Manfred Bierwisch
Biographic Data
| ID | 164423 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Manfred Bierwisch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Manfred |
| FAMILY NAME | Bierwisch |
| SIGNATURE | BIERWISCH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Linguistics in Germany: A Fresh Start After a Great Tradition—and New Enigmas
This autobiographical article describes key elements of Manfred Bierwisch's scientific work and life. It was completed only after his death and contains parts that he wrote himself, together with excerpts from other texts and interviews. The article outlines the main features of his linguistic work and in addition sheds light on the difficult political circumstances under which it was accomplished
Studia Grammatica I
Richtungen der Modernen Semantikforschung
Strukturelle Semantik
Anmerkungen zu Utz Maas, Verfolgung und Auswanderung deutschsprachiger Sprachforscher 1933–1945
Bloomfield, Leonard (1887–1949)
Generative Grammar
Das Linguistische Antiquariat
Progress in Linguistics: A Collection of Papers
Speech Act Theory and Pragmatics
Completeness and limitation of natural languages
This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively
Language and Brain – Facts, Problems, Mysteries
The representation of language in the brain is one of the lively topics in recent cognitive neurosciences. The present paper argues that standard models of structures and mechanisms of the brain, which are essentially based on principles of activation spreading in neuronal nets and learning by synaptic strengthening through coincidental activation, cannot account for crucial properties of the Language Faculty and are misguided in central respects…
Universal Grammar and the Basic Variety
The Basic Variety (BV) as conceived by Klein and Perdue (K&P) is a relatively stable state in the process of spontaneous (adult) second language acquisition, characterized by a small set of phrasal, semantic and pragmatic principles. These principles are derived by inductive generalization from a fairly large body of data. They are considered by K&P as roughly equivalent to those of Universal Grammar (UG) in the sense of Chomsky's Minimalist Prog…
Formal and Substantive Elegance in the Minimalist Program (On the Emergence of Some Linguistic Forms)
Interface Economy: Focus and Markedness
In: Wilder, C., H.M. Gaertner & M. Bierwisch (eds) The role of economy principles in Linguistic Theory Akademic Verlag, Berlin, 1996.
The Role of Economy Principles in Linguistic Theory
Signs of Humanity / L’homme et ses signes: Proceedings of the IVth International Congress / Actes du IVe Congrès Mondial. International Association for Semiotic Studies / Association Internationale de…
Dimensional Adjectives
The Semantics of Gradation
Syntax, Semantik und Lexikon: Rudolf Růžička zum 65. Geburtstag
Tools and Explanations of Comparison - Part 2
Journal Article TOOLS AND EXPLANATIONS OF COMPARISON - PART 2 Get access MANFRED BIERWISCH MANFRED BIERWISCH Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR, Zentralinslilut fur Sprachwissenschaft, Prenzlauer Promenade 149–152, DDR–1100 Berlin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Semantics, Volume 6, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 101–146, https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/6.1.101 Published: 01 January 1988
Tools and Explanations of Comparison - Part 1
In this paper, I will outline a theory of gradation1 that builds upon quite a number of previous analyses, preserving as far as possible the concepts that have already been clarified, but modifying the structure of earlier proposals in crucial respects. The reason for adding a new theory to the ones already existing is twofold: (a) The new theory accounts for a number of relevant facts that have systematically been ignored by earlier analyses. (b…
Grammatische und konzeptuelle Aspekte von Dimensionsadjektiven
La nature de la forme sémantique d'une langue naturelle
Knowledge of a language L provides a representational system that relates auditory patterns to conceptual structures of some sort in terms of which experience is organized. This relation requires linguistically determined structures to interact with conceptual structures in highly specific ways. The present paper argues that this interaction is to be explained by positing a level of Semantic Form SF that constitutes the interface between conceptu…
Semantische und konzeptuelle Repräsentation lexikalischer Einheiten
Grammatik des deutschen Verbs
605-615
Two critical problems in accent rules
Beginning with the paper of Chomsky, Halle & Lukoff (1956) a theory of accent has been developed which attempts to explain by certain fairly simple rules the complex pattern of degrees of prominence assigned to any given sentence. In the present paper I will not be concerned with those rules which specify the main stress for stems (or, more precisely, for words containing only one stem), but only with the rules which introduce degrees of prominen…
Universal Grammar and the Basic Variety
