Uncovering verb-second effects. An interface-based typology

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Georg A. Kaiser
• Subject Area: General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages ; Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics ; Individual Linguistics, Historical Linguistics
• Term: from 2019 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 411069456

• Final Report Year: 2024

Final Report Abstract

Despite some adverse circumstances in the first phase of the project (coronavirus pandemic and the surprising departure of the postdoc on whom large parts of the project were based), it was largely possible to carry out the planned studies. Most of the studies are empirically based on data from an extensive parallel corpus. The corpus which already existed before the start of the project was significantly expanded in the course of the project work. Most importantly, we have succeeded in developing an annotation tool that will make it possible in future to make the corpus data – and their annotations – available to the scientific community for its own research purposes.

Publications

• Rezension von: Sam Wolfe: Verb Second in Medieval Romance. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2019. French Studies 74, 279–280
  Kaiser, Georg A.
  
• On word order variation and informationstructure in peninsular spanish and italian ‘why’-interrogatives. Cadernos de Estudos Linguísticos, 63, e021025.
  Schmid, Svenja; Von Heusinger, Klaus & Kaiser, Georg A.
  
• Eine FAIRe Anwendungssoftware für textbasierte Forschungsdaten. apropos [Perspektiven auf die Romania](9), 240-253.
  Weingart, Anja & Kaiser, Georg A.
  
• Diachrone Stabilität und synchrone Variabilität der Verb-Zweit-Stellung in den rätoromanischen Varietäten. Annalas da la Societad Retorumantscha 136, 329–343
  Casalicchio, Jan & Georg A. Kaiser