Prof. Dr. Melanie Uth

Main research interests 

• Language contact and variation
• Language change
• Linguistic diversity and language preservation
• Language and tourism 

Latest publications

• Uth, Melanie & Patrick Auhagen (2022). Variation of Relative Complementizers in Yucatecan Spanish: A Comparison of Monolingual and Bilingual Speakers. Languages 7(4), 279. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7040279
• Uth, Melanie (2022). Labialization of word-final nasals in Yucatecan Spanish: Language contact, local identity, and prosodic prominence marking. Journal of Language Contact, 14(3), 646-683. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/19552629-14030004
• Uth, Melanie (2022). Aspekte der Diachronie. In Ralf Klabunde, Wiltrud Mihatsch & Stefanie Dipper (eds.), Linguistik im Sprachvergleich, 787–803. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
• Uth, Melanie & Eriko Yamasaki (2021). Pitfalls of WEIRD Ideologies in the Context of Language Maintenance: Individual Agency Versus Mayan Socialization Practices on the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. Journal of Postcolonial Linguistics (JOPOL) 6 (22).

Current projects 

• Since 10/2022: Limits of variability in Spanish relative complementation: Sub-project in the CRC 1287 "Limits of variability in language," with Patrick Auhagen and Iñaki Cano.