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• Gedanken zum Tod von Sylvia Moosmüller / Angelika Braun
• Über die empirische Spracheinstellungsforschung in Österreich / Barbara Soukup
• Standard language and dialect : sociophonological perspective / Ralf Vollmann
• Mehrsprachiges Aufwachsen und Sprachentwicklungsstörungen : Sylvia Moosmüllers Forschung über Sprachvariation und die klinische Praxis der Sprachdiagnostik / Brigitte Eisenwort, Carolin Schmied, Fady Yousuf, Anna Winkler, Anna Felnhofer, Claudia Klier
• Phonetic analysis of dialect, standard transitions synthesized by model-based interpolation / Michael Pucher, Sylvia Moosmüller
• Revisiting Pfalz's law for two Viennese varieties : on speaker group differences in the implementation of vowel+stop sequences / Felicitas Kleber, Nicola Klingler, Markus Jochim, Michael Pucher, Stephan Schmie, Urban Zihlmann
• Die Ausbreitung des Wiener velarisierten Laterals : ein Vergleich Wien : Neunkirchen / Michaela Rausch-Supola, Sylvia Moosmüller, Hannah Leykum, Carolin Schmid, Jan Luttenberger
• Orthographie Transcription Systems for Dialects : A Case Study on Viennese Dialect / Friedrich Neubarth
• Subject Index

• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Tests of Integration
• Corpus of Judgements
• Pass or Fail?
• Consistent Intuitions : Vorfeld, Modal Particles
• Und Zwar Supplement
• Correlative
• Questionability
• Part of Question
• Negation
• Performative Utterance
• Focus-Background Structure
• Binding
• Conclusion : Control Your Example Sentences
• Motivation of Experimental Approach
• Anaphoric Relations
• C-Command
• Coreference and Variable Binding
• Coreference
• Variable Binding
• Reconstruction
• Variable Binding versus Coreference (Reinhart 1983)
• Coreference and Binding in this Work
• QP-Pronoun Relations Without Binding?
• Experiments on Binding
• Carminati, Frazier, Rayner (2002)
• Cunnings, Patterson, Felser (2015)
• Moulton, Han (2018)
• Summary
• Binding as a Test of Integration
• Experimental Preliminaries
• General Experimental Approach
• Temporal and Adversative Während
• Experimental Syntax and Acceptability Judgements
• General Method
• Thermometer Judgements (Featherston 2008; 2009)
• A Scale of Well-Formedness
• Online Questionnaire
• The Method in Summary
• General Design
• Main Factors
• General (Structural) Assumptions and Predictions
• Sentence Material
• Experimental Versions
• The Design in Summary
• Control of Potential Effects
• Experiments on Principle C Violation
• Principle C Violation Test : Lohnstein's (2004) proposal
• Lohnstein Experiment 1
• Method and Design
• Predictions
• Results and Analysis
• Discussion
• Lohnstein Experiment 2
• Method and Design
• Predictions
• Results and Analysis
• Discussion
• Conclusions on Lohnstein Experiments
• Principle C Violations in Two CACs and Two PACs
• Method and Design
• Predictions
• Results and Analysis
• Discussion
• Conclusions
• Conclusions on Principle C Violation
• Experiments on Variable Binding
• Variable Binding with jede NP
• Method and Design
• Predictions
• Results and Analysis
• Discussion
• Conclusions
• Negative QPs
• Method and Design
• Predictions
• Results and Analysis
• Discussion
• Conclusions
• A Generic Effect
• Anti-Generic Experiment 1
• Method and Design
• Predictions
• Results and Analysis
• Discussion
• Conclusions
• Anti-Generic Experiment 2
• Method and Design
• Predictions
• Results and Analysis
• Discussion
• Conclusions
• Conclusions on Variable Binding
• Clause-Command
• Discarding C-Command Between Clauses
• Quantifying the Clause-Command Model
• Conclusion
• References
• Index

• Part I. Music and national dissonances. Orchestrating war : burlesque musical pieces on the War of Africa (1859-1860) / Ana Rueda. Massive harmonies / Aurélie Vialette. Lands without a song : autonomous communites' quest for an anthem / Jorge Marí. Remaking the ready-made espagnolade : Carmen in Spanish cinema / José Colmiero. Enric Granados and his Catalan literary associations / Walter Clark
• Part II. Zarzuelas and theater : dissonances of modernity on stage. Music, text, and performing cultural identity in Francisco Barbieri's (1823-1894) El barberillo de Lavapiés (1874) / Yuri Porras. "Philharmonic furor" and the dual role of music in nineteenth-century Spain / David T. Gies. Social typology and costumbrismo in the tonadilla escénica / Lucy D. Harney. Falla's Harpsichord concerto and Lorca's Don Perlimplín / Nelson R. Orringer
