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In many European languages, propositional arguments (PAs) can be realized as different types of structures. Cross-linguistically, complex structures with PAs show a systematic correlation between the strength of the semantic bond and the syntactic union (cf. Givón 2001; Wurmbrand/Lohninger 2023). Also, different languages show similarities with respect to the (lexical) licensing of different PAs (cf. Noonan 1985; Givón 2001; Cristofaro 2003 on different predicate types). However, on a more fine-grained level, a variation across languages can be observed both with respect to the syntactic-semantic properties of PAs as well as to their licensing and usage. This presentation takes a multi-contrastive view of different types of PAs as syntactic subjects and objects by looking at five European languages: EN, DE, IT, PL and HU. Our goal is to identify the parameters of variation in the clausal domain with PAs and by this to contribute to a better understanding of the individual language systems on the one hand and the nature of the linguistic variation in the clausal domain on the other hand. Phenomena and Methodology: We investigate the following types of PAs: direct object (DO) clauses (1), prepositional object (PO) clauses (2), subject clauses (3), and nominalizations (4, 5). Additionally, we discuss clause union phenomena (6, 7). The analyzed parameters include among others finiteness, linear position of the PA, (non) presence of a correlative element, (non) presence of a complementizer, lexical-semantic class of the embedding verb. The phenomena are analyzed based on corpus data (using mono- and multilingual corpora), experimental data (acceptability judgement surveys) or introspective data.
Einleitung
(2023)
Das Werk versteht sich als eine Darstellung der wichtigsten syntaktischen, prosodischen, semantischen und pragmatischen Eigenschaften kausaler und konditionaler Konnektoren des gesprochenen Deutsch.
Die Untersuchung formuliert notwendige theoretische Grundlagen und zeigt die komplexe Interaktion mehrerer Faktoren, die sich auf die Interpretation einer Äußerung auswirken. Empirische Daten belegen, dass die kontextuelle und pragmatische Interpretation der untersuchten Relationen stark mit ihren syntaktischen und prosodischen Mustern korreliert. Jedoch handelt es sich nicht um eine Eins-zu-eins-Beziehung, denn gleiche Lesarten können von kausalen und konditionalen Relationen unterschiedlich markiert sein. Anhand der Ergebnisse wird das Verhältnis zwischen Konditionalität und Kausalität diskutiert.
Anhand einer korpusgestützten Untersuchung komplexer Adjektive mit dem Erstelement {gender-} mit DeReKoVecs wird gezeigt, welche Möglichkeiten zur differenzierten sprachlichen Integration von neuen Diskurselementen die Wortbildung des Adjektivs bietet. Gerade die zwischen den klassischen Typen Komposition und Derivation stehenden Techniken bieten hier eine erhebliche Bandbreite an Möglichkeiten.
Speech islands are historically and developmentally unique and will inevitably disappear within the next decades. We urgently need to preserve their remains and exploit what is left in order to make research on language-in-contact and historical as well as current comparative language research possible.
The Archive for Spoken German (AGD) at the Institute for German Language collects, fosters and archives data from completed research projects and makes them available to the wider research community.
Besides large variation corpora and corpora of conversational speech, the archive already contains a range of collections of data on German speech minorities. The latter will be outlined in this chapter. Some speech island data is already made available through the personal service of the AGD, or the database of spoken German (DGD), e.g. data on Australian German, Unserdeutsch, or German in North America. Some corpora are still being prepared for publication, but still important to document for potentially interested research projects. We therefore also explain the current problems and efforts related to the curation of speech island data, from the digitization of recordings and the collection of metadata, to the integration of transcriptions, annotations and other ways of accessing and sharing data.
We introduce DeReKoGram, a novel frequency dataset containing lemma and part-of-speech (POS) information for 1-, 2-, and 3-grams from the German Reference Corpus. The dataset contains information based on a corpus of 43.2 billion tokens and is divided into 16 parts based on 16 corpus folds. We describe how the dataset was created and structured. By evaluating the distribution over the 16 folds, we show that it is possible to work with a subset of the folds in many use cases (e.g., to save computational resources). In a case study, we investigate the growth of vocabulary (as well as the number of hapax legomena) as an increasing number of folds are included in the analysis. We cross-combine this with the various cleaning stages of the dataset. We also give some guidance in the form of Python, R, and Stata markdown scripts on how to work with the resource.
