Die empirische, auf qualitative oder quantitative Korpusanalyse gestützte Beschreibung von geschriebener und gesprochener Sprache hat sich in der Sprachwissenschaft als zentrales Paradigma etabliert. ...Die Reihe bietet eine Plattform für synchron-linguistische Ansätze und interdisziplinäre Arbeiten mit linguistischem Schwerpunkt, die innovative Wege empirischen Arbeitens aufzeigen und neue Methoden und Modelle anhand von Datenmaterial entwickeln.
This paper analyses the increase in the use of the preterite in spoken Alemannic in south-western Germany. There are almost no recent studies that explore the preterite in Upper German because of the ...widespread hypothesis that there is no preterite in Upper German (except for the verb
‘to be’) due to the loss of the preterite in Upper German (
). In contrast to this, I account for a language change in the timespan from 1974 to 2013 in which the preterite becomes more frequent in relation to the perfect and is now part of the spoken Alemannic in south-western Germany. To account for this, I use a combination of a real time and an apparent time analysis. Additionally, all verbs forming a preterite have a specific semantic value, i. e. an inherent meaning of state. This means they are durative (=the situation lasts for a certain period of time), atelic (=the situation has no terminal point at which the situation is complete) and non-dynamic (=the situation involves no change). Perfect forms on the other hand do not have this specific semantic value.
In this paper I discuss the tenses Doppelperfekt and Plusquamperfekt in spoken High Alemannic and Upper-Rhine Alemannic in south-western Germany with a usage-based approach and a statistical ...evaluation. I show that both Doppelperfekt and Plusquamperfekt have a past perfect meaning, i. e. they refer to a point of time in the past placed before another point of time in the past. Furthermore, I account for a language change in the timespan from 1974 to 2013 in which the Plusquamperfekt becomes more frequent in relation to the Doppelperfekt. Additionally, I show that speakers use the Doppelperfekt in the old data with both auxiliaries (sein and haben), and in the new data only with the auxiliary haben. In contrast to this, the Plusquamperfekt is used in the old data only with the auxiliary sein, and in the new data with both auxiliaries sein and haben. These results could lead to the conclusion that the Doppelperfekt und Plusquamperfekt cannot exist simultaneously in an equivalent manner.
In this paper, we investigate the German word formation pattern
within the theoretical framework of discourse morphology. For this purpose, morphological, semantic, and pragmatic analyses are ...combined on the basis of the German reference corpus. It is shown that the word formation pattern is productive and extremely frequent. However, the meaning of the word formation product is not always clear, since only two
(
and
) can be considered lexicalized. Instead of word meanings acquired through the formation, a common function of the
can be identified: they are used in metalinguistic discourses to avoid and mask certain terms. In this context,
differ with respect to the motivation of avoidance: (i) racist terms, (ii) vulgar terms, and (iii) politically and superstitiously explosive words are avoided and masked. Thus,
are part of euphemistic language. As such, their use can also be enregistered, and acquire a social-symbolic function, which indicates moral-ethical ideas of the speaker or writer. Consequently, we describe the word formation pattern as a form-meaning/function-pair whose morphological structure perfectly fits its communicative needs to avoid and mask specific words in discourses.
In this volume, corpus-linguistic methods and spontaneous language data have been utilized to prove that the tense forms preterite and pluperfect have reestablished themselves in German Alemannic. ...The reason for this is the influence of standard language. The partial reversal of the disappearance of the preterite is not process of suppression rather, the four tenses praeterite, perfect, pluperfect and double perfect form a complementary system.
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