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Sofia Rüdiger (@sofiaruediger.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) is our next speaker! She presents the findings of her ethnographic study on discourses of food excess in English-language online videos.

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December 17, 2024 at 6:10 AM
Why, look at that: Graeme Trousdale (Edinburgh) is our next speaker! He’ll discuss the grammaticalisation of mirativity in English from a Word Grammar perspective, with the mirative "why" as his example.

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December 16, 2025 at 5:58 AM
The final speaker of the series this semester is Antje Wilton (@outdooracademic.bsky.social), who will present a multimodal analysis of the interactional activities during the construction of a Mesolithic hut 🤩

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July 15, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Our final speaker this semester is Muriel Norde (@nordemuriel.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social) presenting a new approach to the intersection of productivity and creativity within the CxG framework 🤩

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February 3, 2026 at 8:50 AM
We’re thrilled to welcome Barış Kabak (@uni-wuerzburg.de) as our next speaker! He will discuss the importance of mismatches for our understanding of the structure and organisation of sound systems.

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November 25, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Next up: Martin Hilpert (Neuchâtel) 🤩

In his talk, he will discuss the motivations behind English constructions with crossed syntactic dependencies, such as "he has written a good enough story to attract attention".

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June 2, 2026 at 5:25 AM
Next speaker is Kateřina Chládková (@katquita.bsky.social, @ff.unikarlova.cuni.cz, @akademievedcr.bsky.social), presenting findings from speech perception studies in infants and adults on L1 and L2 acquisition 🤩

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May 20, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Don't miss our final Dahlem Lecture of the semester!

Mieke Vandenbroucke (@uantwerpen.be) will discuss the role of language and discursive agency in legal investigations of family reunification processes in Belgium.

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June 30, 2026 at 4:53 AM
Jürg Fleischer (@humboldtuni.bsky.social) ist unser nächster Gast 🤩

In seinem Vortrag geht es um das genus-insensitive ‘sein’: in älteren Sprachstufen, in modernen Dialekten und in der Kontaktvarietät von Wilamowice/Wilmesau.

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May 19, 2026 at 5:26 AM
Britta Schneider (@viadrina.eu) is our next speaker!

In her talk, she shows how large language models contribute
to new language assemblages, which entail new possibilities for global social order and new forms of imperial exploitation.

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December 2, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Adita Lahiri (@ox.ac.uk) is our next speaker 🤩

She will present a model of phonological variability and change, based on diachronic, psycholinguistic, and neurolinguistic evidence from English, German, Swedish, and Bengali.

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April 28, 2026 at 7:39 AM
New term means new series of #DahlemLecturesInLinguistics (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social)!

We have (almost) everything: French syntax, register acquisition, political language, Neo-Aramaic, sociocultural linguistics, clitics, and historical multilingualism 🤩

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October 1, 2026 at 9:15 AM
Tamara Rathcke (@uni-konstanz.de) is our next speaker 🤩 She will discuss the concept of rhythm in language and, using sensorimotor experiments, shows that it is grounded in general perceptual and motor systems.

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January 20, 2026 at 6:03 AM
The next speaker in our lecture series is Christelle Lacassain (@sorbonne-universite.fr)! She will present her research on the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties of the English verb "wonder".

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January 21, 2025 at 6:57 AM
The grand finale of our lecture series is upon us 🤩

Eva Zehentner (Zürich) will talk about the changing prepositional argument structure of English in light of the general shift from synthetic to analytic.

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February 4, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Die nächste Vortragende der #DahlemLecturesInLinguistics ist Anna Havinga (@germanatbristol.bsky.social). Sie analysiert den spätmittelalterlichen Wechsel von Latein zu den Vernakularsprachen in Schottland und Norddeutschland 🤩

Mehr Info: www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/dcl/veran...
November 4, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Our next speaker is Guadalupe Dávila (@univmalaga.bsky.social)! 🤩 In her talk, she will compare the results of face-to-face therapy of aphasia with tele-rehabilitation approaches.

More details: www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/izeus/forsch...

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July 1, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Next speaker is Kateřina Chládková (@katquita.bsky.social, @ff.unikarlova.cuni.cz, @akademievedcr.bsky.social), presenting findings from speech perception studies in infants and adults on L1 and L2 acquisition 🤩

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May 13, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Das Wintersemester 2025/26 ist da und das beudeutet auch eine neue Serie von acht Dahlem Lectures in Linguistics zu diversen hochspannenden Themen der Linguistik 🤩

Weitere Infos: dcl.fu-berlin.de

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October 9, 2025 at 8:05 AM
We're excited to kick off the new semester with a brand new round of our talk series: Seven talks on a wide range of topics, including neuro-pragmatics, language acquisition, visual pragmatics, gestures, pronouns, language therapy, and joint building activities 🤩

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April 14, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Christa Schneider (@unibern.bsky.social) is our first speaker of the new year. In her talk, she will address such things as witch trials, PoS tagging, and historical sociolinguistics 🤩

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January 3, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Can’t wait to talk at the #DahlemLecturesInLinguistics in Berlin next Tuesday and meet old and new linguist friends!
Next speaker is Kateřina Chládková (@katquita.bsky.social, @ff.unikarlova.cuni.cz, @akademievedcr.bsky.social), presenting findings from speech perception studies in infants and adults on L1 and L2 acquisition 🤩

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May 13, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Laura Colantoni (Toronto) is our next speaker 🤩

She will present the results of a project investigating the interaction between phonetic variability and vocabulary knowledge in the comprehension of Spanish grammatical gender.

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May 26, 2026 at 5:20 AM
Dahlem Lectures in Linguistics are back, and our first guest is Rosario Tomasello (@tomasellor.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) 🤩

In his talk, he will discuss the neural processing of different speech acts across written, spoken, and gestural modalities.

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May 5, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Next up: Stefan Prochazka (@univie.ac.at)!

In his talk, he will explore the innovative and conservative features of the Arabic variety spoken in the Turkish province of Şanlıurfa, shaped by contact with Turkish and Kurmanji.

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April 29, 2026 at 7:29 AM