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T. A. Hall (Indiana University): English syllabification as the interaction of markedness constraints
Antony D. Green: Opacity in Tiberian Hebrew: Morphology, not phonology
Sabine Zerbian (ZAS Berlin): Phonological Phrases in Xhosa (Southern Bantu)
Laura J. Downing (ZAS Berlin): What African Languages Tell Us About Accent Typology
Marzena Zygis (ZAS Berlin): (Un)markedness of trills: the case of Slavic r-palatalisation
Laura J. Downing (ZAS Berlin), Al Mtenje (University of Malawi), Bernd Pompino-Marschall (Humboldt-Universitat Berlin): Prosody and Information Structure in Chichewa
T. A. Hall (Indiana University). Silke Hamann (ZAS Berlin), Marzena Zygis (ZAS Berlin): The phonetics of stop assibilation
Christian Geng (ZAS Berlin), Christine Mooshammer (Universitat Kiel): The Hungarian palatal stop: phonological considerations and phonetic data
This volume presents a collection of papers touching on various issues concerning the syntax and semantics of predicative constructions.
A hot topic in the study of predicative copula constructions, with direct implications for the treatment of he (how many he's do we need?), and wider implications for the theories of predication, event-based semantics and aspect, is the nature and source of the situation argument. Closer examination of copula-less predications is becoming increasingly relevant to all these issues, as is clearly illustrated by the present collection.
The collection of papers in this volume presents results of a collaborative project between the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, the Zentrum für allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung (ZAS) in Berlin, and the University of Leiden. All three institutions have a strong interest in the linguistics of Bantu languages, and in 2003 decided to set up a network to compare results and to provide a platform for on-going discussion of different topics on which their research interests converged. The project received funding from the British Academy International Networks Programme, and from 2003 to 2006 seven meetings were held at the institutions involved under the title Bantu Grammar: Description and Theory, indicating the shared belief that current research in Bantu is best served by combining the description of new data with theoretically informed analysis. During the life-time of the network, and partly in conjunction with it, larger externally funded Bantu research projects have been set up at all institutions: projects on word-order and morphological marking and on phrasal phonology in Leiden, on pronominal reference, agreement and clitics in Romance and Bantu at SOAS, and on focus in Southern Bantu languages at ZAS. The papers in this volume provide a sampling of the work developed within the network and show, or so we think, how fruitful the sharing of ideas over the last three years has been. While the current British Academy-funded network is coming to an end in 2006, we hope that the cooperative structures we have established will continue to develop - and be expanded - in the future, providing many future opportunities to exchange findings and ideas about Bantu linguistics.
Jener Euphorie unter den Linguisten, die N. Chomskys Werk "Aspects of the Theory of Syntax" bei seinem Erscheinen 1965 hervorrief, ist nach den Debatten eines Jahrzehnts die Ernüchterung gefolgt:. Auch die "Aspects" liefern uns" keine Patentlösung für die Probleme der Sprachwissenschaft. Kein Resultat, keine Hypothese dieser Arbeit ist unangefochten geblieben, und doch gehört es zum Bedeutungsvollsten, was die Sprachwissenschaft hervorgebracht hat. Niemals vorher wurde mit derselben Kühnheit und Brillianz eine linguistische Theorie der Sprache entworfen. Das darf bei aller Kritik in Erinnerung bleiben. Das theorielose Umherstreifen der empirischen Linguisten in der ungeheuer komplexen Landschaft der menschlichen Sprachen führte in die Irre, würden die Linguisten einzig auf diesem Wege die Patentlösung anzutreffen hoffen. Wer eine Lösung sucht, muß sie entwerfen. Daran ist zu erinnern, wenn jetzt gelegentlich zuviel "Theorie" beklagt wird. Freilich, wodurch sich ein theoretischer Entwurf von bloß abstraktem Gerede – auch exaktem Gerede – unterscheidet, lernt man am besten am Exempel: Chomskys "Aspects" sind ein solches Exempel. Lehrende und Lernende haben im 'Wintersemester 1975/76 gemeinsam versucht, sich dieses Exempel wieder deutlich vor Augen zu führen – einmal ohne die Sekundärliteratur zu benutzen. Das wurde ein mühevolles Buchstabieren, wie die hier abgedruckten Protokolle es bezeugen: Sie sind weit davon entfernt, in jeder Hinsicht zufrieden zu stellen. Fehler haben wir auszumerzen versucht; stilistische Mängel, Argumentverkürzungen und Schiefheiten sind mancherorts stehen geblieben. Dem Anfänger mag die Lektüre trotzdem nützlich sein, dem Kenner zeigt sie, wieviel noch getan werden muß, soll die Linguistik als lebendige Wissenschaft und weder als Ideologie noch als Datenbank verbreitet werden.
