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Band 42 Heft 2

November 2023

Öffentlich zugänglich 13. November 2023

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Seiten: i-iii

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Open Access 2. Oktober 2023

In the periphery of an indefinite pronoun. Forms and functions of conceptual agreement with jemand

Sophie Ellsäßer

Seiten: 209-236

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Abstract

In German, the social gender of the human referent matches the grammatical gender of the noun and pronoun in many cases. Nevertheless, those categories can also differ from each other. The indefinite pronoun jemand ‘someone’ prototypically exhibits masculine grammatical gender irrespective of its concrete referents. This paper addresses a special phenomenon that can occur with jemand , namely, the conceptual agreement of relative pronouns, i.e., the occurrence of feminine target forms that refer to the masculine indefinite pronoun jemand ( Sie ist jemand, die gerne Kaffee trinkt ‘She is someone m , who f likes to drink coffee’). Based on two empirical analyses that examine the phenomenon from different methodological perspectives, this article will demonstrate that the marked phenomenon is comparatively rare, but does occur nevertheless. The phenomenon cannot be fully explained by the loss of the genericity of indefinite pronouns. In fact, either semantic or pragmatic explanations can be applied. This phenomenon can especially be observed in specific types of contexts (or constructions) that lack the prototypical feature of indefinite pronouns: indefinite reference. Jemand increasingly seems to be emerging in non-prototypical contexts for indefinite pronouns, which to some extent override the morphosyntactic features of the (relevant) part of speech. This occurrence is a semantic explanation for conceptual agreement forms. Pragmatic explanations for variation in agreement forms can be applied in prototypical contexts of indefinite pronouns, for example when an effort to use gender-sensitive language is made. Based on the phenomenon of conceptual agreement, this article thus explores the functions and properties in the periphery of indefinite pronouns as a part of speech.

Open Access 25. Oktober 2023

X-Wörter im Deutschen: Ein Wortbildungsmuster zur diskursiven Vermeidung von Begriffen

Jens Leonhard, Falko Röhrs

Seiten: 237-273

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In this paper, we investigate the German word formation pattern X-Wort within the theoretical framework of discourse morphology. For this purpose, morphological, semantic, and pragmatic analyses are combined on the basis of the German reference corpus. It is shown that the word formation pattern is productive and extremely frequent. However, the meaning of the word formation product is not always clear, since only two X-Wörter ( N-Wort and F-Wort ) can be considered lexicalized. Instead of word meanings acquired through the formation, a common function of the X-Wörter can be identified: they are used in metalinguistic discourses to avoid and mask certain terms. In this context, X-Wörter differ with respect to the motivation of avoidance: (i) racist terms, (ii) vulgar terms, and (iii) politically and superstitiously explosive words are avoided and masked. Thus, X-Wörter are part of euphemistic language. As such, their use can also be enregistered, and acquire a social-symbolic function, which indicates moral-ethical ideas of the speaker or writer. Consequently, we describe the word formation pattern as a form-meaning/function-pair whose morphological structure perfectly fits its communicative needs to avoid and mask specific words in discourses.

Open Access 7. September 2023

What is what if?

Wenshan Li, Jiang Liu

Seiten: 275-312

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With literature and empirical evidence, this article argues against the existing claim that what if -questions are idioms and proposes that they are the result of the syntactic and semantic combination of what and if -conditionals. With further evidence, it is argued that what can be a propositional anaphor which occurs in different contexts, rather than being restricted to what if -questions. A formal characterization of the syntactic and semantic properties of the propositional what is formulated in the framework of Dynamic Syntax, demonstrating how this word makes semantic and syntactic contributions to the interpretation of utterances in English as a mechanism of interaction between interlocutors.

Open Access 17. Oktober 2023

What cues do children use to infer the meaning of unknown words while reading? Empirical data from German-speaking third graders

Martina Röthlisberger, Ladina Brugger, Britta Juska-Bacher

Seiten: 313-339

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During the development of reading skills in primary school, children begin to make guesses about unfamiliar words when reading a text. This process of lexical inference is an important source of new vocabulary acquisition. In the present study, 55 children with a wide range of reading skills and vocabulary knowledge were asked to infer the meaning of unknown words (i.e., pseudowords) inserted into a short story and to provide insight into their inferencing processes. The results show that children use a variety of cues. While learners with higher reading skills and vocabulary knowledge tend to be more successful inferencers and rely more on contextual cues, the evidence for the use of phonological cues is limited. Furthermore, in 20 percent of the cases, children were able to recall the meaning of a pseudoword already mentioned in the text.

