Talks, Workshops and Other Activities
Talks
- Aria Adli & Vahid Mortezapour: The formal and functional distribution of right-peripheral arguments in German and Persian across registers.
September 1, 2023
at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE)). With Nico Lehmann, Motahareh Sameri, and Elisabeth Verhoeven.
- Aria Adli: Person/number: disentangling cognitive effects and the role of politeness.
October 14, 2022
at NWAV50, University of Stanford
- Vahid Mortezapour: Investigating inter-individual variation in register from social networks perspective.
August 22, 2022
at CARLA 2022, HU Berlin
- Aria Adli & Eric Engel: What can we learn from microinterviews? (Re-)Using data from an interdisciplinary survey on the very old.
August 2, 2022
at Methods XVII, Mainz University
- Aria Adli: La dynamique des populations dans le contact des langues: une simulation numérique du changement linguistique.
May 20, 2022
at the University of Strasbourg
- Aria Adli: Local person referents and the role of politeness: Comparing variable subject pronouns in Spanish and Persian.
April 13, 2022
at the ICLaVE, University of Vienna
- Aria Adli & Eric Engel: A panel study at the end of the lifespan: Social and cognitive constraints of syntactic complexity for the very old.
October 19, 2021
at NWAV 49, University of Texas at Austin
- Aria Adli & Roman Pfeifer: Sonification of register: Towards a new method for exploratory corpus analyses.
July 13, 2021
at Corpus Linguistics 2021, University of Limerick
- Aria Adli & Gregory Guy (NYU): Null subjects in Persian and Portuguese: Cross-cultural quantitative analyses of variation and change.
July 5, 2021
at the University of Kurdistan
- Aria Adli: Syntactic complexity and implicational hierarchies of cognitive and social factors.
May 28, 2021
at Universität Zürich
- Alessia Cassarà and Sophie Mürmann: Role semantic parameters for Differential Object Marking in Spanish and Italian in Kolloquium: DOM in Spanish - diachronic change and synchronic variation.
June 4, 2018
at Universität Zürich
- Richard Waltereit (HU Berlin): Negation im Altfranzösischen - Ein neuer Ansatz im Rahmen der Registertheorie.
July 25, 2017
at the Philosophikum, UoC
- Stefan Schnell (University of Melbourne, Australia): GRAID - Grammatical relations and animacy in discourse.
July 13, 2017
at the Sociolinguistic Lab
- Stavros Skopeteas (Universität Bielefeld): Emergence of head-initial VPs in Caucasian Urum.
June 2, 2017
at the Sociolinguistic Lab
- Laurent Romary (INRIA/DARIAH): The TEI guidelines as a continuous framework for linguistic resources from transcription to annotation.
December 19, 2016
at the Seminargebäude, UoC
- Geoffrey Haig / Shirin Adibifar (Universität Bamberg): Does speaker familiarity affect referential density? Evidence from spoken Persian.
January 12, 2016
at the Sociolinguistic Lab
- Christoph Salge (University of Hertfordshire): Changing the Environment based on Empowerment as Intrinsic Motivation.
December 18, 2015
at the Sociolinguistic Lab
- Philipp Angermeyer (University of Toronto): El lease oder el contrato? Sprachkontakt, Sprachideologie, und Diskurskohäsion in gedolmetschten Gerichtsverfahren in New York.
July 15, 2025
at the Sociolinguistic Lab
Workshops
- Flexible and Multiple Plural Marking in Language Contact and Creolization: Social and Situational Correlates
November 28, 2022
jointly organized by Aria Adli (U Cologne), Tonjes Veenstra (ZAS), Nico Lehmann (HU Berlin), Elisabeth Verhoeven (HU Berlin), Miriam Meyerhoff (School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies), and Manfred Krifka (ZAS).