Papers on pragmasemantics
(2009)
Optimality theory as used in linguistics (Prince & Smolensky, 1993/2004; Smolensky & Legendre, 2006) and cognitive psychology (Gigerenzer & Selten, 2001) is a theoretical framework that aims to integrate constraint based knowledge representation systems, generative grammar, cognitive skills, and aspects of neural network processing. In the last years considerable progress was made to overcome the artificial separation between the disciplines of linguistic on the one hand which are mainly concerned with the description of natural language competences and the psychological disciplines on the other hand which are interested in real language performance.
The semantics and pragmatics of natural language is a research topic that is asking for an integration of philosophical, linguistic, psycholinguistic aspects, including its neural underpinning. Especially recent work on experimental pragmatics (e.g. Noveck & Sperber, 2005; Garrett & Harnish, 2007) has shown that real progress in the area of pragmatics isn’t possible without using data from all available domains including data from language acquisition and actual language generation and comprehension performance. It is a conceivable research programme to use the optimality theoretic framework in order to realize the integration.
Game theoretic pragmatics is a relatively young development in pragmatics. The idea to view communication as a strategic interaction between speaker and hearer is not new. It is already present in Grice' (1975) classical paper on conversational implicatures. What game theory offers is a mathematical framework in which strategic interaction can be precisely described. It is a leading paradigm in economics as witnessed by a series of Nobel prizes in the field. It is also of growing importance to other disciplines of the social sciences. In linguistics, its main applications have been so far pragmatics and theoretical typology. For pragmatics, game theory promises a firm foundation, and a rigor which hopefully will allow studying pragmatic phenomena with the same precision as that achieved in formal semantics.
The development of game theoretic pragmatics is closely connected to the development of bidirectional optimality theory (Blutner, 2000). It can be easily seen that the game theoretic notion of a Nash equilibrium and the optimality theoretic notion of a strongly optimal form-meaning pair are closely related to each other. The main impulse that bidirectional optimality theory gave to research on game theoretic pragmatics stemmed from serious empirical problems that resulted from interpreting the principle of weak optimality as a synchronic interpretation principle.
In this volume, we have collected papers that are concerned with several aspects of game and optimality theoretic approaches to pragmatics.
Im Mittelpunkt Deutsch
(2018)
In der Indogermanistik sehen wir einen Zweig der historisch-vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft. Die histor.-vergl. Sprachwissenschaft geht davon aus, dass einander ähnliche Wörter in nicht voneinander abstammenden Sprachen, die gleiche oder vergleichbare Inhalte bezeichnen, nicht zufällig in diese verschiedenen Sprachen gelangt sein können. Solche Übereinstimmungen wären anders erklärbar, wenn die Natur des Bezeichneten die Lautfolgen jeder einzelnen Sprache in irgendeiner Weise bedingen. Wir nehmen aber an, dass es also kein Abbildungsverhältnis zwischen Inhalt und Ausdrucksform sprachlicher Zeichen gibt, dass ein sprachliches Zeichen seine willkürlich festgesetzte konventionelle Form behält. Dann muss man Ähnlichkeiten solcher Zeichen in nicht voneinander abstammenden Sprachen auf irgendwelche ursprünglichen Zusammenhänge der Konventionen zurückführen. Die Deutung solcher Zusammenhänge ist das Thema der histor.-vgl. Sprachwissenschaft. […] Die Indogermanistik ist eine von vielen histor.-vgl. Sprachwissenschaften, neben der Finno-Ugristik, der Semitistik usw. Dass die Indogermanistik sich eine gewisse Sonderstellung zuspricht, liegt an drei ganz zufälligen Gegebenheiten: erstens ist die Indogermanistik die älteste und am intensivsten betriebene Sektion der vergl. Snrachwissenschaft; sie hat bis jetzt das grösste Kapital an geleisteter Arbeit zu verwalten; zweitens sind unter den Gliedern, die wir als indogermanische Sprachen zu einer Familie zusammenfassen, besonders früh bezeugte, lang überlieferte und zu grosser Ausdrucksleistung gelangte Sprachen, und drittens gehört zu diesen Sprachen unsere eigene und alle die Sprachen, mit denen wir im europäischen Raum, in der Gestaltung der europäischen Geisteswelt, am meisten zu tun haben.
