Prof. Dr. Uta Reinöhl
Sprechstunde (Büro od. Telefon) während des Semesters: Montag 12:00–14:00 Uhr (ohne Anmeldung!)
Schwerpunkte
- Grammatikalisierungstheorie
- Historische Syntax
- Non-configurationality
- Serielle Verben
- Tonale Phonologie
- Sprachen: Indoarisch, Indoeuropäisch, Südasiatisches Areal, Tibetobirmanisch (Mishmi)
Publikationen und Vorträge
Korpora und Annotationskonventionen
- Peck, Naomi, Kirsten Culhane, Simon Fries & Uta Reinöhl. 2026. TONIC – Testing the One-new-idea Constraint Annotation Guidelines. OSF. March 12. doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/AR7CF
- Reinöhl, Uta. 2024. Documentation of Igu, Data Center for the Humanities. [Online]. Available: doi: 10.18716/dch/b.00000017
- Casaretto, Antje, Jakob Halfmann, Natalie Korobzow, Daniel Kölligan, & Uta Reinöhl. 2023. The morphologically glossed Rigveda – The Zurich annotation corpus revised and extended, hosted by VedaWeb – Online Research Platform for Old Indic Texts, University of Cologne. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.8410655
- Casaretto, Antje, Simon Fries & Uta Reinöhl. 2021. Vedic Sanskrit prose interlinearized and GRAIDed. Data Center for the Humanities. doi: 10.18716/dch/a.00000053
- Kölligan, Daniel, Claes Neuefeind, Uta Reinöhl, Patrick Sahle, Antje Casaretto, Anna Fischer, Börge Kiss, Natalie Korobzow, Jürgen Rolshoven, Jakob Halfmann, & Francisco Mondaca, VedaWeb – Online Research Platform for Old Indic Texts, University of Cologne.
Bücher und Herausgeberschaften
- Riesberg, Sonja, Uta Reinöhl, & 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.
- Louagie, Dana & Uta Reinöhl (eds.). 2022. Typologizing the Noun Phrase, special issue of Linguistics, vol. 60(3).
- Reinöhl, Uta. 2016. Grammaticalization and the Rise of Configurationality in Indo-Aryan, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Reinöhl, Uta. 2010. Zum Begriff der Renovation im Rahmen der Grammatikalisierungstheorie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, manuscript.
Beiträge in Fachzeitschriften und Sammelbänden
- Reinöhl, Uta & T. Mark Ellison (2026). „Recurrence plots – a tool for exploring repetition in un(der)studied language data“. Int J Digit Humanities. doi: 10.1007/s42803-026-00130-2.
- 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 Sonja Riesberg, Uta Reinöhl, & Birgit Hellwig (eds.), Studies in Language Companion Series. Vol. 240. Amsterdam, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 287–313. doi: 10.1075/slcs.240.12rei.
- Reinöhl, Uta & Naomi Peck. 2026. „The ‘idea’ in the one-new-idea constraint“. Functions of Language (Online First). doi: 10.1075/fol.26012.rei.
- Reinöhl, Uta & Naomi Peck. 2026. „How much is too much? The one-new-idea constraint and the information–intonation interface“. Functions of Language (Online First). doi: 10.1075/fol.25065.rei.
- Reinöhl, Uta & 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 & Mark T. Ellison. 2026. „The pivotal role of metaphor – word order routinization from proto- to modern language“ In Stefan Hartmann, Marta Sibierska, Marlen Fröhlich, Yannick Jadoul, Mathilde Josserand, Theresa Matzinger, Katie Mudd, Jonas Nölle, Michael Pleyer, Sławomir Wacewicz, & Przemysław Żywiczyński (eds.), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference (EVOLANG XVI). Nijmegen, The Evolution of Language Conferences. doi: 10.17617/2.3696655.
- Hellwig, Birgit, Uta Reinöhl, Sonja Riesberg, Isabel Compes, Carmen Dawuda, Dagmar Jung, Felix Rau, Fritz Serzisko, Vera Szöllösi-Brenig, Katherine Walker, Helga Weyerts-Schweda, & Lena Wolberg. 2026. „Nikolaus Himmelmann and the documentarist turn“. In Sonja Riesberg, Uta Reinöhl, & Birgit Hellwig (eds.), Studies in Language Companion Series. Vol. 240. Amsterdam, John Benjamins.
- 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.
- von Contzen, Eva, Stefan Pfänder, Uta Reinöhl, and 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.
- Reinöhl, Uta & T. Mark Ellison. 2024. „Metaphor forces argument overtness“. Linguistics, 62(4). 795–847, doi: 10.1515/ling-2021-0072.
- Casaretto, Antje & Uta Reinöhl. Identifying discourse functions without formal clues – Secondary predicates and related functions in Vedic Sanskrit, submitted for publication.
