Wolfgang Klein
Biographic Data
| ID | 3592360 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wolfgang Klein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wolfgang |
| FAMILY NAME | Klein |
| SIGNATURE | KLEIN W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Society |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 149 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Schreiben oder Lesen, aber nicht beides, oder: Vorschlag zur Wiedereinführung der Keilschrift mittels Hammer und Meißel
Article Schreiben oder Lesen, aber nicht beides, oder: Vorschlag zur Wiedereinführung der Keilschrift mittels Hammer und Meißel was published on September 1, 2024 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2024, issue 289-290)
How to amend the supply-demand imbalance in research
Another way to look at counterfactuals
Counterfactuals such as If the world did not exist, we would not notice it have been a challenge for philosophers and linguists since antiquity. There is no generally accepted semantic analysis. The prevalent view, developed in varying forms by Robert Stalnaker, David Lewis, and others, enriches the idea of strict implication by the idea of a “minimal revision” of the actual world. Objections mainly address problems of maximal similarity between …
Another analysis of counterfactuality: Replies
Lexicology and Lexicography
Von den Werken der Sprache
Textstruktur und referentielle Bewegung (1992)
Ein Text, wie z. B. eine Wegbeschreibung, eine Erzählung, ein Richterspruch, unterscheidet sich in zweierlei Hinsicht von einer beliebigen Ansammlung von Äußerungen
Von den Werken der Sprache
Die in diesem Band versammelten Aufsätze - erschienen zwischen 1978 und 2008 in der Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik - beweisen, dass die Erforschung der menschlichen Sprache und i
Is aspect time-relational? Commentary on the paper by Jürgen Bohnemeyer
Das Digitale Wörterbuch der Deutschen Sprache (DWDS)
No area in the study of human languages has a longer history and a higher practical signifi cance than lexicography. The advent of the computer has dramaticually changed this discipline in ways which go far beyond the digitisation of materials in combination with effi cient search tools, or the transfer of an existing dictionary onto the computer. They allow the stepwise elaboration of what is called here Digital Lexical Systems, i.e., computeriz…
On times and arguments
Verbs are traditionally assumed to have an “argument structure”, which imposes various constraints on form and meaning of the noun phrases that go with the verb, and an “event structure”, which defines certain temporal characteristics of the “event” to which the verb relates. In this paper, I argue that these two structures should be brought together. The verb assigns descriptive properties to one or more arguments at one or more temporal interva…
De gustibus est disputandum
Time in Language, Language in Time
Many millenia ago, a number of genetic changes endowed our species with the remarkable capacity• to construct highly complex systems of expressions-human languages;• to copy such systems, once created, from other members of the species;• to use them for communicative and perhaps other purposes.This capacity is not uniform; it is actually a set of interacting capacities, which are rooted somewhere in the brain of the individual.However, each of th…
Quaestio and L-perspectivation
Aspect and Assertion in Mandarin Chinese
An Analysis of the German Perfekt
The German Perfekt has two quite different temporal readings, as illustrated by the two possible continuations of the sentence Peter hat gearbeitet in i, ii, respectively: i. Peter hat gearbeitet und ist müde. Peter has worked and is tired. ii. Peter hat gearbeitet und wollte nicht gestört werden. Peter has worked and wanted not to be disturbed. The first reading essentially corresponds to the English present perfect; the second can take a tempor…
Wie sich das deutsche Perfekt zusammensetzt
The Perfect in English and German
Ein Blick zurück auf die Varietätengrammatik
The Contribution of Second Language Acquisition Research
During the last 25 years, second language acquisition (SLA) research hasmade considerable progress, but is still far from proving a solid basis for foreign language teaching, or from a general theory of SLA. In addition, its status within the linguistic disciplines is still very low. I argue this has not much to do with low empirical or theoretical standards in the field-in this regard, SLA research is fully competitive-but with a particular pers…
The Basic Variety (or): Couldn't natural languages be much simpler
