Welcome to the Chair of Spanish and French Linguistics!
We are an international team of linguists with a special interest in Romance and American languages and cultures.
We research and publish on topics including linguistic variability, language contact and multilingualism, syntax and pragmatics of interrogative sentences, intonation and information structure, as well as the preservation of indigenous languages and other topics concerning linguistic and cultural diversity and sustainability.
We offer courses for Romance languages and cross-linguistic courses on diverse linguistic and interdisciplinary topics, about which you can inform yourself on the individual faculty pages if you are interested. We also focus on the implementation of international courses using and further developing digital methods.
News from the Chair
Exhibition opening with guest lecture: On 15 January 2025 at 6 pm, the exhibition ‘Sprachen, Inseln, Menschenmassen: Mallorca und Yucatán' will open at the Potsdam Adult Education Centre. Mallorcan academic Dr Maria del Mar Vanrell Bosch will give a guest lecture on local initiatives that are working to preserve linguistic diversity on Mallorca.
Hint: The project PaCoCo (DAAD/Campus France), carried out by Jan Fliessbach, Lucia Tovena , Damien Fleury and Johanna Rockstrohhas a new Webseite.
New publication: Patrick Auhagen and Jan Fliessbach have published their research about Structural and sociolectal limits of variability of que in Mexican Spanish noun clefts in Isogloss.
Ana María Reyes-Vujovic participated in the X SIMPOSIO INTERNACIONAL DE HISPANISTAS ‘ENCUENTROS 2024’ held in Gdansk (Poland) from 25 to 27 September with a talk on "Los vocativos y su aplicabilidad en el ámbito escolar desde la perspectiva de contacto entre el español y el magütá de la Amazonia colombiana ’.