TY - JOUR A1 - Gaulan, Yael A1 - Marmorstein, Michal A1 - Kampf, Zohar T1 - “Say, are you a little ashamed?” BT - shame allocation and accountability in Israeli news interviews JF - Discourse, context & media N2 - In light of the growing emotionalization of public discourse, this article deals with the action of shame allocation in Israeli accountability interviews. A qualitative analysis of tokens of the Hebrew verb lehitbayesh ‘to be ashamed’ in political interviews was conducted using Discursive Psychology and Conversation Analysis methods. The findings show that in this public context the verb lehitbayesh is mostly not used to convey an emotional state, nor can its meaning be explained by the classic theoretical conceptualization of shame. Instead, lehitbayesh is mobilized to allocate shame to another actor, and portrays the allocator as morally superior and as someone who sacrifices for what is right. Lehitbayesh is part of the negotiations between journalists and politicians over the question of who is accountable for a transgressive act, what the desired response is, and who the relevant audience for the moral lesson is. KW - accountability interviews KW - conversation analysis KW - discursive psychology KW - emotion discourse KW - moral discourse KW - shame Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2023.100742 SN - 2211-6958 VL - 56 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Keskin, Cem T1 - Şey-substitution and constituent structure in Turkish JF - Turkic languages N2 - This paper attempts to account for the syntactic distribution of the particle sey in Turkish, in particular its suffixed variant which is a placeholder for expressions that have to be inserted into the discourse later. The paper argues that the distribution of suffixed sey is determined by constituent structure, meaning that Bey can only substitute for syntactic constituents. Thus, sey acts as a pro-form, similar, for instance, to pronouns substituting for noun phrases. This has two implications: First, as sey is a quasi-universal pro-form with the ability to substitute for a wide range of constituents, sey-substitution can be used as a constituency test to peek into the constituent structure of virtually any major syntactic domain. Second, the overall sey-substitution pattern across different syntactic domains constitutes evidence for Kayne's binary branching hypothesis. KW - Turkish syntax KW - pro-forms KW - placeholder KW - binary branching hypothesis Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.13173/TL.25.2.243 SN - 1431-4983 SN - 2747-450X VL - 25 IS - 2 SP - 243 EP - 275 PB - Harrassowitz CY - Wiesbaden ER - TY - BOOK ED - Alexiadou, Artemis ED - Fuhrhop, Nanna T1 - ZAS papers in linguistics Y1 - 1997 SN - 1435-9588 PB - ZAS CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Smith, George T1 - Word remnants and coordination Y1 - 2000 ER - TY - THES A1 - De Cesare, Ilaria T1 - Word order variability and change in German infinitival complements T1 - Variation und Wandel in der Stellung deutscher Infinitivkomplemente BT - a multi-causal approach BT - ein multikausaler Ansatz N2 - The present work deals with the variation in the linearisation of German infinitival complements from a diachronic perspective. Based on the observation that in present-day German the position of infinitival complements is restricted by properties of the matrix verb (Haider, 2010, Wurmbrand, 2001), whereas this appears much more liberal in older stages of German (Demske, 2008, Maché and Abraham, 2011, Demske, 2015), this dissertation investigates the emergence of those restrictions and the factors that have led to a reduced, yet still existing variability. The study contrasts infinitival complements of two types of matrix verbs, namely raising and control verbs. In present-day German, these show different syntactic behaviour and opposite preferences as far as the position of the infinitive is concerned: while infinitival complements of raising verbs build a single clausal domain with the with the matrix verb and occur obligatorily intraposed, infinitive complements of control verbs can form clausal constituents and occur predominantly extraposed. This correlation is not attested in older stages of German, at least not until Early New High German. Drawing on diachronic corpus data, the present work provides a description of the changes in the linearisation of infinitival complements from Early New High German to present-day German which aims at finding out when the correlation between infinitive type and word order emerged and further examines their possible causes. The study shows that word order change in German infinitival complements is not a case of syntactic change in the narrow sense, but that the diachronic variation results from the interaction of different language-internal and language-external factors and that it reflects, on the one hand, the influence of language modality on the emerging standard language and, on the other hand, a process of specialisation. N2 - Diese Arbeit befasst sich mit der Variation in der Linearisierung von deutschen Infinitivkomplementen aus diachroner