Barbara Sonnenhauser
Biographic Data
| ID | 1508241 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Sonnenhauser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Sonnenhauser |
| SIGNATURE | SONNENHAUSER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2757-3143 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Quantifying the faithfulness of poetry translations in four closely related Slavic languages
Translating poetry is notoriously difficult—some would claim impossible—because it inherently requires making triage decisions what to preserve and what to sacrifice if necessary. Both form and meaning contribute to the esthetic effects of the original, but translations that faithfully preserve the metrical versification principles of the original might struggle to fully preserve lexically conveyed meanings and connotations, and vice versa. Other…
Pairing peers and pears: Changing conventions of Gheg Albanian heritage speakers
Migration events splitting speaker communities and establishing novel contact situations are among the major drivers of language variation and change. While the precise processes that lead to change cannot usually be determined for past events with any certainty, the study of minority and heritage language usage in apparent time may provide insight into the contribution of the linguistic behavior underlying the dynamics. We capitalize on this and…
Special issue: “Ukrainian Linguistics”
February 24, 2022. Can there be a future for Russian linguistics
Degrees of non-standardness: Feature-based analysis of variation in a Torlak dialect corpus
A corpus-based method for assessing a range of dialect-standard variation is presented for identifying samples exhibiting the highest prevalence of dialect features. This method provides insight into areal and inter-speaker variation and allows the extraction of maximally non-standard manifestations of the dialect, which may then be sampled and used for the study of language change and variation. The focus is on a non-standard Torlak variety, whi…
Small-scale patterns in a larger picture: The loss of feature specifications in the Balkan Slavic pronominal system
Telling apart family-internal developments from contact-induced changes and socio-geographically conditioned areal trends is still one of the main challenges in tracing the development - and stability - of languages. Notably prima facie contact phenomena might turn out to have resulted from the interaction of a variety of sources upon closer inspection; assessing their interaction is a crucial requirement for comprehending the dynamics of change.…
Why doing Russian and Slavic linguistics matters
Convergence by Shared Ancestry in Romance
In many cases of apparent contact-induced change the contribution of genealogical correlation in the language sample and its interaction with processes such as matter and pattern replication are difficult to specify. In order to get a better sense of the relevance of shared ancestry, we quantify the change in similarity since the late Middle Ages in a sample of Romance and Germanic languages with data from a selected grammatical domain (expressio…
The virtue of imperfection. Gjorgji Pulevski’s Macedonian–Albanian–Turkish dictionary (1875) as a window into historical multilingualism in the Ottoman Balkans
Even though the Balkans constitute one of the most prominent examples of linguistic areas, little is known about the actual processes and mechanisms contributing to the shaping of this area. Most of the assumptions are based on macro-level analyses and describe the linguistic changes observed in terms of generalising tendencies such as increase in analytism or simplification of structures. In order to approach the processes underlying contact-dri…
Diachronic Slavonic Syntax: The Interplay Between Internal Development, Language Contact and Metalinguistic Factors
‘Knowing How’ in Slovene: Treading the Other Path
For the linguistic expression of the concept of knowledge, the Slavic languages use verbs deriving from the Indo-European roots *ĝnō and *ṷei̭d. They differ in terms of the availability of both types of verbs in the contemporary standard languages and in terms of their semantic range. As will be shown in this paper, these differences are interesting not only from a language-specific lexicological point of view, but also in the context of the inte…
Tautologies at the interfaces: Wer kann, der kann
Not by chance. Russian aspect in rule-based machine translation
Vocative!: Addressing between System and Performance
Vocatives have rarely been comprehensively discussed in their various facets. With 12 contributions covering the diversity of vocative marking, structures, and functions, as well as the relevance of vocatives for theoretical and methodological reasoning, this volume contributes to closing a significant gap in linguistic research. It provides a detailed picture of the vocative as a structure between 'system' and 'performance'.