Questions and focus
(2003)
This 18th issue of ZAS-Papers in Linguistics consists of papers on the development of verb acquisition in 9 languages from the very early stages up to the onset of paradigm construction. Each of the 10 papers deals with first-Ianguage developmental processes in one or two children studied via longitudinal data. The languages involved are French, Spanish, Russian, Croatian, Lithuanien, Finnish, English and German. For German two different varieties are examined, one from Berlin and one from Vienna. All papers are based on presentations at the workshop 'Early verbs: On the way to mini-paradigms' held at the ZAS (Berlin) on the 30./31. of September 2000. This workshop brought to a close the first phase of cooperation between two projects on language acquisition which has started in October 1999:
a) the project on "Syntaktische Konsequenzen des Morphologieerwerbs" at the ZAS (Berlin) headed by Juergen Weissenborn and Ewald Lang, and financially supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and
b) the international "Crosslinguistic Project on Pre- and Protomorphology in Language Acquisition" coordinated by Wolfgang U. Dressler in behalf of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Acquisition of aspect
(2003)
The 48th volume of the ZAS Papers in Linguistics presents selected papers from the conference on Intersentential pronominal reference in child and adult language held at the ZAS in December, 2006. The conference, organized by the project Acquisition and disambiguation of intersentential pronominal reference, brought together leading researchers dealing with anaphora resolution in diverse theoretical approaches and the acquisition perspective on pronominal reference taken by the ZAS project.
The papers of this 33th volume of the ZAS Papers in Linguistics present intermediate results of the ZAS-project on language acquisition. Currently we deal with the question of which functions children assign to the first grammatical forms they use productively. The goal is to identify grammatical features comprising the child's early grammar. This issue is investigated within the analyses of longitudinal data (cf. the papers of Gagarina/Bittner, Gagarina, Kühnast/Popova/Popov, Bewer) as well as within experimental research (see the papers of Bittner, Kühnast/Popova/Popov). The main topic of this volume is the acquisition of definite articles and verbal aspect.
Bewer – who has worked as a student assistant in the project for a long time and wrote her MA-thesis on the topic of the project – investigates children's acquisition of gender features in German. Kühnast/Popova/Popov discuss the correlations between the acquisition of definite articles and verbal aspect in Bulgarian. Bittner presents results of an experimental study on definite article perception in adult German. Gagarina traces the emergence of aspectual oppositions in Russian and examines the validity of the 'aspect before tense' hypothesis for L1-speaking children. Additionally, the paper of Gagarina/Bittner deals with the interrelation between the acquisition of finiteness and verb arguments in Russian and German.
The Shared Task on Source and Target Extraction from Political Speeches (STEPS) first ran in 2014 and is organized by the Interest Group on German Sentiment Analysis (IGGSA). This volume presents the proceedings of the workshop of the second iteration of the shared task. The workshop was held at KONVENS 2016 at Ruhr-University Bochum on September 22, 2016.
As in the first edition of the shared task the main focus of STEPS was on fine-grained sentiment analysis and offered a full task as well as two subtasks for the extraction Subjective Expressions and/or their respective Sources and Targets.
In order to make the task more accessible, the annotation schema was revised for this year’s edition and an adjudicated gold standard was used for the evaluation. In contrast to the pilot task, this iteration provided training data for the participants, opening the Shared Task for systems based on machine learning approaches.
The gold standard1 as well as the evaluation tool2 have been made publicly available to the research community via the STEPS’ website.
We would like to thank the GSCL for their financial support in annotating the 2014 test data, which were available as training data in this iteration. A special thanks also goes to Stephanie Köser for her support on preparing and carrying out the annotation of this year’s test data. Finally, we would like to thank all the participants for their contributions and discussions at the workshop.