• Part III. Gender dissonances : crosswords between opera, literature, and the modern artist. The mute muse / Lou Charnon-Deutsch. Between sublime performance and filthy lucre : the voice of Serafina Gorgheggi in Su único hijo by Leopoldo Alas / Margot Versteeg. Galdós's Gloria : tweaking the paradigm of Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer / Thomas R. Franz. The blind street singer in the works of Galdós and the short stories of his contemporaries / Vernon Chamberlin

Dissonances of Modernity illuminates the ways in which music, as an artifact, a practice, and a discourse redefines established political, social, gender, and cultural conventions in Modern Spain. Using the notion of dissonance as a point of departure, the volume builds on the insightful approaches to the study of music and society offered by previous analyses in regards to the central position they give to identity as a socially and historically constructed concept, and continues their investigation on the interdependence of music and society in the Iberian Peninsula. While other serious studies of the intersections of music and literature in Spain have focused on contemporary usage, Dissonances of Modernity looks back across the centuries, seeking the role of music in the very formation of identity in the peninsula. The volume's historical horizon reaches from the nineteenth-century War of Africa to the Catalan working class revolutions and Enric Granados' central role in Catalan identity; from Francisco Barbieri's Madrid to the Wagnerian's influence in Benito Perez Galdos' prose; and from the predicaments surrounding national anthems to the use of the figure of Carmen in Francoist' cinema. This volume is a timely scholarly addition that contemplates not only a broad corpus that innovatively comprises popular and high culture--zarzuelas, choruses of industrial workers, opera, national anthems--but also their inter-dependence in the artists' creativity.
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• Those who already knew Dutch in Japan
• Learning Dutch in Tokugawa Japan
• The many uses of Dutch in Japan
• Language contact
• Interference in Dutch texts
• Translation from Dutch
• Lexical, syntactic and graphic interference by Dutch in Japanese
• Language shift and recession

In The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900) Christopher Joby offers the first book-length account of the knowledge and use of the Dutch language in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan. For most of this period, the Dutch were the only Europeans permitted to trade with Japan. Using the analytical tool of language process, this book explores the nature and consequences of contact between Dutch and Japanese and other language varieties. The processes analysed include language learning, contact and competition, code switching, translation, lexical, syntactic and graphic interference, and language shift. The picture that emerges is that the multifarious uses of Dutch, especially the translation of Dutch books, would have a profound effect on the language, society, culture and intellectual life of Japan.
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How writers respond to a cosmology in evolution in the sixteenth century and how literature and space implicate each other are the guiding issues of this volume in which sixteen authors explore the topic of space in its multiform incarnations and representations. The volume's first section features the early modern exploration and codification of urban and rural spaces as well as maritime and industrial expanses: "Space and Territory: Geographies in Texts" thus contributes to a history of spatial consciousness. The construction of local, national, political, public, and private places is highlighted in "Space and Politics: Literary Geographies"; the contributors in this segment show how built forms as architectural or literary constructions and spatial orientation are intertwined. "Space and Gender: Geopoetical Approaches" traces the experience of gender as political, territorial, and communicative exploration; the essays in this division deal with social organization and its symbolic analysis, resulting in literary texts featuring what could be called psychological production theories. The development of ethical approaches adapted to or critical of colonial expansion is analyzed in "Space and Ethics: Geocritical Ventures"; here we encounter early modern globalization where locals, explorers, immigrants, adventurers, and intellectuals remake themselves in new places, engage in or meet with resistance, or attempt to rework local sociopolitical systems while reassessing those they are familiar with. "The Space of the Book, the Book as Space: Printing, Reading, Publishing" analyzes the tactile object of the book as an arena for commerce, politics, and authorial experimentation.
