@misc{GarciaRoeserHoehle2019, author = {Garcia, Rowena and Roeser, Jens and H{\"o}hle, Barbara}, title = {Children's online use of word order and morphosyntactic markers in Tagalog thematic role assignment}, series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe}, journal = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe}, number = {673}, issn = {1866-8364}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-46967}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-469678}, pages = {533 -- 555}, year = {2019}, abstract = {We investigated whether Tagalog-speaking children incrementally interpret the first noun as the agent, even if verbal and nominal markers for assigning thematic roles are given early in Tagalog sentences. We asked five- and seven-year-old children and adult controls to select which of two pictures of reversible actions matched the sentence they heard, while their looks to the pictures were tracked. Accuracy and eye-tracking data showed that agent-initial sentences were easier to comprehend than patient-initial sentences, but the effect of word order was modulated by voice. Moreover, our eye-tracking data provided evidence that, by the first noun phrase, seven-year-old children looked more to the target in the agent-initial compared to the patient-initial conditions, but this word order advantage was no longer observed by the second noun phrase. The findings support language processing and acquisition models which emphasize the role of frequency in developing heuristic strategies (e.g., Chang, Dell, \& Bock, 2006).}, language = {en} } @misc{CzapkaWotschackKlassertetal.2019, author = {Czapka, Sophia and Wotschack, Christiane and Klassert, Annegret and Festman, Julia}, title = {A path to the bilingual advantage}, series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe}, journal = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe}, number = {688}, issn = {1866-8364}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-46973}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-469736}, pages = {13}, year = {2019}, abstract = {Matching participants (as suggested by Hope, 2015) may be one promising option for research on a potential bilingual advantage in executive functions (EF). In this study we first compared performances in three EF-tasks of a naturally heterogeneous sample of monolingual (n = 69, age = 9.0 y) and multilingual children (n = 57, age = 9.3 y). Secondly, we meticulously matched participants pairwise to obtain two highly homogeneous groups to rerun our analysis and investigate a potential bilingual advantage. The initally disadvantaged multilinguals (regarding socioeconomic status and German lexicon size) performed worse in updating and response inhibition, but similarly in interference inhibition. This indicates that superior EF compensate for the detrimental effects of the background variables. After matching children pairwise on age, gender, intelligence, socioeconomic status and German lexicon size, performances became similar except for interference inhibition. Here, an advantage for multilinguals in the form of globally reduced reaction times emerged, indicating a bilingual executive processing advantage.}, language = {en} } @misc{SauermannHoehle2018, author = {Sauermann, Antje and H{\"o}hle, Barbara}, title = {Word order in German child language and child-directed speech}, series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe}, journal = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe}, number = {687}, issn = {1866-8364}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-47017}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-470174}, pages = {34}, year = {2018}, abstract = {We report two corpus analyses to examine the impact of animacy, definiteness, givenness and type of referring expression on the ordering of double objects in the spontaneous speech of German-speaking two- to four-year-old children and the child-directed speech of their mothers. The first corpus analysis revealed that definiteness, givenness and type of referring expression influenced word order variation in child language and child-directed speech when the type of referring expression distinguished between pronouns and lexical noun phrases. These results correspond to previous child language studies in English (e.g., de Marneffe et al. 2012). Extending the scope of previous studies, our second corpus analysis examined the role of different pronoun types on word order. It revealed that word order in child language and child-directed speech was predictable from the types of pronouns used. Different types of pronouns were associated with different sentence positions but also showed a strong correlation to givenness and definiteness. Yet, the distinction between pronoun types diminished the effects of givenness so that givenness had an independent impact on word order only in child-directed speech but not in child language. Our results support a multi-factorial approach to word order in German. Moreover, they underline the strong impact of the type of referring expression on word order and suggest that it plays a crucial role in the acquisition of the factors influencing word order variation.