- Ellison, T. Mark & Uta Reinöhl. 2022. „Compositionality, Metaphor, and the Evolution of Language“. International Journal of Primatology, 45. 703–719, doi: 10.1007/s10764-022-00315-w.
- Louagie, Dana & Uta Reinöhl. 2022. Typologizing nominal expressions: The noun phrase and beyond, in Dana Louagie & Uta Reinöhl (eds.), Typologizing the Noun Phrase, special issue of Linguistics, 60(3). 659–714.
- Reinöhl, Uta. 2022. Locating Kera’a (Idu Mishmi) in its linguistic neighbourhood: Evidence from dialectology. In Mark W. Post, Stephen Morey, & Toni Huber (eds.), Ethnolinguistic Prehistory of the Eastern Himalaya. 232–263, Leiden: Brill.
- Kaland, Constantijn, Naomi Peck, T. Mark Ellison, & Uta Reinöhl. 2021. An initial exploration of the interaction of tone and intonation in Kera’a, Proc. 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI). 132–136, doi: 10.21437/TAI.2021-27.
- Casaretto, Antje, Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, Birgit Hellwig, Uta Reinöhl, & Gertrud Schneider-Blum. 2020. „Roots of ergativity in Africa (and beyond)“. Studies in African Linguistics, 49. 111–140.
- Reinöhl, Uta. 2020. „Continuous and discontinuous nominal expressions in flexible (or ‘free’) word order languages: Patterns and correlates“. Linguistic Typology, 24. 71–111.
- Reinöhl, Uta. 2020. „What are and what aren’t complex nominal expressions in flexible word order languages?“. Language Typology and Universals, 73. 57–79.
- Kölligan, Daniel, Claes Neuefeind, Börge Kiss, Francisco Mondaca, Uta Reinöhl, and Patrick Sahle. 2019. VedaWeb – On the role of annotations in analyzing ancient Indo-Aryan texts, in Proc. Historical Corpora and Variation Conference (HiCoV), Cagliari, Italy.
- Kiss, Börge, Daniel Kölligan, Francisco Mondaca, Claes Neuefeind, Uta Reinöhl, and Patrick Sahle. 2019. It takes a village: Co-developing VedaWeb, a digital research platform for Old Indo-Aryan texts. In Steven Krauwer and Darja Fišer (eds.), Workshop Proceedings. Twin Talks: Understanding Collaboration in DH. Fourth Digital Humanities Conference in the Nordic Countries (DHN2019). 35–44, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Ellison, T. Mark & Uta Reinöhl. 2018. Metaphorical extension and the evolution of configurationality. In Christine Cuskley et al. (eds.), The Evolution of Language. Proc. 12th International Conference, Torun, Poland.
- Reinöhl, Uta & Antje Casaretto. 2018. „When grammaticalization does NOT occur: Prosody-syntax mismatches in Indo-Aryan“. Diachronica, 35(2). 238–276.
- Reinöhl, Uta & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2017. „Renewal: A figure of speech or a process sui generis?“. Language, 93(2). 381–413.
- Reinöhl, Uta. 2016. „A single origin of Indo-European primary adpositions? Unveiling the Indo-Aryan branch-off“. Diachronica, 33(1). 95–130.
- Reinöhl, Uta. 2013. Reassessing Indo-Aryan postpositions in the Sprachbund debate, in Preproceedings of the International Conference on Language Contact in India. 170–184.
Rezensionen, u.ä.
- Reinöhl, Uta. 2018. Review of Eystein Dahl & Krzysztof Stroński (eds.). 2016. Indo-Aryan ergativity in typological and diachronic perspective. Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics 5(1). 111–121.
- Reinöhl, Uta & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2011. Review of Christoph Schroeder et al. (eds.). 2008. Secondary Predicates in Eastern European Languages and Beyond. Linguistic Typology 15(1). 131–139.
Vorträge (ausgewählt)
- Reinöhl, Uta. Schamanismus, Sprache und Heilungsritual im östlichen Himalaya. 12. Juli 2022. Dienstagskolloquium „Seele – Geist – Körper“. Universitätsklinikum Freiburg.
- Mondaca, Francisco, Felix Rau, Claes Neuefeind, Börge Kiss, Daniel Kölligan, Uta Reinöhl, & Patrick Sahle. C-SALT APIs – Connecting and Exposing Heterogeneous Language Resources. Digital Humanities Conference 2019 (DH2019). Utrecht, Niederlande. 09.–12. Juli 2019.
- Kölligan, Daniel, Claes Neuefeind, Börge Kiss, Francisco Mondaca, Uta Reinöhl, & Patrick Sahle. VedaWeb – on the Role of Annotations in Analyzing Ancient Indo-Aryan Texts. Historical Corpora and Variation Conference (HiCoV). Cagliari, Italien. 04.–05. April 2019.