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• Introduction / Basilio Calderone, Wolfgang U. Dressier
• German phonotactic vs. morphonotactic obstruent clusters : a corpus linguistic analysis / Wolfgang U. Dressier, Alona Kononenko-Szoszkiewicz
• Morphonotactics in speech production / Hannah Leykum, Sylvia Moosmiiller
• The acquisition and processing of (mor)phonotactic consonant clusters in German / Sabine Sommer-Lolei, Katharina Korecky-Kröll, Markus Christiner, Wolfgang U. Dressier
• Exploring phonotactic and morphonotactic constraints in the acquisition of consonant clusters in LI French / Barbara Köpke, Olivier Nocaudie, Hélène Giraudo
• The natural perceptual salience of affixes is not incompatible with a central view of morphological processing / Hélène Giraudo, Karla Orihuela, Basilio Calderone, Barbara Köpke
• Subject Index

• Introduction to German theology and grammar
• Significant German theologians and their texts: Martin Luther: The Protestant Reformer
• Immanuel Kant: Der Schone Magister
• Moses Mendelssohn: The Jewish Socrates
• Friedrich Schleiermacher: Father of modern theology
• Karl Barth: The red pastor of Safenwil
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A modern martyr
• A semi-modern German reader: Hebrew Bible / Biblical archaeology concentration: Othmar Keel and Christoph Uehlinger
• Wolfgang Zwickel
• New Testament concentration: Gerd Theisen
• Ruben ZImmermann
• Jewish studies concentration: Zacharias Frankel
• Abraham Geiger
• Church history / theology concentration: Ulrich Volp
• Volker Kuster
• Appendices: Common grammatical terms
• List of irregular verbs with their stem forms
• List of verbs with prepositions
• Alphabetical list of conjunctions
• Solutions to exercises
• Translations of texts
• The Mainz method checklist

Handbook of Reading Theological German is the premier resource for equipping those interested in reading and translating original German source materials and preparing academics for German comprehension examination. The book is ideal for students in biblical studies, church history, Jewish studies, and theology. Coauthored by Katharina Hirt, a native German speaker and professional linguist, and Christopher Ryan Jones, a native English speaker and doctoral candidate in biblical studies, this collaboration draws on the latest developments in linguistics to present a cutting-edge teaching methodology for graduate students learning to read German for research. Attuned to the specific needs of English speakers learning German, this handbook is well suited for independent study or for use in the classroom. Providing abundant exercises and readings, Jones and Hirt's work provides an excellent entry point for students required to learn theological German. Handbook of Reading Theological German provides: An introduction to German grammar A demonstration of the role that German theology has had in the development of modern Jewish and Christian practices Guided readings and biographies of six major German theologians and philosophers Further, advanced readings with minimal guidance from contemporary authors in the areas of Hebrew Bible, New Testament, Jewish studies, church history, and theology, so that students can focus on literature from their chosen field of study.
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This investigation of V2-movement addresses the question which role the lexical content of the moved element plays during sentence processing. It draws on original theoretical arguments, empirical data and results from psycholinguistic experiments. The main finding is that the lexical content of the V2-verb is interpreted only at the end of the clause, i.e. at the base position of the finite verb.
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The German language holds an ambivalent and controversial place in the modern history of European Jews, representing different-often conflicting-historical currents. It was the language of the German classics, of German Jewish writers and scientists, of Central European Jewish culture, and of Herzl and the Zionist movement. But it was also the language of Hitler, Goebbels, and the German guards in Nazi concentration camps. The crucial role of German in the formation of Jewish national culture and politics in the late nineteenth century has been largely overshadowed by the catastrophic events that befell Jews under Nazi rule. German as a Jewish Problem tells the Jewish history of the German language, focusing on Jewish national movements in Central and Eastern Europe and Palestine/Israel. Marc Volovici considers key writers and activists whose work reflected the multilingual nature of the Jewish national sphere and the centrality of the German language within it, and argues that it is impossible to understand the histories of modern Hebrew and Yiddish without situating them in relation to German. This book offers a new understanding of the language problem in modern Jewish history, turning to German to illuminate the questions and dilemmas that largely defined the experience of European Jews in the age of nationalism.
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• Acknowledgments - Introduction: On Intra-Germanic Language Contact and Complaint - Immigrant Language and Ethnolects in Germany: Research Trends and Trajectories - English in the Kiezdeutsch Corpus: A Cautionary Perspective on Corpus Design and Analysis - German-English Translanguaging among Post-Migrant Youth in Berlin - German-English Translanguaging among Refugee Youth in Berlin - Conclusion: Language Contact, Complaint, and Social Justice - Appendix A: Interlocutor Profiles - Appendix B: Interview Question Banks - Index.
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Is English a threat to language diversity in Europe? This question has been hotly debated in language policy and planning in Germany and the EU, particularly in institutional and business contexts. However, the effects of English on non-official minority speech communities, such as speakers of immigrant languages and multiethnolects, are rarely addressed in this context. This book presents two case studies involving speakers of multiethnolects and refugee youth in Germany which show that these populations, stereotyped as non-proficient English speakers, are using English in creative and innovative ways. For these communities, speaking English is not a choice, but a matter of the ability to survive, to cross borders, and to create new identities in a foreign country. Drawing on corpus linguistic and ethnographic fieldwork data, this book sheds light on how validating these (standard and non-standard) Englishes represents an important act of empowerment and social justice for these communities. Situated at the interdisciplinary intersection of sociolinguistics and applied linguistics, this book is of broad appeal to linguists, language educators, language policy makers, and to the German Studies community at large.
