Jürg Fleischer
Biographic Data
| ID | 174824 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jürg Fleischer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jürg |
| FAMILY NAME | Fleischer |
| SIGNATURE | FLEISCHER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Philipps University of Marburg |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Gender conflicts in German possessives
Although German, as a grammatical gender language, requires noun–pronoun agreement in anaphora, exceptions to the rule occur, e.g., in possessive constructions when the gender-incongruent possessive pronoun sein (masculine/neuter, his/its) refers to feminine antecedents instead of congruent ihr (feminine, her). While this violation is merely grammatical for inanimate referents, it can provoke semantic mismatches for human possessors (especially g…
Eastern Yiddish Relative Clauses in an Areal Perspective
Despite a vast literature on Yiddish relative clauses, their linguistic and geographical aspects have often been neglected. Based on data from the Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry (JCAAJ), the areal distribution of subject and oblique relative clauses is analyzed for the first time. I show that vos ‘that; what’, which also introduces non-relative complement clauses, is the most common element to introduce subject relative clauses, w…
A diachronic and areal typology of agreement in Germanic
In a comparison of a passage from the New Testament (Luke 2:1–2:20), we explore diachronic developments and areal distributions of agreement in Germanic quantitatively by taking into account 33 different Bible versions, spanning from Wulfila’s Gothic version to all modern standard languages and selected dialects. This allows us to establish a thorough typological profile of agreement and its differing developments in Germanic. Our method involves…
Case Syncretism, Animacy, and Word Order in Continental West Germanic
To understand a sentence, it is crucial to understand who is doing what. The interplay of morphological case marking, argument serialization, and animacy provides linguistic cues for the processing system to rapidly identify the thematic roles of the arguments. The present event-related brain potential (ERP) study investigates on-line brain responses during argument identification in Zurich German, a High Alemannic dialect, and in Fering, a North…
Variation and its determinants
This paper studies some factors governing the presence or absence of word-final schwa in German. To obtain data as homogeneous as possible we focus on three adverbs outside morphological paradigms, namely, heut(e) ‘today’, gern(e) ‘willingly’, and bald(e) ‘soon’, in one particular text type, the letters written by one and the same person, the writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832). Apart from lexical differences between the items studied a…
Genus- und Sexuskongruenz im Neuhochdeutschen
Slavic influence in Eastern Yiddish syntax
Relative clauses introduced by vos (e.g., der bokher vos ikh ze ‘the boy that I see’) are the most typical relative clause pattern in Eastern Yiddish. The construction has characteristic traits: although vos derives from the interrogative pronoun WHAT, which is restricted to non-humans, relative vos has no restrictions with respect to the semantics of the relativized nouns. In addition, depending on the syntactic function of the relativized noun,…
Sprachwandelvergleich - Comparing Diachronies
The contributions to this volume address the model of diachronic language comparison that has emerged from the field of contrastive linguistics. The volume's aim is to use language comparison to derive principles of language change that allow for generalizations that go beyond single languages. Indeed, the phenomenon of change observed in a particular language is thrown into sharper relief when compared to comparable developments in other languag…
Relativsätze in den Dialekten des Deutschen
This paper establishes a cross-dialectal typology of relative clauses in various German dialects and Yiddish according to their form and function. A great variety of different types of relativizers and relative clauses can be observed, including various pronouns, particles, and zero relatives. Combinations of these types occur, one of the most typical involving a resumptive element in a clause introduced by a particle. The Accessibility Hierarchy…
Vom Wert sprachwandelvergleichenden Arbeitens
Sprachwandelvergleich
Die Erhebung syntaktischer Phänomene durch die indirekte Methode
This article demonstrates how syntactic phenomena can be successfully collected using the indirect method. The empirical basis for this discussion is supplied by data from the DFG-funded SyHD (Syntax of Hessian Dialects) project, in which, at a total of over 160 locations across - and a further twelve locations distributed elliptically around - the German state of Hesse, syntactic phenomena are being investigated using an indirect questionnaire. …
Die Minderheit im Spiegel der Mehrheit (und umgekehrt)
Article Die Minderheit im Spiegel der Mehrheit (und umgekehrt): zur soziolinguistischen Situation des Westjiddischen im hochalemannischen Sprachgebiet was published on November 1, 2012 in the journal Sociolinguistica (volume 26, issue 1)
