09 Philosophisch-historische Fakultät
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Item Open Access Des accents, ou de l'intonation? : la prosodie au XVIe siècle selon Meigret(2021) Rainsford, ThomasItem Open Access Directions in german american studies: the challenge of the "New Historicism"(1990) Ziegler, HeideThe object of American Studies, the culture and civilization of the United States, is, paradoxically, no longer restricted to the United States as subject matter. Instead, American texts must be seen more and more as overarching cultural texts. Second, any method indebted to the New Historicism must itself be put in historical perspective, reflecting the fact that it is usable but uncertain in its results. Interest largely seems to supplant the search for truth. Yet since this interest must be kept alive more by the inner consistency of the argument than by adducing external facts, the plot - despite the fact that it assimilates elements of varying importance - can constitute a synthesis, wherein historical interpretation triumphs over pure chance in the aesthetic ordering of the parts into a whole. Thus, in spite of its limitations, the aesthetic leanings of the New Historicism strike me as able to impart new impulses to German American Studies at the present time and lead the discipline out of its provinciality.Item Open Access New insights into the typology of motion in the history of French: evidence from the manner verb lexicon(2024) Piccione, Mariapaola; Rainsford, ThomasOur study aims to investigate the Talmyan typology of motion encoding in the history of French focusing on testing Slobin’s (1997, 2004) hypothesis stating that the proportion of manner verbs is greater in s-framed languages and Schøsler’s (2008) hypothesis stating that the difference between s-framed and v-framed languages is to be found in the use of manner verbs and that the nature of the texts might play a role. Our study is methodologically innovative since it tests these hypotheses against a very large dataset using tailored measures. Our findings show an increase in manner saliency (as defined in Slobin 1997, 2004), contrary to what we would expect. This increase in the proportion of manner verbs might be explained by a more general increase in the overall lexical diversity of motion expression in French. Moreover, our results support Schøsler’s hypothesis, as textual factors affect the use of manner verbs.Item Open Access Old Gallo-Romance (OGR) Corpus : annotation phonologique et métrique des plus anciens textes gallo-romans(2022) Rainsford, ThomasThe goal of the Old Gallo-Romance (OGR) Corpus is to unite in a single corpus all Gallo-Romance texts copied before 1130 in a form as faithful as possible to the base manuscript and annotated in depth. In particular, the corpus contains both phonological and metrical layers of annotation. In this article, we present the main innovations implemented in the OGR corpus, with special focus on the creation of a technical infrastructure which assists in the creation of this annotation and exports it in an XML format.Item Open Access Ein PoS-Tagger für "das" Mittelhochdeutsche(2017) Echelmeyer, Nora; Reiter, Nils; Schulz, SarahMit diesem Beitrag möchten wir einen PoS-Tagger für das Mittelhochdeutsche vorstellen, der auf einem thematisch breiten und diachronen Korpus trainiert wurde. Als Tagset verwenden wir ein Inventar aus 17 universellen Wortart-Kategorien (Universal Dependency-Tagset, Nivre et al. 2016). Mit den annotierten Daten entwickeln wir ein Modell für den TreeTagger (Schmid 1995), das frei zugänglich gemacht wird. Dabei vergleichen wir drei verschiedene Möglichkeiten, den PoS-Tagger zu trainieren. Zunächst verwenden wir ein kleines, manuell annotiertes Trainingsset, vergleichen dessen Ergebnisse dann mit einem kleinen, automatisch disambiguierten Trainingsset und schließlich mit den maximal verfügbaren Daten. Mit dem Tagger möchten wir nicht nur eine „Marktlücke“ schließen (denn bisher gibt es keinen frei verwendbaren PoS-Tagger für das Mittelhochdeutsche), sondern auch eine größtmögliche Anwendbarkeit auf mittelhochdeutsche Texte verschiedener Gattungen, Jahrhunderte und regionaler Varietäten erreichen und weiteren Arbeiten mit mittelhochdeutschen Texten den Weg ebnen.Item Open Access Zum Standort zeitgenössischer Literaturtheorie(1993) Ziegler, HeideDie Vertreter zeitgenössischer Literaturtheorien sind durch die zunehmende Thematisierung des Multikulturalismus in den USA und die entsprechend veränderte literarische Kanonbildung in amerikanischen Universitäten auch in Europa in eine Defensivposition gedrängt worden, die sich vor allem in vorsichtig-unbehaglichen Reflexionen auf den eigenen ideologischen Standort spiegelt. Obwohl die amerikanische Literaturtheorie ihrerseits europäische Einflüsse weiterhin nicht negieren kann, so sind diese Einflüsse aus europäischer Perspektive häufig eher eklektischer als organischer Natur.Ich möchte hier und heute an zwei Beispielen einerseits eine Begründung der europäischen Vorgehensweise anzudeuten versuchen und andererseits deren Relevanz auch und gerade vor dem Hintergrund eines multikulturellen Ansatzes nordamerikanischer Prägung aufweisen.Item Open Access Art and omnipotence: genre manipulation in "Requiem for a nun"(1991) Ziegler, Heide"Requiem lor a Nun" is usually classified as a novel. Yet it remains an irritating example of the genre, since it appears to defy even the loosest definition of a novel. It consists of the three acts of a play called "Requiem for a Nun", each of which is preceded by a long introduction seemingly unrelated to the action, if not the setting, of the play.Item Open Access Metrical annotation for a verse treebank(2014) Rainsford, Thomas; Scrivner, OlgaWe present a methodology for enriching treebanks containing verse texts with metrical annotation, and present a pilot corpus containing one Old Occitan text. Metrical annotation is based on syllable tokens, and is generated semi-automatically using two algorithms, one to divide word tokens into syllables, and a second to mark the position of each syllable in the line. Syntactic and metrical annotation is combined in a single multi-layered ANNIS corpus. Three initial findings based on the pilot corpus illustrate the close relation between syntactic and metrical structure, and hence the value of enriching treebanks in this way.Item Open Access The end of postmodernism: new directions(1993) Ziegler, HeideThe Stuttgart Seminar showed to what extent the actual pre-sence of the writer can thematize the aesthetics of postmodemism precisely at a point in time that may signal its approaching end, signalling as well the need for new directions in contemporary art.Item Open Access De-prefixed spatial Ps in medieval French(2019) Rainsford, ThomasWe examine a series of medieval French spatial Ps with de- prefixes (de-forms; e.g. dessus, dedans), showing that they display a combination of preposition-, adverb- and noun-like syntactic properties which distinguish them from their corresponding base forms (e.g. sus, ens). We argue that these properties can best be accounted for by considering de-forms to be modifiers of a null PLACE noun. Finally, we suggest that during the medieval period, de-forms are reanalysed as nouns, which causes wide-ranging changes in their distribution, including the development of complex prepositions such as au-dessus de.