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Chair of Romance Linguistics (French/Italian)

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Dec 11, 2025
CfA - Rethinking AI at the Linguistics-Translation Studies Interface

Léa Huotari (University of Turku), Mairi McLaughlin (Berkeley) and Franz Meier (TU Dresden) are pleased to announce a call for articles for a special issue in AI Linguistica. The aim is to show what research at the Linguistics-Translation Studies interface can offer to our understanding of AI.
Nov 07, 2025
Forme e contenuti del transfer culturale nel giornalismo europeo (XVIII secolo-prima metà del XIX secolo) - Tagungsprogramm

Das Programm der interdisziplinären Tagung 'Forme e contenuti del transfer culturale nel giornalismo europeo (XVIII secolo-prima metà del XIX secolo)', die vom 12. bis 14. November an der Università di Firenze stattfindet, ist nun online. Weitere Infos hier.
Oct 28, 2025
CfP ILPE 7 - Les idéologies linguistiques dans la presse écrite et dans les autres médias

Das Forschungsnetz CIRCULA und die Fundación Alonso Quijano organisieren vom 28. bis 30.10.2026 in Málaga die Tagung ILPE 7: „Les idéologies linguistiques dans la presse écrite et dans les autres médias: le cas des langues romanes“. Abstracts können bis zum 11.01.2026 eingereicht werden.

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Research Interests at a Glance

The Chair’s research areas include AI-generated texts, translation, language contact and multilingualism in the history of Romance languages, cognitive linguistics (frame semantics and construction grammar), historical syntax, media and discourse linguistics, research on language ideologies, as well as modality, evidentiality, and polyphony.

Current Research Projects

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Multilin­guale Textproduk­tion in der Aufklärung
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Subjektiv­ität in KI-generierten Texten

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Italienis­che Sprach­chroniken als Linguistic Linked Open Data
Office hours during the semester

Office hours in winter semester 2025/26:
Tues., 12:00-14:00 and by appointment online

All registrations are made via OPAL in the cross-semester folder of Romance Studies.

Lecture-free period: