Patterns. Linguistic Creativity and Variation in Synchrony and Diachrony is one of seven collaborative research projects at Trier University that have been awarded the status of a High-Potential Research Area by the Research Initiative Rhineland-Palatinate 2019–2023. The project is administered by the Trier Center for Language and Communication (TCLC) and brings together a broad range of high-profile, interdisciplinary research in linguistics and in related disciplines at our university.
The group is comprised of members of the following departments:
Linguistics
• English Studies, German Studies, Yiddish Studies, Romance Studies, Slavic Studies
• Computational Linguistics and Digital Humanities
• Phonetics
Media Studies
• Digital and Audio-Visual Media
• Media, Communication and PR
Psychology and Social Statistics
• Cognitive Psychology
• Survey Statistics
The aim is, on the basis of a quite deliberately broad-based pattern concept and in interdisciplinary co-operation, to conduct extensive empirical research beyond established disciplinary boundaries into linguistic patterns and at the
same time to develop an applicable theory of linguistic patterning.
Central to the project are:
- Investigation and comparison of linguistic patterns at different structural levels (words – texts – discourses) and in different languages.
- Making new data accessible for linguistic pattern research which are not contained in traditional text corpora but which play an important role for speakers, (e.g. informal conversations, non-standard languages and language forms).
- Investigation of the natural conditions for the use and emergence of patterns, which we consider to be a significant component of an applicable empirical description and theoretical modelling of patterning. Such contexts are as a rule multimodal.
- The employment of a variety of different methods and approaches adapted to the data under investigation.
Cooperative management of the TCLC
Coordination
Contact the coordination team at patternscor@uni-trier.de.
Members
Prof. Dr. Natalia Filatkina
German Linguistics
natalia.filatkina@uni-hamburg.de
Focus of research:
Corpus linguistics,
Syntactic change,
The development of World Englishes,
The historical development and present-day use of tag questions,
Verb complementation,
Corpus linguistic methodology, in particular the methodological and practical issues involved in using internet-derived data for corpus linguistic analyses,
Aspects of fixedness
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Hoffmann
English Linguistics
hoffmann@uni-trier.de
Focus of research:
Corpus linguistics,
Syntactic change,
The development of World Englishes,
The historical development and present-day use of tag questions,
Verb complementation,
Corpus linguistic methodology, in particular the methodological and practical issues involved in using internet-derived data for corpus linguistic analyses,
Aspects of fixedness
Prof. Dr. Andre Klump
Romance Linguistics
klump@uni-trier.de
Focus of research:
Varieties in Hispanic America,
Grammaticalisation in French,
The bilingual Grammaire Espagnolle by César Oudin,
Language and politics in the Romance-speaking world,
Spanish in Equatorial Guinea,
Status and usage of the Ladin language,
Plurilingualism in the Franco- and Hispanophony,
Foreign language didactics at school and university
Prof. Dr. Ralf Münnich
Social Accounting
muennich@uni-trier.de
Forschungsschwerpunkte:
Survey statistics. sample designs, variance estimation and data quality in complex surveys,
Computer-intensive stastistics and Monte-Carlo-methods,
Small area estimation,
Methods for statistic indicators,
Microsimulation methods and applications,
Numeric algorithms in survey statistics
PD Dr. Sören Stumpf
German Linguistics
stumpf@uni-trier.de
Focus of research:
Phraseology and formulaicity/preformednes,
Construction grammar,
Corpus linguistics,
Word formation,
Text linguistics and typology,
Orality and scribality,
Linguistic norm and linguistic criticism,
Language of conspiracy theories