journal: Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft

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Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft

ISSN: 1613-3706

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Objective

The aim of the journal is to promote linguistic research by publishing high-quality contributions and thematic special issues from all fields and trends of modern linguistics. In addition to articles and reviews, the journal also features contributions to discussions on current controversies in the field as well as overview articles outlining the state-of-the art of relevant research paradigms.

Topics

General Linguistics
Language Typology
Language acquisition, language change and synchronic variation
Empirical linguistics: experimental and corpus-based research
Contributions to theory-building

Article formats

Research articles, reviews, forum articles

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(Gold) Open access journal published by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS)
Freely available articles disseminating the latest research in Linguistics
Comprehensive overview of all areas and emerging fields within Linguistics
Double-blind peer review
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History

„Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft" was founded 1981 by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (German Linguistic Society) and has been published by De Gruyter Mouton since 2004.

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft

With more than 1000 members, the DGfS is one of the largest associations of linguists in the world.

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Linguistics Vanguard
Linguistics
Folia Linguistica
Glottotheory
Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science (HSK)
Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
The World of Linguistics

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Volume 41 Issue 2

November 2022

Publicly Available November 5, 2022

Frontmatter

Page range: I-VI

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Artikel

Open Access July 29, 2022

Non-optimal processing of auxiliaries in L2 Italian: An eye-movement and acceptability judgment study

Stefano Rastelli, Marco Porta

Page range: 279-308

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Abstract

We investigated whether 68 non-native, tutored beginning L2 learners of Italian – with alphabetical and non-alphabetical L1s – discriminated between sentences containing target-like and non-target-like auxiliaries. We questioned whether learners’ choices could be informed by a grammatical rule, frequency of auxiliaries in the input or whether both grammatical and statistical knowledge could be eclipsed by processing difficulties. Eye-tracking and timed acceptability judgment data showed that – unlike native speakers – these L2 learners were unskilled readers of the target language and that their processing was still non-optimal. In particular, they did not process “core” (i. e., strongly agentive and inherently telic) and “peripheral” (i. e., less semantically specified) intransitive predicates differently, nor did they do so with “matching” and “mismatching” predicates. Frequency and transition probabilities speeded up learners’ decisions on acceptability, but did not affect response accuracy or reading patterns. Finally, recency and length of classroom instruction – unlike learners’ L1, duration of stay in Italy, and proficiency level – positively correlated with greater nativelikeness in the processing of auxiliaries. Our results indicate that beginning L2-Italian learners – as long as their processing is still non-optimal – are not sensitive to the consequences of the unaccusative/unergative split at the syntax-semantics interface.

Open Access September 6, 2022

Revisiting gender-fair language and stereotypes – A comparison of word pairs, capital I forms and the asterisk

Silke Schunack, Anja Binanzer

Page range: 309-337

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In this paper we replicated two influential studies on gender-fair language that investigated how gender-fair language influences stereotype perception and recall of exemplars. We also updated the original studies to assess new forms of gender-fair language. A first set of studies replicated Gabriel et al. (2008) by eliciting gender proportion ratings for occupational nouns from adult German native speakers for word pairs, capital I forms and the asterisk. Results were mixed with effects mainly for female-biased nouns. Only the non-binary asterisk form ( Lehrer * innen ) showed an increase of women for male-biased nouns. A third study replicated Stahlberg and Sczesny’s (2001) naming study. Here, the number of women answers was higher than in the original study and increased when using gender-fair language with a larger increase for capital I forms ( LehrerInnen ) than for word pairs ( Lehrer und Lehrerinnen ). Overall, the effects of word pair forms were weaker than those of other forms of gender-fair language.

Open Access September 13, 2022

C-command constraints in German: A corpus-based investigation

Gert Webelhuth

Page range: 339-392

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Abstract

Reinhart (1983) proposed that quantificational binding is subject to a surface c-command condition. Her claim has been widely accepted in the literature on the syntax-semantics interface. However, Barker (2012) presented systematic counterevidence against the c-command requirement from English. The current paper addresses the role of c-command constraints in the grammar of three phenomena in German: relative quantifier scope, quantificational binding, and negative polarity. The results of a large corpus study are presented that demonstrate empirically that scope of one quantifier over another, quantificational binding, and the licensing of negative polarity items in German are systematically possible in structural configurations where surface c-command cannot reasonably be assumed to obtain. Further corpus evidence is produced which shows that the non-c-commanding quantifiers in the examples typically occur in contexts where the set they quantify over is discourse-old or easy to accommodate. The overall picture that emerges from the empirical evidence is that topicality motivates wide scope, and scope rather than c-command licenses negative polarity items and bound pronouns.

