Colloquium
The Register Colloquium will take place every Monday from 2-4pm. In the colloquium, invited external guests will give talks on the topic of “Registers” and SFB-internal lectures will give opportunities to present and discuss undertakings from individual projects.
04/29/2024
2:15 pm
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3:45 pm
Mohrenstraße 40/41, R. 415 + Zoom
Kateryna Iefremenko (C03) – Register Levelling in Turkish Bilinguals: Heritage vs. Majority Contexts
Colloquium talk by Kateryna Iefremenko (C03)
05/06/2024
2:15 pm
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3:45 pm
Raum 415, Hausvogteiplatz
Jeff Good – The social meanings of language choice in small-scale multilingual settings
Colloquium talk by Prof. Jeff Good (University at Buffalo)
05/13/2024
2:15 pm
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3:45 pm
Raum 415, Hausvogteiplatz
Peter Sutton (UPF Barcelona) – tba
Colloquium talk by Peter Sutton (UPF Barcelona)
06/17/2024
2:15 pm
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3:45 pm
Mohrenstraße 40/41, R. 415 + Zoom
Ming Xiang – Reducing uncertainty in contact-induced linguistic change
Colloquium talk by Prof. Ming Xiang (University of Chicago)
07/01/2024
2:15 pm
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3:45 pm
tba
Heiko Marten (Tallinn University) – tba
Colloquium talk by Heiko Martin (Tallinn University)
11/04/2024
2:15 pm
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3:45 pm
tba
Prof. Cornelia Ebert (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) & Prof. Markus Steinbach (Universität Göttingen) – tba
Colloquium talk by Prof. Cornelia Ebert (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) & Prof. Markus Steinbach (Universität Göttingen)
past events
04/22/2024
2:15 pm
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3:45 pm
hybrid
A register perspective on modal (non-)concord
Mingya Liu & Stephanie Rotter (A07)
04/15/2024
2:15 pm
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3:45 pm
hybrid
A05 & C03: “Quantifying a register-quantification measure (SOLT) via human formality ratings.”
Colloquium talk by A05 & C03
02/05/2024
2:15 pm
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3:45 pm
Zoom
Kohei Haneda (MGK) – Processing Social Hierarchies: An Eye-tracking Study of Japanese Honorific Agreement
Colloquium talk by Kohei Haneda (MGK)
01/29/2024
2:15 pm
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3:45 pm
Raum 415, Hausvogteiplatz
Pia Knoeferle (C03) – Register and language comprehension.
Colloquium talk by Pia Knoeferle (C03)
01/08/2024
2:15 pm
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3:45 pm
Mohrenstraße 40/41, Raum 415
Tunomukuno Namutenya (Stellenbosch University) – Cross-linguistic influence between Oshindonga and English: A corpus driven study of Namibia’s senior primary school learners’ written work
Colloquium talk by Tunomukuno Namutenya (Stellenbosch University)
12/18/2023
4:15 pm
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5:45 pm
Mohrenstraße 40/41, Raum 415
Petra Wagner – “Effects of time pressure and spontaneity on phonotactic innovations in German dialogues”
Colloquium talk by Petra Wagner (Universität Bielefeld)
12/11/2023
2:15 pm
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3:45 pm
tba
Angelina Ionnidou-Tsiomou (MGK) – “Music as social context – effects on language comprehension”
Colloquium talk by Angelina Ionnidou-Tsiomou (MGK)
11/27/2023
2:00 pm
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4:00 pm
Mohrenstraße 40/41, R. 415 + Zoom
Yaron Matras – “Angloromani: Mixed Language or Register?”
Prof. Yaron Matras (Honorary Professor, Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics)
11/20/2023
2:00 pm
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4:00 pm
Mohrenstraße 40/41, R. 415 + Zoom
Heather Burnett – “Analyzing Linguistic Variation Using Discursive Worlds”
Colloquium talk by Heather Burnett (CNRS et Université Paris Cité)
11/13/2023
2:00 pm
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4:00 pm
Zoom
Jocelyn Aznar – “The unexpected relationship between direct speech and singing: from a descriptive perspective to a cross-linguistic exploration.”
