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
Lecture at the CCLS Lecture Series: Melanie Uth and Patrick Auhagen will give a lecture at the Cologne Center of Language Sciences (CCLS) on 24/06/24 on the topic "On the impact of definiteness and animacy in Spanish relative complementation". More information and an abstract can be found on the website of the University of Cologne.
Defence: On 18/06/24 Miriam Rettelbach will defend her Master's thesis on "Die sprachliche Darstellung der Imazighen-Kultur in Marokko. Eine korpusbasierte Untersuchung von französischen Reiseführern". The lecture will take place at 9 a.m. in room 1.19.4.15.
Linguistic Lecture Series: On 12/06/24 Ana María Reyes-Vujovic will give a lecture on the topic "Einige universelle Prämissen über Vokative und ihre Anwendbarkeit auf die Untersuchung von Sprachen im Kontakt". Further information can be found on the SVM website.
You can now find various impressions of events in which members of the chair have taken part in the gallery!