}, language = {en} } @misc{EcksteinSchwarz2019, author = {Eckstein, Lars and Schwarz, Anja}, title = {Authors' Response: The Making of Tupaia's Map Revisited}, series = {The journal of pacific history}, volume = {54}, journal = {The journal of pacific history}, number = {4}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {London}, issn = {1469-9605}, doi = {10.1080/00223344.2019.1657500}, pages = {549 -- 561}, year = {2019}, language = {en} } @article{Keskin2022, author = {Keskin, Cem}, title = {On the directionality of the Balkan Turkic verb phrase}, series = {Languages}, volume = {8}, journal = {Languages}, number = {1}, publisher = {MDPI}, address = {Basel, Schweiz}, issn = {2226-471X}, doi = {10.3390/languages8010002}, pages = {20}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Balkan varieties of Turkic, particularly those on the periphery of the Turkic spread area in the region, such as Gagauz and West Rumelian Turkish, are commonly observed to have head-initial verb phrases. Based on a wide survey, this paper attempts a more precise description of the pattern of VP directionality across Balkan Turkic and shows that there is considerable variation in how prevalent VX order is, a pattern that turns out to be more complex than the previous descriptions suggest: Two spectrums of directionality can be discerned between XV and VX orders, contingent upon type of the dependent of the verb and dialect locale. The paper also explores the grammatical causes underlying this shift in constituent order. First, VX order seems to be dependent upon whether a clause is nominal or not. Nonfinite clauses of the nominal type have XV order across Balkan Turkic, while finite clauses and nonfinite clauses of the converbial type show differing degrees of VX order depending on type of dependent and geographical location. Second, VX order appears to be an outcome of verb movement to the left of the dependent in finite clauses and nonfinite clauses of the converbial type, rather than head parameter shift.}, language = {en} } @misc{Spahn2018, author = {Spahn, Hannah}, title = {Rezension zu: Valsania, Maurizio: Jefferson's Body: a Corporeal Biography. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017. - xi, 266 S.}, series = {American Political Thought}, volume = {7}, journal = {American Political Thought}, number = {3}, publisher = {Univ. of Chicago Press}, address = {Chicago}, issn = {2161-1580}, doi = {10.1086/698488}, pages = {514 -- 517}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @misc{Verissimo2017, author = {Verissimo, Jo{\~a}o Marques}, title = {Sensitive periods in both L1 and L2}, series = {Bilingualism : language and cognition}, volume = {21}, journal = {Bilingualism : language and cognition}, number = {5}, publisher = {Cambridge Univ. Press}, address = {New York}, issn = {1366-7289}, doi = {10.1017/S1366728918000275}, pages = {932 -- 933}, year = {2017}, abstract = {The keynote article (Mayberry \& Kluender, 2017) makes an important contribution to questions concerning the existence and characteristics of sensitive periods in language acquisition. Specifically, by comparing groups of non-native L1 and L2 signers, the authors have been able to ingeniously disentangle the effects of maturation from those of early language exposure. Based on L1 versus L2 contrasts, the paper convincingly argues that L2 learning is a less clear test of sensitive periods. Nevertheless, we believe Mayberry and Kluender underestimate the evidence for maturational factors in L2 learning, especially that coming from recent research.