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This volume offers a collection of papers devoted to the German-language islands in northeastern Italy, with main focus on their syntax and syntactic variation. Syntactic variation is seen in contemporary linguistics as one of the key domains to understand the language faculty and a special role in the study of variation has been played in recent years by diachronic syntax. Contact situations have drawn much attention in view of the study of language variation in a diachronic as well as in a synchronic perspective, and language islands, a distinctive environment for interference and language change, have been considered as a much valuable subject of investigation, as they display syntactic phenomena that can contribute to shed light on syntactic structures and how they evolve
The contributions in the present volume offer extensive discussion on several aspects related to the varieties spoken in the German-language islands in northeastern Italy. The book may therefore be of interest for specialists working in the field of syntax, German linguistics and historical linguistics. [Publisher's text]

• 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

• Introduction
• Weaker construction
• Hiding modality
• Matching outputs
• Cutting short
• Strengthening and weakening
• Levels of meaning
• Tautologies and contradictions
• Plural matters
• Making Difference
• Repairs en masse
• Wrenches and nails
• Phenomenal and ordinary individuals
• Not : high and weak
• Identity and negation
• Weak theories of comparatives
• Two ways of comparatives
• Positive, comparative, excessive
• Transitivity vs. inclusion semantics
• The second condition
• Directional complements and Genitives
• Bound to contradict
• Illegal reflexivization
• Symmetrization out of order
• Inchoatives and Middles
• Infinite mis-construction
• Tough(er) infinitives
• Embedding irony
• Mostly up, or sideways
• Existential sentences
• (Personal) Datives
• Summary
• Abbreviations & symbols
• Bibliography

• Intro; A Contrastive Grammar of Brazilian Pomeranian; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; List of abbreviations; Technical terms; Apophony; Catalexis (morphological
• ); Diepholzer Linie; European Pomeranian (EP); Groningen; Half-strong verbs; Ingvaeonic; Ostsiedlung; Pomeranian; Short diphthongs; Structural cases; Strong adjectival endings; Strong verbs; Subtractive morphology; Vowel mutation; Weak verbs; Phonological rules in Pomeranian; List of catalectic morphemes in Brazilian and European Pomeranian; 1. Historical introduction

• 1.1 Dialectology of Pomeranian in Europe1.1.1 The n/ø-isogloss in pronouns and the infinitive 1-infinitive 2 contrast; 1.1.2 Strong infelectional morphemes: 'mijn laiwet/laiwes kind' vs. 'mij laiw-ø kind' vs. 'mij laiw-ø Kind'; 1.2 Brazilian Pomeranian; 1.2.1 Migration from Europe to Brazil; 1.2.1.1 Background; 1.2.1.2 Situation in Europe; 1.2.1.3 Emigration to the New World; 1.2.1.4 Summary;
• 2. Phonology; 2.1 Tressmann's spelling; 2.2 Synchronic aspects: consonant inventory; 2.2.1 Obstruents [bpdtɡk], and [ɦ] vs [ʔ]; 2.2.2 Fricatives [fwszʃʒxɣ]; 2.2.3 Nasals [n/m/ŋ/ŋk]; 2.2.4 Liquids [r/l]

• 2.2.5 Vowels2.2.5.1 Length; 2.2.5.2 Overlength; 2.2.6 Umlaut or vowel mutation; 2.3 Historical phonology; 2.3.1 Vowels; 2.3.1.1 Heavy roots; 2.3.1.2 Schwa and -(ə)n; 2.3.1.3 Breaking of long complex vowels; 2.3.2 Consonants; 2.3.2.1 Coda /r/ and onset /r/; 2.3.2.2 Intervocalic rhotacism /d/ → /r/; 2.3.3 Palatalization; 2.3.4 Affrication; 2.3.5 Unrounding; 2.3.6 Debuccalization (deletion of [place]); 2.3.7 Complex breaking of short vowels; 2.3.8 Intervocalic voicing; 2.3.9 Final devoicing; 2.3.10 Degemination; 2.4 Monophthongization; 2.5 Assimilation

• 2.6 Catalexis of final suffixal (ə) and (n)2.7 Breaking; 2.8 Epenthetic schwa; 2.9 On the alternation /ui/ ~ /öi/; 2.10 Contact speech and community mixing;
• 3. Morphology; 3.1 D-domain; 3.1.1 Personal pronouns; 3.1.2 Reflexive pronouns; 3.1.3 Possessive pronouns; 3.1.4 The "Saxon" genitive with family names; 3.1.5 Nominalized possessive pronouns; 3.1.6 Definite determiners; 3.1.7 Indefinite articles; 3.1.8 The (pronominal) forms 'kainer' and 'ainer' and the loss of nom-acc opposition; 3.1.9 Quantifiers; 3.2 The NP domain; 3.2.1 Number; 3.2.2 Noun classes; 3.2.3 Diminutives; 3.3 The AP domain

