Convenors: Sabine Arndt-Lappe (Trier) Barbara Schlücker (FU Berlin) Complex words are produced, understood, and also coined in context, and a by now large, but diverse body of literature has explored different facets of the role of context. By ‘context’ we mean the linguistic context, both immediate (e.g. preceding and following words) and with a larger scope (e.g. text types), and the extralinguistic context such as the speaker and the listener or the situation of speaking and the discours

A Germanic Sandwich is a series of workshops in which Dutch is compared with its closest Germanic neighbours, English and German. Consistent with its geographical intermediate location, Dutch has been argued to occupy a linguistic position in between German and English. The 10th Germanic Sandwich workshop – the jubilee edition – will take place on Thursday 7 May and Friday 8 May 2026 at Freie Universität Berlin. The workshop series was founded in 2005, also at Freie Universität Berlin, to com

Focus: „Sprache im Kontext“ bezieht sich dabei zum einen auf die phonologische, graphematische, morphologische und syntaktische Struktur sowie, über die Satzgrenze hinaus, auf die Text- und Diskursstruktur. Zum anderen stellt Kontext im Sinne der…