December Publications Congratulations to all the faculty members with new publications this month! www.ling.uni-konstanz.de/en/departmen... #publication #unikonstanz #AcademicLinguistics #LinguisticsFaculty #LingDept #LingResearch

Big news from the Linguistic Dept! Funded for 4 years, exploring how silence and noise influence language. A huge congratulations to Dr. Butt and the faculty! #research #DFG #UniKonstanz #researchgrant #academicwin #funding #linguistic #sciencenews #interdisciplinaryresearch #languagescience

Come to a #ACTINproject talk on how to leverage innovative translanguaging-based activities that support migrant learners in schools and informal learning environments. #Translanguaging #ACTINProject #MultilingualEducation #MigrationAndEducation #LanguagePedagogy #CLIL #Integration #Linguistics

Our own Prof. Theo Marinis gave a talk today at the European Parliament on "Developmental Language Disorder in Multilingual Contexts" as part of an event on DLD awareness for #DLDday - helping to demystify this oft-misunderstood condition. #Konstanz #UniKonstanz #linguistics #linguistik

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Sprechen Sie Bridge? In einem kurzweiligen Beitrag berichtet Prof. Dr. Nicole Dehé - Sprachwissenschaftlerin und leidenschaftliche Bridge-Spielerin - über die Sprache des königlichen Kartenspiels. (1/2) #UniKonstanz #linguistik #linguistics #bridge

The Konstanz Linguistics Conference 2025 (KLC25) is an early-career research conference taking place at the University of Konstanz, starting tomorrow (Thur 9th Oct). The event provides a platform for early-career researchers to share their research and engage in discussions across subfields. (1/3)

The first week of October has been a busy one for Konstanz linguists! #Konstanz #linguistics #linguistik (1/7)

If you're at the #Romanistiktag at #UniKonstanz, make sure to check out the Language Science Press book stand today! Lots of #openaccess books on Romance languages and beyond. @konstanzling.bsky.social

Heute startet der #Romanistiktag in Konstanz! Freue mich auf die gemeinsame Arbeit in der mehrtägigen Sektion "Komik am Rande - am Rande der Komik. Zur Poetik der Nebenfigur in der Komödie", zu der mich Kurt Hahn @uni-graz.at und Judith Frömmer @univie.ac.at eingeladen haben. Und auf Bodenseeblicke!

Need more Romance in your life?From September 22nd-25th, the 39th Congress of the German Society for Romance Studies will take place at our university. (1/)

We congratulate Prof. Tamara Rathcke, who has won a competitive WAIS fellowship at the University of Waseda (Tokyo, Japan) for March 2026. Tamara will teach seminars, give lectures and start a new project on rhythm in Japanese and Korean with Dr Clemens Poppe. #UniKonstanz #linguistics #linguistik

FYI: Open Access Books: Konstanz-CSLI

The International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) 8 conference is taking place this week in Santiago de Compostela. Current and former Konstanz linguists Marc Meisezahl, Gemma McCarley and George Walkden made the pilgrimage. Here are their talks! (1/3)

🙌Deutsche MuttersprachlerInnen gesucht!🙌 Ist Deutsch Deine Muttersprache? Dann mach mit bei unserem Experiment! ℹ️Was wird gemacht: Sprachaufnahme von deutschen Sätzen (bringe gerne Deine Wasserflasche mit!) 🕰Dauer: 20 Min. (einmalig) 🎙Wo: Phonlab G103, Uni Konstanz 💰Aufwandsentschädigung: 4€ (1/2)

Happy Term Break ☀️ We are offline and won’t be replying to direct messages until October. This is also my last post as social media assistant to the department. Thank you for your continued support over the past three terms! ❤️ Enjoy the summer 🌊⛱️ #unikonstanz #linguistics #linguistik

We welcome our new ZUKOnnect Fellows, Masoumeh Zarei from Iran and Anushree Mishra from India! They will join the Zukunftskolleg on 1 August virtually for one year and visit campus for 3 to 4 months in autumn 2025. more: www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll... #unikonstanz #linguistics #linguistik

Congratulations to Sara Cavaglià and Massimiliano Canzi who won the Chessable Research Award for their project titled „Synchronicity in Gaze, Pupil Dilation and Heart Rate During Blitz Chess“! More about the award: www.chessable.com/blog/announc... #unikonstanz #linguistics #linguistik

