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Welcome to the Chair of Spanish and French Linguistics!

Teamfoto des Lehrstuhls, von links nach rechts: Jan Fliessbach, Melanie Uth, Beatrice Voigt, Laura Picarún, Iñaki Cano, Felix Post, Ana María Reyes-Vujović, Patrick Auhagen, Patricia Graziani, Wojciech Lewandowski, Álvaro Ugarte und Miriam Rettelbach.
Photo: Felix Post.

We are an international team of linguists with a special interest in Romance and American languages and cultures.

We research and publish on topics including linguistic variability, language contact and multilingualism, syntax and pragmatics of interrogative sentences, intonation and information structure, as well as the preservation of indigenous languages and other topics concerning linguistic and cultural diversity and sustainability.

We offer courses for Romance languages and cross-linguistic courses on diverse linguistic and interdisciplinary topics, about which you can inform yourself on the individual faculty pages if you are interested. We also focus on the implementation of international courses using and further developing digital methods.

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News from the Chair

Cordial invitation to the lecture by Luis Andrade Ciudad (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú),

"The agency of indigenous translators-interpreters and the new opportunities offered by the state: A Peruvian example of supposed self-management",

on Monday, June 23 at 4:15 PM at Neues Palais, Building 19, Room 4.15. The lecture will be given in Spanish.

 

We are pleased to announce the new article by Ana María Reyes-Vujović:

REYES-VUJOVIĆ, ANA MARÍA: (2025). Premisas universales de los vocativos en el estudio de las lenguas en contacto. In: Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny 2025 (1). Journals Polish Academy of Sciences. Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny - PAS Journals. 

Lecture by Melanie Uth as part of the lecture series "Studium oecologicum - mehr Nachhaltigkeit in der Lehre!":

"Das Geschäft mit der Sehnsucht: Die Frage der Nachhaltigkeit im Tourismus aus kulturanthropologischer Perspektive" on Wednesday, June 18, 2025, 2 - 4 PM, University of Potsdam, Griebnitzsee Campus, Lecture Hall 2. Warm invitation!

On June 3, Melanie Uth and Élodie Blestel (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) will present the lecture "Representaciones discursivas de la población indígena de la Sierra Nevada de Colombia en guías turísticas europeas" as part of the CEISAL Conference 2025.