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.

Prof. Dr. Melanie Uth
Chair holder
Spanish and French Linguistics
Am Neuen Palais
Institut für Romanistik
Haus 19, Raum 4.13
14469 Potsdam
consulting hours
Fridays from 8:30 to 9:30 over Zoom.
For a time slot, please email Frau Voigt (beatrice.voigt@uni-potsdam.de).