Universität Konstanz - Linguistics

We would like to spotlight Professor Dr. Theo Marinis for his multiple speaking engagements and ongoing projects with EUniWell, ACTIN, and the workshops in which he contributes his expertise.

Congratulations to Dr. Salvatore del Gaudio on his recent publication on dialectal texts along the Ukrainian-Belarusian border.

Dr. George Walkden will be teaching a course on historical English at the ISLE summer school program later this month.

Finally, welcome to the new member of the Konstanz linguistic team!

Department Colloquium in June 2026

May 2026 publications by Members of the Linguistic Department:

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to "Diachronic and Historical Linguistics" is now out, containing several contributions by current and former Konstanz linguists, including:

* Joel Wallenberg, Henri Kauhanen, George Walkden, Caroline Heycock: Grammar Competition and Variational Learning
* Regine Eckardt: Pragmatic Strengthening and Conventionalized Implicature
* Henri Kauhanen: Propagation of Change: Computational Models
* Chiara Gianollo: Semantic Universals
* Holly Kennard, Aditi Lahiri: At the Interfaces: Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Sources of Phonological Change
(online access)
Andreou, M., Lampri, S., Marinis, T., & Peristeri, E. (2025). Bilingualism effects in Metaphor and Simile Comprehension and Production in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, "Autism Research", 18 (3), 632–647. (online access)

Bentea, A. & Marinis, T. (2025). Complex syntactic structures in the heritage language vs. the majority language: A comprehension study with Romanian-German bilinguals. Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics (BWPL) 27 (1), 21-44. (online access)

Durrleman, S. & Marinis, T. (2025). Morphosyntax in autism. In: Novogrodsky, R., Perovic, A., Prévost, P., Schaeffer, J., & Tuller, L. (Eds). "Language in autism". Wiley Blackwell.

Ferin, M., Marinis, T., & Kupisch, T. (2025). The acquisition of Italian rhetorical questions in bilingual children. "Bilingualism: Language and Cognition", 28 (1), 1-14. (online acces)

Marinis, T. (2025). Behavioural Measures of Bilingual Processing and Comprehension. In: Chapelle, C. A. (Ed). "The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics". Wiley Blackwell. (online access)

Paspali, A., Marinis, T. & Alexiadou, A (2025): When morphology is not enough: The acquisition of voice in monolingual Greek children and bilingual children with Greek as a heritage language, "Language Acquisition", 2 (3), 297-327. (online access)

Patra, A., Bose, A. and Marinis, T. (2025-online). Cognate Picture Naming in Bilingual Aphasia. "Clinic

in May 2026

🗣️On May 8th, Dr. Clara Fridman spoke at a workshop on Inter- and Multicultural Communication at the University of Vic (Spain).

🗣️At the conference Prosody at the crossroads of disciplinary pathways, held in Grenoble, France, 21st-22nd May 2027, Nicole Dehé and Marieke Einfeldt will present a talk titled Intonation and voice quality in Icelandic wh-exclamatives.

🗣️Mila Freiseis, Tianyi Zhao and Tina Bögel have been accepted to present at the Speech Prosody Conference 2026, which will take place from 26th to 29th May 2026 in Philadelphia. They will be giving a poster presentation titled Signalling language redundancy: The acoustic salience of in/definite articles in German.

🗣️As well Tianyi Zhao, Alice Turk and Tina Bögel will present a poster Effects of lexical frequency and semantic priming on durational patterns in German at the Speech Prosody Conference 2026, 26th-29th May at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.

🗣️Marc Meisezahl and George Walkden will be giving a talk on their work on Complementation in the history of English at the RTG/LinG Colloquium in Göttingen on 27th May 2026.

It's Back!
For all linguistics students: Enjoy some coffee, tea, and cookies with other linguistics students, hosted by your diversiTEAM. Come by and hang out on Wednesday, the 20.5. between 15:00 and 17:00 in the Linguistics common room (G119)!

With the conclusion of our first workshop on sociocognition in multilingual communication. We are excited to introduce the first official post for the SFB 1760 project Silence, Noise, and Signal in Language (SiNoSi). The link to the full article below: https://sinosi.substack.com/p/giving-silence-and-noise-the-linguistic

Department Colloquium in May

April 2026 publications by Members of the Linguistic Department:

📝Tamara Rathcke and Massimiliano Canzi published a new article in "Scientific Reports", titled Individual differences in musical melody perception moderate the speech-to-song illusion in Mandarin Chinese listeners.

📝 Riegger, Chiara. 2026. Old Saxon Vowel Insertion, „Journal of Germanic Linguistics“

📝 Schwarzer, Luise. 2026. The law and order of selection-violating coordination: German DP-CP-coordination is not sensitive to linear or temporal order. "Glossa: a journal of general linguistics"