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Mercredi 20:00
Welcoming Party
We warmly invite you to the welcoming party of the 78th StuTS in Stuttgart! The event will take place at Café Faust (Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 24c, 70174 Stuttgart). You have also have the chance to pre-register there. The event is open-end.
Jeudi 08:45
Jeudi 09:45
Jeudi 10:45
A reasoning-based analysis of the presupposition of "know"
The content of the clausal complement of "know" is standardly analyzed as a presupposition: For example, interpreters typically infer from a speaker's utterance of "Cole didn't know that Julian dances salsa" that Julian dances salsa, even though t...
Jeudi 13:00
Jeudi 13:30
Jeudi 14:30
Jeudi 15:45
Unkontrovers, aber funktional verschieden: bekanntlich und ja als CG-Management-Operatoren
Abstract:
Der Vortrag präsentiert einen Teil meines Dissertationsprojekts, das die semantischen und pragmatischen Eigenschaften von bekanntlich sowie dessen Beitrag zur Diskurskohärenz auf Basis k...
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Die Ausdrücke bekanntlich und ja werden im Alltag häufig verwendet, oftmals ohne dass dies bewusst wahrgenommen wird. Obwohl sie auf den ersten Blick wie triviale rhetorische Wendungen erscheinen, tragen sie wesentlich zur diskursiven Relevanz bei:
(1) a. Ganz wichtig ist die Präsentation der Speisen, denn das Auge isst bekanntlich mit. (St. Galler Tagblatt, 12.12.1997)
b. Wir können heute Abend ins Kino gehen, denn Marco hat ja das Treffen abgesagt.
So markieren bekanntlich und ja in (1) die modifizierte Proposition als Teil des Common Grounds (CG), und stellen sie als unkontrovers dar, wodurch die Akzeptanz der Äußerung beim Adressaten erleichtert und die Diskursentwicklung begünstigt wird. Diese Funktion wird nach Döring & Repp (2019) als CG-Management in der komplexen Diskurseinheit definiert.
Auffällig ist, dass bekanntlich und ja nicht in allen Kontexten austauschbar sind (s. (2)), obwohl die Literatur eine funktionale Äquivalenz zwischen beiden nahelegt (vgl. Hirschmann 2015...
Inhibition and Vocabulary Transmission in Heritage Languages
Interjections as Building Blocks: A Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Modal Survey
The aim of this study is to introduce interjections and survey their distribution in terms of their phonological, semantic, and functional properties from cross-linguistic and cross-modal perspective. Despite their ubiquity in colloquial language ...
Jeudi 16:30
Exploring First Language Attrition in Adult Second Language Learners
Semantic vs. World Knowledge Conflicts: An Experiment upon Differentiation and Gradation
This talk investigates the interplay between world knowledge and semantic knowledge. Specifically, it examines whether violations of world knowledge (conceptual conflicts) differ cognitively from violations of semantic knowledge (semantic conflict...
The study employs carefully constructed item sets comprising four experimental conditions, exemplified as follows:
(1) a. Der Praktikant hat eine Einzimmerwohnung bewohnt. (compositional; Komp)
DF.M.NOM.SG intern.M.NOM.SG have-AUX.3SG INDF.F.ACC.SG one-room-apartment.F.ACC.SG inhabit-PTCP
„The intern has lived in a one-room apartment. “
b. ?Der Praktikant hat eine Badewanne bewohnt. (conceptual conflict; KonK)
DF.M.NOM.SG intern.M.NOM.SG have-AUX.3SG INDF.F.ACC.SG bathtub.F.ACC.SG inhabit-PTCP
„The intern has lived in a bathtub. “
c. #Der Praktikant hat ein Haargummi bewohnt. (near semantic conflict; SemKN)
DF.M.NOM.SG intern.M.NOM.SG have-AUX.3SG INDF.N.ACC.SG hairband.N.ACC.SG inhabit-PTCP
„The intern has lived in a hairband. “
d. ##Der Praktikant hat eine Verabredung bewohnt. (far semantic conflict; SemKF)
DF.M.NOM.SG intern.M.NOM.SG have-AUX.3SG INDF.F.ACC.SG arrangement.F.ACC.SG inhabit-PTCP
„The intern has lived in an arrangement. “
Social priming in foreign accent perception
Getting rid of portmanteaux: New challenges
Portmanteau agreement, where an affix seems to encode phi features of multiple arguments (both subject and object), is a challenge for existing theories of morphology. I propose an analysis where apparent portmanteau agreement markers only encode ...