Our SHE-3 students from “English around the world” created these two memes in the last class of the semester 😂 Are you wondering whether you should study linguistics our university? Do it, we’re fun! Sign up for our B.A. until 15th Sep. #KonstanzLingMemeMonday #unikonstanz #linguistics #linguistik

I know it‘s been a while since we‘ve had a #KonstanzLingMemeMonday, but I can’t keep these fabulous memes from you any longer! All of them were created by students from our department. Which area of linguistics do you think little Simba should avoid? . #unikonstanz #linguistics #linguistik

On July 29th, Regine Eckardt will deliver the Dick Oehrle Lecture, as part of ESSLLI 2025 in Bochum. Her presentation „What Metaphors and Axiomatic Theories (might) have in common“ proposes a novel formal analysis of metaphorical language use.

This week, the 30th conference on Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) took part in Barcelona, Spain ☀️ Members of our department contributed three talks and a workshop. More about the conference: eventum.upf.edu/128654/secti... . #unikonstanz #linguistics #linguistik #FachbereichLinguistik

We have two new publications by members of the department this July ☀️ Both are available online, see images attached. Are you working on a term paper? The university library has stocked up on new linguistic publications, by us and by other scholars. It’s worth a visit! #linguistics #linguistik

Regine Eckardt will take part in the workshop “Fragen in der Krise”, part of the meeting of the IGV (Internationale Germanistenvereinigung Graz), on July 22. Her talk is on „Rhetorische Fragen als Rechtfertigungen“ (Rhet. Questions as Justifications) #unikonstanz #linguistik #FachbereichLinguistik

For our last research colloquium of the summer term (is it already over???), Meike Rommel from our department will give a talk on "Pre-aspiration in Modern vs. Heritage Icelandic". 17 July / 11:45 am / Room G307 or Zoom (DM or email for the link) See you 👋 . #unikonstanz #linguistics #linguistik

George Walkden is giving a talk at the workshop Corpus linguistics 2040 in Mannheim on 11th July with Carola Trips on „The Penn parsed historical corpora: Past, present and future“. More about the conference: www.ids-mannheim.de/fi/veranstal... . #unikonstanz #linguistics #linguistik

Angelika Golegos and Theo Marinis gave a talk entitled “Producing felicitous pronouns does not imply interpreting ambiguous pronouns like adults: Pronoun ambiguity resolution in primary school children” at the conference University of Graz “RED 2025: Mismatches in Anaphoric Relations”, 29th-30th May

For our research colloquium this week, Sergio Zanotto from our department will give a talk on "Linguistic Profiling Populism in Political Texts". 10 July / 11:45 am / Room G307 or via Zoom (DM or email for the link) See you there 👋 #unikonstanz #linguistics #linguistik #DepartmentOfLinguistics

For our research colloquium this week, Diana Pili-Moss (Leuphana University Lüneburg) will give a talk on "The relationship between long-term memory ability and second language learning: Evidence from research and implications for practice" 2 July 2025 11:45 am Room G307 or Zoom (DM/email for link)

Svenja Krieger of our department and Mariia Pronina (University of the Balearic Islands) organized a satellite workshop at the 6th Phonetics & Phonology in Europe conference. It’s called "Heritage Phonetics and Phonology" (25-27 June, Palma). Other members of our department will give talks there

Members of our Department will give three talks at EuroSLA 34 (June 25th-28th) in Tromsø, Norway 🇳🇴 More information on the conference: en.uit.no/tavla/artikk....

For our research colloquium this week, Marc Allassonnière-Tang and team will give a talk on "Unraveling the interactions between culture and language: Does grammatical gender foster gender inequality and vice versa?" 26 June / 11:45 am / Room G307 or via Zoom, DM or email for link!

On May 2nd Nadine Bade gave an invited talk on “Shared mechanisms in local and global implicatures - Evidence from priming“at the MIT Linguistics Colloquium. More information: linguistics.mit.edu/colloquia/. . #unikonstanz #linguistics #linguistik #DepartmentOfLinguistics #FachbereichLinguistik

George Walkden gave a talk on preposition stranding at the CyclOps Colloquium at the University of Leipzig on 11th June. More information: www.philol.uni-leipzig.de/institut-fue... . #unikonstanz #linguistics #linguistik #DepartmentOfLinguistics #FachbereichLinguistik

We welcomes Luise Schwarzer who joined the department on May 05. She is affiliated with Geman linguistics and will research and teach in syntax adjoining areas. Luise passed her PhD in 2022 at the University of Leipzig and held a position at Trondheim NTNU before joining us.Have a good start, Luise!

In honour of Regine Eckardt’s 60th birthday, current & former colleagues and friends have presented her with a Festschrift. It contains papers by Bettina Braun, Miriam Butt, Nicole Dehé, and George Walkden, among others, and is co-edited by Eva Csipak. Available here: edoc.hu-berlin.de/18452/34036

Carmen Widera and Susan Reichelt will take their seminar on an excursion to Nantes. Students will receive input from the project Atlas social de la métropole nantaise, participate in a guided tour on the relation to water in the city & collect data on language in public spaces related to water

The “International Symposium of Bilingualism" (ISB15) takes place in San Sebastián, Spain, from 9th-12th June 2025. Three of our members will give talks there. More information on the conference: www.bcbl.eu/events/isb15...

On 6th June A. Coşkun Kunduz & S. Montrul will give an oral presentation on “Complex syntax in Turkish-American returnees and L2 learners of Turkish residing in Turkey” at the Workshop on “Third factors in language design: the view from heritage languages” in Paris, France #unikonstanz #linguistics

Check out this video! The DFG is celebrating 40 years of the Leibniz Prize. Aditi Lahiri, who won her prize back in 1999 while at our department in Konstanz, explains why the award is so important to researchers. Watch the full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-A1.... #unikonstanz #linguistik

One of our professors did the impossible and went to Bielefeld😱(Germans not from Bielefeld refuse to believe in Bielefeld) Prof. Walkden gave a talk on “Typology and diachrony of question particles: some preliminary work” as a guest of project B03 of CRC 1646 “Linguistic Creativity in Communication”

Fernanda Barrientos was in Toronto for the New Sounds 2025 symposium on second language speech (23-25 Apr) for a talk co-authored with Master's student Ludmila Bajuk: “The role of the prosodic hierarchy on learning postlexical rules: /b d g/ spirantization by L1 German learners of Spanish”

A nice conclusion to this month: Tina Bögel presented a poster on the Nasal place assimilation in the German negative prefixes in- and un- at the Manchester Phonology Meeting, May 29th- 31st. . #unikonstanz #linguistics #linguistik #DepartmentOfLinguistics #FachbereichLinguistik

Dr Andreas Trotzke, a member of our department (apl. Prof), has accepted a job offer from the University of Zürich, where he will be a professor of German linguistics. We congratulate! More: www.forschung-und-lehre.de/karriere/hab... . #unikonstanz #linguistics #linguistik #FachbereichLinguistik

New publications by members of the department this May, Part 2 ☘️ Have a look! . #publication #unikonstanz #linguistics #linguistik #DepartmentOfLinguistics #veröffentlichung #research #linguistbsky

New publications by members of the department this May, Part 1 ☘️ Have a look! . #publication #unikonstanz #linguistics #linguistik #DepartmentOfLinguistics #veröffentlichung #research

Im Rahmen der Veranstaltungsreihe DH-Dienstag wird unser Prof. Kaiser das Konstanz Corpus Annotation Tool (KonCAT) zur Bearbeitung und Analyse von Paralleltexten vorstellen. 27.05., Raum BG335 (Orangerie in der Bibliothek) oder online. Wir teilen den Link auf Anfrage per Mail oder Privatnachricht.

What should his upcoming paper be called? I think it should be „The speed to success ratio in catching a blade of grass!“ #unikonstanz #linguistics #linguistik #FachbereichLinguistik #DepartmentOfLinguistics

Our former dean of studies, Professor George Walkden, celebrated a special birthday yesterday. Happy birthday, enjoy the muffins! 🎂🎉

‼️Submissions open‼️ Linguistic Fields: General Linguistics or Syntax (Germanic Languages)
 Deadline: July 1, 2025
Notification: August 1, 2025
Workshop: November 10-11, 2025 More: linguistlist.org/issues/36/15... We are looking forward to your submissions! #linguistics @linguistlist.bsky.social