• Komposita-Erstglieder – Untersuchungen zur anaphorischen Zugänglichkeit 

      Rößler, Stefanie (2018-11-14)
      Pronominal references to the first constituent of compounds are usually considered unacceptable and the first constituents are therefore described as inaccessible. This thesis argues for a scale for acceptability and ...
    • Eine kopfgesteuerte Phrasenstrukturgrammatik für spanische Nominalphasen 

      Kirchner, Arne Reimar (2001-11-07)
      This dissertation investigates the structure of the Spanish nominal phrase. First of all we have to discuss whether the noun really is the head of the phrase, as traditional grammars assume, or whether it is the determiner ...
    • Language Change and (Ir)regularization 

      Al-Hussein, Basima (2018-04-24)
      For the last two decades, three main approaches have dealt with the nature of regular versus irregular aspects of language processing in human mind. According to connectionism, all inflected forms are processed in the ...
    • Latein als Medium sprachlichen Handelns in Ciceros Briefen an Terentia 

      Nickel, Silke (2020-12-02)

      On the basis of a pragmalinguistic or speech-act-theoretical approach, it is demonstrated, using CIC. fam. 14, how Latin worked practically as a medium of (written) linguistic action.

      For this purpose three ...

    • Leseverstehen als Ausgangspunkt für die Entwicklung der Ausdrucks- und Schreibfertigkeiten 

      Zatsepina, Nataliya (2009-09-03)
      The theoretical part of this scientific work is based on two foundations: Firstly, the results of the research of Walter Kintsch and Teun van Dijk, two experts in cognitive psychology, regarding the reading process on the ...
    • Lexikalische Archaismen und ihre Verwendung in Pressetexten des heutigen Deutsch 

      Jang, Ae-Yoon (2006-05-11)
      Lexical archaisms are antiquated, i.e. historically marked words, which are used for stylistic means (e.g. in order to create a certain historical atmosphere, pathos or distance) in a given ...
    • Life after Harry 

      Fitz, Victoria (2018-08-15)
      Do novels like Inkheart, Twilight, Percy Jackson, The Hunger Games, or Ruby Red share specific genre characteristics with Harry Potter? Is there perhaps even a specific genre of post-Potter literature? This thesis discusses ...
    • Literarische Gestaltung von Identität bei Robert Frost und T. S. Eliot 

      Senst, Angela Margarete (2007-04-25)
      The American poets T. S. Eliot and Robert Frost acknowledge and accept the role literature plays in the formation of a national identity. At the beginning of the 20th century they actively ...
    • Literatur live 

      Ditschke, Stephan (2022-02-24)
      The number of literature events increased sharply during the 1990s and early 2000s. New formats, including poetry slams and author collective performances [Lesebühnen], became prominent, alongside classic author readings. ...
    • Die Literatur und der Kampf um die Weltanschauung 

      Heine, Philipp David (2019-06-06)
      This study is dedicated to the interdependence of ideological arguments and literary production in the early 20th century. Its starting point is the hardly proven claim that there is a close connection between literature ...
    • Lucan. 9, 1-604 

      Seewald, Martin (2002-03-01)
      In the ninth book of Lucan´s Bellum civile Cato the Younger takes over the supreme command of the republican army, which was vacant after the defeat of Pharsalos and the murder of Pompey in Egypt. He reorganizes the ...
    • "My sense of my own identity is bound up with the past" 

      Koch, Jessica (2014-02-06)
      For quite a long time women have been denied their rightful place in history as historiography has predominantly focused on men. To fill in this gap in historiography and shed a light on the female past, women writers have ...
    • Negative coordination 

      Gajić, Jovana (2022-02-10)
      Some languages make use of special forms for coordination markers in negative environments, known as negative coordination (‘Nina will neither sing nor dance’). This dissertation explores negative coordination in English ...
    • Das Nicht war zu leise! 

      Goes, Stefan (2001-11-07)
      Human interaction is shaped by expectations. We expect sound value for our money, we want to be treated in fairness, we want to be respected. When these expectations are not met, we object. This naturally also applies ...
    • Novela chilena, mercado editorial transnacional y configuración del capital cultural en el campo literario del siglo XXI 

      Vega Neira, Ricardo (2023-07-28)
      The following doctoral thesis addresses the relationship between the transnational publishing market in Spanish and the development of a national literature, in this case focusing on the Chilean novel narrative of the late ...
    • Optimal Clitic Positioning in Czech and Beyond 

      Adam, Nina (2024-01-29)
      This thesis treats the placement of clitics in Czech from a constraint-based perspective. After having established the set of unambiguous second-position clitics in the language, the placement patterns and their interaction ...
    • Phantasma Indien 

      Otte, Merle (2022-01-04)
      Around 1800, the newly discovered ancient Indian culture attracted a great deal of attention, especially in German-speaking countries, and led to various reactions. But contemporary India also continued to be of interest. ...
    • Das Phänomen der <i>inettitudine</i> in der italienischen Erzählliteratur des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts 

      Gerth, Christian (2008-09-17)
      The PhD-thesis analyses the phenomenon of the inettitudine in selected Italian novels of the early 20th century with respect to narrative, cultural and psychological theories. Referring ...
    • Playgoing in Early Modern London After Shakespeare (1616-1642) 

      Tröger, Tim-Christoph (2016-09-21)
      The central aim of this thesis was firstly to reconstruct the socio-cultural field within which dramatic plays were originally produced between the year of Shakespeare's death in 1616 and the fatal closure of all playhouses ...
    • Poetik des autobiografischen Blogs 

      Michelbach, Elisabeth (2020-01-03)
      As poetics of the blog this study combines a theoretical approach (Poetologie) with different showcases of autobiographical writing in blogs (Schreibweisen). Poetologie focuses initially on the medium of the blog, which ...