Colloquium talk by Jocelyn Aznar (A02)
07/17/2023
2:00 pm
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4:00 pm
hybrid
Qiang Xia – Turn-taking in face-to-face and Zoom conversations.
Qiang Xia (MGK, C06)
06/19/2023
2:15 pm
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3:45 pm
tba
Elin McCready – Varieties of Register
Talk by Elin McCready (Aoyama Gakuin Universität, Tokio)
06/12/2023
2:15 pm
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4:00 pm
online
Andrés Saab – Honoring and insulting in the syntax and beyond
Talk by Andrés Saab (University of Buenos Aires)
04/24/2023
2:00 pm
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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
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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
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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
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3:30 pm
Mohrenstraße 40, room 415, Berlin-Mitte
Genres, registers and text functions
Talk by Dr. Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds)
11/21/2022
2:15 pm
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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
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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)
08/08/2022
2:00 pm
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4:00 pm
Zoom
Benefits and Challenges of Parametric models of Context.
Rebekah Wegener (Universität Salzburg)
07/11/2022
2:00 pm
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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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06/20/2022
2:15 pm
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4:00 pm
tba
06/13/2022
2:00 pm
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4:00 pm
Mohrenstraße 40/41 - Raum 415
06/07/2022
12:00 pm
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2:00 pm
Mohrenstraße 40/41
How do people interpret implausible sentences?
Prof. Martin Pickering (University of Edinburgh)
05/30/2022
2:00 pm
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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
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4:00 pm
tba
Modeling (im)precision in context.
Stephanie Solt & Roland Mühlenbernd (A05)
05/16/2022
2:00 pm
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4:00 pm
Mohrenstraße 40/41 - Raum 415 + Zoom
Comm-sits and registers.
Heike Wiese (C07)
03/21/2022
2:00 pm
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4:00 pm
tba
Register sensitivity of negation, polarity and modality in American and British English
Talk by project A07
03/14/2022
2:00 pm
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4:00 pm
tba
Also sprach the Dodo Bird: Teaching in Kreol Morisien and Register Recruitment.
Dr. Nicholas Natchoo (Mauritius Institute of Education)
02/07/2022
2:00 pm
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4:00 pm
tba
Vertextungsstrategien volkssprachlicher Fachtexte der Frühen Neuzeit
Mechthild Habermann
01/10/2022
2:00 pm
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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
11/29/2021
2:00 pm
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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.
07/26/2021
2:00 pm
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4:00 pm
Zoom
Enregisterment in historical contexts: nineteenth-century Yorkshire dialect.
Paul Cooper (University of Liverpool)
preliminary
06/28/2021
2:00 pm
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4:00 pm
Zoom
Negation, negative polarity, and microvariation: two case studies.
Laurence R. Horn
06/14/2021
2:00 pm
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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
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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
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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
05/10/2021
10:00 am
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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
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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
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4:00 pm
Zoom
Storytelling from a narratives-as-practices perspective
Anna de Fina (Georgetown University)
preliminary
04/12/2021
2:00 pm
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4:00 pm
Zoom
Hearing register variation: Sonification as an alternative to factor analysis
Roman Pfeifer (Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen) & A06
preliminary
03/29/2021
2:00 pm
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2:00 pm
Zoom
preliminary
02/22/2021
2:00 pm
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3:00 pm
Zoom
preliminary
11/30/2020
2:00 pm
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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
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3:00 pm
Zoom
10/26/2020
2:00 pm
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3:00 pm
Zoom
A register variation perspective on varieties of English
Stella Neumann RWTH Aachen University
preliminary
10/12/2020
2:00 pm
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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
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3:00 pm
Zoom
09/28/2020
2:00 pm
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3:00 pm
Zoom
Identification of early Old High German registers by lexical features
Gohar Schnelle (B04)
preliminary
08/24/2020
2:00 pm
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3:00 pm
Zoom