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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 in interaction
• Pragmatic particles
• Inferences in interaction and language change
• Remembering in conversation, fragmented syntax and polyphony

Events in 2025

• 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 Umo, November, 2025, U Münster (Germany).

See past events here.