Workshops

Introduction to Statistics: The Connections Between Hypotheses, Study Design, Measures, and Analyses with Gunnar Jacob (Universität Mannheim)

Introduction to statistics with Gunnar Jacob (Universität Mannheim)

Introduction to Statistics II: The Connections Between Hypotheses, Study Design, Measures, and Analyses with Gunnar Jacob (Universität Mannheim)

Introductory statistics course with Gunnar Jacob (Universität Mannheim)

Area A Retreat

Internal retreat for area A

Workshop A03 – Language mixing in Slavic and beyond

Language mixing in Slavic and beyond

Meeting of CPT “Acquisition/Education”

Internal meeting of CPT "Acquisition/Education"

Fall Retreat

Fall Retreat of the CRC 1412

Lectures on non-representational grammar III with Andrés Saab (University of Buenos Aires)

Part III of the workshop "Lectures on non-representational grammar" with Andrés Saab

Lectures on non-representational grammar II with Andrés Saab (University of Buenos Aires)

Part II of the workshop "Lectures on non-representational grammar" with Andrés Saab

Lectures on non-representational grammar with Andrés Saab (University of Buenos Aires)

Part I of the workshop "Lectures on non-representational grammar" with Andrés Saab

Designing successfull posters

Introduction to desgning successfull conference posters, including some color theory and data visualization.

Introduction to GIT

Introduction to GIT with Martin

Introduction to ANNIS

Introduction to ANNIS with Martin for PhDs and interested other participants.

If you are interested in participating and have not signed up yet please contact Martin (martin.klotz@hu-berlin.de) or Britta (britta.schulte@hu-berlin.de).

Methods in Historical Corpus Building

The workshop aims to be a venue for best-practice exchange and the user-oriented transfer of corpus building techniques. It is intended both for complete beginners as well as researchers already using corpora who have specific practical or theoretical questions pertaining to their research. Although the workshop revolves around to historical data, the technologies and methods presented are equally useful for contemporary language data.

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?

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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.

MGK mini course series 2022: Elin McCready

MGK mini course with Elin McCready (Aoyama Gakuin U, Tokyo/ZAS): December 7-9

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

Flexible and Multiple Plural Marking in Language Contact and Creolization: Social and Situational Correlates

Workshop November 28/29 in Berlin

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

Register in Ancient Languages (ReAL)

International and interdisciplinary workshop, 27-28 October 2022, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

MGK mini course series 2022: Scientific Writing with Shanley Allen

2-day training workshop with Shanley Allen: October 10-11

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.

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.

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.

Linguistic SFB Meetup 2022

The linguistic CRCs are meeting again this year for a general exchange on July 4-5th

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Writing retreat for follow-up proposal

Retreat of the writing group

Writing retreat for follow-up proposal

Retreat of the writing group

Metaphors and stance markers in register variation (MeStaR)

How do metaphors and stance markers contribute to establishing and signalling specific registers?

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.

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!

Spring Retreat 2022

27.04. - 29.04.2022

Narration-Annotation

Workshop on aspects of narration we could operationalize in order to gain parameters for an annotation of narration

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?

Members’ meeting

CRC members' meeting

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?

A04 COW corpora

COW corpora

Members meeting

Meeting with all members of the CRC

PhD/Postdoc Talks

Vorträge aus den verschiedenen Projekten