Projekt C06

in Phase 2

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.

Papers

AutorenTitelJahrErschienen inLinks
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).
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.
Felser, C., & Bosch, S.Processing Factors Constrain Word-Order Variation in German: The Trouble with Third Constructions.2024Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 36, 47-75
Demske, U., Fodor, I., Paraskevopulos, E., Partikel, L., & Reetz, M.Potsdamer Zeitungskorpus - diachron [Data set].2025TALAR - Tübingen Archive of Language Resources
De Cesare, I., & Demske, U.Aspectual Verbs in German: A Diachronic View.2025Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 37(2), 163-189.
Felser, C.Syntactic ambiguity and ambiguity avoidance in language comprehension and production.to appearJournal of Historical Linguistics.
Gosemann, L., Cortés Rodríguez, Á., & Felser, C.Dependency length minimization effects on clausal extraposition are modulated by clause type and data type.to appearLinguistische Berichte.

Talks

AutorenTitelJahrErschienen inLinks
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
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