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Dahlem Lectures in Linguistics

We invite researchers from Germany and abroad to the Dahlem Lectures in Linguistics (DLL) of the Dahlem Center for Linguistics (formerly iZEUS) to talk about current topics in linguistics. Among other things, we discuss grammatical phenomena and their explanations, linguistic theories and methods, the social embedding of language and aspects of language change. Another important topic for us is the scientific integration of findings from neuro-, psycho- and computational linguistics and traditional grammar theory.

Dahlem Center for Linguistics

Semester opening: Linguistik im November

Our event series for the opening of the academic year in cooperation with the Dahlem Humanities Center: Linguistik im November (in German). Every year in November, we organize a panel discussion on a current and socially relevant topic.

Events

Workshop | Variation and Change in Present-Day Istriot (EXREAN)

Location: Seminarraum 0.2052 (Fabeckstraße 23/25)

Jun 26, 2026
Jun 30, 2026 | 04:00 PM c.t. - 06:00 PM

Lecture | Czech it out! Czech for Linguists

Location: L115 Seminarzentrum (Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26 / Mensa)

Jul 14, 2026 | 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM

Symposium | Language and the Brain

Location: J32/102 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Sep 03, 2026 - Sep 04, 2026

Workshop | Individual Differences in Pragmatic Processing (EXREAN)

Location: L116 Seminarzentrum (Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26 / Mensa)

Sep 10, 2026 - Sep 11, 2026

DLL | Constructions with crossed syntactic dependencies show elevated lexical cohesion: The compensatory collocation hypothesis

Dahlem Lectures in Linguistics

Location: L115 Seminarzentrum (Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26 / Mensa)

Jun 02, 2026 | 04:00 PM c.t. - 06:00 PM

Workshop | The Acquisition of L2 Phonology and Beyond

Location: L115 Seminarzentrum (Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26 / Mensa)

May 29, 2026 - May 30, 2026

DLL | Gender comprehension in Heritage Spanish speakers: effects of lexical knowledge and vowel production

Dahlem Lectures in Linguistics

Location: L115 Seminarzentrum (Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26 / Mensa)

May 26, 2026 | 04:00 PM c.t. - 06:00 PM

DLL | Genus-insensitives ‚sein‘ im Deutschen: Norm, Variation, Geschichte, Sprachkontakt

Dahlem Lectures in Linguistics

Location: L115 Seminarzentrum (Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26 / Mensa)

May 19, 2026 | 04:00 PM c.t. - 06:00 PM

Workshop: A Germanic Sandwich 10

Location: Seminarzentrum Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26

May 07, 2026 - May 08, 2026
May 05, 2026 | 04:00 PM c.t. - 06:00 PM

DLL | Why Phonology? Pertinacious constraints and nonesuches

Dahlem Lectures in Linguistics

Location: L115 Seminarzentrum (Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26 / Mensa)

Apr 28, 2026 | 04:00 PM c.t. - 06:00 PM

DLL | Modelling Communicative Interactions by Common Ground Updates: The Table Model vs. Commitment Spaces

Dahlem Lectures in Linguistics

Location: L115 Seminarzentrum (Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26 / Mensa)

Apr 21, 2026 | 04:00 PM c.t. - 06:00 PM

Conference: Digital P(a)lates: The Language of Online Food Practices

Location: L 116 Seminarzentrum (Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26 / Mensa)

Mar 26, 2026 - Mar 28, 2026

DLL: Morphological creativity and productivity: an integrated approach

Dahlem Lectures in Linguistics

Location: L115 Seminarzentrum Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26 / Mensa)

Feb 03, 2026 | 04:00 PM c.t. - 06:00 PM

DLL: Does language hit the beat? Studying speech rhythm across prosodically diverse languages by means of sensorimotor synchronisation

Dahlem Lectures in Linguistics

Location: L115 Seminarzentrum Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26 / Mensa)

Jan 20, 2026 | 04:00 PM c.t. - 06:00 PM

DLL: Applicative constructions in Shilluk

Dahlem Lectures in Linguistics

Location: L115 Seminarzentrum Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26 / Mensa)

Jan 06, 2026 | 04:00 PM c.t. - 06:00 PM

DLL: The history of mirative why in English: a Word Grammar account

Dahlem Lectures in Linguistics

Location: L115 Seminarzentrum Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26 / Mensa)

Dec 16, 2025 | 04:00 PM c.t. - 06:00 PM

DLL: Posthumanist Language Assemblages, Large Language Models and Digital Empires

Dahlem Lectures in Linguistics

Location: L115 Seminarzentrum Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26 / Mensa)

Dec 04, 2025 | 04:00 PM c.t. - 06:00 PM

DLL: Prosodic structures and the cognition of prominence in speech and song

Dahlem Lectures in Linguistics

Location: L113 Seminarzentrum Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26 / Mensa)

Nov 25, 2025 | 04:00 PM c.t. - 06:00 PM

Podiumsdiskussion: Wozu noch Grammatik in der Schule? Zeitgemäßer Deutsch-Unterricht in der Diskussion

Eine Veranstaltung des Dahlem Center for Linguistics und des Dahlem Humanities Center im Rahmen der Berlin Science Week .

Location: Freie Universität Berlin Hörsaal 2 | Rost- und Silberlaube Habelschwerdter Allee 45 14195 Berlin

Nov 06, 2025 | 06:15 PM s.t.
Nov 06, 2025 | 10:00 AM
Nov 04, 2025 | 04:00 PM c.t. - 06:00 PM

Online lecture: Ways of State-Building in Contemporary China

Gegentuul Baioud (Uppsala University): Linguistic hauntings at the margins of China. Communication co-organized by the University of Venice and the Freie Universität Berlin (Giulia Cabras).

Oct 30, 2025 | 04:00 PM s.t.

DLL: Sprachen im Fluss. Modalität und Informationsstruktur am Rio Negro

Dahlem Lectures in Linguistics

Location: L115 Seminarzentrum Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26 / Mensa

Oct 21, 2025 | 04:00 PM c.t. - 06:00 PM

DLL: Making Space: Instructions and Sequentiality in Joint Building Activities

Location: L116 Seminarzentrum Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26 / Mensa

Jul 15, 2025 | 04:00 PM c.t. - 06:00 PM
Jul 01, 2025 | 04:00 PM c.t. - 06:00 PM

Inauguration of the Dahlem Center for Linguistics

On Friday, June 20, at 4:00 p.m., the linguists of Freie Universität Berlin will launch the Dahlem Center for Linguistics and welcome Bert Remijsen, who will base his ERC Synergy Grant on African languages at Freie Universität Berlin.

Jun 20, 2025 | 04:00 PM

DLL: Demonstrativpronomen im Kontrast

Location: L116 Seminarzentrum Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26 / Mensa

Jun 17, 2025 | 04:00 PM c.t. - 06:00 PM
Jun 10, 2025 | 04:00 PM c.t. - 06:00 PM
Jun 03, 2025 | 04:00 PM c.t. - 06:00 PM

DLL: Early and late acquisition of temporal speech patterns

Location: L116 Seminarzentrum Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26 / Mensa

May 20, 2025 | 04:00 PM c.t. - 06:00 PM

DLL: The neuropragmatics of speech acts

Location: L116 Seminarzentrum Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26 / Mensa

May 06, 2025 | 04:00 PM c.t. - 06:00 PM