Welcome to the Chair of Spanish and French Linguistics!
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.
News from the Chair
New publication in Journal of Pragmatics:
We are delighted that the article “In search of the hidden path: The zero-encoding construction in satellite-framed English and verb-framed French” by Wojciech Lewandowski and Jan Fliessbach has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Pragmatics and is expected to appear in 2026.
Start of new research project:
In 2026 we started (In)variable Resumption in Relativsätzen: Spanisch im Vergleich zu anderen romanischen Sprachen as an SFB 1287 project! The team comes in form of a collaboration between Patrick Auhagen, Iñaki Cano, Jan Fliessbach, Álvaro Ugarte Isla and Melanie Uth.
