Prof. Dr. Melanie Uth

Main research interests 

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

Latest publications

• Cano, Iñaki; Auhagen, Patrick; Blestel, Élodie; Moreano, Santiago Sánchez & Uth, Melanie (2025). Variabilidad de los relativizadores de las oraciones hendidas de sujeto en cinco variedades del español. Semas, vol. 6, n. 11, 6-30. DOI: https://doi.org/10.61820/semas.2683-3301.v6n11.171
• Fliessbach, Jan; Martínez García, Nuria & Uth, Melanie  (2024c): The production of post-lexical prosodic prominence in Yucatec Maya and its perception by speakers of Yucatecan Spanish. In International Journal of American Linguistics, 90(2), 185–226.
• Uth, Melanie; Gutiérrez-Bravo, Rodrigo & Fliessbach, Jan (2024b). On the incompatibility of object fronting and progressive aspect in Yucatec Maya. In Frontiers in Language Sciences. 
• Uth, Melanie; Blestel, Élodie & Sánchez Moreano, Santiago (2024a). Labialización de las nasales finales: estudio comparativo en tres regiones de español americano. Forma y Función, 2024, 37 (1).

Current projects 

• Since 01/2026: (In)variable resumption in relative clauses: Spanish compared to other Romance languages: Sub-project in the CRC 1287 "Limits of variability in language," with Patrick Auhagen, Iñaki Cano and Jan Fliessbach.
• Since 06/2023: Red de Diversidad Lingüística en Colombia y Latinoamérica (ReDiLeC): Transatlantic exchange network of researchers on language diversity in Colombia.
• Since 09/2021: Lengua y Turismo:  cooperative project with Maria del Mar Vanrell Bosch and Mercè Picornel, Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB), Palma de Mallorca.