Clause-Initial Discourse Markers as Main-Event Line Indicators in Miluk and Alsea
(Abstract is attached as LaTeX file below)
In narrative discourse across the world’s languages, a fundamental distinction is made between clauses that advance the story—known as the main-event line (MEL)—and those that provide background information, elaboration, or evaluation. The MEL is typically understood as a sequence of temporally bounded, thematically central, and realis events that correspond to the canonical progression of a narrative plot (Labov & Waletzky, 1967; Hopper, 1979; Payne, 1992). In many languages, the MEL is encoded through verbal morphology, particularly through aspectual categories such as the perfective, or mood distinctions
like the realis/irrealis divide. However, this study focuses on two indigenous languages of the Pacific Northwest—Miluk and Alsea—which diverge significantly from this crosslinguistic norm. In both languages, clause-initial discourse markers, rather than verbal morphology, serve as the primary cues for identifying MEL clauses. This study and its findings extend beyond just the description and analysis of these languages, but push for typological reconsideration and investigation of narrative discourse in TAM systems across the world. It challenges traditional convential mode...
Jeudi 17:30
Jeudi 20:00
Vendredi 08:45
Vendredi 09:45
Metapher, Analogie und Imagination
Zuerst die Empirie: Es werden konzeptuelle Grundlagen, Daten und empirische Generalisierungen vorgestellt. Dann die Theorie: Ich werde einen Ansatz zur Analyse lebendiger Metaphern vorstellen, zu dessen wesentlichen Bestandteilen Analogieverhältni...
Vendredi 11:30
The impact of listening skill on foreign language vocabulary learning: Ibn Batouta High School in Morocco as case of study.
Learning vocabulary using listening skill is becoming a trend among foreign language
learners nowadays. Listening assists students in achieving their academic goals. Students who
are adept at listening learn more quickly and make more informed...
When English Moves to Thailand & Gets a Tone
How does a non-tonal, stress-based language like English find its place within the tonal system of Thai? In this talk, I explore that question through the lens of English loanwords, analyzing how Thai speakers assign tones when integrating foreign...
Loanwords provide a unique window into how languages adapt and evolve when confronted with new phonological challenges. This talk examines how English words, originating from a stress-based, non-tonal system, are integrated into Thai, a tonal language with five contrastive tones and strict syllable constraints. Using a dataset of thirty loanwords, elicited from three native Thai speakers in controlled sentence contexts, the analysis combines auditory judgments with acoustic visualization to track tonal assignment.
The study finds that loanwords generally follow predictable rules: live syllables tend to receive mid tones, dead syllables often carry high tones, and stress placement in English guides tones in polysyllabic words. Nevertheless, variation emerges, principally when English proficiency influences perception, showing that adaptation is not purely rule-governed but also shaped by contact and usage.
These results not only refine earlier accounts (Gandour 1979, Bickner 1986, Kenstowicz & Suchato 2006), but also underscore the flexible, creative strategies Thai employs to incorporate foreign words. More broadly, this study contributes to our understanding of how stress-ba...
The distribution of anaphora in Norwegian
Presenting the distribution of the four possible 3rd person singular anaphora in Norwegian, as judged by Norwegian speakers, compared to the theories of binding in norwegian by Daniel Büring (2005).
My thesis explores the usage of anaphora in Norwegian, where in the third person singular (excluding case and gender) there are four possible options: the personal pronouns “han/ho” and the reflexives “han/ho sjølv”, “seg” and “seg sjølv”. This contrasts with languages like English and German that only have two options, the personal pronouns “he/she” or “er/sie” and the reflexive “him-/herself” or “sich”. In this thesis the term “anaphor” is used about any pronoun that refers back to an antecedent (an NP with the same referent) in the same sentence. I am using Daniel Büring's (2005) principles of binding theory, and specifically his theories about Norwegian, as my reference, and comparing them to Norwegian speakers' own intuitions, as gathered from a survey.
I had three hypotheses before gathering my data. First, that the data would support Büring's theories. Second, that they would not, or only in part. And third, that there is dialectal variation. Here, of course, the third hypothesis could overlap with the first two.
The method I used to gather data was an online questionnaire containing different sentences including an anaphor, where the anaphor varied between the four...