- Diversity of minority language communities: mutual intelligibility, identity, and standard
October 06-08, 2021
jointly organized by Aria Adli (UoC), Katajun Amirpur (UoC), Gholamhossein Karimi-Doostan (Univ. of Tehran) and Yadgar Karimi (Univ. of Kurdistan)
- Cross-cultural Sociolinguistics: Insights from Asia, Africa, and Latin America
August 26-28, 2021
jointly organized by Aria Adli (UoC) and Gregory Guy (NYU)
- Annotation of non-standard corpora: Prospects and challenges
September, 16-18, 2019
organized by Stefan Hartmann (Bamberg University), Eric Engel (Cologne University) & Fahime Same (Cologne University)
in Bamberg, Germany
- Silence and ellipsis in linguistics, philosophy and music
May 7, 2019
Workshop, panel discussion and concert organized by Aria Adli & Sven Bernecker
at Tehran University
- Multiculturalism and Multilingualism in a Megacity
February 21, 2019
Panel discussion: Empowering Mother Languages – Sustaining Diversity
with Aria Adli and Gregory Guy
organized by German Center for Research and Innovation (DWIH NY), University of Cologne New York Office, New York University (NYU), Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany
in New York, NY
- The Sociolinguistic Lab goes to Sicily and Cuba
July 31, 2018
with Alessia Cassarà and Amalia Canes Nápoles
- Challenges in Cleft Analysis: On the functional communality of dislocation and cleft in French
January 19, 2018
with Andreas Dufter (LMU Munich), Lena Karssenberg (KU Leuven) and Aria Adli (University of Cologne)
in the Sociolinguistic Lab at University of Cologne
- Register in Linguistic Theory: Modeling Functional Variation
March 8-10, 2017
as part of the 39th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS)
with Anke Lüdeling (HU Berlin) and Aria Adli (University of Cologne)
in Saarbrücken, Germany
- Widening Horizons: Cross-cultural approaches to linguistic variation
November 3rd, 2016
In the context of the NWAV 45 in Vancouver, Canada
By Gregory Guy (New York) and Aria Adli (Cologne)
- Video in linguistic research: from recording to annotation
with Aria Adli, Catherine Bolly, and Adam Polzcyk (Cologne)
Series of three workshops (registration closed):- May 13, 2016: Basics of video recording and editing
- June 03, 2016: Basics of video annotation in linguistic corpora
- June 30, 2016 (interested listeners are welcome): Round table with invited guests on new research avenues regarding linguistic video annotation and XML/TEI
- Agent-based modeling (interactive tutorial session)
December 18th, 2015
Sociolinguistic Lab at University of Cologne
- Language use in later life (CLARe 2015)
December 07-09, 2015
organized by Cathérine T. Bolly, University of Cologne; Annette Gerstenberg, Freie Universität Berlin
at the University of Louvain, Belgium
- Data Modeling in Linguistics
May 01/02, 11/12, & June 02, 2015
with Aria Adli (Cologne) and Laurent Romary (INRIA, DARIA)
Other Activities Organized by the Lab
- Spring School: Cultural identities and language maintenance. Comparing Hispanic and Iranian communities in the US and in Germany.
April 1st - 26th, 2021
organized and hosted by Aria Adli & Katajun Amirpur, University of Cologne
- Field trip: Cross-cultural sociolinguistics and comparison of the Global North and the Global South. Linguistic and ethnic diversity in Iran.
February 19-27, 2020
with Katajun Amirpur und Aria Adli, University of Cologne
- Summer School: Language, Diversity, and Minorities
September 30 - October 6, 2019
Panel discussion: Diversity and Minorities
organized and hosted by Aria Adli & Katajun Amirpur, University of Cologne
- Writing retreat
July 05/06, 2018
with Aria Adli and Sociolinguistic Lab researchers, supported by CCLS Junior Researchers Funds
- Poster Session: A stand-off XML-TEI representation of reference annotation
March 08, 2018
at the 40th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS)
with Aria Adli, Eric Engel, Laurent Romary and Fahime Same (University of Cologne)
in the Campus City Center at University of Stuttgart
- Inauguration of the Sociolinguistic Lab
June 01, 2015