NLP4CMC III : 3rd workshop on natural language processing for computer-mediated communication
(2016)
The present paper reports the first results of the compilation and annotation of a blog corpus for German. The main aim of the project is the representation of the blog discourse structure and relations between its elements (blog posts, comments) and participants (bloggers, commentators). The data included in the corpus were manually collected from the scientific blog portal SciLogs. The feature catalogue for the corpus annotation includes three types of information which is directly or indirectly provided in the blog or can be construed by means of statistical analysis or computational tools. At this point, only directly available information (e.g., title of the blog post, name of the blogger etc.) has been annotated. We believe, our blog corpus can be of interest for the general study of blog structure or related research questions as well as for the development of NLP methods and techniques (e.g. for authorship detection).
Feministische Erinnerungskulturen : 100 Jahre Frauenstimmrecht. 50 Jahre Autonome Frauenbewegung
(2019)
The article discusses the methodology adopted for a cross-linguistic synchronic and diachronic corpus study on indefinites. The study covered five indefinite expressions, each in a different language. The main goal of the study was to verify the distribution of these indefinites synchronically and to attest their historical development. The methodology we used is a form of functional labeling which combines both context (syntax) and meaning (semantics) using as a starting point Haspelmath’s (1997) functional map. In the article we identify Haspelmath’s functions with logico-semantic interpretations and propose a binary branching decision tree assigning each instance of an indefinite exactly one function in the map.
Der Index verzeichnet Bildtafeln aus folgenden Büchern: Schumm (2008) - Flechten Madeiras, der Kanaren und Azoren; Schumm & Aptroot (2010) - Seychelles Lichen Guide; Schumm (2011) - Kalkflechten der Schäbischen Alb - ein mikroskopisch anatomischer Atlas; Aptroot & Schumm (2011) - Fruticose Roccellaceae - an anatomical-microscopical Atlas and Guide with a worldwide Key and further Notes on some crustose Roccellaceae or similar Lichens; und Schumm & Aptroot (2012) - A microscopical Atlas of some tropical Lichens from SE-Asia (Thailand, Cambodia, Philippines, Vietnam), Volume 1 and Volume 2.
Der "Regionalatlas Rhein-Main" wird zum 75-jährigen Jubiläum der "Rhein-Mainischen Forschung" veröffentlicht. Er verfolgt das Ziel,
- einne Überblick über die regionale Struktur des Rhein-Main-Gebietes zu verschaffen,
- Politik, Wirtschaft und Verwaltung Grundlagendaten in regionalisierter Form für ihre Entscheidungen an die Hand zu geben, und
- den im Rhein-Main-Gebiet lebenden Menschen die regionalen Strukturen ihres Lebensraumes näher zu bringen.
This study contains articles based on speeches and presentations at the 14th CFS-IMFS Conference "The ECB and its Watchers" on June 15, 2012 by Mario Draghi, John Vickers, Peter Praet, Lucrezia Reichlin, Vitor Gaspar, Lucio Pench and Stefan Gerlach and a post-conference outlook by Helmut Siekmann and Volker Wieland.
Index zu den Bildtafeln in folgenden Büchern: F. Schumm (2008): Flechten Madeiras, der Kanaren und Azoren.- 1-294, ISBN 978-300-023700-3; F. Schumm & A. Aptroot (2010): Seychelles Lichen Guide. - 1-404, ISBN 978-3-00-030254-1; F. Schumm (2011): Kalkflechten der Schäbischen Alb - ein mikroskopisch anatomischer Atlas. - 1-410, ISBN 978-3-8448-7365-8 ; A. Aptroot & F. Schumm (2011): Fruticose Roccellaceae - an anatomical-microscopical Atlas and Guide with a worldwide Key and further Notes on some crustose Roccellaceae or similar Lichens. - 1- 374, ISBN 978-3-033689-8; F. Schumm & A Aptroot (2012): A microscopical Atlas of some tropical Lichens from SE-Asia (Thailand, Cambodia, Philippines, Vietnam). - Volume 1: 1-455 (Anisomeridium-Lobaria), ISBN 978-3-8448-9258-1, Volume 2: 456-881 (Malmidea -Trypethelium). ISBN 978-3-8448-9259-9; F. Schumm & A. Aptroot (2013): Flechten Madeiras, der Kanaren und Azoren – Band 2 (Ergänzungsband): 1-457, ISBN 978-3-7322-7480-2; F. Schumm & J.A. Elix (2014): Images from Lichenes Australasici Exsiccati and of other characteristic Australasian Lichens – Volume 1: 1-665, ISBN 978-3-7386-8386-9; Volume 2: 666-1327, ISBN 978-3-7386-
8387-5
Against the background of the European debt crisis, the Research Center SAFE, in the fall of 2013, had issued a call for papers on the topic “Austerity and Economic Growth: Concepts for Europe”, with the objective of soliciting research proposals focusing on the nature of the relationship between austerity, debt sustainability and growth. Each of the five funded projects brought forth an academic paper and a shortened, non-technical policy brief. These policy papers are presented in the present collection of policy letters, edited by Alfons Weichenrieder.
