TY  - JOUR
A1  - Demske, Ulrike
ED  - Ágel, Vilmos
ED  - Feilke, Helmuth
ED  - Linke, Angelika
ED  - Lüdeling, Anke
ED  - Tophinke, Doris
T1  - Zur Autonomie indirekter Redewiedergabe - eine diachrone Perspektive
JF  - Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik
N2  - Regarding verbal mood and complementation patterns of reporting verbs, the distinction between direct and indirect reported speech is well established in present-day German. This paper looks into the history of German: Common knowledge has it that both the use of verbal mood as well as the quality of clause linkage undergo considerable changes giving rise to the question how these changes affect the manifestations of indirect reported speech in earlier stages of German. The historical record of the 16th century (with an outlook on the 17th century) shows that the distinction between direct and indirect reported speech is not yet grammaticalized in historical sources at the time. In particular with respect to dependent (in)direct reported speech, both types prefer V2-complements with only verbal mood differentiating between the types. Although present and past subjunctive have a much wider distribution in earlier stages of German, the occurrence of free indirect speech likewise testifies to its increasing use as a marker of indirect reported speech. The growing conventionalization of patterns of indirect reported speech in the course of Early Modern German may be considered as an example for an increase of subjectification in its development.
KW  - indirekte Redewiedergabe
KW  - diachron
KW  - Redewiedergabe
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/zgl-2019-0003
SN  - 0301-3294 print
SN  - 1613-0626 online
VL  - 47
IS  - 1
SP  - 70
EP  - 101
PB  - De Gruyter
CY  - Berlin, New York
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
ED  - Demske, Ulrike
ED  - Jędrzejowski, Łukasz
T1  - The Diachrony of Infinitival Patterns
T2  - 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
SN  - 2210-2116 print
SN  - 2210-2124 online
VL  - 2015
IS  - 5.1
PB  - Benjamins
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Demske, Ulrike
A1  - Logacev, Pavel
A1  - Goldschmidt, Katrin
T1  - POS-Tagging Historical Corpora: The Case of Early New High German
T2  - Proceedings of the thirteenth workshop on treebanks and linguistic theories (TLT 13)
N2  - A key problem in automatic annotation of historical corpora is inconsistent spelling. Because the spelling of some word forms can differ between texts, a language model trained on already annotated treebanks may fail to recognize known word forms due to differences in spelling. In the present work, we explore the feasibility of an unsupervised method for spelling-adjustment for the purpose of improved part of speech (POS) tagging. To this end, we present a method for spelling normalization based on weighted edit distances, which exploits within-text spelling variation. We then evaluate the improvement in taging accuracy resulting from between-texts spelling normalization in two tagging experiments on several Early New High German (ENHG) texts.
Y1  - 2014
VL  - 2014
SP  - 103
EP  - 112
PB  - TALAR - Tübingen Archive of Language Resources
CY  - Tübingen
ER  -