A5052046298- Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies
- Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Categorization, perception, and language
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Linguistic Variation and Morphology
- linguistics and terminology studies
- Speech and dialogue systems
- Language and cultural evolution
- Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
- Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication
- Hearing Impairment and Communication
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- Public Administration and Political Analysis
- EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition
- Sociology and Education Studies
- Language Development and Disorders
- Indigenous Cultures and Socio-Education
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Classical Philosophy and Thought
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2014-2023
University of Bremen
2007-2011
University of Potsdam
2009
In the present review paper by members of collaborative research center "Register: Language Users' Knowledge Situational-Functional Variation" (CRC 1412), we assess pervasiveness register phenomena across different time periods, languages, modalities, and cultures. We define "register" as recurring variation in language use depending on function social situation. Informed rich data, aim to better understand model knowledge involved situation- function-based register. order achieve this goal,...
An important challenge in the study of focus constructions is teasing out properties layers linguistic structure that are involved, particular identifying which interpretational associated with syntactic operation at issue, arise through inferential processes, and can be deduced on basis prosodic structure. This article undertakes this a language structurally identifiable left-peripheral position employed for expression focus, namely, Yucatec Maya. configuration comes interpretation we show...
Abstract Although some characteristics of incorporating verbs and non-incorporating have been proposed in previous studies, little systematic cross-linguistic research has done on restrictions the types that incorporate nouns. Knowledge about possible verb-based noun incorporation may, however, provide important insights for theoretical approaches to incorporation, particular regarding question what extent is a lexical or syntactic process, whether how languages may vary this respect. This...
Experiencer-object verbs are known to deviate from the prototype of transitive verbs. Previous studies have shown that a subset these is stative and non-agentive argue this semantic peculiarity accounts for particular non-canonical syntactic properties. This article shows stativity/non-agentivity experiencer subject typological variation. The empirical evidence comes an experimental study on speaker's intuitions, which some experiencer-object in German Modern Greek differ canonical...
This article addresses the question of whether influence thematic roles (in particular, experiencers and patients) on word order is an epiphenomenal effect other factors (such as information structure animacy). For this purpose, I have investigated argument realization with different verb classes, including canonical verbs either agentive or nonagentive experiencer-object varying case marking (dative accusative), in a large corpus written German. The obtained results indicate that...
Abstract In several languages, non-nominative experiencers tend to appear early on in utterances, which frequently triggers deviations from the preferred word order. These observations are based linearization preferences, most cases involve gradient levels that cannot be determined precisely through singular intuitions. This article presents a crosslinguistic experimental study languages with different order properties (German, Greek, Hungarian, and Korean), offering precise estimates for...
This paper presents experimental data on postverbal argument order in Yucatec Maya. Maya is a verb initial language which according to previous analyses displays verb-agent-patient as its canonical order. The presented this were obtained an experiment interpreting ambiguous sentences. evaluated hypotheses about the impact of animacy, definiteness, verbal aspect and pragmatic preferences Mayan orders. participants showed considerable instability role choice for arguments, sometimes preferring...
Abstract Languages differ with respect to the morphological structure of their verbal inventory: some languages predominantly derive intransitive experiencer-subject verbs from more basic transitive experiencer-object by morphosyntactic operations such as stative passivization (e.g., German, English), reflexivization Spanish), or mediopassive voice Greek, Icelandic). Other apply transitivizing causativization forms, e.g., via causative affixes Turkish, Japanese, Yucatec Maya) embedding under...
This paper examines the syntactic behavior of experiencer objects in Chinese, Korean, Turkish and Modern Greek. It is shown that, while Greek, differ from canonical direct objects, this not case Korean Turkish. difference explained by range paradigmatic alternatives that are available respective languages for coding experiential situations.
This article deals with the syntactic and pragmatic properties of left dislocated constituents in Yucatec Maya. It has been argued that these are topics, which implies a particular structural configuration, namely dislocation displays 1:1 correspondence to discourse function. We present evidence not uniform: only subset qualify as topics strict sense, while other instances better explained if we assume constraint bans postverbal occurrence subject configuration. Our empirical findings show...
This article presents the results of a recall experiment on Modern Greek experiential verbs. The influence factors subjecthood, thematic role (agent, experiencer), and animacy word order their interaction is investigated with three different types experiencer verbs, namely subject (ES) labile [±agentive] object non-agentive (EO) experimental show that while tendency to preserve preferred SVO visible all examined verb classes, this effect weakened by an experiencer-first preference for EO...
Abstract Bound anaphors inside subjects challenge the c-command requirement for binding. At least in some languages, experiencer-object verbs such as worry or please are reported to license this type of backward dependence. In many cases, underlying facts based on unstable intuitions potentially influenced by intervening factors, accidental coreference and binding illusions. This article reports results an experiment with accusative dative German; experiment, crucial sources variation...