Vendredi 12:15
Disentangling the construct of Phraseological Sophistication
Phraseology, or formulaic language, has widely been recognised as playing an important role in language proficiency and development (Wray, 2002). Learner Corpus Research (LCR) has established that more proficient learners use more sophisticated an...
Exploring Shifts in Explicit Cohesive Marking in Bidirectional English–German Translation:
The study explores shifts in explicit cohesive marking in English and German translated texts. It draws on the proposed translation universal of explicitation and purports to determine, whether cohesive shifts are dependent on the discursive envir...
The theory of translation universals suggests that certain linguistic phenomena are endemic to translated language. One of such proposed universals is explicitation: the tendency for translated texts to explicate implicit source-text information. This study focuses on conjunctive relations as the most overt manifestation of cohesive marking in language, and purports to determine the correlations between shifts in cohesion and the specific discursive and linguistic environment. The focus of this study is the parliamentary text category. Previous research has predominantly addressed literary texts, particularly prose. This study examines logical cohesive relations (conjunctions) in cross-linguistic and cross-genre translational contexts, applying methods of corpus linguistics and procedures of statistical analysis. The results show outlined correlations between the distribution of explicit cohesive markers and text category in translation. Some evidence for explicitation in translated texts is found, however categorical assertions regarding universality are withheld.
The discourse of feminist communities on Instagram
Despite the emerging research in critical discourse analysis and gender studies focusing largely on feminist communities in new forms of digital media, there is a prominent lack of data placed in the context of societies with deeply rooted, traditional patriarchal constructs, such as Serbia, thus leading to varied feminist issues and focus.
Instagram, an interactive tool for voicing opinions and sharing political views with wide audiences, has given rise to these communities, giving them a proper platform to achieve their goal.
This talk will present a case-study of a Serbian Instagram account @feminizam_iz_teretane, focusing on how it fits the wider scope of discourse shaped by feminist communities on social media. Guided by Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), ten posts and subsequent captions published by the account under the rubric titled “#debunk” will be investigated for their verbal and non-verbal elements, alongside discursive strategies utilized to convey a message of raising awareness on feminism and gender inequality. Each of these posts was chosen for having representative, multimodal qualities which fit the sample with text, image, and design.
T...
Vendredi 12:30
Second-Level Agenda-Setting and Framing in Turkish Media
This study explores how Turkish right- and left-wing media framed the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election, employing Second-Level Agenda-Setting and Framing theories. My contribution to this project centered on designing the research framework, collec...
The 2024 U.S. Presidential Election drew worldwide attention, but its representation in Türkiye revealed more than just global interest. It provided a lens through which deep domestic ideological divisions became visible. Turkish media outlets, long polarized between pro-government and opposition lines, approached the U.S. election not simply as foreign news but as an opportunity to reinforce their own narratives about leadership, democracy, and national identity.
In this project, I examined the coverage of the election in four widely read newspapers—Sabah, Anadolu Ajansı, Cumhuriyet, and Sözcü—representing conservative and progressive perspectives. The choice of these outlets was deliberate: they are central actors in shaping political discourse and reflect the polarization of the Turkish public sphere. The study focused on the immediate post-election period, when editorial choices are especially telling, and asked how the victory of Donald Trump was interpreted through different ideological filters.
The analysis relied on a combination of computational and interpretive methods. Using Voyant Tools, I created word clouds, frequency counts, and collocation maps to uncover which...
Vendredi 13:00
Vendredi 14:00
„ChatGPT, ist dieser Satz eine Metapher?“
Wie gut können Menschen und OpenAI's GPT-Sprachmodelle Metaphern identifizieren? Insgesamt 24 Personen nahmen an einem Versuch teil, Stimuli auf ihre Verständlichkeit, Kreativität und Metaphorik zu bewerten. Dieselbe Anzahl wurde mit GPT-3.5 und G...
(Keine Vorkenntnisse in Computerlinguistik notwendig)
„Hans versuchte, sich und Jelena als Paar von außen zu betrachten. Sie, ein scharfes Messer, er ein verliebter Radiergummi“ (Kuckart 1998). Bei der vorliegenden lebendigen Metapher (Ricœur 1986) können wir uns fragen, was ein „verliebter Radiergummi“ sein soll – oder wir fragen ein Large Language Model (LLM) wie ChatGPT. Doch ist dem Modell auch „bewusst“, dass es sich beim vorliegenden Satz um eine Metapher handelt, oder glaubt es, den Ausdruck wörtlich verstehen zu können? Insgesamt 24 Personen dienten als Vergleichsgruppe zu OpenAI's GPT-3.5 und GPT-4 und bewerteten Stimuli auf ihre Verständlichkeit, Kreativität und Metaphorik. Die Ergebnisse dieses Versuchs werden vorgestellt.
