Lecture Series”Language, Communication & Cognition”: Archive
Summer Term 2026
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 23/04/2026 | When all possessives are adjectives | Paulo Chagas de Souza (São Paulo) |
| 30/04/2026 | Morphological contact in complex Quechua verbs in Central Andean Oral Stories | Gladys Camacho Ríos (Buffalo) |
| 21/05/2026 | Pattern replication in para-hypotactic concessives | Tom Bossuyt (Freiburg) |
| 11/06/2026 | Linguistic hybridity in West Africa: The case of Wolof | Corentin Bourdeau (Freiburg) |
| 18/06/2026 | The prominence of kings and queens: Morphosyntactic evidence from Old Spanish and Old French | Javier Caro (Cologne) |
| 25/06/2026 | Grammatical Gender in Old Occitan: A Corpus Study using COMETA | Marinus Wiedner (Freiburg) |
| 02/07/2026 | Who owns Caribbean English? | Joseph Farquharson (University of the West Indies) |
| 16/0/2026 | Metapragmatic Positioning towards AI on Social Media | Alexandra Gubina (Freiburg) |
| 23/07/2026 | The recognitional demonstrative ‘those’ in Singapore English: Frequency, substrate influence, and replica grammaticalization | Lijun Li (Freiburg) |
Winter Term 2025/26
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 23/10/2025 | Non-standard varieties and areal typology: focus on Europe | Adriano Murelli (Turin) |
| 06/11/2025 | Approaching Word Order in Georgian, Armenian, and Russian: Combining Corpus- and Psycholinguistic Perspectives | Alice Blumenthal-Dramé (Freiburg), Diana Forker (Jena), Haykanush Sazhumyan (Freiburg) |
| 13/11/2025 | Repeats vs particles as conversational strategies across languages: An interactional typology | Sonja Gipper (Cologne) |
| 20/11/2025 | Tense, Aspect and information structure in isiXhosa | Stefan Savić (Zurich) |
| 04/12/2025 | Recent Perspectives in Migration Linguistics. The Case of Multilingual Repertoires in South-South Migration Dynamics | Miguel Gutiérrez Maté (Ausgburg) |
| 15/01/2026 | Understanding linguistic diversity for well-being, labor rights and social justice: Mesoamerican languages among US farmworkers from Mexico and Guatemala | Gabriela Perez Baez (Oregon) |
| 29/01/2026 | Multilingual Mauritius: Insights from Discourse, Interviews, and the Linguistic Landscape | Hannah Davidson (Cambridge) |
Summer Term 2025
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 08/05/2025 | Areal semantic patterns in nouns classes | John Mansfield (based on work with Ruth Singer and Frank Seifart) |
| 15/05/2025 | Interdisciplinary ethnographic language documentation in Bhutan: Vernacular architecture among the Lhohtam speakers in Bhutan | Mareike Wulff (Humboldt University Berlin) |
| 22/05/2025 | Accountability and type-fittedness as indicators of conditional relevance in interaction – Evidence from German proposals for joint action | Alexandra Groß (Bayreuth) |
| 05/06/2025 | Subordination and subordinators in Caribbean English-based creoles: a (dialect) typological view | Bernd Kortmann (Freiburg) |
| 03/07/2025 | Hermann Paul Lecture 2025 | Barbara Plank (Munich) |
| 10/07/2025 | Repetition in language change: Conventionalisation and entrenchment in Spanish periphrases | Mar Garachana Camarero (Barcelona) and Stefan Pfänder (Freiburg) |
| 17/07/2025 | The codings of reciprocity in Romance-based Creole languages | Sibylle Kriegel (Aix-Marseille) |
| 24/07/2025 | Between productivity and extravagance: the diachronic dynamics of Spanish aspectual periphrases | María-Sol Sansiñena (Bruxelles and Leuven) |