• 3.3.1 Predicative and attrubutive inflection3.3.2 Definite contexts; 3.3.3 Indefinite and possessive contexts; 3.3.4 The case of 'klain' 'small'; 3.3.5 Grades of comparison; 3.3.6 Adjective incorporation; 3.3.7 Material adjectives; 3.3.8 Adjective + Bodypart + ED; 3.3.9 The GE-prefix; 3.3.10 The participial -'en' suffix; 3.4 Adverbs; 3.5 Numerals; 3.5.1 Cardinals; 3.5.2 Ordinals; 3.6 Verbal morphology; 3.6.1 Two infinitives; 3.6.2 Personal endings; 3.6.3 Regular suffixal verbs (weak verbs); 3.6.4 Strong verbs; 3.6.5 On the etymology of the apophonic past marker

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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

• 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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• 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.

• Acknowledgements List of Tables List of Figures List of Abbreviations
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: The Theory of Language Change
• Chapter 3: Afrikaans Standardization in Context
• Chapter 4: Diachronic Corpus Linguistics
• Chapter 5: Paradigmatic Changes
• Chapter 6: Grammaticalization
• Chapter 7: Discursive and Socio-Cultural Changes
• Chapter 8: Conclusion References.
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This book focuses on a century of language change, starting early in the 20th century when Standard Afrikaans first emerged. Different areas of language use are explored, such as pronoun use, tenses, possession, and connectives. The changes in these areas are divided into three categories of types of change: paradigmatic changes, grammaticalization, and discursive and socio-cultural changes. The book also includes a short history of the standardization of Afrikaans and brief discussions of some relevant ideological issues. The second and final chapters include an in-depth discussion of the theory of language change and language evolution, as well as reflections on what language change is and how it proceeds. The role of language contact in language change, and language-external influences, are also considered.
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• Vorwort
• Einleitung / Andreas Nievergelt und Ludwig Rübekeil
• Altgermanische Sprachen, Althochdeutsch
• Althochdeutsche Windbezeichnungen in Einhards Karlsvita, Windtafeln und Sachglossaren : Überlieferungsgeschichte und Wortschatzgeschichte / Rolf Bergmann und Stefanie Stricker
• Volkssprachliches in einem Bussbuch des 9. Jahrhunderts : der 'Verduner Mischtext' / Brigitte Bulitta und Andreas Nievergelt
• Bildgebende Verfahren zur Analyse des Referenzkorpus Altdeutsch : das Konzept der chronographischen Karte / Karin Donhauser und Lars Erik Zeige
• The Names of the 'Pearl' in the Old High German Glosses and Glossaries / Concetta Giliberto
• Friðubarn : aus der Werkstatt des Heliand-Dichters : die nur im Heliand belegten Nominalkomposita / Ernst Hellgardt
• Ein spätmerowingisches Handschriftenfragment mit frühen althochdeutschen Glossen : zum Fragmentum latinum 430 der UB Leipzig / Christoph Mackert und Hans Ulrich Schmid
• 'Einen Bart bekommen' oder 'bärtig werden'? : Ahd. bartēn und seine Ableitungssemantik auf dem Prüfstand / Mirjam Marti Heinzle
• Zu den Handschriften der 'Wachtendonckschen Psalmen' / Arend Quak
• Ađalordfrumo alomahtig : Streifzüge von Nord nach Süd / Ludwig Rübekeil
• Raumübergreifendes Althochdeutsch in der Urkundenüberlieferung aus dem Kloster : St. Gallen vom 8. bis ins 10., z. T. 11. Jahrhundert / Stefan Sonderegger
• Frühneuhochdeutsch
• Wie hat man in Augsburg im 16. Jahrhundert gesprochen? / Helmut Graser und Werner König
• Sonderfälle des Sprachtransfers : Lateinische Wortbildungsmuster und Vokabelübersetzungen im Deutschen im frühen Mittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit / Julia Frick und Nikolaus Henkel
• Lebendig mit farben mahlen : Verfahren der lexikalischen Innovation in Philipp von Zesens Übersetzung von Willem Goeree, 'Anweisung zur allgemeinen Reis- und Zeichenkunst' (1669) / Claudine Moulin
• Alemannische Wortbildung zwischen Sprech- und Schreibsprache : Richtungsadverbien in Konrad Klausers 'Sylvula formularum quotidiani sermonis' (1562) / Michelle Waldispühl
• Dialektologie
• Von Abbühl bis Zenzünen / Simone Berchtold
• Verschwindet das Pronomen es für eine erwachsene Person aus den schweizerdeutschen Dialekten? / Claudia Bucheli Berger
• '(Einen) Durst haben' : eine Auswertung von Wenkersatz 23 / Jürg Fleischer
• Auf der Suche nach zwei was : zur Ermittlung von Verbreitung und Funktion einer regionalsprachlichen Erscheinung / Ursula Götz
• Toponymische Raumrepräsentation in der Schweiz / Rosemarie Lühr
• Aus dem Idiotikon rekonstruiert : eine verschollene Zurzacher Idiotismenliste aus den Jahren 1814/17 / Hans-Peter Schifferle
• Ethnodialektale Räume in der Deutschschweiz / Philipp Stoeckle und Christian Schwarz
• Von Seegärten und Baumschulen : die Etymologie des Toponyms Sigart(e) im Kanton Bern / Luzius Thöny
• Zur Trägheit syntaktischen Wandels : am Beispiel von Erp / Claudia Wich-Reif
• Sprachkontakt
• ... Aber es ist ein vngesunde speiss : vom (sprachlichen) Erscheinen der Tomate im deutschsprachigen Raum / Helen Christen
• Vlier, vlinderstruik en sering : een onomasiologische en semasiologische uiteenrafeling / Chris De Wulf
• Lateinisches im Schweizerdeutschen / Martin Hannes Graf
• Einsprengsel : Sachwörter : Inserte : zum Wortschatz im toten Winkel der historischen Lexikographie / Michael Prinz
• Bausteine zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache im südöstlichen Europa / Jörg Riecke
• The spelling of the Erfurt glossary / Annina Seiler
• Non-Standard Average European / Guido Seiler
• Zum Namen Zürichs und anderer Quell- und Brunnenorte / Theo Vennemann gen. Nierfeld
• Schriftenverzeichnis von Elvira Glaser 1979-2017
• Register.