The Basic Variety (BV) as conceived by Klein and Perdue (K&P) is a relatively stable state in the process of spontaneous (adult) second language acquisition, characterized by a small set of phrasal, semantic and pragmatic principles. These principles are derived by inductive generalization from a fairly large body of data. They are considered by K&P as roughly equivalent to those of Universal Grammar (UG) in the sense of Chomsky's Minimalist Prog…
Grammatik des deutschen Verbs
605-615
Two critical problems in accent rules
Beginning with the paper of Chomsky, Halle & Lukoff (1956) a theory of accent has been developed which attempts to explain by certain fairly simple rules the complex pattern of degrees of prominence assigned to any given sentence. In the present paper I will not be concerned with those rules which specify the main stress for stems (or, more precisely, for words containing only one stem), but only with the rules which introduce degrees of prominen…
Current Trends in Linguistics Volume III: Theoretical Foundations [and Comments and Replies] . Thomas A. Sebeok , Noam Chomsky
Transformational Grammar, Studia Grammatica, and the Description of German
Neuropsychologie et neurolinguistique. Thèmes de recherche commune
Weigl Egon, Bierwisch Manfred. Neuropsychologie et neurolinguistique. Thèmes de recherche commune. In: Langages, 10e année, n°44, 1976. Les troubles de la lecture : l'alexie, sous la direction de Helgard Kremin et Françoise Dubois-Charlier. pp. 4-19
Linguistics and language error
Semantische und konzeptuelle Repräsentation lexikalischer Einheiten
La nature de la forme sémantique d'une langue naturelle
Knowledge of a language L provides a representational system that relates auditory patterns to conceptual structures of some sort in terms of which experience is organized. This relation requires linguistically determined structures to interact with conceptual structures in highly specific ways. The present paper argues that this interaction is to be explained by positing a level of Semantic Form SF that constitutes the interface between conceptu…
Grammatische und konzeptuelle Aspekte von Dimensionsadjektiven
Syntax, Semantik und Lexikon: Rudolf Růžička zum 65. Geburtstag
Tools and Explanations of Comparison - Part 2
Journal Article TOOLS AND EXPLANATIONS OF COMPARISON - PART 2 Get access MANFRED BIERWISCH MANFRED BIERWISCH Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR, Zentralinslilut fur Sprachwissenschaft, Prenzlauer Promenade 149–152, DDR–1100 Berlin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Semantics, Volume 6, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 101–146, https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/6.1.101 Published: 01 January 1988
Tools and Explanations of Comparison - Part 1
In this paper, I will outline a theory of gradation1 that builds upon quite a number of previous analyses, preserving as far as possible the concepts that have already been clarified, but modifying the structure of earlier proposals in crucial respects. The reason for adding a new theory to the ones already existing is twofold: (a) The new theory accounts for a number of relevant facts that have systematically been ignored by earlier analyses. (b…
Dimensional Adjectives
The Semantics of Gradation
Signs of Humanity / L’homme et ses signes: Proceedings of the IVth International Congress / Actes du IVe Congrès Mondial. International Association for Semiotic Studies / Association Internationale de…
Formal and Substantive Elegance in the Minimalist Program (On the Emergence of Some Linguistic Forms)
Interface Economy: Focus and Markedness
In: Wilder, C., H.M. Gaertner & M. Bierwisch (eds) The role of economy principles in Linguistic Theory Akademic Verlag, Berlin, 1996.
The Role of Economy Principles in Linguistic Theory
Universal Grammar and the Basic Variety
The Basic Variety (BV) as conceived by Klein and Perdue (K&P) is a relatively stable state in the process of spontaneous (adult) second language acquisition, characterized by a small set of phrasal, semantic and pragmatic principles. These principles are derived by inductive generalization from a fairly large body of data. They are considered by K&P as roughly equivalent to those of Universal Grammar (UG) in the sense of Chomsky's Minimalist Prog…
Language and Brain – Facts, Problems, Mysteries
The representation of language in the brain is one of the lively topics in recent cognitive neurosciences. The present paper argues that standard models of structures and mechanisms of the brain, which are essentially based on principles of activation spreading in neuronal nets and learning by synaptic strengthening through coincidental activation, cannot account for crucial properties of the Language Faculty and are misguided in central respects…
Completeness and limitation of natural languages
This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively
Speech Act Theory and Pragmatics
Progress in Linguistics: A Collection of Papers
Bloomfield, Leonard (1887–1949)
Generative Grammar
Philosophy (21 works) · Computer Science (18 works) · Linguistics (17 works) · Linguistic research and analysis (13 works) · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (10 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (9 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Linguistic Education and Pedagogy (6 works) · Programming language (5 works) · Psychology (5 works)