TY - JOUR A1 - Haßler, Gerda ED - McElvenny, James T1 - ‘Communicating the past to the present’ BT - Is anachronism inevitable? Desirable? JF - History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences KW - anachronism KW - conceptual history KW - Ferdinand de Saussure KW - linguistic historiography KW - Plato´s Cratylus KW - salon KW - word order Y1 - 2015 UR - http://hiphilangsci.net/2015/06/03/salon-anachronism-in-linguistic-historiography SN - 2366-2409 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Writing-between-worlds BT - transarea studies and the literatures-without-a-fixed-abode T3 - Mimesis ; 64 Y1 - 2016 SN - 978-3-11-046109-1 PB - de Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Worldwide : Living in Transarchipelagic Worlds Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-8-48-489670-8 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar ED - Spies, Paul ED - Tintemann, Ute ED - Mende, Jan T1 - Wilhelm & Alexander von Humboldt or: Humboldtian Science JF - Wilhelm und Alexander von Humboldt - Berlin Cosmos T2 - Wilhelm & Alexander von Humboldt oder: Die Humboldtsche Wissenschaft Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-3-86832-559-1 SP - 19 EP - 23 PB - Wienand CY - Köln ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Welterleben/Weiterleben BT - On Vectopia in Georg Forster, Alexander von Humboldt, and Adelbert von Chamisso JF - Daphnis : Zeitschrift für mittlere deutsche Literatur N2 - Welterleben and Weiterleben are what determine the second globalization (of four previously explored) whose constantly accelerating dynamic, vectorization, this essay explores. On the basis of selected writings of Georg Forster, Alexander von Humboldt, and Adelbert von Chamisso, the author highlights the increasing speed with which knowledge, especially in the experiential sciences, is produced and disseminated following the routes of ever-widening trade speeded along by globalization. The notion of ‘vectopia’ stands for the connection of utopia and uchronia in space and time in such a way that the experience of the world, expanded worldwide, contains within it a Weiter-Leben, a ‘living-further’ that is to be understood first in a spatial, and not yet temporal, sense, of what Forster called Erfahrungswissen, or ‘experiential knowledge.’ Vectopia, as elaborated here, has a material dimension that relates to the physical person, the body, the experience of the world that cannot occur without the constant changing of place, without a journeying that is again and again recommenced. Vectopia develops the projection of a life not from space or from time alone, but by their combination. Vectopia is more than a concept, it is a thought-figure: it is vitally connected to life, and thus a life-figure. It opens itself to a type of knowledge that stands almost at the threshold of a further life, indeed, of a Weiterleben that, opening itself to a ‘living-onward,’ resides beyond space, time, and movement. KW - travel literature KW - transdisciplinary KW - accelerated globalization KW - experiential knowledge KW - Weiter-Leben Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1163/18796583-04503002 SN - 0300-693X SN - 1879-6583 VL - 45 IS - 3-4 SP - 343 EP - 388 PB - Editions Rodopi BV CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Wandering Networks : Euphoria and the Dead Ends of Science in Alexander von Humboldt's Personal Narrative Y1 - 2005 ER - TY - BOOK ED - Kutzinski, Vera M. ED - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Views of the cordilleras and monuments of the indigenous peoples of the Americas : a critical edition Y1 - 2012 SN - 0-226-86506-1 PB - University of Chicago Press CY - Chicago ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Auhagen, Christopher Patrick A1 - Uth, Melanie T1 - Variation of relative complementizers in Yucatecan Spanish BT - A comparison of monolingual and bilingual speakers JF - Languages N2 - 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. KW - relative complementation KW - variability KW - language contact KW - diachrony KW - Yucatecan Spanish Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7040279 SN - 2226-471X VL - 7 IS - 4 PB - MDPI CY - Basel ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar A1 - Minnes, M. T1 - Urbanity and literature : cities as transareal spaces of movement in Assia Djebar, Emine Sevgi Özdamar and Cecile Wajsbrot Y1 - 2011 SN - 1062-7987 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Urbanity and literature - cities as transareal spaces of movement in Assia Djebar, Emine Sevgi Ozdamar and Cecile Wajsbrot JF - European review : interdisciplinary journal of the humanities and sciences of the Academia Europea N2 - Transarea studies focus upon spaces as created