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- New publication: Bonifazi, Anna. Forthcoming. The Special Grammar of Multimodal Macro-Segments in Oral Epic Storytelling. In The Special Grammar of Traditional Literature: Studies Building upon Albert Lord's "Special Grammar”, R. Person (ed.). Boston and Leiden: Brill.
- New publication: Bonifazi, Anna & David F. Elmer. 2016 (online). Visuality in Bosniac and Homeric Epic. Classics@14. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies. 2024 (print). In Singers and Tales in the Twenty-First Century, D. F. Elemer and P. McMurray (eds.), 123-154. The Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature. Distributed by Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA.
- New publication: di Bartolo, G. und D. Kölligan. 2024. Postclassical Greek: Problems and Perspectives, Berlin/New York: De Gruyter (Trends in Classics - Greek & Latin Linguistics Series).
- New publication: Bonifazi, Anna and Pinelopi Ioannidou. 2024. Cross- and multimodal anaphoric references in mystery movies: A cognitive perspective. Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association 12: 229-258.
- New publication: di Bartolo, Giuseppina. (2024). "Discourse Analysis", in Reference Module in Social Sciences, Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.00037-5
- Are you interested in the transcription of conversations? Here we have a brief tutorial by a PhD student of our Department of Linguistics about the 2022-launched software DOTE!
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PhD position available
A PhD position is available for the Documenting Languages and Ethnobiological Knowledge (DocuLEK) project, funded jointly by the French and German research agencies (ANR-DFG).
Vacancy Student Assistant (IT)
The Department of Linguistics (General and Historical-Comparative Linguistics) has an immediate vacancy for a SHK or WHB in the IT area (between 9 and 19 hours per week). Please send applications in digital form to Dr Claudia Wegener (claudia.wegener[at]uni-koeln.de).
LingCologne 2025: 22–23 May
We cordially invite all interested parties to participate in LingCologne 2025, which will take place this year on 22 and 23 May 2025 under the theme ‘Feedback in Interaction’.
Dr. Svenja Bonmann admitted to Junges Kolleg
We congratulate Dr. Svenja Bonmann, who will be accepted as a fellow of the Young Academy (Junges Kolleg) of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Arts (Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste) on 1 January 2025. The fellowship not only offers financial freedom for her own research, but the admission is also an important honour that enables exchange with other excellent young researchers.
DFG approves third funding phase for the CRC
Congratulations on the third funding phase of the CRC Prominence in Language! Some of our department members are involved in sub-projects. Project B02 (sub-project leader Prof. Dr. Birgit Hellwig) investigates the encoding of participles in two East African languages with case splits and word order variation. Project B05 (sub-project leader Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Himmelmann and Dr. Sonja Riesberg) is researching prominence-related structures in languages with symmetrical diatheses and in Papuan languages, B08 (project leader Prof. Dr. Eugen Hill) focuses on Differential Object Marking in Nuristani, and project C09 (sub-project leader Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Himmelmann) is conducting mathematical and computer-aided research into explanatory approaches for phenomena of form and discourse prominence.
Vice Dean for International Affairs: Prof. Birgit Hellwig
Prof. Birgit Hellwig has been elected Vice Dean for International Affairs of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities for the term of office from 1 October 2024 to 30 September 2028. Congratulations!
The Unimagazin publishes article about the fieldwork at the Department of Linguistics
The Unimagazin reports in its article “When words are lost” from Octobre 17th 2024, on the fieldwork of our linguists Professor Dr. Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Dr. Maria Bardají and Dr. Claudia Wegener. They document previously undescribed languages in close cooperation with native speakers. There are often only a few native speakers of these languages left and it is particularly important to treat them and the data collected with respect and trust. You can access the entire article via the link in the title.