News

  • Plenary lecture at the SLE conference on DCxG
    At the 59th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 59), held in Osnabrück in August 2026, I delivered this year’s plenary lecture. The talk introduced the core ideas of Diasystematic Construction Grammar, discussed current issues, and explored its implications for usage-based linguistics more broadly. The SLE is Europe’s ... Read more
  • Workshop: Multilingual Constructions & Foreign Language Acquisition
    On 17 June, the workshop ‘Multilingual Constructions & Foreign Language Acquisition’ will take place at ISFAS (9 am–3 pm, LS8 201, hybrid), organised in collaboration with Sabrina Goll (University of Flensburg).
  • 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.
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Classes

November 2nd, 2026

  • Seminar: Vulgært sprog, bandeord og skældsord | Vulgärt språk, svordomar och skällsord
    10:15–11:45 | LS8 201

  • Sprechstunde
    13:30–14:00 | LS8 215 oder online

  • Vorlesung: Strukturelle Analyse der skandinavischen Gegenwartssprachen
    14:15–15:45 | LS8 201

November 3rd, 2026

  • Seminar: Die Hansezeit und ihre sprachlichen Auswirkungen
    10:15–11:45 | LS8 201

  • Proseminar: Namen: Form, Funktion, Herkunft, Wandel
    12:15–13:45 | LS8 106a

  • Sprechstunde
    14:45–15:45 | LS8 215 oder online

November 6th, 2026

  • Forschungskolloquium
    12:15–13:45

Events

November 2nd, 2026

  • Vortrag: "Skandinavische Literatur auf dem italienischen Buchmarkt: Die Verlage Iperborea (Mailand) und Marsilio (Venedig) (Massimo Ciaravolo, Universität Venedig)"
    18:15–19:15 | CAP2 HS A

November 9th, 2026

  • Vortrag: "Kosmopolitismus und Internationalität des skandinavischen Stummfilms: Produktion, Ästhetik, Diskurs, Fantum (Stephan Michael Schröder, Universität Köln)"
    18:15–19:15 | CAP2 HS A

November 16th, 2026

  • Vortrag: "Neugierig, radikal, wegweisend: Die Dänen Rasmus Rask und Otto Jespersen und ihre Bedeutung für die Sprachwissenschaft (Steffen Höder)"
    17:30–18:30 | CAP2 HS A

November 23rd, 2026

  • Vortrag: "The Swedish Music Miracle: The Mechanics Behind the Phenomenon (Ika Johannesson, Stockholm)"
    18:15–19:15 | Achtung: ausschließlich online!

November 30th, 2026

  • Vortrag: "Wegbereiter in die Weltliteratur: August Strindberg und sein deutscher Übersetzer Emil Schering (Karin Hoff)"
    18:15–19:15 | CAP2 HS A

December 7th, 2026

  • Vortrag: "Jenseits von Dänemark: Karen Blixen als internationale Autorin (Lutz Rühling)"
    18:15–19:15 | CAP2 HS A

December 8th, 2026

  • Informationsveranstaltung zur Exkursion 2027
    18:00–19:00 | LS8 201

December 14th, 2026

  • Vortrag: "The Nordic in Jazz: History, Music, and Political Economy at Home and Abroad (Mikkel Vad, Universität Kopenhagen)"
    18:15–19:15 | CAP2 HS A

Dates

October 31st, 2026

  • Reformationstag

November 6th, 2026

  • Svenska dagen (Feiertag der Finnlandschweden)

Contact

 Kiel University, ISFAS, 24098 Kiel, Germany
 s.hoeder at isfas.uni-kiel.de
 +49 (431) 880-4587
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 Leibnizstraße 8, Room 215

Office hours By appointment

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Team

Assistants
Sarah Paetzke
Dr. Lisa Tulaja

Student assistant
Henrike von Cossel

Teaching assistant
Henrike von Cossel

Projects

Grammatical Areality in the Nordic Countries and Northern Germany (GrammArNord)

Linguistic networks: Connecting constructions within and between languages

Language Contact Phenomena in Multilingual First Language Acquisition (LaCoLA)