German Language

Abstract, Dedication, and Acknowledgments for the Hobbs (2011) dissertation published by SAS.

by Robert Dean Hobbs

The Hobbs (2011) doctoral study is published in the ProQuest Dissertations and These database, UMI No. 3484309

The purpose of the qualitative research was to assess models of education developed for the study to investigate how... more The purpose of the qualitative research was to assess models of education developed for the study to investigate how and when to incorporate second and third languages into the curriculum to improve language acquisition. Research indicates that L3 enhances and reinforces L2 and L1. The stratified systematic grounded theory study explored the perspectives of neurolinguists, psycholinguists, sociolinguists, and interdisciplinary education researchers to derive variables for constructing a new model of education. The outcome of the Internet survey revealed that 100% of the participants agreed that education must change and that teacher training must improve. Variables from the cross-disciplinary data contributed to the construction of an integrated model of multilingual education consisting of four primary models and other models to serve as tools for designing curriculum, instruction, and assessment as well as determining demographics and student meta-analysis of language abilities and storage in the brain. The first model emerged from the data to offer multilingual principles of education. The other primary models are macro, meso, and micro models. The macro model represents schools, instruction, assessment, and the curriculum cycle. The meso model depicts the developmental domains of the individual learner and includes a cyclical equation. The micro model delineates multilingual processing in the brain based on neurolinguistic research, variables from the current study, and Kees de Bot's bilingual adaptation of Levelt's language processing model. Recommendations include the incorporation of notional-functional pragmatic-aesthetic concepts as depicted in the models developed for the study and enhanced by input from published researchers with unique language and research repertoires who were located on four continents.

Warum das Mittelalter kein dunkles Zeitalter war

by Konstantin Dragaš

Author: Tunç Türel

Das Nibelungenlied

by Konstantin Dragaš

Author: Tunç Türel

Die hochmittelalterliche deutsche Literatur im Überblick

by Konstantin Dragaš

Author: Tunç Türel

Whistling Pigs: German Adventures with Google Translate

by Jalees Rehman

Published on The Next Web

Bilingual or multilingual friends can be quite annoying. Especially if you’re stuck at a social gathering with the... more Bilingual or multilingual friends can be quite annoying. Especially if you’re stuck at a social gathering with the ones who repeatedly mention their language skills and utter phrases such as ”Well, if only you could read this novel in the original, you would have a much more profound understanding of what the author wanted to express…..”. Or the ones who like to cite French, German and Arabic language newspaper articles and then remind you with a thinly veiled pomposity that you may have a very narrow view of the world if you only rely on English-language news.

However, this latter group is becoming more rare, possibly because a formidable foe is taking the wind out of their sails: Google Translate. The excellent book “Is That a Fish In Your Ear” by David Bellos has a chapter entitled “The Adventure of Automated Language-Translation Machines”, which is especially thought-provoking, because it explains some key concepts about Google Translate and the future of automated translation.

Sinopsis en catálogo editorial: Descripción de un género y comparación español-alemán (2006)

by Maite Sánchez Nieto

Sendebar: Revista de la Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación, vol. 16 (2006), pp. 77-111

En este trabajo describimos el género 'sinopsis de publicaciones en catálogos editoriales', atendiendo al modelo... more En este trabajo describimos el género 'sinopsis de publicaciones en catálogos editoriales', atendiendo al modelo multinivel de clasificación textual de Ciapuscio 2002. Prestamos atención a las implicaciones funcionales y situacionales, semánticas y léxico-gramaticales que se manifiestan en el uso de este género como vehículo de comunicación.
En la segunda parte del trabajo llevaremos a cabo el estudio de un corpus de ejemplos de este género redactados en España y en países de habla alemana. Extraemos conclusiones referentes principalmente al nivel léxico-gramatical. Finalmente, reflexionamos acerca del empleo de ejemplos de este género textual como base de ejercicios prácticos y teórico-prácticos en las clases de traducción español-alemán-español.
Palabras clave: descripción de géneros, lingüística textual comparada, alemán, español, sinopsis
In this paper, we describe the genre 'synopsis de at publishing house catalogues' on the basis of the multilevel model of textual classification by Ciapuscio (2002). We pay special attention to the functional, situational, semantic, lexical and grammatical factors which are present in the use of this genre as a vehicle of communication.
Secondly, we analyse a corpus of Spanish and German examples of the genre 'sinopsis', pointing out relevant differences at the lexical and grammatical level. Finally, we will show some practical uses of the genre 'synopsis' in the translation class (German-Spanish).

