TY - JOUR A1 - Petrescu, Corina L. T1 - Of Sources and Files BT - The Making of the Securitate Target Ana Novac JF - Cold War spy stories from Eastern Europe N2 - Files produced by the secret police forces of former Eastern Bloc countries are complex documents, not completely reliable and yet not fully untrustworthy either—or as the British historian Timothy Garton Ash has remarked, “There is a truth that can be found [in a secret police file]. Not a single, absolute Truth with a capital T but still a real and important one” (2002, 282). As historical documents—texts anchored in a time and place and resulting from specific circumstances—files in general “supplement or rework ‘reality’” and are never “mere sources that divulge facts about ‘reality’” (LaCapra 1985, 11) Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-1-64012-200-0 SN - 978-1-64012-187-4 U6 - https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvhhhgcw.9 SP - 137 EP - 159 PB - University of Nebraska Press CY - Lincoln ER - TY - GEN A1 - Lewis, Alison A1 - Glajar, Valentina A1 - Petrescu, Corina L. T1 - Introduction T2 - Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-1-64012-200-0 SN - 978-1-64012-187-4 SP - 1 EP - 26 PB - University of Nebraska Press CY - Lincoln ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Demske, Ulrike T1 - Aspectual features and categorial shift BT - deverbal nominals in German and English JF - Language sciences N2 - The point of departure of this paper is the claim by Heyvaert, Maekelberghe & Buyle (2019) that the suffix -ing has no aspectual meaning in English gerunds. Rather, the interpretation of nominal and verbal gerunds depends, so they argue, on situation or viewpoint aspect, a claim that contradicts the wide-spread view that the aspectual meaning of English gerunds is brought about by the nominalizing suffix. The present paper addresses the issue from a comparative perspective, focusing on German ung-nominals: while they share aspectual features with their English counterparts, empirical evidence from productivity, distribution, and argument linking shows (i) that the derivational suffix -ung imposes aspectual restrictions on possible verb bases, and (ii) that with respect to argument linking, the deverbal nominal favors the state component of a complex event predicate over its process component. From the historical record of German, we learn that these aspectual restrictions do not hold for ung-nominals in earlier periods of German. With the rise of aspectual restrictions, the nominalization pattern turns more nominal resulting in a position further towards the nominal end of the deverbalization continuum. It appears, then, that it is only in the historical pariods of German that ung-nominals pattern with English nominals as regards their aspectual features. Currently, German ung-nominals are more noun-like than nominal (and verbal) gerunds in English. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2018.08.006 SN - 0388-0001 SN - 1873-5746 VL - 73 SP - 50 EP - 61 PB - Elsevier CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Stockhorst, Stefanie T1 - Rezension zu: Sietske Fransen; Niall Hodson; Karl A. E. Enenkel (Editors). Translating Early Modern Science. (Intersections ; 51.) xvii + 344 pp., Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2017.- ISBN 978-90-04-34925-4. JF - ISIS Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1086/703719 SN - 0021-1753 SN - 1545-6994 VL - 110 IS - 2 SP - 411 EP - 412 PB - Univ. of Chicago Press CY - Chicago ER - TY - GEN A1 - Gamper, Jana T1 - The role of case and animacy in biand monolingual children’s sentence interpretation in German BT - a developmental perspective T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam Philosophische Reihe N2 - German-speaking children appear to have a strong N1-bias when interpreting non-canonical OVSsentences. During sentence interpretation, especially unambiguous accusative and dative case markers (den ‘the-ACC’ and dem ‘the-DAT’) weaken the N1-bias and help building up sentence interpretation strategies on the basis of morphological cues. Still, the N1-bias prevails beyond the age of five (Brandt et al. 2016, Cristante 2016, Dittmar et al. 2008) and remains until puberty (Lidzba et al. 2013). This paper investigates whether prototypical case-animacy coalitions (denACC + N INANIMATE and demDAT + N ANIMATE ) strengthen a morphologically based sentence interpretation strategy in German. The experiment discussed in this paper tests for effects of such case-animacy coalitions in mono- and bilingual primary school children. 20 German monolinguals, 12 Dutch-German and 17 Russian-German bilinguals with a mean age of 9;6 were tested in a forced-choice off-line experiment. Results indicate that case-animacy coalitions weaken the N1-bias in OVS-conditions in German monolinguals and Dutch-German bilinguals, while no effects were found for Russian-German bilinguals. Together with an analysis of individual differences, these group-specific effects are discussed in terms of a developmental approach that represents a gradual cue strength adjustment process in mono- and bilingual children. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 163 KW - sentence interpretation KW - L2 German KW - case-animacy Y1 - 1019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-434898 SN - 1866-8380 IS - 163 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gamper, Jana T1 - The role of case and animacy in biand monolingual children’s sentence interpretation in German BT - a developmental perspective JF - Open Linguistics N2 - German-speaking children appear to have a strong N1-bias when interpreting non-canonical OVSsentences. During sentence interpretation, especially unambiguous accusative and dative case markers (den ‘the-ACC’ and dem ‘the-DAT’) weaken the N1-bias and help building up sentence interpretation strategies on the basis of morphological cues. Still, the N1-bias prevails beyond the age of five (Brandt et al. 2016, Cristante 2016, Dittmar et al. 2008) and remains until puberty (Lidzba et al. 2013). This paper investigates whether prototypical case-animacy coalitions (denACC + N INANIMATE and demDAT + N ANIMATE ) strengthen a morphologically based sentence interpretation strategy in German. The experiment discussed in this paper tests for effects of such case-animacy coalitions in mono- and bilingual primary school children. 20 German monolinguals, 12 Dutch-German and 17 Russian-German bilinguals with a mean age of 9;6 were tested in a forced-choice off-line experiment. Results indicate that case-animacy coalitions weaken the N1-bias in OVS-conditions in German monolinguals and Dutch-German bilinguals, while no effects were found for Russian-German bilinguals. Together with an analysis of individual differences, these group-specific effects are discussed in terms of a developmental approach that represents a gradual cue strength adjustment process in mono- and bilingual children. KW - sentence interpretation KW - L2 German KW - case-animacy Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2019-0001 SN - 2300-9969 VL - 5 IS - 1 PB - de Gruyter CY - Berlin ER -