Tzvetan Todorov's approach to symbols is historical rather than theoretical, providing a survey of the interpretations of this concept to be found in the writings of authors as various as…

'The Problem of Interpretation' provides an introduction to the fundamental issues of literary studies against the background of the challenge posed by 'post-modernism'. Present-day theoretical…

Proceeding from 22 authors assigned 22 different concepts, the book provides an overview of the essential present-day knowledge on linguistic interaction analysis. The authors selected include not…

One of the aims of this study is to establish foundations for a ready and clearly defined appreciation of authenticity as an 'effect of presentation' and the instrumentalization of authenticity…

What epistemological claim do literary and cultural studies raise? In the first part of his study, Christian Kohlross presents a brief metahistory of literary theory (or theories), i.e. of the…

On the basis of a phonological analysis of a tape recording in Eastern Yiddish made by a speaker from Lublin, the authors begin by establishing the contrasts to standard German. They go on to…

The volume examines the mutually reinforcing effects of linguistic self-adjustment and integration into a new social environment. It describes the phonetic/phonological changes observed over a…

This introduction centres mainly around a discussion of the theory, methods and work-fields of research into grammaticalization and its application to selected problems of German. The following…

This empirical study on the region of Bavarian Swabia (Bayerisch-Schwaben) investigates how dialect speakers render the pronunciation of their basic local dialect(s) in written form using the '…

Seit dem Entstehen der modernen Textlinguistik in den 1960er Jahren ist eine Vielzahl z.T. hoch spezialisierter Analyseansätze in diesem Bereich entwickelt worden, die auch in diversen…

Historical research on dialogue in the context of German linguistics is a relatively recent branch of pragmatic linguistic history and historiography, mostly represented in widely scattered…

This second edition of a study first published in 1999 has been thoroughly revised and enlarged. With reference to the latest research literature it presents a comprehensive survey of the…

Friedrich Maximilian Klinger's »Geschichte eines Teutschen der neusten Zeit« (The Tale of a German Contemporary) appeared in 1789 as the sixth volume of a planned cycle of 10 philosophical novels…

The correspondence presented here extends over a period of almost two decades (1662--1681) and is one of the most revealing literary exchanges of the 17th century. The hitherto unpublished and…

Der Band dokumentiert die Ergebnisse der VI. Internationalen Fachtagung der »Arbeitsgemeinschaft philosophischer Editionen«, die im Juni 1992 in der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin…

The volume assembles the papers delivered at an international colloquium devoted to the clarification and practical implementation of text-genetic concepts of scholarly editing. The essays…

In the study of modern languages at universities, philology understood in the narrower sense of textual criticism has become such a specialized activity that for a long time it generated only very…

This volume discusses a broad range of electronic editing forms and computer systems of potential interest for scholarly editing. Articles on electronic standardizations (SGML, TEI, Metadata)…

With reference to the relationship between text and author, a subject as challenging as it is problematic in textual criticism terms, the members of the Munich postgraduate research group on »…

Unlike editing work performed on literary texts, editing musical scores is not ultimately about mere accuracy in establishing a (musical) text but in determining the way that text will sound.…

The Munich-based German Research Council-funded post-graduate research group 'Textual Criticism as a Basis and Method in Historical Studies' brought together editor and text theoreticians from…

The phenomenon of variant versions plays an important role in editing practice, but it has never been systematically studied and described. The articles in this volume are the fruits of a…

The volume documents the issues revolving around the relation between transmission, editing, manuscript proximity, and textual reconstruction that aroused lively discussion at the Berlin Editing…

The articles in this volume discuss the language-historical aspects of text editions undertaken in the framework of German medieval studies. Throughout, due attention is given to the fact that…

The volume assembles 21 contributions in handbook format on editing practice in connection with largely literary German-language authors. It also gives an outline of the history of electronic…

The aim of this book is to establish a general theory of communication on the basis of a functional dialogic speech act taxonomy and to apply it to a communicative grammar of the German language…

Proceeding from the minimalist generative grammar program on the anti-symmetry theory of phrase structure this study sets out to demonstrate how the structure of an area of German sentence…

In this volume, the author develops and warrants prosodic categories and analyses within the framework of an 'interactional phonology of conversation'. Major chapters deal with the role of…

Der Band enthält 65 Beiträge, die beim 29. Linguistischen Kolloquium in Aarhus vom 16. bis 18. August 1994 vorgetragen wurden. Es werden sprachliche Phänomene aus germanischen, romanischen und…

The comparative study of German and English case systems provides the motivation for a number of modifications to classical generative case theory (Chomsky 1981). In a number of parametric…

The volume contains a selection of the papers given at an international conference organized in 1995 on the application of new theories and description methods to the lexicological analysis and…

In this book misunderstandings are analyzed using a pragmatically-oriented modell of communication. The empirical basis is a large corpus of examples from English and German. The theoretical…

The VisualGBX system is an efficient research tool for generatively oriented linguists, opening up new avenues in the work on theory development and evaluation. Here the potential of this CAD-…

Drawing on three monolingual (German) and three bilingual (German/English) case studies, the study describes the (dual) first-language acquisition of German and English infinitive constructions…

Agrammatism is a linguistic impairment occasioned by brain damage. It affects word order and inflection. This monograph is an empirical study of agrammatism in German based on spontaneous data…

Proceeding from the revival of linguistic interest in the rhetorical figures metaphor and metonymy and their underlying association types similarity and contiguity, the study demonstrates that…

These articles all revolve around the complex imaging relations between semantic roles and diathetic categories such as active, passive and medium in Romance languages. The varying functional…

The subject of the volume is the presentation of a cognitively oriented model of the generation of prosodic features and constituents and their computer-linguistic implementation in the…

This collection examines the influence of lexical meaning on the functions of verb aspect. A systematic distinction is made between grammatical aspect and aspect-sensitive verb-classes (…

It has been customary to regard morphological irregularity as an accident of language change and accordingly its eventual disappearance as only a matter of time. This study undertakes a…

The volume outlines a consistent empirical theory of semantic acquisition by combining interdisciplinary aspects of the meaning concept with findings derived from the theory of learnability and…