All events
06/12/2023
2:15 pm - 4:00 pm
online
Andrés Saab – tba
Talk by Andrés Saab (University of Buenos Aires)
06/19/2023
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm
tba
Elin McCready – tba
Talk by Elin McCready (Aoyama Gakuin Universität, Tokio)
07/17/2023
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
hybrid
Qiang Xia – Turn-taking in face-to-face and Zoom conversations.
Qiang Xia (MGK, C06)
past events
04/24/2023
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Mohrenstraße 40, room 415
Evidential Strategies in Ancient vs. Early Modern Medical Discourse
Talk by Prof. Dr. Theresa Roth (Historisch-Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft), Gohar Schnelle (B04)
04/03/2023
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Mohrenstraße 40, room 415, Berlin-Mitte
Poster session of the participants of the Berlin University Alliance X-Student Research Group ‘Berlin epitaphs as source for historical register research’
Poster Presentation
01/24/2023
4:15 pm - 5:45 pm
Dorotheenstr. 24, 10117 Berlin, Room 1.401
Explicit or redundant: The social meaning of multiple exponence
Talk by Manfred Sailer (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M.)
01/09/2023
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Mohrenstraße 40, room 415, Berlin-Mitte
Genres, registers and text functions
Talk by Dr. Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds)
12/07/2022
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Zoom
MGK mini course series 2022: Elin McCready
MGK mini course with Elin McCready (Aoyama Gakuin U, Tokyo/ZAS): December 7-9
11/30/2022
8:30 am - 10:00 am
Zoom
MGK mini course series: Jennifer Hay
Principal Components Analysis in the Study of Language Variation - A Practical Workshop
MGK mini course with the CRC Mercator fellow Jennifer Hay (U Canterbury): Nov 30th & Dec 1st
11/28/2022
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
ZAS
Flexible and Multiple Plural Marking in Language Contact and Creolization: Social and Situational Correlates
Workshop November 28/29 in Berlin
11/22/2022
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Mohrenstraße 40, room 415, Berlin-Mitte
MGK mini course series: Miriam Meyerhoff
Negotiating variation – Creativity, conflict and cross-linguistic perspectives
MGK mini course with the CRC Mercator fellow Miriam Meyerhoff (U Oxford): November 22, 23 & 25
11/21/2022
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm
Mohrenstraße 40, room 415, Berlin-Mitte
Attitudes to variation: verbal hygiene, aesthetics and action
Miriam Meyerhoff (Oxford U, Mercator fellow)
11/07/2022
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Mohrenstraße 40, room 415, Berlin-Mitte
Methodological issues in multi-dimensional analysis: Insights from a from-scratch MDA of Czech
Talk by David Lukeš (Charles University Prague)
10/27/2022
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Register in Ancient Languages (ReAL)
International and interdisciplinary workshop, 27-28 October 2022, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
10/10/2022
9:30 am - 3:30 pm
Mohrenstraße 40, room 415, Berlin-Mitte
MGK mini course series 2022: Scientific Writing with Shanley Allen
2-day training workshop with Shanley Allen: October 10-11
09/15/2022
9:00 am
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Dorotheenstraße 24, Room 3.134
Expressions of modality in Germanic: Competition and change
This workshop is concerned with (changes in) expressions of modality in the histories of the Germanic languages. To gain a better understanding of modal expressions in older Germanic languages, of how they compete and how they change, the workshop features corpus-based studies that are semasiological or onomasiological in nature, based on a single language or a comparison of two languages or more.
08/22/2022
12:00 am
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Application (CARLA 2022)
A07 is organizing a workshop on concepts, with a special session on concepts and registers.
“Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Application” (CARLA) is an
international workshop aimed at fostering interdisciplinary exchange about
research on concepts. It invites contributions from all fields related to
cognitive science, including (but not limited to) linguistics, artificial
intelligence, psychology, philosophy, logic, computer science.
08/18/2022
9:00 am - 6:00 pm
Dorotheenstr. 24, 10117 Berlin, Room 1.101/1.102/1.103
Two-day summer school with Prof. Asif Agha
Prof. Asif Agha (University of Pennsylvania), an expert in anthropological linguistics and register research will be visiting the CRC in August 2022. He will provide a two-day summer school on August 18-19, 2022.
08/08/2022
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Zoom
Benefits and Challenges of Parametric models of Context.
Rebekah Wegener (Universität Salzburg)
07/12/2022
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm
ZAS, Schützenstr. 18, 10117 Berlin,
Room 403, or online
Understanding political identity terms: a conceptual spaces approach
In the context of her visit to CRC 1412 'Register', Mercator fellow Heather Burnett (CNRS, Paris) will give a talk on some of her ongoing research.
If you want to participate online, please contact us for the zoom link.
