Dr. Antje Sauermann
Contact details
Dorotheenstraße 24 Email: antje.sauermann(at)hu-berlin.de
Consultation hours, summer term 2025: Thurdays 8.30-9.30 am (by appointment) semester break: by appointment
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Courses summer semester 2025
- VL Zweitspracherwerb und Mehrsprachigkeit (BA Deutsch, BA Germanistische Linguistik)
Mi 8–10 Uhr, DOR 24, R. 1.101
- SE Mehrsprachiger Spracherwerb (Master Linguistik)
Mi 12–14 Uhr, Doro 24, R. 3.138
- SE Der Wort (Gruppe 1) (BA Bildung an Grundschulen)
Do 10–12 Uhr, UL 6, R. 2093
- SE Das Wort (Gruppe 2) (BA Bildung an Grundschulen)
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
- Associate editor of the journal Language Acquisition
Projects
current
- 2024-2027: SFB1412 'Register' (Phase II), Teilprojekt C07 'The impact of language ideologies on register distinctions in multilingual contexts', Co-PI, with Oliver Bunk und Heike Wiese
- 2024 - 2026: Flexibilisierung und Beschleunigung des Lehramtsstudium durch den Einsatz von digitalen Medien, Co-PI mit Jana Brunner, Eva Meier, und Marc Felfe
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
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Dissertation
Sauermann, A. (2016). Impact of the type of referring expression on the acquisition of word order variation. Potsdam: Universitätsverlag Potsdam.
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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
Presentations
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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.
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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.
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)