I work in the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface, which addresses (from various vantage points) questions of how communication works in context. My current work focuses on the discourse structuring and information packaging factors that condition the choice of certain discourse markers, and seek to provide clues to our understanding of the syntax-to-discourse relation. I have worked on topics such as reported speech, polysemy of functional words and disambiguation through statistical methods.

Selected articles:

• Canes Nápoles, A. & Delbecque, N. 2017. “’En realidad’, polisemia y polifuncionalidad de un marcador discursivo”. In Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana (RILI): 29 (1):173-206.
• Canes Nápoles. 2020. “La cita en la estrategia de divulgación de un producto médico. Análisis discursivo”. In Verba: Anuario Galego de Filoloxía (forthcoming).

My research interests lie at the interface between syntax and information structure. Building on spontaneous speech data (sgscorpus), I investigate how certain pragmatic functions (such as focus) are realized in French and Spanish, comparing specific syntactic constructions and their functional and semantic properties. This work aims at giving better insights on how communication among speaker and hearer is structured and organized.

Selected articles:

Cassarà, Alessia & Mürmann. Sophie. 2018. Role semantic parameters for Differentially Object Marking in Spanish and Italian. Talk presented in Kolloquium DOM in Spanish: diachronic change and synchronic variation. Zürich (submitted).

My research interests lie in the relation between variation and grammar. Focussing on phenomena at the syntax-semantics interface, I investigate the influence of discourse and speaker-related variables on the structure of utterances in spontaneous speech. This work is integrated in the larger question of how such influences can be in accordance with a representation of grammar as a rule system.

Selected articles:

Caro Reina, Javier & Eric Engel. Accepted. Worttrennung am Zeilenende im Frühneuhochdeutschen auf der Grundlage der Hexenverhörprotokolle [Word hyphenation in Early New High German witch trial protocols]. In Renata Szczepaniak, Lisa Dücker & Stefan Hartmann (eds.), Hexenverhörprotokolle als sprachhistorisches Korpus (Germanistische Linguistik). Berlin: de Gruyter.

Selected articles:

Herbeck, Peter (2018). “Deriving Null, Strong, and Emphatic Pronouns in Romance Null Subject Languages”. In: Pritty Patel-Grosz, Patrick Georg Grosz & Sarah Zobel (Eds.), Pronouns in embedded contexts at the syntax-semantics interface (Studies in Linguistics & Philosophy, vol. 99). Springer. 171-213. 

Herbeck, Peter (2015). “Overt PRO in Romance – Towards a Unification of PRO and pro”. In: Rachel Klassen, Juana M. Liceras & Elena Valenzuela (Eds.), Theoretical and Experimental Issues in Hispanic Linguistics: Selected Papers from the Hispanic Linguistic Symposium 2013 (Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 25-48.

Eckehard Pistrick ist vertretender Juniorprofessor um Institut für Europäische Musikethnologie der Universität zu Köln. Zuvor war er über acht Jahre als Dozent für Musikethnologie an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg tätig. Er ist zudem assoziierter Forscher am Centre de Recherche en Ethnomusicologie in Paris. Zu seinen aktuellen Forschungsschwerpunkten zählt neben der Musik Südosteuropas das Themenfeld Musik und Migration, dass er versucht mit empathischen, kollaborativen und multimedialen Projekten zu erfassen. Dabei versucht er in transnationalen Feldforschungen neue Erkenntnisse zu den Zusammenhängen zwischen menschlicher Existentialität und Kreativität zu gewinnen. Dazu hat er als Kurator des Klangkunst-Raums Bi'Bak, Berlin gewirkt, und jüngst das Graswurzel-Musikprojekt "Borders" in einer Erstaufnahmeeinrichtung ins Leben gerufen. Seit November koordiniert er von der Uzk aus das Projekt Orpheus XXI in Deutschland - ein europäisches Pilotprojekt, das kulturelle Teilhabe für geflüchtete Musiker ermöglicht.

Zu seinen Publikationen zählen die Monographie "Performing Nostalgia - Migration Culture and Creativity" (Asghate 2015), der preisgekrönte Dokumentarfilm "Polyphonia-Albanien's vergessene Stimmen" (2011) sowie Radiofeatures. Zur Migrationsthematik sind seine Artikel "Empty Migrant Rooms: An Anthropology of Absence through the Camera Lens" (mit Florian Bachmeier) und "La Sonorité du vide - Comment les migrants se font entendre à travers le son et le silence?" erschienen.

Selected articles:

https://journals.openedition.org/remmm/11804
https://www.hf.uni-koeln.de/39010

Christoph Ramm works at the Institute for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies of the University of Bern (Switzerland), where he teaches Turkish language, history and politics. He studied in Bonn, Istanbul and Bochum. In 2009 he completed his doctoral dissertation on nationalism and identity formation among Turkish Cypriots and Turkish immigrants in Cyprus. Between 2010 and 2012 he was Co-Coordinator of the TurkeyEuropeCentre at the University of Hamburg. His research focus is on Modern Turkish History, nationalism and identity construction, postcolonialism, migration and Islam in Europe, Turkey and the European Union. Currently he is working on a research project about the history of pluralism in Turkish society.

Selected articles:

Ramm, Christoph (2017): “The Muslim-Makers: How Germany ‘Islamizes’ Turkish Immigrants“, in: Jasmin Mahadevan and Claude-Hélène Mayer (eds): Muslim Minorities, Workplace Diversity and Reflexive HRM, London/New York: Routledge, 47-58.

Ramm, Christoph (2016): “Beyond ‘Black Turks’ and ‘White Turks’ – The Turkish Elites’ Ongoing Mission to Civilize a Colourful Society”, in: Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques 70, no. 4, 1355–1385.

Johanna Steindorf is a media artist that has been working with participative performances, audio, photography and video. Often using narrative and mobile strategies, her work deals with the subject of migration, nomadism, gender and walking. Her works deal with both the construction of private spaces and the individual's position in public space.

Regardless of the media and format used, the focus lies on the cooperation with individuals and groups, which are involved in the artistic process to different degrees. Performative works originate precisely in this exchange - that often occurs in trans- or intercultural environments - and are conceptualized, developed and ultimately received on the move.

2017:

„The Audio Walk. From Locative to Situative Art”

Sweep – Symposium on Sound Research at the University of Kassel.

„Walk-Along with a Mediated Presence: The Audio Walk as a Mobile Method“

Wi Journal of Mobile Media, Vol. 11 Nr.I, Montreal, Canada.

2016:

„Female Flânerie, Migration and Audio Walks“

Flâneur – New Urban Narratives International Conference, Lisbon, Portugal.