Zum Quellenwert des althochdeutschen Tatian für die Syntaxforschung. Überlegungen auf der Basis von Wortstellungsphänomenen
This paper is about the potential value of the Old High German Tatian manuscript as a source for research on word order. The Tatian (dated before 850), being one of the largest records of Old High German, is often viewed as a slavish translation of the Latin text, displaying many features of an interlinear translation. However, it has long been noted that deviations from the Latin word order can provide valuable evidence for genuine Old High Germ…
Zur Methodologie althochdeutscher Syntaxforschung
Das Interesse am Althochdeutschen ist derzeit recht groß: Davon zeugt unter anderem das Erscheinen der auf Wilhelm Braune zurückgehenden neu überarbeiteten ›Althochdeutschen Grammatik‹, die in Zukunft den Titel ›Althochdeutsche Grammatik I‹ tragen wird (Braune/Reiffenstein 2004), die Neuauflage der bewährten Einführung von Sonderegger (2003) oder auch das Erscheinen von Neueditionen althochdeutscher Texte (vgl. 2.3). Das Interesse gilt vor allem …
Zurich German
Zurich German belongs to the High Alemannic subgroup of Alemannic, a dialect group forming part of Upper German (cf. Wiesinger 1983: 835). It is the dialect spoken in the city and in most parts of the canton of Zurich. According to recent census data, the canton of Zurich (whose area roughly coincides with the areal extension of Zurich German) has somewhat more than 1.2 million inhabitants, but since immigration both from other German-speaking ar…
Kurzrezensionen
Gegenstand der vorliegenden Arbeit ist die syntaktische und semantische Analyse verschiedener Reflexivkonstruktionen im Deutschen unter
A typology of relative clauses in German dialects
Helmut Weiß, Syntax des Bairischen. Studien zur Grammatik einer natürlichen Sprache
Die vorliegende Arbeit ist eine ausfhrliche Monographie zur Syntax eines deutschen Dialektes. Dass die Syntax im Rahmen der Dialektologie bislang das Dasein eines Stiefkindes fristet, ist schon hufig thematisiert und beklagt worden (vgl. (22) der rezensierten Studie sowie Glaser (1997)). In neuerer Zeit sind einige Sammelbnde (Abraham/Bayer (1993), Penner (1995)), sodann auch ausfhrlichere Monographien erschienen; diese sind teilweise eher deskri…
Zurich German
Zurich German belongs to the High Alemannic subgroup of Alemannic, a dialect group forming part of Upper German (cf. Wiesinger 1983: 835). It is the dialect spoken in the city and in most parts of the canton of Zurich. According to recent census data, the canton of Zurich (whose area roughly coincides with the areal extension of Zurich German) has somewhat more than 1.2 million inhabitants, but since immigration both from other German-speaking ar…
Helmut Weiß, Syntax des Bairischen. Studien zur Grammatik einer natürlichen Sprache
Die vorliegende Arbeit ist eine ausfhrliche Monographie zur Syntax eines deutschen Dialektes. Dass die Syntax im Rahmen der Dialektologie bislang das Dasein eines Stiefkindes fristet, ist schon hufig thematisiert und beklagt worden (vgl. (22) der rezensierten Studie sowie Glaser (1997)). In neuerer Zeit sind einige Sammelbnde (Abraham/Bayer (1993), Penner (1995)), sodann auch ausfhrlichere Monographien erschienen; diese sind teilweise eher deskri…
A typology of relative clauses in German dialects
Kurzrezensionen
Gegenstand der vorliegenden Arbeit ist die syntaktische und semantische Analyse verschiedener Reflexivkonstruktionen im Deutschen unter
Zur Methodologie althochdeutscher Syntaxforschung
Das Interesse am Althochdeutschen ist derzeit recht groß: Davon zeugt unter anderem das Erscheinen der auf Wilhelm Braune zurückgehenden neu überarbeiteten ›Althochdeutschen Grammatik‹, die in Zukunft den Titel ›Althochdeutsche Grammatik I‹ tragen wird (Braune/Reiffenstein 2004), die Neuauflage der bewährten Einführung von Sonderegger (2003) oder auch das Erscheinen von Neueditionen althochdeutscher Texte (vgl. 2.3). Das Interesse gilt vor allem …
Zurich German
Zurich German belongs to the High Alemannic subgroup of Alemannic, a dialect group forming part of Upper German (cf. Wiesinger 1983: 835). It is the dialect spoken in the city and in most parts of the canton of Zurich. According to recent census data, the canton of Zurich (whose area roughly coincides with the areal extension of Zurich German) has somewhat more than 1.2 million inhabitants, but since immigration both from other German-speaking ar…
Zum Quellenwert des althochdeutschen Tatian für die Syntaxforschung. Überlegungen auf der Basis von Wortstellungsphänomenen
This paper is about the potential value of the Old High German Tatian manuscript as a source for research on word order. The Tatian (dated before 850), being one of the largest records of Old High German, is often viewed as a slavish translation of the Latin text, displaying many features of an interlinear translation. However, it has long been noted that deviations from the Latin word order can provide valuable evidence for genuine Old High Germ…
Die Erhebung syntaktischer Phänomene durch die indirekte Methode
