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01/22/2026

Wir suchen bilinguale Proband*innen (Deutsch, Englisch) für unsere Interview-Studie:

Bezahlung: 15€
Dauer: ca. 1-1,5 Std
Ort: online oder in Berlin

Im Projekt C07 beschäftigen uns mit der Frage, wie Mehrsprachigkeit in Deutschland, auch im Vergleich zu anderen Ländern, gesellschaftlich wahrgenommen wird.

Du bist:
- zwischen 18 und 35 Jahren alt?
- bilingual mit den Sprachen Deutsch und Englisch aufgewachsen?
- in Deutschland aufgewachsen?

Wenn du Lust hast, mitzumachen oder wenn du noch Fragen hast, schreib uns einfach eine kurze E-Mail, wir melden uns bei dir!

Mehr Infos findest du auch auf unserer Website: https://sfb1412.hu-berlin.de/de/projekte/c07/

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2026-01-22T05:31:35.367Z

01/07/2026

MGK: New scholarships for 2026

MGK: New scholarships for 2026

In the last scholarship round, a committee of nine doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers from the MGK took charge of the selection process, choosing four exceptional new recipients.

We would like to welcome Eirini Sossidi (A05), Nikta Yekrang Safakar (A10), Christian Bruns (B07) and Yee Cheng Foo (C05) to our CRC. Mariia (from an earlier selection round), Eirini and Nikta are starting their projects at the ZAS in January. Christian and Yee Cheng will start in July 2026.

Following this round, the CRC scholarship program will undergo further development and standardization in collaboration with all MGK members. We are grateful for the feedback and cooperation of everyone involved, and we look forward to the next selection round (~ in August 2026).

11/26/2025

7th CRC Networking Workshop 2025 in Bielefeld

On the 26th to 27th of November, the 7th CRC Networking Workshop took place in Bielefeld! Seven linguistic CRCs met to exchange and network: Berlin, Frankfurt, Cologne, Potsdam, Saarbrücken and Tübingen. Topic is “Factors of Successful Communication”. 

11/13/2025

New publication in project A04 from SFB 1412 Register is out!:
“Unifying modifiers, classifiers and demonstratives” (CSSP 2023) by Chenyuan Deng, Antonio Machicao y Priemer & Giuseppe Varaschin 👏
Explore: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15450432
#sfb1412 #Chinese #syntax #linguistics

2025-11-13T09:11:07.866Z

11/13/2025

New publication in project A04 from SFB 1412 Register is out!:
“Topic drop in German: Grammar and usage” (HPSG 2024) by Giuseppe Varaschin, Antonio Machicao y Priemer & Yanru Lu 👏
Explore: https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2024.12
#sfb1412 #German #syntax #linguistics

2025-11-13T09:10:09.188Z

10/17/2025

Poster von SFB-Projekt C06 gewinnt Posterpreis auf Konferenz P&P 21 (Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum, Universität Leipzig). Das Poster visualisiert eine Studie zum Einfluss von Cognitive Load auf die Artikulationsgeschwindigkeit in Gesprächen mit L1- vs. L2-Addressat:innen.

Autor:innen: Melissa Ebert, Malte Belz, Christine Mooshammer
Titel: The impact of Cognitive Load on producing Non-Native Addressee Register (NNAR)
Konferenz: P&P 21 (Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum),
Universität Leipzig, 6.-7.10.2025

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/396525007_The_impact_of_Cognitive_Load_on_producing_Non-Native_Addressee_Register_NNAR

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2025-10-17T13:26:29.076Z

10/14/2025

Project B03 organizes an international conference on linguistic patterns within asymmetrical relationships as part of Register Studies on October 16-17, 2025. Bringing together scholars from a wide range of fields (e.g., Egyptology, Classical Studies, Historical Linguistics, Indo-European Studies, South Asian Studies), this conference will examine how power, status, and social hierarchies shaped communication in ancient cultures through a multidisciplinary approach. By analyzing textual, visual, and archaeological sources, the conference aims to highlight both culture-specific and cross-cultural strategies for navigating power dynamics in religious, political, administrative, and funerary contexts.
https://www.archaeologie.hu-berlin.de/de/aknoa/veranstaltungen/konferenzen/asymmetric-communication-in-ancient-societies
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2025-10-14T14:28:52.685Z

09/22/2025

Exchange between linguistic CRCs: We are happy about an interesting new collaboration on linguistic creativity and novel phonetic forms between Prof. Dr. Christine Mooshammer (PI of project C06) and project A02 from the CRC 1646 in Bielefeld! More infos can be found here: https://blogs.uni-bielefeld.de/blog/crc1646/entry/is-ldquo-zorrk-rdquo-the#mainSection

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2025-09-22T08:07:50.252Z

07/24/2025

In the CRC-Project A07, there is a new publication on modal concord and its social meanings. The first view of the paper is now openly accessible: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674325100361

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2025-07-24T11:28:58.566Z

07/24/2025

Artemis Alexiadou, Despina Oikonomou and Stephanie Rotter collaborated on experimental work investigating comparatives and register effects across different varieties of English. The paper is now published and openly accessible: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674324000546

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2025-07-24T11:26:28.163Z

06/26/2025

“Ey!”, “Tachchen!” oder “Guten Tag!” – Warum passen wir uns sprachlich an?