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• Introduction: Language Games
• Camouflage Names
• The Book of Vagrants
• A Picture Comes into View
• The Rotwelsch Inheritance
• The King of the Tramps
• The Farmer and the Judge
• An Attic in Prague
• When Jesus Spoke Rotwelsch
• Igpay Atinlay for Adults
• The Story of an Archivist
• Judgment at Hikels-Mokum
• Error-Spangled Banner
• Your Grandfather Would Have Been Proud of You
• Rotwelsch in America
• The Laughter of a Yenish Chief

Centuries ago in middle Europe, a coded language appeared, scrawled in graffiti and spoken only by people who were "wiz" (in the know). This hybrid language, dubbed Rotwelsch, facilitated survival for people in flight-whether escaping persecution or just down on their luck. It was a language of the road associated with vagabonds, travelers, Jews, and thieves that blended words from Yiddish, Hebrew, German, Romani, Czech, and other European languages and was rich in expressions for police, jail, or experiencing trouble, such as "being in a pickle." This renegade language unsettled those in power, who responded by trying to stamp it out, none more vehemently than the Nazis. As a boy, Martin Puchner learned this secret language from his father and uncle. Only as an adult did he discover, through a poisonous 1930s tract on Jewish names buried in the archives of Harvard's Widener Library, that his own grandfather had been a committed Nazi who despised this "language of thieves." Interweaving family memoir with an adventurous foray into the mysteries of language, Puchner crafts an entirely original narrative. In a language born of migration and survival, he discovers a witty and resourceful spirit of tolerance that remains essential in our volatile present.
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• Preface
• List of abbreviations
• Technical terms
• Phonological rules in Pomeranian
• List of catalectic morphemes in Brazilian and European Pomeranian
• Historical introduction
• Dialectology of Pomeranian in Europe
• The n/ø-isogloss in pronouns and the infinitive 1 : infinitive 2 contrast
• Strong inflectional morphemes: mijn laiwet, laiwes kind vs. mij laiw-ø kind
• Dialectology of the long vowel ē
• Brazilian Pomeranian
• Migration from Europe to Brazil
• Background
• Situation in Europe
• Emigration to the New World
• Attracting forces
• Literature
• The settlements in Brazil
• Summary
• 'Düütsch' and Pomeranian
• Phonology
• Tressmann's spelling
• Synchronic aspects : consonant inventory
• Obstruents [bpdtgk]
• Fricatives
• Nasals [n/m/n/nk]
• Liquids [r/1]
• Vowels
• Length
• Overlength
• Umlaut or vowel mutation
• Historical phonology
• Vowels
• Heavy roots
• Schwa and
• Breaking of long complex vowels
• Consonants
• Coda /r/ and onset /r/
• Intervocalic rhotacism /d/ /r/
• Intervocalic /d/-clusters
• Other consonants
• Velarisation of root final /f/ > /g/
• Nasal spirant law
• Palatalization
• Affrication
• Unrounding
• Debuccalization (deletion of [place])
• Complex breaking of short vowels
• Intervocalic voicing
• Final devoicing
• Degemination
• Monophthongization
• Assimilation
• Catalexis of final suffixal
• Vowel breaking
• Epenthetic schwa
• On the alternation /ui/ ~ /öi/
• Contact speech and community mixing
• Morphology
• D-domain
• Personal pronouns
• Reflexive pronouns
• Possessive pronouns
• The "Saxon" genitive with family names
• Nominalized possessive pronouns
• Definite determiners
• Indefinite articles
• The (pronominal) forms kainer and airier and the loss of NOM-ACC opposition
• Quantifiers
• Interrogative pronouns and the existential reading
• The NP domain
• Number
• Noun classes
• Diminutives
• The AP domain
• Predicative and attributive inflection
• Definite contexts
• Indefinite and possessive contexts
• The case of klain 'small'
• Grades of comparison
• Adjective incorporation
• Material adjectives
• Adjective + Bodypart + ED
• The GE-prefix
• The participial -en suffix
• Adverbs
• Numerals
• Cardinals
• Ordinals
• Verbal morphology
• Two infinitives
• Personal endings
• Regular suffixal verbs (weak verbs)
• Strong verbs
• On the etymology of the apophonic past marker
• Some notes on HAVE and BE and other irregular verbs
• Apophonic sequences
• Table of tenses
• The imperative
• Prepositional morphology
• P + D contraction
• Prepositions, postpositions, and verbal particles
• Syntax
• Verbal syntax
• Verbal complementation and Verb second (cluster V2)
• Verb raising
• Infinitive 1 and infinitive 2 (use)
• Overview
• Use of infinitive 1
• Use of infinitive 2
• Taum constructions with stacked verbs
• Contexts with infinitive 1 or infinitive 2 : Complement clauses
• Complement clauses with infinitive 1
• Control contexts with infinitive 2
