• LingCologne 2025: Call for Posters

• We invite abstracts for poster presentations that contribute to the conference theme of "Feedback in Interaction". See our conference website for more details.

• 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!

• Vacancy Research Assistant (f/m/d) at the Department of Linguistics in the field of Discourse Linguistics

  A full-time post-doctoral position is available at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Cologne from 1st of March 2025. It is limited until 29.02.2028. Particularly welcome is an interest in spontaneous and/or professional storytelling, multimodal discourse segmentation, classical cognitive-linguistic topics such as metaphor, metonymy and blending, and the interface between syntax, prosody and pragmatics. In addition, 4 hours of teaching per week (= 2 courses/semester) are included in this position. For further information please click here.

• 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.

• Honourable mention for Maria Bardaji's dissertation

  At the Greenberg Award 2024 of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT), Maria Bardaji's dissertation Nominalization in Totoli and other western Austronesian languages was awarded an Honourable Mention. Her dissertation was published by Pacific Linguistics: "Bardaji’s thesis is concerned with the relationship between nominalizations and symmetrical voice constructions in Austronesian languages. Bardaji’s thesis combines folk tales, explanatory texts, community events, musical events, stimuli tasks and elicitation to answer important theoretical questions. It represents an impressive integration of language documentation and linguistic typology. In addition to this, the committee felt that the thesis made novel contributions to documentary/descriptive methodology in relation to typology by probing the notion of at-issue content in these languages in a systematic way."
  Congratulations!

News Archive of General and Historical Comparative Linguistics

• Bonmann, Svenja. 2024. Zum Ursprung des sog. ā-Konjunktivs des Latino-Faliskischen, Sabellischen und Venetischen. Glotta. Zeitschrift für griechische und lateinische Sprache 100(2). 246–287.

• Dekker, Peter, Sonja Gipper & Bart de Boer. 2024. Conversational priming in repetitional responses as a mechanism in language change: Evidence form agent-based modelling. Linguistics Vanguard.

• Bonifazi, Anna und Pinelopi Ioannidou. (erscheinend) 2024. Cross- and multimodal anaphoric references in mystery movies: a cognitive approach. Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association 12. 229–258.

• Kapitonov, Ivan & Margit Bowler. 2024. Some or other: Partitive disanaphors across languages. Journal of Semantics 0(0).

• Suter, Edgar. 2024. Benefactive constructions: A comparative study of the Huon Peninsula languages. Language and Linguistics in Melanesia 42. 128–202.

• Bonmann, Svenja, Sonja Riesberg & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2024. Differential object marking in Western Malayo-Polynesian symmetrical voice languages. Linguistic Typology.

• Kapitonov, Ivan. 2024. Onomatopoeia in Kunbarlang. In Lívia Körtvélyessy and Pavol Štekauer (Hrsgg.), Onomatopoeia in the World’s Languages, 265–276. Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.

• Aung Si, Samira Agnihotri & Chikkananjegowda Madegowda. 2024. Age and Gender-Related Variation in Plant and Animal Naming Ability in the Soliga/Solega Community of Southern Karnataka, India. Human Ecology.

• Spronck, Stef & Aung Si. 2024. The Trees Above: A Language-Based Analysis of Tree Agency in Two Indigenous Societies. Journal of Ethnobiology 0(0).

• Henlein, Alexander, Anastasia Bauer et al. 2024. An Outlook for AI Innovation in Multimodal Communication Research. In Vincent G. Duffy (Hrsg.) Digital Human Modeling and Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics and Risk Management. HCII 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 14711). 182–234. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

• Bauer, Anastasia, Anna Kuder, Marc Schulder & Job Schepens (2024). Phonetic differences between affirmative and feedback head nods in German Sign Language (DGS): A pose estimation study. PLoS ONE 19(5): e0304040.