Guest Talks & reading group

Always on Wednesdays, 4.15-5.45 p.m.,  campus Neues Palais, room 1.09. 2.06 (except for 23.10 & 20.11)

Talks winter term 2024/25

12.02.2025 Talk / SVM Lecture Series Ifeoluwa Abidoye, t.b.a.

5.02.2025 Talk Dr. Gleb Pilipenko, "Code-switching in Slavic language islands"

29.01.2025 Talk / SVM Lecture Series Dr. Kateryna Iefremenko, t.b.a.

8.01.2025 Discussion of a chapter draft  Wakweya Gobena, Corpus comparison of possessive constructions in Oromo, Sheko and Amharic. Work in progress.

18.12.2024 Talk Freya Schumann (University of Innsbruck & University of Potsdam), t.b.a.

11.12.2024 Talk Danguole Kotryna Kapkan (University of Vilnius), "BE perfects: grammaticalisation and typology".

27.11.2024 Reading group / talk  Dr. Masha Ovsjannikova, "Perception verbs in Slavic: A parallel-corpus study"

20.11.2024 Talk / SVM Lecture Series  Dr. Lukasz Jedrzejowski, "Getting into the right mood in concessive clauses. A cross-linguistic diachronic perspective", room 1.08.0.58

13.11.2024 Reading group Chen, Victoria & Bradley McDonnell. 2019. Western Austronesian voice. Annual Review of Linguistics 5. 173-195.

06.11.2024 Talk Prof. Kaius Sinnemäki (University of Helsinki), "A typological approach to language change in contact ecologies"

30.10.2024 Paper discussion: Aigul Zakirova, Argument encoding in the necessity constructions of Hill Mari.

23.10.2024 Talk / SVM Lecture Series Prof. Luigi Andriani (University of Hamburg), "At the border between hypotaxis and parataxis: evidence from Apulian aspectual periphrases", room 1.12.0.01

23.10 (Extra slot) Reading group  Berman, Ruth A. 2014. Cross-linguistic comparisons in child language research.Journal of Child Language 41(S1). 26–37. (Please contact Ilja for time and room number)

16.10.2024 Talk / SVM Lecture Series Prof. John Mansfield (University of Zürich), "Ancient ontologies: Detecting semantic patterns older than language families"

Talks & Reading summer term 2024

• 17.07.2024 Reading group Dr. Sergey Say (University of Potsdam), "Degrees of complexity in valency class systems: implications for efficiency"
• 10.07.2024 Talk Prof. Denis Creissels (University of Lyon), "Typology and diachrony of predicative possession", Handout
• 03.07.2024 Talk Prof. Jeff Good (University at Buffalo), "Developing a typological approach to the study of constituency: Two case studies based on Chichewa”
• 26.06.2024 Reading Group Harald Clahsen. 2016. Contributions of linguistic typology to psycholinguistics. Linguistic Typology 20(3). 599-614. Talk cancelled!! P̴r̴o̴f̴.̴ ̴K̴a̴i̴u̴s̴ ̴S̴i̴n̴n̴e̴m̴ä̴k̴i̴ ̴(̴U̴n̴i̴v̴e̴r̴s̴i̴t̴y̴ ̴o̴f̴ ̴H̴e̴l̴s̴i̴n̴k̴i̴)̴,̴ ̴"̴A̴ ̴t̴y̴p̴o̴l̴o̴g̴i̴c̴a̴l̴ ̴a̴p̴p̴r̴o̴a̴c̴h̴ ̴t̴o̴ ̴l̴a̴n̴g̴u̴a̴g̴e̴ ̴c̴h̴a̴n̴g̴e̴ ̴i̴n̴ ̴c̴o̴n̴t̴a̴c̴t̴ ̴e̴c̴o̴l̴o̴g̴i̴e̴s̴"̴
• 19.06.2024 Talk Dr. Berfin Aktaş, Prof. Manfred Stede, Prof. Ilja Seržant , Dr. Maria Ovsjannikova (University of Potsdam), "Correlations in word order across the languages of the Circum-Baltic area".
• 12.06.2024 Talk Dr. Maria Khachaturyan (University of Helsinki), "Interactional foundations of grammar : Mano relatives clauses as a result of pragmatic cooptation of a topic-comment construction"
• 5.06.2024 No meeting
• 29.05.2024 SVM Lecture Distinct room!! Malte Rosemeyer (Freie Universität Berlin) "Interrogatives in Romance".
• 22.05.2024 Reading group Georgakopoulos, Thanasis, Grossman, Eitan, Nikolaev, Dmitry and Polis, Stéphane. 2022. Universal and macro-areal patterns in the lexicon: A case-study in the perception-cognition domain. Linguistic Typology 26(2). 439-487. 
• 15.05.2024 SVM Lecture Distinct room!! Andreas Hölzl (Universität Potsdam) "The architecture of interrogative systems"
• 8.05.2024 Reading group Denis Creissels,  Transitivity, Valency and Voice. OUP. Forthcoming. Chapter 1 and 4.
• 1.05.2024 No meeting
• 24.04.2024 Talk Olena Shcherbakova (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology), "The evolution of grammatical complexity"
• 17.04.2024 Talk Natalia Logvinova,  "Genitive vs. Apposition in Russian specificational constructions"
• 10.04.2024 Talk Elena Shvedova, "Valency-changing derivations in Neo-Aramaic: intragenetic typology"

