Guest Lectures (Archive)
Wintersemester 2025/26
Lecture Series "Authenticity in language", organised by the SVM in cooperation with the Department of Romance Studies at FU Berlin
- 11/05/2025: Jakob Leimgruber (Universität Regensburg) ‘A true blue Singaporean who speaks Singlish’: Indices of authenticity, abstract
- 11/19/2025: Simon Lübke (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) An indefinable standard of realness? The role and impact of authenticity in politics, abstract
- 12/03/2025: cancelled! Marta Lupica Spagnolo (Universität Potsdam) Negotiating ‘authenticity’ in Italian in transit practices in Berlin, abstract
- 12/17/2025: Cameron Jones (Stony Brook University) Large language models, humanlikeness, and authenticity, abstract
- 01/07/2026: Britta Schneider (Europa Universität-Viadrina) Authenticity beyond nations – Understanding constructions of authenticity in transnational communities and in digital infrastructures, abstract
- 01/21/2026: Christine Dimroth (Universität Münster) L2-varieties at work: Attitudes and interaction in a multilingual nursing team on a hospital ward, abstract
- 02/04/2026: Agurtzane Elorduy Urkiza (Universidad del País Vasco) Authenticity : A double-edged sword, abstract
Summer term 2025
Lecture Series of the SVM
- 04/16/2025: Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute) "Against grammatical categories (and what to replace them with)", abstract
- 04/23/2025: cancelled! Aleksandrs Berdicevskis (Universität Gothenbuurg) “Language variation and change at the group level and the individual level”
- 05/05/2025:Nina Dobrushina (CNRS DDL Lyon) “Discourse phenomena channel diffusion of grammatical phenomena: the case of wishes and optatives”, abstract
- 05/14/2025: Andrey Shluinsky (Humboldt Universität Berlin) “Wordhood in prefixing languages: Evidence from Ghana-Togo Mountain”, abstract
- 05/28/2025: Wojciech Lewandowski (Universität Potsdam) & Jan Fliessbach (Universität Potsdam) “In Search of the Hidden Path: The Zero-Encoding Construction in Satellite-Framed English vs. Verb-Framed French”, abstract
- 06/25/2025: Heike Wiese (Humboldt University Berlin) "Are languages real?Communicative situations, grammatical systems, and ethnolinguistic constructions", abstract
- 07/09/2025: rescheduled; now taking place on 07/07/2025! Constanze Weth (University of Luxembourg) “Form-function relations in learning to spell in several languages: German, French, Luxembourgish, and Portuguese in contact", abstract
- 07/16/2025: Lucas Deutzmann (University of Potsdam) “From Writing Task to Evaluation – The Digital Collection and Processing of a Corpus of Student Texts Using Gorilla.Sc”, abstract
Winterterm 2024/25
Lecture Series of the SVM
- 10/16/2024: John Mansfield (Universität Zürich) "Ancient ontologies: Comparing noun classes within and between regions", abstract
- 10/23/2024: Luigi Andriani (Universität Hamburg) "At the border between hypotaxis and parataxis: evidence from Apulian aspectual periphrases", abstract (139 KB)
- 11/06/2024: Kaius Sinnemäki (University of Helsinki) "A typological approach to language change in contact ecologies", abstract
- 11/20/2024: Łukasz Jędrzejowski (Universität Agder) "Getting into the right mood in concessive clauses. A cross-linguistic diachronic perspective", abstract
- 01/29/2025: Kateryna Iefremenko (Universität Potsdam) "Understanding Heritage Speakers’ Languages: The Role of Cross-Linguistic Influence, Internal Dynamics, and Register", abstract
- 02/12/2025: Ifeoluwa Abidoye (Universität Potsdam) “Phraseological patterns of verbs in Nigerian Englishes”, abstract
Summer term 2024
Lecture Series of the SVM
- 04/24/2024: Christoph Schroeder (Universität Potsdam) und Kateryna Iefremenko (Universität Potsdam) "Clause combining in narrative discourse. A comparative approach", abstract
- 05/15/2024: Andreas Hölzl (Universität Potsdam) "The architecture of interrogative systems", abstract
- 05/29/2024: Malte Rosemeyer (Freie Universität Berlin) "Data-driven identification of situated meanings in corpus data using Latent Class Analysis", abstract
- 06/12/2024: Ana María Reyes (Universität Potsdam) "Einige universelle Prämissen über Vokative und ihre Anwendbarkeit auf die Untersuchung von Sprachen im Kontakt", abstract
