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
We cordially invite you to the Linguistic Lecture Series on "Authenticity in Language" – a cooperation between the Center for Language – Variation – Multilingualism and the Institute of Romance Studies at Freie Universität Berlin.
Jan Fliessbach will give a talk on October 30, 2025 at 12:00 noon as part of the LingLunch series at the Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, Université Paris Cité, together with Lucia Tovena and Damien Fleury (both LLF/UPC): "How person and discourse role contribute to the interpretation of comment questions".
Our exhibition Inseln, Sprachen, Menschenmassen: Mallorca und Yucatán has moved! Until the end of the year, it can be visited at the Institute of Romance Studies at HU Berlin (Dorotheenstraße 65, 4th floor).
