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
From September 2026, the Chair will welcome Jess Ward, who will be supporting the CRC project D03 as a short-term fellow for three months.
We are delighted to announce a new publication in the Natural Language Processing Journal, to which Patrick Auhagen contributed as a consortium member: Automated parts-of-speech tagging in 52 language varieties: Benchmarking towards establishing suitability for multilingual clinical language analysis. Natural Language Processing Journal, 16, 100226.
New publication in Journal of Pragmatics:
We are delighted that the article “Euphemism, discourse function, and language change. French diable and diantre ‘the hell’ interrogatives in a corpus of historical theater plays” by Jan Fliessbach and Malte Rosemeyer (FU Berlin) has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics and is expected to appear in 2026.