View the newsletter in your browser URPP Language and Space – Newsletter September 2018Dear Readers, This newsletter informs you about activities, projects and people playing a prominent role within the URPP Language and Space project. URPP Language and Space Lab
"Doing Space" in face-to-face interaction and on interactive multimodal platforms
Sociolinguistic knowledge in dialect identification
Environmental factors drive language density more in food-producing than in hunter-gatherer populations
Sharing perception when using hands-on exhibits in science centres
PeopleStarting 1 August 2018, Elisabeth Stark took up the position as co-leader of the URPP Language and Space project, working together with continuing co-leader Heiko Hausendorf. We wish her all the best in this new role! We cordially thank Elvira Glaser, who co-founded the URPP and co-directed the Language and Space project from 2013 to 2018. Johannes Kabatek is the new coordinator of the focused research group “Systems of Nominal Determination in Contact (SyNoDe)”. As successor to Elisabeth Stark, he has been a member of the URPP Steering Committee since 1 August 2018. Carlota de Benito Moreno was appointed Assistant Professor of Language and Space in Iberoromance by the Board of the University of Zurich on 1 September 2018. Since 2013, Carlota has been working as an assistant at the UZH Institute of Romance Studies. Congratulations! David Gerards, doctoral student in the research group "SyNoDe" was appointed as a member of the academic staff in the Romance Department of the University of Leipzig. Congratulations to David and all the best in the next steps of his career! The URPP Language and Space welcomes additional new members to the research groups as of June 2018 and within the following months: new postdoctoral research fellows Iris Hübscher, Elisa Pellegrino and Tania Paciaroni, new doctoral students Omnia Ahmed Mohamed Abdo Ibrahim, Manuel Bär, Larissa Binder, Nour Efrat-Kowalsky, and Sandra Winiger. New projects in research groupsWithin the research groups of the URPP Language and Space, two third-party funded projects have recently been approved. "Digital language resources. Empirical analysis and perspectives" (PI: Christa Dürscheid), funded by the Swiss National Science foundation, Digital Lives (12/2018-5/2020, more on Digital Lives) "Internal and external causes of appearance and grammatical characteristics of the perfect tense form 'to be + passive participle' in Macedonian" (PI: Anastasia Makarova, postdoctoral Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship 9/2018-8/2019, affiliation to research group Areal Morphology and supervision by Barbara Sonnenhauser) Upcoming EventsWORKSHOPS What’s up, Switzerland? Stadt als Spielfeld denken Accommodation
COLLOQUIUM LECTURES Upcoming lectures in URPP colloquium in fall semester 2018
The Language & Space colloquium takes place on Thursdays, from 16:15 to 18:00. Details will be published and updated at our agenda. Recent Publications (since last newsletter in April 2018)(names of URPP Language and Space members are in bold) Journal articles
Seifart, Frank; Strunk, Jan; Danielsen, Swintha; Hartmann, Iren; Pakendorf, Brigitte; Wichmann, Søren; Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena; de Jong, Nivja H; Bickel, Balthasar (2018). Nouns slow down speech across structurally and culturally diverse languages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115 (22) 5720-5725. Egorova Ekaterina, Ludovic Moncla, Mauro Gaio, Christophe Claramunt & Ross S. Purves (2018) Fictive motion extraction and classification. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 32: 11. Hundt, Marianne (2018) ‘My language, my identity’: Negotiating language use and attitudes in the New Zealand Fiji-Indian diaspora. Asian Englishes. Hundt, Marianne, Melanie Röthlisberger and Elena Seoane (2018). Predicting Voice Alternation Across Academic Englishes. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. Hundt, Marianne and Adina Staicov (2018) Identity in the London Indian Diaspora: Towards the quantification of qualitative data. World Englishes 37: 166-184. Callegaro, Elena; Clematide, Simon; Hundt, Marianne; Wick, Sara (2018). Variable article use with acronyms and initialisms: a contrastive analysis of English, German and Italian. Languages in Contrast, 18(2). Seoane, Elena; Hundt, Marianne (2018). Voice alternation and authorial presence : variation across disciplinary areas in academic english. Journal of English Linguistics, 46(1):3-22. Jucker, Andreas H; Hausendorf, Heiko; Dürscheid, Christa; Frick, Karina; Hottiger, Christoph; Kesselheim, Wolfgang; Linke, Angelika; Meyer, Nathalie; Steger, Antonia (2018). Doing space in face-to-face interaction and on interactive multimodal platforms. Journal of Pragmatics, 134C:85-101. Jucker, Andreas H (2018). Apologies in the History of English: Evidence from the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA). Corpus Pragmatics. Wartmann, Flurina M.; Purves, Ross S. (2018). Investigating sense of place as a cultural ecosystem service in different landscapes through the lens of language. Landsc. Urban Plan. 2018, 175, 169–183. Flurina M. Wartmann, Elise Acheson & Ross S. Purves (2018). Describing and comparing landscapes using tags, texts, and free lists: an interdisciplinary approach, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 32:8, 1572-1592. Azam R. Bahrehdar & Ross S. Purves (2018). Description and characterization of place properties using topic modeling on georeferenced tags, Geo-spatial Information Science. Chesnokova, Olga & S Purves, Ross (2018). From image descriptions to perceived sounds and sources in landscape: Analyzing aural experience through text. Applied Geography. 