• Verbs with varying complementation : INF1 or INF2 without taum
• Nominal and adjectival complementation
• Four verb stacking
• BE + taum
• VP coordinations under taum
• Participle complementation
• Pseudo-coordination (parataxis)
• Present participle
• Modal verbs
• Morphology
• Verb projection raising under modals
• Non verbal complementation to modal verbs
• Infinitive 2
• Passive, perfect participles
• Auxiliary selection
• The verb daua (lexical and auxiliary verb)
• Lexical verb daua
• Auxiliary daua
• Progressive daua
• Future, obligation (with negation)
• Optative daua
• Periphrastic daua ("do-support") in embedded clauses
• Syntactic restrictions of auxiliary daua
• Bijm + nominalized verb construction
• NP raising constructions
• Passive constructions
• The periphrastic passive
• Medio-passive
• The "Active pro passive participle" effect (APP)
• Negation
• Adverbial negation
• Negation in NPs
• Negative polarity
• Nominal syntax
• Possessive constructions
• Empty NPs
• DP domain
• Coreference
• SE-constructions
• Adjectival syntax
• The CP domain
• Main clause interrogation
• Interrogative tags
• Imperative clauses
• Exclamative clauses
• Existential quantification
• Complementizers
• Double filled comp
• Complementizer clitics : enclitic pronouns
• Complementizer agreement
• The structural subject position
• Null subjects
• Impersonal constructions
• Existential constructions
• Prepositional syntax
• Case selection by prepositions
• Up 'on'
• Fo(n) 'of'
• Ana : postposition and verbal particle
• Preposition stranding
• Tau 'to'
• Bet 'until'
• Tüschen 'between'
• Sentence integration
• Parataxis
• Connectors
• Paratactic quantifier restriction
• Hypotaxis (clausal complementation)
• Subject clauses
• Complement clauses
• Relative clauses
• Free relative clauses
• Complement clauses to NPs, APs, etc.
• Complementizer drop and embedded V2
• Cleft sentences
• Derivational morphology
• Suffixes
• Nominalizers
• Deadjectival suffix -t/-d as underlying -d(e)ø
• -sch
• -in
• Adjectivizers
• Other suffixes
• Prefixes
• Verbal prefixes
• Separable and inseparable verbal prefixes
• Conversion
• Compounding
• Lexis
• Pomeranian lexical basis
• Locations
• Surnames
• Borrowings
• Interjections
• Germanisms
• Double forms (low and high German)
• Kinship terms
• Other sequences
• Tongue twisters
• Texts
• Prose
• "Up Pomersch språk, Up Platt Dutsch"
• "Dai porch un dai twai guisa"
• Songs and rhymes
• "Ik un mijn uldsch"
• "Marij marak"
• Wedding song
• Lover's song
• "Dai Muter eira hochtijd"
• Comparative linguistics
• Pomeranian vowels
• Diphthongs
• Long vowels
• Short vowels
• Lengthened vowels
• List of West-Germanic glides -w and -j > Pomm -g
• Pomeranian long / üü/, [y:] (in closed syllables)
• Wenker sentences in European and Brazilian Pomeranian
• Wisconsin Pomeranian
• Wenker sentences in other languages
• European Pomeranian
• Introduction
• Charter of 1388 by Warslaff and Bogislaff, dukes of Pomerania
• Aldermen's registers of Freienwalde in Pom, 1329-1503
• Church rules of Pomerania, 1535
• Children's song taken from Müller's Probe (~1756)
• A wedding in the underworld (Budow, ~1833)
• The story
• Characteristics
• Trickster story (~1886)
• The story
• Characteristics
• Historical charters
• Settlement of Frisian monks in Pomerania at the Rega River (1208)
• Settlement of Frisian Premonstratensian sisters at Marienbusch
• Specimen of an early immigration record
• References
• Maps
• Word list
• Subject index.

Pomeranian is the West Germanic language spoken by European emigrants who went from Farther Pomerania (present-day Poland) to Brazil in the period 1857-1887. This language is no longer spoken in cohesive societies in Europe, but the language has survived and is in remarkably good shape on this language island in the tropical state of Espirito Santo. This monograph offers the first synchronic grammar of this language. After a historical introduction, the book offers a systematic description of its phonology, morphology and syntax. The language is contrasted with its European sisters, more particularly High German, Dutch, and Frisian. It highlights various phenomena that will presumably contribute to the ongoing theoretical debate on the Germanic verbal system. It provides new data on cluster V2, do-support, and the two infinitives. As to the infinitival syntax, the language shows remarkable parallels to the system of Frisian. As to the rich Pomeranian system of subtractive morphology, the phonological account that is offered, will be important for the ongoing discussion of the abstractness of phonological representations. Finally, Pomeranian is a welcome addition to the set of languages on which our etymological understanding of West Germanic is based.
