The role of gender in prominence hierarchies: A cross-linguistic and cross-register perspective (B10*)

• Subject Area: General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages ; Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics
• Term: since 2025
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 281511265

Building on previous experimental research, B10N aims to investigate the relevance of gender as a potential prominence-lending feature. It explores how both grammatical and social/referential gender interact with other, well-researched prominence hierarchies. It aims to develop a theoretical model that combines corpus-linguistic analyses, experimental studies, and linguistic theory to describe how gender influences language users’ choices of morphosyntactic structures in various languages, modalities, and registers.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1252: Prominence in Language
• Applicant Institution: Universität zu Köln
• Project Heads: Dr. Elen Le Foll; Professor Dr. Stefan Hinterwimmer