General Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
D-50923 Cologne
E-Mail: khannss1[at]uni-koeln[dot]de
Workshops and presentations
Workshop organisation
| 2018 | together with Sabine Dedenbach-Salazar Sáenz (Stirling University, UK) organization of a workshop on Dios(es) y diablo(s)—La traducción de conceptos cristianos e indígenas en textos religiosos de las Américas within the 56th Congreso Internacional de Americanistas (ICA) in Salamanca (Spain); duration of conference: 15th to 20th July 2018; the workshop is scheduled for 20th July 2018 |
| 2015 | Nikolaus Himmelmann and Katja Hannß (both University of Cologne), in cooperation with Heriberto Avelino (Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology; Mexico City): Bilateral Workshop Germany-Mexico and First Latin-American Summer School on Language Documentation and Linguistic Typology; funding by the DFG: HA 6340/3-1 |
| 2013 | Swintha Danielsen and Katja Hannß: organization of a workshop on The Indigenous Languages of the Americas - New Approaches in the 21st Century within the 6th meeting of German speaking Americanists (Bonn University) |
| 2011 | Femmy Admiraal, Swintha Danielsen and Katja Hannß: organization of the annual Americanist Meeting (Leipzig University); proceedings published in 2014 |
| 2011 | Swintha Danielsen, Sonja Gipper and Katja Hannß: organisation of a workshop on Oral Traditions within the 5th meeting of German speaking Americanists (Marburg University) |
Presentations at workshops and conferences (selection)
| 2018 | "Wortbildung in südamerikanischen Sprachen" ("Word-formation in South American languages"; invited speaker within the lecture series Forschungskolloquium - Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Lexikographie, Valenz- und Kollokationsforschung "Wortbildung im Fokus"; Erlangen-Nürnberg, 30 January 2018 |
| 2017 | "The formation of Kallawaya"; invited speaker at the Linguistic Colloquium on Mixed Languages; Bremen, 28-29 September 2017 "Possible origins of Kallawaya", From Language Mixing to Fused Lects - Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS); Freiburg (Germany), 25-27 January 2017 |
| 2015 | "Relations between Lake Titicaca and the lowlands: language contacts of Pukina", 4th Conference of the Red Europea para el Estudio de las Lenguas Andinas (REELA); Leiden (the Netherlands), 5-7 September 2015 "Possible language contacts of Pukina", Revitalizing Older Linguistic Documentation (ROLD); Amsterdam, 11 June 2015 "Revitalisation of Uru", Bilateral Workshop Germany-Mexico and First Latin-American Summer School on Language Documentation and Linguistic Typology, Morelia (Mexico), 19-28 March 2015 |
| 2014 | "Language contacts of Pukina", 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE); Poznań (Poland), 11-14 September 2014 |
| 2013 | "Traces of Pukina - Reconstructing Pukina on the basis of Kallawaya", 21st International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL); Oslo, 5-9 August |
| 2012 | "Reduplication Patterns of Kallawaya", Typology and Universals in Word-Formation II; Košiče (Slovakia); 26-28 August |
| 2011 | "A Lexicon of Kallawaya", 44th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE); Logroño (Spain), 8-11 September "The development of an inclusive/exclusive split and its reflex in the verbal system: Evidence from Uchumataqu", 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL); Osaka, 25-29 July; funding by the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, DAAD) "Uhle, Métraux, Vellard: Materials on Uru and their value in language description", Revitalizing older linguistic documentation; Amsterdam, 12 May; published in 2014 |
| 2010 | "The sources of Kallawaya", Kréyòl Workshop; Groesbeek/Nijmegen, 25-28 August |
| 2008 | "Multiverb constructions as a means of complementation in Uchumataqu", Multiverb constructions: a view from the Americas; Nijmegen, 20 October; published in 2011 "Working with dying languages - Two Bolivian cases in comparison" (joint paper with Swintha Danielsen), Sprachgrenzen, Sprachkontakte und kulturelle Vermittler in der Geschichte der europäisch-überseeischen Beziehungen (Language Boundaries, Language Contacts and Cultural Mediators in the History of European Overseas Relations); Bamberg, 16-18 May; published in 2010 |
| 2007 | "The case suffixes -kiś and -kin in Chipaya (Bolivia): directional/indirect complement and locative markers" (joint paper with Sabine Dedenbach-Salazar Sáenz), Red Europea para el Estudio de las Lenguas Andinas; Newcastle, 28-29 June; published in 2008 |
| 2006 | "Subordination in Uru-Chipaya: one or two systems?", Americanist Meeting; Nijmegen, 15 December; published in 2011 |
| 2005 | "Personal reference in Uru: an isolating or agglutinating type of language?", Americanist Meeting; Amsterdam, March |
| 2004 | "Das Uru am Titicaca-See - eine Bestandsaufnahme" (The Uru of Lake Titicaca - an Overview), 2. Treffen deutschsprachiger Amerikanisten; Marburg, 8-10 October |