}, language = {en} } @article{Gwozdz2020, author = {Gwozdz, Patricia Aneta}, title = {Feld und Stil}, series = {Stilwechsel und ihre Funktionen in Textsorten der Fach- und Wissenschaftskommunikation}, journal = {Stilwechsel und ihre Funktionen in Textsorten der Fach- und Wissenschaftskommunikation}, editor = {Adamzik, Kirsten and Kessanlis, Mikaela}, publisher = {Narr Verlag}, address = {T{\"u}bingen}, isbn = {978-3-8233-8223-2}, pages = {111 -- 145}, year = {2020}, language = {de} } @article{LeGall2020, author = {LeGall, Yann}, title = {Songea Mbano and the 'halfway dead' of the Majimaji War (1905-7) in memory and theatre}, series = {Human Remains and Violence: an interdisciplinary journal}, volume = {6}, journal = {Human Remains and Violence: an interdisciplinary journal}, number = {2}, publisher = {University Press}, address = {Manchester}, doi = {10.7227/HRV.6.2.2}, pages = {4 -- 22}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Debates on the relevance of repatriation of indigenous human remains are water under the bridge today. Yet, a genuine will for dialogue to work through colonial violence is found lacking in the European public sphere. Looking at local remembrance of the Majimaji War (1905-07) in the south of Tanzania and a German-Tanzanian theatre production, this article demonstrates how the spectre of colonial headhunting stands at the heart of claims for repatriation and acknowledgement of this anti-colonial movement. The missing head of Ngoni leader Songea Mbano haunts the future of German-Tanzanian relations in culture and heritage. By staging the act of post-mortem dismemberment and foregrounding the perspective of descendants, the theatre production Maji Maji Flava offers an honest proposal for dealing with stories of sheer colonial violence in transnational memory.}, language = {en} } @article{Gwozdz2020, author = {Gwozdz, Patricia Aneta}, title = {Die Tierfl{\"u}sterer. Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen und die "poetische Lizenz" des ethologischen Genres seit den 1960er Jahren}, series = {Animal Print : Das popul{\"a}re Tiersachbuch (Non-Fiktion. Arsenal der anderen Gattung)}, volume = {15}, journal = {Animal Print : Das popul{\"a}re Tiersachbuch (Non-Fiktion. Arsenal der anderen Gattung)}, number = {1/2}, editor = {Schikowski, Michael and Schneider, Ute}, publisher = {Wehrhahn Verlag}, address = {Hannover}, isbn = {978-3-86525-823-6}, issn = {1862-9563}, pages = {103 -- 122}, year = {2020}, language = {de} } @article{Gwozdz2020, author = {Gwozdz, Patricia Aneta}, title = {Figura Tropicana}, series = {Ding und Bild in der Europ{\"a}ischen Romantik}, journal = {Ding und Bild in der Europ{\"a}ischen Romantik}, editor = {Heller, Jakob and Sch{\"o}nbeck, Sebastian and Martik, Erik}, publisher = {De Gruyter}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-11-068598-5}, doi = {10.1515/9783110686197-007}, pages = {135 -- 156}, year = {2020}, language = {de} } @article{Hassler2020, author = {Haßler, Gerda}, title = {Humboldts Konzept einer sprachlichen Weltansicht und seine Stellung in der Geschichte des sprachlichen Relativismus}, series = {Aesthetics and Politics in Wilhelm von Humboldt}, volume = {6}, journal = {Aesthetics and Politics in Wilhelm von Humboldt}, number = {1}, publisher = {Universit{\`a} di Pisa}, address = {Pisa}, issn = {2465-1060}, pages = {21 -- 63}, year = {2020}, abstract = {The idea of a linguistic worldview was clearly expressed in German national romantic thought of the early 19th century, where language was seen as the expression of the spirit of a nation. Wilhelm von Humboldt argued that every language shaped the world-view of its speakers, but he also saw a possibility to improve human knowledge in the co-action of languages. The idea of linguistic relativity can be found in John Locke's statement that words interpose themselves between our understandings and the truth which it would contemplate and apprehend. In the 18th century, we can find formulations that our language accustoms us to arrange our ideas in a specific way, that some languages are more suitable for certain kinds of thought, or that metaphors have significant influence on peoples' thought. In the 20thcentury the Neo-Humboldtian school revitalised the idea of an influence of language on thought in a reductionist way. At the end of the 20th century, some authors, for example John J. Gumperz and Stephen C. Levinson, tried to rethink linguistic relativity and to prove it by empirical results.