This paper analyses the perceptions of the year 1913 by a direct witness and exact observer of time and literary life: The philologist Richard Moritz Meyer is represented in the “Gesamtbild” issued by David Sarason The ...

After presenting academic studies on contemporary literature between 1910 and 1930 in general and in particular on Rilke, I discuss the author’s perception of the criticism on his own poetry in order to explore the ...

In this article we give a short introduction to the online method of event-related (brain) potentials (ERPs) and their importance for our understanding of language structure and grammar. This methodology places high demands ...

Adelbert von Chamisso’s (1781–1838) career as a naturalist is increasingly well-documented. Comparatively little, however, is known of his mentor and director of the Berlin Zoological Museum, Martin Hinrich Lichtenstein ...

Sentences with a cognate object typically consist of an intransitive activity verb, its subject NP and a second NP in the accusative. Its nominal core is typically derived as nomen actionis and/or nomen acti from the ...

The article discusses common diagnoses of crises within the field ofGerman studies and suggests an alternative self-description from a praxeologicalperspective. This approach emphasizes, among other things, the ...