Germanistische Linguistik

This article defines materiality as a crucial dimension of social and cultural practices, framing it within three key contexts: the mediality connected to language (insofar as it brings forth cultural aspects), the conditions shaping the perception...

The aim of the article is to discuss the epistemological and practical research potential of the category of ‘mentality’ in the linguistic research tradition and to demonstrate its usefulness for cultural linguistics. The cultural linguistic...

This article is devoted to the various concepts of ‘practice’ which have increasingly found their way into the work of numerous disciplines under the premise of a practice turn in recent decades. In a first step, the concept is modelled...

A characteristic feature of Upper German dialects is so called preterite decay. The fundamentals of this process are well understood. What is unknown, however, is the period of the later restitution of the preterite in written German in Switzerland....

In Standard German, the possessive pronoun sein ‘his, its’ is usually restricted to masculine and neuter possessors. However, in certain regional German dialects sein can also be used if the antecedent is feminine, making this...

Based on an analysis of historical reference corpora, the paper shows that the active construction consisting of sein + past participle, in conjunction with postural verbs, fulfills different functions that represent different degrees of...

The paper deals with the chances and limits of the corpus linguistic method for questions in the field of historical dialectology, in comparison to previous, “traditional” methods of dialectology. For this purpose, the results of a corpus...