On the basis of an extensive corpus the study analyzes comparative structures in German. Proceeding from an examination of the elements necessary for a comparison, their formal characteristics…

The study is concerned with fundamental aspects of figurative speech. The methodology underlying the approach is a concept of communicative grammar which has found its way into linguistics via…

This monograph sets out to establish a theoretical framework for the study of childhood linguistic acquisition processes in multilingual contexts, taking account both of natural and guided…

Differences in the linguistic behaviour of West and East Germans have so far been traced largely in the area of lexis. This study sets out to establish whether there are also linguistic…

On the basis of a corpus of 273 cases, the study examines phraseological pair formations in standard present-day French, such as de fil en aiguille or au fur et à mesure, for the features that…

Proceeding from fundamental considerations on grammar research, notably in the sectors of prepositions and noun valency, the study examines a large text corpus with a view to identifying the…

The aim of the study is to provide a typological description of the essential features of Japanese and a detailed analysis of selected problems this poses. They appear above all in connection…

Is there such a thing as progressive in German? Basing its arguments on the evaluation of various corpora, the study discusses potentially progressive constructions (am/beim/im V sein, dabei…

This collection of articles deals with phonetic and phonological aspects of the prosodic concepts 'syllable cut' and 'tonal accent'. Syllable cut refers to the way in which a vowel is modified…

With reference to problems of lexis and grammar in the Romance languages and of metalinguistics in general, the articles collected in this volume demonstrate that in their complementarity the…

According to the Dual Mechanism Model (Pinker 1999) the distinction between regular and irregular inflection determines the way in which complex word forms are represented and processed. The…

Arguing against a broad typological and comparative background, the author provides evidence suggesting that in German there exists a grammatical category 'respect' as an expression of…

Recent developments of linguistics have given innovative impulses to historical semantics. For the Romance study of words, the time has come to establish a dialogue between theorists and…

The study centers on the question of how recipients of domain-bound expressions decide between anaphoric (text-based) and deictic (extralinguistic) readings. After a thorough discussion of the…

This study is the first to make a systematic attempt to relate the universal theories of Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998) and Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) to one another. On the basis of a critical…

The study examines the natural progression in the acquisition of an essential aspect of German sentence structure - verb positioning - by elementary-school native speakers of Turkish and Russian…

Language change is operative at all levels of a language. Alongside the effects of general linguistic change phenomena, word formation displays a species of change all its own. A central concern…

Graphematics is the part of a theory of writing systems that refers to the relationship between written forms and sound forms. Essentially, the point at issue is how written forms can be…

This study is an application of Chomsky's minimalist program (1995) to the universally relevant phenomenon of auxiliarity, restricted here to verb auxiliarity. It provides detailed minimalist…

This volume is a collection of articles reconstructing the connections between the German writing system and its acquisition, beginning with the individual letters of the alphabet and proceeding…

What effect does the fundamental distinction between object and action concepts have on psycholinguistic processes like the processing and acquisition of nouns and verbs and susceptibility to…

Doubts about whether to write words separately or together in German are frequently grammatical in nature. Here various combinations are discussed (noun-verb combinations, adjective-verb…

Dictionaries contain a wealth of linguistic data which, given the customary alphabetical arrangement encountered in most cases, are neither readily accessible to the user nor susceptible to…

This collection of papers stems from a workshop 'Lexicon and Text' that was held at the University of Tübingen on February 17-18, 1994. The papers focus on the development of tools for maschine…

The author inquires into the quality standards required for a two-language special-language dictionary to enable its users to make active use of the special language in question. The dictionary…

»Die Dependenzgrammatik mit ihrem Kernstück, der Valenztheorie, beruht im wesentlichen auf dem Werk des Franzosen Lucien Tesnière >Eléments de syntaxe structurale (Grundzüge der strukturalen…

The first and second additions have gained widespread acceptance, and the quality of the conception has been appreciated. It opens larger aspects of investigation: It includes commonly used…

This study looks into the forms taken and the functions performed by lay theories of language and communication implicit in publications of a linguistic nature designed for the general reader.…

In this purely linguistic study, the attempt is made to establish causality as an integral linguistic category. Proceeding from a conception based on linguistic action theory, the linguistic…

This study proceeds from the working assumption that writing may plausibly be regarded as a form of complex linguistic action. On this basis concrete processes characteristic of text production…

An overview of the evolution of discourse on style since the end of the Enlightenment period is followed by a second section systematically reviewing present-day philological, psychological and…

With reference to existing fruits of research on Christian Wolff (1679-1754) and the methods employed to describe languages for special purposes, the study analyzes the conditions conducive to…

The German contribution to the English vocabulary is more significant than has often been assumed and is characterised by a large proportion of technical and scientific terms. This study…

The title is programmatic and refers to the activation of reciprocal effects potentially operative in the interplay between grammatical knowledge and writing experience. The study is based on…

This broadly conceived study of popular etymology combines an overview of the history of research into the subject, a discussion of its theoretical aspects (on the basis of examples) and a…

The subject of this monograph is clause connection in texts (with the emphasis on adverbial structures). It transpires that specific features in the structure of clauses can be related partly to…

The availability of extensive text corpora opens up new vistas for computer language processing and lexicography. This study points up ways of using statistic procedures to arrive at reliable…

In contrast to New High German, little research has been done into functional verb structure in Middle High German. The present study is the first to examine Middle High German functional verb…

The book looks into the connections between language and democracy in the sphere of political communication and political vocabulary in Germany between the end of the National Socialist…

The aim of the book is to offset certain static conservative tendencies observable in text-linguistics by advancing a concept that is not restrictive and defensive but consciously welcomes new…

The volume looks into selected aspects of negation and interrogation and the way they interrelate. After a comparative investigation of negation in German, Serbian and Turkish offering a number…

The present study has a dual purpose in examining oral examinations as a specific conversation/dialogue type. First it takes its bearings from Michel Foucault to develop a model suitable for a…

Evaluations of the significance of 17th century German grammarians for the standardization process in written language usage tend to take the form of sweeping statements lacking any concrete…

The study inquires into the way in which specialist (scholarly and scientific) texts are reproduced for research purposes and integrated into new texts. Of especial interest are factors influencing…

Difficult assignments and long texts force writers to adopt strategic behaviours. This study looks at strategies employed by adult writers composing long texts, i.e. thinking as they write,…

The articles gathered here go back to papers held at the colloquium on »Language Criticism« held at the German Studies Department of the Technical University of Aachen (RWTH) on 19…