Perspektive. Ausgehend von der Beobachtung, dass im Gegenwartsdeutschen die Stellung von Infinitivkomplementen durch Eigenschaften des Matrixverbs eingeschränkt wird (Haider, 2010, Wurmbrand, 2001), während diese in älteren Sprachstufen des Deutschen viel liberaler erscheint (Demske, 2008, Maché und Abraham, 2011, Demske, 2015), untersucht die vorliegende Dissertation die Entstehung solcher Beschränkungen und die Faktoren, die zu einer reduzierten, jedoch noch bestehenden Variation geführt haben. In der Untersuchung werden die Wortstellungseigenschaften von Infinitivkomplementen gegenübergestellt, die von zwei Typen von Matrixverben eingebettet werden, nämlich Anhebungs- und Kontrollverben. Diese zeigen im Gegenwartsdeutschen ein unterschiedliches syntaktisches Verhalten und entgegengesetzte Präferenzen, was die Stellung des Infinitivs betrifft: Während Infinitivkomplemente von Anhebungsverben einen Verbalkomplex mit dem Matrixverb bilden und obligatorisch intraponiert vorkommen, bilden Infinitivkomplemente von Kontrollverben sententiale Konstituenten und kommen überwiegend extraponiert vor. In älteren Sprachstufen des Deutschen konnte diese Korrelation bis ins Frühneuhochdeutsche nicht festgestellt werden. Neben einer empirisch fundierten Beschreibung des Wortstellungswandels von Infinitivkomplementen, die darauf abzielt, den Zeitpunkt der Entstehung dieser Korrelation zu identifizieren, werden in der Arbeit mögliche Faktoren und Gründe untersucht, die zu diesen Präferenzen geführt haben. Die Arbeit zeigt, dass der Worstellungswandel in deutschen Infinitivkomplementen nicht dem syntaktischen Wandel im engeren Sinne zuzuordnen ist, sondern dass die diachrone Variation auf einem Zusammenspiel von verschiedenen sprachinternen und sprachexternen Faktoren beruht. Es wird dafür argumentiert, dass sich die diachrone Distribution der Wortstellungsmuster zum einen durch den Einfluss von Medialität auf die Entstehung der Standardsprache, zum anderen durch einen Prozess der Spezialisierung erklären lässt. KW - infinitival complements KW - syntactic change KW - Early New High German KW - quantitative historical linguistics KW - corpus study KW - Infinitivkomplemente KW - syntaktischer Wandel KW - Frühneuhochdeutsch KW - quantitative historische Linguistik KW - Korpusstudie Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-527358 ER - TY - THES A1 - Wittenberg, Eva T1 - With Light Verb Constructions from Syntax to Concepts T1 - Mit Funktionsverbgefügen von der Syntax zur konzeptuellen Struktur N2 - This dissertation uses a common grammatical phenomenon, light verb constructions (LVCs) in English and German, to investigate how syntax-semantics mapping defaults influence the relationships between language processing, representation and conceptualization. LVCs are analyzed as a phenomenon of mismatch in the argument structure. The processing implication of this mismatch are experimentally investigated, using ERPs and a dual task. Data from these experiments point to an increase in working memory. Representational questions are investigated using structural priming. Data from this study suggest that while the syntax of LVCs is not different from other structures’, the semantics and mapping are represented differently. This hypothesis is tested with a new categorization paradigm, which reveals that the conceptual structure that LVC evoke differ in interesting, and predictable, ways from non-mismatching structures’. N2 - Diese Dissertation untersucht mittels psycho- und neurolinguistischer Experimente, wie deutsche und englische Funktionsverbgefüge (’light verb constructions’) mental repräsentiert und verarbeitet werden. Funktionsverbgefüge sind Konstruktionen wie einen Kuss geben, in denen die Semantik überwiegend durch die Nominalisierung Kuss geliefert wird, während das Funktionsverb geben lediglich den syntaktischen Rahmen und grammatische Marker, aber nur wenige Bedeutungsaspekte beiträgt. T3 - Potsdam Cognitive Science Series - 7 KW - light verb constructions KW - syntax KW - semantics KW - event-related potential KW - priming KW - Syntax KW - Semantik KW - Sprachverarbeitung KW - Funktionsverbgefüge KW - Priming Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-82361 SN - 978-3-86956-329-9 SN - 2190-4545 SN - 2190-4553 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Müller, Hans-Georg A1 - Rzepka, Nathalie A1 - Simbeck, Katharina T1 - What you apply is not what you learn! BT - Examining students‘ strategies in German capitalization tasks JF - Journal of Educational Data Mining N2 - The ability to spell correctly is a fundamental skill for participating in society and engaging in professional work. In the German language, the capitalization of nouns and proper names presents major difficulties for both native and nonnative learners, since the definition of what is a noun varies according to one’s linguistic perspective. In this paper, we hypothesize that learners use different cognitive strategies to identify nouns. To this end, we examine capitalization exercises from more than 30,000 users of an online spelling training platform. The cognitive strategies identified are syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and morphological approaches. The strategies used by learners overlap widely but differ by individual and evolve with grade level. The results show that even though the pragmatic strategy is not taught systematically in schools, it is the most widespread and most successful strategy used by learners. We therefore suggest that highly granular learning process data can not only provide insights into learners’ capabilities and enable the creation of individualized learning content but also inform curriculum development. Y1 - 2021 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gessinger, Joachim T1 - Visible Sounds and Audible Colours : the Ocular Harpsichord of Louis-Bertrand Castel Y1 - 1996 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wegener, Heide T1 - Variation in the acquisition of German noun plurals Y1 - 1994 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Peitsch, Helmut A1 - Wiemann, Dirk T1 - Transformation of Culture: From Anti-Fascism to Anti-Totalitarianism JF - Comparative critical studies : the journal of the British Comparative Literature Association Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3366/ccs.2016.0198 SN - 1744-1854 SN - 1750-0109 VL - 13 SP - 173 EP - 192 PB - Edinburgh University Press CY - Edinburgh ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Peitsch, Helmut T1 - Tradition and Modernism in Gustav Hockeïs Travel Books Y1 - 2002 SN - 1-571-81810-3 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Demske, Ulrike ED - Demske, Ulrike ED - Jędrzejowski, Łukasz T1 - Towards coherent infinitival patterns in the history of German JF - The Diachrony of Infinitival Patterns: Their origin, development and loss. In: Journal of Historical Linguistics N2 - According to Haider (2010), we have to distinguish three types of infinitival complements in Present-Day German: (i) CP complements, (ii) VP complements and (iii) verbal clusters. While CP complements give rise to biclausal structures, VP complements and verbal clusters indicate a monoclausal structure. Non-finite verbs in verbal clusters build a syntactic unit with the governing verb. It is only the last infinitival pattern that we address as a so-called coherent infinitival pattern, a notion introduced in the influential work of Bech (1955/57). Verbal clusters are bound to languages with an OV grammar, hence the well-known differences regarding infinitival syntax in German and English (Haider 2003, Bobaljik 2004). On the widespread assumption that German has been an OV language throughout its history (Axel 2007), we expect all three types of infinitival complements to be present from the earliest attestions of German. KW - Infinitival patterns KW - history of German Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1075/jhl.5.1.01dem SN - 2210-2116 print SN - 2210-2124 online VL - 2015 IS - 5.1 SP - 6 EP - 40 PB - Benjamins CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth A1 - Selting, Margret T1 - Towards an interactional perspective on prosody and a prosodic perspective on interaction Y1 - 1996 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth A1 - Selting, Margret T1 - Towards an interactional perspective on prosody and a prosodic perspective on interaction Y1 - 2006 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schroeder, Christoph T1 - The use of tane in spoken Turkish Y1 - 2007 SN - 978-975-50196-60-7 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Peters, Jörg T1 - The timing of nuclear high accents in German dialects Y1 - 1999 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Selting, Margret T1 - The role of intonation in the organization of repair and problem handling sequences in conversation N2 - Transcripts of repair and/or problem handling sequences from natural conversations are presented and analyzed with special reference to the role of intonation in the interactive organization of these sequences. It is shown that (a) in the initiation of so-called repair or local problem handling sequences, intonation is used as a type-distinctive device, and (b) in the handling of a global problem handling sequence, intonation is systematically used as a means to constitute and control participant cooperation. In general, intonation is analyzed as one contextualization cue cooccurring with specific syntactic, semantic and discourse organizational devices to signal the status of an utterance in conversational context. It is hypothesized that especially in the global problem handling sequence, different categories of intonation, i.e. different accent and contour types, are systematically used to signal and control participants' interactive problem handling in different, indexically relevant ways simultaneously. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 54 Y1 - 1988 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-41992 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 - TY - JOUR A1 - Schröder, Christoph A1 - Menz, Astrid T1 - The reviewer punishes the messenger : a reply to Mark Kirchner's review of Tüerkiye'de dil tartismalari Y1 - 2009 SN - 1431-4983 ER -