News

• Applications for the winter semester 2026/27 are now open!
• The lecture series Language, Communication & Cognition by the HPCL will continue in the summer semester 2026. You can find all talks and dates here.
• We are excited to share that Naomi Peck has successfully defended her PhD. Congratulations!
• A newspaper article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung about Kera’a featuring Prof. Dr. Uta Reinöhl: Wenn Fenster des Denkens erblinden (in German).
• Interview with Prof. Dr. Uta Reinöhl in the Badische Zeitung on endangered languages in connection with our exhibition Zur Sprache Kommen (in German). 
• Master’s Programme: Linguistics: Language, Communication & Cognition – The new Master’s programme Linguistics: Language, Communication & Cognition started in the winter semester 2023/24. The programme is interdisciplinary and organised collaboratively by the linguistic departments in Freiburg. Depending on the chosen specialisation, it can also be studied entirely in English.
  All information about the programme and available specialisations can be found here.

Current Publications

• Reinöhl, Uta (2026). “More diachronic than you think: Historical depth within language documentation corpora and its potential to mitigate two major biases in linguistics”. In: Studies in Language Companion Series. Ed. by Sonja Riesberg, Uta Reinöhl, and Birgit Hellwig. Vol. 240. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 287–313. doi: 10.1075/slcs.240.12rei.
• Reinöhl, Uta and T. Mark Ellison (2026). “The one–new–idea constraint, functor–argument metaphors, and holistic speech processing”. Functions of Language (Online First). doi: 10.1075/fol.26015.rei.
• Reinöhl, Uta and Mark T. Ellison (2026). “The pivotal role of metaphor – word order routinization from proto- to modern language” In: The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference (EVOLANG XVI). Ed. by Stefan Hartmann, Marta Sibierska, Marlen Fröhlich, Yannick Jadoul, Mathilde Josserand, Theresa Matzinger, Katie Mudd, Jonas Nölle, Michael Pleyer, Sławomir Wacewicz, and Przemysław Żywiczyński (2026). The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference (EVOLANG XVI). Nijmegen: The Evolution of Language Conferences. doi: 10.17617/2.3696655.
• Riesberg, Sonja, Uta Reinöhl, and Birgit Hellwig, eds. (2026). The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations. Vol. 240. Studies in Language Companion Series. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. doi: 10.1075/slcs.240.
• Hellwig, Birgit, Uta Reinöhl, Sonja Riesberg, Isabel Compes, Carmen Dawuda, Dagmar Jung, Felix Rau, Fritz Serzisko, Vera Szöllösi-Brenig, Katherine Walker, Helga Weyerts-Schweda, and Lena Wolberg (2026). “Nikolaus Himmelmann and the documentarist turn”. In: Studies in Language Companion Series. Ed. by Sonja Riesberg, Uta Reinöhl, and Birgit Hellwig. Vol. 240. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 1–26. doi: 10.1075/slcs.240.01hel.
• Reinöhl, Uta, Pachu Pulu, and Usha Wallner (2025). “A sketch grammar of Igu, the shamanic language of the Kera’a”. Himalayan Linguistics 24.1, pp. 58–87.
• Becker, Laura and Matías Guzmán Naranjo (2025). “Replication and methodological robustness in quantitative typology”. Linguistic Typology 29.3, pp. 463–505. doi: 10.1515/lingty-2023-0076.
• Guzmán Naranjo, Matías, Laura Becker, Miriam L. Schiele, and I-Ying Lin (2025). “Why modelling space is hard: no evidence for a serial founder effect in Polynesian phoneme inventories”. Linguistics 63.6, pp. 1493–1546. doi: 10.1515/ling-2024-0016.

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