by the movements that criss-cross them. From this point of view, from its very beginnings, literature is closely interrelated with a vectorial (and much less with a purely spatial) conception of history - and with urbanity, which plays a decisive role in Gilgamesh's travels through a (narrative) cosmos centered upon the city of Uruk. This article explores the city as a transareal space of movement in three examples of literature, with no fixed abode, around the turn of the millennium, i.e. Assia Djebar's Les Nuits de Strasbourg, Emine Sevgi Oezdamar's Istanbul-Berlin Trilogy, and Cecile Wajsbrot's L'ile aux musees. These three writers project, in a very specific way, cities in motion as anagrammatic and fractal structures. Y1 - 2011 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/S106279871100010X SN - 1062-7987 VL - 19 IS - 3 SP - 367 EP - 383 PB - Cambridge Univ. Press CY - Cambridge ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - TransTropics: Alexander von Humboldt and Hemispheric Constructions Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-3-938944-63-9 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - TransArea Tangier BT - the city and the literatures of the world JF - Re-mapping World Literature Writing, Book Markets and Epistemologies between Latin America and the Global South / Escrituras, mercados y epistemologías entre América Latina y el Sur Global Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-3-11-054957-7 SN - 978-3-11-054952-2 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110549577-019 SN - 2513-0757 SP - 283 EP - 321 PB - De Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Sändig, Brigitte T1 - Tragédie et psychologie BT - Camus devant le roman de Faulkner Requiem for a Nun JF - Revue romane : langue et littérature N2 - His dislike for psychological analysis accompanied Albert Camus throughout his life and had a profound impact on his idea of theatre. Especially in his early years, he sees psychology as the antagonist of the kind of theater that he envisages, the "modern tragedy". In the last decade of his life, Camus worked on the novel "Requiem for a Nun" by William Faulkner, whom he greatly respected, in order to stage it. The confrontation with this work and its highly psychologically driven plot makes Camus virtually give up on his anti-psychological attitude. KW - Theater KW - ancient tragedy KW - psychology KW - William Faulkner KW - Albert KW - Camus KW - Requiem for a Nun / Requiem pour une nonne Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1075/rro.52.1.07san SN - 0035-3906 SN - 1600-0811 VL - 52 IS - 1 SP - 70 EP - 79 PB - Benjamins CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Towards World Science? Humboldtian Science, World Concepts, and Transarea Studies Y1 - 2007 SN - 978-84-8489-303-5 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Towards a polylogical Philology of the Literatures of the World JF - Abralic Y1 - 2020 UR - https://abralic.org.br/downloads/2020/ottmar-ette-filologia-das-literaturas.pdf ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Toward a Polylogical Philology of the Literatures of the World JF - Modern language quarterly : a journal of literary history N2 - As the world cannot be adequately understood from the vantage point of a single language, the literatures of the world can no longer be trimmed to a single world literature in the Goethean sense. This recognition bodes well for the future of philology and of literary production. Through multiperspectival writing, knowledge of life may be attainable without being reduced to a single political, medial, cartographical, geocultural, or aesthetic logic. As a laboratory for polylogical thinking, literature does not represent reality, as Erich Auerbach put it. Rather, it represents multiple lived, experienced, or relivable realities. Whoever is open to a polylogical reception of the literatures of the world can perceive and experience how life knowledge transforms into lived knowledge and how knowledge for survival turns into knowledge for living together. However, literature can be more than it is only if it stays aware of the void, of lack, of privation, of the interminable: aware of the end that never is an end. Such a planetary concept of the literatures of the world offers valuable opportunities to all those who do not fall into the trap of contenting themselves with a supposed abundance of text. KW - literatures of the world KW - multiperspectival writing KW - polylogical philology KW - transculturation KW - knowledge for living Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-3464841 SN - 0026-7929 VL - 77 SP - 143 EP - 173 PB - Duke Univ. Press CY - Durham ER - TY - THES A1 - Hennemann, Anja T1 - Topic and Focus Markers in Spanish, Portuguese and French T2 - Potsdam linguistic investigations ; 30 N2 - 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 propósito 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. Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-3-631-82392-7 SN - 978-3-631-81889-3 PB - Lang CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Haßler, Gerda T1 - Theory of signs and ideas on the relation between language and thought at the border between the 18th and 19th centuries T1 - Представления о связи между языком и мышлением во Франции на рубеже XVIII–XIX вв. BT - a case study of the ideologist’s activity in Saint Petersburg BT - и влияние идеологов в Санкт-Петербурге пример Жана-Батиста Модрю (1740–1808) JF - Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo Universiteta. Jazyk i literatura N2 - The name Ideologues refers to a group of philosophers, psychologists, grammarians, educational theorists and medical specialists who for a short period from 1795 to 1805 determined the intellectual climate in France and sought to develop a science of ideas (idéologie). The Ideologues had a rather reserved attitude to Condillac’s (1714–1780) ideas and his sensualist sign theory. They strove for the perfection of language for the needs of thought and of scientific knowledge. The connections with the Ideologues can also be discerned in Russia. In the educational theory, Jean-Baptiste Maudru (1740–1808) was close to the Ideologues and, despite his insufficient knowledge of the Russian language, made some interesting remarks on the connection between the language and the national character. According to Maudru and in agreement with the Ideologues, different typologies of word order are not just an indication of greater or lesser closeness to the natural order. Rather, they indicate differences in national character, which manifest themselves in the specific character of individual languages. Maudru taught at the military academy in Saint Petersburg and published the first Russian grammar in France (Maudru 1802). In his grammar, he sought to link mechanically the specific features of languages and of national characters with the climatic influences. His attempt to revive the theory of climatic influences was criticized by Karamzin. Karamzin also treated the discussion of the metaphoric extension of word meanings as an absurd undertaking, which had no place in grammar. N2 - Под именем идеологов известна группа философов, психологов, грамматиков, педагогов и медиков, которая в течение непродолжительного периода (1795–1805) определяла духовную жизнь во Франции и хотела создать науку об идеях (idéologie). Общим для представителей данного движения было сдержанное отношение к идеям Кондильяка (1714–1780) и его сенсуалистской теории знаков, а также стремление усовершенствовать язык во имя развития мышления и научного познания. Именно идеологам мы обязаны постановкой ряда принципиальных вопросов, касающихся влияния знаков на идеи, а также изданием целой серии учебников по грамматике и трудов о значении знаков для мышления. Идеологи поддерживали личные контакты в том числе и в России. К идеологам был близок, в частности, Жан-Батист Модрю (1740–1808, Maudru), которому удалось, несмотря на ограниченность его познаний в русском языке, сделать ряд интересных наблюдений касательно связи между языком и национальным характером. Согласно Модрю и в полном соответствии с толкованием идеологов, характерное для того или иного языка расположение членов предложения указывает на нечто совершенно иное, чем просто бóльшую или меньшую степень близости к естественности, а именно на различия в национальном характере, который налагает отпечаток на особенный характер соответствующего языка. Модрю преподавал языки в CанктПетербургском Кадетском корпусе и опубликовал первый во Франции учебник по русской грамматике. Модрю попытался механически соединить специфические особенности языка и национального характера народа, возлагая ответственность на климатические факторы. Его попытку реанимировать климатическую теорию критиковал, в частности, Карамзин, который также считал толкование переносных значений слов абсурдным занятием, которому не место в рамках грамматики. KW - Ideologues KW - sign KW - grammar KW - language and thought Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2019.308 SN - 2541-9358 SN - 2541-9366 VL - 16 IS - 3 SP - 463 EP - 479 PB - St. Petersburg University Press CY - Sankt-Peterburg ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - The World in Our Head : Images and After-Images of the City in the Works of Albert Cohen Y1 - 2003 SN - 0-8014-4021-1 ; ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - The West revisited - Max Aub : writing (while) in motion Y1 - 2003 SN - 0034-8635 ER -