Projekt C06

Grammatische Verarbeitung und syntaktischer Wandel

PI(s): Prof. Dr. Ulrike Demske & PD Dr. Claudia Felser

In diesem Projekt sollen die Dimensionen syntaktischer Variabilität aus diachroner Perspektive erforscht werden, ausgehend von der Hypothese, dass sich im syntaktischen Wandel tendenziell Strukturen durchsetzen, die leichter zu verarbeiten sind. In der zweiten Phase des SFB untersuchen wir, inwieweit das Prinzip der Dependenzlängenminimierung die Variabilität und den syntaktischen Wandel in der Geschichte des Deutschen erklären kann. Psycholinguistische Daten heutiger Sprecher werden mit Daten aus diachronen Korpora verglichen, um am Beispiel der Positionierung von Nebensätzen im Deutschen die Hypothese zu testen, dass die Distanz zwischen abhängigen Konstituenten im Laufe der Zeit deutlich abgenommen hat.

MitarbeiterInnen

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Prof. Dr. Ulrike Demske (+49) 331 977-4228 ulrike.demske@uni-potsdam.de Universität Academia ORCID
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PD Dr. Claudia Felser (+49) 331 977-2832 claudia.felser@uni-potsdam.de Universität ResearchGate ORCID
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Dr. Sina Bosch (+49) 331 977-253606 sina.bosch@uni-potsdam.de Universität

Papers

AutorenTitelJahrErschienen inLinks
Demske, U.Zur Grammatikalisierung von 'gehen' im Deutschen.2020Forum Japanisch-Germanistischer Sprachforschung, 2, 9-42. DOI: 10.11282/jggls.2.0_9
Demske, U.Variation across newspapers in Early Modern German: Degrees of syntactic complexity.2022F. Dietz, M. van Koppen, C. van de Poppe, M. Schraagen & J. Wall (Eds.), Cross-disciplinary approaches to linguistic variation in Early Modern West Germanic. Special issue of Journal of Historical Syntax, Vol. 6 (No. 13-18, pp. 1-36). DOI: 10.18148/hs/2022.v6i13-18.136
Bosch, S., De Cesare, I., Demske, U., & Felser, C.Word-order variation and coherence in German infinitival complementation.2023The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, 26(1), 1. DOI: 10.1007/s10828-023-09140-8
Felser, C., & Bosch, S.Processing Factors Constrain Word-Order Variation in German: The Trouble with Third Constructions.2024Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 36, 47-75 DOI: 10.1017/S1470542723000107
De Cesare, I., Bosch, S., Felser, C., & Demske, U.Word order change in German infinitival complementation: the role of processing-related factors.2024Diachronica: Online-First Articles DOI: 10.1075/dia.22037.dec
Bosch, S., De Cesare, I., Felser, C., & Demske, U.A multi-methodological approach to word order variation in German infinitival complementation.2022Featherston, S., Hörnig, R., Konietzko, A. & von Wietersheim, S. (eds.), Linguistic Evidence 2020 Proceedings - Linguistic Theory Enriched by Experimental Data (pp. 281-298) . Tübingen: University of Tübingen.
Demske, U., Fodor, I., Paraskevopulos, E., Partikel, L., & Reetz, M.Potsdamer Zeitungskorpus - diachron [Data set].2025TALAR - Tübingen Archive of Language Resources DOI: 10.57754/FDAT.crpb9-vpr31

Talks

AutorenTitelJahrErschienen inLinks
De Cesare, I.Grammatical processing and syntactic change: infinitival complements in German.2018Paper presented at the 3rd Summer School in Historical Syntax (SUM-UP 2018): Variation and its limits from a diachronic perspective, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany. 27 - 30 June.
Demske, U.Zwischen Kohärenz und Inkohärenz: Wortstellung von Infinitivkomplementen.2018Invited talk at the Japanische Gesellschaft für Germanistik, Tokyo, Japan. 27 August.
Demske, U., & De Cesare, I.Grammatical processing and syntactic change: infinitival complements in German.2018Invited talk at the Lecture Series ''Linguistic Circle'', University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. 21 - 23 March.
Bosch, S., & Felser, C.The role of processing contraints on word order variation in German infinitival complementation.2019Paper presented at the 4th Conference on Experimental Approaches to Perception and Production of Language Variation (ExApp 2019), Münster, Germany. 26-28 September.
De Cesare, I.Textsorteneffekte auf die Stellung infiniter Komplemente im Frühneuhochdeutschen.2019Paper presented at the Workshop ''Syntax der frühen Neuzeit'', University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany. 10 - 12 October.
De Cesare, I.Word order variability and change in German infinitival complements.2019Paper presented at the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL 24), The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. 01 - 05 July.
De Cesare, I., & Bosch, S.Word order variation in German infinitival complements: Evidence from copus and experimental data.2019Paper presented at the Workshop ''Multimethodological approaches to synchronic and diachronic variation'', University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany. 25 - 26 October.
Bosch, S., De Cesare, I., Felser, C., & Demske, U. A multi-methodological approach to word order variation in German infinitival complementation.2020Paper presented at the Linguistic Evidence 2020. Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. 13 - 15 February.
Bosch, S., & Felser, C.The role of L1 influence on L2 word order behaviour in German infinitival complementation.2022Paper presented at the GLAC 28, University of Georgia, Athens, USA, 31 March – 2 April.
Bosch, S., & Felser, C.Word-order variation in L2 German infinitival complementation.2022Paper presented at the EuroSLA 31, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 24 - 27 August.
De Cesare, I., & Demske, U.Ambiguity avoidance as an efficiency strategy driving word order change.2022Paper presented at the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL25), University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. 01 - 05 August.
Gosemann, L., & De Cesare, I.Factors influencing non-canonical word order in German: a corpus study.2023Paper presented at the AG16: Creativity and routine in sentence production, 45. Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Soeciety (DGfS), 09.03.23, Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Germany.
Felser, C.Structural ambiguity in language comprehension and production.2023Talk presented at the ICHL 26, University of Heidelberg, 5 September.
Gosemann, L.Syntactic change and DLM in German: a corpus study.2023Paper presented at the 26th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. 04-08 September.
Cortés Rodríguez, Á., Bosch, S., & Felser, C.Dependency length minimization in German relative clause extraposition: Evidence from speeded acceptability judgments and production choices.2024Paper presented at the 6th Variation and Language Processing Conference (VALP6), University of Vigo, Spain. 26 - 28 June.
Gosemann, L.The placement of relative clauses in German newspapers: processing constraints from a diachronic perspective.2024Poster presented at the 12th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 12), University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. 08 - 11 July.
Gosemann, L.Wortstellungsvariation von Relativsätzen: zum Einfluss der gesprochenen Sprache auf die geschriebene Sprache im Zeitungsmedium.2024Paper presented at the Grammatik im Diasystem, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden. 26-28 September.

Kontakt

Universität Potsdam
Department Linguistik
Prof. Dr. Doreen Georgi
Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24-25
Haus 14, Raum 3.33
14476 Potsdam

(+49) 331 977-2968
doreen.georgi@uni-potsdam.de