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The shortening of linguistic expressions naturally involves some sort of correspondence between short forms and (some portion of) the respective full forms. Based mostly on data from English and Hebrew this article explores the hypothesis that such correspondence concerns necessary sameness of symbolic form, referring either to graphemic or to a specific level of phonological representation. That level indicates a degree of abstractness defined by language-specific contrastiveness (i.e. “phonemic”). Reference to written form can be shown to be highly systematic in certain contexts, including cases where full forms consist of multiple stems. Specific asymmetries pertaining to the targeting of material by correspondence (e.g. initial vs. non-initial position) appear to be alike for both types of representation, a claim supported by a study based on a nomenclature strictly confined to writing (chemical element symbols).
When comparing different tools in the field of natural language processing (NLP), the quality of their results usually has first priority. This is also true for tokenization. In the context of large and diverse corpora for linguistic research purposes, however, other criteria also play a role – not least sufficient speed to process the data in an acceptable amount of time. In this paper we evaluate several state of the art tokenization tools for German – including our own – with regard to theses criteria. We conclude that while not all tools are applicable in this setting, no compromises regarding quality need to be made.
The public as linguistic authority: Why users turn to internet forums to differentiate between words
(2022)
This paper addresses the question of why we face unsatisfactory German dictionary entries when looking up and comparing two similar lexical terms that are loan words, new words, (near) synonyms, or confusables. It explains how users are aware of existing reference works but still search or post on language forums, often after consulting a dictionary and experiencing a range of dictionary based problems. Firstly, these dictionary based difficulties will be scrutinised in more detail with respect to content, function, presentation, and the language of definitions. Entries documenting loan words and commonly confused pairs from different lexical reference resources serve as examples to show the short comings. Secondly, I will explain why learning about your target group involves studying discussion forums. Forums are a valuable source for detailed user studies, enabling the examination of different communicative needs, concrete linguistic questions, speakers’ intuitions, and people’s reactions to posts and comments. Thirdly, with the help of two examples I will describe how the study of chats and forums had a major impact on the development of a recently compiled German dictionary of confusables. Finally, that same problem solving approach is applied to the idea of a future dictionary of neologisms and their synonyms.
Recent years have seen a growing interest in linguistic phenomena that challenge the received division of labour between lexicon and grammar, and hence often fall through the cracks of traditional dictionaries and grammars. Such phenomena call for novel, pattern based types of linguistic reference works (see various papers in Herbst 2019). The present paper introduces one such resource: MAP (“Musterbank argumentmarkierender Präpositionen”), a web based corpus linguistic patternbank of prepositional argument structure constructions in German. The paper gives an overview of the design and functionality of the MAP prototype currently developed at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language in Mannheim. We give a brief account of the data and our analytic workflow, illustrate the descriptions that make up the resource and sketch available options for querying it for specific lexical, semantic and structural properties of the data.
Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht aus interaktionslinguistischer Perspektive, wie Prinzipien deliberativer Demokratie in den Schlichtungsgesprächen zu Stuttgart 21 umgesetzt wurden. Wir konzentrieren uns dabei auf Interventionen, in denen der Schlichter Heiner Geißler die Wahrung von Verständlichkeit und Interessen der Bürger/-innen anmahnt, sowie Verletzungen der Wahrheitsnorm sanktioniert. Wir zeigen, wie Bürger/-innen sowie Normen und Werte rhetorisch als Ressource für das Einhalten von Verfahrensregeln genutzt werden, aber auch den Interessen des Schlichters selbst dienen. Dabei werden die Verfahrenswerte nicht immer einheitlich priorisiert. Die zugrunde liegende politische Diskussion wird zu Gunsten der Durchsetzung des Konstrukts ‚Faktenschlichtung‘ ausgeklammert.
Das Vokabular von Songtexten im gesellschaftlichen Kontext – ein diachron-empirischer Beitrag
(2022)
Der Beitrag untersucht den Stellenwert gesellschaftlich relevanter Thematiken in deutschsprachigen Songtexten der zurückliegenden fünf Jahrzehnte. Dabei zeigt sich, dass neben individuellen Befindlichkeiten auch politische, sozialkritische oder umweltbezogene Themen signifikant angesprochen werden. Wir kontrastieren Songtexte mit anderen Testsorten und wenden dabei quantitative Methoden auf umfangreiche, breit stratifizierte Datensamples an, um die Phänomenbeschreibungen präzisierbar, generalisierbar und reproduzierbar zu machen. Das longitudinale Korpusdesign bietet Potenzial für diachrone Vergleiche. Im Sinne eines erweiterten „Mixed Methods“-Ansatzes exploriert die Studie zudem ausgewählte Aspekte qualitativ und bettet sie in den zeitlichen Kontext ein.
This paper investigates the long-term diachronic development of the perfect and preterite tenses in German and provides a novel analysis by supplementing Reichenbach’s (1947) classical theory of tense by the notion of underspecification. Based on a newly compiled parallel corpus spanning the entire documented history of German, we show that the development in question is cyclic: It starts out with only one tense form (preterite) compatible with both current relevance and narrative past readings in (early) Old High German and, via three intermediate stages, arrives at only one tense form again (perfect) compatible with the same readings in modern Upper German dialects. We propose that in order to capture all attested stages we must allow tenses to be unspecified for R (reference time), with R merely being inferred pragmatically. We then propose that the transitions between the different stages can be explained by the interplay between semantics and pragmatics.