Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft Leibniz-Gemeinschaft

Research Themes

Language and speaker diversity

Research on this theme will be twofold. On the one hand, we are interested in investigating linguistic properties of a wide variety of typologically, areally, and genetically diverse languages. On the other hand, we are interested in the linguistic behavior and competence of different speaker groups within the same and across linguistic communities. The two axes of language diversity and speaker diversity systematically interact and we aim to fully describe and model this interaction.

Third-party projects that contribute to the theme

Register in the cross-linguistic diachrony of logical particles (CRC 1412-Register B06) (DFG)
Real-time register comprehension in adolescent heritage speakers’ languages (CRC 1412-Register C03) (DFG)
Speakers' choices in three Saamaka communities (CRC 1412-Register A08) (DFG)
Realizing Leibniz‘s dream: Child languages as a mirror of the mind (LeibnizDream, Generator Group) (ERC Synergy)
Conscious and unconscious attitudes toward a foreign accent in the Polish-German context (ATTIT) (German-Polish collaboration project)
Diagnosis of language abilities in multilingual children: Validation of a test battery (SPEAK) (BMBF/VDI+)
Mereotopology across linguistic domains (MERLIN) (AvH Foundation)
Acoustic insights into the root-affix asymmetry across languages (AIRAL) (DFG)
Oral language and literacy in bilingual school-aged children: Evidence from Greek-German (Else-Neumann-Stipendium des Landes Berlin)
Dynamics of Verbal Aspect and (Pro)Nominal Reference in Language Contact (RUEG P10) (DFG)
Sociocultural and linguistic practices and needs of immigrant communities: the pandemic impact and post-pandemic recovery (Immigrants) (NFRF)
New empirical linguistics through integration of language documentation, comparative corpus linguistics, typology and language contact research (Empi-Ling) (DFG)

Research Theme Publications