻𐌱𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌿𐍃
When looking up the etymology of the Russian word верблюд ('camel'), I stumbled upon a very strange etymological riddle. The source word ulbandus in Gothic,...
Thus speaks the Indo-European
Referring to another person’s utterances is thought to be a universal ability of natural languages. Referred speech comes in many shapes, most commonly as...
Wie Sprachen werden, was sie sind
Sprache entwickelt sich ständig. Sie verändert sich mit der Zeit, von Generation zu Generation - wenn man etwa vergleicht, wie die Eltern und Großeltern...
Phonetics and Phonology 4
Klingt dünn klein und schwer groß?
Korpusstudie, in der drei Adjektivpaare über 20 Sprachen aus sechs Sprachfamilien auf ihr größenlautsymbolisches Potential hinsichtlich ihrer Vokale...
Phonotactic patterns in L2 English
This paper considers the acquisition of L2 English phonotactic patterns. It is argued that emerging phonotactic patterns from the L1, which are associated...
Poster: English Accents in Derry Girls
This poster is about the findings of a term paper for which I examined accents in the TV series Derry Girls: The character Michelle’s Derry English and the...
Probabilistic reduction - The phonological maxim of Quantity?
Many papers have repeatedly proven, that statistical properties, or probabilistic measures, of language affect the way we speak. Early mentions of frequency...