Papers by Georg A . Kaiser
Isogloss, Mar 1, 2024
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America Romana in Colloquio Berolinensi, 2012
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Ananas da la Sociedad Retorumantscha 136, 2023
Raeto-Romance is one of the few languages in the world that are typolo gically classified as so-c... more Raeto-Romance is one of the few languages in the world that are typolo gically classified as so-called verb-second languages. In this paper, an empirical study based on Bible translations shows that the varieties of Raeto-Romance behave differently with respect to the verb-second property, both diacronically and synchro nic ally. While modern Swiss Raeto-Romance varieties largely show a strict verb-second property, the older varieties of Swiss Raeto-Romance as well as the Dolomitic Ladin varieties are characterized by a «relaxed» verb-second property and Friulian by a «residual» verb-second property.
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Georg A. Kaiser & Harald Völker (eds.), Philologie und Grammatik. Berlin: De Gruyter , 2017
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apropos [Perspektiven auf die Romania], Dec 13, 2022
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DET, COMP und INFL
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In this paper we present the Konstanz Resource of Questions (KRoQ), the first dependency-parsed, ... more In this paper we present the Konstanz Resource of Questions (KRoQ), the first dependency-parsed, parallel multilingual corpus of information-seeking and non information-seeking questions. In creating the corpus, we employ a linguistically motivated rule-based system that uses linguistic cues from one language to help classify and annotate questions across other languages. Our current corpus includes German, French, Spanish and Koine Greek. Based on the linguistically motivated heuristics we identify, a two-step scoring mechanism assigns intra- and inter-language scores to each question. Based on these scores, each question is classified as being either information seeking or non-information seeking. An evaluation shows that this mechanism correctly classifies questions in 79% of the cases. We release our corpus as a basis for further work in the area of question classification. It can be utilized as training and testing data for machine-learning algorithms, as corpus-data for theore...
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Beschreibung und Analyse des Pronomens ELLO im Dominikanischen Spanisc
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Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe - HAL - Université Paris Descartes, 2012
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Cadernos de Estudos Lingüísticos, Nov 25, 2021
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The paper discusses the use of subject pronouns in European and Brazilian Portuguese. More precis... more The paper discusses the use of subject pronouns in European and Brazilian Portuguese. More precisely, the analysis presented here focuses on the hypothesis of PB being a partial null subject language. The methodology used consists in the investigation of a parallel text, concretely two translations of the Asterix comic into EP and BP, and in the comparison of the subject occurrences in the two varieties. The analysis reveals, generally speaking, a more frequent and less restricted use of subject pronouns in BP compared to EP, showing altogether that BP does not fulfil all the characteristics of a partial null subject language.
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Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2020
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Colloque Symila, 2020
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Las trais gruppas linguisticas numnadas retorumantschas sa mantegnan en il territori tranter il P... more Las trais gruppas linguisticas numnadas retorumantschas sa mantegnan en il territori tranter il Pass dal Gottard en Svizra e Triest en l'Italia. Il rumantsch dal Grischun, plidà da radund 60'000 persunas en Svizra, chatt’ins oz anc en diversas vals dal chantun Grischun. Il ladin da las Dolomitas vegn plidà da radund 30'000 olmas en tschintg valladas situadas enturn il massiv dal Sella en las Dolomitas talianas. La pli gronda gruppa, cun in dumber da pledaders da radund 800'000 persunas, furman ils Furlans en pliras provinzas da la planira furlana, medemamain en l'Italia.Gia baud èn las gruppas linguisticas retorumantschas vegnidas separadas entras immigraziuns da populaziuns germanas, sco er tras germanisaziun ed italianisaziun cuntinuada, uschia ch’ellas furman oz damai trais inslas linguisticas tranter l'intschess linguistic tudestg ed il talian. Ultra da quai n’èsi per part betg adina fitg lev d'attribuir a questas gruppas linguisticas tratgs linguisti...
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Many modern Basque varieties are characterized by a phenomenon which has been called ‘dative over... more Many modern Basque varieties are characterized by a phenomenon which has been called ‘dative over-marking’ (Austin 2006, Rodríguez-Ordóñez 2013) or referred to as the use of ‘quirky dative’ (Fernández & Rezac 2010). Instead of using the absolutive case for the direct object, which is morphologically unmarked in the singular, as illustrated in (1), speakers of these varieties tend to mark the direct object by the dative suffix -(r)i, as shown in (2) (Mounole 2012: 363):
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Las trais gruppas linguisticas numnadas retorurnantschas sa mantegnan en il territori tronter il ... more Las trais gruppas linguisticas numnadas retorurnantschas sa mantegnan en il territori tronter il Pass dal Gottard en Svizra e Triest en l"Italia. II rumantsch dal Grischun, plida da radund 60'000 persunas en Svizra, chatt'ins oz nne en diversas vals dal chantun Grischun. II ladin da las Dolomitas vegn plida da radund 30'000 olmas en tschintg valladas situadas enturn il massiv dal Sella en las Dolomitas talianas. La pli gronda gruppa, cun in dumber da pledaders da radund 800'000 persunns, furman ils Furlans en pliras provinzns da Ia planira furlnna, medemamain en l'ltalia. Gin baud en las gruppas linguisticas retorumantschas vegnidas separadns entras immigraziuns da populaziuns germanas, sco er tras germanisaziun ed italianisaziun cuntinuada, uschia ch'ellas furman oz damai trais inslas linguisticas tranter l'intschess linguistic tudestg ed il talian. Ultra dn quai n'esi per part betg ndina fitg lev d'attribuir a questns gruppns linguisticns t...
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In generative grammar, the typology introduced by the null subject or pro-drop parameter shows a ... more In generative grammar, the typology introduced by the null subject or pro-drop parameter shows a clear distinction between null subject languages and languages with obligatory subjects. As a consequence, in non-null subject languages the presence of a subject pronoun is always obligatory, even in impersonal constructions, while this is not the case in null subject languages. In this perspective, it seems that the status of a language with respect to the null subject parameter is determined by the presence of expletive pronouns. However, some Romance dialects that are classified a priori as null subject languages show apparent subject pronouns with impersonal verbs, especially with meteorological verbs. This is the case for dialects spoken at the border areas of Occitan, in particular in the north of Occitania. On the basis of a corpus we have recently set up, we examine the distribution and the morphosyntactic behaviour of these elements, which challenge the general dichotomy betwee...
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