Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS) 2020

March 04 – 06, 2020 | AG 7: "Approaching linguistic diversity from an evolutionary perspective: Towards a typology of future tenses", Martin Becker, Eugen Hill u. a. | AG 16 (Kurz-AG): "Diversität und Prädiktion in der Sprachverarbeitung: Welchen Einfluss haben Sprecher, Text und Methode?", Franziska Kretzschmar, Ingmar Brilmayer u. a. | Hamburg, conference venue tba

GAKT 5

February 10 + 11, 2020 | 5. international workshop organized by the University of Cologne and the University of Tokyo in context of the conference series 'Germanistische Linguistik zwischen Köln und Tokio'. This year's title is "Informationsstruktur in Semantik und Syntax". | HoP, Spitzboden

Workshop zu non-interrogative subordinate wh-clauses

February 07 + 08, 2020 | 9 a.m. | Workshop: "non-interrogative subordinate wh-clauses" organized by Łukasz Jędrzejowski and Carla Umbach | for registration please click here | HoP, Spitzboden

Academic Commemoration for Beatrice Primus

February 07, 2020 | 3:30 p.m. | Dozierendencafé, main building University of Cologne

Days of Writing

February 06 + 07, 2020 | 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. | Days of Writing | Besprechungsraum (2th floor), HoP

Meeting: Sustainability Group

January 18, 2020 | 2 p.m. | Meeting of the Sustainability Group | HoP, Spitzboden

Inaugural Lecture: Anna Bonifazi

January 20, 2020 | 6 p.m. | Invitation to Anna Bonifazi's Inaugural Lecture on "'Was hat die griechische Partikellehre mit dem Sinne des Lebens zu thun?' (F. Nietzsche): What ancient Greek particles tells us about language use" | Hörsaal VI, main building University of Cologne

Lecture by Kai Vogeley (A02)

January 16, 2020 | 4 p.m. | In context of the IDSL1-seminar course "Language Acquisition & Language Impairments" Kai Vogeley gives a lecture on autism | S22 (Seminargebäude)

Lecture by Christiane Bongartz (C03)

January 13, 2020 | 6 p.m. | Christiane Bongartz gives lecture on changes in language at the Kölner Wissenschaftsrunde | Cologne town hall

Days of Writing

January 09 + 10, 2020 | First session Days of Writing in 2020 | Spitzboden, HoP

Kick-Off-Meeting: Working Group Sustainability

December 18, 2019 | 2 – 4 p.m. |Kick-off Working Group Sustainability within the CRC 1252. Contact: simon.roessig@uni-koeln.de | HoP, Spitzboden.

Winter School: "The interplay of language, literacy and cognition in bilingual settings"

December 13 – 14, 2019 | Project C03 is again organising the linguistic Winter School in Thessaloniki | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

CLIP-Workshop, December 2019

December 13, 2019 | 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. | CLIP-Workshop about "Subjektiv, Intersubjektiv, Objektiv" | with Stefan Hinterwimmer (C05) and Kai Vogeley (A02) etc. | Alter Senatssaal and Dozierendenzimmer, main building

CLIP-Lecture by Peter Graham

December 12, 2019 | 7:30 p.m. | CLIP-Lecture by Peter Graham on: "Are Grice’s Maxims Social Norms?" | Alter Senatssaal, main building

Talk at the IfL: Computational Models of Referring

Mon 02 December 2019 | 4 p.m.| Kees van Deemter is giving a talk on "Computational Models of Referring" | IfL, Seminarraum rechts

Project C03 participates at Conference in Leiden

Thu 28 - Fri 29 November 2019 | Members of project C03 are participating at the conference "Going Romance" in Leiden contributing a talk and a poster | University Library, Leiden

Daniel Gutzmann wins Offermann-Hergarten-Preis

Thu 21 November 2019 | 6 p.m. | Award Ceemony of the Offermann-Hergarten-Preis 2019, Daniel Gutzmann with his habilitation among the winners | neuer Senatssaal, main building

2nd Networking Meeting of the three CRC Cologne (1252), Potsdam (1287) and Saarbrücken (1102)

Thu 14 + Fri 15 November 2019 | Workshop to the topic "Discourse" | University of Cologne

3rd Lecture of the Sociolinguistic Cocktail Lecture Series

Thu 07 November | 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. | 3rd lecture by Anke Lüdeling (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) about "miſche darunter ſafft von wermut / vnd trincke es morgends". Die Entstehung von wissenschaftlichen und populärwissenschaftlichen Registern am Beispiel von Kräutertexten | Seminargebäude, room 004 | registration required

Introductory Lecture: Daniel Gutzmann

Wed 06 November 2019 | 5 p.m. | Daniel Gutzmann is giving his publicly open introductory lecture on "Was ist ein Kontext - und wenn ja, wie viele?" | Seminargebäude, S11