93. 103-111. Ross S. Purves, Paul Clough, Christopher B. Jones, Mark H. Hall and Vanessa Murdock (2018), "Geographic Information Retrieval: Progress and Challenges in Spatial Search of Text", Foundations and Trends® in Information Retrieval: Vol. 12: No. 2-3, pp 164-318. Flurina M. Wartmann & Ross S. Purves (2018) ‘This is not the jungle, this is my barbecho’: semantics of ethnoecological landscape categories in the Bolivian Amazon, Landscape Research, 43:1, 77-94. Luca Scherrer, Martin Tomko, Peter Ranacher and Robert Weibel (2018). Travelers or locals? Identifying meaningful sub-populations from human movement data in the absence of ground truth. EPJ Data Science 2018, 7:19. Ruch, Hanna; Zürcher, Yvonne; Burkart, Judith M (2018). The function and mechanism of vocal accommodation in humans and other primates. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 93(2):996-1013. Ruch, Hanna (2018). The role of acoustic distance and sociolinguistic knowledge in dialect identification. Frontiers in Psychology 9:818. Ruch, Hanna (2018). Perception of speaker age and speaker origin in a sound change in progress: The case of /s/-aspiration in Andalusian Spanish. Journal of Linguistic Geography 6, 40-55. Samardžić, Tanja and Paola Merlo (2018). "Probability of external causation: an empirical account of cross-linguistic variation in lexical causatives". Linguistics 56:5. Avanzi, Mathieu; Stark, Elisabeth (2018). A crowdsourcing approach to the description of regional variation in French object clitic clusters. Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 2017(31):76-103. Massot, Benjamin / Stark, Elisabeth (2018): Microvariation morphosyntaxique galloromane: Enjeux et défis. Lingvisticæ Investigationes 41-1. Moran, Steven; Blasi, Damián E; Schikowski, Robert; Küntay, Aylin; Pfeiler, Barbara; Allen, Shanley; Stoll, Sabine (2018). A universal cue for grammatical categories in the input to children: frequent frames. Cognition, 175:131-140. Bühler, Jessica; von Oertzen, Timo; McBride, Catherine; Stoll, Sabine; Maurer, Urs (2018). Influence of dialect use on early reading and spelling acquisition in German-speaking children in Grade 1. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 30(3):336-360. Karsznia, Izabela; Weibel, Robert (2018). Improving settlement selection for small-scale maps using data enrichment and machine learning. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 45(2):111-127. Scherschel, Ricarda; Widmer, Paul; Poppe, Erich (2018). Towards a multivariate classification of event noun constructions in Middle Welsh. Journal of Celtic Linguistics, 19:31-68. Conference contributions
Brandenberger, Christina; Hottiger, Christoph (2018), Sharing perception when using hands-on exhibits in science centres: The case of vocal depiction. Travaux neuchâtelois de linguistique 68, 59-68. Pellegrino, Elisa; He, Lei; Dellwo, Volker (2018). The Effect of Ageing on Speech Rhythm: A Study on Zurich German. In: Speech Prosody 2018, Poznan, 13 Juni 2018 - 16 Juni 2018, 133-137. Moncla, L., Gaio, M., Egorova, Ekaterina, & Claramunt, C. (2018). An automatic extraction method of static and dynamic spatial contexts from texts. In Atelier Science des Données et Humanités Numériques (SDHN), Conférence Internationale Francophone sur l'Extraction et la Gestion de Connaissance (EGC 2018). Lusetti, Massimo, Tatyana Ruzsics, Anne Göhring, Tanja Samardžić, Elisabeth Stark (2018). “Encoder-Decoder Methods for Text Normalization”. In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial2018), COLING2018, Santa Fe, NM. Zampieri, Marcos, Shervin Malmasi, Preslav Nakov, Ahmed Ali, Suwon Shon, James Glass, Yves Scherrer, Tanja Samardžić, Nikola Ljubešić, Jörg Tiedemann, Chris van der Lee, Stefan Grondelaers, Nelleke Oostdijk, Antal van den Bosch, Ritesh Kumar, Bornini Lahiri, Mayank Jain (2018). "Language Identification and Morphosyntactic Tagging: The Second VarDial Evaluation Campaign". In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial). pp. 1-17. Santa Fe, United States. Batanović, Vuk, Nikola Ljubešić and Tanja Samardžić (2018). “SETimes.SR - A Reference Training Corpus of Serbian”. In Proceedings of the Language Technologies and Digital Humanities 2018, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Sommer, Florian (2018). Komposita, Partizipien und Partizipanten im Jungavestischen. In: Le Feuvre, Claire / Petit, Daniel / Pinault, Georges (Hrsg.): Verbal Adjectives and Participles in Indo-European Languages / Adjectifs verbaux et participes dans les langues indo-européennes. Bremen: Hempen 2017, 419-433. Sommer, Florian (2018) Georg Wenker und das Litauische. In: Bichlmeier, Harald / Brohm, Silke / Schiller, Christiane (Hrsg.): Deutsche Gelehrte und die baltischen Sprachen. Akten der 1. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Baltische Studien e.V. am 20. bis 21. Mai 2016 an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Hamburg: Baar. Volk, Martin (2018). Parallel Corpora, Terminology Extraction and Machine Translation. In: 16. DTT-Symposion. Terminologie und Text(e), Mannheim, 22 März 2018 - 24 März 2018, 3-14.
