• Presuppositions at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface 

  Chen, Yuqiu (2024-03-11)

  While in traditional semantic accounts, presuppositions are widely accepted to be conceptualized as truth value preconditions, in most pragmatic accounts, they are considered to be a set of information that is normally or ...

• A Comparative Study of the Origins of Chinese and Mesoamerican Writing 

  Jin, Yang (2024-02-27)

  This comparative study is aiming at exploring the nature, origins, circumstances, and factors affecting the origin, of early writing systems in China and Mesoamerica. It focuses on the following aspects relating to the ...

• Rassismuskritische Politisierungen als agentielles Werden 

  Paulsen, Anja (2024-02-16)

  At the interface between academia and the anti-racist movement, this study deals from a critical ›white‹ perspective with the question of how people come to engage in racism criticism and how these politicization processes ...

• Acquisition of Sentential Negation and Negative Concord 

  Arshad, Sumrah (2024-02-05)

  It has been shown in this thesis that the expression of negation in children’s naturalistic spoken speech is adult-like to an maximum extent (with 97% ratio of correct and grammatical expression). If a language exhibits ...

• 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 ...

• Differential Subject Marking in Georgian 

  Berikashvili, Svetlana (2024-01-18)

  This thesis presents a novel account on Differential Subject Marking (DSM) in Georgian based on the current progress in minimalist syntax. It is an original contribution to a highly complex problem in Georgian Syntax and ...

• Monadologie und Intersubjektivität: Drei Konzeptionen der Einfühlung in der Phänomenologie Husserls 

  Graffigna, Matías (2023-12-22)

  This thesis presents, following Edmund Husserl’s philosophy, a phenomenological monadology in which three levels of the monad are differentiated: transcendental consciousness, the psycho-physical unit and the person; and ...

• Providence Island Sign Language in Interaction 

  Omardeen, Rehana (2023-12-15)

  This dissertation examines sign language in interaction in a small Caribbean community. Providence Island Sign Language, used among deaf and hearing residents of in Providence, Colombia (Spanish: Providencia), has been ...

• Die medizinische Begleitung von Kindern und Jugendlichen mit Geschlechtsinkongruenz/ Geschlechtsdysphorie und das Problem der Diskriminierung im Gesundheitswesen 

  Hädicke, Maximiliane (2023-12-04)

  This cumulative dissertation examines discrimination as a concept and as a social phenomenon. It does so by focusing on the currently controversially discussed example of medical care of children and adolescents who identify ...

• Expertise vermitteln. Das Bezugssystem der Lerndimensionen. 

  Schäfers, Frerk (2023-12-04)

  This dissertation investigates in which way teaching expertise and professional practise can be transmitted through out conversation management in learning interactions. Follow-up discussions in traineeship for teacher ...

• A World through Words: Dengbêjî, Kilam, and Collective Memory 

  Darati, Sayid R (2023-11-17)

  This dissertation analyzes aspects of the dengbêjî tradition among Kurdish-Kurmanj communities in the context of collective memory. It argues that dengbêjî is a means of preserving a considerable number of narratives in ...

• Exploring Migrant Lives 

  von Jan, Svenja (2023-08-10)

  The thesis investigates the mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion for non-elite South Asian migrants in European port cities in the interwar period through the lens of two historic biographies. The focus of the study is ...

• 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 ...

• Monotheisierende Ansätze in der aztekischen Religion? 

  Schaubitzer, Ramona (2023-07-14)

  Tloque Nahuaque and Ipalnemohua are two religious Aztec terms that are frequently found as designations of god(s) in post-colonial literature, both on the part of the Aztecs and the colonialists. The question that arises ...

• Freedom and Desire: From Mute to #Me Too. An Aftermath of Nabokov’s Lolita in the 21 st Century. 

  Berg, Genia (2023-07-13)

  Nabokov’s novel Lolita was published in the middle of the 20th century, almost 70 years ago. In this work, I would like to trace how its critical perception has changed due to the #MeToo phenomenon of the 21st ...

• War as Family Affair: The Role of African Women in World War One in German East Africa, 1914-1918 

  Vakolavene, Yovita Albert (2023-07-07)

  This study explores the role of African women during WWI in German East Africa in the period from 1914 to 1918. Historically, like women in other parts of the world, African women have contributed to the war efforts in ...

• The Politics of Dance and The Poetics of Space: Kurdish Dances in Germany 

  Sentürk, Habibe (2023-05-23)

  Abstract of the Dissertation The Politics of Dance and the Poetics of Space: Kurdish Dances in Germany This dissertation explores a popular form of collective dancing known as govend in Kurdish and halay in Turkish. ...

• Queer Humanitarianism in the Time of War: The Global Emergence of Syrian LGBT Refugees 

  Saleh, Fadi (2023-05-17)

  This cumulative dissertation traces the recent emergence of Syrian lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) refugees as a constituency in global discourses around humanitarianism, migration, asylum, and LGBT politics. ...

• Grenzfälle der Fiktionalität 

  Pahlke, Alexander Florian (2023-02-23)

  We repeatedly encounter fictional texts both within and outside literary studies. However, such texts often do not seem to be purely fictional, but contain borrowings from reality or even (supposedly) non-fictional elements. ...

• Remeasuring China: the Global and Local Dimensions of Nanjing Metrological Reform 

  Li, Can (2022-12-14)

  This dissertation examines the history of meter, liter, and gram in republican China. It seeks to understand the historical transition of Chinese metrology from indigenous measures to the global metric system and its global ...

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