}, language = {de} } @article{Hassler2020, author = {Haßler, Gerda}, title = {Le tournant dans l'enseignement des langues {\´e}trang{\`e}res chez Wilhelm Vi{\"e}tor dans le contexte linguistique de l'{\´e}poque}, series = {Documents pour l'histoire du fran{\c{c}}ais langue {\´e}trang{\`e}re ou seconde : revue semestrielle}, journal = {Documents pour l'histoire du fran{\c{c}}ais langue {\´e}trang{\`e}re ou seconde : revue semestrielle}, number = {64-65}, publisher = {SIHFLES}, address = {Paris}, issn = {0992-7654}, pages = {75 -- 94}, year = {2020}, language = {fr} } @phdthesis{vonRath2022, author = {von Rath, Anna}, title = {Afropolitan Encounters}, series = {Imagining Black Europe ; 2}, journal = {Imagining Black Europe ; 2}, publisher = {Lang}, address = {Oxford}, isbn = {978-1-80079-006-3}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {VIII, 276}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Afropolitan Encounters: Literature and Activism in London and Berlin explores what Afropolitanism does. Mobile people of African descent use this term to address their own lived realities creatively, which often includes countering stereotypical notions of being African. Afropolitan practices are enormously heterogeneous and malleable, which constitutes its strengths and, at the same time, creates tensions. This book traces the theoretical beginnings of Afropolitanism and moves on to explore Afropolitan practices in London and Berlin. Afropolitanism can take different forms, such as that of an identity, a political and ethical stance, a dead-end road, networks, a collective self-care practice or a strategic label. In spite of the harsh criticism, Afropolitanism is attractive for people to deal with the meanings of Africa and Africanness, questions of belonging, equal rights and opportunities. While not a unitary project, the vast variety of Afropolitan practices provide approaches to contemporary political problems in Europe and beyond. In this book, Afropolitan practices are read against the specific context of German and British colonial histories and structures of racism, the histories of Black Europeans, and contemporary right-wing resurgence in Germany and England, respectively.}, language = {en} } @article{ArslanFelser2017, author = {Arslan, Seckin and Felser, Claudia}, title = {Comprehension of wh-questions in Turkish-German bilinguals with aphasia}, series = {Clinical linguistics \& phonetics}, volume = {32}, journal = {Clinical linguistics \& phonetics}, number = {7}, publisher = {Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Philadelphia}, issn = {0269-9206}, doi = {10.1080/02699206.2017.1416493}, pages = {640 -- 660}, year = {2017}, abstract = {The aim of our study was to examine the extent to which linguistic approaches to sentence comprehension deficits in aphasia can account for differential impairment patterns in the comprehension of wh-questions in bilingual persons with aphasia (PWA). We investigated the comprehension of subject and object wh-questions in both Turkish, a wh-in-situ language, and German, a wh-fronting language, in two bilingual PWA using a sentence-to-picture matching task. Both PWA showed differential impairment patterns in their two languages. SK, an early bilingual PWA, had particular difficulty comprehending subject which-questions in Turkish but performed normal across all conditions in German. CT, a late bilingual PWA, performed more poorly for object which-questions in German than in all other conditions, whilst in Turkish his accuracy was at chance level across all conditions. We conclude that the observed patterns of selective cross-linguistic impairments cannot solely be attributed either to difficulty with wh-movement or to problems with the integration of discourse-level information. Instead our results suggest that differences between our PWA's individual bilingualism profiles (e.g. onset of bilingualism, premorbid language dominance) considerably affected the nature and extent of their impairments.}, language = {en} } @article{SzendrőiSchumacherFritzscheetal.2017, author = {Szendrői, Kriszta and Schumacher, Rebecca and Fritzsche, Tom and H{\"o}hle, Barbara}, title = {Acquisition of quantifier raising of a universal across an existential}, series = {Glossa : a journal of general linguistics}, volume = {2}, journal = {Glossa : a journal of general linguistics}, publisher = {Open Library of Humanities}, address = {London}, issn = {2397-1835}, pages = {16}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Our paper reports an act out task with German 5- and 6-year olds and adults involving doubly-quantified sentences with a universal object and an existential subject. We found that 5- and 6-year olds allow inverse scope in such sentences, while adults do not. Our findings contribute to a growing body of research (e.g. Gualmini et al. 2008; Musolino 2009, etc.) showing that children are more flexible in their scopal considerations than initially proposed by the Isomorphism proposal (Lidz \& Musolino 2002; Musolino \& Lidz 2006). This result provides support for a theory of German, a "no quantifier raising"-language, in terms of soft violable constraints, or global economy terms (Bobaljik \& Wurmbrand 2012), rather than in terms of hard inviolable constraints or rules (Frey 1993). Finally, the results are compatible with Reinhart's (2004) hypothesis that children do not perform global interface economy considerations due to the increased processing associated with it.