Book chapters
Dürscheid, Christa. Bild, Schrift, Unicode. In: Hermes, Jürgen/Lalande, Jean-Yves/Mensching, Guido/Neuefeind, Claes (Hrsg.): Sprache – Mensch – Maschine. Beiträge zu Sprache und Sprachwissenschaft, Computerlinguistik und Informationstechnologie für Jürgen Rolshoven aus Anlass seines sechsundsechzigsten Geburtstages. Köln: Universität zu Köln [in print]. Dürscheid, Christa (2018). Internetkommunikation, Sprachwandel und DaF-Didaktik. In: Moraldo, Sandro M. Sprachwandel : Perspektiven für den Unterricht Deutsch als Fremdsprache. Heidelberg: Universitaetsverlag Winter, 141-159. Gerards, David and Elisabeth Stark. Why partitive articles? Encoding individuation in Galloromance nominal. In C. Poletto/E. Rinke (eds.): Romance languages and linguistic theory 2016: selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ Frankfurt 2016, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Glaser, Elvira (2018). Code-switching and Borrowing in Arbresh Dialects. In: Kahl, Thede, Iliana Krapova, Giuseppina Turano (Hgg.): Balkan and South Slavic Enclaves in Italy: Languages, Dialects and Identities. Proceedings from the Sixth Meeting of the Commission for Balkan Linguistics of the International Committee of Slavists. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018, 48-64. Glaser, Elvira; Stoeckle, Philipp; Bachmann, Sandro. Faktoren und Arten intrapersoneller Variation im Material des Syntaktischen Atlas der deutschen Schweiz (SADS). In: Speyer, Augustin, Philipp Rauth (Hrsg.), Syntax aus Saarbrücker Sicht 3. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik. Hausendorf, Heiko & Schmitt, Reinhold (2018). Sprachliche Interaktion im Raum. In: Sprache im kommunikativen, interaktiven und kulturellen Kontext.Hrsg. v. Deppermann, Arnulf / Reineke, Silke. Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft um 2020/3, 87-118. Hundt, Marianne (2018). It is time that this (should) be studied across a broader range of Englishes: a global trip around mandative subjunctives. In: Deshors, Sandra C. Modeling World Englishes. Assessing the interplay of emancipation and globalization of ESL varieties. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, 217-244. Hundt, Marianne (2018). Variable article usage with institutional nouns: An “oddment” of English? In: Ho-Cheong Leung, Alex; van der Wurff, Wim. The Noun Phrase in English. Past and present. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 113-142. Sleeman, Petra & Tabea Ihsane. “Convergence and divergence in the expression of partitivity: a cross-linguistic experimental study”, in: Tabea Ihsane/Elisabeth Stark (eds.): Shades of Partitivity: formal and areal properties, special issue on partitivity in Linguistics. Jucker, Andreas H (2018). Data in pragmatic research. In: Bublitz, Wolfram, Jucker, Andreas H; Schneider, Klaus P. Methods in Pragmatics. Berlin: De Gruyter, 3-36. Jucker, Andreas H (2018). Introduction to part 4: Observational pragmatics. In: Bublitz, Wolfram, Jucker, Andreas H; Schneider, Klaus P. Methods in Pragmatics. Berlin: De Gruyter, 335-342. Jucker, Andreas H (2018). Introduction to part 5: Corpus pragmatics. In: Bublitz, Wolfram, Jucker, Andreas H; Schneider, Klaus P. Methods in Pragmatics. Berlin: De Gruyter, 455-466. Kabatek, Johannes. Spoken and written language. In: Sousa, Xulio / González Seoane, Ernesto (Hrsg.): Manual of Galician Linguistics, Berlin: De Gruyter. Kabatek, Johannes (2018). Language and regionalism, in: Núñez Seixas, Xosé M. / Storm, Eric (eds.). Regionalism and Modern Europe. Identity Construction and Movements from 1890 to the Present Day, London-Oxford-New York: Bloomsbury Academic. Linke, Angelika (2018). Von höfischem Wortgepräng zu bürgerlicher Korrektheit. Sprachbewusstseinsgeschichte und Sprachnormenwandel vom 17. zum 19. Jahrhundert. In: Sittig, Claudius; Wieland, Christian. Die 'Kunst des Adels' in der Frühen Neuzeit. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 147-170. Linke, Angelika (2018). Kulturhistorische Linguistik. In: Deppermann, Arnulf/Reineke, Silke (Hrsg.): Sprache im kommunikativen, interaktiven und kulturellen Kontext. (Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft um 2020 3), De Gruyter, 357-384. Loporcaro, Michele (2018). On the gender system of Viterbese. In: D’Alessandro, Roberta; Pescarini, Diego. Advances in Italian Dialectology: sketches of Italo-Romance grammars. Leiden: Brill, 121-134. Loporcaro, Michele (2018). On the subordinate status of the choice between formal and substantive explanation for sound change. In: Sánchez Miret, Fernando; Recasens, Daniel. Production and Perception Mechanisms of Sound Change. München: LINCOM, 71-89. Sonnenhauser, Barbara (2018). Relativisation strategies in Slovene: diachrony between language use and language description. In: Grkovic-Major, Jasmina; Hansen, Björn; Sonnenhauser, Barbara. Diachronic Slavonic Syntax: The Interplay between Internal Development, Language Contact and Metalinguistic Factors. Berlin: De Gruyter, 387-406. Stark, Elisabeth; Robert-Tissot, Aurélia; Frick, Karina (2018). Determiner Ellipsis in Electronic Writing - Discourse or Syntax? In: Gärtig, Anne-Kathrin; Bauer, Roland; Heinz, Matthias. Pragmatik - Diskurs - Kommunikation: Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Gudrun Held. Wien: Praesens Verlag, 186-198. Jung, Dagmar; Klein, Mark; Stoll, Sabine (2018). Language transition(s): School responses to recent changes in language choice in a northern Dene community (Canada). In: Wigglesworth, Gillian; Simpson, Jane; Vaughan, Gill. Language Practices of Indigenous Children and Youth: The Transition from Home to School. UK: Palrgrave Macmillan, 49-69. Vuković, Teodora and Samardžić, Tanja (2018). Prostorna raspodela frekvencije postpozitivnog člana u timočkom govoru. In Ćirković, Svetlana (chief ed.), Sobolev, Andrej N.; Sonnenhauser, Barbara; Miličević, Maja; Pandurević, Jelenka (eds.). Timok.Folkloristička i lingvistička terenska istraživanja 2015-2017. Knjaževac: Narodna biblioteka "Njegoš". Beograd: Udruženje folklorista Srbije. Widmer, Paul (2018). Indogermanische Stammbäume. Datentypen und Methoden. In: Rieken, Elisabeth; Geupel, Ulrich; Roth, Theresa Maria. 100 Jahre Entzifferung des Hethitischen. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 373-388.
Edited books, special issues, and section thématique
Dürscheid, Christa/Elspaß, Stephan/Ziegler, Arne et al. (2018): Variantengrammatik des Standarddeutschen. Ein Online-Nachschlagewerk. Verfasst von einem Autorenteam unter der Leitung von Christa Dürscheid, Stephan Elspaß und Arne Ziegler. Bublitz, Wolfram, Jucker, Andreas H; Schneider, Klaus P. (2018). Methods in Pragmatics. Berlin: De Gruyter. Massot, Benjamin / Stark, Elisabeth (2018): Microvariation morphosyntaxique galloromane: Enjeux et défis. Lingvisticæ Investigationes 41-1
Review articles
Hundt, Marianne (2018). Review of Debra Ziegeler. 2015. Converging Grammars: Constructions in Singapore English. Boston, Berlin: de Gruyter. English World-Wide: a journal of varieties of English, 39(2):243-249. Kabatek, Johannes (2018). Rezension zu: Ekkehard Felder. 2016. Einführung in die Varietätenlinguistik (Germanistik Kompakt). Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft. Follow us on twitter Unsubscribe from the URPP's newsletter © University of Zurich, URPP Language and Space 2018 |
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