07/11/2022
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Zoom
CRC fellows present their research projects (Zahra & Abishek)
Zahra Farokhnejad (A06, MGK) and Abishek Stephen (C04, MGK)
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07/04/2022
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Leibniz-ZAS
Linguistic SFB Meetup 2022
The linguistic CRCs are meeting again this year for a general exchange on July 4-5th
06/28/2022
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Wandlitz
Writing retreat for follow-up proposal
Retreat of the writing group
06/27/2022
11:00 am - 7:00 pm
Wandlitz
Writing retreat for follow-up proposal
Retreat of the writing group
06/20/2022
2:15 pm - 4:00 pm
tba
06/16/2022
12:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hybrid
Metaphors and stance markers in register variation (MeStaR)
How do metaphors and stance markers contribute to establishing and signalling specific registers?
06/13/2022
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Mohrenstraße 40/41 - Raum 415
06/07/2022
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Mohrenstraße 40/41
How do people interpret implausible sentences?
Prof. Martin Pickering (University of Edinburgh)
06/07/2022
9:30 am
Mohrenstraße, Berlin-Mitte (hybrid)
MGK/INF methods school 2022
Every few months MGK and INF offer method-related courses for PhD students, postdocs and student assistants – This summer: Jupyter Notebooks, Statistics, LaTeX II.
06/07/2022
12:09 am
Zoom
Register variation in probabilistic grammatical knowledge – A combination of corpus analysis and rating task experiments
An interesting talk in the scope of the MGK/INF methods school – Everyone is invited!
05/30/2022
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
tba
We don’t use that word – The Political Vocabulary of Muslim Feminists in Indonesia.
Saskia Schaefer (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
05/23/2022
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
tba
Modeling (im)precision in context.
Stephanie Solt & Roland Mühlenbernd (A05)
05/23/2022
12:00 pm - 12:00 am
MO 40, R 415
Register reading circle
Bell 1984: Language style as audience design
(Presenter: Silke Unverzagt)
05/16/2022
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Mohrenstraße 40/41 - Raum 415 + Zoom
Comm-sits and registers.
Heike Wiese (C07)
05/16/2022
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
MO 40, R. 415
Register reading circle
Clarke & Grieve 2017: Dimensions of Abusive Language on Twitter
(Presenter: Anna Marklová)
05/09/2022
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
MO 22, R. 415
Register reading circle
Gerlach 2018: Cluster analysis on personality type
(Presenter: Anna Marklová)
04/27/2022
1:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Festsaal Luisenstraße 56, 10117 Berlin
Spring Retreat 2022
27.04. - 29.04.2022
04/25/2022
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Zoom
Register reading circle
Gerlach 2018: Cluster analysis on personality type
(Presenter: Anna Marklová)
04/06/2022
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Zoom
Narration group
The narration circle meets once per month to discuss the world of narration in relation to register.
04/04/2022
12:00 pm - 12:00 am
Zoom
Register reading circle
Wegener 2011: Chapter 2 on context and situation modelling
(Presenter: Nico Lehmann)
03/28/2022
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Zoom
Register reading circle
Simon 2017: Connection between salient social relations in a community and formal realisations in language
(Presenter: Gohar Schnelle)
03/21/2022
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
tba
Register sensitivity of negation, polarity and modality in American and British English
Talk by project A07
03/21/2022
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Zoom
Register reading circle
Argamon 2019: Computational register analysis and synthesis
(Presenter: Anna Marklová)
03/14/2022
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
tba
Also sprach the Dodo Bird: Teaching in Kreol Morisien and Register Recruitment.
Dr. Nicholas Natchoo (Mauritius Institute of Education)
03/11/2022
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
zoom- LMU München, HU Berlin
Narration-Annotation
Workshop on aspects of narration we could operationalize in order to gain parameters for an annotation of narration
02/23/2022
1:45 pm
DGfS 2022, online
Workshop on “Narration in Context”
What is the status of narration in not literary texts and in the context of register? What are the linguistically relevant features of it? how can we operationalize them?
02/14/2022
2:15 pm
Zoom
“Speed Dating” – meeting of PIs for follow up proposal
Meeting for planning projects for the follow up proposal
02/08/2022
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Zoom
Coffee hour: Scientists with kids
Grab a cup of coffee and join us for a chat on zoom.
02/07/2022
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
tba
Vertextungsstrategien volkssprachlicher Fachtexte der Frühen Neuzeit
Mechthild Habermann
01/10/2022
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
tba
Real-time effects of register congruence on spoken and written language comprehension: Preliminary eye-tracking data.
Real-time effects of register congruence on spoken and written language comprehension: Preliminary eye-tracking data. - C03
01/03/2022
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Zoom
Register reading circle
Hasan 2014: Situational-contextual parameter model for register description
(Presenter: Gohar Schnelle)
12/06/2021
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
n.a.
Meeting of the ‘social meaning group’ (internal)
Internal group meeting "social meaning"
11/29/2021
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Zoom
The phonetic realisation of verbal inflection in two dialogue registers of German spontaneous speech
The phonetic realisation of verbal inflection in two dialogue registers of German spontaneous speech.
11/19/2021
12:00 am - 11:00 pm
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Workshop: Complexity and register (CAR21)
What is the exact theoretical relationship is between register and the individual facets of complexity? How do the situation’s communicative needs affect complexity measures?