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• Einleitung / Lars Bülow, Ann Kathrin Fischer & Kristina Herbert
• The Research Project (SFB) 'German in Austria' : Variation : Contact : Perception / Gerhard Budin, Stephan Eispass, Alexandra N. Lenz, Stefan M. Newerkla & Arne Ziegler
• Alltags- und standardsprachliche Variation im Deutschen
• Räumliche Strukturen alltagssprachlicher Variation in Österreich anhand von Daten des "Atlas zur deutschen Alltagssprache (AdA)" / Simon Pickl, Simon Pröll, Stephan Elspass & Robert Möller
• Lexical Variation in the Austro-German Border Region / Lars Bülow & Andrea Kleene
• Die Darstellung standardsprachlich-diatopischer Variation im Wörterbuch : (k)ein Erfolgsmodell? / Patrizia Sutter & Christa Dürscheid
• Grammatische Variation im deutschen und schweizerischen Standarddeutsch des 20. Jahrhunderts / Matthias Fingerhuth
• Phonotaktische und morphonotaktische Konsonantencluster in wortmedialer Position in der österreichischen Standardaussprache / Hannah Leykum & Sylvia Moosmüller
• Diminutiwariation in österreichischen elektronischen Korpora / Sonja Schwaiger, Adrien Barbaresi, Katharina Korecky-Kröll, Jutta Ransmayr & Wolfgang U. Dressier
• Innere und äussere Mehrsprachigkeit
• Sprachwechsel in Südkärnten : Quantitative Beschreibung und Modellierung als Diffusionsprozess / Katharina Prochazka
• Multilingual Lower Austria : Historical Sociolinguistic Investigation on Wenker's Questionnaires / Agnes Kim
• Borrowing, Code-Switching and Fused Leets : Language Contact and Multilingual Practices from a Socio-Historical Perspective / Stefaniya Ptashnyk
• Medial Diglossia in Vorarlberg : a Gain or Hindrance for Monolingual Language Acquisition? / Mirja Bohnert-Kraus, Andrea Willi, Katharina Korecky-Kröll, Andrea Haid, Christine Czinglar
• Quasi-experimental Approaches in the Realm of Language Variation : How Language Production Tests Can Help Us to Better Understand Syntactic Variation / Ludwig M. Breuer & Lars Bülow
• Laienlinguistische Konzeptualisierungen und Modellierungen
• Konzeptualisierung der Variation des Deutschen in Österreich bei Lehrer/inne/n und Schüler/inne/n / Rudolf de Cillia
• Dialekt, Standard & Co. im Deutschunterricht an Österreichs Schulen / Jutta Ransmayr
• "I red normal" : eine Untersuchung der varietätenspezifischen Sprachbewusstheit und -bewertung von österreichischen Kindern / Gudrun Kasberger& Irmtraud Kaiser
• Varietäten des österreichischen Deutsch aus der HörerInnenperspektive : Diskriminationsfahigkeiten und sozio-indexikalische Interpretation / Irmtraud Kaiser, Andrea Ender & Gudrun Kasberger
• "Sicherlich mache ich den einen oder anderen Fehler, aber ..." : Variation in Lernertexten im deutschen Sprachraum / Andrea Abel & Aivars Glaznieks
• Mündlichkeit an der Universität : Normen, Einstellungen und Angemessenheitsurteile am Beispiel der Universität Salzburg / Monika Dannerer & Peter Mauser
• Ambivalente Spracheinstellungen und was dahintersteckt : Mentale Modelle im diglossischen und plurizentrischen Kontext der Deutschschweiz / Rebekka Studier
• Varietäten als Prototypen : eine perzeptionslinguistische Modellierung am Beispiel des Südfranzösischen / Marie Luise Jansen
• Zur Dialektwahrnehmung im Passauer Grenzraum / Ann Kathrin Fischer.

