Language variation and change

Empirical, corpus- and experiment-based investigation on language variation and change

We investigate various aspects of language variation from both a synchronic and diachronic perspective. We frequently combine more than one level of linguistic analysis (e.g. phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and often embrace an interdisciplinary approach. The languages under scrutiny are studied in isolation as well as in a comparative manner.

Linguists

  • variationist linguistics and sociolinguistics
  • language and society
  • grammar synchronic and diachronic
  • spoken language research

  • language documentation
  • language contact
  • prosody
  • information structure

  • variationist linguistics and sociolinguistics
  • language and society
  • grammar synchronic and diachronic
  • spoken language research

  • Spanish, French, Portuguese linguistics
  • adjective-adverb interface
  • historical development of discourse functions
  • pragmatics
  • topicalization (infinitives)

  • information structure
  • Secondary predication
  • Adjective-adverb interface
  • Valency and voice
  • Lexical semantics of verbs
  • French and Spanish linguistics

  • allomorphism in (Old) French and (Old) Italian
  • Friulian (minority language)
  • (historical) dialectology/scriptology
  • language of advertising
  • political language
  • cognitive semantics

  • History of Linguistics in the 19th Century (from Humboldt to Schuchardt)
  • Morphology and syntax: Pronominal systems, serial verbs, morphological processes
  • Word types
  • Lexicology and lexicography
  • Phonological theory and description
  • Editions and editing techniques of colonial grammars and texts (Huastek)
  • Colonial linguistics
  • Language variation and change in Mesoamerican languages, in Basque, in Romance languages
  • Area typology: Mesoamerica
  • Language typology of the Otopame languages
  • Language documentation: Central Pame

 

  • cognitive-functional grammar
  • usage-based grammar
  • pragmatics and discourse analysis
  • cCorpus linguistics
  • lLanguage variation and change
  • extra-clausal constituents (Thetical Grammar)
  • language processing and information packaging
  • phonetics/prosody

  • foreign accentedness
  • L1 and L2 acquisition
  • acoustic phonetics
  • prosody

  • Cognitive Linguistics
  • (Austrian) Sign Language Studies
  • Corpus Linguistics
  • Research on Multimodality
  • Plurilingualism and Gesture

  • forensic linguistics (authorship analysis)
  • text/discourse
  • sociolinguistics
  • internet linguistics

  • developmental linguistics
  • cognitive linguistics
  • morphology

  • variationist linguistics and sociolinguistics
  • language and society
  • grammar synchronic and diachronic
  • spoken language research

  • variationist linguistics and sociolinguistics
  • language and society
  • grammar synchronic and diachronic
  • spoken language research

  • Information Structure
  • Reference, Case
  • Discourse Particles
  • Text and Discourse Structure
  • Questions
  • Speech Acts
  • Context, Dynamic Semantics
  • Presuppositions
  • Implicatures
  • Language Processing
  • Bayesian Reasoning

  • morphology
  • syntax
  • semantics

  • Variationist Linguistics and Sociolinguistics
  • Language and Society
  • synchronic and diasynchronic grammar
  • Spoken Language Research

  • reading research
  • computer-mediated communication
  • discourse analysis
  • cognitive linguistics

  • critical media analysis
  • media studies
  • critical discourse analysis
  • contact linguistics
  • anglicisms in Japanese

  • Variationist Linguistics
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Language and Society
  • synchronic and diachronic Grammar
  • Spoken Language Research

  • attenuation and intensification
  • bilingual acquisition of L1
  • deverbal markers
  • mode and modality

  • Slavic languages
  • Slovenian
  • Serbo-Croatian
  • Morphology
  • Normativity
  • Gender
  • Germanic langues
  • Borrowing
  • Prosody
  • Distributed Morphology
  • Optimality Theory
  • Syntax/Phonology Interface

  • multilingualism
  • migration and language, variation
  • actant marking typology
  • serial verb constructions
  • Global Hakka Studies
  • Sino-Tibetan Studies

  • syntax-pragmatics interface
  • connector research linguistics
  • argument structure

  • theoretical linguistics
  • functional discourse grammar
  • construction grammar
  • language models
  • syntax
  • noun phrase

Speaker

Univ.-Prof. PhD

Boban Arsenijevic

Institut für Slawistik

Phone:+43 316 380 - 2522

Vice Speaker

Univ.-Prof. PhD

Catharina Henrica Elisabeth Mennen

Institut für Anglistik

Phone:+43 316 380 - 2471