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Konvergenz und Divergenz

Sprachvergleichende Studien zum Deutschen

Edited by: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS), Eva Breindl and Lutz Gunkel

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From 2016 Open Access!

The book series of the Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (Leibniz Institute for the German Language, IDS) offers a platform for comparative research on selected aspects of German linguistics, especially with regard to their typological relevance. It includes both monographs and edited volumes, in English and in German, on topics such as grammar (phonology, graphemics, morphology, syntax, semantics), lexis, pragmatics, second-language acquisition, multilingualism and language contact. All publications are innovative contributions to the description of the linguistic phenomena in question, but also to the theoretical foundations of their respective fields. They all have successfully gone through a peer-review process.

The series is published on behalf of the IDS and edited by Prof. Eva Breindl (Professor of Germanic Linguistics with special focus on ‘German as a foreign language’ at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) and Dr. Lutz Gunkel (Research Associate in the Grammar Department of the IDS Mannheim).

Editorial Board

Ruxandra Cosma (Bukarest)
Livio Gaeta (Turin)
Matthias Hüning (Berlin)
Sebastian Kürschner (Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
Torsten Leuschner (Gent)
Attila Péteri (Budapest)
Christoph Schroeder (Potsdam)
Janusz Taborek (Poznań)
Hélène Vinckel-Roisin (Nancy)
Björn Wiemer (Mainz)

From 2016 on, the volumes published in this series are freely available via Open Access.

Author information

Eva Breindl, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany; Lutz Gunkel, IDS Mannheim, Germany.

Book 2021

Mediale Kommunikationsverben

Das Zusammenspiel von Verb- und Musterbedeutung im Sprachvergleich Deutsch-Spanisch

Vanessa González Ribao

Volume 12 in this series

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This study examines the structural argument properties of media communication verbs. These are verbs that relate to situations in which communication takes place by means of a technological medium. The focus is on the question of whether / to which extent new media communication verbs adopted from English have adapted to the argument structures of semantically related verbs in German and Spanish respectively.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110718676
ISBN:: 9783110718676
ISBN:: 9783110718614
ISBN:: 9783110718751
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Contrastive Linguistics
Subject:: Lexicology
Subject:: Construction Grammar
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Spanish
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2020

German and Dutch in Contrast

Synchronic, Diachronic and Psycholinguistic Perspectives

Gunther De Vogelaer, Dietha Koster, Torsten Leuschner

Volume 11 in this series

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Designed as a contribution to contrastive linguistics, the present volume brings up-to-date the comparison of German with its closest neighbour, Dutch, and other Germanic relatives like English, Afrikaans, and the Scandinavian languages. It takes its inspiration from the idea of a "Germanic Sandwich", i.e. the hypothesis that sets of genetically related languages diverge in systematic ways in diverse domains of the linguistic system. Its contributions set out to test this approach against new phenomena or data from synchronic, diachronic and, for the first time in a Sandwich-related volume, psycholinguistic perspectives. With topics ranging from nickname formation to the IPP (aka 'Ersatzinfinitiv'), from the grammaticalisation of the definite article to /s/-retraction, and from the role of verb-second order in the acquisition of L2 English to the psycholinguistics of gender, the volume appeals to students and specialists in modern and historical linguistics, psycholinguistics, translation studies, language pedagogy and cognitive science, providing a wealth of fresh insights into the relationships of German with its closest relatives while highlighting the potential inherent in the integration of different methodological traditions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110668476
ISBN:: 9783110668476
ISBN:: 9783110668391
ISBN:: 9783110669466
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Contrastive Linguistics
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Psycholinguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2019

Die Graphematik der Morpheme im Deutschen und Englischen

Kristian Berg

Volume 10 in this series

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How are words written in German and English? What features do they share in common, and what are their differences? The book approaches these questions from a morphologic-graphemic perspective. Accordingly, it addresses the graphemic structure of morphemes, and the issues of uniformity (how uniformly is a morpheme represented in writing?) and uniqueness (how distinctly does a spelling refer to one morpheme?).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110604856
ISBN:: 9783110604856
ISBN:: 9783110605181
ISBN:: 9783110604764
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Morphology
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Contrastive Linguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: English
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2019

Complex Lexical Units

Compounds and Multi-Word Expressions

Barbara Schlücker

Volume 9 in this series

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Both compounds and multi-word expressions are complex lexical units, made up of at least two constituents. The most basic difference is that the former are morphological objects and the latter result from syntactic processes. However, the exact demarcation between compounds and multi-word expressions differs greatly from language to language and is often a matter of debate in and across languages. Similarly debated is whether and how these two different kinds of units complement or compete with each other.

The volume presents an overview of compounds and multi-word expressions in a variety of European languages. Central questions that are discussed for each language concern the formal distinction between compounds and multi-word expressions, their formation and their status in lexicon and grammar.

The volume contains chapters on German, English, Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Russian, Polish, Finnish, and Hungarian as well as a contrastive overview with a focus on German. It brings together insights from word-formation theory, phraseology and theory of grammar and aims to contribute to the understanding of the lexicon, both from a language-specific and cross-linguistic perspective.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110632446
ISBN:: 9783110632446
ISBN:: 9783110632538
ISBN:: 9783110632422
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Morphology
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Contrastive Linguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2018

Sprache und Kognition

Ereigniskonzeptualisierung im Deutschen und Tschechischen

Barbara Mertins, Institut für Deutsche Sprache

Volume 8 in this series

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This book provides empirical experimental evidence (including tracking of eye movements) for the contingency of human cognition on the grammar of one’s native language. Using the example of Czech and German, it also demonstrates how prolonged language contact results in grammatical changes and how, in turn, such changes have a profound impact on cognitive, perceptual, and memory abilities.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110615746
ISBN:: 9783110615746
ISBN:: 9783110615807
ISBN:: 9783110557893
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Bilingualism and Multilingualism
Subject:: Contrastive Linguistics
Subject:: Language Contact
Subject:: Psycholinguistics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2018