Morphology and spoken word comprehension: Electrophysiological investigations of internal compound structure

by Dirk Koester

No 47 of the downloads on this page: http://www.cbs.mpg.de/institute/mpi_series

The present Ph.D. thesis investigated morphosyntactic and lexical-semantic aspects of German compound comprehension.... more The present Ph.D. thesis investigated morphosyntactic and lexical-semantic aspects of German compound comprehension. Previous studies, on one hand, provide inconclusive evidence for semantic decomposition of nominal compounds during acoustic presentation (Isel et al., 2003; Pratarelli, 1995;Wagner, 2003). On the other hand, morphological effects of decomposition have only been investigated in the visual modality which cannot be generalised to the auditory modality (Andrews, 1986; Sandra, 1990; Zwitserlood, 1994). The purpose of the present experiments was to answer the question of whether and how compound constituents are accessed from the mental lexicon during auditory comprehension, i.e. whether or not compounds are decomposed.

First Annual Black German Convention Report & Keynote Lecture Text

by Rosemarie Pena

Automatic estimation of speaking rate in multilingual spontaneous speech

by François Pellegrino

Liberman and Levickij: Towards comparative etymological lexicography of English and Germanic

by Marek Stachowski

A comparative review of: (1) Liberman A.: An analytic dictionary of English etymology. An introduction, 2008; (2) Liberman A.: A bibliography of English etymology, 2010; (3) Levickij V. V. : Ètimologičeskij slovar' germanskix jazykov, 2010.

Syllabification and lexical phonology in German

by Friederike Moltmann

MIT Generals Paper, 1990

Polskie dunder

by Marek Stachowski

(= Polish dunder 'thunder').
Summary:
The Polish word dunder (earlier also: donder) is only used as a part of the expression niech cię/go/ją dunder świśnie! ‘damn you!, to hell with you/him/her!’, lit. ‘let a thunder strike you/him/her’ (in somewhat older Polish, a phrase like u dondra ‘damn!, (what) the devil!, (what) the hell!’, too, is attested). The only etymology of this word one can find today is that given by A. Brückner in his etymological dictionary (1927): < Germ. Donner ‘thunder’. However, Brückner was satisfied with a blank formulation “nd in lieu of nn” which does not actually explain reasons and the mechanism of change. The aim of this article is to show that it was not a High German word but, instead, the Low German or/and Dutch word donder ~ dunder ‘thunder’ that was borrowed into Polish and used in the expressions mentioned above.

Notes on German loan words in an areal Carpathian context

by Marek Stachowski

German Irrwisch '1. will-o'-the-wisp; 2. scamp, scallywag, imp' and Polish urwis 'scamp, scallywag, imp'

by Marek Stachowski

Qualitative Korpusanalyse für die Grammatiktheorie: Introspektion vs. Korpus [Qualitative Corpus Analysis for Grammar Theory: Introspection vs. Corpus]

by Stefan Müller

2007 in Gisela Zifonun and Werner Kallmeyer (Eds): Sprachkorpora – Datenmengen und Erkenntnisfortschritt. Institut für Deutsche Sprache Jahrbuch 2006, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, pages 70–90.

I discuss three syntactic phenomena, which are highly relevant for theoretical linguistics: Ex­tra­po­si­tion from NPs... more I discuss three syntactic phenomena, which are highly relevant for theoretical linguistics: Ex­tra­po­si­tion from NPs and Sub­ja­cen­cy, pos­si­ble po­si­tions of par­ti­cles of par­ti­cle verbs, and frontings as a con­stituent test. I show that introspection is not sufficient support for theories and develop corpus querries for the cases under discussion. The paper concludes with some general remarks concerning the limits of corpus linguistics.