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Hennemann2020, author = {Hennemann, Anja}, title = {Topic and Focus Markers in Spanish, Portuguese and French}, series = {Potsdam linguistic investigations ; 30}, journal = {Potsdam linguistic investigations ; 30}, publisher = {Lang}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-631-82392-7}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {307}, year = {2020}, abstract = {This book is concerned with the diachronic development of selected topic and focus markers in Spanish, Portuguese and French. On the one hand, it focuses on the development of these structures from their relational meaning to their topic-/ focus-marking meaning, and on the other hand, it is concerned with their current form und use. Thus, Romance topic and focus markers - such as sp. en cuanto a, pt. a prop{\´o}sito de, fr. au niveau de or sentence-initial sp. Lo que as well as clefts and pseudo-clefts - are investigated from a quantitative and qualitative perspective. The author argues that topic markers have procedural meaning and that their function is bound to their syntactic position. An important contribution of this study is the fact that real linguistic evidence (in the form of data from various corpora) is analyzed instead of operating with constructed examples.}, language = {en} } @article{KempertSchalkSaalbach2019, author = {Kempert, Sebastian Benjamin and Schalk, Lennart and Saalbach, Henrik}, title = {Sprache als Werkzeug des Lernens}, series = {Psychologie in Erziehung und Unterricht : Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Forschung und Praxis}, volume = {66}, journal = {Psychologie in Erziehung und Unterricht : Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Forschung und Praxis}, number = {3}, publisher = {Reinhardt}, address = {M{\"u}nchen}, issn = {0342-183X}, doi = {10.2378/peu2018.art19d}, pages = {176 -- 195}, year = {2019}, abstract = {Der enge Zusammenhang von sprachlichen Kompetenzen und fachlichem Lernen ist empirisch gut belegt. Ebenfalls umfassend untersucht und beschrieben sind die vielf{\"a}ltigen Wechselwirkungen zwischen sprachlichen und kognitiven Prozessen, dies gilt insbesondere f{\"u}r das Kindesalter. Bisher liegt jedoch keine integrierende {\"U}bersicht {\"u}ber die Zusammenh{\"a}nge von sprachlichen und kognitiven Funktionen sowie fachlichem Lernen im Schulkontext vor. Dieser Beitrag bietet einen {\"U}berblick, wie sich Sprache und kognitive Prozesse in ihrer Entwicklung gegenseitig beeinflussen und welche Konsequenzen sich daraus f{\"u}r das fachliche Lernen in der Schule ableiten lassen. Auf der Basis der dargestellten Befunde wird dann skizziert, welche Prinzipien im fachlichen Unterricht ber{\"u}cksichtigt werden sollten, um sprachliche und fachliche Lerngelegenheiten zu verbinden. Sprache kann sich so zu einem immer besseren Werkzeug des Lernens entwickeln. Sprachliche Kompetenzen in ihrer kommunikativen und kognitiven Funktion sind in diesem Sinne also nicht nur Voraussetzung, sondern auch Ziel fachlichen Lernens.}, language = {de} } @article{Kalczewiak2019, author = {Kalczewiak, Mariusz}, title = {We Hope to Find a Way Out from Our Unpleasant Situation}, series = {American Jewish History}, volume = {103}, journal = {American Jewish History}, number = {1}, publisher = {Johns Hopkins Univ. Press}, address = {Baltimore}, issn = {0164-0178}, doi = {10.1353/ajh.2019.0002}, pages = {25 -- 49}, year = {2019}, language = {en} } @misc{Kosta2018, author = {Kosta, Peter}, title = {Rezension zu: Murray, Sarah, E.: The Semantics of Evidentials, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2017. - (Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics ; 9). - ISBN 978-0-19-968157-0, ISBN 978-0-19-968158-7}, series = {Journal of pragmatics : an interdisciplinary journal of language studies}, volume = {140}, journal = {Journal of pragmatics : an interdisciplinary journal of language studies}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {Amsterdam}, issn = {0378-2166}, doi = {10.1016/j.pragma.2018.12.006}, pages = {156 -- 159}, year = {2018}, language = {en} }