The first paper by Alberto Alesina, Carlo Favero and Francesco Giavazzi looks into the question of how fiscal consolidations influence the real economy. Harris Dellas and Dirk Niepelt emphasize that fiscal austerity is a signal that investors use to tell apart governments with high and low default costs that accordingly will have a high or low probability of repayment.The paper by Benjamin Born, Gernot Müller and Johannes Pfeiffer,looks at the impact of austerity measures on government bond spreads. Oscar Jorda and Alan M. Taylor, in the fourth contribution, put into question whether the narrative records of fiscal consolidation plans are really exogenous. The final study by Enrique Mendoza, Linda Tesar and Jing Zhang suggests that fiscal consolidation should largely depend on expenditure cuts, rather than tax increases that may fail, when fiscal space is exhausted.
The IMFS Interdisciplinary Study 2/2013 contains speeches of Michael Burda (Humboldt University ), Benoît Coeuré (European Central Bank), Stefan Gerlach (Bank of Ireland and former IMFS Professor), Patrick Honohan (Bank of Ireland), Sabine Lautenschläger (Deutsche Bundesbank), Athanasios Orphanides (MIT) and Helmut Siekmann as well as Volker Wieland.
Die Digitalisierung der Kommunikation: Gesellschaftliche Trends und der Wandel von Organisationen
(2019)
Die Publikation bieten einen Überblick zu den mit der Digitalisierung der Kommunikation zusammenhängenden gesellschaftlichen Trends wie Always-On Kultur, Shitstorm, Fake News und den Auswirkungen auf Schulen, Medien, Nichtregierungsorganisationen, Arbeitswelt und Sport.
Diese Publikation liegt auch als Science Policy Paper 6 in englischer Sprache vor (urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-478533).
Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Christian Reuter, Tanjev Schultz, Christian Stegbauer: Die Digitalisierung der Kommunikation: Gesellschaftliche Trends und der Wandel von Organisationen – Einleitung
Daniel Lambach: Digitale Welt und reale Welt – keine Gegensätze mehr
Leonard Reinecke: Schöne neue Smartphone-Welt? Psychologisches Wohlbefinden im Spannungsfeld von digitaler Autonomie und ständiger Vernetztheit
Christian Reuter: Fake News und manipulierte Meinungsbildung
Christian Stegbauer: Massenhafte Wutanfälle im Internet oder kann der Shitstorm jeden treffen?
Volker Schaeffer: „Wir haben schon immer in Bubbles gelebt“ – Chancen und Gefahren der Digitalisierung in den Medien
Angela Menig, Verena Zimmermann, Joachim Vogt: Die digitale Transformation der Arbeitswelt – Chance oder Risiko?
Stefan Aufenanger, Jasmin Bastian: Einsatz digitaler Technologie in Schulen
Angelika Böhling: Entwicklungszusammenarbeit goes digital– Chancen und Herausforderungen der digitalen Kommunikation von Nichtregierungsorganisationen
Josef Wiemeyer: Digitale Interaktion und Kommunikation im Sport
This publication aims to provide an overview on how digitalisation of communication results in societal trends such as an “always-on” culture, “shitstorms”, “fake news” and their effects on schools, media, non-governmental organisations, work and sports.
