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Prof. Dr. Oliver Ehmer

I am a full professor in Romance Linguistics at the University of Osnabrück (Institut für Romanistik und Latinistik). My research focuses on language in its context of use, mainly in oral communication but also in written media. I am inspired by interactional, cognitive and usage-based linguistic approaches. On November 25, 2021 I was accepted into the Heisenberg programme (DFG). The funding is awarded for 3 (+ 2) years, starting in April 2022 with a Heisenberg-Professorship.

My research interests include:

• Linguistic structure, social interaction and cognition
• Language variation and change
• Digital humanities, language corpora, corpus technology

My current projects focus on:

• Requests for action in interaction and language change (Heisenberg project)
• Knowledge transmission in interaction
• Pragmatic particles
• Inferences in interaction and language change
• Remembering in conversation, fragmented syntax and polyphony

Events in 2024

Upcoming

• Talk: "1st Person Singular in Interaction (working title)", Meeting of the research group (DFG) "Praktiken der Personenreferenz: Personal-, Indefinit- und Demonstrativpronomen im Gebrauch", organizers: Susanne Güthner & Wolfgang Umo, November, 2025, U Münster (Germany).

Past

• Workshop: "Peticiones y respuestas. Análisis de instrucciones, ensayos y conversaciones de mesa", organizer: Oliver Ehmer, May 16-17, 2024, U Osnabrück.
• Talk: "Preguntas alternativas. Análisis de interrogativas con '¿o no?' (working title)", International Workshop 'Peticiones y respuestas. Análisis de instrucciones, ensayos e conversaciones de mesa', organizer: Oliver Ehmer, May 16-17, 2024, U Osnabrück (Germany), with Ignacio Satti.
• Talk: "Laissé ouvert à l'inférence. Entre aposiopèse et co-construction en français parlé", 1st conference in the series 'Aux frontières de la langue parlée: Pratiques de reformulation et recherches de mot dans une perspective cross-linguistique et multimodale', organizers: Heike Baldauf, Florence Oloff & Sara Merlino, June 11-12, 2024, German-Italian Centre for the European Dialogue, Villa Vigoni (Italy), with Florence Oloff.
• Talk: "Transmitting Embodied Knowledge and Social Practices", International Symposium 'How do you do it? - Transmitting Embodied Knowledge across Generations in Contemporary Art Conservation', organizers: Tiziana Caianiello & Julia Giebeler, June 21, 2024, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Hildesheim (Germany).
• Talk: CANCELLED "Grammar for instructing embodied knowledge", Conference '10th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association', organizers: Alexander Bergs, Meike Pentrel, Marie-Christine Benen, Kim-Kristin Droste, Lara Hötteck & Katrin Birgit Kohn, September 4-6, 2024, U Osnabrück (Germany).
• Talk: "Shell-noun-constructions of the type 'cosa de' (working title)", 2nd Meeting of the scientific network (DFG) "CoPrEspa - The Dynamics of Prepositions and Prepositional Constructions in Spanish", organizer: Alexander Teixeira-Kalkhoff, September 9-10, 2024, U Heidelberg (Germany), with Philipp Dankel, Inga Hennecke & María Sol Sansiñena Pascual.