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Writing Beauty from an Obscure Language
• 3. History of Dutch at the University of Michigan
• 4. The Netherlands Visiting Professorship at the University of Michigan
• 5. Dutch Literature
• 6. The University Library Holdings of Dutch-Language
• 7. Events and Conferences
• 8. Annual De Vries-Van der Kooy Memorial Lectures
• 9. Reflections on Anne Frank in Past and Present
• 10. A Selection of Publications
• 11. A Race and Ethnicity Focus

Dutch is Beautiful tells the story of the fifty years of Dutch and Flemish Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. It is an account of the efforts to promote Dutch and Flemish culture and language, as well as a description of how the teaching of Dutch language, literature, history and culture can be a tool to look at a world of diverse identities. It also offers a comprehensive overview of the beginnings of a successful program that included Dutch writers-in-residence, visiting Netherlands professors, cultural and educational events, arts, music, films, conferences and publications. Several alumni of the program look back at their college years with appreciation. Articles and essays on history, Anne Frank, and conversations on colonialism discuss critical and educational views on Dutch and Flemish Studies in past, present and future, when diversity, equity and inclusion are important goals and objectives, and public scholarship and academic activism will be a larger part of the curriculum. This book will inform, entertain, stimulate and impress everyone who is interested in the culture of the Low Countries. The title says it all!--Provided by publisher

• Acknowledgements
• List of Tables
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Aims
• Method
• Theoretical considerations
• Results in a nutshell
• Modal verbs : a class struggle
• Traditional criteria
• Morphological criteria
• Syntactic criteria
• Semantic criteria
• Conclusions
• Case studies
• Können
• Müssen
• Wollen
• Dürfen
• Dürfte
• Sollen
• Mögen
• Möchten
• Brauchen
• Werden
• Scheinen and dünken
• Drohen, versprechen and verheissen
• Summary
• The origin of the term Modalverb
• Early grammars : a morphological classification
• Karl Ferdinand Becker (1836) : From a morphological classification to a grammatical one
• Blatz (1896)
• George O. Curme
• Braune, Paul and Behaghel : the decline of the semantic motivation
• Gunnar Bech (1949)
• The Duden grammar
• Summary
• The nature of epistemic modality
• Types of modification
• Circumstantial modal verbs as event modifiers
• The case of can
• Ambiguities across categories
• Conditionals
• Causal clauses
• Causal wo-clauses
• Corrective uses of obwohl, wobei and wiewohl
• Contrastive während-clauses
• So lange-clauses
• Bevor-clauses
• Final damit-clauses
• Addressee-oriented free relative clauses
• Adverbial infinitives
• VP adverbs
• Locative modifiers
• Noch einmal
• Past operator
• Meta-communicative why
• Declarative questions
• Summary
• Ambiguities across languages
• Critical data
• Quantificational modal verbs
• Intensional subjects
• Veronika Ehrich's counter example
• Summary
• Twenty-one commandments for epistemic modality
• No infinitives
• No past participle
• No past tense
• Excluded from the scope of a counterfactual operator
• Excluded from nominalisations
• No verbless directional phrase complements
• No VP-anaphora
• No separation in wh-clefts
• May not bear sentence accent
• Excluded from the scope of negation
• Excluded from polarity questions
• Excluded from wh-questions
• Excluded from imperatives
• Excluded from optatives
• Excluded from complement clauses
• Excluded from event-related causal clauses
• Excluded from the antecedent of an event-related conditional
• Excluded from temporal clauses
• Excluded from restrictive relative clauses
• Excluded from the scope of a quantifier
• No assent, dissent
• Objective and subjective epistemic modality : a reassessment
• Lyon's original motivation
• Further advancements in the study of 'objective' epistemic modality
• The role of public evidence
• Objective epistemic modal verbs do not constitute a consistent class
• 'Objective' modal verbs that are practical possibility or quantificational modal verbs
• 'Objective' epistemic modal verbs that are 'subjective'
• Conclusions
• Summary
• Reportative and evidential modal operators
• Reportative wollen and sollen
• Infinitives
• Past participles
• Nominalisations
• Optatives
• Past tense
• Questions
• Event related conditional clauses
• Summary
• So-called 'evidentials' drohen, versprechen and scheinen
• Past participles
• Event related conditional clauses
• Past tense
• Summary
• Anchoring the deictic centre
• The speaker, the addressee and arguments
• Declarative speech acts
• Interrogative speech acts
• Complement clauses
• Reportative modal verbs
• Summary
• The deictic centre
• The modal source
• The Condition on Deictic Centres
• A subtle refinement
• A unified analysis for epistemic and reportative modality
• Hierarchy of Salience
• Operators which impose selectional restrictions
• Alternative analyses
• Summary
• On black magic : a diachronic explanation
• Epistemic modal verbs in Early New High German
• The Rule of Accommodation as a driving force of language change
• Summary
• Summary
• Primary sources
• References
• Author index
• Subject index.

