DCxG

Plenary lecture at the SLE conference on DCxG

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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 largest professional association for linguistics. ... Read more

New book: South Schleswig Danish

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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

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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 by Anna Hagel, who completed ... Read more

PhD: Anna Hagel on sound correspondences

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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 the acquisition (and learnability) of ... Read more