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. Soon, you can find all 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, Pachu Pulu, & Usha Wallner. 2025. A sketch grammar of Igu, the shamanic language of the Kera’a. Himalayan Linguistics 24(1). 58–87.
• Becker, Laura, & Matías Guzmán Naranjo. 2025. Replication and methodological robustness in typology. Linguistic Typology, advance online publication. doi: 10.1515/lingty-2023-0076.
• Guzmán Naranjo, Matías, Laura Becker, Miriam L. Schiele, & I-Ying Lin. 2025. Why modelling space is hard: no evidence for a serial founder effect in Polynesian phoneme inventories. Linguistics, advance online publication. doi: 10.1515/ling-2024-0016.
• Becker, Laura. 2024. Review of Communicative Efficiency: Language Structure and Use by Natalia Levshina (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Linguistic Typology 28(2). 367–378. doi: 10.1515/lingty-2024-0013.
• Becker, Laura. 2024. Zero marking in inflection: a token-based approach. Journal of Language Modelling 12(2). 349–413. doi: 10.15398/jlm.v12i2.361.
• von Contzen, Eva, Stefan Pfänder, Uta Reinöhl, & Maria Sulimma. 2024. Repetition, again: cross-disciplinary approaches to practices and forms of repeating. DIEGESIS: Interdisciplinary E-Journal for Narrative Research / Interdisziplinäres E-Journal für Erzählforschung 13(2). 138–159. doi: 10.25926/dr7c-jt58.
• Peck, Naomi, & Laura Becker. 2024. Syntactic pausing? Re-examining the associations. Linguistics Vanguard 10(1). 223–237. doi: 10.1515/lingvan-2022-0156.
• Reinöhl, Uta, & T. Mark Ellison. 2024. Metaphor forces argument overtness. Linguistics 62(4). 795–847. doi: 10.1515/ling-2021-0072.

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