@article{UthGutierrezBravoFliessbach2024, author = {Uth, Melanie and Guti{\´e}rrez-Bravo, Rodrigo and Fliessbach, Jan}, title = {On the incompatibility of object fronting and progressive aspect in Yucatec Maya}, series = {Frontiers in language sciences}, volume = {2}, journal = {Frontiers in language sciences}, publisher = {Frontiers Media S.A.}, address = {Lausanne, Switzerland}, issn = {2813-4605}, doi = {10.3389/flang.2023.1286520}, pages = {10}, year = {2024}, abstract = {In this paper, we present data from an elicitation study and a corpus study that support the observation that the Yucatec Maya progressive aspect auxiliary t{\´a}an is replaced by the habitual auxiliary k in sentences with contrastively focused fronted objects. Focus has been extensively studied in Yucatec, yet the incompatibility of object fronting and progressive aspect in Yucatec Maya remains understudied. Both our experimental results and our corpus study point in the direction that this incompatibility may very well be categorical. Theoretically, we take a progressive reading to be derived from an imperfectivity operator in combination with a singular operator, and we propose that this singular operator implicates the negation of event plurality, leading to an exhaustive interpretation which ranks below corrective focus on a contrastive focus scale. This means that, in a sentence with object focus fronting, the use of the marked auxiliary t{\´a}an (as opposed to the more general k) would trigger two contrastive foci, which would be an unlikely and probably dispreferred speech act.}, language = {en} } @article{EtteRen2023, author = {Ette, Ottmar and Ren, Haiyan}, title = {Exploring China in Alexander von Humboldt: The Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies (HCTS), Changsha}, series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, volume = {XXIV}, journal = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, number = {46}, editor = {Ette, Ottmar and Knobloch, Eberhard}, issn = {2568-3543}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-59974}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-599749}, pages = {5 -- 11}, year = {2023}, abstract = {Humboldtian science aims at an empirically supported transdisciplinary and at the same time transareal development of a world consciousness. In the development of this world consciousness, not only Europe and the Americas, but also Central Asia and especially China play an important role. The Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies (HCTS) in Changsha, is attempting to address the fact that China has been largely left out of international Humboldt studies and that Alexander von Humboldt was intensively engaged with Central Asia and China for decades. Therefore, the Humboldt Center in Changsha sets itself the goal of expanding Humboldt Studies to include this important aspect, to stimulate and coordinate special research work, and to build scientific and cultural bridges between Germany and China, Europe and Asia.}, language = {en} } @book{Fliessbach2023, author = {Fliessbach, Jan}, title = {The intonation of expectations}, publisher = {Language Science Press}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-96110-413-0}, issn = {2940-1100}, doi = {10.5281/zenodo.7929375}, pages = {285}, year = {2023}, abstract = {This book provides a new perspective on prosodically marked declaratives, wh-exclamatives, and discourse particles in the Madrid variety of Spanish. It argues that some marked forms differ from unmarked forms in that they encode modal evaluations of the at-issue meaning. Two epistemic evaluations that can be shown to be encoded by intonation in Spanish are obviousness and mirativity, which present the at-issue meaning as expected and unexpected, respectively. An empirical investigation via a production experiment finds that they are associated with distinct intonational features under constant focus scope, with stances of (dis)agreement showing an impact on obvious declaratives. Wh-exclamatives are found not to differ significantly in intonational marking from neutral declaratives, showing that they need not be miratives. Moreover, we find that intonational marking on different discourse particles in natural dialogue correlates with their meaning contribution without being fully determined by it. In part, these findings quantitatively confirm previous qualitative findings on the meaning of intonational configurations in Madrid Spanish. But they also add new insights on the role intonation plays in the negotiation of commitments and expectations between interlocutors.}, language = {en} } @book{OPUS4-57691, title = {Linguistic hybridity}, series = {Studia Romanica}, journal = {Studia Romanica}, number = {232}, editor = {Hennemann, Anja and Meisnitzer, Benjamin}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Winter}, address = {Heidelberg}, isbn = {978-3-8253-4936-3}, pages = {229}, year = {2022}, abstract = {This volume deals with different linguistic phenomena representing grammaticalization and lexicalization processes and combines different approaches of contact linguistics and variational linguistics. It contains papers on clitic placement in Angolan Portuguese, on the use of subject pronouns in French, Brazilian Portuguese and Caribbean Spanish, on evidential marking in Paraguayan Spanish, on Paraguayan Guaran{\´i}, on evidentiality in different varieties of Spanish, on discourse markers in Latin America, on modal particles in Italian and their translation into German, on bilingual communities in Southern Brazil, on Spanish-German-Russian language contact and on Romance aspectual periphrases in contact with English progressives.