In this article, we discuss the implications of the fact that adult second language learners (outside the classroom) universally develop a well-structured, efficient and simple form of language-the Basic Variety (BV). Three questions are asked as to (1) the structural properties of the BV, (2) the status of these properties and (3) why some structural properties of 'fully fledged' languages are more complex. First, we characterize the BV in four …
A Time-Relational Analysis of Russian Aspect
The meaning of the Russian perfective-imperfective opposition is usually characterized in terms such as ‘the situation is seen in its totality vs. not in its totality, with a boundary vs. without a boundary’, and similar ones. These characterizations, while expressing important intuitions, fail on a number of grounds. Aspects are purely temporal relations between the time at which some situation obtains and the time for which an assertion is made…
Rezensionsteil
Die Argumentation in den griechischchristlichen Antimanichaica
The Present Perfect Puzzle
In John has left London, it is clear that the event in question, John's leaving London, has occurred in the past, for example yesterday at ten. Why is it impossible, then, to make this the event time more explicit by such an adverbial, as in Yesterday at ten, John has left London? Any solution of this puzzle crucially hinges on the meaning assigned to the perfect, and the present perfect in particular. Two such solutions, a scope solution and the…
The Basic Variety (or): Couldn't natural languages be much simpler
In this article, we discuss the implications of the fact that adult second language learners (outside the classroom) universally develop a well-structured, efficient and simple form of language-the Basic Variety (BV). Three questions are asked as to (1) the structural properties of the BV, (2) the status of these properties and (3) why some structural properties of 'fully fledged' languages are more complex. First, we characterize the BV in four …
The Present Perfect Puzzle
In John has left London, it is clear that the event in question, John's leaving London, has occurred in the past, for example yesterday at ten. Why is it impossible, then, to make this the event time more explicit by such an adverbial, as in Yesterday at ten, John has left London? Any solution of this puzzle crucially hinges on the meaning assigned to the perfect, and the present perfect in particular. Two such solutions, a scope solution and the…
Aspect and Assertion in Mandarin Chinese
A Time-Relational Analysis of Russian Aspect
The meaning of the Russian perfective-imperfective opposition is usually characterized in terms such as ‘the situation is seen in its totality vs. not in its totality, with a boundary vs. without a boundary’, and similar ones. These characterizations, while expressing important intuitions, fail on a number of grounds. Aspects are purely temporal relations between the time at which some situation obtains and the time for which an assertion is made…
An Analysis of the German Perfekt
The German Perfekt has two quite different temporal readings, as illustrated by the two possible continuations of the sentence Peter hat gearbeitet in i, ii, respectively: i. Peter hat gearbeitet und ist müde. Peter has worked and is tired. ii. Peter hat gearbeitet und wollte nicht gestört werden. Peter has worked and wanted not to be disturbed. The first reading essentially corresponds to the English present perfect; the second can take a tempor…
The Contribution of Second Language Acquisition Research
During the last 25 years, second language acquisition (SLA) research hasmade considerable progress, but is still far from proving a solid basis for foreign language teaching, or from a general theory of SLA. In addition, its status within the linguistic disciplines is still very low. I argue this has not much to do with low empirical or theoretical standards in the field-in this regard, SLA research is fully competitive-but with a particular pers…
On times and arguments
Verbs are traditionally assumed to have an “argument structure”, which imposes various constraints on form and meaning of the noun phrases that go with the verb, and an “event structure”, which defines certain temporal characteristics of the “event” to which the verb relates. In this paper, I argue that these two structures should be brought together. The verb assigns descriptive properties to one or more arguments at one or more temporal interva…
Critical remarks on generative metrics
Critical remarks on generative metrics
Sprache auslandischer Arbeiter
Some remarks on Sanders’ typology of elliptical coordinations
Starting with Ross (1970), various proposals have been made to classify elliptical coordinations and to characterize different languages according to the types of ellipses which they admit. Sanders (1977) discusses four of these proposals, shows that they are inadequate on various grounds and proposes a fifth typology whose central claim is 'evidently correct', as he states (p. 258). In the following, I shall briefly outline this typology and the…
