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Intensifiers of adjectives in German

Work on grammaticalization that has bee carried out in the course of the last decades has shown that there are some domains of grammatical structure that are more conservative while others are more innovative...

Keywords: intensifiers, grammaticalization, adverbs, degree adverbs, German

04/2006 | STUF – Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie Verlag

Construction-specific properties of syntactic subjects in Icelandic and German

This paper discusses the syntactic similarities and differences in the behavior of subject-like obliques in the Obl–V–(XP) construction in Icelandic and German...

Keywords: Icelandic, German, oblique subjects, argument structure, subject tests, syntactic relations vs. syntactic roles, Radical Construction Grammar, frequency, schematicity

03/2006 | Cognitive Linguistics, Walter de Gruyter

Cognitive Effects of Masculine Generics in German: An Overview of Empirical Findings

This article presents a series of experiments which were conducted among native speakers of German to determine the influence of different types of German generics on the cognitive inclusion of women...

Keywords: feminist language critique, generics, language reform, grammatical gender, German

01/2005 | Communications, Walter de Gruyter

Converging conventions? Macrosyntactic conjunction with English and and German und

A growing number of investigations into the historical development and status of academic prose have found that many national languages lose both prestige and distribution as a medium of expression in the sciences, while English progressively develops into the lingua franca of science...

Keywords: conjunctions, textual relations, communicative conventions, writerreader interaction, English, German