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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 (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG). The funding is awarded for 5 years (04/2022-03/2027).

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
Remembering in conversation
Pragmatic particles
Interactional repair and word searches
Inferences in interaction and language change

Events in 2025

Workshop: "Demonstratives and Demonstrations in Interaction", organizer: Oliver Ehmer, April 2-3, 2025, U Osnabrück.
Workshop: "Enmiendas interactionales desde una perspectiva multimodal", organizer: Oliver Ehmer, April 9-10, 2025, U Osnabrück.
Meeting: "CoPreSpa meeting", Sub group meeting of the scientific network (DFG), organizer: Oliver Ehmer, April 11-13, 2025, U Osnabrück.
Workshop: "Netzwerktreffen für Doktorand*innen der Gesprächsforschung", organizer: Marius Müller & Henning Vahlenkamp. Key note: Jens Lanwer, May 22-24, 2025.
Talk: "Shell-noun-constructions of the type 'cosa de' (working title)", 3nd Meeting of the scientific network (DFG) "CoPrEspa - The Dynamics of Prepositions and Prepositional Constructions in Spanish", organizer: María Del Carmen Mellado Blanco, October 2-3, 2025, U Santiago (Spain), with Philipp Dankel, Inga Hennecke & María Sol Sansiñena Pascual.
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 Imo, November, 20-21, 2025, U Münster (Germany).
Workshop: "Interaktionskolloquium", organizer: Oliver Ehmer, February, 18-20, 2026, U Osnabrück.