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Faculty of Arts and HumanitiesGeneral Linguistics (Department of Linguistics)

Dr. Claudia Wegener

General Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
D-50923 Cologne

Tel: +49-221-470-6327
Fax: +49-221-470-5947

Office hours: Please book an appointment via Calendly.

E-Mail: claudia.wegener[at]uni-koeln[dot]de

Publications

Corpora

  • 2007 - present: Wegener, Claudia, Aurélie Cauchard, Ian Scales und Eva Schultze-Berndt (Hrsg.). Savosavo and Gela Documentation. Online-Publikation im DoBeS (Dokumentation bedrohter Sprachen). Medien: Video, Audio, Text. Nijmegen: DoBeS-MPI.

Books

  • Wegener, Claudia (with Bill Adamson, Thomas Omele, Anthony Pisupisu, Jim Planet, Andrew Rara, Wilson Sungi, John Ninizepo, Charles Ghorosavo, Mary Joseph Abuluvu, Claudette Vangere, Salome Livoni, Laurensia Sipiu, Vangelina Vuvunga, Seserio Togha, Jovita Antairopo, Raphael Lavungana, Colman Maravi, James Pulusala, Joel Sasapa Viriala, Felix Narasia, Edmond Gagavo, Aurélie Cauchard and Ian Scales). 2014. Savosavo Dictionary. Bielefeld: Savosavo Documentation Project.

  • Wegener, Claudia. 2012. A Grammar of Savosavo. Mouton Grammar Library 61. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

  • Haig, Geoffrey L. J., Nicole Nau, Stefan Schnell und Claudia Wegener (Hrsg.). 2011. Documenting Endangered Languages: Achievements and Perspectives. Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs 240. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

  • Wegener, Claudia. 2008. A Grammar of Savosavo, a Papuan Language of the Solomon Islands. MPI Series in Psycholinguistics 51. Doktorarbeit. Nijmegen: Max-Planck-Institute für Psycholinguistik und Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen.

  • Wegener, Claudia. 2002. Absolute Referenzrahmen zum Raumverweis - Eine vorläufige Typologie absoluter Systeme. Magisterarbeit, Universität Bielefeld, Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft.

Articles

  • Bressem, Jana & Claudia Wegener. 2022. Handling talk. Gesture 20(2). 219-253.

  • Wegener, Claudia. 2022. The expression of directed caused accompanied motion events in Savosavo. In Anna Margetts, Birgit Hellwig & Sonja Riesberg (eds.), Caused accompanied motion: Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective, 301–340. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

  • Margetts, Anna, Katharina Haude, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Dagmar Jung, Sonja Riesberg, Stefan Schnell, Frank Seifart, Harriet Sheppard & Claudia Wegener. 2022. Cross-linguistic patterns in the lexicalization of bring and take. Studies in Language.

  • Bressem, Jana, Nicole Stein und Claudia Wegener. 2017. Refusing, excluding, and negating manually: Recurrent gestures in Savosavo. Pragmatics 27(2): 173-206.

  • Simard, Candide und Claudia Wegener. 2017. Fronted NPs in a verb-initial language – clause-internal or external? Prosodic cues to the rescue! Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 2(1): 51. 1–32.

  • Bressem, Jana, Nicole Stein und Claudia Wegener. 2015. Structuring and highlighting speech – Discursive functions of holding away gestures in Savosavo. In Gesture and Speech in Interaction – 4th edition (GESPIN 4), hrsg. von Gaëlle Ferré und Mark Tutton, 49—54.

  • Simard, Candide, Claudia Wegener, Albert Lee, Faith Chiu und Connor Youngberg. 2014. Savosavo word stress: A quantitative analysis. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Speech Prosody (SP2014): 512—514. Dublin.

  • Wegener, Claudia. 2013. Savosavo kinship terminology: Social context and linguistic features. Oceanic Linguistics 52(2): 318—340.

  • Wegener, Claudia. 2013. Eine Brücke in die Zukunft. Spektrum der Wissenschaft 2013 (6), Supplement Bedrohte Sprachen, 18—19.

  • Haig, Geoffrey, Stefan Schnell und Claudia Wegener. 2011. Comparing corpora from endangered language projects: Explorations in language typology based on original texts. In Documenting Endangered Languages: Achievements and Perspectives, hrsg. von Geoffrey L. J. Haig, Nicole Nau, Stefan Schnell und Claudia Wegener, 55—86. Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs 240. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

  • Haig, Geoffrey, Nicole Nau, Stefan Schnell und Claudia Wegener. 2011. Introduction: Documenting endangered languages before, during, and after the DoBeS programme. In Documenting Endangered Languages: Achievements and Perspectives, hrsg. von Geoffrey L. J. Haig, Nicole Nau, Stefan Schnell und Claudia Wegener, 1—14. Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs 240. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

  • Wegener, Claudia. 2011. Expression of reciprocity in Savosavo. In Reciprocals and Semantic Typology, hrsg. von Nicholas Evans, Alice Gaby, Stephen C. Levinson und Asifa Majid, 213—224, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

  • Burenhult, Niclas und Claudia Wegener. 2009. Preliminary notes on the phonology, orthography and vocabulary of Semnam (Austroasiatic, Malay Peninsula). Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 1: 283—312.

  • Wegener, Claudia. 2006. Savosavo body part terminology. Language Sciences 28 (2-3): 344—359.

  • Wegener, Claudia. 2005. Major word classes in Savosavo. Grazer Linguistische Studien, 64: 29—52.

  • Sasaki, Felix, Claudia Wegener, Andreas Witt, Dieter Metzing und Jens Pönninghaus. 2002. Co-reference annotation and resources: a multilingual corpus of typologically diverse languages. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2002), 1225—1230. Las Palmas.

  • Erlenkamp, Sonja, Andre Beyer, Heike Beyer, Claudia Hesse, Lisa Gieselmann, Frauke Göldenitz und Annette Nick. 2001. Komparation in der Deutschen Gebärdensprache - Der Dimensionsfaktor bei der Steigerung von Eigenschaftsgebärden. Das Zeichen, 56: 298—303.

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