🚨New article published in Gender Linguistics🚨
Ochs, S. (2026). Die morphosyntaktische Integration neuer Gendersuffixe: Eine korpusbasierte Analyse deutschsprachiger Pressetexte. Gender Linguistics, 2. doi.org/10.65020/061...
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singular noun phrases with gender symbols—can now be more clearly delineated as marginal phenomena, especially when contrasted with the otherwise routinized use of gender suffixes in professional journalistic contexts. (9/9)
the first large-scale empirical account of gender suffixes in German, the study contributes to ongoing theoretical debates and highlights both routinized, well-integrated patterns as well as peripheral areas characterized by variability. Rare constructions—such as extended (8/9)
Bürger*in), mixed patterns occur (jede/r Fotograf:in). On the semantic level, the study provides initial empirical insights into the referential properties of singular forms: only 5.6 % refer explicitly to non-binary individuals, suggesting that most uses are hyperonymical. By offering (7/9)
while feminine agreement appears less frequently (23.5 %). The data also reveal considerable variation in the realization and combination of gendered modifiers. While there is a general tendency toward the use of the same gender symbol both in the heads and the dependents (jede*r (6/9)
to avoid complex syntactic embeddings, favoring plural forms (97 % of tokens) and bare singular noun phrases (38.3 % of singulars). When extended singular noun phrases are used, modifiers are marked by a gender symbol in the majority of cases (37.8 % of singulars), (5/9)
often result in ungrammatical formations—the majority of forms conform to the rules of German derivational morphology. Productivity measures indicate that gender suffixes have already established routinized patterns, while also displaying expansion into new lexical bases. Language users tend (4/9)
symbols (22,407 types; 225,255 tokens), it systematically examines their morphosyntactic integration. The analysis supports the suffixal status of -*in from a distributional perspective, as it almost exclusively attaches to derivational bases. With the exception of slash variants—which (3/9)
This study presents corpus-based empirical insights into a phenomenon that has largely been discussed on a theoretical level: the morphological and syntactic behavior of new gender suffixes in German. Drawing on a large, manually annotated dataset of personal nouns with word-internal gender (2/9)
🚨New article published in Gender Linguistics🚨
Ochs, S. (2026). Die morphosyntaktische Integration neuer Gendersuffixe: Eine korpusbasierte Analyse deutschsprachiger Pressetexte. Gender Linguistics, 2. doi.org/10.65020/061...
#linguistics #Linguistik
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🚨 If you missed the application window for the Forensic Linguistics Short Course in March, here is some welcome news: the deadline has been extended from today, 13 Dec, to 17 Dec.
Further details about the #FLsc and the application process are available at div-ling.org/flsc
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There is now just one month left to apply for the 7th Forensic Linguistics Short Course #FLsc!
Applications close on 13 December 2025 – don't miss your chance to join us in Düsseldorf for four days of forensic linguistic discovery.
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There is now just one month left to apply for the 7th Forensic Linguistics Short Course #FLsc!
Applications close on 13 December 2025 – don't miss your chance to join us in Düsseldorf for four days of forensic linguistic discovery.
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FYI: New journal: Gender Linguistics - Editorial Mission Statement Published
Cover of the journal Gender Linguistics, Volume 1 (2025). The background is blue with large overlapping letters "G" and "L" in red, green, blue, and yellow. The top section shows the journal title, subtitle "A journal of the Association for Diversity in Linguistics," and an "Open Access" label. The lower section lists the editors on the left and displays the div-ling association logo on the right.
New #GL publication! 📄
What is gender #linguistics? Our new editorial statement defines the field and the aims of our journal.
Now published in Gender Linguistics: gender-linguistics.org/index.php/jo...
Cover of the journal Gender Linguistics, Volume 1 (2025). The background is blue with large overlapping letters "G" and "L" in red, green, blue, and yellow. The top section shows the journal title, subtitle "A journal of the Association for Diversity in Linguistics," and an "Open Access" label. The lower section lists the editors on the left and displays the div-ling association logo on the right.
New #GL publication! 📄
What is gender #linguistics? Our new editorial statement defines the field and the aims of our journal.
Now published in Gender Linguistics: gender-linguistics.org/index.php/jo...