ドイツ語と日本語におけるフィラーの比較ー態度表明の観点から [A comparison of German and Japanese fillers - From the perspective of the expression of the inner state]

by Paul Cibulka

2008年に『日本語・英語・中国語の対照に基づく、日本語の音声言語の教育に役立つ基礎資料の政策』研究成果報告書で出版。

Published 2008 in "Nihongo, Eigo, Chūgokugo no taishō ni motozuku, Nihongo Onseigengo no Kyōiku ni yakutatsu Kisoshiryō no Sakusei" Kenkyū Seika Hōkokusho [Developing teaching materials for education of spoken Japanese based on contrastive studies among Japanese, English and Chinese, Working paper]".

Also presented at the "International Symposium on Education and Teaching Materials for Spoken Japanese Language" held 2007 at Kobe University.
http://www.lib.kobe-u.ac.jp/products/nihongo/symposium07/programme_en.html

In Japanese, there are cases where a filler is required to maintain a certain degree of politeness within the speech... more In Japanese, there are cases where a filler is required to maintain a certain degree of politeness within the speech as well as consideration towards the speaker. If the filler is omitted in such cases, Japanese natives will be more likely to interpret the utterance as rude or cold. This phenomenon – constituting an essential difference to fillers used in German, where fillers can hardly be thought of as element providing politeness within speech – cannot be explained solely by theories in previous research on coordinating functions in conversation or expression of mental operations.

As an explanation concerning this phenomenon I suggest the concept of display of attitude, which is thought to evoke different feelings to members of the Japanese and German societies respectively. Concerning Japanese, displaying a certain attitude – such as a mental operation or taking notice of somebody else – can have the effect of providing politeness, whereas in German the very same action is likely to be interpreted as uncertainty. In view of this discrepancy, it becomes clear, there are actually misunderstandings occurring between these two language cultures.

Re­sul­ta­tive Con­struc­tions: Syn­tax, World Knowl­edge, and Col­lo­ca­tion­al Re­stric­tions. Re­view of Hans C. Boas: A Con­struc­tion­al Ap­proach to Re­sul­ta­tives

by Stefan Müller

2005 in Stud­ies in Lan­guage 29(3), pages 651–681

This review of Hans C. Boas' book A Constructional Approach to Resultatives discusses Boas' enumerative approach, the... more This review of Hans C. Boas' book A Constructional Approach to Resultatives discusses Boas' enumerative approach, the reference to world knowledge in lexical items and the capturing of generalizations with regard to resultative constructions by making use of lexical rules.

Sabine Schmidt u. Karin Schmidt (Hrsg.), Erinnerungsorte. Deutsche Geschichte im DaF-Unterricht, Berlin: Cornelsen, 2007

by Christian W. Spang

Lektorenrundbrief No. 36 (December 2009), pp. 11-13

Review of a German Language textbook that tries to use history as a means of teaching German to advanced students:... more Review of a German Language textbook that tries to use history as a means of teaching German to advanced students: "Sabine Schmidt u. Karin Schmidt (Hrsg.), Erinnerungsorte. Deutsche Geschichte im DaF-Unterricht, Berlin: Cornelsen, 2007“. 

Elektronische Japanisch-Wörterbücher und Übersetzungshilfen im Internet - Part II

by Christian W. Spang

OAG Notizen, September 2001, pp. 28 - 33.

This is the second of two parts of an overview over available internet-based dictionaries and translation software.... more This is the second of two parts of an overview over available internet-based dictionaries and translation software. Part two deals with the translation pages, comparing some of the results. It has to be mentioned here, that this article was written in 2001 and is therefore in many ways outdated.

Karl Haushofer und Japan. Der Einfluss der Kontinentalblocktheorie auf die Japanpolitik des Dritten Reiches

by Christian W. Spang

Hilaria Gössmann et al. (Hrsg.), 11. Deutschsprachiger Japanologentag in Trier 1999, Band 1, Münster, 2001, S. 121 - 134

One of my earliest papers on Haushofer, based on a conference paper, delivered in Trier 1999. The article deals with... more One of my earliest papers on Haushofer, based on a conference paper, delivered in Trier 1999. The article deals with Haushofer's influence in Germany. In some parts outdated.