Table of Contents
Christian Reuter, Tanjev Schultz, Christian Stegbauer: Digitalisation and Communication: Societal Trends and the Change in Organisations — Preface
Daniel Lambach: Digital World and Real World – Opposites no more
Leonard Reinecke: Brave New Smartphone World? Psychological Wellbeing between Digital Autonomy and Constant Connectedness
Christian Reuter: Fake News and the Manipulation of Public Opinion
Christian Stegbauer: Tantrums on a Massive Scale, or: Could Anybody be a Victim of Social Media Outrage?
Volker Schaeffer: “We Have Always Been Living in Bubbles” The Opportunities and Risks in the Digitalisation of Media
Angela Menig, Verena Zimmermann, Joachim Vogt: Digital Transformation of the Workplace – Risk or Opportunity?
Stefan Aufenanger, Jasmin Bastian: Digital Technology in Schools
Angelika Böhling: Development Assistance Goes Digital - The Opportunities and Challenges Non-Governmental Organisations Face in Digital Communication
Josef Wiemeyer: Digital Interaction and Communication in Sports
This volume comprises papers that were given at the workshop Information Structure and the Referential Status of Linguistic Expressions, which we organized during the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS) Conference in Leipzig in February 2001. At this workshop we discussed the connection between information structure and the referential interpretation of linguistic expressions, a topic mostly neglected in current linguistics research. One common aim of the papers is to find out to what extent the focus-background as well as the topic-comment structuring determine the referential interpretation of simple arguments like definite and indefinite NPs on the one hand and sentences on the other.
In these volumes, we are very pleased to present a collection of papers based on talks and posters at Sinn und Bedeutung 22, which took place in Berlin and Potsdam on September 7-10, 2017, jointly organized by the Leibniz-Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS) and the University of Potsdam.
SuB22 received 183 submitted abstracts. Out of these, the organizing committee selected 39 oral presentations in the main session, 4 oral presentations in the special session ‘Semantics and Natural Logic’, and 24 poster presentations. There were an additional 6 invited talks. In total, 58 of these contributions appear in paper form in the present volumes.
In these volumes, we are very pleased to present a collection of papers based on talks and posters at Sinn und Bedeutung 22, which took place in Berlin and Potsdam on September 7-10, 2017, jointly organized by the Leibniz-Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS) and the University of Potsdam.
SuB22 received 183 submitted abstracts. Out of these, the organizing committee selected 39 oral presentations in the main session, 4 oral presentations in the special session ‘Semantics and Natural Logic’, and 24 poster presentations. There were an additional 6 invited talks. In total, 58 of these contributions appear in paper form in the present volumes.
The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) is a theoretically grounded toolkit that employs parallel pictorial stimuli to explore and assess narrative skills in children in many different languages. It is part of the LITMUS (Language Impairment Testing in Multilingual Settings) battery of tests that were developed in connection with the COST Action IS0804 Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: Linguistic Patterns and the Road to Assessment (2009−2013). MAIN has been designed to assess both narrative production and comprehension in children who acquire one or more languages from birth or from early age. Its design allows for the comparable assessment of narrative skills in several languages in the same child and in different elicitation modes: Telling, Retelling and Model Story. MAIN contains four parallel stories, each with a carefully designed six-picture sequence based on a theoretical model of multidimensional story organization. The stories are controlled for cognitive and linguistic complexity, parallelism in macrostructure and microstructure, as well as for cultural appropriateness and robustness. As a tool MAIN had been used to compare children’s narrative skills across languages, and also to help differentiate between children with and without developmental language disorders, both monolinguals and bilinguals.
This volume consists of two parts. The main content of Part I consists of 33 papers describing the process of adapting and translating MAIN to a large number of languages from different parts of the world. Part II contains materials for use for about 80 languages, including pictorial stimuli, which are accessible after registration.
MAIN was first published in 2012/2013 (ZASPiL 56). Several years of theory development and material construction preceded this launch. In 2019 (ZASPiL 63), the revised English version (revised on the basis of over 2,500 transcribed MAIN narratives as well as ca 24,000 responses to MAIN comprehension questions, collected from around 700 monolingual and bilingual children in Germany, Russia and Sweden between 2013-2019) was published together with revised versions in German, Russian, Swedish, and Turkish for the bilingual Turkish-Swedish population in Sweden. The present 2020 (ZASPiL 64) volume contains new and revised language versions of MAIN.
