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
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.
Lecture by Wojciech Lewandowski & Jan Fliessbach as part of the Linguistic Lectures Series:
"In Search of the Hidden Path: The Zero-Encoding Construction in Satellite-Framed English vs. Verb-Framed French", on Wednesday, May 28, 2025, Campus Am Neuen Palais, Building 12, Room 0.05.
The exhibition "Sprachen, Inseln, Menschenmassen: Mallorca und Yucatán" at the Volkshochschule Potsdam will be on display from May 10, 2025 at the Bildungsforum Potsdam, Am Kanal 47.