Literatur (u.a.):
Lakoff, George & Mark Johnson. 1980. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Lakoff, George. 1993. The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor. In Andrew Ortony (Ed.), Metaphor and Thought, 2nd edn, 202–251. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Collaborating with researchers from non-WEIRD countries
In this talk I will discuss possible challenges and cultural barriers that can come up during collaboration with researchers from non-WEIRD countries. I will be drawing from my own experience working with linguists and medical researchers during m...
Polish clitics on their way to freedom or fixation?
Vendredi 14:45
Syntax and semantics of Latvian "lai" in directive and desiderative environments
The present thesis investigates the Latvian complementizer "lai", focusing on its syntactic behavior and semantic contribution in complement clauses. While often treated as a marker of irrealis or non-factual events, "lai" has not yet received a s...
Understanding how languages encode mood and modality is one of the central concerns in syntax and semantics. While many languages mark these categories morphologically on verbs, others do so through syntactic means, such as complementizer choice (see, e.g., Portner (2018)). This paper is originally a bachelor's thesis investigating the Latvian complementizer lai, which occurs primarily in directive and desiderative embedded clauses. These lai-clauses typically express non-assertive future-oriented events and resist factual interpretation:
Viņš grib, lai palīdzu.
he.NOM want.3.PRES lai help.1.SG.PRES
‘He wants me to help him.’
Lai can be contrasted with the more common complementizer ka used for factual, declarative statements:
Viņš zina, ka palīdzu.
he.NOM know.3.PRES that help.1.SG.PRES
‘He knows that I am helping.’
Although lai has received some descriptive attention in research (see, e.g., Holvoet (2016, 2020); Holvoet et al. (2021); Kalnača (2011); Kalnača and Lokmane (2021)), its precise syntactic status and semantic contribution in complement clauses remain largely underexplored. I aim to fill t...
Vendredi 15:30
“The Worst They Can Say Is No”
Expressing pain among the Quechua and Mestizo people of Highland Bolivia:
Earlier this year, I have conducted a survey in the Cochabamba region of Bolivia to study the concept of pain. The aim of this survey was to explore and compare how the urban population of the city of Cochabamba and the rural population from diffe...
Earlier this year, I have conducted a survey in the Cochabamba region of Bolivia to study pain expressions. The aim of this survey was to explore and compare how the urban population of the city of Cochabamba (primarily monolingual Spanish speakers) and the rural population from different towns throughout the Cochabamba region (primarily bilingual Quechua and Spanish speakers, some monolingual Quechua) talk about and express the concept of pain. To do so, I have employed a mixed-methods study design, combining qualitative and quantitative approaches, to gain a more holistic viewpoint of the phenomenon.
For the qualitative part I have conducted interviews with 12 monolingual and bilingual Bolivian health professionals and 7 native Quechua speakers living in rural Cochabamba about how they view in the concept of pain in their respective cultures and whether they noticed any difference between the two.
For the quantitative part I conducted a psycholinguistic survey with 17 bilingual and monolingual Quechua speakers living in rural Cochabamba to affective word ratings on a selection of 30 Quechua words indirectly or directly related to pain. For the Spanish data, I plan to conduct...
Expression of arguments in Enxet Sur
Vendredi 16:15
It's all good, ass!
The presentation will explore the Norwegian discourse marker 'ass' and its range of functions. While it has often been assumed that 'ass' primarily serves as an intensifier, the discussion will highlight how it also fulfills other pragmatic functi...
My thesis explores the use of the Norwegian discourse marker ‘ass’. As there was limited research in this particular area, the function of the discourse marker was initially unclear. It has long been generally accepted that ‘ass’ is an abbreviation of ‘altså’ (meaning ‘so’) and is used as an intensifier, strengthening the meaning of a word or phrase, or the speaker’s attitude.
I formulated two hypotheses: (i) the discourse marker ‘ass’ is used to intensify the meaning of a word, a phrase, or the speaker’s attitude, and (ii) the discourse marker ‘ass’ can serve other purposes in addition to strengthening in a discourse.