Eckhoff, Hanne Martine: Old Russian possessive constructions. A construction grammar approach (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs, 237)
The event structure of verbs of emotion in Russian
Parentheticals and the dialogicity of signs
The term ‘parenthetical’ is applied to an almost unlimited range of linguistic phenomena, which share but one common feature, namely their being used parenthetically. Parenthetic use is mostly described in terms of embedding an expression into some host sentence. Actually, however, it is anything but clear what it means for an expression to be used parenthetically, from both a syntactic and a semantic point of view.Given that in most, if not all,…
The ‘potential reading’ in Russian
On the linguistic expression of subjectivity: Towards a sign-centered approach
The various assumptions on which linguistic elements, structures, or usages are subjective in which respect seem to agree in relating subjectivity to a speaking subject. In the communication process, this speaking subject is usually ascribed the agentive role, language is thought of as ready-made object, and the hearer remains a rather passive recipient. However, conceptions of subjectivity relying on these assumptions are circular (in referring …
Aspect interpretation in Russian - a pragmatic account
The ‘potential reading’ in Russian
On the linguistic expression of subjectivity: Towards a sign-centered approach
The various assumptions on which linguistic elements, structures, or usages are subjective in which respect seem to agree in relating subjectivity to a speaking subject. In the communication process, this speaking subject is usually ascribed the agentive role, language is thought of as ready-made object, and the hearer remains a rather passive recipient. However, conceptions of subjectivity relying on these assumptions are circular (in referring …
Aspect interpretation in Russian - a pragmatic account
Parentheticals and the dialogicity of signs
The term ‘parenthetical’ is applied to an almost unlimited range of linguistic phenomena, which share but one common feature, namely their being used parenthetically. Parenthetic use is mostly described in terms of embedding an expression into some host sentence. Actually, however, it is anything but clear what it means for an expression to be used parenthetically, from both a syntactic and a semantic point of view.Given that in most, if not all,…
The event structure of verbs of emotion in Russian
Eckhoff, Hanne Martine: Old Russian possessive constructions. A construction grammar approach (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs, 237)
Vocative!: Addressing between System and Performance
Vocatives have rarely been comprehensively discussed in their various facets. With 12 contributions covering the diversity of vocative marking, structures, and functions, as well as the relevance of vocatives for theoretical and methodological reasoning, this volume contributes to closing a significant gap in linguistic research. It provides a detailed picture of the vocative as a structure between 'system' and 'performance'.
Not by chance. Russian aspect in rule-based machine translation
‘Knowing How’ in Slovene: Treading the Other Path
For the linguistic expression of the concept of knowledge, the Slavic languages use verbs deriving from the Indo-European roots *ĝnō and *ṷei̭d. They differ in terms of the availability of both types of verbs in the contemporary standard languages and in terms of their semantic range. As will be shown in this paper, these differences are interesting not only from a language-specific lexicological point of view, but also in the context of the inte…
Tautologies at the interfaces: Wer kann, der kann
Diachronic Slavonic Syntax: The Interplay Between Internal Development, Language Contact and Metalinguistic Factors
The virtue of imperfection. Gjorgji Pulevski’s Macedonian–Albanian–Turkish dictionary (1875) as a window into historical multilingualism in the Ottoman Balkans
Even though the Balkans constitute one of the most prominent examples of linguistic areas, little is known about the actual processes and mechanisms contributing to the shaping of this area. Most of the assumptions are based on macro-level analyses and describe the linguistic changes observed in terms of generalising tendencies such as increase in analytism or simplification of structures. In order to approach the processes underlying contact-dri…
Small-scale patterns in a larger picture: The loss of feature specifications in the Balkan Slavic pronominal system
Telling apart family-internal developments from contact-induced changes and socio-geographically conditioned areal trends is still one of the main challenges in tracing the development - and stability - of languages. Notably prima facie contact phenomena might turn out to have resulted from the interaction of a variety of sources upon closer inspection; assessing their interaction is a crucial requirement for comprehending the dynamics of change.…
Why doing Russian and Slavic linguistics matters
Convergence by Shared Ancestry in Romance
In many cases of apparent contact-induced change the contribution of genealogical correlation in the language sample and its interaction with processes such as matter and pattern replication are difficult to specify. In order to get a better sense of the relevance of shared ancestry, we quantify the change in similarity since the late Middle Ages in a sample of Romance and Germanic languages with data from a selected grammatical domain (expressio…
Special issue: “Ukrainian Linguistics”
February 24, 2022. Can there be a future for Russian linguistics
Degrees of non-standardness: Feature-based analysis of variation in a Torlak dialect corpus
A corpus-based method for assessing a range of dialect-standard variation is presented for identifying samples exhibiting the highest prevalence of dialect features. This method provides insight into areal and inter-speaker variation and allows the extraction of maximally non-standard manifestations of the dialect, which may then be sampled and used for the study of language change and variation. The focus is on a non-standard Torlak variety, whi…
Pairing peers and pears: Changing conventions of Gheg Albanian heritage speakers
Migration events splitting speaker communities and establishing novel contact situations are among the major drivers of language variation and change. While the precise processes that lead to change cannot usually be determined for past events with any certainty, the study of minority and heritage language usage in apparent time may provide insight into the contribution of the linguistic behavior underlying the dynamics. We capitalize on this and…
Quantifying the faithfulness of poetry translations in four closely related Slavic languages
Translating poetry is notoriously difficult—some would claim impossible—because it inherently requires making triage decisions what to preserve and what to sacrifice if necessary. Both form and meaning contribute to the esthetic effects of the original, but translations that faithfully preserve the metrical versification principles of the original might struggle to fully preserve lexically conveyed meanings and connotations, and vice versa. Other…
Linguistics (18 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · History (9 works) · Syntax (9 works) · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (8 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (8 works) · Artificial Intelligence (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Historical linguistics (5 works)