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Unifying modifiers, classifiers and demonstratives We argue that the distributional properties of modifiers, classifiers and demonstratives with respect to nouns in Mandarin Chinese motivate a head-functor approach(Van Eynde 2006), where numeral-classifier-noun sequences are analyzed as leftbranching structures with the noun as the head. This approach explains the distributional similarities between all prenominal categories by unifying their combinatorial properties under a single phrasal schema while also accounting for theirdifferences by means of selectional constraints and a hierarchy of marking values. We also analyze classifiers themselves as special kinds of noun. All in all, ouranalysis entails that nominal complexes in Mandarin Chinese are fundamentallydifferent from those found in languages with dedicated specifiers (e.g. determinersin a language like English), suggesting a two-way typology that is parallel to theNP/DP parameter proposed in the minimalist tradition (Bošković 2007, i.a.).

4 months ago

New publication in project A04 from SFB 1412 Register is out!:
“Unifying modifiers, classifiers and demonstratives” (CSSP 2023) by Chenyuan Deng, Antonio Machicao y Priemer & Giuseppe Varaschin 👏
Explore: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15450432
#sfb1412 #Chinese #syntax #linguistics

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Topic drop in German: Grammar and usage | Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar

4 months ago

New publication in project A04 from SFB 1412 Register is out!:
“Topic drop in German: Grammar and usage” (HPSG 2024) by Giuseppe Varaschin, Antonio Machicao y Priemer & Yanru Lu 👏
Explore: https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2024.12
#sfb1412 #German #syntax #linguistics

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Daniel Duran

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5 months ago

Experimental setup in the laboratory at Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) in Berlin, November 2022.

Speech registers are not just about the choice of fancy words or complex linguistic constructions. Speakers also adjust their pronunciation in different situations. Check out our analysis of formal vs informal video interactions using a novel experimental paradigm: doi.org/10.1075/rs.2... #SFB1412

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Daniel Duran

@simphon.bsky.social

5 months ago

How to get high quality, naturalistic speech recordings from the same speakers in formal vs informal situations for phonetic analysis? Check out our new paper in Register Studies which introduces a novel experimental framework involving simulated video calls! doi.org/10.1075/rs.2... #SFB1412

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5 months ago

Poster von SFB-Projekt C06 gewinnt Posterpreis auf Konferenz P&P 21 (Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum, Universität Leipzig). Das Poster visualisiert eine Studie zum Einfluss von Cognitive Load auf die Artikulationsgeschwindigkeit in Gesprächen mit L1- vs. L2-Addressat:innen […]

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5 months ago

Project B03 organizes an international conference on linguistic patterns within asymmetrical relationships as part of Register Studies on October 16-17, 2025. Bringing together scholars from a wide range of fields (e.g., Egyptology, Classical Studies, Historical Linguistics, Indo-European […]

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6 months ago

Exchange between linguistic CRCs: We are happy about an interesting new collaboration on linguistic creativity and novel phonetic forms between Prof. Dr. Christine Mooshammer (PI of project C06) and project A02 from the CRC 1646 in Bielefeld! More infos can be found here […]

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A register approach to modal (non-)concord in English: an experimental study of linguistic and social meaning | English Language & Linguistics | Cambridge Core A register approach to modal (non-)concord in English: an experimental study of linguistic and social meaning

8 months ago

In the CRC-Project A07, there is a new publication on modal concord and its social meanings. The first view of the paper is now openly accessible: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674325100361

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Comparing comparatives: appropriateness ratings of synthetic, analytic and double comparatives in American and British English | English Language & Linguistics | Cambridge Core Comparing comparatives: appropriateness ratings of synthetic, analytic and double comparatives in American and British English

8 months ago

Artemis Alexiadou, Despina Oikonomou and Stephanie Rotter collaborated on experimental work investigating comparatives and register effects across different varieties of English. The paper is now published and openly accessible: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674324000546

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9 months ago

“Ey!”, “Tachchen!” oder “Guten Tag!” – Warum passen wir uns sprachlich an?

Unter diesem Titel werden sich die SFB-Projekte A03, A07, C03 und C07 mit Ständen und Mitmachexperimenten bei der Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften präsentieren!

Zu finden sind sie im Hauptgebäude der HU, Unter den Linden […]

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1 year ago

Anlässlich des Internationalen Tages der Muttersprache am vergangenen Freitag hat Prof. Dr. Aria Adli (Projekt A06: https://sfb1412.hu-berlin.de/de/projekte/a06/ letzte Woche im Fernsehen über Mehrsprachigkeit in Deutschland und sprachliche Variation gesprochen! Die spannenden Beiträge kann […]

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1 year ago

On the first of January this year, the new project B07 "Evidentiality, Modality and Speaker’s Stance as Register Features in Galen’s Medical Discourse“ joined the CRC 1412. Prof. Dr. Theresa Roth's project strengthens Area B and we are happy to welcome them to the CRC!

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1 year ago

Maquate, K., Patarroyo, A., Ioannidou-Tsiomou, A., & Knoeferle, P. (2024).

Age differences in spoken language comprehension: verb-argument and formality-register congruence influence real-time sentence processing. Discourse Processes, 1–23.

https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2024.2424693

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1 year ago

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Less formal and more rebellious — An experiment on the social meaning of negative concord in American English

Das Kapitel Less formal and more rebellious — An experiment on the social meaning of negative concord in American English erschien in Negative Concord: A Hundred […]

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1 year ago

A new open access paper is published by Robert Lange, Bianca Sell, Megumi Terada, Malte Belz, Christine Mooshammer and Anke Lüdeling that compares schwa realisation in verbal inflection in two dialogue registers of German spontaneous speech: https://doi.org/10.1515/zfs-2024-2011

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1 year ago

A new open access paper is out by Stephanie Rotter and Mingya Liu that compares the use of negative concord (NC) vs. the use of negative polarity items (NPIs) in relation to register:

https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2023-0016

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1 year ago

The #sfb1412 is looking for a student employee to start on July 1 to support the CRC in the subproject INF (Infrastructure) in the creation, processing, and evaluation of corpora.
Given that corpora can contain all forms of language material and annotations based on it, the creation and […]

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1 year ago