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Our own Prof. Theo Marinis gave a talk today at the European Parliament on "Developmental Language Disorder in Multilingual Contexts" as part of an event on DLD awareness for #DLDday - helping to demystify this oft-misunderstood condition. #Konstanz #UniKonstanz #linguistics #linguistik
October 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Sprechen Sie Bridge?

In einem kurzweiligen Beitrag berichtet Prof. Dr. Nicole Dehé - Sprachwissenschaftlerin und leidenschaftliche Bridge-Spielerin - über die Sprache des königlichen Kartenspiels. (1/2) #UniKonstanz #linguistik #linguistics #bridge
October 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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The Konstanz Linguistics Conference 2025 (KLC25) is an early-career research conference taking place at the University of Konstanz, starting tomorrow (Thur 9th Oct). The event provides a platform for early-career researchers to share their research and engage in discussions across subfields. (1/3)
October 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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💬 Charlotte Englert, Marc Meisezahl, Marit Westergaard and Tanja Kupisch presented a poster titled 'V2 transfer in ab-initio L3 acquisition' at the L3 Workshop 2025 (October 3rd - 4th) in Madrid. (7/7)
October 6, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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💬 On October 3rd, Marieke Einfeldt gave an invited talk at the T-GRA2L workshop on questions in Siena. The talk was entitled 'Prosodic cues in German rhetorical and information-seeking questions: Are they the same in perception and production?' and presents joint work with various colleagues. (6/7)
October 6, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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💬 Chiara Riegger also gave a talk at the Phonetics/Phonology Workshop at the University of Edinburgh on October 3rd titled 'The prosody of silent pronouns'. (5/7)
October 6, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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💬 Chiara Riegger gave a talk on October 1st, at the Angush McIntosh Centre (AMC) Catchup Session at the University of Edinburgh, titled 'The only thing that’s left is the manuscript: What editions can’t tell us'. (4/7)
October 6, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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💬 Our own MA student Miray Gökkaya (Online) also presented at SALA on the topic of 'Null Elements in Mewati'. (3/7)
October 6, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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💬 Miriam Butt gave a plenary talk on 'The Dative-Ergative Connection' at this year’s South Asian Languages Analysis (SALA) Round Table 39 in Poznań (September 29th - October 1st). (2/7)
October 6, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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The first week of October has been a busy one for Konstanz linguists! #Konstanz #linguistics #linguistik (1/7)
October 6, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Need more Romance in your life?From September 22nd-25th, the 39th Congress of the German Society for Romance Studies will take place at our university. (1/)
September 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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We congratulate Prof. Tamara Rathcke, who has won a competitive WAIS fellowship at the University of Waseda (Tokyo, Japan) for March 2026. Tamara will teach seminars, give lectures and start a new project on rhythm in Japanese and Korean with Dr Clemens Poppe.

#UniKonstanz #linguistics #linguistik
Tamara in front of the university
September 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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💬 Gemma McCarley & George Walkden, 'The intersection of register and complexity: Subject pronoun expression in Singapore English'

💬 Gemma McCarley & Sali Tagliamonte, 'Pathways of specialization in semantic change: English adverbs of approximation'

(3/3) #UniKonstanz #linguistics #linguistik
September 1, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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💬 Marc Meisezahl & George Walkden, 'The emergence of English –ing-complements as result of broader syntactic changes'

💬 Marc Meisezahl, 'The acquisition of –ing-complements in British and American children'

(2/3) #unikonstanz #linguistics #linguistik
September 1, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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The International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) 8 conference is taking place this week in Santiago de Compostela. Current and former Konstanz linguists Marc Meisezahl, Gemma McCarley and George Walkden made the pilgrimage. Here are their talks! (1/3)
September 1, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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🙌Deutsche MuttersprachlerInnen gesucht!🙌

Ist Deutsch Deine Muttersprache? Dann mach mit bei unserem Experiment!
ℹ️Was wird gemacht: Sprachaufnahme von deutschen Sätzen (bringe gerne Deine Wasserflasche mit!)
🕰Dauer: 20 Min. (einmalig)
🎙Wo: Phonlab G103, Uni Konstanz
💰Aufwandsentschädigung: 4€ (1/2)
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August 6, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Happy Term Break ☀️
We are offline and won’t be replying to direct messages until October.
This is also my last post as social media assistant to the department. Thank you for your continued support over the past three terms! ❤️
Enjoy the summer 🌊⛱️

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July 31, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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We welcome our new ZUKOnnect Fellows, Masoumeh Zarei from Iran and Anushree Mishra from India! They will join the Zukunftskolleg on 1 August virtually for one year and visit campus for 3 to 4 months in autumn 2025.

more: www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

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July 30, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Congratulations to Sara Cavaglià and Massimiliano Canzi who won the Chessable Research Award for their project titled „Synchronicity in Gaze, Pupil Dilation and Heart Rate During Blitz Chess“!
More about the award: www.chessable.com/blog/announc...

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July 29, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Our SHE-3 students from “English around the world” created these two memes in the last class of the semester 😂
Are you wondering whether you should study linguistics our university? Do it, we’re fun!
Sign up for our B.A. until 15th Sep.
#KonstanzLingMemeMonday #unikonstanz #linguistics #linguistik
July 28, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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I know it‘s been a while since we‘ve had a #KonstanzLingMemeMonday, but I can’t keep these fabulous memes from you any longer! All of them were created by students from our department.

Which area of linguistics do you think little Simba should avoid?
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July 28, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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On July 29th, Regine Eckardt will deliver the Dick Oehrle Lecture, as part of ESSLLI 2025 in Bochum. Her presentation „What Metaphors and Axiomatic Theories (might) have in common“ proposes a novel formal analysis of metaphorical language use.
July 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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This week, the 30th conference on Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) took part in Barcelona, Spain ☀️
Members of our department contributed three talks and a workshop.
More about the conference: eventum.upf.edu/128654/secti...
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#unikonstanz #linguistics #linguistik #FachbereichLinguistik
July 25, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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We have two new publications by members of the department this July ☀️ Both are available online, see images attached.

Are you working on a term paper? The university library has stocked up on new linguistic publications, by us and by other scholars. It’s worth a visit!
#linguistics #linguistik
July 25, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Regine Eckardt will take part in the workshop “Fragen in der Krise”, part of the meeting of the IGV (Internationale Germanistenvereinigung Graz), on July 22. Her talk is on „Rhetorische Fragen als Rechtfertigungen“ (Rhet. Questions as Justifications)

#unikonstanz #linguistik #FachbereichLinguistik
July 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM