Faculty of Language, Literature and Humanities - German in Multilingual Contexts

Dr. Antje Sauermann


Contact details

Dorotheenstraße 24
10117 Berlin
Room 3.325
 

Email: antje.sauermann(at)hu-berlin.de

Phone: +49 (0)30 2093 9675

 

Consultation hours, summer term 2025: Thurdays 8.30-9.30 am (by appointment)

semester break: by appointment

 

Postal address
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik
Unter den Linden 6
D-10099 Berlin

 

 


Courses summer semester 2025

Mi 8–10 Uhr, DOR 24, R. 1.101

Mi 12–14 Uhr, Doro 24, R. 3.138

Do 10–12 Uhr, UL 6, R. 2093

Do 12–14 Uhr, UL 6, R. 2093


Research

Research interests
  • Language acquisition and multilingualism (esp. information structure, discourse structure, register)
  • Variation in multilingual contexts (esp. German in Namibia)
  • Language attitudes and social meaning
  • Influence of contextual factors in language acquisition and language processing
Service

 

Projects

current

completed

  • 2020-2023: SFB1412 'Register' (Phase I), Teilprojekt C07 'Register perception in a multilingual context of German: Differentiation, awareness, and attitudes', Co-PI, with Heike Wiese
  • 2023 - 2024: Formatives Testen in der Grammatikausbildung für Lehramtsstudierende, Co-PI with Jana Brunner, Eva Meier, and Marc Felfe
  • 2022 - 2023: HyPE ViSOR - Hybride Präsenz- und E-Lehrkonzepte zur Vielseitigkeit von Sprache, Offline und Remote, Co-PI with Oliver Bunk and Fynn Raphael Dobler

 


Publications

  • Dissertation

Sauermann, A. (2016). Impact of the type of referring expression on the acquisition of word order variation. Potsdam: Universitätsverlag Potsdam.

 

  • Articles in journals and book chapters (*peer-reviewed)

*Bunk, O., Sauermann, A., & Dobler, F. (2024). Sociolinguistic variation in German. The case of the modal particles “halt” and “eben”. In K. V. Beaman & J. M. Stratton (Hrsg.) Expanding Variationist Sociolinguistics: Studies in Linguistic Variation and Change in Varieties of German (pp. 181-202). London: Routledge.

Lüdeling, A., Szucsich, L., Zeige, L. E.,  Adli, A., Alexiadou, A., Belz, M., Bouzouita, M., Bunk, O., Dreyer, M., Egg, M., Feulner, A. H.,  Fleischer, J., Gagarina, N., Hirsch, A., Jannedy, S., Knoeferle, P., Krause, T., Kutscher, S., Liu, M., Lütke, B., Machicao y Priemer, A., Maquate, K., Merino Hernandez, L., Meyer, R., Mooshammer, C., Müller, S., Sauerland, U., Sauermann, A., Schmitt, V., Schumacher, N., Serova, D., Solt, S., Vander Klok, J., Verhoeven, E., Waltereit, R., Weirich, M., & Wiese, H. (2024) Register: Language Users' Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation. Frame text for the Second-Phase Proposal of the CRC 1412 Register. REALIS: Register Aspects of Language in Situation, 3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18452/29131.

*Pescuma, V. N., Serova, D., Lukassek, J., Sauermann, A., Schäfer, R., Adli, A., Bildhauer, F., Egg, M., Hülk, K., Ito, A., Jannedy, S., Kordoni, V., Kühnast, M., Kutscher, S., Lange, R., Lehmann, N., Liu, M., Lütke, B., Maquate, K., Mooshammer, C., Mortezapour, V., Müller, S., Norde, M., Pankratz, E., Patarroyo, A. G., Plesca, A.-M., Ronderos, C. R., Rotter, S., Sauerland, U., Schnelle, G., Schulte, B., Schüppenhauer, G., Sell, B. M., Solt, S., Terada, M., Tsiapou, D., Verhoeven, E., Weirich, M., Wiese, H., Zaruba, K., Zeige, L. R.,Lüdeling, A., & Knoeferle, P. (2023) Situated language register across the ages, languages and modalities, and cultures: Evidence from complementary methods. Frontiers in Psychology 13: 964658. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.964658.

*Sauermann, A., Schulte, B., & Wiese, H. (2023). "Sprachkontakt in Namibia: Registerdifferenzierung im Namdeutschen." In B. Hans-Bianchi, & B. Vogt (Eds.), Deutsch im Kontakt. Neue empirische Studien zu Kontaktphänomenen und -szenarien in der Gegenwart (pp. 127-164). Baden-Baden: Georg Olms Verlag.

Yilmaz, G., & Sauermann, A. (2023). Complete acquisition in the heritage language: Evidence from indefiniteness in Turkish. RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Dergisi, 33, 813-847. DOI: https://doi.org/10.29000/rumelide.1286008.

*Wiese, H., Sauermann, A., & Bracke Y. (2022). "Coherence and language contact: Orderly heterogeneity and social meaning in Namibian German." In K. V. Beaman, & G. R. Guy (Eds.), The coherence of linguistic communities (pp. 301-318). New York, London: Routledge.

