News

  • New book: South Schleswig Danish
    Sabrina Goll (Europa-Universität Flensburg) has now published her Kiel dissertation on South Schleswig Danish (open access). In this study, she analyses characteristic structural features of this Danish variety based on a questionnaire survey from a sociolinguistic, contact linguistic and construction grammar perspective.
  • New book: Constructions in Contact 3
    In autumn 2025, another anthology on the topic of construction grammar and language contact was published, edited by Hans Boas (University of Texas at Austin) and myself, with eight contributions on various topics and issues in this field: It also includes two theoretical contributions by the editors and a contribution … Read more
  • PhD: Anna Hagel on sound correspondences
    One week and a half ago, Anna Hagel successfully defended her PhD thesis Phonological schematicity in Interscandinavian decoding. A psycholinguistic constructionist approach to investigating the acquisition and use of Danish-Swedish sound correspondence patterns at Kiel University. In her work, she combines a Diasystematic Construction Grammar perspective with experimental research on … Read more

Classes

April 21st, 2026
  • Sprachwandel und sprachliche Variation (Vorlesung)
    14:1515:45 | LS8 227

April 23rd, 2026
  • Variation, Indexikalität und Bewertung (Seminar, Höder/Tulaja)
    10:1511:45 | LS1 206

April 24th, 2026
  • Forschungskolloquium
    12:0013:00 | LS8 215

  • Experimentell forskningspraktik i bruksbaserad flerspråkighets- och andraspråksforskning (Seminar)
    13:0017:00 | Zoom

April 27th, 2026
  • Englisch in Skandinavien: Fremdsprache, Zweitsprache, Problem? (Seminar)
    10:1511:45 | LS1 207b

  • Sprechstunde
    14:3016:00 | LS8 215 oder online

April 28th, 2026
  • Sprachwandel und sprachliche Variation (Vorlesung)
    14:1515:45 | LS8 227

April 30th, 2026
  • Variation, Indexikalität und Bewertung (Seminar, Höder/Tulaja)
    10:1511:45 | LS1 206

Events

June 9th, 2026
  • Vortrag: "Wenn man vom Teufel (nicht) spricht: Ein gebrauchsbasierter Blick auf (Fast-)Flüche im Schwedischen" (Steffen Höder)
    16:1517:45 | LS10 401

Dates

April 26th, 2026
  • Kväänin kielipäivä | Kvensk språkdag (kvenischer Sprachtag)

May 1st, 2026
  • Tag der Arbeit

May 8th, 2026
  • Jahrestag der Befreiung vom Nationalsozialismus

May 13th, 2026
  • Dansk tegnsprogs dag (Tag der Dänischen Gebärdensprache)

May 14th, 2026
  • Christi Himmelfahrt

May 17th, 2026
  • 17. mai (norwegischer Nationalfeiertag)

May 24th, 2026
  • Pfingsten
    May 24th, 2026May 25th, 2026

May 25th, 2026
  • Pfingsten
    May 24th, 2026May 25th, 2026

June 5th, 2026
  • Grundlovsdag (dänischer Nationalfeiertag)

June 6th, 2026
  • Nationaldagen (schwedischer Nationalfeiertag)

June 9th, 2026
  • Självstyrelsedagen (åländischer Autonomiefeiertag)

June 17th, 2026
  • Þjóðhátíðardagurinn (isländischer Nationalfeiertag)

June 19th, 2026
  • Midsommarafton | Juhannusaatto

June 20th, 2026
  • Midsommar | Juhannus