- Kiss, Börge, Daniel Kölligan, Francisco Mondaca, Claes Neuefeind, Uta Reinöhl, & Patrick Sahle. It takes a village: Co-developing VedaWeb, a Digital Research Platform for Old Indo-Aryan Texts. Twin Talks: Understanding Collaboration in DH. Fourth Digital Humanities Conference in the Nordic Countries 2019 (DHN2019). Kopenhagen, Dänemark. 05. März 2019.
- Reinöhl, Uta & T. Mark Ellison. Obligatorification stems from universal communicative requirements not syntactic reanalysis. Wither reanalysis? HU Berlin, 01.–02. März2019.
- Reinöhl, Uta & T. Mark Ellison. Obligatorification in syntax. ICL 20. Kapstadt, Südafrika. 02.–06. Juli 2018.
- Reinöhl, Uta & Antje Casaretto. Secondary predicates in Vedic Sanskrit – On the challenge of identifying syntactic categories in a so-called ‚non-configurational‘ language. South Asian Language Analysis 34. Universität Konstanz. 19.–21. Juni 2018.
- Reinöhl, Uta & T. Mark Ellison. Obligatorification in syntax. Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, Australian National University. Canberra, Australien. 16. März 2018.
- Reinöhl, Uta. Functions of discontinuous nominal expressions in Vedic Sanskrit. SLE. Zürich, Schweiz. 10.–13. September 2017.
- Reinöhl, Uta. Towards a Typology of Old Grams. International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL) 23. San Antonio, USA. 2017.
- Reinöhl, Uta. Syntactic Paradigmatization as a Constraint on Grammaticalization – On the Rise of Participial Predicates in Indo-Aryan. International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL) 23. San Antonio, USA. 2017.
- Reinöhl, Uta. Locating Kera’a (Idu Mishmi) in its linguistic neighbourhood: Evidence from dialectology. International Consortium for Eastern Himalayan Ethnolinguistic Prehistory, La Trobe University. Melbourne, Australien. 08.–10. Februar 2017.
- Reinöhl, Uta. Exploring configurationality as a historical phenomenon. From non-configurational to (low-level) configurational in Indo-European. Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, Australian National University. Canberra, Australien. November 2015.
- Reinöhl, Uta. The Indo-Aryan ‚alignment change‘ revisited. International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL) 22. Neapel, Italien. July 2015.
- Reinöhl, Uta. The origins of the New Indo-Aryan postpositional phrases. South Asian Language Analysis 31. Lancaster, Vereinigtes Königreich. Mai 2015.
- Reinöhl, Uta. Disentangling semantic and formal change in grammaticalization – A case study from Indo-Aryan. Universität Zürich, Institut für Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft. Zürich, Schweiz. 08. Mai 2015.
- Reinöhl, Uta. Exploring configurationality as a historical phenomenon. Syntax of the World’s Languages 6. Pavia, Italien. 08.–10. September 2014.
- Reinöhl, Uta. Syntactically nouns, semantically spatial relators: Zero-valent adverbs undergoing the genitive shift in Post-Vedic Old Indic. 36. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS). Marburg. 06.–07. März 2014.
- Reinöhl, Uta. An outlier in the family: Indo-Aryan branching off from Indo-European in its route to adpositions and configurationality. Contrastive Linguistics & Diachrony (CoLiDi). Ghent, Belgien. 27.–28. Februar 2014.
- Reinöhl, Uta. Syntactic variation and the rise of configurationality in Indo-Aryan. International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL) 21. Oslo, Norwegen. 05.–09. August 2013.
- Reinöhl, Uta. Reassessing Indo-Aryan postpositions in the Sprachbund debate. Language Contact in India. Pune, Indien. 06.–08. Februar 2013).
- Reinöhl, Uta. Invited talk with Nikolaus P. Himmelmann: A Note on Renovation. Journée d’étude. Autour de la grammaticalisation, Université Lille 3. Lille, Frankreich. 07. Dezember 2012.
- Reinöhl, Uta. Die Entstehung phrasaler Struktur im Indoarischen – Konstituenz als emergentes Phänomen. Sprachwandel. München. 13.–15. Juli 2011.
Poster
- Kiss, Börge, Daniel Kölligan, Francisco Mondaca, Claes Neuefeind, Uta Reinöhl, & Patrick Sahle. 2018. VedaWeb – A Web-based Platform for Ancient Indo-Aryan Texts. To Appear in: Book of Abstracts of the First European Association for Digital Humanities Conference (EADH 2018 – Data in Digital Humanities). Galway, Irland. 07.–09. Dezember 2018.
- Reinöhl, Uta, Daniel Kölligan, Börge Kiss, Francisco Mondaca, Claes Neuefeind, & Patrick Sahle. 2018. VedaWeb – eine webbasierte Plattform für die Erforschung altindischer Texte. In Book of Abstracts der 5. Jahrestagung der Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (DHd 2018), 485–486. Köln. 26. Februar–02. März 2018.