Diskursive Verfestigungen

Schnittstellen zwischen Morphosyntax, Phraseologie und Pragmatik im Deutschen und im Sprachvergleich

Laurent Gautier, Pierre-Yves Modicom, Hélène Vinckel-Roisin, Institut für Deutsche Sprache

Volume 7 in this series

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The concept of frozenness has helped to shape recent lexicographic and phraseological research. The essays in this volume form a part of this current trend and examine discursive aspects of the problematics of frozenness and stability, including grammaticalization, lexicalization, and phraseology. Each essay explores phenomena of frozenness in discourse at the interface between pragmatics and morphology/syntax.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110585292
ISBN:: 9783110585292
ISBN:: 9783110585285
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Contrastive Linguistics
Subject:: Discourse Analysis
Subject:: Lexicology
Subject:: Construction Grammar
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2017

Verschmelzung von Präposition und Artikel

Eine kontrastive Analyse zum Deutschen und Italienischen

Hagen Augustin, Institut für Deutsche Sprache

Volume 6 in this series

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This book describes and compares at different systemic levels the contractions of prepositions and articles in German and Italian, two languages that are representative of divergent grammatical development. The author’s intra and inter lingual analyses consider both diachronic and synchronic aspects and are empirically supported by large-scale quantitative and qualitative corpus investigations.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110557862
ISBN:: 9783110557862
ISBN:: 9783110557909
ISBN:: 9783110558081
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Quantitative, Computational, and Corpus Linguistics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Contrastive Linguistics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Italian
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2016

Variation im europäischen Kontrast

Untersuchungen zum Satzanfang im Deutschen, Französischen, Norwegischen, Polnischen und Ungarischen

Martine Dalmas, Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen, Horst Schwinn, Institut für Deutsche Sprache

Volume 5 in this series

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This volume presents the findings of a European research network on the comparative description of German. The key area of exploration was corpus-assisted comparative research on grammatical variations in the left sentence periphery. The compendium provides insight into topological and information structural aspects of German in comparison to the French, Norwegian, Polish, and Hungarian languages.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110444612
ISBN:: 9783110444612
ISBN:: 9783110443479
ISBN:: 9783110435733
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Contrastive Linguistics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2016

Variation und Wandel

Zur Konkurrenz morphologischer und syntaktischer A+N-Verbindungen im Deutschen und Niederländischen seit 1700

Saskia Schuster, Institut für Deutsche Sprache

Volume 4 in this series

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The volume covers the development of concurrence in morphological and syntactic A+N naming units such as Gelbfieber (yellow fever) and schwarzer Markt (black market) in German and Dutch since 1700. Using historical case studies, it examines the development of such combinations in view of the principles of construction grammar. In addition, the study also explores potential factors that have fostered divergence between the two languages.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110423136
ISBN:: 9783110423136
ISBN:: 9783110423211
ISBN:: 9783110426991
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Contrastive Linguistics
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Subject:: Germanic Languages, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

Komplexe Argumentstrukturen

Kontrastive Untersuchungen zum Deutschen, Rumänischen und Englischen

Ruxandra Cosma, Stefan Engelberg, Susan Schlotthauer, Speranta L. Stanescu, Gisela Zifonun

Volume 3 in this series

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In addition to the canonical expression of the argument structure of verbs in the form of intransitive or transitive constructions with noun or prepositional phrases, arguments can also be structured in diverse ways in complex non-canonical form. Such argument structures show interesting variations, especially in comparative linguistics, as this volume illustrates based on studies of German, Romanian, and English.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110343229
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034311-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034322-9
ISBN:: 9783110394955
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Contrastive Linguistics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2014

Substantivdetermination im Deutschen und im Ungarischen

Eine sprachtypologisch-kontrastive Analyse

Krisztina Molnár

Volume 2 in this series

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This study examines the issue of substantive determination in German and Hungarian from a perspective that contrasts typologies. Starting from the semantic-pragmatic functions of the determinative, the author describes its use in these two languages as an expression of definiteness, indefiniteness, and genericity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110343243
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034312-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034324-3
ISBN:: 9783110367928
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Morphology
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Contrastive Linguistics
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Satzstrukturen im Deutschen und Englischen

Typologie und Textrealisierung

Klaus Fischer

Volume 1 in this series

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In diesem Buch werden deutsche und englische Satzstrukturen kontrastiv untersucht, und zwar in typologischer Hinsicht. Im Mittelpunkt steht der Valenzaspekt der Satzstruktur: Es werden aber nicht nur die deutschen und englischen Ausdrucksmittel – die einfachen Ergänzungen und die Ergänzungssätze – vorgestellt und kontrastiert, sondern sie werden in einer Korpusanalyse quantifiziert. Es ist das Anliegen dieses Buches, zu einer Typologie der Textrealisierung beizutragen. Hierzu wird ein deutsch-englisches bzw. englisch-deutsches Übersetzungskorpus definiert und ausgewertet. Die beobachteten Kontraste werden im Zusammenhang typologischer Tendenzen und bevorzugter Vertextungsstrategien bewertet. Ziel der Arbeit ist die Überprüfung des einflussreichen typologischen Bildes von John A. Hawkins, das Deutsche sei semantisch transparenter als das Englische. Die Einzelanalysen sind für alle, die sich theoretisch oder praktisch für Übersetzung und Spracherwerb interessieren, von Bedeutung.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783050064291
ISBN:: 978-3-05-006333-1
ISBN:: 978-3-05-006429-1
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Akademie Verlag