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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

Iñaki Cano in the Spanish regional press: Surveys for a study of the C09 have aroused great interest in Valladolid. The newspaper "El Norte de Castilla" reports on the project in this article.

"Wir sind Amazonien - Biologie trifft Kultur und Nachhaltigkeit 2024" - event organized by Bunte Brise e.V. in collaboration with the university of Heidelberg: On April 13, Ana María Reyes-Vujovic will be giving a lecture at this event with the title "Kulturelle und linguistische Diversität Kolumbiens im Amazonas Dreiländereck". Please see the leaflet for further information.

New publication by Jan Fliessbach, Nuria Martínez García and Melanie Uth: the article "The Production of Post-Lexical Prosodic Prominence in Yucatec Maya and its Perception by Speakers of Yucatecan Spanish", which you can already read online, will be published in the April issue of the "International Journal of American Linguistics".

New publication by Jan Fliessbach, Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Bravo and Melanie Uth in February: the article "On the incompatibility of object fronting and progressive aspect in Yucatec Maya"  was published in Frontiers in Language Sciences.