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Teil eines Buches
Language Awareness and Multilingualism: A Historical Overview
(Springer, 2017-05-20)
In this encyclopedia entry, language awareness and multilingualism will be reviewed from a historical perspective, and current research trends will be highlighted. There is not a direct relationship between both movements from the beginning; rather there have been parallel (independent) developments. With the world becoming increasingly interconnected, multilingualism and diversity have turned into an everyday experience in various domains of life. While the field of language awareness initially concentrated on English ...
Dissertation
The Representation of Motion Events
(2022)
The thesis at hand approaches the conceptualization of motion events from a theoretical point of view as well as on the basis of a corpus study and two experimental designs. The research focuses on the investigation of different factors determining the conceptualization and verbalization of motion events by examining both cognitive variables and grammatical factors.
Aufsatz
*nackt werden: The combinatorial restrictions of the German copula werden and the notion of control
(2005)
I pursue the concept of a generative lexical device, which organizes the mapping between conceptual and linguistic representations. The design of the interface function between grammar and concepts upholds a modular conception of linguistic structure building even in environments where information from various computational levels have to be calculated. Against this background, I argue that the German copula werden ('become') imposes two core conditions on its adjectival complement: i.) The state that holds after the ...