Introductory Lecture: Melanie Uth

Wed 06 November 2019 | 4 p.m. | Melanie Uth (A05) is giving her publicly open introductory lecture on "Romanistik trifft Anthropologie: Differentielle Objektmarkierung und Sprachsozialisierung im Yukatekischen Spanisch" | Seminargebäude, S11

CRC-internal General Meeting 2019

Min 04 November 2019 | from 4 p.m. | General Meeting, Reception and Discussion of the SFB | HoP, Spitzboden

Workshop: The Nuristani Languages in Synchrony and Diachrony

Fri 01 November + Sat 02 November | International Workshop on "The Nuristani Languages in Synchrony and Diachrony" organised by Eugen Hill et al. | Fri 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. and Sat 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 a.m. | IfL, Seminarraum rechts, Cologne

Lecture by A05 at Conference in Spain

Tue 29 October 2019 | 4:50 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. | Melanie Uth and Patrick Auhagen are giving a lecture at the "Congreso Internacional I ALFALito" about "La marcación preposicional de objeto directo en el español yucateco: ¿particularidades debidas al contacto?" | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

The syntax and semantics of internal arguments

Thu 24 + Fri 25 October 2019 | International workshop "The syntax and semantics of internal arguments" | organised by Klaus von Heusinger etc. | University of Bucharest (Romania) | Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2019 | click here for the Call for Papers

Workshop: Bayesian Statistics

Thu 24 + Fri 25 October 2019 | 09:00 a.m. - 5 p.m. (+ prep-session on October 22, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.) | Workshop on "Bayesian Statistics" led by Bruno Nicenboim | seminar room, Institut für Linguistik – Phonetik, Herbert-Lewin-Straße 6, Cologne

Lecture: About good and bad pitch accent distributions

Mon 14 Oktober 2019 (time to be announced) | Marc Swerts is giving a lecture on the topic "About good and bad pitch accent distributions" | Institut für Linguistik - Phonetik, Herbert-Lewin-Str. 6 - 8

Pronouns and discourse prominence

Sun 01 - Tue 03 October 2019 | International workshop "Pronouns and discourse prominence" in the framework of the series "Workshops on Referential Expressions in Discourse" (RED) | organised by Klaus von Heusinger etc. | presenters are (among others) Jet Hoek (C04) and Lukasz Jedrzejowski |GRIMMWELT, Kassel

Summer School: Language, Diversity, and Minorities

Mon 30 September - 6 Oktober 2019 | Summer School "Language, Diversity, and Minorities" organized and hosted by Aria Adli (C01, INF, Ö) etc.| Main Campus, University of Cologne

XXXVI. Romanistentag in Kassel

Sun 29 September - Wed 02 October 2019 | The 36th Romanistentag in Kassel will take place under the topic "Wiederaufbau, Rekonstruktion, Erneuerung" and includes several SFB contributions | University of Kassel, Holländischer Platz

International Workshop: Annotation of non-standard corpora: Prospects and challenges

Mon 16 - Wed 18 September 2019 | Workshop organised by Eric Engel (former member of C01), Fahime Same (INF) etc. | Lectures by Andreas Witt (INF), Katja Jasinskaja (C06), Fahime Same (INF), Eric Engel etc. | University of Bamberg

Interspeech 2019

15 - 19 September 2019 | with contributions by Simon Roessig, Doris Mücke, Anne Hermes, Lena Pagel, Tabea Thies etc. (A04) | Graz, Austria

Tutorial on Bayesian Theory of Pronoun Interpretation

Fri July 12, 2019 | 4 - 6 p.m. | by Andrew Kehler (Mercator Fellow): "Tutorial on a Bayesian Theory of Pronoun Interpretation" | Philosophikum 2.127

2nd presentation of the Sociolinguistic Cocktail Lecture Series

Wed July 3, 2019 | 2nd presentation of the "Sociolinguistic Cocktail Lecture Series" | presentation by George Guy (New York University) about "Africans in the New World: Language contact in Latin America" | Neuer Senatssaal, Hauptgebäude

R and statistics workshop with Bodo Winter

Spitzboden (HoP); on several dates: July 2 (9.30 - 11.45), July 3 (10 - 12.30), July 10 (10 - 12.30), July 11 (10 - 12), Jul 15 (9.30 - 12.30), July 16 (10 - 11.30), July 18 (9.30 - 12.30)

Sociolinguistic Cocktail Lecture Series

5 p.m. | Seminargebäude 1st floor, room S 12 | inaugural event of the Sociolinguistic Cocktail Lecture Series | Prof. Heike Wiese (HU Berlin) | "Multilinguals, monolinguals, and registers: comparing like with like" | Prof. Aria Adli (C01)

Workshop German Linguistics between Cologne and Tokyo

KOMCEE (21 Komaba Center for Educational Excellence) West 301, University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus | organized by Mori Schule, Faculty of Linguistics and Information Sciences, University of Tokyo | phiz.c.u.-tokyo.ac.jp

DGfS in Bremen from March 6 to 8

The 41st yearly retreat of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft is going to take place in Bremen next year.