Unter diesem Titel werden sich die SFB-Projekte A03, A07, C03 und C07 mit Ständen und Mitmachexperimenten bei der Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften präsentieren!

Zu finden sind sie im Hauptgebäude der HU, Unter den Linden 6, Raum 3059. https://www.langenachtderwissenschaften.de/programm/detail/95827

Auch im LNDW-Programm des ZAS ist der SFB 1412 vertreten: https://www.leibniz-zas.de/de/service-transfer/mitmachen/lange-nacht-der-wissenschaften-berlin/lange-nacht-der-wissenschaften-2024-1

#sfb1412 #LNDW

2025-06-26T16:21:51.621Z

05/07/2025

Contact persons needed!

We are looking for people who have connections to the following language communities in Germany and would like to support us in our research project:

– English
– Vietnamese
– Turkish
– Russian

Did you grow up bilingual German-Russian or German-English? 

04/14/2025

MGK is awarding short-term scholarships for 2025

Are you an MA graduate planning to do or already pursuing a PhD in linguistics or a related field? Would you like to spend a few months doing linguistic research with us in Berlin? Do you have an idea for a small project, a short study or an interesting collaboration related to the CRC? Apply for a short-term grant!

04/01/2025

We welcome four new scholarship holders to the CRC!

Four new visiting fellows will be joining the CRC in 2025.

03/11/2025

Two projects funded by the Treasure Trove

Two projects of CRC Postdocs with their own Register related research can be funded this year by the CRC Treasure Trove. The next Treasure Trove round will be open in early 2026!

02/24/2025

Anlässlich des Internationalen Tages der Muttersprache am vergangenen Freitag hat Prof. Dr. Aria Adli (Projekt A06: https://sfb1412.hu-berlin.de/de/projekte/a06/) letzte Woche im Fernsehen über Mehrsprachigkeit in Deutschland und sprachliche Variation gesprochen! Die spannenden Beiträge kann man hier sehen:

MDR um Vier (30 Minuten): https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/mdr-um-4/gaeste-zum-kaffee-aria-adli-sprachwissenschaftler/mdr/Y3JpZDovL21kci5kZS9zZW5kdW5nLzI4MjA0MC80OTIyMzctNDcyMjQ0

ARD Mittagsmagazin (10 Minuten): https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/mittagsmagazin/aria-adli-sprachen-sind-keine-abstrakten-gebilde/mdr/Y3JpZDovL21kci5kZS9iZWl0cmFnL2Ntcy9iMzk1M2ExOC1jYWU1LTQwNjYtOWFlNS1kZGFiYTdiYThlNjQ

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2025-02-24T15:53:11.881Z

02/24/2025

SHK ab 01.03.2025 gesucht

Ausschreibung für studentische Beschäftigte
HU, SLF, Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik
Psycholinguistik, Prof. Knoeferle

Beginn 01.03.2025, Dauer 24 Monate

02/04/2025

On the first of January this year, the new project B07 "Evidentiality, Modality and Speaker’s Stance as Register Features in Galen’s Medical Discourse“ joined the CRC 1412. Prof. Dr. Theresa Roth's project strengthens Area B and we are happy to welcome them to the CRC!

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2025-02-04T15:11:46.656Z

01/17/2025

New round of short-term grants for 2025

The CRC/MGK is opening a new round of scholarships in 2025

12/05/2024

Maquate, K., Patarroyo, A., Ioannidou-Tsiomou, A., & Knoeferle, P. (2024).

Age differences in spoken language comprehension: verb-argument and formality-register congruence influence real-time sentence processing. Discourse Processes, 1–23.

https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2024.2424693

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2024-12-05T10:47:12.288Z

11/28/2024

Call for applications for a student assistant position in project A09

Call for applications for a student assistant position in project A09

11/05/2024

www.degruyter.com

Less formal and more rebellious — An experiment on the social meaning of negative concord in American English

Das Kapitel Less formal and more rebellious — An experiment on the social meaning of negative concord in American English erschien in Negative Concord: A Hundred Years On auf Seite 303.

🔗 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111202273-012/html

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2024-11-05T12:17:20.769Z

10/30/2024

SHK ab 01.01.25 gesucht

SHK-Stelle ab dem 01.01.2025 über 24 Monate zu besetzen,

im Teilprojekt B7 “Evidentiality, Modality & Speaker’s Stance as Register Features”.

