Training and Research
PhD Programme Courses/classes - 2022/2023
Lezioni Dottorandi
Credits: 50
Language: Inglese
Teacher: Anna Cappellotto, Chiara Melloni, Maria Adele Cipolla, Serena Dal Maso
Costrutti transfrastici fra testualità e sintassi
Credits: 1
Language: Italian
Grammatical uncertainties in Germanic and Romance and their explanations
Credits: 0,5
Language: English
L’edizione da codice unico: alcune riflessioni e pratiche editoriali
Credits: 0,5
Language: Italian
Lingua e violenza nel romanzo cortese: Erec e Ferguut come casi studio
Credits: 0,5
Language: Italian
Morphosyntax and lexical semantics
Credits: 2,5
Language: English
Old Icelandic: language structure and history of the lexicon
Credits: 1,5
Language: English
REDE SprachGIS
Credits: 3
Language: English
The regional variation of slurs - a semantic exploration
Credits: 0,5
Language: German
The role of morphology in L2 reading and reading comprehension
Credits: 2,5
Language: English
Two types of exclamatives in German
Credits: 1
Language: English
Wortbildung im Bairischen – Word formation in Bavarian
Credits: 1
Language: German
Grammatical uncertainties in Germanic and Romance and their explanations (2022/2023)
Teacher
Referent
Credits
0.5
Language
English
Class attendance
Free Choice
Location
VERONA
Program
TEACHER
Thomas Strobel (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
COURSE CONTENTS
Unquestionably (or: undoubtedly), every competent speaker has already come to doubt with respect to the question of which form is correct and should be used (in the standard language) when faced with two or more formally almost identical competing variants of words, word forms or sentence and phrase structure (e.g. German ist/hat geschwommen ‘is/has swum’, It. La maggioranza delle persone è cattiva/sono cattive). Such linguistic uncertainties or cases of doubt (“sprachliche Zweifelsfälle”/“dubbi linguistici”, cf. i.a. Klein 2003, 2018; Strobel 2018; Müller & Szczepaniak 2017; Schmitt, Szczepaniak & Vieregge 2019 as well as the useful collection of data in Duden vol. 9) systematically occur also in native speakers and they do not have to coincide with the difficulties of second language learners. There are several recent or current projects on standard variation in the grammar of German, both from a structural perspective (Korpusgrammatik – grammatische Variation im standardsprachlichen und standardnahen Deutsch, Leibniz Institute for the German Language Mannheim, http://www1.ids-mannheim.de/gra/projekte/korpusgrammatik.html) and an areal perspective (Variantengrammatik des Standarddeutschen, Universities of Graz, Salzburg and Zürich, 2011–2018, http://mediawiki.ids-mannheim.de/VarGra).
In present-day German, most grammatical uncertainties occur in the domain of inflection (weak masculines, genitive allomorphy, plural formation, adjectival inflection, changes in verbal inflection, choice of the perfect auxiliary) and word formation (linking elements in compounds, separability of complex verbs). As to the syntax, there are often doubts in connection with case government (case variation with prepositions, partitive genitive vs. apposition) and agreement (especially due to coordination).
The aim of this talk is to present selected morphological and syntactic uncertainties in contemporary Germanic languages (mostly German, but also Dutch and Swedish) and to compare them to some cases of doubt in Romance languages (especially Italian) in order to get to a better typology of grammatical instabilities and their causes. As will be discussed, most doubts of competent speakers – a problem also for general linguistic theory (see e.g. Reis 2017) – can be attributed to processes of language change in progress, to language or language variety contact, to gaps and rule conflicts in the grammar of every language or, finally, to psycholinguistic conditions of language processing. Our main concern will be the issue of which of these established explanatory approaches can be applied to which (Italian) phenomena.
TEACHING HOURS/CREDITS: 2h/0.5 credits
WHEN/WHERE
14 October 2022, 10.00-12.00
UniVR - Aula Co-working
READING
- Hennig, Mathilde, Jan Georg Schneider, Ralf Osterwinter & Anja Steinhauer (2021): Sprachliche Zweifelsfälle: Das Wörterbuch für richtiges und gutes Deutsch (Duden vol. 9). 9th edition. Berlin.
- Klein, Wolf Peter (2003): Sprachliche Zweifelsfälle als linguistischer Gegenstand. Zur Einführung in ein vergessenes Thema der Sprachwissenschaft. In: Linguistik online 16/4, 5– 33.
- Klein, Wolf Peter (2018): Sprachliche Zweifelsfälle im Deutschen. Theorie, Praxis, Geschichte. Berlin/Boston.
- Reis, Marga (2017): Grammatische Variation und realistische Grammatik. In: Marek Konopka & Angelika Wöllstein (eds.): Grammatische Variation. Empirische Zugänge und theoretische Modellierung. Berlin/Boston.
- Schmitt, Eleonore, Renata Szczepaniak & Annika Vieregge (eds.) (2019): Sprachliche Zweifelsfälle. Definition, Erforschung, Implementierung. Hildesheim/Zürich/New York.
- Strobel, Thomas (2018): “Mit dem Wissen wächst der Zweifel” – Was uns grammatische Zweifelsfälle über unser Sprachwissen verraten. In: Forschung Frankfurt – Das Wissenschaftsmagazin der Goethe-Universität 2.2018. https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/73557408/Thomas-Strobel---Grammatische-Zweifelsfa_lle.pdf.
- Müller, Astrid & Renata Szczepaniak (eds.) (2017): Grammatische Zweifelsfälle. Praxis Deutsch – Zeitschrift für den Deutschunterricht 264.
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Guidelines for PhD students
Below you will find the files that contain the Guidelines for PhD students and rules for the acquisition of ECTS credits (in Italian: "CFU") for the Academic Year 2023/2024.
Documents
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Dottorandi: linee guida generali (2023/2024) | pdf, it, 118 KB, 12/12/23 |
PhD students: general guidelines (2023/2024) | pdf, it, 89 KB, 12/12/23 |
PhD students: guidelines for editing your personal webpage | pdf, it, 434 KB, 12/12/23 |
PhD students: handout of first meeting (3 October 2023) | pdf, it, 115 KB, 12/12/23 |