Plenarvortrag

Open Access September 20, 2022

Autosegmental-metrical phonology – Unpacking the boxes

Martine Grice

Page range: 393-411

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Abstract

Autosegmental-metrical phonology has shown itself to be a highly successful framework for the description, analysis and comparison of the prosody of many of the world’s languages. What has contributed to the success of this framework is the fact that there is widespread use of prepackaged units within the model – referred to as “complex primitives”. The intonation systems of languages are described as having edge tones and, in some cases, also (post-lexical) pitch accents . These are defined in terms of both their association properties and their cueing function within the prosodic system. Edge tones associate with an edge (or a tone bearing unit at the edge) and are a cue to the juncture between prosodic constituents. Pitch accents associate with a head (usually a stressed syllable) and are a cue to prominence. I shall argue that we need to unpack these definitions, providing evidence from Tashlhiyt Berber, Maltese and Italian, languages in which the association properties and cueing functions of intonational tones do not automatically line up in this way.

Rezensionen

Open Access August 30, 2022

Kristin Börjesson / Jörg Meibauer (Hrsg.): Pragmatikerwerb und Kinderliteratur

Mailin Antomo

Page range: 413-416

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Open Access August 30, 2022

Ann-Marie Moser: Negationskongruenz in deutschen Dialekten

Jeffrey Pheiff

Page range: 417-421

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Open Access August 30, 2022

Marcel Schlechtweg: Memorization and the Compound-Phrase Distinction: An Investigation of Complex Constructions in German, French and English

Ruiqi Ren

Page range: 423-427

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Open Access July 29, 2022

Sonja Taigel: Ikonizität

Bin Zhang

Page range: 429-434

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Volume 41 (2022)

Volume 40 (2021)

Volume 39 (2020)

Volume 38 (2019)

Volume 37 (2018)

Volume 36 (2017)

Volume 35 (2016)

Volume 34 (2015)

Volume 33 (2014)

Volume 32 (2013)

Volume 31 (2012)

Volume 30 (2011)

Volume 29 (2010)

Volume 28 (2009)

Volume 27 (2008)

Volume 26 (2007)

Volume 25 (2006)

Volume 24 (2005)

Volume 23 (2004)

Volume 22 (2003)

Volume 21 (2002)

Volume 20 (2001)

Volume 19 (2000)

Volume 18 (1999)

Volume 17 (1998)

Volume 16 (1997)

Issue 1-2

Volume 15 (1996)

Volume 14 (1995)

Volume 13 (1994)

Volume 12 (1993)

Volume 11 (1992)

Volume 10 (1991)

Volume 9 (1990)

Issue 1-2

Volume 8 (1989)

Volume 7 (1988)

Volume 6 (1987)

Volume 5 (1986)

Volume 4 (1985)

Volume 3 (1984)

Volume 2 (1983)

Volume 1 (1982)

5-year Journal Impact Factor	0.822
CiteScore	0.6
European Reference Index for the Humanities
Journal Impact Factor	0.550
Journal Citation Indicator	0.56
SCImago Journal Rank	0.390
Source Normalized Impact per Paper	0.647

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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft

Editor-in-Chief

Mathias Scharinger
Philipps-Universität Marburg
Institut für Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft
Pilgrimstein 16
35032 Marburg

Redaktion

Pia Bergmann
- Managing Editor -
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Institut für Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft
Fürstengraben 30
07743 Jena

Stefanie Dipper
- Technische Redakteurin (OJS) -
Sprachwissenschaftliches Institut
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Universitätsstr. 150
44801 Bochum

Ingo Feldhausen
ATILF (UMR 7118), CNRS-Université de Lorraine
UFR Sciences Humaines et Sociales, Université de Lorraine
54001 Nancy, France

Natascha Pomino
Bergische Universität Wuppertal
Fakultät für Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften - Romanistik
Gaußstraße 20
42119 Wuppertal

Mathias Scharinger
Philipps-Universität Marburg
Institut für Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft
Pilgrimstein 16
35032 Marburg

Dejan Matiæ
Federführung und Rezensionen -
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Institut für Sprachwissenschaft
Aegidiistr. 5
48143 Münster

Gutachterrat

Artemis Alexiadou (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)
James Peter Blevins (University of Cambridge, UK)
Daniel Büring (University of Vienna, Austria)
Cornelia Ebert (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany)
Martina Faller (The University of Manchester, UK)
Paula Fikkert (Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Peter Gallmann (Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany)
Hubert Haider (Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria)
Katharina Hartmann (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)
Nikolaus Himmelmann (University of Cologne, Germany)
Roland Hinterhölzl (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Venice, Italy)
Anke Holler (Georg August University of Göttingen, Germany)
Baris Kabak (Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Germany)
Claudia Maienborn (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany)
Theodoros Marinis (University of Reading, UK)
Judith Meinschäfer (Free University of Berlin, Germany)
Christine Mooshammer (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)
Natascha Müller (University of Wuppertal, Germany)
Petra Schulz (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)
Elisabeth Stark (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Christiane von Stutterheim (Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, Germany)
Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
Luka Szucsich (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)
Judith Tonhauser (Universität Stuttgart, Germany)
Ruben Van de Vijver (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany)
Ralf Vogel (Bielefeld University, Germany)
Heike Wiese (Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Germany)

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Print ISSN: 0721-9067
Type: Journal
Languages: German, English
Publisher: De Gruyter
First published: January 1, 1982
Publication Frequency: 2 Issues per Year