For many reasons, Mennonite Low German is a language whose documentation and investigation is of great importance for linguistics. To date, most research projects that deal with this language and/ or its speakers have had a relatively narrow focus, with many of the data cited being of limited relevance beyond the projects for which they were collected. In order to create a resource for a broad range of researchers, especially those working on Mennonite Low German, the dataset presented here has been transformed into a structured and searchable corpus that is accessible online. The translations of 46 English, Spanish, or Portuguese stimulus sentences into Mennonite Low German by 321 consultants form the core of the MEND-corpus (Mennonite Low German in North and South America) in the Archive for Spoken German. In addition to describing the origin of this corpus and discussing possibilities and limitations for further research, we discuss the technical structure and search possibilities of the Database for Spoken German. Among other things, this database allows for a structured search of metadata, a context-sensitive token search, and the generation of virtual corpora that can be shared with others. Moreover, thanks to its text-sound alignment, one can easily switch from a particular text section of the corpus to the corresponding audio section. Aside from the desire to equip the reader with the technical knowledge necessary to use this corpus, a further goal of this paper is to demonstrate that the corpus still offers many possibilities for future research.
We present a collection of (currently) about 5.500 commands directed to voice-controlled virtual assistants (VAs) by sixteen initial users of a VA system in their homes. The collection comprises recordings captured by the VA itself and with a conditional voice recorder (CVR) selectively capturing recordings including the VA-directed commands plus some surrounding context. Next to a description of the collection, we present initial findings on the patterns of use of the VA systems during the first weeks after installation, including usage timing, the development of usage frequency, distributions of sentence structures across commands, and (the development of) command success rates. We discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the applied collection-specific recording approach and describe potential research questions that can be investigated in the future, based on the collection, as well as the merit of combining quantitative corpus linguistic approaches with qualitative in-depth analyses of single cases.
Developments within the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) have meant that scholars are increasingly engaging with corpora and corpus-based resources, providing a source of “‘authentic’ language” to learners and educators (Mitchell 2020: 254), and contributing to “state-of-the-art research methodologies” (Deshors and Gries 2023: 164). However, there are areas in which progress can still be made, particularly in the area of metadata, such as information about the speaker and contexts of the language use, as well as increased variety in the text types and genres of corpora used to develop SLA materials (Paquot 2022: 36). This post discusses one such possibility for increasing the variety of text types and providing a rich source of authentic language that can be used to create engaging SLA materials, particularly for young people learning German, namely the use of the NottDeuYTSch corpus (to download the corpus in a variety of formats, see Cotgrove 2018).
This paper presents an extended annotation and analysis of interpretative reply relations focusing on a comparison of reply relation types and targets between conflictual pages and neutral pages of German Wikipedia (WP) talk pages. We briefly present the different categories identified for interpretative reply relations to analyze the relationship between WP postings as well as linguistic cues for each category. We investigate referencing strategies of WP authors in discussion page postings, illustrated by means of reply relation types and targets taking into account the degree of disagreement displayed on a WP talk page. We provide richly annotated data that can be used for further analyses such as the identification of interactional relations on higher levels, or for training tasks in machine learning algorithms.
Anders als bei Sonntagspredigten haben die katholischen und evangelischen AutorInnen von Kirche in 1live nur 90 Sekunden zur Verfügung, um ihre christliche Botschaft zu vermitteln. Vorliegender Beitrag untersucht, wie die katholischen und evangelischen AutorInnen dies tun. Welche Inhalte erachten sie für relevant? Welche sprachliche Gestaltung wählen sie? Greifen katholische und evangelische AutorInnen zu den gleichen Inhalten und sprachlichen Mitteln oder zeigen sich konfessionelle Präferenzen und Differenzen? Diesen Fragen soll an einem Korpus aus Kirche in 1live-Radiopredigten aus den Jahren 2012 bis 2021 (= 2.755 Texte mit insgesamt 726.570 Token) mit einem quantitativen und qualitativen Methoden-Mix nachgegangen werden. Die Studie wird im Rahmen des DFG-Projekts „Sprache und Konfession 500 Jahre nach der Reformation“ am Germanistischen Institut der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster durchgeführt.
The landscape of digital lexical resources is often characterized by dedicated local portals and proprietary interfaces as primary access points for scholars and the interested public. In addition, legal and technical restrictions are potential issues that can make it difficult to efficiently query and use these valuable resources. As part of the research data consortium Text+, solutions for the storage and provision of digital language resources are being developed and provided in the context of the unified cross-domain German research data infrastructure NFDI. The specific topic of accessing lexical resources in a diverse and heterogenous landscape with a variety of participating institutions and established technical solutions is met with the development of the federated search and query framework LexFCS. The LexFCS extends the established CLARIN Federated Content Search that already allows accessing spatially distributed text corpora using a common specification of technical interfaces, data formats, and query languages. This paper describes the current state of development of the LexFCS, gives an insight into its technical details, and provides an outlook on its future development.