Open Access 23. Oktober 2023

An experimental investigation of the interaction of narrators’ and protagonists’ perspectival prominence in narrative texts

Christopher Saure, Stefan Hinterwimmer, Anna Pia Jordan-Bertinelli

Seiten: 341-372

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In this paper, we present the results of an experiment investigating the effect of different narrative situations on the availability of locally prominent protagonists as anchor for Free Indirect Discourse (FID). We created items in three conditions: condition A featured a neutral third-person narrator, condition B a homodiegetic first-person narrator and condition C a prominent, evaluative third-person narrator. Participants read several short text segments all ending with FID and were asked to rate the acceptability of the FID sentence. The results revealed that condition B received significantly lower ratings than the other two conditions, whereas there was no significant difference between conditions A and C. An additional study, in which participants had to choose if the thought expressed by FID belonged to the narrator or the protagonist, showed that there was a strong tendency to choose the protagonist as perspectival center in all three conditions. The results from Exp. 1 prove that while the presence of a homodiegetic first-person narrator strongly constrains a locally prominent protagonist’s availability as anchor for FID, it is not similarly affected by the presence of a globally prominent third-person narrator. This further confirms that narrative texts possess an inherent potential for multiperspectivity.

Open Access 25. September 2023

A functional approach to the formal mismatches of indexation markers

Tim Zingler

Seiten: 373-403

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This paper argues that indexation markers (i.e., argument-indexing agreement markers and/or pronouns) show a wider range of formal mismatches across languages than the exponents of other inflectional categories. These mismatches are defined in terms of mixed behavior with respect to different criteria of wordhood. The mismatches that the indexation markers (or “indexes”) show include extrametricality with respect to reduplication and “mobility” in that they can occur in different slots of otherwise identical word forms. Other indexes can freely occur on either member of a phrase-level construction or behave like full-fledged affixes in one context but like full-fledged words in another. The claim that the range of these traits is extraordinary is based on a larger project, (Zingler, Tim. 2020. Wordhood issues: Typology and grammaticalization . Albuquerque: University of New Mexico PhD dissertation), which in addition to indexes investigates mismatches among case, definiteness, and tense markers. The explanations offered for this behavior primarily rely on the manner in which reference is established in discourse and on the different diachronic pathways for which these usage patterns pave the way. Another major conclusion is that the indexes described here constitute a formally heterogeneous set that cannot be easily subsumed under the label of “clitics.”

Plenarvortrag

Open Access 17. Juli 2023

Commitments: binding and being bound

Elin McCready

Seiten: 405-420

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This paper considers the commitments we make by our linguistic choices, and the things we are committed to by our uses of language; it also considers how these commitments can be avoided.

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Open Access 21. Juni 2023

Claus Altmayer, Katrin Biebighäuser, Stefanie Haberzettl, Antje Heine (eds.). Handbuch Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache: Kontexte – Themen – Methoden. Berlin: J.B. Metzler Verlag 2021. 429 Seiten

Nana Pang

Seiten: 421-424

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Open Access 20. Juni 2023

Understanding corpus linguistics

Mohammad Rasekh-Mahand

Seiten: 425-428

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

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

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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

Tanja Kupisch
University of Konstanz
Department of Linguistics
Universitätsstraße 10
78464 Konstanz, Germany

Sarah Schimke
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Department I - Germanistik, Komparatistik, Nordistik, Deutsch als Fremdsprache
Institut für Deutsche Philologie
Schellingstraße 3 RG
80799 München

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
Typ: Zeitschrift
Sprachen: Deutsch, Englisch
Verlag: De Gruyter
Erstveröffentlichung: 1. Januar 1982
Erscheinungsweise: 2 Hefte pro Jahr