Dr. Katrin Hein-Antonioli

Function

  • Researcher at the Department of Lexical Studies

Task area

  • Head of the research area “Word-Formation Patterns”
  • Coordinator of the collaborative research project “Syntagmatics in the Lexicon. Word Formation, Word Combinations, and Argument Structures”
  • Co-editor of the “IDSopen” series

Personal data

  • February 2025: Visiting Researcher at the University of Turin (Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Prof. Livio Gaeta)
  • Summer Semester 2018: Interim Professor of German Linguistics (W2) at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
  • Since 2015: Research Fellow at the Department of Lexical Studies of the IDS Mannheim
  • 2014: PhD in German Linguistics at the University of Münster
  • 2013–2014: Research Associate in the DFG project “Automated Spelling Diagnosis” at the Institute for German Language and Literature of the Karlsruhe University of Education
  • 2009–2013: Research Associate and Doctoral Candidate at the Departments of Lexical Studies and Grammar of the IDS Mannheim
  • 2003–2008: Magister Artium (M.A.) in General Linguistics, Modern German Literature, and Modern History at the University of Bonn and Roma Tre University

Research interests

  • Complex words at the lexicon-grammar interface (e.g., phrasal compounds)
  • Evaluative morphology (e.g., diminutives and augmentatives)
  • Construction morphology

Publications

Current selection:

Hein-Antonioli, Katrin (2026):
Expanding the boundaries of word-formation – What German phrasal compounds tell us about the lexicon. In: Angster, Marco / Audring, Jenny / Koutsoukos, Nikos / Malenica, Frane (Hg.): Lexicon, lexemes, lexicalization. MMM14 Online Proceedings. (= Proceedings of the Mediterranean Morphology Meetings 14). Patras: University of Patras. S. 11-21.
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Hein, Katrin / Antonioli, Giorgio (2025):
Phrasenkomposita im gesprochenen Deutsch an der Schnittstelle von Wortbildungs- und Gesprächsforschung. In: Murelli, Adriano (Hrsg.): Gesprochenes Deutsch heute. Variation, Wandel, Sprachkontakt. (= Reihe Germanistische Linguistik 334). Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter. S. 65-90.
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Brunner, Annelen / Engelberg, Stefan / Hein, Katrin (2021):
The distribution of constituent words in nominal compounds and its impact on semantic interpretation: an empirical study. In: Journal of Word Formation 1. Siegen: Lang. S. 7-36.
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Hein, Katrin / Brunner, Annelen (2020):
Why do some lexemes combine more frequently than others? – An empirical approach to productivity in German compound formation. In: Audring, Jenny / Koutsoukos, Nikos / Masini, Francesca (Hg.): Rules, patterns, schemas and analogy. Online Proceedings of the 12th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting. Patras: Pasithee. S. 28-41.
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Hein, Katrin / Engelberg, Stefan (2018):
Morphological variation: the case of productivity in German compound formation. In: Koutsoukos, Nikos / Audring, Jenny / Masini, Francesca (Hg.): Morphological Variation: Synchrony and Diachrony. Online Proceedings of the Eleventh Mediterranean Morphology Meeting (MMM11) Nicosia, Cyprus, 22-25 June 2017. Patras: Pasithee. S. 36-50.
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Talks

Current selection:

Hein-Antonioli, Katrin:
Compounding in German from a pattern-based perspective. Workshop "Different perspectives on compounding: works in progress".
10.9.2026, University of South Bohemia, Budweis
Hein-Antonioli, Katrin / Stumpf, Sören:
Diminutives in spoken German as evaluative constructions. Unlocking Evaluative Morphology II: Semantic values and pragmatic motivations.
22.4.2026, Universität Alicante
Hein-Antonioli, Katrin:
Expanding the boundaries of word formation – what German phrasal compounds tell us about the lexicon. 14th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting.
12.6.2025, Universität Zadar, Kroatien
Hein-Antonioli, Katrin:
Investigating German Word Formation: the Compound Pattern Explorer ‘KoMuX’ (Plenarvortrag). 23rd International Conference of the Commission on Word Formation of the International Committee of Slavists (Multistage Word Formation).
17.9.2024, Universität Ljubljana (Online-Vortrag)
Hein-Antonioli, Katrin:
ratlos, vergangenheitslos, faltenfrei – how to deal with the affective content of German affixes of negation within a construction-grammatical approach. 10th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association (GCLA) (Theme Session: Die Bedeutungsebene von Wortbildungskonstruktionen).
5.9.2024, Universität Osnabrück