Corpus-based identification and disambiguation of reading indicators for German nominalizations
(2010)
Corpus data is often structurally and lexically ambiguous; corpus extraction methodologies thus must be made aware of ambiguities. Therefore, given an extraction task, all relevant ambiguities must be identified. To resolve these ambiguities, contextual data responsible for one or another reading is to be considered. In the context of our present work, German -ung-nominalizations and their sortal readings are under examination. A number of these nominalizations may be read as an event or a result, depending on the semantic group they belong to. Here, we concentrate on nominalizations of verbs of saying (henceforth: "verba dicendi"), identify their context partners and their influence on the sortal reading of the nominalizations in question. We present a tool which calculates the sortal reading of such nominalizations and thus may improve not only corpus extraction, but also e.g. machine translation. Lastly, we describe successful attempts to identify the correct sortal reading, conclusions and future work.
Sprachanfragen als authentische Primärdaten bergen Erkenntnispotenziale für eine große Bandbreite linguistischer und transferwissenschaftlicher Forschungsfragen und Methoden. Der Beitrag skizziert diese Potenziale und legt dabei den Fokus auf wissenschaftskommunikative Prozesse im Austausch linguistischer Laien und Experten. Anhand erster Ergebnisse einer empirischen korpusgestützten Untersuchung von ca. 50.000 Sprachanfragen wird skizziert, welche Erkenntnisse aus diesen Daten für die Vermittlung von Sprachwissen in einer zunehmend digitalisierten und vernetzten Gesellschaft gewonnen werden können.
Metadaten zu Gesprächen und den beteiligten Sprecher/-innen enthalten Informationen, die für die Beschreibung, Erschließung und Analyse von Korpora wichtig sind. Bisher werden sie jedoch in der Konversationsanalyse und der Interaktionalen Linguistik so gut wie nicht genutzt. Dieser Beitrag zeigt exemplarisch, wie Metadaten des Gesprächskorpus „Forschungs- und Lehrkorpus Gesprochenes Deutsch“ (FOLK) im Rahmen einer interaktionslinguistischen Untersuchung verwendet werden können, um Regularitäten der Verwendung einer untersuchten Gesprächspraktik zu identifizieren und ihren Zusammenhang mit den Eigenschaften von Aktivitäten und Sprecherrollen zu klären. In allgemeinerer Perspektive diskutiert der Beitrag, wie und an welchen Stellen einer interaktionslinguistischen Untersuchung Metadaten von Nutzen sein können und wie ihr Stellenwert im Rahmen dieser Methodologie kritisch reflektiert werden muss.
Filtern, Explorieren, Vergleichen: neue Zugriffsstrukturen und instruktive Potenziale von OWIDplus
(2023)
OWIDplus, das Zusatzangebot zur Wörterbuchplattform OWID, vereint verschiedenste lexikalische Datenbanken, Korpustools und visuell aufbereitete Analysen, die mithilfe von Textsuche und Kategorienfiltern so sortiert werden können, dass Benutzer*innen leicht die für sie interessanten Projekte entdecken können. Eine tiefergehende Beschäftigung mit den Einzelprojekten zeigt, wie bei aller oberflächlicher Ähnlichkeit oder gemeinsamen Themenbereichen ganz unterschiedliche methodische Zugänge zu sprachlichen Daten gewählt worden sind und wie Methodik und Forschungsfrage stets aufeinander abgestimmt werden müssen. Die Vielzahl potenzieller Forschungsfragen führt so unweigerlich zu einer Diversität von Projekten und somit einer Heterogenität, die, so hoffen die Autor*innen, in OWIDplus greifbar wird.
Die sprachlichen Auffälligkeiten, die in Gedichten zu beobachten sind, haben immer wieder Anlass zu verschiedenen Versionen der Abweichungstheorie gegeben, derzufolge die in Gedichten verwendete Sprache von nicht-lyrischer Sprache abweicht. Expressionistische Lyrik ist insbesondere für ihre argumentstrukturellen Innovationen bekannt. Auf der Basis eines Korpus expressionistischer Gedichte wird eine Übersicht über diese Auffälligkeiten gegeben, die die Grundlage für weitere Studien darstellen soll, in denen zu zeigen sein wird, inwieweit unter bestimmten grammatiktheoretischen Annahmen die Abweichungstheorie zurückgewiesen werden kann.
This paper presents the IVK-Ler corpus, a longitudinal, annotated learner corpus of weekly writings produced by a group of 18 adolescents in a preparatory class. The corpus consists of 117 student texts collected between 2020 and 2021 and has a structure layered by student and text number. It includes metadata that enables researchers to analyze and track individual student progress in terms of syntactic competence and literacy. The annotation schema, manual and automatic annotation processes, and corpus representation are described in detail. The corpus currently includes target hypotheses and gold standard part-of-speech tags. Future work could include additional annotation layers for topological fields and dependency relations, as well as semantic and discourse annotations to make the corpus usable for tasks beyond syntactic evaluations.