10/04/2021
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Zoom & R. 1.102
Neumann & Evert (Forthcoming)
Neumann & Evert (Forthcoming)
09/27/2021
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Zoom & R. 1.102
Neumann & Evert (Forthcoming)
Neumann & Evert (Forthcoming)
07/26/2021
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Zoom
Enregisterment in historical contexts: nineteenth-century Yorkshire dialect.
Paul Cooper (University of Liverpool)
preliminary
06/28/2021
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Zoom
Negation, negative polarity, and microvariation: two case studies.
Laurence R. Horn
06/14/2021
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Zoom
Register dependent variation. Instructions in Notker’s Psalterium and the Revelations of St. Birgitta
Silke Unverzagt & Phil Beier (B04)
preliminary
06/07/2021
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Zoom
An Integrative Approach to Linguistic Complexity Analysis for German
Zarah Weiss (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)
preliminary
05/31/2021
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Zoom
Russian everyday speech: Dialogue and monologue in corpus representation
Natalia Bogdanova-Belgrian & Tatjana Sherstinova & Olga Blinova (Saint-Petersburg State University)
preliminary
05/19/2021
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Zoom
Narration Circle Meeting
The world of narration in relation to register
05/10/2021
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Zoom
Understanding complex repertoires in situations of language contact: an application of the Comparative Variationist method.
Sally Dixon (University of New England, Australia)
preliminary
05/03/2021
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Zoom
Language variation and change – computational models of variety formation
Elke Teich (Universität des Saarlandes)
preliminary
04/26/2021
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Zoom
Storytelling from a narratives-as-practices perspective
Anna de Fina (Georgetown University)
preliminary
04/26/2021
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Zoom
Zeman 2018
What is a Narration – and why does it matter?
cancelled
04/12/2021
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Zoom
Hearing register variation: Sonification as an alternative to factor analysis
Roman Pfeifer (Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen) & A06
preliminary
04/12/2021
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Zoom
Raumolin-Brumberg & Nevalainen 2003
Raumolin-Brumberg & Nevalainen 2003
03/29/2021
2:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Zoom
preliminary
03/25/2021
12:00 pm
Zoom
Registerforschung und sprachlicher Habitus
Talk at the online workshop 'Bourdieu in der Germanistik', universities of Oldenburg und Osnabrück
03/18/2021
2:00 pm
Zoom
Register dependent variation. Instructions in Notker’s Psalterium and the Revelations of St. Birgitta
Register dependent variation. Instructions in Notker’s Psalterium and the Revelations of St. Birgitta
02/22/2021
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Zoom
preliminary
02/15/2021
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Zoom
Kunz & Lapshinova-Koltunski 2015
Kunz & Lapshinova-Koltunski 2015
01/12/2021
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
Zoom
Coffee hour for scientists with kids
Coffee hour: Scientists with kids
01/11/2021
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Zoom
Eckert 2012
Three Waves of Variation Study: The Emergence of Meaning in the Study of Sociolinguistic Variation
12/07/2020
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Zoom
Weiss & Meurer 2019
Analyzing Linguistic Complexity and Accuracy in Academic Language Development of German across Elementary and Secondary School
11/30/2020
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Zoom
A hierarchical game-theoretic model of social oppression by slurring
Mihaela Popa-Wyatt
(ZAS, associated to A05)
preliminary
11/23/2020
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Zoom
11/18/2020
1:00 pm
Zoom
Mehrsprachigkeit und Sprachvariation: Diversität als Normalfall
Mehrsprachigkeit und Sprachvariation: Diversität als Normalfall
11/16/2020
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Zoom
Levschina 2015 Chapter 18: Multidimensional analysis
How to do linguistics with R
11/05/2020
12:00 pm
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Sprache ist bunt: Sprachvielfalt, Dialekte und Mehrsprachigkeit
Sprache ist bunt: Sprachvielfalt, Dialekte und Mehrsprachigkeit
10/26/2020
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Zoom
A register variation perspective on varieties of English
Stella Neumann RWTH Aachen University
preliminary
10/12/2020
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Zoom
Phenomenological Anachronism and the Enregistrement of the Crusade Metaphor in ISIS Propaganda
Tyler Kibbey (A01)
10/05/2020
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Zoom
09/28/2020
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Zoom
Identification of early Old High German registers by lexical features
Gohar Schnelle (B04)
preliminary
08/24/2020
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Zoom
07/20/2020
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Zoom
Ravid & Tolchinsky
Developing linguistic literacy: a comprehensive model
05/25/2020
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Zoom
Labov 2004 continued
Quantitative Analysis of Linguistic Variation
04/20/2020
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Zoom
Neumann 2014 “Chapter 2: State of the Art”
Nico & Gohar
Neumann 2014 "Chapter 2: State of the Art"
03/16/2020
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
DOR24, R. 3.308
Neumann 2013 “Chapter 1: Introduction”
Nico & Gohar
cancelled