Overview
Overview
Overview
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
Teaching and Supervision
Office hour: please sign up via Scheduler.
For inquiries about teaching and supervision please send a mail to team-kvonheusinger(at)uni-koeln.de.
Aktuelles
In Zusammenarbeit mit Derya Çokal, Martin Villalba, Rui He, Claudio Flores Palominos, Annkathrin Böke, Philipp Homan, Klaus von Heusinger, Joseph Kambeitz, Wolfram Hinzen ist in Computer Speech & Language der Artikel What is the retest reliability of computationally extractable speech and language markers? erschienen.
Wir freuen uns sehr, dass der interdisziplinäre Artikel Automated detection of referential features in schizophrenic speech using large language models bei Neuropsychologia erschienen ist- in Zusammenarbeit mit Derya Çokal, Melike Filizer, Martin Villalba, Douglas Turkington, I. Nicol Ferrier, Klaus von Heusinger, Stuart Watson, Wolfram Hinzen, Massimo Poesio.
Internationale Tagung Mismatches in anaphoric relations (RED) an der Transilvania University of Brașov, Mai 2026 (zusammen mit Sofiana Lindemann, Brașov)
In Kooperation mit Kolleg:innen konnte ich auf der ICPL IV im April 2026 zwei Vorträge halten und zwei Poster präsentieren.
Key Research Areas
- Foundations of Linguistics
- Semantics and Pragmatics
- Contrastive Linguistics (Germanic – Romanic – Altaic)
- more
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.
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)
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)