These proceedings, also online available as No. 46 in the ZAS Papers in Linguistics series under http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/index.html?publications_zaspil have resulted from the International Conference "Focus in African languages" held October 6-8, 2005 at the Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) in Berlin. The conference was cooperatively organized by the latter, together with the Collaborative Research Center (Sonderforschungsforschungsbereich) 632, generously funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). It was the first conference bringing together colleagues working on this topic from all over the world in such scale.
Even though this volume contains only ten contributions out of the 35 papers presented at the conference, it displays the wide range of approaches, subjects and languages studied in the field of information structure in African languages. The collection thus reflects the synergetic atmosphere of the conference.
In the name of all organizers (Laura Downing, Ines Fiedler, Katharina Hartmann, Brigitte Reineke, Anne Schwarz, Sabine Zerbian, Malte Zimmermann) we would like to take this opportunity to thank the participant reviewers and student assistants for their contributions by which the conference became such a fruitful forum for inspiring and seminal studies in this field. Also special thanks for their effort in copy editing to our research assistants Lars Marstaller and Paul Starzmann.
This special issue of the ZAS Papers in Linguistics contains a collection of papers of the French-German Thematic Summerschool on "Cognitive and physical models of speech production, and speech perception and of their interaction".
Organized by Susanne Fuchs (ZAS Berlin), Jonathan Harrington (IPdS Kiel), Pascal Perrier (ICP Grenoble) and Bernd Pompino-Marschall (HUB and ZAS Berlin) and funded by the German-French University in Saarbrücken this summerschool was held from September 19th till 24th 2004 at the coast of the Baltic Sea at the Heimvolkshochschule Lubmin (Germany) with 45 participants from Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy and Canada. The scientific program of this summerschool that is reprinted at the end of this volume included 11 key-note presentations by invited speakers, 21 oral presentations and a poster session (8 presentations). The names and addresses of all participants are also given in the back matter of this volume.
All participants was offered the opportunity to publish an extended version of their presentation in the ZAS Papers in Linguistics. All submitted papers underwent a review and an editing procedure by external experts and the organizers of the summerschool. As it is the case in a summerschool, papers present either works in progress, or works at a more advanced stage, or tutorials. They are ordered alphabetically by their first author's name, fortunately resulting in the fact that this special issue starts out with the paper that won the award as best pre-doctoral presentation, i.e. Sophie Dupont, Jérôme Aubin and Lucie Ménard with "A study of the McGurk effect in 4 and 5-year-old French Canadian children".
Mit umfassenden rechtlichen Regelungen zur Zulassung und Anwendung von chemischen Pflanzenschutzmitteln wurde in Deutschland schon früh versucht, diesen Risiken zu begegnen. Nicht zuletzt in den aktuellen Debatten um Pestizidrückstände in Obst und Gemüse wurde aber auch immer wieder deutlich, dass sich der Zielkonflikt zwischen Anwendungsinteressen und Schutzanforderungen rechtlich nicht vollständig lösen lässt. Im Zentrum des vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung geförderten, transdisziplinären Projekts start2 stand daher die Frage: Wie können ergänzend zu rechtlichen Maßnahmen bei der Zulassung Risiken als Folge der bestimmungsgemäßen Anwendung von Pflanzenschutzmitteln weiter und nachhaltig vermindert werden?
Die vorliegende Handreichung gibt konkrete Antworten auf diese Frage. Im Zentrum steht dabei der Ansatz, Risikominderung mehr als bisher in gemeinsamer Verantwortung aller beteiligten gesellschaftlichen Akteure zu betreiben. Damit dies gelingt, muss den einzelnen Akteuren nicht nur aufgezeigt werden, welche Möglichkeiten sie haben, durch ihr Handeln einen wirksamen Beitrag zu dieser Aufgabe zu leisten. Die Handlungsmöglichkeiten der verschiedenen Akteure sollten sich überdies zu einer wirksamen Gesamtstrategie verbinden lassen. start2 hat zu diesem Zweck drei Handlungsfelder untersucht, deren Zuschnitt sich am Lebenszyklus eines Pflanzenschutzmittels ausrichtet: „Entwicklung von Pflanzenschutzmittelwirkstoffen“, "Landwirtschaftliche Pflanzenschutzpraxis“ und „Gewässer und Trinkwasserschutz“.