Crossing the Boundaries in Linguistics
Some Rules of Regular Ellipsis in German
Developing Grammars: The Acquisition of German Syntax by Foreign Workers
I Variation in Language and Its Description.- 1 Fluctuating Linguistic Structures.- 2 Dimensions of Language Variability.- 2.1 Problems of Description vs Problems of Evaluation.- 2.2 Setting Up a Variety Space.- 2.2.1 The Dimension of Time.- 2.2.2 The Dimension of Place.- 2.2.3 The Dimension of the Speech Situation.- 2.2.4 The Dimension of Social Stratification.- 2.3 Developing an Overall Grammar.- 2.4 Restricting the Overall Grammar to Single Va…
Here and there: Cross-Linguistic Studies on Deixis and Demonstration
Crossing the Boundaries in Linguistics: Studies Presented to Mantred Bierwisch
Zweitspracherwerb. Eine Einfuhrung
Simple Language
One language can be considered simpler than another and three different concepts of such simplicity are here discussed. The extreme simplicity of learner languages is noted in some detail and a number of principles are demonstrated which underlie communications in elementary learner languages
Second Language Acquisition
This 1986 textbook presents an account of the main concerns, problems and theoretical and practical issues raised by second language acquisition research. Research in this field had been mainly pedagogically oriented, but since the 1970s linguists and psychologists have become increasingly interested in the principles that underlie second language acquisition for the light these throw on how human language processing functions in general. Moreove…
Commune, revue pour la defense de la culture, 1933-1939
The Present Perfect Puzzle
In John has left London, it is clear that the event in question, John's leaving London, has occurred in the past, for example yesterday at ten. Why is it impossible, then, to make this the event time more explicit by such an adverbial, as in Yesterday at ten, John has left London? Any solution of this puzzle crucially hinges on the meaning assigned to the perfect, and the present perfect in particular. Two such solutions, a scope solution and the…
Rezensionsteil
Die Argumentation in den griechischchristlichen Antimanichaica
A Time-Relational Analysis of Russian Aspect
The meaning of the Russian perfective-imperfective opposition is usually characterized in terms such as ‘the situation is seen in its totality vs. not in its totality, with a boundary vs. without a boundary’, and similar ones. These characterizations, while expressing important intuitions, fail on a number of grounds. Aspects are purely temporal relations between the time at which some situation obtains and the time for which an assertion is made…
The Basic Variety (or): Couldn't natural languages be much simpler
In this article, we discuss the implications of the fact that adult second language learners (outside the classroom) universally develop a well-structured, efficient and simple form of language-the Basic Variety (BV). Three questions are asked as to (1) the structural properties of the BV, (2) the status of these properties and (3) why some structural properties of 'fully fledged' languages are more complex. First, we characterize the BV in four …
The Perfect in English and German
Ein Blick zurück auf die Varietätengrammatik
The Contribution of Second Language Acquisition Research
During the last 25 years, second language acquisition (SLA) research hasmade considerable progress, but is still far from proving a solid basis for foreign language teaching, or from a general theory of SLA. In addition, its status within the linguistic disciplines is still very low. I argue this has not much to do with low empirical or theoretical standards in the field-in this regard, SLA research is fully competitive-but with a particular pers…
Wie sich das deutsche Perfekt zusammensetzt
Aspect and Assertion in Mandarin Chinese
An Analysis of the German Perfekt
The German Perfekt has two quite different temporal readings, as illustrated by the two possible continuations of the sentence Peter hat gearbeitet in i, ii, respectively: i. Peter hat gearbeitet und ist müde. Peter has worked and is tired. ii. Peter hat gearbeitet und wollte nicht gestört werden. Peter has worked and wanted not to be disturbed. The first reading essentially corresponds to the English present perfect; the second can take a tempor…
Quaestio and L-perspectivation
De gustibus est disputandum
Philosophy (28 works) · Linguistics (21 works) · Computer Science (15 works) · Linguistic research and analysis (12 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (9 works) · Linguistic Education and Pedagogy (8 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (7 works) · German (6 works)