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

December 15th, 2025
  • Klingt komisch: Lautliche Besonderheiten (Seminar)
    10:1511:45 | LS1 207a

  • Strukturelle Analyse der skandinavischen Gegenwartssprachen (Vorlesung)
    14:1515:45 | LS1 209a

December 16th, 2025
  • Sprechstunde
    10:0011:30 | LS8 oder online

  • Anders sprechen: soziale Gruppen und ihre Sprache (Proseminar)
    12:1513:45 | LS4 023

  • Sprachen und Länder: territoriale Variation (Seminar)
    14:1515:45 | LS1 208b

December 19th, 2025
  • Forschungskolloquium
    10:3012:00 | online

Events

January 12th, 2026
  • Vortrag: Grenzenlos und verschlungen: Jugendstil im Ostseeraum (Barbara Lange, Universität Tübingen)
    18:0019:30 | Audimax HS K

January 17th, 2026
  • Lingvistisk Lø̈rdag
    10:0014:00 | LS1 204

January 19th, 2026
  • Vortrag: Friendship, curiosity, contempt and fear: The relation between Sweden and Russia from the Viking Age to the Putin Age (Dick Harrison, Lunds universitet)
    18:0019:30 | Audimax HS K

January 26th, 2026
  • The street and the city: Urban history and the materialities,at the Baltic Sea (Laura Kolbe, Helsingin yliopisto)
    18:0019:30 | Audimax HS K

Dates

December 13th, 2025
  • Lucia

December 24th, 2025
  • Heiligabend

December 25th, 2025
  • 1. Weihnachtstag

December 26th, 2025
  • 2. Weihnachtstag

January 1st, 2026
  • Neujahr

February 6th, 2026
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