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Constituent order in German multiple questions: Normal order and (apparent) anti-superiority effects
No full textFanselow G, Häussler J, Weskott T. Constituent order in German multiple questions: Normal order and (apparent) anti-superiority effects. In: Featherston S, Versley Y, eds. Quantitative Approaches to Grammar and Grammatical Change. Perspectives from Germanic. Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs. Vol 290. De Gruyter Mouton; 2016: 33-50
Experiments in focus: information structure and semantic processing Linguistische Arbeiten (Max Niemeyer Verlag) ;, v. 571./ edited by Sam Featherston., Robin Hörnig, Sophie von Wietersheim, and Susanne Winkler
No full textIn English.Includes bibliographic references and indexThis volume presents new and cutting-edge research on the question of how we parse, interpret and understand language in more complex discourse settings. The challenge is to find empirical evidence on how information structure and semantic processing are related. Comprehensible answers are provided by showing how syntax, phonology, semantics and pragmatics interact and how they influence semantic processing and interpretation. The analysis of core information structural concepts that contribute to processing such as focus and contrast, the specific discourse status of referents that add to the common ground, context dependency and markedness as well as prosodic prominence and givenness marking has added new and convincing evidence to the research of information structure and semantic processingHörnig, Robin / Featherston, Sam / Wietersheim, Sophie von / Winkler, Susanne -- Döring, Sophia / Repp, Sophie -- Kuthy, Kordula De / Stolterfoht, Britta -- Hartmann, Jutta M. -- Konietzko, Andreas / Radó, Janina / Winkler, Susanne -- Hörnig, Robin / Féry, Caroline -- Weskott, Thomas / Hörnig, Robin / Webelhuth, Gert -- Bader, Markus / Häussler, Jana -- Dröge, Alexander / Fleischer, Jürg / Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina -- Surányi, Balázs / Fekete, István -- Konietzko, Andreas / Lidzba, Karen -- Gerbrich, Hannah / Schreier, Vivian / Featherston, Sam Markedness in context: An approach to licensing / The modal particles ja and doch and their interaction with discourse structure: Corpus and experimental evidence / Focus projection revisited: Pitch accent perception in German / Focus and prosody in nominal copular clauses / Focus constraints on relative clause antecedents in sluicing / Markers of discourse status in descriptions of altered spatial layouts / On the contextual licensing of English locative inversion and topicalization / How to get from graded intuitions to binary decisions / Scrambled Wackernagel! Neural responses to noncanonical pronoun serializations in German / Logical and pragmatic meaning in the interpretation of disjunction: Contextual relevance and scalar implicatures / The processing of argument structure: A comparison between patients with early left-hemispheric brain lesions and healthy controls / Standard items for English judgment studies: Syntax and semantics /1 online resource (vi, 331 pages)
The ‘Galilean Style in Science’ and the Inconsistency of Linguistic Theorising
No full textChomsky’s principle of epistemological tolerance says that in theoretical linguistics contradictions between the data and the hypotheses may be temporarily tolerated in order to protect the explanatory power of the theory. The paper raises the following problem: What kinds of contradictions may be tolerated between the data and the hypotheses in theoretical linguistics? First a model of paraconsistent logic is introduced which differentiates between week and strong contradiction. As a second step, a case study is carried out which exemplifies that the principle of epistemological tolerance may be interpreted as the tolerance of week contradiction. The third step of the argumentation focuses on another case study which exemplifies that the principle of epistemological tolerance must not be interpreted as the tolerance of strong contradiction. The reason for the latter insight is the unreliability and the uncertainty of introspective data. From this finding the author draws the conclusion that it is the integration of different data types that may lead to the improvement of current theoretical linguistics and that the integration of different data types requires a novel methodology which, for the time being, is not available
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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