}, language = {en} } @incollection{BoehmHennemannMeisnitzer2022, author = {B{\"o}hm, Ver{\´o}nica Julia and Hennemann, Anja and Meisnitzer, Benjamin}, title = {Language contact and the linguistic coding of evidentiality in varieties of Spanish in Latin America}, series = {Linguistic hybridity: contact-induced and cognitively motivated grammaticalization and lexicalization processes in Romance languages}, booktitle = {Linguistic hybridity: contact-induced and cognitively motivated grammaticalization and lexicalization processes in Romance languages}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Winter}, address = {Heidelberg}, isbn = {978-3-8253-4936-3}, pages = {117 -- 142}, year = {2022}, language = {en} } @incollection{HennemannMeisnitzer2022, author = {Hennemann, Anja and Meisnitzer, Benjamin}, title = {An introduction to contact-induced and cognitively motivated grammaticalization and lexicalization processes in Romance languages}, series = {Linguistic hybridity: contact-induced and cognitively motivated grammaticalization and lexicalization processes in Romance languages}, booktitle = {Linguistic hybridity: contact-induced and cognitively motivated grammaticalization and lexicalization processes in Romance languages}, publisher = {Heidelberg}, address = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Winter}, isbn = {978-3-8253-4936-3}, pages = {7 -- 13}, year = {2022}, language = {en} } @misc{Hassler2022, author = {Hassler, Gerda}, title = {Rezension zu: Wilhelm von Humboldt: Einleitende und vergleichende amerikanische Arbeiten [Introductory and Comparative American Works] / Edited by Manfred Ringmacher with the collaboration of Ute Tintemann, and with contributions by Jenne Klimp \& Frank Zimmer. - Paderborn: Ferdinand Sch{\"o}ningh, 2016. - viii, 496 pp. - (Wilhelm von Humboldt Schriften zur Sprachwissenschaft, 3.1). - ISBN 978-3-506-78416-2}, series = {Historiographia Linguistica}, volume = {48}, journal = {Historiographia Linguistica}, number = {2-3}, publisher = {Benjamins}, address = {Amsterdam}, issn = {1569-9781}, doi = {10.1075/hl.00090.has}, pages = {323 -- 331}, year = {2022}, language = {en} } @article{Hassler2022, author = {Haßler, Gerda}, title = {Meaning and Function}, series = {Concordia discors vs. discordia concors : researches into comparative literature, contrastive linguistics, translation and cross-cultural strategies}, volume = {16}, journal = {Concordia discors vs. discordia concors : researches into comparative literature, contrastive linguistics, translation and cross-cultural strategies}, number = {2}, publisher = {Ştefan cel Mare University Press}, address = {Suceava}, issn = {2065-4057}, pages = {17 -- 50}, year = {2022}, abstract = {The use of the word functional in the most diverse theories and approaches has contributed in no small measure to the confusion in linguistics today. This article does not claim to give an overview of the different directions of functionalism in linguistics. Rather, the aim is to present what Coseriu's view characterised as functional in his time and to what extent his theory outlined a path that still makes sense in functional-cognitive linguistics today. This will involve an examination of Coseriu's difficult-to-identify concept of function. Furthermore, the article will also show that functional thinking is relevant for current grammatography.}, language = {en} } @incollection{Hassler2022, author = {Haßler, Gerda}, title = {Aspectual periphrases in Romance languages in contact with the English progressive form}, series = {Linguistic Hybridity. Contact-induced and cognitively motivated grammaticalization and lexicalization processes in Romance Languages}, booktitle = {Linguistic Hybridity. Contact-induced and cognitively motivated grammaticalization and lexicalization processes in Romance Languages}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Winter}, address = {Heidelberg}, isbn = {978-3-8253-4936-3}, pages = {215 -- 229}, year = {2022}, language = {en} } @article{AuhagenUth2022, author = {Auhagen, Christopher Patrick and Uth, Melanie}, title = {Variation of relative complementizers in Yucatecan Spanish}, series = {Languages}, volume = {7}, journal = {Languages}, number = {4}, publisher = {MDPI}, address = {Basel}, issn = {2226-471X}, doi = {10.3390/languages7040279}, pages = {16}, year = {2022}, abstract = {The starting point of this article is the occurrence of determiner-less and bare que relative complementizers like (en) que, '(in) that', instead of (en) el que, '(in) which', in Yucatecan Spanish (southeast Mexico). While reference grammars treat complementizers with a determiner as the standard option, previous diachronic research has shown that determiner-less complementizers actually predate relative complementizers with a determiner. Additionally, Yucatecan Spanish has been in long-standing contact with Yucatec Maya. Relative complementation in Yucatec Maya differs from that in Spanish (at least) in that the non-complex complementizer tu'ux ('where') is generally the only option for locative complementation. The paper explores monolingual and bilingual data from Yucatecan Spanish to discuss the question whether the determiner-less and bare que relative complementizers in our data constitute a historic remnant or a dialectal recast, possibly (but not necessarily) due to language contact. Although our pilot study may not answer these far-reaching questions, it does reveal two separate, but intertwined developments: (i) a generally increased rate of bare que relative complementation, across both monolingual speakers of Spanish and Spanish Maya bilinguals, compared to other Spanish varieties, and (ii) a preference for donde at the cost of other locative complementizer constructions in the bilingual group. Our analysis thus reveals intriguing differences between the complementizer preferences of monolingual and bilingual speakers, suggesting that different variational patterns caused by different (socio-)linguistic factors can co-develop in parallel in one and the [same] region.}, language = {en} }