Linguistik

OWLing 2

Sprachrätsel lösen und gewinnen Die Sprachwissenschaft (Linguistik) der Uni Bielefeld lädt Schüler*innen der Klasse 8-13 ein zum 2. regionalen Linguistikwettbewerb der Region OWL (OWLing 2). Neben kniffligen Sprachrätseln gibt es […]

Rafał Jończyk (Adam Mickiewicz Universität Poznań): How thinking in another language modulates creativity and brain dynamics

Creativity is widely regarded as a key cognitive resource in the 21st century, yet it remains a complex and elusive phenomenon. Language constitutes a central medium of creative thought and […]

Stefan Hartmann (HHU Düsseldorf): Constructions on the verge of a creative breakdown. What constructional idioms reveal about linguistic creativity and productivity

Linguistic creativity has become one of the most prominent topics in Construction Grammar. Taking up Sampson’s now well-established distinction between F(ixed)-creativity and E(xtending)-creativity, constructionist approaches are concerned with both types […]

Muriel Norde (HU Berlin): When creativity becomes routine, and vice versa

Abstract: It is a well-known paradox in current theorising about creativity that successful creative forms may at some point become routine and are consequently no longer perceived of as creative […]

Marlene Böttcher (CAU Kiel): Filler particles in language contact – What their phonetic form, their frequency, and their use can tell us about heritage speakers

Abstract: This talk focuses on the investigation of filler particles like “uh” or “uhm’” in the speech of bilingual heritage speakers as part of these speakers‘ linguistic repertoire. Filler particles (FPs, Belz […]

Eric Fuß (Bochum): Whoever’s dogs are running around in the garden is in big trouble. Properties and historical development of ‘asymmetric’ free relatives in German

‘Asymmetric’ free relative clauses, in which a DP undergoes pied-piping along with a fronted genitival/possessive wh-word, exhibit a set of peculiar properties that set them apart from run- of-the-mill free […]

Forschung / Menschen / News
4. Dezember 2025

Forschung im direkten Gespräch erleben

Update: Die Veranstaltung muss leider entfallen!
Die neue Veranstaltungsreihe BI.research Talk der Universität macht Spitzenforschung in Bielefeld erlebbar. Interessierte sind in die Wissenswerkstadt eingeladen.

Hendrik De Smet (KU Leuven): In language change, analogy is like gravity: omnipresent, weak, and poorly understood

In this paper I develop a particular view on analogy in language change. Although analogical reasoning underlies both creativity and language change, its involvement comes in different flavours. Where creativity […]

think!lab creativity: Christian Nimtz (Bielefeld): „ Let’s get ‘creative’. Conceptual pluralism about creativity”

Abstract: Conceptual pluralism about creativity holds that we use multiple, systematically related concepts of creativity rather than a single one. I argue for pluralism from the philosophy of language. Both […]

Joshua Hartshorne (MGH of Health Professions Boston): New findings and a reappraisal of critical periods in language acquisition

Abstract of his talk: Compared with adults, children are sharply limited when it comes to many intellectual activities (math, science, art) or cognitive abilities (memory, attention, social inference). Nonetheless, they […]

Multimodal Creativity in Speech and Gesture Production

The workshop is organized by CRC 1646 Project C02. Its broad topic is how humans employ speech and gesture creatively in communicative challenging situations, e.g., when conventionalized or commonly used communicative resources are […]

Frau gestikuliert in Richtung eines Roboters

Forschung / News
21. November 2025

Sonderforschungsbereich „Erklärbarkeit konstruieren“ verlängert

Der von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) geförderte Sonderforschungsbereich/Transregio „Erklärbarkeit konstruieren“ (TRR 318) der Universitäten Bielefeld und Paderborn geht ab Januar 2026 in die zweite Förderphase.

Creative Discourse. Beyond Discourse Expectations and Implicit Meaning

The workshop is a collaboration between two projects of the Bielefeld Collaborative Research Center 1646 „Linguistic Creativity in Communication“ and deals with the phenomenon of semantic or pragmatic enrichment, that […]

7th CRC Networking Workshop: Factors of Sucessful Communication

The Inter-CRC-Meeting for 2025, along with a special Early Career Researcher Workshop, is highlighting „Factors of Successful Communication“. This networking event brings together linguistic CRCs from Berlin, Bielefeld, Frankfurt, Cologne, Potsdam, […]

SALA2026

We are pleased to announce that the 40th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable (SALA-40) will take place from 9th to 11th September, 2026 at the Department of Linguistics, Bielefeld University, […]

Forschung / Story
11. November 2025

Schüler*innen fit machen für die Informationsgesellschaft

Bildungsforschende entwickeln Methoden, um kritisches Denken und den Umgang mit digitalen Informationen zu stärken.

Julia Langkau (Geneva): „How to think about creativity“

This talk explores how insights from philosophy, psychology, and other disciplines can inform one another in advancing our understanding of creative thought and action, and considers what philosophy can distinctively […]

Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung der Universität Bielefeld (ZiF)

Forschung / Menschen / News
5. November 2025

„Gerüchte sind Spiegel gesellschaftlicher Unsicherheit“

Gerüchte sind mehr als bloßer Klatsch: Sie zeigen, wie Gesellschaften mit Unsicherheit umgehen. Ein Gespräch mit Historiker Jan Siegemund über medialen Wandel und Wissensgrenzen.

Prof. Dr. Mathias Benedek (Uni Graz): The Cognitive Basis of Creative Thinking

Creative ideas change our world, from small improvements in everyday life to major contributions in the arts and science. But what are the (neuro)cognitive mechanisms underlying creative ideas? In this […]

Prof. Dr. Esme Winter-Froemel (JMU Würzburg): Worldplay traditions and their dynamics: Between constraints and creativity

The paper focuses on linguistic creativity in its interplay with various types of constraints imposed by the structures of the language system, discourse traditional conventions, situational aspects or individual, self-imposed […]

Mitmach-Station: Wer hat’s geschrieben? Mensch oder Maschine? (Geniale Veranstaltung)

Kannst du erkennen, ob ein Text von einem Menschen stammt – oder von einer KI wie ChatGPT? Bei diesem interaktiven Exponat kommst du dem Sprachgefühl auf die Spur: Was macht […]

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23. September 2025

Wie Mensch und KI als Team funktionieren

Wie kann Zusammenarbeit zwischen Mensch und KI gelingen? Der Fokusbereich FAITH der Universität Bielefeld erforscht das hybride Teamwork von morgen.

Open Texture. A Research Workshop

Are burritos a kind of sandwich? Could bitcoin count as money? Would it be fair to say that action figures are dolls? And should a racehorse count as an athlete? […]

Eine Frau in schwarzer Bluse und ein Mann in grauem T-Shirt stehen vor einem belaubten Hintergrund in der Sonne.

Forschung / Menschen / News / Story
9. September 2025

Erklärungen gemeinsam entwickeln

Nach vier Jahren intensiver Forschung zieht der Sonderforschungsbereich Transregio 318 „Constructing Explainability“ Bilanz. Im Interview teilen die beiden Sprecher*innen zentrale Erkenntnisse.