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GraphVar ist ein Korpus aus über 1.600 Abiturarbeiten, die zwischen 1917 und 2018 an einem niedersächsischen Gymnasium geschrieben wurden. Das Hauptinteresse beim Aufbau bestand in der Beschreibung graphematischer Variation und ihrer Entwicklung über die Zeit. Leitend war die Frage, was Schreiberinnen und Schreiber eigentlich tatsächlich machen bzw. gemacht haben – und zwar unbeeinflusst von technischen Hilfsmitteln oder Schluss- und Endredaktion, aber unter vergleichbaren Bedingungen. Das Korpus bietet somit ein Fenster auf den unverfälschten Schreibgebrauch von Abiturientinnen und Abiturienten im Laufe der Zeit. Zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt sind 1.618 Arbeiten transkribiert, linguistisch annotiert und über eine ANNIS-Instanz erreichbar (graphvar.unibonn.de, Stand: 8.8.2023). Im Sommer 2022 konnten weitere 1.600 Arbeiten zwischen 1900 und 2021 an einem Gymnasium in Nordrhein-Westfalen digitalisiert werden. Neben schriftlinguistischen Fragestellungen ist das Korpus prinzipiell auch für syntaktische, morphologische und lexikalische Fragestellungen geeignet; auch didaktische Untersuchungen sind möglich, genau wie kulturwissenschaftliche.
Das Theonym Gott für den christlichen Gott weist im Frühneuhochdeutschen eine Reihe ungewöhnlicher grammatischer Eigenschaften auf, die in diesem Beitrag korpusbasiert untersucht werden. Zum einen hat es sich von seiner appellativischen Herkunft emanzipiert, wie beispielsweise am fehlenden Artikel deutlich wird, zum anderen nutzt es aber das für einen Namen ungewöhnliche es-Flexiv im Genitiv (Pauls, Gottes) und tritt, wie unbelebte Appellative, als Genitivattribut dominant nachgestellt auf (Haus __ Gottes). In der Schreibung bildet sich die Doppelmajuskel <GOtt> heraus, die es bis ins 18. Jh. visuell von der übrigen Lexik abhebt. Damit weist das Theonym im Frühneuhochdeutschen eine Sondergrammatik auf, in abgeschwächter Form besteht sie bis heute fort. Der Beitrag argumentiert dafür, dass es sich um ein Resultat besonderer kommunikativer Relevanz handelt.
The article investigates the hypothesis that prominence phenomena on different levels of linguistic structure are systematically related to each other. More specifically, it is hypothesized that prominence relations in morphosyntax reflect, and contribute to, prominence management in discourse. This hypothesis is empirically based on the phenomenon of agentivity clines, i.e. the observation that the relevance of agentivity features such as volition or sentience is variable across different constructions. While some constructions, including German DO-clefts, show a strong preference for highly agentive verbs, other constructions, including German basic active constructions, have no particular requirements regarding the agentivity of the verb, except that at least one agentivity feature should be present. Our hypothesis predicts that this variable relevance of agentivity features is related to the discourse constraints on the felicitous use of a given construction, which in turn, of course, requires an explicit statement of such constraints. We propose an original account of the discourse constraints on DO-clefts in German using the ‘Question Under Discussion’ framework. Here, we hypothesize that DO-clefts render prominent one implicit question from a set of alternative questions available at a particular point in the developing discourse. This then yields a prominent question-answer pair that changes the thematic structure of the discourse. We conclude with some observations on the possibility of relating morphosyntactic prominence (high agentivity) to discourse prominence (making a Question Under Discussion prominent by way of clefting).
Between January 2020 and July 2021, many new words and phrases contributed to the expansion of the German vocabulary to enable communication under the new conditions that evolved during the Covid-19 pandemic. Medical and epidemiological vocabulary was integrated into the general language to a large extent. Suddenly, some lexemes from general language were used with very high frequency, while other words were used less often than before. These processes of language change can be studied in various ways, for example, in corpus linguistics with respect to the frequency or emergence of certain words in certain types of texts (e.g. press releases vs. posts in social media), in critical discourse analysis with respect to certain participants of the discourse (e.g. vocabulary of Covid-19 pandemic deniers), or in conversation analysis (e.g. with respect to new verbal interactions in greetings and farewells). The rapid expansion of vocabulary has notably affected also lexicography as a discipline of applied linguistics.
This article will focus on the ways in which a German neologism dictionary project has chosen to capture and document lexicographic information in a timely manner. Both challenges and advantages arise from lexicographic practice “at the pulse of time”. The Neologismenwörterbuch is presented as an example that lends itself well to such a discussion because its subject (neologisms) is characterized as new, innovative, and constantly changing.
Canadian heritage German across three generations: A diary-based study of language shift in action
(2019)
It is well known that migration has an effect on language use and language choice. If the language of origin is maintained after migration, it tends to change in the new contact setting. Often, migrants shift to the new majority language within few generations. The current paper examines a diary corpus containing data from three generations of one German-Canadian family, ranging from 1867 to 1909, and covering the second to fourth generation after immigration. The paper analyzes changes that can be observed between the generations, with respect to the language system as well as to the individuals’ decision on language choice. The data not only offer insight into the dynamics of acquiring a written register of a heritage language, and the eventual shift to the majority language. They also allow us to identify different linguistic profiles of heritage speakers within one community. It is discussed how these profiles can be linked to the individuals’ family backgrounds and how the combination of these backgrounds may have contributed to giving up the heritage language in favor of the majority language.
Vorwort
(2022)