The data was obtained from the corpus Norsk talespråkskorpus - Oslodelen (NoTa-Oslo), and the Norwegian TV-series Flus. The data was then analyzed using a substitution method, which involved replacing ‘ass’ with other, more well-documented intensifiers. If the pragmatic meaning remained intact, the function was considered to be intensifying. If the pragmatic meaning was deviant, attempts were made to find other pragmatic particles that did not alter the meaning of the utterance.
What I found was that in addition to the intensifying function, the dis...
Time Without Tense?
This talk examines how so-called “tenseless” languages, which lack obligatory tense morphology, nonetheless anchor events in time. Drawing on data from languages like Mandarin, Yúcatec Maya, and West Greenlandic, I propose a typology of strategies...
Metasprachliche Strategien zum Ausdruck von evidentialen Bedeutungen
Dieser Vortrag beschäftigt sich mit metasprachlichen Strategien in Deutsch und Englisch zum Ausdruck von evidentialen Bedeutungen, die in einer Objektsprache grammatikalisiert sind. Evidentialität im engeren Sinne bezeichnet die Wissensquelle, die...
Vendredi 17:30
Gruppenbezogene Beleidigungswörter in quotationellen Kontexten
Gruppenbezogene Beleidigungswörter (eng. „slurs“) sind der vielleicht deutlichste Ausdruck eines diskriminierenden, toxischen Sprachgebrauchs. In der Öffentlichkeit wird viel darüber diskutiert, wie wir über z.B. homophobe, rassistische, antisemit...
Vendredi 19:00
Samedi 08:45
Samedi 09:45
Syntax and semantics of the swarm alternation
In this talk, we develop the first explicit analysis of the syntax and semantics of the “swarm” alternation's non-base alternant as in “The garden is swarming with bees” (as opposed to “Bees are swarming in the garden”). We assume a pluractional h...
Samedi 11:30
Web Scraping mit Python (für AnfängerInnen)
Dieser Workshop richtet sich an absolute AnfängerInnen. Vorkenntnisse werden nicht vorausgesetzt. Gemeinsam lernen wir, wie man Daten aus Websites extrahiert und in Excel speichert.
WICHTIG: Laptop wird vorausgesetzt. Ladet euch bitte VS Code und...
Wolltet ihr schon immer mal (Sprach-)Daten zur weiteren Analyse aus dem Internet ziehen und in Excel einbauen? Dann ist dieser Methodenworkshop für Euch das Richtige!
Dieser kleine Workshop richtet sich an alle, die noch nie mit Python zu tun hatten, aber es für ihre eigenen Projekte gebrauchen können.
KI-Schreibwerkstatt
Wie verändert künstliche Intelligenz das wissenschaftliche Schreiben im Studium? Dieser Workshop ist eine Fortsetzung der gleichnamigen Diskussionen bei der 76. und 77. StuTS.
(Eine Teilnahme an den gleichnamigen Workshops bei der 76. und 77. StuTS ist keine Voraussetzung)
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 blicken wir insbesondere auf die Diskrepanz zwischen den Ängsten in der Hochschuldidaktik und dem tatsächlichen KI-Einsatz von Studierenden. Ziel des Workshops ist, Hintergründe zu beleuchten, damit ihr an euren jeweiligen Instituten den Einsatz von künstlicher Intelligenz mitgestalten könnt.
Literatur u.a.:
Gottschling, S., Seidl, T., & Vonhof, C. (2024). Nutzung von KI-Tools durch Studierende. Eine exemplarische Untersuchung studentischer Nutzungsszenarien. In hochschullehre 10(11), 122–135.
Affective Responses to Political Speeches: Evidence from Pupillometry and Self-Assessment in Chinese–English Bilinguals
Many studies show stronger affective reactions in L1 than in L2
This study examined how language (L1 vs. L2) and affective
(Ayçiçeği-Dinn & Caldwell-Harris, 2009). Yet most research has examined
framing (positive, neutral, negative) affect bili...
Samedi 13:00
Samedi 14:00
Samedi 16:15
Iconicity in the syntax of sign languages
This talk discusses an iconic mapping of scope relations in sign languages: The higher the scope of a syntactic operator the higher its expression on the body will be. While operators taking scope above tense are systematically expressed via facia...
Samedi 17:45
Samedi 19:00
Closing Party
We will also end the 78th StuTS at Café Faust (Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 24c, 70174 Stuttgart). The event is open-end.