C06
Grammatical processing and syntactic change
PI(s): Prof. Dr. Ulrike Demske & PD Dr. Claudia Felser
This project seeks to explore the dimensions of syntactic variability from a diachronic perspective, starting from the hypothesis that structures that are easier to process tend to prevail in syntactic change. During the second phase of the CRC, we will examine the extent to which the principle of dependency length minimization can account for variability and syntactic change in the history of German. Focusing on the placement of subordinate clauses in German, psycholinguistic data from present-day speakers will be compared to data from diachronic corpora to test the hypothesis that the distance between dependent constituents has decreased significantly over time.
Members
Dr. Sina Bosch
Universität PotsdamCampus GolmPotsdam Research Institute for MultilingualismKarl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24-25, Haus 2, Raum 0.0614476 Potsdam
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Demske
Universität PotsdamCampus Am Neuen PalaisInstitut für GermanistikAm Neuen Palais 10, Haus 5, Raum 1.1014469 Potsdam
PD Dr. Claudia Felser
Universität PotsdamCampus GolmPotsdam Research Institute for MultilingualismKarl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24-25, Haus 2, Raum 0.0214476 Potsdam
Iskra Fodor
Universität PotsdamCampus GolmInstitut für GermanistikKarl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24-25, Haus 16, Raum 0.0714476 Potsdam
Laura Verena Gosemann
Universität PotsdamCampus GolmPotsdam Research Institute for MultilingualismKarl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24-25, Haus 16, Raum 0.0714476 Potsdam
Publications
Types of publications:
- Peer-Reviewed: Papers, Journals, Books, Articles of the CRC
- Talk or Presentation: Talks, Presentations, Posters of the CRC
- SFB-Related: not produced in connection with the CRC, but are thematically appropriate
- Other: Papers, Journals, Books, Articles of the CRC, but not peer-reviewed
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| Author(s) | Title | Year | Published in | Links | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bosch, S., De Cesare, I., Felser, C., & Demske, U. | A multi-methodological approach to word order variation in German infinitival complementation. | 2022 | Featherston, S., Hörnig, R., Konietzko, A. & von Wietersheim, S. (eds.), Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2020. Tübingen: University of Tübingen. | Paper Data | Peer-Reviewed |
| Demske, U. | Zur Grammatikalisierung von 'gehen' im Deutschen. | 2020 | Forum Japanisch-Germanistischer Sprachforschung, 2, 9-42. DOI: 10.11282/jggls.2.0_9 | Paper | Peer-Reviewed |
| Bosch, S., De Cesare, I., Felser, C., & Demske, U. | A multi-methodological approach to word order variation in German infinitival complementation. | 2020 | Paper presented at the Linguistic Evidence 2020. Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. 13 - 15 February. | Talk or Presentation | |
| Bosch, S., & Felser, C. | The role of processing contraints on word order variation in German infinitival complementation. | 2019 | Paper presented at the 4th Conference on Experimental Approaches to Perception and Production of Language Variation (ExApp 2019), Münster, Germany. 26-28 September. | Talk or Presentation | |
| De Cesare, I. | Textsorteneffekte auf die Stellung infiniter Komplemente im Frühneuhochdeutschen. | 2019 | Paper presented at the Workshop ''Syntax der frühen Neuzeit'', University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany. 10 - 12 October. | Talk or Presentation | |
| De Cesare, I. | Word order variability and change in German infinitival complements. | 2019 | Paper presented at the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL 24), The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. 01 - 05 July. | Talk or Presentation | |
| De Cesare, I. | Grammatical processing and syntactic change: infinitival complements in German. | 2018 | Paper 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. | Talk or Presentation | |
| De Cesare, I., & Bosch, S. | Word order variation in German infinitival complements: Evidence from copus and experimental data. | 2019 | Paper presented at the Workshop ''Multimethodological approaches to synchronic and diachronic variation'', University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany. 25 - 26 October. | Talk or Presentation | |
| Demske, U. | Zwischen Kohärenz und Inkohärenz: Wortstellung von Infinitivkomplementen. | 2018 | Invited talk at the Japanische Gesellschaft für Germanistik, Tokyo, Japan. 27 August. | Talk or Presentation | |
| Demske, U., & De Cesare, I. | Grammatical processing and syntactic change: infinitival complements in German. | 2018 | Invited talk at the Lecture Series ''Linguistic Circle'', University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. 21 - 23 March. | Talk or Presentation | |
| Bosch, S., & Felser, C. | The role of L1 influence on L2 word order behaviour in German infinitival complementation. | 2022 | Paper presented at GLAC 28, University of Georgia, Athens, USA, 31 March – 2 April. | Talk or Presentation | |
| Bosch, S,. & Felser, C. | Word-order variation in L2 German infinitival complementation. | 2022 | Paper presented at EuroSLA 31, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 24 - 27 August. | Talk or Presentation | |
| De Cesare, I., & Demske, U. | Ambiguity avoidance as an efficiency strategy driving word order change. | 2022 | Paper presented at the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL25), University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. 01 - 05 August. | Talk or Presentation | |
| Demske, U. | Variation across newspapers in Early Modern German: Degrees of syntactic complexity. | 2022 | In F. 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 | Paper | Peer-Reviewed |
| Gosemann, L., & De Cesare, I. | Factors influencing non-canonical word order in German: a corpus study. | 2023 | Paper 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. | Talk or Presentation | |
| Bosch, S., De Cesare, I., Demske, U., & Felser, C. | Word-order variation and coherence in German infinitival complementation. | 2023 | The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, 26(1), 1. DOI: 10.1007/s10828-023-09140-8 | Paper | Peer-Reviewed |
| Felser, C. | Structural ambiguity in language comprehension and production. | 2023 | Talk presented at ICHL 26, University of Heidelberg, 5 September. | Talk or Presentation |