Workshops
09/28/2023
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Mohrenstraße 40, room 415, Berlin-Mitte
Career strategies for the non-academic job market – Part 1 (MGK Dissertation & Career Series)
In this two-part workshop, doctoral candidates explore career options outside of academia.
The workshop leader is Dr. Ulrike Schneeberg (Berlin)
Web: https://deinemonster.de/
10/05/2023
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Mohrenstraße 40, room 415, Berlin-Mitte
Building Your Profile & Writing a Great Application (MGK Dissertation & Career Series)
Through a series of hands-on activities, participants will explore tools to help them clearly identify their skills and experience, build a personal profile, explore which career paths best fit their needs and strengths, and create effective application documents.
The workshop leader is Amanda Wichert (WITOS, Berlin)
Web: http://www.witos-berlin.de/witos-profile/amanda-wichert/
10/19/2023
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Mohrenstraße 40, room 415, Berlin-Mitte
Career strategies for the non-academic job market – Part 2 (MGK Dissertation & Career Series)
In this two-part workshop, doctoral candidates explore career options outside of academia.
The workshop leader is Dr. Ulrike Schneeberg (Berlin)
Web: https://deinemonster.de/
10/23/2023
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Mohrenstraße 40, room 415, Berlin-Mitte
Group Coaching Session (MGK Dissertation & Career Series)
A few weeks after the workshop "Building Your Profile & Writing a Great Application" the participants review selected CVs together to provide some structured feedback and make space for questions.
The workshop leader is Amanda Wichert (WITOS, Berlin)
Web: http://www.witos-berlin.de/witos-profile/amanda-wichert/
11/14/2023
12:00 am
Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin, Germany
Social Meaning Berlin 2023,
The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers from very diverse disciplines to discuss our common interests around the topic of social meaning. What can we learn from one another? What questions do we have in common? And where do our interests, assumptions and goals diverge?
past events
09/07/2023
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Mohrenstraße 40, room 415, Berlin-Mitte
Revising and Finishing your Dissertation (MGK Dissertation & Career Series)
Doctoral candidates who are at the end of their dissertation phase learn strategies and find motivation to finish their dissertation.
The workshop leader is Dr. Anja Berninger (Göttingen)
Web: https://anjaberninger.de/
08/10/2023
1:10 pm - 2:40 pm
Prague
Acoustic manifestations of speech register – Special session at ICPhS
Special session at the 20th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) in Prague dedicated to Acoustic Manifestations of Speech Register.
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
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.
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
06/16/2022
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?
06/07/2022
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!
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.
04/27/2022
1:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Festsaal Luisenstraße 56, 10117 Berlin
Spring Retreat 2022
27.04. - 29.04.2022
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?
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?