Helmut WeiSS
Biographic Data
| ID | 6113083 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helmut WeiSS |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helmut |
| FAMILY NAME | WeiSS |
| SIGNATURE | WEISS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Regensburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7811-4038 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
How to explain linguistic variation and its role in language change
Linguistic variation is a feature that characterizes every natural language. In this paper, I focus on linguistic variation and its importance and its role in language change (LC). To determine its importance and role, one must distinguish between emergence and diffusion of variants because both dimensions provide different contributions to LC. The emergence and further development of new variants is a process that often (though not always) displ…
Grammatical gaps: Definition, typology and theory
Care, Healing, and, Human Well-Being within Interreligious Discourses
Care, Healing, and Human Well-Being within Interreligious Discourses is an edited, peer reviewed volume of global perspectives on interreligious approaches to healing and well-being by 23 academics and practitioners from five different faith practices and 13 different cultures. With chapters by counsellors, chaplains, religious thinkers and linguists, the multifaceted nature of the volume provides an expansive approach to spiritual care and couns…
Rebracketing ( Gliederungsverschiebung ) and the Early Merge Principle
The concept of Gliederungsverschiebung (rebracketing) was introduced by the Neogrammarians and it is probably the first explanation of syntactic change proper. Originally, it was conceived of to explain the emergence of the complementizer dass “that”, which was held to go back to a demonstrative pronoun that refers cataphorically to a following main clause and which was eventually reanalyzed as introducing the second clause. This paper presents s…
The Wackernagel complex and pronoun raising
In many Indo-European languages, pronouns (and other clitic-like elements) tend to appear in second position or near it. This phenomenon was first described by Jakob Wackernagel, after whom the position is named the Wackernagel position (WP). This chapter describes the emergence of the WP in German where it is the third position following SpecCP and C. Since subject clitics in the WP interact phonologically and morphologically with verbs and comp…
Clause Structure and Word Order in the History of German
Over roughly the last decade, there has been a notable rise in new research on historical German syntax in a generative perspective. This volume presents a state-of-the-art survey of this thriving new line of research by leading scholars in the field, combining it with new insights into the syntax of historical German. It is the first comprehensive and concise generative historical syntax of German covering numerous central aspects of clause stru…
Aufkohlung und Härtung Von Sintereisen-Werkstoffen
Satztyp und Dialekt
Germanistik
Germanistik auf einen Blick. Wer sich einen fundierten Überblick über die Inhalte des Germanistikstudiums verschaffen möchte, liegt mit diesem Werk genau richtig. Alle Teilbereiche der Sprach- und Lit
Germanistik: Sprachwissenschaft - Literaturwissenschaft - Schlüsselkompetenzen
Pro-drop in the history of German – From Old High German to the modern dialects
Von den vier Lebensaltern einer Standardsprache – Zur Rolle von Spracherwerb und Medialität
Author’s response
A question of relevance: Some remarks on standard languages
Data from natural languages (in contrast to, say, the results of psycholinguistic experiments) are still a major source of evidence used in linguistics, whether they are elicited through grammatical judgments, as in generative linguistics, or by collecting samples, as preferred in typology. The underlying assumption is that data are alike in their value as evidence if they occur in natural languages. The present paper questions this assumption in…
Indefinite pronouns: Morphology and syntax in cross-linguistic perspective
A Quantifier Approach to Negation in Natural Languages: Or Why Negative Concord is Necessary
This article attempts to give a uniform and coherent analysis of the semantics and syntax of negation, with special emphasis on negative concord (NC) constructions. It is argued that negation is semantically a tripartite quantifier binding the event variable in its restriction. In syntax, this logical form corresponds to a structure where a NegP is present with Neg ° (normally) hosting the negative particle and a specifier as a checking position …
On Two Types of Natural Languages. Some Consequences for Linguistics
First of all, this paper attempts to introduce and define the difference between first order and second order natural languages based on the difference of being subject to L1 acquisition or not. Secondly, I will try to show some consequences resulting from this distinction w.r.t. language change (natural vs. semi-natural LC) and thirdly, following from this, for linguistic research in general. The results may be of relevance for linguistic theory…
Syntax des Bairischen: Studien zur Grammatik einer naturlichen Sprache
Syntax des Bairischen: Studien zur Grammatik einer natürlichen Sprache
