Das Korpus HIPKON (Historisches Predigtenkorpus zum Nachfeld) wurde zur Untersuchung der Nachfeldbesetzung in der Entwicklung des Deutschen erstellt. Zwar existieren schon verschiedene datenbasierte Untersuchungen zum ...

Plato’s Parmenides confronts us with a curious, unusual situation: The Socrates that we know only all too well as the white bearded sagacious old man appears as a young student. Indeed, a student defending his innovative ...

Our study is concerned with the identification of ‘difficult’ structures in the acquisition of a foreign language, which will shed light on theoretical considerations of L2 processing. We argue that – compared to simple ...

In this paper, we describe tools and resources for the study of African languages developed at the Collaborative Research Centre "Information Structure". These include deeply annotated data collections of 25 subsaharan ...

This paper aims at presenting different ways of expressing focus in Foodo, a Guang language. We can differentiate between marked and unmarked focus strategies. The marked focus expressions are first syntactically ...

This paper investigates the structural properties of morphosyntactically marked focus constructions, focussing on the often neglected non-focal sentence part in African tone languages. Based on new empirical evidence from ...

Different languages employ different means for the formal expression of focus. Thus focus may be signaled prosodically by stress as is the case in English. Some languages express focus morphologically by means of special ...

This article deals with some aspects of negation in Buli, a Gur language spoken by the Bulsa people in Northern Ghana.

This book examines the important but largely neglected issue of the intricate mutual influences between Platonism and Stoicism in the Hellenistic period, the Imperial Age, and after. Although this interrelationship is often ...

Nach Morton White können wir die holistische Quine/Duhem-These auf ethische Sätze genauso anwenden wie auf wissenschaftliche. Demzufolge mögen sich die meisten ethische Sätze zwar nicht einzeln testen lassen, wohl aber im ...