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Talks & Lectures

August 2023
Aria Adli & Vahid Mortezapour: The formal and functional distribution of right-peripheral arguments in German and Persian across registers. (56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE)). With Nico Lehmann, Motahareh Sameri, and Elisabeth Verhoeven.

October 14, 2022
Aria Adli: Person/number: disentangling cognitive effects and the role of politeness. (NWAV50, University of Stanford)

August 22, 2022
Vahid Mortezapour: Investigating inter-individual variation in register from social networks perspective (CARLA 2022, HU Berlin). Abstract

August 02, 2022
Aria Adli & Eric Engel: What can we learn from microinterviews? (Re-)Using data from an interdisciplinary survey on the very old (Methods XVII). Abstract

April 13, 2022
Aria Adli: Local person referents and the role of politeness: Comparing variable subject pronouns in Spanish and Persian. (ICLaVE, University of Vienna)

May 20, 2022
Aria Adli: La dynamique des populations dans le contact des langues: une simulation numérique du changement linguistique. (University of Strasbourg)

October 19, 2021
Aria Adli & Eric Engel: A panel study at the end of the lifespan: Social and cognitive constraints of syntactic complexity for the very old. (NWAV 49, University of Texas at Austin)

July 05, 2021 
Aria Adli & Gregory Guy (NYU): Null subjects in Persian and Portuguese: Cross-cultural quantitative analyses of variation and change. (University of Kurdistan)

May 28, 2021
Workshop New perspectives on (morpho)syntactic variation in Germanic and Romance varieties, Syntactic complexity and implicational hierarchies of cognitive and social factors.

June 2021
Aria Adli & Roman Pfeifer: Sonification of register: Towards a new method for exploratory corpus analyses. Corpus Linguistics 2021

May 07, 2019
Aria Adli & Sven Bernecker: Silence and ellipsis in linguistics, philosophy and music. (Tehran University)

May 2021
Aria Adli: Syntactic complexity and implicational hierarchies of cognitive and social factors (Workshop New perspectives on (morpho)syntactic variation in Germanic and Romance varieties, Universität Zürich)

November 14, 2019
Naomi Nagy (Univ. of Toronto): Intergenerational change in Toronto's heritage languages? (as part of the Cocktail Lecture Series)
17:00-19:00 h in S06 S00 B41 (Duisburg-Essen Univ.)

November 7, 2019
Anke Lüdeling (HU Berlin): miſche darunter ſafft von wermut / vnd trincke es morgends (as part of the Cocktail Lecture Series)
18:30-20:30 h in Tagungsraum (Seminargebäude)

July 3, 2019
Gregory Guy (NYU): Africans in the New World: Language contact in Latin America (as part of the Cocktail Lecture Series)
18:00-20:00 h in Neuer Senatssaal (Hauptgebäude)

April 5, 2019
Heike Wiese (HU Berlin): Multilinguals, monolinguals, and registers: comparing like with like (as part of the Cocktail Lecture Series)
17:00-19:00 h in S12 (Seminargebäude)

June 4, 2018
Alessia Cassarà (CRC 1252, Subproject C01/Sociolinguistic Lab) and Sophie Mürmann (a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne): Role semantic parameters for Differential Object Marking in Spanish and Italian in Kolloquium: DOM in Spanish - diachronic change and synchronic variation
at Universität Zürich

July 25, 2017
Richard Waltereit (HU Berlin): Negation im Altfranzösischen - Ein neuer Ansatz im Rahmen der Registertheorie
17:45-19:15 h in S66 (Philosophikum)

July 13, 2017
Stefan Schnell (University of Melbourne, Australia): GRAID - Grammatical relations and animacy in discourse
18:00-19:30 h at the Sociolinguistic Lab

June 2, 2017
Stavros Skopeteas (Universität Bielefeld): Emergence of head-initial VPs in Caucasian Urum
at the Sociolinguistic Lab

December 19, 2016
Laurent Romary (INRIA/DARIAH): The TEI guidelines as a continuous framework for linguistic resources from transcription to annotation
18:00-19:30 h in S21 (Seminargebäude)

January 12, 2016
Geoffrey Haig / Shirin Adibifar (Universität Bamberg): Does speaker familiarity affect referential density? Evidence from spoken Persian
18:00-19:30 h at the Sociolinguistic Lab

December 18, 2015
Christoph Salge (University of Hertfordshire): Changing the Environment based on Empowerment as Intrinsic Motivation (Abstract)
12:00-13:00 h at the Sociolinguistic Lab

July 14, 2015
Philipp Angermeyer (University of Toronto):El lease oder el contrato? Sprachkontakt, Sprachideologie, und Diskurskohäsion in gedolmetschten Gerichtsverfahren in New York.
15:45 h at the Sociolinguistic Lab

March 8, 2018
DGfS 2018: 40th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society
with Aria Adli, Eric Engel, Laurent Romary and Fahime Same (University of Cologne)
Poster Session: A stand-off XML-TEI representation of reference annotation
in the Campus City Center at University of Stuttgart

July 11-13, 2018
Second International Conference "Prominence in Language"
hosted by the Collaborative Research Center 1252 Prominence in Language and the Cologne Center of Language Sciences
at the Conference Center of KOMED, Mediapark 7, 50670, Cologne

July 31, 2018
Workshop: 'The Sociolinguistic Lab goes to Sicily and Cuba'
with Alessia Cassarà and Amalia Canes Nápoles
Cologne Summer School on 'Challenges and Opportunities for a Multilingual Society - Movement, Migration, Languages, Psychology, and Education'

March 8-10, 2017
Register in Linguistic Theory: Modeling Functional Variation
with Anke Lüdeling (HU Berlin) and Aria Adli (University of Cologne)
in Saarbrücken, Germany