Aufkohlung und Härtung von Sintereisen-Werkstoffen
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Aufkohlung und Härtung von Sintereisen-Werkstoffen
Syntax des Bairischen: Studien zur Grammatik einer natürlichen Sprache
Syntax des Bairischen: Studien zur Grammatik einer naturlichen Sprache
On Two Types of Natural Languages. Some Consequences for Linguistics
First of all, this paper attempts to introduce and define the difference between first order and second order natural languages based on the difference of being subject to L1 acquisition or not. Secondly, I will try to show some consequences resulting from this distinction w.r.t. language change (natural vs. semi-natural LC) and thirdly, following from this, for linguistic research in general. The results may be of relevance for linguistic theory…
Indefinite pronouns: Morphology and syntax in cross-linguistic perspective
A Quantifier Approach to Negation in Natural Languages: Or Why Negative Concord is Necessary
This article attempts to give a uniform and coherent analysis of the semantics and syntax of negation, with special emphasis on negative concord (NC) constructions. It is argued that negation is semantically a tripartite quantifier binding the event variable in its restriction. In syntax, this logical form corresponds to a structure where a NegP is present with Neg ° (normally) hosting the negative particle and a specifier as a checking position …
Author’s response
A question of relevance: Some remarks on standard languages
Data from natural languages (in contrast to, say, the results of psycholinguistic experiments) are still a major source of evidence used in linguistics, whether they are elicited through grammatical judgments, as in generative linguistics, or by collecting samples, as preferred in typology. The underlying assumption is that data are alike in their value as evidence if they occur in natural languages. The present paper questions this assumption in…
Von den vier Lebensaltern einer Standardsprache – Zur Rolle von Spracherwerb und Medialität
Pro-drop in the history of German – From Old High German to the modern dialects
Germanistik
Germanistik auf einen Blick. Wer sich einen fundierten Überblick über die Inhalte des Germanistikstudiums verschaffen möchte, liegt mit diesem Werk genau richtig. Alle Teilbereiche der Sprach- und Lit
Germanistik: Sprachwissenschaft - Literaturwissenschaft - Schlüsselkompetenzen
Aufkohlung und Härtung Von Sintereisen-Werkstoffen
Satztyp und Dialekt
The Wackernagel complex and pronoun raising
In many Indo-European languages, pronouns (and other clitic-like elements) tend to appear in second position or near it. This phenomenon was first described by Jakob Wackernagel, after whom the position is named the Wackernagel position (WP). This chapter describes the emergence of the WP in German where it is the third position following SpecCP and C. Since subject clitics in the WP interact phonologically and morphologically with verbs and comp…
Clause Structure and Word Order in the History of German
Over roughly the last decade, there has been a notable rise in new research on historical German syntax in a generative perspective. This volume presents a state-of-the-art survey of this thriving new line of research by leading scholars in the field, combining it with new insights into the syntax of historical German. It is the first comprehensive and concise generative historical syntax of German covering numerous central aspects of clause stru…
Rebracketing ( Gliederungsverschiebung ) and the Early Merge Principle
The concept of Gliederungsverschiebung (rebracketing) was introduced by the Neogrammarians and it is probably the first explanation of syntactic change proper. Originally, it was conceived of to explain the emergence of the complementizer dass “that”, which was held to go back to a demonstrative pronoun that refers cataphorically to a following main clause and which was eventually reanalyzed as introducing the second clause. This paper presents s…
Care, Healing, and, Human Well-Being within Interreligious Discourses
Care, Healing, and Human Well-Being within Interreligious Discourses is an edited, peer reviewed volume of global perspectives on interreligious approaches to healing and well-being by 23 academics and practitioners from five different faith practices and 13 different cultures. With chapters by counsellors, chaplains, religious thinkers and linguists, the multifaceted nature of the volume provides an expansive approach to spiritual care and couns…
Grammatical gaps: Definition, typology and theory
How to explain linguistic variation and its role in language change
Linguistic variation is a feature that characterizes every natural language. In this paper, I focus on linguistic variation and its importance and its role in language change (LC). To determine its importance and role, one must distinguish between emergence and diffusion of variants because both dimensions provide different contributions to LC. The emergence and further development of new variants is a process that often (though not always) displ…
Philosophy (14 works) · Linguistics (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Linguistic research and analysis (8 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (7 works) · Syntax (6 works) · German (5 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (5 works)