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Institut für Romanische Philologie
Dr. Giulia Cabras
This study examines how urban growth, policies, migration, and socioeconomics shape language use in public spaces, focusing on multilingual signage. Combining ethnography, sociolinguistics, and urban studies, it analyzes visibility of Tibetan and Standard Chinese in Rongwo (Longwu), a rapidly ...
Institut für Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie
Dr. Andreas Pankau
This network project investigates adverbial clauses and their dependency relations from synchronic, diachronic, and typological perspectives, aiming to deepen understanding of subordinate clauses. Meetings explore dependencies between adverbials and matrix clauses, the development, variation, and ...
Prof. Dr. Malte Rosemeyer
EXREAN is a pioneering project that replicates historical reanalysis processes in a lab setting to understand how and why grammatical change occurs.
Prof. Dr. Horst Simon, Prof. Dr. Natalia Filatkina (Universität Hamburg) Prof. Dr. Andrea Rapp (Technische Universität Darmstadt)
Das Langzeitvorhaben widmet sich der Volltexterschließung, korpuslinguistischen Aufbereitung, Annotation, digitalen Vernetzung sowie der sprach-, kultur- und wissenshistorischen Auswertung historischer Fremdsprachenlehrwerke der Frühen Neuzeit, in denen Deutsch Ziel- oder Ausgangssprache ist.
Institut für Semitistik
Dr. Fabio Gasparini
The cultures and environment of Modern South Arabian Language (MSAL) speakers are threatened by rapid social changes like urbanisation and Arabization, unsustainable development, and climate change. This leads to a loss of traditional knowledge about human–landscape relationships, negatively ...
Dr. Andrea Pešková
By means of perception and production data, the project contributes to the research on second language acquisition by exploring how Czech, Finnish, German and Spanish adult (literate) learners acquire (word-internal) consonant length in L2 Italian.
Prof. Dr. Uli Reich, André Amorim
Das Projekt untersucht Modalität und Informationsstruktur in der Tupi-Guarani-Sprache Nheengatu in typologischer Perspektive. Die partizipativ angelegte Methodologie versucht einen Beitrag zur Stärkung der indigenen Autonomie in der Region zu leisten.
Prof. Dr. Matthias Hüning , Prof. Dr. Anne Fleig
This comparative project investigates the origins of modern monolingualism—“pre‑monolingualism”—and its literary effects by comparing 18th‑century German and 20th‑century Turkish. It examines how standard‑language ideology, national linguistic norms, and reforms (notably ...
Institut für Englische Philologie
Prof. Dr. Sofia Rüdiger
This project analyzes how popular Anglophone food-excess videos use language to frame overconsumption as entertainment.
Institut für Iranistik
Dr. Jakob Halfmann
This junior research group focuses on the languages of the so-called “Indo-Iranian Frontier” in present-day Afghanistan and Pakistan. The aim of the project is to obtain a more comprehensive picture of the linguistic history and prehistory of the region through a close integration of field ...
Dr. Assaf Bar-Moshe
In the past millennium, Jews residing in the river basins of the Tigris and the Euphrates conversed in a diverse array of Judeo-Arabic dialects. Classified within the qǝltu group of Mesopotamian Arabic, these dialects exhibit notable distinctions among them. Through a comparative analysis, the ...
Prof. Dr. Horst Simon, Prof. Dr. Tanja Ackermann (Universität Bielefeld)
VariPrag untersucht regionale Unterschiede im Gebrauch kommunikativer Muster innerhalb des deutschsprachigen Raums. Dass es solche Unterschiede gibt, ist eine weit verbreitete Annahme. Vermutet wird auch, dass Unterschiede im Kommunikationsverhalten immer wieder zu Missverständnissen und ...