Talks + reading group winter term 2023-2024 (room 1.09.1.02, room change!!)

• Talk 07.02.2024 Prof. Dr. Jan Patrick Zeller (Universität Oldenburg), "Spoken Silesian: A variationist approach"
• Reading group 31.01.2024. Francesca Di Garbo & Annemarie Verkerk. 2020. A typology of northwestern Bantu gender systems. Linguistics 60(4). 1169-1239.
• Reading group 24.01.2024. Egurtzegi, A., et al. 2022. The forms and meanings of grammatical markers support efficient  communication. PNAS 118(49), e2025993118. (followed by the discussion of the draft by Kozhanov & Say)
• Talk 17.01.2024 Prof. Dr. Sandra Birzer (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg), "Factors influencing suffix choice and suffix variation in Slavic verbs"
• Reading group 10.01.2024 T. Florian Jaeger & Elisabeth J. Norcliffe. 2009. The Cross-linguistic Study of Sentence Production , Language and Linguistics Compass 3/4 (2009): 866–887. (The talk originally planned for this day has been cancelled)
• Reading group (starting at 3.50 pm!!!) 20.12.2023 Chousou-Polydouri, Natalia, Inman, David, Huber, Thomas C. and Bickel, Balthasar. "Multi-variate coding for possession: methodology and preliminary results" Linguistics, vol. 61, no. 6, 2023, pp. 1365-1402. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2022-0021
• Talk 13.12.2023 Dr. Olena Pčelinceva (Cherkasy State Technological University), "War, Language and Culture: Changes in cultural and linguistic attitudes in education and culture in central Ukraine after the beginning of Russian aggression". Download the presentation here.
• 6.12.2023 No meeting
• Talk 29.11.2023 SVM lecture, Room 1.09.1.15, Ulrike Demske (Universität Potsdam) &  Barthe Bloom (Universität Potsdam) "Integration, resumption, and adjunction: The relation between Early New High German preposed adverbial clauses and their host"
• Talk 22.11.2023 Prof. dr. Eleanor Coghill (Uppsala University), "New evidence for the grammaticalization of a Neo-Aramaic past perfective marker from a verb of movement"
• 15.11.2023 No meeting
• Talk 08.11.2023 Prof. Dr. Manfred Stede (University of Potsdam), "Contrastive connectives and their coherence relations: corpus studies on German"
• Talk 01.11.2023 SVM lecture, Room 1.09.1.15, Annette Gerstenberg (Universität Potsdam) "LangAge Corpora: A Longitudinal Approach to Linguistic Aging"
• Reading group 25.10.2023 Rik van Gijn & Pieter Muysken. 2020. Highland–lowland relations: A linguistic view. In: Rethinking the Andes–Amazonia Divide. A cross-disciplinary exploration. Ed. by Adrian J. Pearce, David G. Beresford-Jones, Paul Heggarty. UCL Press.
• Talk 18.10.2023 This talk will start at 16.30!!! Dr. Anna Laurinavichyute (University of Potsdam), "Eye-tracking in psycholinguistics. Reading in Russian"

Talks summer term 2023 (reading group see below)

