Welcome
Welcome to the website of the research group on personal reference. Our aim is to fill research gaps in German concerning the use of personal, indefinite, and demonstrative pronouns used to refer to present and absent persons.


Susanne Günthner/Wolfgang Imo, Dominic Hendricks
Project 1
Practices of referring to persons: Uses of pronouns in oncological medical interactions

Antje Dammel, Laura Maria Duve
Project 2
Referential practice in transition: the pronoun "man" in the diachrony of German man in der Diachronie des Deutschen

Jens Philipp Lanwer, Nathalie Bauer
Project 3
Pronouns as a constructional network: usage-based analyses of practices of referring to persons in spoken interactions

Wolfgang Imo, Valeria Schick
Project 4
Person-referring pronouns in dramatic works: interactional and dramaturgical functions as well as historical change from the Baroque and Enlightenment periods to Sturm and Drang and the Classical period

Irina Mostovaia, Marie-Louise Bartsch
Project 5
Pronouns as a constructional network: a usage-based analysis of practices of referring to persons in written interactions

Karola Pitsch, Felix Bergmann
Project 6
Multimodality of person reference: pronominal person reference in emergency medical and fire drills

Maximilian Krug, Björn Junge
Project 7
Pronominale Personenreferenz in DDR-Leserbriefen
Das sind WIR:

Project number: 457855466
