Guest Talks & reading group

Always on Wednesdays, 4.15-5.45 p.m.,  campus Neues Palais, room t.b.a.

Talks summer term 2024

• 8.05.2024 Prof. Kaius Sinnemäki (University of Helsinki), "A typological approach to language change in contact ecologies", t.b.a.
• 24.04.2024 Olena Shcherbakova (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology), "The evolution of grammatical complexity", t.b.a.
• 17.04.2024 no meeting

Talks winter term 2023-2024

• 07.02.2024 Prof. Dr. Jan Patrick Zeller (Universität Greifswald), "Spoken Silesian: A variationist approach"
• 17.01.2024 Prof. Dr. Sandra Birzer (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg), t.b.a.
• 10.01.2024 SVM lecture
• 13.12.2023 No meeting
• 6.12.2023 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"
• 29.11.2023 SVM lecture
• 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
• 08.11.2023 Prof. Dr. Manfred Stede (University of Potsdam), "Contrastive connectives and their coherence relations: corpus studies on German"
• 01.11.2023 SVM lecture
• 18.10.2023 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.