Constructionist approaches always try to be as cognitive as possible. But on which stage are constructions stored in our brain and can they be proved to be real in a psycholinguistic way? The main difference of constructionist approaches to other linguistic models is the independence of their ...

There exists a close cognitive relationship between space and time, evidenced in language by the often parallel surface structures of spatiotemporal constructions. The focus of this project is the cognitive coordinate system used to locate a target event (TE) relative to a reference point (RP) on ...

Combining neuroscience and corpus based linguistics the project at hand investigates neural activity during naturalistic, spontaneous speech production. The analysis is based on a multimodal corpus of simultaneously recorded audio, video and electrocortigographic data that were recorded for ...

I investigate syntactic co-constructions in French and Spanish conversations. My research focus is twofold: on one hand, I am interested in recurrent syntactic and pragmatic formats that allow interactants to collaboratively produce utterances in real time. On the other hand, I am particularly ...

The subjunctive mood in Italian can be said to have undergone a structural reorganization which affects both the functions and the grammar of its usage.
Mood variation, the alternation of different moods to convey similar meanings, is a defining feature of speech. The present project aims at ...

I investigate frequency effects in the processing of German syllable-initial consonant clusters. High-frequency clusters such as /ʃt-/ are compared to low-frequency clusters such as /tʃ-/ with regard to accuracy of perception and production. The objective of my research is to determine whether ...