This article demonstrates how syntactic phenomena can be successfully collected using the indirect method. The empirical basis for this discussion is supplied by data from the DFG-funded SyHD (Syntax of Hessian Dialects) project, in which, at a total of over 160 locations across - and a further twelve locations distributed elliptically around - the German state of Hesse, syntactic phenomena are being investigated using an indirect questionnaire. …
Die Minderheit im Spiegel der Mehrheit (und umgekehrt)
Article Die Minderheit im Spiegel der Mehrheit (und umgekehrt): zur soziolinguistischen Situation des Westjiddischen im hochalemannischen Sprachgebiet was published on November 1, 2012 in the journal Sociolinguistica (volume 26, issue 1)
Sprachwandelvergleich - Comparing Diachronies
The contributions to this volume address the model of diachronic language comparison that has emerged from the field of contrastive linguistics. The volume's aim is to use language comparison to derive principles of language change that allow for generalizations that go beyond single languages. Indeed, the phenomenon of change observed in a particular language is thrown into sharper relief when compared to comparable developments in other languag…
Relativsätze in den Dialekten des Deutschen
This paper establishes a cross-dialectal typology of relative clauses in various German dialects and Yiddish according to their form and function. A great variety of different types of relativizers and relative clauses can be observed, including various pronouns, particles, and zero relatives. Combinations of these types occur, one of the most typical involving a resumptive element in a clause introduced by a particle. The Accessibility Hierarchy…
Vom Wert sprachwandelvergleichenden Arbeitens
Sprachwandelvergleich
Genus- und Sexuskongruenz im Neuhochdeutschen
Slavic influence in Eastern Yiddish syntax
Relative clauses introduced by vos (e.g., der bokher vos ikh ze ‘the boy that I see’) are the most typical relative clause pattern in Eastern Yiddish. The construction has characteristic traits: although vos derives from the interrogative pronoun WHAT, which is restricted to non-humans, relative vos has no restrictions with respect to the semantics of the relativized nouns. In addition, depending on the syntactic function of the relativized noun,…
Variation and its determinants
This paper studies some factors governing the presence or absence of word-final schwa in German. To obtain data as homogeneous as possible we focus on three adverbs outside morphological paradigms, namely, heut(e) ‘today’, gern(e) ‘willingly’, and bald(e) ‘soon’, in one particular text type, the letters written by one and the same person, the writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832). Apart from lexical differences between the items studied a…
A diachronic and areal typology of agreement in Germanic
In a comparison of a passage from the New Testament (Luke 2:1–2:20), we explore diachronic developments and areal distributions of agreement in Germanic quantitatively by taking into account 33 different Bible versions, spanning from Wulfila’s Gothic version to all modern standard languages and selected dialects. This allows us to establish a thorough typological profile of agreement and its differing developments in Germanic. Our method involves…
Case Syncretism, Animacy, and Word Order in Continental West Germanic
To understand a sentence, it is crucial to understand who is doing what. The interplay of morphological case marking, argument serialization, and animacy provides linguistic cues for the processing system to rapidly identify the thematic roles of the arguments. The present event-related brain potential (ERP) study investigates on-line brain responses during argument identification in Zurich German, a High Alemannic dialect, and in Fering, a North…
Eastern Yiddish Relative Clauses in an Areal Perspective
Despite a vast literature on Yiddish relative clauses, their linguistic and geographical aspects have often been neglected. Based on data from the Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry (JCAAJ), the areal distribution of subject and oblique relative clauses is analyzed for the first time. I show that vos ‘that; what’, which also introduces non-relative complement clauses, is the most common element to introduce subject relative clauses, w…
Gender conflicts in German possessives
Although German, as a grammatical gender language, requires noun–pronoun agreement in anaphora, exceptions to the rule occur, e.g., in possessive constructions when the gender-incongruent possessive pronoun sein (masculine/neuter, his/its) refers to feminine antecedents instead of congruent ihr (feminine, her). While this violation is merely grammatical for inanimate referents, it can provoke semantic mismatches for human possessors (especially g…
Linguistic research and analysis (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · German (9 works) · History (6 works) · Linguistic Education and Pedagogy (6 works) · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (6 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (3 works)