Department of English Studies
Research interests
- Quantitative and qualitative corpus analysis
- Recent language change
- Syntactic variation
- Spoken language
- Cognitive-functional approaches
- Usage-based grammar
- Construction grammar
- Grammaticalisation
- Parentheticals/theticals
- Discourse grammar
Research interests
- Corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS)
- CDA (critical discourse analysis)
- Language and health (synchronic and diachronic)
- Creation and annotation of own corpora
Research interests
- Forensic linguistics
- Author analysis
- Social media
- Text and discourse analysis
- Corpus-based discourse analysis
Research interests
- Corpus linguistics
- Functional-cognitive language theories
- Negation
- Extra-grammatical constituents (parentheses)
- Fragments
- Functional discourse grammar
- Usage-based construction grammar
Research interests
- Syntax
- Noun Phrase
- Subordination
- Modification
- Functional discourse grammar
- Construction grammar
- Philosophy of Language Science
Department of Digital Humanities
Florian Atzenhofer-Baumgartner
Department of Digital Humanities
Research interests
- Computational linguistics
- Natural language processing in the digital humanities
Department of Digital Humanities
Research interests
- Celtic languages
- Historical linguistics
- Bi- and multilingualism
- Language contact
- Early Middle Ages
Department of Digital Humanities
Research interests
- Computational linguistics
- Natural language processing
- Historical corpora
- Sentiment analysis
- Media studies
Department of Digital Humanities
Research interests
- Computational linguistics
- Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
- Authorship attribution
- Quantitative linguistic analysis in Czech corpora
Department of Digital Humanities
Research interests
- Text mining in historical corpora
- Formulaic language in medieval documents
- NLP with historical "vernacular" languages
- Information extraction from historical texts
Department of German Studies
Research interests
- Acoustic phonetics (L2, ageing processes)
- Code switching
- Pragmatic language change
- Delocutives
- History of linguistics
Research interests
- Information structure
- Discourse structure
- Text structures
- Semantics of indefinites
- Semantics and pragmatics of questions
- Exhaustivity inferences
- Anaphoric expressions and quantification
- Processing of pragmatic inferences
- Semantics of discourse particles
Research interests
- Diatopic variation in standard usage
- Grammar of written and spoken contemporary language
- Language and identity / discourse linguistics
- Historical grammar
Department for Romance Studies
Department for Romance Studies
Research interests
- Romance languages, especially Spanish, Portuguese and French
- (Historical) pragmatics
- Construction grammar
- Adjective-adverb interfaces
- Interfaces between pragmatics, syntax and semantics
- Grammaticalisation/pragmaticalisation and co-optation of discourse markers
- Topicalised infinitives in Romance languages
- (Diachronic) corpus linguistics and annotation of corpora
- Variety linguistics and linguistic variation
Department for Romance Studies
Research interests
- Animacy restrictions in pronouns
- Valency alternations
- Focus and word order
- Secondary predication
- French, Spanish
Department for Romance Studies
Research interests
- Languages: French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Romanian
- Semantics
- Syntax
- Word formation
- Stylistics
- Text linguistics
- Forms of address
- Adjective-adverb interface
Department of Slavic Studies
Department of Linguistics
Research interests
- Arabic linguistics
- Language documentation - Language description
- Sociolinguistics - Language contact research
- Usage-based grammar, emergentism, construction grammar
- Phonology and prosody
Research interests:
- Formal semantics
- Natural language ontology
- Nominalisation
- Discourse structure
Research interests
Interests: Theoretical Linguistics, Linguistic Variation, Language Acquisition, and Language Change
Domain: Linguistic interfaces between syntax, morphology, and semantics
Languages: English and crosslinguistic comparison with other Germanic, Romance, and Slavic languages
Phenomena: Word Formation, Argument Structure, Verbal and Nominal Aspect, Plurality, Negation, Negative Concord, Negative/Positive Polarity, Quantification
Frameworks: Distributed Morphology, Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Generalised Quantifier Theory, Minimalism
Methodology: corpus study, acceptability judgements, lexical resources, statistical evaluation
Research
- Research on Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS) and sign languages in general
- Sign language linguistics, which is rooted in general and applied linguistics and focuses on languages that are performed and perceived in a visual (non)manual three-dimensional modality
- Creation, annotation and application of sign language corpora
- Analysis of non-manual elements (nonmanuals) such as mimic language elements (e.g. movements of the eyebrows or mouth) or movements of the head and body
- Annotation and description of sign language and gestural elements in the context of the analysis of natural language corpora, as well as linguistic discussion of their similarities and differences
Research interests
- Psycholinguistics (especially language development)
- Morphology (derivation)
- Parts of speech
- Typology
- Reduplication
- Austronesian languages (Philippine languages, Bikol)
- morphological processing
- lexical modelling
- linguistic creativity
- language acquisition and change
Department of Translation Studies
Department of Translation Studies
Research interests
- Translation in the age of globalisation
- Translation and critical theory
- Sociological theories of translation
- Market economy, geopolitical and ecological aspects of translation
- Translation as ideological practice
- Translations of philosophical and political texts
- New cooperative forms of translation
- Social interactions of translation technology
- Digital translation didactics
Department of Translation Studies
Research interests
- Ideology and language
- Translation/interpretation of xenophobic discourse
- Phonetics and Prosody
- Conversational language phenomena (Austrian German)
- Language documentation & language description
- Tone and register languages
- Oto-Pama languages