• 19.07.2023 Artemii Kuznetsov (University of Oxford),  "Diachronic Changes of Referential Density in Japanese: a Pilot Study",  4.15-5.45 p.m.
• 05.07.2023 no meeting
• 28.06.2023 Wakweya Gobena (University of Potsdam), "Possessive cxns in Amharic, Omoro and Sheko", 4.15-5.45 p.m.
• 21.06.2023 Prof. Gilles Authier (École Pratique des Hautes Études ),  "Aspect marking in Daghestanian languages", 4.15-5.45 p.m.
• Haus 8, Raum 0.64!! 07.06.2023 Wojciech Lewandowski  "Spatial events in native and second language production contexts", (Haus 8, Raum 0.64), 4.15-5.45 p.m.,  SVM Lecture Series
• 17.05.2023 Prof. Kasper Boyé (University of Copenhagen), "A usage-based theory of grammatical status and its implications for language processing and aphasiology”, 4.15-5.45 p.m.
• 03.05.2023 Dr. Timofey Arkhangelskiy (Hamburg University),  "Udmurt dialectometry: vocabulary, syntax and language contact.", 4.15-5.45 p.m.
• 19.04.2023 Prof. Francesco Gardani (University of Zürich), "Towards a typology of morphological MAT borrowing",  4.15 - 5.45 p.m.
• Eagerly waiting for Prof. Mladen Uhlik (University of Ljubljana), "Impersonal Reflexive Constructions (South Slavic Languages vs. Russian)", 4.15 - 5.45 p.m.

Reading group (Kolloquium) summer term 2023

• 12.07.2023 Röthlisberger, M., Szmrecsanyi, B. 2019. Dialect Typology: Recent Advances. In: Brunn, S., Kehrein, R. (eds) Handbook of the Changing World Language Map. Springer, Cham.
• 05.07.2023 no meeting
• 14.06. Skirgård et al. 2023. Grambank reveals the importance of genealogical constraints on linguistic diversity and highlights the impact of language loss. Science Advances 9, eadg6175.
• 31.05. Levshina, Natalia, et al. 2023. Why we need a gradient approach to word order.Linguistics.
• 24.05. Peter Petré & Freek Van de Velde. 2018. The real-time dynamics of the individual and the community in grammaticalization, Language.
• 10.5. This meeting is cancelled.
• 26.04. Evangelia Adamou, Quentin Feltgen, and Cristian Padur. 2021. A unified approach to the study of language contact: Cross-language priming and change in adjective/noun order. International Journal of Bilingualism 25(6), 1635–1654.

Talks winter term 2022 (reading group see below)

• 01.02.2023 Dr. Alena Witzlack-Makarevich (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), "Co-argument sensitivity of argument marking: distribution and variation",  4.15 - 5.45 p.m.
• 25.01.2023: Jan Fliessbach & Johanna Rockstroh (Universität Potsdam) - "Tu sais quoi? Qu’est-ce que tu racontes! Qu’est-ce que tu as? Verb induced object placement patterns in French partial interrogatives" , Abstract This talk will take place at Haus 08, Raum 0.58
• 18.01.2023 Dr. Laura Becker (University of Freiburg), "Zero forms in morphology: Patterns and explanations", 4.15-5.45 p.m.
• 14.12.2022 Dr. Andrey Shluinsky (University of Hamburg), "Aspect in Enets (< Samoyedic < Uralic): a case-study of Slavic-style system in a non-Slavic language", 4.15-5.45 p.m.
• 07.12.2022 Dr. Vladimir Panov (University of Vilnius), "Addressee cross-linguistically: Toward a typology informed by linguistic anthropology and interactional linguistics.", 4.15-5.45 p.m.
• 23.11.2022 12.30-14.00, Ilja Seržant, "Diachronic tendencies in argument flagging patterns of Slavic", external session at the Slavic department of HU Berlin
• 09.11.2022 Dr. Natalya Stoynova (University of Hamburg), "Using corpus methods to assess inter-speaker variation in contact-influenced Russian: data from bilingual Nanai and Ulcha speakers",  4.15-5.45 p.m.
• 6.00-7.30 p.m.!!!!     19.10.2022 Prof. Ewa Golachowska (Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences) "Pogranicze polsko-białoruskie. Perspektywa językowa i socjolingwistyczna /  Польско-беларуское пограничье. Языковая и социолингвистическая перспектива." (this talk will be held in Polish with English or Russian slides), (abstract)
• 12.10.2022 Prof. Björn Wiemer (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz), "Unity behind diversity among tense-aspect uses in the non-past domain of Slavic languages", 4.15-5.45 pm. HANDOUT

