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"Haben" als Vollverb
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 154.00This monograph on the verb have in the function of a full verb asserts that have-constructions in the syntactic analysis are to be placed in relationship with absolute with-constructions (cf. Mit den Füßen auf dem Tisch erwarte ich meine Schwiegereltern [Literal translation: With my feet on the table I expect my parents-in-law]). Furthermore, the study... more...
'Harmonisch entgegengesetzt'
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 112.00"Harmoniously opposed" is a fundamental phrase in Hölderlin's poetology. Until now, however, there has been no systematic study consistently following this central representational structure through Hölderlin's poetic and poetological writings. The present monograph attempts to remedy this deficiency by taking the fundamental structure of "representation",... more...
"Ich kann ja Deutsch!"
De Gruyter 1988; US$ 126.00"Ich kann ja Deutsch!" Studien zum "fortgeschrittenen" Zweitspracherwerb von Kindern ausländischer Arbeiter more...
"Kann man denn auch nicht lachend sehr ernsthaft sein?"
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 147.00Making readers laugh ? or in the theatre making the audience laugh ? is one of the most important but least acknowledged aims of literature. Even though we often laugh out of pure exuberance or smirk mockingly, it is nevertheless true that one can be ?very serious even whilst laughing?, as Lessing?s Minna von Barnhelm already knew. This book explores... more...
"Perceptual Dialectology"
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 168.00Perceptual dialectology is concerned with subjective, non-specialist, naïve perspectives of German and the role they play in day-to-day social interaction. What do non-specialists in linguistics think about dialects and their speakers? What cognitive maps do they have of these dialects? What attitudes do they have towards the dialects and their speakers?... more...
"Recht ist Streit"
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 154.00Using linguistic instruments this work sets out to give a transparent description of the text-supported and discourse-based legal dispute in the process of reaching a legal judgement. It examines a corpus of authentic texts originating from six related legal cases in Germany, identifying distinct speech act patterns and the specific action strategies... more...
"Sinn und Form"
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 168.00This extensive history of the legendary literary journal, ?Sinn und Form?, also offers the first systematic analysis of this key type of cultural institution. The study is organised in seven ?anatomical? categories: founding conception; cultural-political context; institutional infrastructure; role of editors; networks of contributors; text and composition;... more...
"Typisch weiblich - typisch männlich"
De Gruyter 1988; US$ 126.00geschlechtstypisches Kommunikationsverhalten in studentischen Kleingruppen more...
'Volk' bei Otto von Bismarck
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 196.00This historical semantic study examines Otto von Bismarck?s use of the term Volk (?people?) and its synonyms such as Nation or Stamm (?tribe?). It shows that the expressions are multiply polysemous and that individual meanings can be bundled together into concepts (state community, cultural community etc.). Bismarck employs certain repetitive patterns... more...
(Nicht-)kanonische Nebensätze im Deutschen
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 168.00This diachronously and synchronously oriented study focuses not only on the creation of the ?dass? sentence but also on non-canonical subordinate-clause constructions such as argumental and relative clauses with main-clause word order and correlativeadverbial clauses. Inthis way, the bookaddresses the relationship between the formal and interpretative... more...









