Welcome to our Linguistics section!
Navigate through the site to learn more about various cognitive scientific aspects of grammar, language and communication as well as their theoretical implementation.
News and information
- Joost Kremers (Universität Göttingen) will give a lecture entitled " 'Morphology by itself' in einer parallelen Grammatikarchitektur" on Tuesday, 28 May, 10 am to 12 pm, in room 4048 (KW 5).
- On 2 July, 6-8 pm, Holden Härtl and Svenja Bepperling will give a lecture entitled "Beeinflusst die Sprache unsere Wahrnehmung von Ereignissen? Einblicke in das Verhältnis zwischen sprachlicher und nicht-sprachlicher Kognition" (lecture hall 400, Mönchebergstr. 7). The lecture is part of the "Varianten der Kulturwissenschaft" series of Institut für Romanistik.
- At the 44th Poznán Linguistic Meeting (PLM 2013) in Poznan (Poland) Svenja Bepperling and Holden Härtl will give a lecture entitled "Cross-Linguistic Influence in Second Language Acquisition: A Study on Event Conceptualization Patterns" within the session "Mysteries of the mono- and multilingual mind: Its complex storage and processing structures". The 44th Poznán Linguistic Meeting (PLM 2013) will take place from 29 August through 1 September.
- Holden Härtl will give a lecture entitled "Bestimmt unsere Muttersprache, wie wir Farben wahrnehmen?" on 3 December at experimenta Heilbronn.
Interesting links
- Lera Boroditsky on her view on "how language shapes thought"
- The World Atlas of Language Structures
- Animated Steven Pinker on speech acts
- Steven Pinker on language and thought
- Barbara Landau on language and space
- Interview with Ray Jackendoff
- Chomsky in Cologne
- Event semantics in Kassel
- ScienceDirect
- Max-Planck-Institut Leipzig
- Promotionskolleg GeKKo of FB 02
- Fachschaft 02
- Graduiertenkolleg "Raum und Geschlecht"
- The English Page
- The Syntax-Lexicon Divide
- Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
- International Dialects of English Archive
- Interdisziplinäre Arbeitsgruppe Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Pronunciation guide