09/18/2024

A new open access paper is published by Robert Lange, Bianca Sell, Megumi Terada, Malte Belz, Christine Mooshammer and Anke Lüdeling that compares schwa realisation in verbal inflection in two dialogue registers of German spontaneous speech: https://doi.org/10.1515/zfs-2024-2011

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2024-09-18T10:48:24.957Z

07/31/2024

A new open access paper is out by Stephanie Rotter and Mingya Liu that compares the use of negative concord (NC) vs. the use of negative polarity items (NPIs) in relation to register:

https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2023-0016

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2024-07-31T13:09:12.099Z

06/25/2024

The #sfb1412 is looking for a student employee to start on July 1 to support the CRC in the subproject INF (Infrastructure) in the creation, processing, and evaluation of corpora.
Given that corpora can contain all forms of language material and annotations based on it, the creation and analysis of corpora can be challenging and are an active research task in the CRC. Details on the application procedure can be found in the attached call for applications: https://www.linguistik.hu-berlin.de/de/aktuelles/Dateien/aushang_52_19_24_shk.pdf

2024-06-25T09:59:20.275Z

06/22/2024

Heute ist die Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften in Berlin und der #sfb1412 dabei.

Unsere Teilprojekte C03 und C07 laden am 22. Juni in das Hauptgebäude der Humboldt-Uni ein. Erfahren Sie in Mitmachexperimenten unter anderem, was Ihre Augenbewegung über ihr Sprachverstehen aussagt, welche Effekte die Gesellschaft auf die Verwendung von Sprache hat und wie (un)erwartete Wörter die Wahrnehmung der Sprechenden verändern.

https://www.langenachtderwissenschaften.de/programm/detail/94465

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2024-06-22T08:14:37.757Z

05/30/2024

Wir freuen uns über eine neue Episode unseres Podcasts, diesmal zum Thema "Registerkompetenz":

https://registergeknister.buzzsprout.com/2227743/15107196-wie-viele-deutsch-register-sprichst-du-registerkompetenz-macht-den-unterschied

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2024-05-30T18:27:43.595Z

11/25/2023

New call for MGK-fellowships for 2024

The CRC is happy to announce new Fellowships for Postgraduates

11/24/2023

The CRC has been extended!

We are happy and proud: Four more years of register research lie ahead of us. Our heartfelt thanks go to everyone involved in the application process.

07/04/2023

News article on Plapper at Tagesspiegel Online

A news article at Tagesspiegel Online looks on Plapper

11/24/2022

Kurdish Dialects in Iran – A fieldword documentary

10/25/2022

Call for fellowship applications for 2023

The CRC 1412 ‘Register’ awards scholarships for the year 2023 for up to 1 year. Apply until November 15th, 2022! For questions and applications please contact Anne Temme (MGK manager).

09/22/2022

X-Student Research Group on Berlin funerary inscriptions

Happily we announce that our application for an X-Student Research Group at the Berlin University Alliance led by Dina Serova and Gohar Schnelle next semester has been accepted!

Together with 15 students from all universities in Berlin, we will carry out a project called “Inscriptions from Berlin as a resource for historical register research” on the basis of funerary inscriptions (epitaphs) of the 17th Century in the St. Marienkirche in Berlin.

04/27/2022

Retreat 2022

Three days of retreat are laying ahead of us. You never feel more directly what a big and lively community of scientists we are

01/24/2022

New round of CRC fellowships for Ph.D. candidates

The CRC 1412 ‘Register’ awards scholarships for up to 1 year. Apply until

February 28th, 2022

Deadline EXTENDED until April 15, 2022

06/22/2021

New round of PhD fellowships

MGK-Fellowships for Postgraduate Researchers – Call for fellowship applications (MGK)

09/17/2020

The CRC 1412 welcomes four new doctoral fellows in October/November!

Alina Zöllner – C06
Lea-Sophie Adam – C06
Foteini Karkaletsou – B01
Alena Baumgärtner – C05

08/28/2020

Aria Adli on science in times of Corona

In a short video, SFB member Aria Adli (Romanisches Seminar der Universität zu Köln) from project A06 talks about the challenges in teaching, science, and field work in times of Corona.

07/09/2020

New project A07 “Pragmatic Functions and Effects of Register Variation and Switch: a Register approach to negation and polarity” approved!

A07 will be headed by Mingya Liu, since April 2019 junior professor at the Department of English and American Studies of the Humboldt-University.

05/15/2020

New fellows

The CRC awarded 4 doctoral fellowships to Shujun Wan (C04), Adler Zhou (A01), Maggie Bullock Oliveira (C06) and Tyler Kibbey (A01).

05/07/2020

New project C07 “Register perception in a multilingual context of German” approved!

C07 will be headed by Heike Wiese, who has been a new professor for German in multilingual contexts at Humboldt-University since April 2019, and Antje Sauermann, a postdoctoral researcher in her group.

02/18/2020

Fellowships: call for applications

The Integrated Graduate School MGK is calling for applications for fellowships.

01/22/2020

First public version of our website

We just launched our new website https://sfb1412.hu-berlin.de, which you are currently visiting!

01/17/2020

New rooms at the Hausvogteiplatz

After the start of the project, a lot still needs to be organized. Among other things, premises for the new employees of the SFB need to be provided and obtained.