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 BoschUniversität PotsdamCampus GolmHaus 2, Raum 0.06
(+49) 331 977-253606 sina.bosch@uni-potsdam.de
Dr. Álvaro Cortés RodríguezUniversität PotsdamCampus GolmHaus 2, Raum 0.06
(+49) 331 977-253605 alvaro.cortes.rodriguez@uni-potsdam.de
Prof. Dr. Ulrike DemskeUniversität PotsdamCampus Am Neuen PalaisHaus 5, Raum 1.10
(+49) 331 977-4228 ulrike.demske@uni-potsdam.de
PD Dr. Claudia FelserUniversität PotsdamCampus GolmHaus 2, Raum 0.02
(+49) 331 977-2832 claudia.felser@uni-potsdam.de
Laura Verena GosemannUniversität PotsdamCampus GolmHaus 16, Raum 0.07
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- Other: Papers, Journals, Books, Articles of the CRC, but not peer-reviewed
| Author(s) | Title | Year | Published in | Type | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.), Linguistic Evidence 2020 Proceedings - Linguistic Theory Enriched by Experimental Data (pp. 281-298) . Tübingen: University of Tübingen. | Other | |
| Demske, U. | Zur Grammatikalisierung von 'gehen' im Deutschen. | 2020 | Forum Japanisch-Germanistischer Sprachforschung, 2, 9-42. DOI: 10.11282/jggls.2.0_9 | 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 the 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 the 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 | 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 | 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 | Peer-Reviewed | |
| Felser, C. | Structural ambiguity in language comprehension and production. | 2023 | Talk presented at the ICHL 26, University of Heidelberg, 5 September. | Talk or Presentation | |
| Felser, C., & Bosch, S. | Processing Factors Constrain Word-Order Variation in German: The Trouble with Third Constructions. | 2024 | Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 36, 47-75 DOI: 10.1017/S1470542723000107 | Peer-Reviewed | |
| Cortés Rodríguez, Á., Bosch, S., & Felser, C. | Dependency length minimization in German relative clause extraposition: Evidence from speeded acceptability judgments and production choices. | 2024 | Paper presented at the 6th Variation and Language Processing Conference (VALP6), University of Vigo, Spain. 26 - 28 June. | Talk or Presentation | |
| Gosemann, L. | The placement of relative clauses in German newspapers: processing constraints from a diachronic perspective. | 2024 | Poster presented at the 12th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 12), University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. 08 - 11 July. | Talk or Presentation | |
| De Cesare, I., Bosch, S., Felser, C., & Demske, U. | Word order change in German infinitival complementation: the role of processing-related factors. | 2024 | Diachronica: Online-First Articles DOI: 10.1075/dia.22037.dec | Peer-Reviewed | |
| Gosemann, L. | Wortstellungsvariation von Relativsätzen: zum Einfluss der gesprochenen Sprache auf die geschriebene Sprache im Zeitungsmedium. | 2024 | Paper presented at the Grammatik im Diasystem, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden. 26-28 September. | Talk or Presentation | |
| Gosemann, L. | Syntactic change and DLM in German: a corpus study. | 2023 | Paper presented at the 26th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. 04-08 September. | Talk or Presentation | |
| Demske, U., Fodor, I., Paraskevopulos, E., Partikel, L., & Reetz, M. | Potsdamer Zeitungskorpus - diachron [Data set]. | 2025 | TALAR - Tübingen Archive of Language Resources DOI: 10.57754/FDAT.crpb9-vpr31 | Other |