*Burmester, J., Sauermann, A., Spalek, K., & Wartenburger, I. (2018). Sensitivity to salience: linguistic vs. visual cues affect sentence processing and pronoun resolution. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 784-801. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2018.1428758.

*Sauermann, A., & Gagarina, N. (2018). The roles of givenness and type of referring expression in the comprehension of word order in Russian-speaking children. Linguistics Vanguard, 4(s1), 20160094. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2016-0094.

*Sauermann, A., & Höhle, B. (2018). Word order in German child language and child-directed speech: A corpus analysis on the ordering of double objects in the German middlefield. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 3(1), 57. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.281

Before 2018

 

Presentations

  • Talks

(*presented by)

Pott, J., Bunk, O.*, Oliha, V., Sauermann, A., & Wiese, H. The relation between language ideologies and language attitudes in mono- and multilingually oriented contexts. International Symposium on Language Ideologies and Attitudes. IDEOLING. 17.10. - 19.10.2024. Universitat de les Illes Balears.

Wiese, H.*, Adli, A., Alexiadou, A., Bunk, O., Farokhnejad, Z., Krifka, M., Lehmann, N., Sauermann, A., VanderKlok, J., Veenstra, T., & Verhoeven, E. Languages as registers: Language choice and language mixing as register markers. ICLaVE12. 8.7. - 11.7.2024, Universität Wien.

Schulte, B.*, Sauermann, A., & Wiese, H. Register perception in multilingual speakers of German in a minority context: An open guise addressee identification study. 48th Annual Conference of the German Association for Linguistics (DGfS). 1.2. - 1.3.2024, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

Bunk, O.*, Sauermann, A.*, Dobler, F. R., & Wiese, H. Sociolinguistic variation in Kiezdeutsch and Namdeutsch. Methods XVII. 1.8. - 5.8.2022, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz.

Wiese, H., Sauermann, A.*, & Schulte, B.* Lexical vs. grammatical features in the perception of Namibian German. German Abroad. 27. - 28.09.2021, online conference.

Sekerina, I.A., Mitrofanova, N., Sauermann, A., Gagarina, N., & Westergaard, M.* Crosslinguistic transfer of case cues in anticipating non-canonical word orders. International Symposium on Bilingualism. 23. - 28.06.2019, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Yilmaz, G.*, & Sauermann, A. An intergenerational look into referentiality: the bare object in Turkish. International Symposium on Bilingualism. 23. - 28.06.2019, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Before 2018

 

  • Posters

(*presented by)

Schulte, B.*, Sauermann, A., & Wiese, H. Social meaning of lexical and grammatical features in Namibian German. Social Meaning Berlin. 14. - 15.11.2023, Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS).

Mitrofanova, N.*, Sekerina, I.A., Sauermann, A., Gagarina, N., & Westergaard, M. Language-specific morphology facilitates predictive use of case marking in bilingual children. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) Conference. 06. - 08.09.2019, Moskau.

Sauermann, A.*, & Gagarina, N. Pronouns and proficiency influence OVS comprehension in bilingual preschoolers. Child Language Symposium (CLS) 2018. 25. - 26.06.2018, Reading.

Sauermann, A.*, & Gagarina, N. Pronouns and proficiency affect OVS comprehension in bilingual preschoolers. International Symposium on Bilingual Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC). 24. - 25.05.2018, Braunschweig.

Sekerina, I.A.*, Mitrofanova, N., Sauermann, A., Gagarina, N., & Westergaard, M. Predictive use of grammatical case in bilingual children is modulated by task. International Symposium on Bilingual Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC). 24. - 25.05.2018, Braunschweig.

Yilmaz, G.*, & Sauermann, A. The interpretation of indefiniteness by Turkish heritage speakers: Is there transfer from the dominant language? Linguistic Evidence. 15. - 17.02.2018, Tübingen.

Before 2018

Knowledge transfer: activities for wider audiences

Sauermann, A., Bartz, D., & Gagarina, N. (2018). Erwerb diskursiver Fähigkeiten. In Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft. Das Forschungsjahr 2017 (S. 19-30).

Gagarina, N. & Sauermann, A.* Typische, auffällige oder gestörte Mehrsprachigkeit. Arbeitskreis Lingua Pankow. 14.06.2017, Berlin. Vortrag.

 


Previous courses

Wintersemester 2024/2025 (HU Berlin)

  • SE Der Satz (BA Bildung an Grundschulen)
  • SE Das Wort (BA Bildung an Grundschulen)
  • Ü Deutsche Grammatik (BA Germanistische Linguistik, BA Deutsch)
  • SE Mehrsprachiger Spracherwerb (Zertifikatsstudium Deutsch im Mehrsprachigkeitskontext)

Summer semester 2024 (HU Berlin)

  • SE Das Wort (BA Bildung an Grundschulen)
  • SE Mehrsprachiger Spracherwerb (Zertifikatsstudium Deutsch im Mehrsprachigkeitskontext)
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