Are the past participial forms that occur in passive and perfect periphrases substantially identical or should they rather be distinguished into accidentally homophonous passive and perfect(ive) participles? This book discusses the long-standing mystery of past participial (non-)identity on the basis of a broad range of synchronic data from Germanic and Romance, eventually focussing on German and English as these draw the most relevant distinctions (e.g. auxiliary alternation, a passive auxiliary that is not BE). Together with some contrastive insights from Slavic as well as the diachrony of passive and perfect periphrases, this clearly points to an identity-view. The novel approach that is laid out suggests that past participles conflate diathetic and aspectual properties. The former cause the suppression of an external argument, whereas the latter impose event-structure sensitive perfectivity, which only induces the completion of a situation if the underlying eventuality denotes a simple change of state. An approach along these lines sheds light on the intricate properties of past participles and the auxiliaries they occur with, the determinants of auxiliary selection as well as the interplay of argument and event structure.
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• An introduction to reconstruction effects in relative clauses / Mathias Schenner
• A direct compositionality approach to condition C effects under reconstruction and their exceptions / Manfred Krifka
• Relative reconstructions / Caroline Heycock
• A calculus for reconstruction and anti-reconstruction / Winifried Lechner
• Notes on stress reconstruction and syntactic reconstruction / Hubert Ruckenbrodt
• A new version of the matching analysis of relative clauses / Martin Salzmann
• Idioms as evidence for the proper analysis of relative clauses / Gert Webelhuth, Sascha Bargmann, and Christopher Götze
• Some notes on connectivity and predicational copular sentences / Maribel Romero
• Functional readings without type-shifted noun phrases / Irene Helm
• Deconstructing reconstruction / Pauline Jacobson
• Evaluation order, crossover, and reconstruction / Chris Barker
• Telescoping by continuations / Wolfgagn Sternefeld
• Telescoping in relative clauses / Janina Radó, Andreas Konietzko, and Wolfgang Sternefeld
• Intensional relative clauses and the semantics of variable objects / Friederike Moltmann.

Reconstruction effects in relative clauses are a class of phenomena where the external head of the relative clause seems to behave as if it occupied a position withing the relative clause This volume brings together analyses from different frameworks, enabling the reader to develop their own perspective on the perfect tradeoff between syntax and semantics in a theory of grammar.