A sharepic with the following content: FLsc Forensic Linguistics Short Course. Disputed meaning, authorship analysis, ideolect and stylistic analysis, digital methods, hands-on training, casework. 17 to 20 March 2026, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany, div-ling.org/flsc, contact@div-ling.org, organised by Dominic Schmitz and Janina Esser. In the bottom left corner, there is the div-ling logo; in the bottom right corner, there is the logo of the university.
Applications are now open for the 7th Forensic #Linguistics Short Course #FLsc!
Join us in Düsseldorf from 17 to 20 March 2026 for an international spring school on forensic linguistics, with a focus on digital methods and hands-on casework.
Apply by 13 December 2025!
div-ling.org/flsc
A sharepic with the following content: FLsc Forensic Linguistics Short Course. Disputed meaning, authorship analysis, ideolect and stylistic analysis, digital methods, hands-on training, casework. 17 to 20 March 2026, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany, div-ling.org/flsc, contact@div-ling.org, organised by Dominic Schmitz and Janina Esser. In the bottom left corner, there is the div-ling logo; in the bottom right corner, there is the logo of the university.
Applications are now open for the 7th Forensic #Linguistics Short Course #FLsc!
Join us in Düsseldorf from 17 to 20 March 2026 for an international spring school on forensic linguistics, with a focus on digital methods and hands-on casework.
Apply by 13 December 2025!
div-ling.org/flsc
on the left, the cover of the journal gender linguistics, its logo consists of a conjoined uppercase G and L. on the right, the following text: a community-owned journal for gender linguistic research, peer-reviewed, open access, no publication costs, multilingual publishing; below the text, there is the link to the journal website and a qr code.
One highlight of LILG 2025: the official launch of the new open-access journal Gender Linguistics!
Published by our association, the journal will be a space for research at all linguistic intersections of language and gender.
Learn more: gender-linguistics.org
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We understand gender in its broadest sense, and we do not favour specific theories or approaches.
What to expect: Double-blind peer review, no fees, and all articles published open access under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Submissions currently accepted in English and German.
The editorial team – Samira Ochs, Anne Rosar, Jeff Roxas, Aline Siegenthaler, Simon David Stein, Lena Völkening and Dominic Schmitz – is now inviting submissions.
What we publish: Original research offering insights into the relationship between language and gender.
on the left, the cover of the journal gender linguistics, its logo consists of a conjoined uppercase G and L. on the right, the following text: a community-owned journal for gender linguistic research, peer-reviewed, open access, no publication costs, multilingual publishing; below the text, there is the link to the journal website and a qr code.
One highlight of LILG 2025: the official launch of the new open-access journal Gender Linguistics!
Published by our association, the journal will be a space for research at all linguistic intersections of language and gender.
Learn more: gender-linguistics.org
#linguistics #journal #launch
an image headed with the logo of the linguistic intersections of language and gender conference, below there are two photos. on the left, audience in a room seated in rows of chairs, on the right, three individuals are seen closer up, one of them is talking into a microphone. on both images, people are seen from behind rather than from the front.
Thank you to everyone who joined LILG 2025 in person and online – you made these two days truly inspiring!
A special thank you to @hhu.de for hosting us in such a welcoming space.
Here's to more conversations at the intersections of language and gender!
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Poster presentation at the second edition of LILG - Linguistic Intersections of Language and Gender (12.-13.08.2025) @div-ling.org @versauer.bsky.social
Sylvanian families bunny figure dresses in a red polkadot nightgown and lying in a single wooden bed bed on its tummy. One of the arms is hanging down the bed and the figure seems to be staring at the camera. The room has white, soft carpet floor and dusty pink wallpaper.
I have sadly not taken any fotos, but this is basically me after two wonderful days of the second edition of Linguistic Intersections of Language and Gender (organised by @div-ling.org and @hhu.de). I am extremely grateful to the organisers and the students assistants, who have done an amazing job 💜
You can still register for online participation – until August 10!
Join us for exciting talks and posters on gender and language in a time when this intersection is increasingly instrumentalised by far-right politics. Don't miss out!
Register at: lilg.div-ling.org/registration
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Don't forget - you can still register for online participation until August 10th!
Register at: lilg.div-ling.org/registration/
Find the programme at: lilg.div-ling.org/programme/
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Join us at LILG 2 – Linguistic Intersections of Language and Gender!
There are still 2 spots left for in-person participation & plenty for online participation - register now!
Date: 12-13 August 2025
Location: @hhu.de & online
Register here: lilg.div-ling.org/registration
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