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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Key Research Areas
- Foundations of Linguistics
- Semantics and Pragmatics
- Contrastive Linguistics (Germanic – Romanic – Altaic)
- more
Recent Publications
Çokal, Derya & Klaus von Heusinger. accepted. German demonstrative pronouns in contrast. Dialogue and Discourse.
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 demonstratives and topic questions. In L. K. Samuel- son, S. L. Frank, M. Toneva, A. Mackey & E. Hazeltine (eds.), Proceedings of the 46nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 5143–5150. UC Merced.
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.
Gianollo, Chiara, Klaus von Heusinger & Maria Napoli (eds.). 2022. Determiners and quantifiers: functions, variation, and change. Leiden: Brill.
Current Conferences
International conference Non-bare proper names. Proper names with determiners and modification in a cross-linguistic perspective at the University of Cologne, May 2024 (in cooperation with Ana Aguilar Guevara, México, Timo Buchholz, Cologne, Carolina Oggiani, Montevideo and Julia Pozas Loyo, México)
International conference Referential Structure in Communication at the University of Tokyo, March 2024 (in cooperation with Yoshiki Mori, Tokyo)
Germanistische Linguistik und aktuelle Gesellschafthemen. Online lecture series by GSI Caravan Projekt. From October to December 2023 (hosting in cooperation with Yoshiki Mori, University of Tokyo)
Workshop The syntax and semantics of internal arguments at the University of Bucharest, October 2019 (in cooperation with Alina Tigău, Bucharest)
Research Projects (Selection)
SFB
Speaker of SFB 1252 (2017-2021)
Project in SFB 1252 B04 - Interaktion von nominalen und verbalen Eigenschaften bei Differentieller Objektmarkierung (with Marco García García)
Project in SFB 1252 C04 - Aktivierung von Konzepten und Referenten im Diskurs
Research Networks in Cologne
Member of core profile section Skills and Structures in Language and Cognition (SSLAC)
Founding member and speaker of Center for Linguistics, Information and Philosophy (CLIP)
Working group in the network Experimental Linguistics in Cologne (XLinCLab)
International Research Networks
Foundation and organisation of the workshop series Referential Expressions in Discourse (RED)
Foundation and organisation of the international network Research Network for Referential Categories in Spanish and other Romance Languages (NEREUS)
Foundation and organisation of the conference series Germanistische Linguistik zwischen Köln und Tokio (GAKT)