Reading group (Kolloquium) winter term 2022/2023

• 08.02. Volker Gast* and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm 2022. Patterns of persistence and diffusibility in the European lexicon. Linguistic TTypology 26(2), 403-438.
• 11.01 Diessel, Holger & Merlijn Breunesse. 2020. A typology of demonstrative clause linkers. Chapter 12. In Åshild Næss, Anna Margetts & Yvonne Treis (eds.), Demonstratives in discourse,
  305–341. Berlin: LSP.
• 30.11 Levshina, Natalia. 2019. Token-based typology and word order entropy: A study based on Universal Dependencies, Linguistic Typology 23(3). 533–572.
• 16.11 Gardani, F., Zanini, C. 2022. On the Subitizing Effect in Language Contact. In: Levie, R., Bar-On, A., Ashkenazi, O., Dattner, E., Brandes, G. (eds) Developing Language and Literacy. Literacy Studies, vol 23. Springer, Cham. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99891-2_10
• 2.11 Tom Güldemann, Sabine Zerbian, and Malte Zimmermann. 2015. Variation in Information Structure with Special Reference to Africa, Annu. Rev. Linguist. 1:155–78.

Talks summer term 2022 (reading group see below)

• 19.07.2022 Dr. Sergey Say (Potsdam University) "Cross-linguistic variability of valency class systems", room 1.11.2.27, 2.15 - 3.45 p.m.
• 12.07 Dr. Cem Keskin (University of Potsdam) "Transient subordinate clauses in Balkan Turkic in its shift to Standard Average European subordination",  room 1.11.2.27, 2.15 - 3.45 p.m. 
• 12.07 CANCELLED!! Dr. Masha Ovsjannikova (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) "The diachrony of transimpersonal verbs in Russian",  room 1.11.2.27, 2.15 - 3.45 p.m. 
• 28.06.2022 Prof. Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institut EVA Leipzig & Leipzig University) "Is cliticization an intermediate stage between free lexeme and affix status?" (abstract), room 1.11.2.27, 2.15 - 3.45 p.m.
• 21.06.2022 Prof. Eleni Bužarovska (Ss. Cyril & Methodius University in Skopje), The rise and the evolution of DOM in the South Slavic periphery, room 1.11.2.27, 2.15 - 3.45 p.m.
• 31.05.2022 Dr. Dmitri Sitchinava (Leipzig University, Helsinki University) Lecture / Talk 1  "Ukrainian grammar against Slavic and typological background" (abstract), room 1.11.2.27, 2.15 - 3.45 p.m. 
• 31.05.2022 Dr. Dmitri Sitchinava (Leipzig University, Helsinki University) Lecture / Talk 2 "Ukrainian dialects, local norms and their corpus representation" (abstract), room 1.11.2.27, 4.15 - 5.45 p.m.
• 24.05.2022 Dr. Susanne Michaelis (Max Planck Institut EVA Leipzig & Leipzig University) "Coexpression pattern of existential and possessive predication in creole languages" (abstract), room 1.11.2.27, 2.15 - 3.45 p.m.

Reading group (Kolloquium) summer term 2022

• 14.06 Daniel, Michael, et al. 2019. Dialect loss in the Russian North: Modeling change across variables, Language Variation and Change 31, 353-376.
• 07.06. Egurtzegi, Aitor, et al. 2022. Cross-linguistic differences in case marking shape neural power dynamics and gaze behavior during sentence planning. Brain and Language 230, 105127.
• 17.05. Creissels, Denis. 2019. Existential predication in the languages of the Sudanic belt. Afrikanistik-Aegyptologie-Online 2019. (doi:urn:nbn:de:0009-10-48607) (https://www.afrikanistik-aegyptologie-online.de/archiv/2019/4860/)
• 10.05. Arkadiev, Peter & Björn Wiemer. 2020. Perfects in Baltic and Slavic. In: Robert Creillin & Thomas Jügel (eds.), Perfects in Indo-European languages and beyond. John Benjamins. 123-214.
• 03.05. Nikolaus P. Himmelmann 2022. Prosodic phrasing and the emergence of phrase structure, Linguistics. Ahead-of-print.
• 26.04. Bethin, Christina Y. 2022. Stress, gender, and declension class in Belarusian. Linguistics 60(1), 239–276.