Jordan Chark

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik

Jordan Chark is a Postdoc in the CRC project A10 “Doubling and register variation”. 

Her research focuses on the interfaces between formal semantics, pragmatics and sociolinguistics. She uses a number of methodologies to this aim, including formal semantic theory, statistical modeling of experimental and corpus data, as well as game-theoretic approaches.

In November 2024, Chark successfully defended her dissertation written within CRC project A05 (at the Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS)) during the first funding phase of the CRC. The dissertation investigates a case study for modeling meaning-driven variation, looking at the aspectual domain in Icelandic both diachronically and synchronically. Chark argues for a comprehensive approach that simultaneously incorporates language-internal constraints (internal to the grammar) as well as language-external ones (social and situational factors). 

Projects

A10 Doubling and register variation
MGK Integrated Graduate School
A05 Modeling meaning-driven register variation: Politeness and face management

Contact

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Mohrenstraße 40/41, Raum 323/324

jordan.chark@hu-berlin.deWebsite https://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9063-7328

Publications & Presentations

    Publications

  • Chark, Jordan  (2025) Discourse structure and narration: A diachronic view from Germanic  In: Discourse structure and the reorganisation of the Icelandic aspectual system [ViVo]
  • Chark, Jordan  (2023) A perfect-like stative: On Icelandic 'búinn að' and pragmatic competition in the aspectual domain  In: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 27 [ViVo]
  • Veenstra, Tonjes; Krifka, Manfred; Akbari, Roodabeh; Buchmüller, Olga; Chark, Jordan; Döring, Sophia; Golcher, Felix; Schmidt, Peter  (2023) Podcast: Sprachen aus dem Schnellkochtopf: Register in Kreols (Teil 1)  [ViVo]
    Kreolsprachen sind ein Wunder der Linguistik. Innerhalb weniger Generationen entstehen diese Sprachen dort, wo Menschen ohne gemeinsame Sprache miteinander kommunizieren müssen. Unser Projekt A02 "Speaker's choices in a creole context: Bislama and Morisien" untersucht zwei Kreolsprachen aus Melanesien und Mauritius. Wir sprechen mit Manfred Krifka und Tonjes Veenstra.
  • Lüdeling, Anke; Akbari, Roodabeh; Buchmüller, Olga; Chark, Jordan; Döring, Sophia; Golcher, Felix; Schmidt, Peter  (2023) Podcast: Was ist ein Register?  [ViVo]
    Was ist damit gemeint, wenn wir in der Linguistik von "Registern" sprechen und warum ist das überhaupt interessant? Wir zeigen Beispiele dafür, wie Sprecher*innen zwischen Registern wechseln und was passiert, wenn das falsche Register gewählt wird. Anke Lüdeling erzählt uns in einem Interview, wie die Idee zu dem Sonderforschungsbereich entstanden ist.
    (Vielen Dank an Onur Özsoy, der uns das Telefon-Beispiel eingesprochen hat und an Andreas Nolda  für die Orgeleinspielungen!)

    • Presentations

  • Chark, Jordan  (2023) Situational biases in diachrony: how register distinctions emerge  In: Formal Diachronic Semantics (FoDS) 7 [ViVo]
  • Chark, Jordan  (2023) Discourse structure and the reorganisation of the Icelandic aspectual system  In: Discourse Structure and Narration: A Diachronic View from Germanic [ViVo]
  • Chark, Jordan  (2022) A perfect-like stative: On Icelandic búinn að and pragmatic competition in the aspectual domain  In: Sinn und Bedeutung 27, Charles University [ViVo]
  • Chark, Jordan  (2022) Subordinate Contexts Can Be Innovative: Evidence from the History of Icelandic  In: International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL25) [ViVo]
  • Chark, Jordan  (2021) A formal account of the diachrony of the Icelandic ‘finish’ perfect  In: Formal Diachronic Semantics (FoDS) 6 (virtual) [ViVo]
  • Chark, Jordan  () Expressivity and situational variation: towards a linking hypothesis  In: Expressivity: Variation and Change (DGfS 2025) [ViVo]
  • Chark, Jordan  () Samspil kyns, stéttar og menntunar í útbreiðslu lokins horfs með búinn í íslenskum sendibréfum frá 19. öld [The interplay of gender, class and education in the propagation of the perfect with búinn in 19th-century Icelandic personal letters]  In: 38. Rask-ráðstefna Íslenska málfræðifélagsins [38th Rask conference of the Icelandic linguistics society] [ViVo]