Prof. Dr. Klaus von Heusinger

Professor of German Linguistics

Department of German Language und Literature I – Linguistics
Albertus-Magnus-Platz
50923 Cologne
Germany

Visitor Address and Office Hours:
Philosophikum, Room 2.116
Tel.: +49 (0)221 470 4884

Office at the CRC 1252 Prominence in Language
Luxemburger Straße 299, room 1.09
Tel.: +49 (0)221 470 89900

E-Mail: Klaus.vonHeusinger(at)uni-koeln.de

Current information on teaching and office hours

Teaching and Supervision

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For inquiries about teaching and supervision please send a mail to team-kvonheusinger(at)uni-koeln.de.

Aktuelles

Ab Wintersemester 2024/25 bieten wir den Studiengang Germanistische Linguistik an.

We welcome Senior Fellow Roohollah Mofidi who will cooperate on the project B04 on 'Variation in the placement of agreement clitics in Nayini'.

We welcome Senior Fellow Peter Arkadiev who will cooperate on the project B04 on 'Interaction of Nominal and Verbal Features for Differential Object Marking'.

We are delighted that Prof. Xavier Villalba, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), will open the CCLS Lectures on 21 October 2024 with the lecture ‘Expressive adjectives and variation at the syntax/semantics interface’.

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Key Research Areas

Foundations of Linguistics
Semantics and Pragmatics
Contrastive Linguistics (Germanic – Romanic – Altaic)
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Recent Publications

Çokal, Derya, Jason Bishop, Jacopo Torregrossan, Clare Patterson, Martine Grice, Simon Wehrle, Maria Lialiou, Sophie Repp, Heiko Seeliger, Sonja Eisenbeiß, Klaus von Heusinger, Kai Vogeley & Petra B. Schu- macher. 2025. Individual differences in discourse management. Frontiers in Communication 10:1448463. doi:https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2025.1448463.

Çokal, Derya & Klaus von Heusinger. 2024. The roles of alternatives in the cognitive processing of German demonstratives: Insights from online and offline processing. Frontiers in Language Sciences 3:1433482. doi: https://doi:10.3389/flang.2024.1433482.

Çokal, Derya & Klaus von Heusinger. 2024. German demonstrative pronouns in contrast. Dialogue and Discourse 15(1). 45–76. doi: doi.org/10.5210/dad.2024.102.

von Heusinger, Klaus, Frederike Weeber, Jet Hoek & Andreas Brocher. 2024. Informativity, in- formation status and the accessibility of indefinite noun phrases. Glossa 9(1). 1–20. doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.8888.

von Heusinger, Klaus, Tiago Duarte & Marco García García. 2024. Differential Object Marking and discourse prominence in Spanish. Isogloss 10(1)/6. 1–37.

Buchholz, Timo & Klaus von Heusinger. 2024. German demonstrative pronouns differ in their sensitivity to discourse and sentence topics. Frontiers in Communication 9:1369290.

Kaiser, Georg A. & Klaus von Heusinger. 2024. On the emergence of argument encoding in causative constructions in Spanish. In New perspectives on the syntax of causative and restructuring verbs in Romance, eds. Jan Casalicchio and Peter Herbeck. Special issue of Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 10((4)/2). 1–34.

Primus, Beatrice, Franziska Kretzschmar, Klaus von Heusinger & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2022. Relating agent prominence to discourse prominence: DO-clefts in German. Linguistics 60(6). 1811-1853.

Kizilkaya, Semra, Zarina Levy Forsythe & Klaus von Heusinger.2022. Affectedness and differential object marking in Turkish and Uzbek. Linguistics 60(6). 1907-1941.

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Current Conferences

Internationale Tagung Non-Bare Proper Names III. Proper Names with Determiners and Modification in a Cross-linguistic Perspective. in Montevideo, Uruguay, März 2026 (zusammen mit Ana Aguilar Guevara, México, Timo Buchholz, Köln, Rafael Herrera Jiménez, México, Klaus von Heusinger, Köln, Carolina Oggiani, Uruguay und Julia Pozas Loyo, México)

Internationale Tagung Mismatches in anaphoric relations (RED) an der Transilvania University of Brașov, Mai 2026 (zusammen mit Sofiana Lindemann, Brașov)

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