• Introduction : On the benefits of analyzing morphological variation by linking theory and empirical evidence / Oliver Schallert and Antje Dammel
• Possessive -s in German : Development, variation and theoretical status / Tanja Ackermann
• Analyzing language change through a formalist framework / Raffaela Baechler and Simon Pröll
• Variation and change of plural verbs in Salzburg's base dialects / Lars Bülow, Hannes Scheutz and Dominik Wallner
• Content, form and realizations of Upper German case marking : Issues in modelling corpus-based data / Sophie Ellsässer
• Thoughts on morphomes, on a Scandinavian background / Hans-Olav Enger
• How to get lost : The Präteritumschwund in German dialects / Hanna Fischer
• The interaction of phonological and morphological variation in Zurich German / Anja Hasse
• Negative concord in Alemannic : An OT-approach at the syntax-morphology interface / Ann-Marie Moser
• Variation in non-finiteness and temporality from a canonical perspective / Tabea Reiner
• Strong or weak? Or : How information structure governs morphosyntactic variation / Helmut Weiss and Seyna Maria Dirani
• Index.

Morphological variation is a rather young, yet fascinating topic to study in its own right because it offers challenging evidence both for the autonomy of morphology (morphomic processes) as well as for its tight interconnection with other grammatical domains, notably phonology and syntax. Covering a wide range of phenomena (e.g. negation structures, form function-mismatches in the verbal and nominal domain, loss of morphosyntactic feature values, etc.), the contributions to this volume combine in-depth empirical studies with the explanatory potential of modern theories of grammar as well as approaches for capturing and modelling microtypological diversity.
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• Chapter 1: The consolation of schoolmen
• Chapter 2: Recanting love
• Chapter 3: Orpheus in hell: contrafacta and novelness
• Converting desire, narrating desire

Narrating Desire: Moral Consolation and Sentimental Fiction in Fifteenth-Century Spain proposes a new taxonomy and conceptual frame for the controversial Iberian genre of sentimental romance. It traces its origin to late-medieval education in rhetoric, philosophy, and medicine as the foundation for virtuous living. In establishing the genre's boundaries and cultural underpinnings, Narrating Desire emphasizes the crucial link between Eastern and Western Iberian sentimental traditions, and offers close readings of a vast array of Catalan and Castilian romances, translations, narratives poems, letters, and doctrinal treatises: the Catalan translations of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, Santillana's El sueno, Bernat Metge's Lo somni, Romeu Llull's Lo despropiament d'amor, Pedro Moner's La noche and L'anima d'Oliver, Rodriguez del Padron's Siervo libre de amor, Carros Pardo de la Casta's Regoneixenca, Rois de Corella's Parlament and Tragedia de Caldesa, Pedro de Portugal's Satira, Francesc Alegre's Somni and Raonament, Pere Torroella's correspondence, and the well-known works by Diego de San Pedro (Arnalte y Lucenda; Carcel de Amor) and Juan de Flores (Grisel y Mirabella; Grimalte y Gradissa) among others. From them, Miguel-Prendes singles out a group of dream visions whose interpretive and compositional practices sire the sentimental genre. Social interactions lead to either a consolatory or a sentimental form, which imply very different ways of seeing: the allegorical gaze of consolation gives way to narrative fiction. In distorting moral conversion, the sentimental genre heralds the novel.
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• Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Lists of maps, tables, and figures
• 1: Introduction
• 2: Grammar and lexis
• 3: Versification
• 4: Historical, cultural, and literary background
• 5: Selection of annotated texts Glossary Appendix References Index.
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The Oxford Guide to Middle High German is the most comprehensive self-contained treatment of Middle High German available in English. It covers the language, literature, history, and culture of German in the period from 1050 to 1350 and is designed for entry-level readers, advanced study, teaching, and reference. The book includes a large sample of texts, not only from Classical works such as Erec, the Nibelungenlied, Parzival, and Tristan, but also from mystical writing, chronicles, and legal documents; the selection represents all major dialects and the full time span of the period. The volume begins with an introduction that defines Middle High German linguistically, geographically, and chronologically. Chapter 2 then provides a detailed exploration of the grammar, covering sounds and spelling, inflectional morphology, syntax, and lexis. Each section in this chapter begins with a summary of the main points, followed by detailed paragraphs for in-depth study and reference. Chapter 3 deals with versification, discussing metre, rhyme, lines of verse in context, and verse forms, and includes practical tips for scansion. Chapter 4 offers an account of the political and social structures of Medieval Germany and a survey of the principal types of texts that originated in the period. The final chapter of the book comprises over forty texts, each placed in context and provided with explanatory footnotes; the first two texts, to be taken together with the introductory grammar sections, are aimed at newcomers. A glossary provides full coverage of the vocabulary appearing in the texts and throughout the book.
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