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Luise Mejer. Briefe 1778 bis 1786
(2024-10-08)Letters from Luise Justine Mejer (1746-1786) to her friend Charlotte Sophie Henriette Kestner, née Buff (1753-1828) and others. With an introduction and annotations. Supplement to Mejer's extensive correspondence with her ... -
Pluralizing Entities and Events in Yucatec Maya
(2024-06-24)The central topic of this dissertation is the grammatical marking of semantically plural entities and events by means of suffixation in Yucatec Maya, a Mayan language spoken primarily in Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. The ... -
de molle et douce conversation. Zur Metaphorik der verweichlichten Männlichkeit in der Sprachreflexion der französischen Renaissance.
(2024-04-19)French humanists, as soon as they think about languages in a comparative way, are haunted by the inadequacy of their language. This haunting is expressed through a precise and recurrent metaphor, that compares the proper ... -
Presuppositions at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface
(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
(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 ... -
Optimal Clitic Positioning in Czech and Beyond
(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
(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 ... -
Providence Island Sign Language in Interaction
(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 ... -
Expertise vermitteln. Das Bezugssystem der Lerndimensionen.
(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
(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 ... -
Novela chilena, mercado editorial transnacional y configuración del capital cultural en el campo literario del siglo XXI
(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 ... -
Freedom and Desire: From Mute to #Me Too. An Aftermath of Nabokov’s Lolita in the 21 st Century.
(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 ... -
Grenzfälle der Fiktionalität
(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. ... -
Schöpfungsgeschichte und Sintflut in vorbiblischen Quellen, Bibel und Koran: Eine vergleichende Lektüre
(2022-09-14)Creation story and Flood narrative in different cultures -
The impact of verb type on word order in German Sign Language
(2022-08-11)Word order is one of the best studied and most discussed issues in spoken and sign language linguistics. Therefore, it is stunning that there is yet no broader empirical investigation of word order phenomena in German Sign ... -
Die Poetologie des Zweifels
(2022-08-01)Research on Günter Grass has so far focused mainly on his early works and the Danzig Trilogy. Much less attention has been directed at his late works and their unifying aspects. Yet Grass himself designated three of his ... -
The features of binding and person licensing
(2022-07-20)This thesis is concerned with the features that underlie the syntax of reflexive binding and person licensing, addressing two competing analyses within Agree-based frameworks, namely φ-feature-based and referential-feature-based ... -
Subjektkonstitution als spezifisches Merkmal des deutschen bürgerlichen Trauerspiels
(2022-07-19)The thesis deals with the genre of the German domestic tragedy. It is based on a scale of figur development from the literarily defined type via the individual to the self-reflective subject. These categories are closely ... -
Deutsch als Fremdsprache an chinesischen Schulen
(2022-04-05)The history of German language teaching in China can be traced back to about 150 years ago. However, an increase in the teaching of German in middle schools has just been observed since the beginning of the 21st century. ... -
Die Veränderung des Lern-Selbstkonzeptes in Bezug auf den Spracherwerb unter dem Einfluss von Improvisationsübungen und -spielen (IÜuS) im DaZ-Unterricht für Erwachsene
(2022-03-14)This dissertation is an empirical bilingual investigation of the effectiveness of improvisation exercises and games (IÜuS) as a teaching method for German as a second language with adult learners. It deals with the question ...