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
Prof. Dr. Sabine Arndt-Lappe
English Linguistics
Speaker of the TCLC
arndtlappe@uni-trier.de
Prof. Dr. Andre Klump
Romance Linguistics
TCLC board member
klump@uni-trier.de
Prof. Dr. Claudine Moulin
German Linguistics & Trier Center for Digital Humanities
TCLC board member
moulin@uni-trier.de
Prof. Dr. Christian Nuernbergk
Media Science
TCLC board member
nuernbergk@uni-trier.de
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Katharina Zahner-Ritter
Phonetics
Speaker of the TCLC
k.zahner-ritter@uni-trier.de
Coordination
Katharina Christ
Media Science
christk@uni-trier.de
Dr. Jacek Kudera
Phonetics
kudera@uni-trier.de
Tammy Ganster
English Linguistics
ganster@uni-trier.de
Members
Prof. Dr. Sabine Arndt-Lappe
English Linguistics
arndtlappe@uni-trier.de
Focus of research:
Productivity and variation in the lexicon,
Phonology-morpholgy interaction,
Boundaries of morphology: acronyms & blends,
Analogical models of word formation
Dr. Lina Azazil
English Linguistics
lina.azazil@uni-trier.de
Focus of research:
Second language acquisition,
Usage-based and construction grammar language theories,
Frequency effects in language and language acquisition
Dr. Christof Barth
Media Science
barthc@uni-trier.de
Focus of research:
Social media,
Media quality,
Reception research,
Qualitative methods of media research, especially in digital media
Dr. Milena Belosevic
German Linguistics
milena.belosevic@uni-bielefeld.de
Focus of research:
Word formation,
Cognitive semantics,
Corpus linguistics,
Onomastics,
Text & discourse linguistics,
Argumentation analysis,
Linguistic trust research
Prof. Dr. Alexander Bierich
Slavonic Linguistics
bierich@uni-trier.de
Focus of research:
Cognitive semantics of Slavic languages,
Contrastive lexicology of Slavic languages,
Phraseology and phraseography of Slavic languages,
Historical-etymological exploration of lexical and phraseological units
Prof. Dr. Angelika Braun
Phonetics
braun@uni-trier.de
Focus of research:
Sociophonetics: language and emotions,
Gender-specific language behaviour,
Voice/language and noxes;
Forensic phonetics;
Contrastive phonetics: Hawaiian phonetics
Prof. Dr. Stephan Busch
Latin Studies
stephan.busch@uni-trier.de
Focus of research:
Narrative structure of ancient texts,
Ancient epigram,
Epigraphy and literature,
Phenomena of reception & repercussion,
Latin performance of contemporary teacher candidates,
Roman cuisine
Dr. rer. pol. Florian Ertz
Political Economy
ertz@uni-trier.de
Focus of research:
Econometric modelling of complex survey data,
Generating synthetic micro data for simulation entites,
Asset surveys
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
Dr. Daniela Kolbe-Hanna
English Linguistics
kolbe@uni-trier.de
Focus of research:
Language variation and change,
Phonetics and phonology,
Syntax,
Pragmatics,
Conversation analysis
Dr. Judith Manzoni-Luxenburger
Phonetics
manzoni@uni-trier.de
Focus of research:
Prosody: intonation of Luxembourgish,
Articulatory and acoustic phonetics contrastive: Luxembourgish/German,
Segmental & suprasegmental interferences
Dr. Peter Maurer
Media Science
maurer@uni-trier.de
Focus of research:
Analysis of political messages in social media,
Interaction patterns between journalism and politics in digitalisation,
Perception of media influence and the journalistic role
Prof. Dr. Claudine Moulin
German Linguistics & Trier Center for Digital Humanities
moulin@uni-trier.de
Focus of research:
Historical linguistics,
Language change,
Grapholinguistics,
Language theory & cultural history,
Language contact
Prof. Dr. Marion G. Müller
Media Science
muellermg@uni-trier.de
Forschungsschwerpunkte:
Visual communication,
Political communication,
Intercultural communication,
Crisis and conflict communication,
Visual methods
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
Dr. Sven Naumann
Computer Linguistics
naumsven@uni-trier.de
Focus of research:
Syntax,
Parsing,
Machine learning (of natural language),
Corpus linguistics
Prof. Dr. Simon Neuberg
Yiddish Studies
neuberg@uni-trier.de
Focus of research:
Yiddish language,
Language history and literature
Prof. Dr. Roland Neumann
Psychology
neumannr@uni-trier.de
Focus of research:
Head of the Department of General Psychology:
Cognition, emotion, action regulation
Prof. Dr. Christian Nuernbergk
Media Science
nuernbergk@uni-trier.de
Focus of research:
Public media communication,
Journalism and social media,
Structures, networks and dynamics of digital publicity,
Politics/journalism interaction patterns
Prof. Dr. Achim Rettinger
Computer Linguistics & Digital Humanities
rettinger@uni-trier.de
Focus of research:
Machine Learning of Knowledge Representations,
Semantic Technologies and Knowledge Graphs,
Natural Language Processing,
Computational Media Analytics
Dr. David Römer
German Linguistics
roemerd@uni-trier.de
Focus of research:
Linguistic discourse analysis,
Corpus linguistics,
Linguistic criticism,
Argumentation theory and analysis,
Public language use,
Contemporary language history,
Language of politics,
Language of conspiracy theories
Prof. Dr. Andrea Sand
English Linguistics
sand@uni-trier.de
Focus of research:
English-based pidgins and creoles,
Varieties of English; Caribbean English,
Corpus-based linguistic research
Prof. Dr. Stephan Stein
German Linguistics
stein@uni-trier.de
Focus of research:
Phraseology and formulaicity/preformedness respectively linguistic patterns,
Dying, death and grief in language and communication,
Word formation in German,
Text linguistics and typology,
Orality and scribality
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
Prof. Dr. Martin Wengeler
German Linguistics
wengeler@uni-trier.de
Focus of research:
German language history after 1945,
Linguistic criticism,
Argumentation analysis,
Political language,
Linguistic discursive history,
Linguistics as cultural science
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Katharina Zahner-Ritter
Phonetics
k.zahner-ritter@uni-trier.de
Focus of research:
Production and perception of prosody,
Cross-linguistic aspects of prosody & meaning,
Early language acquisition (phonological development),
Prosodic aspects of second language acquisition