Die Handreichung richtet sich an Entscheidungsträgerinnen und Entscheidungsträger in Betrieben, Organisationen, Verwaltung und Politik (siehe auch den Lesehinweis auf der folgenden Seite). Sie gibt Informationen und konkrete Empfehlungen, wo neue Handlungsmöglichkeiten ansetzen und wo in der Praxis bereits umgesetzte Maßnahmen weiterentwickelt werden können. In einzelnen Fällen sind die vorgeschlagenen Handlungsmöglichkeiten zur Risikominderung auf den besseren Umgang mit besonders gefährlichen Stoffen zugeschnitten. Im Fokus des Projekts standen dabei Pflanzenschutzmittel, die möglicherweise Gesundheitsschäden auslösen können, indem sie auf das Hormonsystem wirken...
All of the papers in the volume except one (Kaji) take up some aspect of relative clause construction in some Bantu language. Kaji’s paper aims to account for how Tooro (J12; western Uganda) lost phonological tone through a comparative study of the tone systems of other western Uganda Bantu languages. The other papers examine a range of ways of forming relative clauses, often including non-restrictive relatives and clefts, in a wide range of languages representing a variety of prosodic systems.
Die Publikation bietet einen Überblick zu den unterschiedlichen Formen und Herausforderungen des Wissenstransfers zwischen Universitäten, Ministerien, Behörden und Medien.
Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Birgitta Wolff, Georg Krausch und Hans Jürgen Prömel: Dialogorientierte Wissenschaftskommunikation als Gewinn für Universitäten und Praxis – Vorwort
Andreas Monz: Bedarf und Anforderungen an wissenschaftliche Expertise—der Blick aus der Praxis
Nina Janich: Warum Wissenschaftskommunikation manchmal so schwer ist … und auch deren Bewertung
Florian Meesmann: Dialog Wissenschaft und Medien—der Blick aus einer Rundfunkanstalt
Birgit Stark: Wissenschaftskommunikation in Zeiten rapiden Medienwandels
Manfred Niekisch: Dialoge der Vielfalt: Wissenschaft, Politik und Zivilgesellschaft
Heike Kaupp: Von der Wissenschaft in die Behördenpraxis
Nicole Deitelhoff: Mehr Mut zur Relevanz
The papers in this volume were originally presented at the Workshop on Bantu Wh-questions, held at the Institut des Sciences de l’Homme, Université Lyon 2, on 25-26 March 2011, which was organized by the French-German cooperative project on the Phonology/Syntax Interface in Bantu Languages (BANTU PSYN). This project, which is funded by the ANR and the DFG, comprises three research teams, based in Berlin, Paris and Lyon. The Berlin team, at the ZAS, is: Laura Downing (project leader) and Kristina Riedel (post-doc). The Paris team, at the Laboratoire de phonétique et phonologie (LPP; UMR 7018), is: Annie Rialland (project leader), Cédric Patin (Maître de Conférences, STL, Université Lille 3), Jean-Marc Beltzung (post-doc), Martial Embanga Aborobongui (doctoral student), Fatima Hamlaoui (post-doc). The Lyon team, at the Dynamique du Langage (UMR 5596) is: Gérard Philippson (project leader) and Sophie Manus (Maître de Conférences, Université Lyon 2). These three research teams bring together the range of theoretical expertise necessary to investigate the phonology-syntax interface: intonation (Patin, Rialland), tonal phonology (Aborobongui, Downing, Manus, Patin, Philippson, Rialland), phonology-syntax interface (Downing, Patin) and formal syntax (Riedel, Hamlaoui). They also bring together a range of Bantu language expertise: Western Bantu (Aboronbongui, Rialland), Eastern Bantu (Manus, Patin, Philippson, Riedel), and Southern Bantu (Downing).
Whither artificial intelligence? Debating the policy challenges of the upcoming transformation
(2018)
In this publication, researchers from the social and economic sciences and medicine as well as practitioners from the media and politics reflect on the influence of scientific expertise in times of crisis. Differences and similarities between the Covid-19 pandemic, the financial and economic crisis, the refugee crisis and the climate crisis are elaborated. The interviews were conducted in November/December 2021.