- 06/26/2024: Eugenio Goria (Universität Turin) "The Kiparla corpus of spoken Italian: a focus on plurilingualism in mobile communities", abstract (130 KB)
- 07/10/2024: Markus Reichert (Universität Potsdam) “Räumliche Muster von biologischer und linguistischer Diversität”, abstract (100 KB)
Winter term 2023/24
Lecture Series of the SVM
- 11/01/2023: Annette Gerstenberg (Universität Potsdam) "LangAge Corpora: A Longitudinal Approach to Linguistic Aging", abstract
- 11/15/2023: Nanna Fuhrhop (Universität Potsdam) "Neues aus der vergleichenden Graphematik", abstract
- 11/21/2023: Şeyda Özçalışkan (Georgia State University) "Is seeing gesture necessary for the (timely) acquisition of language-specific patterns in co-speech gesture and their lack in silent gesture?", abstract
- 11/29/2023: Barthe Bloom (Universität Potsdam) & Ulrike Demske (Universität Potsdam) "Integration, resumption, and adjunction: The relation between Early New High German preposed adverbial clauses and their host", abstract
- 12/13/2023: Patrick Auhagen (Universität Potsdam), Iñaki Cano (Universität Potsdam) & Melanie Uth (Universität Potsdam) "Grenzen der Variabilität bei spanischen Relativsatzkomplementierern", abstract
- 12/13/2023: Aaron Schmidt-Riese (Universität Potsdam) & Martin Pfeiffer (Universität Potsdam) "Dialekt-Standard-Variabilität in der frühen Kindheit: Eine längsschnittliche Korpusstudie zur phonologischen Entwicklung", abstract
- 02/07/2024: Claudia Lehmann (Universität Potsdam) "Multimodal constructions in production, perception and language learning: The case of Tell me about it", abstract
Summer term 2023
Lecture Series of the SVM
- 05/31/2023: Ana María Reyes-Vujović (Universität Potsdam) - "Das Tikuna und der linguistische Kontakt zum Spanischen, abstract
- 06/07/2023: Wojciech Lewandowski (Universität Potsdam) - "Spatial events in native and second language production contexts", abstract
- 06/09/2023: Nina Reuther (Unabhängige Wissenschaftlerin) - “Sprache als Spiegel des Betrachtens der (Um)Welt”, (The event was an interactive seminar organized by the Chair of Spanish and French Linguistics.)
Winter term 2022/23
Lecture Series of the SVM
- 11/16/2022: Taiane Malabarba (Universität Potsdam) - "'How is life treating you': A longitudinal study of openings in transmodal chat interactions of multilingual tandem partners", abstract
- 11/23/2022: Ilja Seržant (Universität Potsdam) - "Diachronic tendencies in argument flagging patterns of Slavic"
- 11/30/2022: Zi Wang (French Research Institute on East Asia (IFRAE), Paris-Frankreich) - "East asian migration communities in Germany: Question of language, wellbeing, and the role of heritage educational organisations", abstract
- 01/25/2023: Jan Fliessbach & Johanna Rockstroh (Universität Potsdam) - "Tu sais quoi? Qu’est-ce que tu racontes! Qu’est-ce que tu as? Verb induced object placement patterns in French partial interrogatives", abstract
Summer term 2021
Lecture Series of the SVM
- 06/02/2021: (Online) Heiko F. Marten (Leiter des Informationszentrums des DAAD in Riga, Lettland) - "Spot German" im Baltikum: Deutsch als 'Ergänzungssprache der Gesellschaft' im 'äußeren Kreis' seiner internationalen Stellung
- 07/07/2021: (Online) Jana Roos (Universität Potsdam) & Howard Nicholas (La Trobe University, Australien) - Ways of working with linguistic landscapes in primary and secondary EFL classrooms
- 07/14/2021: (Online) Jannis Androutsopoulos (Universität Hamburg) - Die Sprachlandschaft der Pandemie: Diskurstypen und semiotischer Wandel am Beispiel von Hamburg
Winter term 2020/21
Lecture Series of the SVM
- 11/25/2020: Marietta Calderón Tichy (Universität Salzburg) - Linguistic Landscaping: Forschungsüberblick und -potenzial
- 12/09/2020: Marion Schulte (Universität Bielefeld) - Language Choice in Multilingual Communities – Linguistic Landscaping and Linguistic Ethnography in Dublin
- 12/16/2020: Diren Yapar - Linguistic Landscapes: Visuelle Mehrsprachigkeit in urbanen Städten (Istanbul; Berlin) – Eine Einführung mit Daten-Session
- 01/13/2021: Darian Gerstenberger - Die Linguistic Landscape von Berlin. Eine Studie zur Repräsentation von Sprachen in ausgewählten urbanen Räumen mit besonderer Beobachtung des Türkischen.
- 02/03/2021: Neele-Frederike Mundt (Universität Koblenz-Landau) - How Corona changed the Linguistic Landscape: Towards a cognitive-linguistic classification of Corona-related signs