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.
07/13/2026
2:15 pm
Raum 415, Hausvogteiplatz
Vitor Nóbrega (USP, São Paulo) – tba
Colloquium talk by Vitor Nóbrega (USP, São Paulo)
09/14/2026
2:15 pm
Raum 415, Hausvogteiplatz
Talk by Stephanie Rotter (A07) + Giuseppe Varaschin (A04)
Talk by Stephanie Rotter (A07) + Giuseppe Varaschin (A04) - Treasure Trove Report
past events
04/27/2026
2:15 pm
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3:45 pm
Raum 415, Hausvogteiplatz
Mingya Liu (A07) – “Expressive classifiers in Mandarin Chinese”
Colloquium talk by Mingya Liu (A07)
01/12/2026
2:15 pm
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3:45 pm
Raum 415, Hausvogteiplatz
Achim Rabus (Uni Freiburg) – “Macro meets micro. Clustering and feature-based analysis in research on language variation.”
Colloquium talk by Achim Rabus (Uni Freiburg)
12/01/2025
2:15 pm
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3:45 pm
Raum 415, Hausvogteiplatz
Carlos Muñoz Pérez (Universidad Austral de Chile) – “Expressivity (or lack thereof) in Chilean Spanish personal articles.”
Colloquium talk by Carlos Muñoz Pérez
11/24/2025
2:15 pm
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3:45 pm
Raum 415, Hausvogteiplatz + Zoom
Camilla Di-Biase Dyson (Macquarie University Sydney) – “The impact of register on figurative language: some corpus-based studies of ancient Egyptian material.”
Colloquium talk by Camilla Di-Biase Dyson
11/03/2025
12:00 am
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5:45 pm
Dorotheenstraße 24, R. 3.138
Talk O. Cepraga, „Evidential and Epistemic Nuances in Ancient Greek Perception Verb Complements”
Talk by Ottavia Cepraga (Siena) on the results of her dissertation "Evidential and Epistemic Nuances in Ancient Greek Perception Verb Complements"
07/14/2025
2:15 pm
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3:45 pm
Raum 415, Hausvogteiplatz
Jaime Hunt (University of Newcastle, Australia) – “Changing voices in Newcastle and the Hunter: Language ideologies, utility, and attitudes in an Australian German-speaking community”
Colloquium talk by Jaime Hunt (University of Newcastle, Australia)
07/07/2025
2:15 pm
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3:45 pm
Raum 415, Hausvogteiplatz + Zoom
Andrés Napurí – “On the Interplay between Register and Sociolect: Possession in Amazonian and Canarian Spanish”
Colloquium talk by Andrés Napurí
06/23/2025
2:15 pm
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3:45 pm
Raum 415, Hausvogteiplatz + Zoom
Matthew Husband (University of Oxford) – “Bridging computational and algorithmic levels of explanation in word predictability”
Colloquium talk by Matthew Husband (University of Oxford)
06/16/2025
2:15 pm
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3:45 pm
Raum 415, Hausvogteiplatz
Birgit Herbers (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) – “Hapax legomena. Bedeutungen und Funktionen in der Literatur des Mittelalters”
Colloquium talk by Birgit Herbers (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
04/07/2025
2:15 pm
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3:45 pm
Raum 415, Hausvogteiplatz
Jeanine Treffers-Daller (University of Reading) – Ways forward in the study of translanguaging.
Colloquium talk by Jeanine Treffers-Daller (University of Reading)
02/24/2025
2:15 pm
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3:45 pm
Raum 415, Hausvogteiplatz + Zoom
Rachel Ostrand (IBM Research, New York) – Linguistic alignment: What is it good for?
Colloquium talk by Rachel Ostrand (IBM Research, New York)
02/03/2025
2:15 pm
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3:45 pm
Raum 415, Hausvogteiplatz
Elsi Kaiser (University of Southern California) – “Perspective-taking and subjective attitudes: On the importance of linguistic and extra-linguistic context”
Colloquium talk by Elsi Kaiser (University of Southern California)
Abstract below
11/18/2024
2:15 pm
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3:45 pm
Raum 415, Hausvogteiplatz
Sonja Zeman (Universität Augsburg) – Mündlichkeit – Dialogizität – Narrativität. Zur Messbarkeit von Textparametern im Sprachwandel.
Colloquium talk by Sonja Zeman (Universität Augsburg)
11/04/2024
2:15 pm
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3:45 pm
Raum 415, Hausvogteiplatz
Prof. Cornelia Ebert (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) & Prof. Markus Steinbach (Universität Göttingen) – A cross-modal semantic analysis of ideophones in spoken languages and idiomatic signs in sign languages.
Colloquium talk by Prof. Cornelia Ebert (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) & Prof. Markus Steinbach (Universität Göttingen)
10/21/2024
2:15 pm
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3:45 pm
Raum 415, Hausvogteiplatz
Benjamin K. Bergen (University of California, San Diego) – Towards multilingual and linguistically diverse Large Language Models
Colloquium talk by Benjamin K. Bergen (University of California, San Diego)
09/30/2024
2:15 pm
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3:45 pm
Raum 415, Hausvogteiplatz
Nico Lehmann (A06) – Classifying communicative situations and assessing formality
Colloquium talk by Nico Lehmann (A06)
07/01/2024
2:15 pm
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3:45 pm
Raum 415, Hausvogteiplatz
Heiko Marten (Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim) – Theoretische Grundlagen und Einordnung wichtiger Regelungen und Praktiken in Deutschland, Australien, Namibia und Singapur
Colloquium talk by Heiko Martin (Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim)
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)
05/13/2024
2:15 pm
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3:45 pm
Raum 415, Hausvogteiplatz
Peter Sutton (UPF Barcelona) – Polysemy and copredication: implications for compositional and lexical semantics
Colloquium talk by Peter Sutton (UPF Barcelona)
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)
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)
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