Week of Writing

Mo 18 - Fr 22 February 2019 | at HoP, 5th floor | organized by Fahime (INF) & Sara (C05)

CRC Networking Workshop "Language Processing" (CRC 1252, CRC 1102, CRC 1287)

Th 14th + Fr 15th February 2019 | The workshop will take place at University of Potsdam in cooperation with University of Cologne and Saarland University

New Year's Meeting 2019

4 p.m. - 8 p.m. | at HoP on the 1st floor

Winter School "Biliterate development in diverse contexts"

Thu 13 + Fri 14 December | organized by project C03 | DAAD collaboration between the University of Cologne and the University of Thessaloniki

Christmas get together

at 6 p.m. | HoP, 1st floor | We will provide some Glühwein, punch, waffles and festive decoration. Please contribute by bringing some food and/or drinks.

CRC's general meeting

7:30 p.m. | in S15

Datives in Discourse - an international workshop in Cologne

Thu 25th - Fri 26th Oct | organized by Klaus von Heusinger (University of Cologne) and Alina Tigau (University of Bucharest)

CCLS/LAK lecture on "Processing ellipsis: The circumstances of repair"

Wednesday Oct 17 | 6 pm | in Hörsaal A2 | Mercator Fellow in SPP XPrag.de Lyn Frazier of University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) will give the lecture. She will stay from October 16-20 in Cologne.

"sounds & structure in language and music II"

6 p.m. | Public concert of the CRC in cooperation with KGNM | Church St. Peter, Jabachstraße 1, 50676 Cologne

2nd closed meeting of our CRC 'Prominence in Language'

Thu 11th - Fri 12th Oct 2018 | in Gummersbach

Ways of Reference in Romance Languages

Thu 27th - Fri 28th September | room S 15 (Seminargebäude) | organizing team: Jakob Egetenmeyer (C02) & Maria Andreou (C03)

Cognitive Structures - Linguistics, Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives (CoSt18)

Wed 12th - Fri 14th September at Uni Düsseldorf | presentations held by B06, B07, C04 at CRC 991 of Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf

Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP 2018)

Th 6th - Sa 8th September | Conference in Titanic Hotel Chaussee Berlin

Second International Conference on 'Prominence in Language'

July 11-13 | KOMED im Mediapark, 50670 Cologne

At-issueness, scope, and coherence (ASC)

Mo 9 - Tu 10 July | University of Cologne: Philosophikum and HoP | Host: Project C06 (Jasinskaja)

a.r.t.e.s. - 10 year anniversary

Th 7 p.m. | Aula (Hauptgebäude)

CLIP lecture series "freedom of speech" | Bernd Ladwig, professor at FU Berlin

"Die Redefreiheit als Menschenrecht" | 6-7:30 p.m. | lecture hall XVIII (main building)

Respiratory Movement Measures in Speech | July 2-3

Workshop at the Phonetics Institute (in German)

a.r.t.e.s. colloquium

June 28-29 | Topic: EUmanities

Franziska Kretzschmar (B07) at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen

"Putting it all together: Statistical inference across methods" - a presentation held by Franziska Kretzschmar (B07) and Phillip Alday at workshop "MPI Proudly Presents"

CLIP lecture series "freedom of speech" | Peter Singer, professor at Princeton University

"Philosophy, Controversy, and Freedom of Speech" | 7:30-9 p.m. | Aula 2 (main building)

CCLS Lecture: Sarah Verlage (Köln)

"When language meets number: Quantifier knowledge intypically and atypically developing children" | 2 p.m. | S11

CLIP lecture series | Vera Lisakowski

(in German) "!!!111!!!!einself!! - Das Internet, die Redefreiheit und ihre Verteidiger" | 6 p.m. | Hörsaal 18

CCLS Lecture: Onno A. Crasborn (Nijmegen)

"Code-blending of sign and speech in Sign Language of the Netherlands" | 2 p.m. | S11

CCLS Lecture: Chiara Gianollo (Bologna)

(in German) "Doppelt ausgedrückt hält besser: Ausdrücke der Negation im Griechischen, Latein, Italienischen" | 2 p.m. | S11

CLIP lecture series | Joanna Williams

„Identity politics in the university: conflicting demands on academic freedom” | 6 p.m. | Hörsaal 18 (Hauptgebäude)

CCLS Lecture: Ulrike Mosel (from Kiel)

Towards a typology of zero anaphora (2 p.m. | S11)

CCLS and CRC spring happening!

at 2 p.m. | at HoP | includes opening ceremony of the world map and snacks

March for Science in Cologne

11 a.m. Domplatte | March to Rudolfplatz | 12 p.m. rally