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Register emergence and register change in Germanic

Publications & Presentations

Publications

2023

• Pescuma, Valentina Nicole; Serova, Dina; Lukassek, Julia; Sauermann, Antje; Schäfer, Roland; Adli, Aria; Bildhauer, Felix; Egg, Markus; Hülk, Kristina; Ito, Aine; Jannedy, Stefanie; Kordoni, Valia; Kühnast, Milena; Kutscher, Silvia; Lange, Robert; Lehmann, Nico; Liu, Mingya; Lütke, Beate; Maquate, Katja; Mooshammer, Christine; Mortezapour, Vahid; Müller, Stefan; Norde, Muriel; Pankratz, Elizabeth; Patarroyo, Angela Giovanna; Plesca, Ana-Maria; Ronderos, Camilo R.; Rotter, Stephanie; Sauerland, Uli; Schulte, Britta; Schüppenhauer, Gediminas; Sell, Bianca Maria; Solt, Stephanie; Terada, Megumi; Tsiapou, Dimitra; Verhoeven, Elisabeth; Weirich, Melanie; Wiese, Heike; Zaruba, Kathy; Zeige, Lars Erik; Lüdeling, Anke; Knoeferle, Pia; Schnelle, Gohar  (2023) Situating language register across the ages, languages, modalities, and cultural aspects: Evidence from complementary methods In:  Frontiers in Psychology [DOI] [ViVo]

  In the present review paper by members of the collaborative research center ‘Register: Language Users’ Knowledge of SituationalFunctional Variation’ (CRC 1412), we assess the pervasiveness of register phenomena across different time periods, languages, modalities, and cultures. We define ‘register’ as recurring variation in language use depending on the function of language and on the social situation. Informed by rich data, we aim to better understand and model the knowledge involved in situation- and function-based use of language register. In order to achieve this goal, we are using complementary methods and measures. In the review, we start by clarifying the concept of ‘register’, by reviewing the state of the art, and by setting out our methods and modeling goals. Against this background, we discuss three key challenges, two at the methodological level and one at the theoretical level: 1. To better uncover registers in text and spoken corpora, we propose changes to established analytical approaches. 2. To tease apart between-subject variability from the linguistic variability at issue (intra-individual situation based register variability), we use within-subject designs and the modeling of individuals’ social, language, and educational background. 3. We highlight a gap in cognitive modeling, viz. modeling the mental representations of register (processing), and present our first attempts at filling this gap. We argue that the targeted use of multiple complementary methods and measures supports investigating the pervasiveness of register phenomena and yields comprehensive insights into the cross-methodological robustness of register-related language variability. These comprehensive insights in turn provide a solid foundation for associated cognitive modeling.

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• Ihden, Sarah; Kupietz, Marc; Schmidt, Thomas; Zeige, Lars Erik; Ihden, Sarah; Ihden, Sarah  (2023) Der Verbund ‚Deutsch Diachron Digital. Referenzkorpora zur deutschen Sprachgeschichte' In:  Neue Entwicklungen in der Korpuslandschaft der Germanistik. [ViVo]

2020

• Lüdeling, Anke; Alexiadou, Artemis; Adli, Aria; Donhauser, Karin; Dreyer, Malte; Egg, Markus; Feulner, Anna Helene; Gagarina, Natalia; Hock, Wolfgang; Jannedy, Stefanie; Kammerzell, Frank; Knoeferle, Pia; Krause, Thomas; Krifka, Manfred; Kutscher, Silvia; Lütke, Beate; McFadden, Thomas; Meyer, Roland; Mooshammer, Christine; Müller, Stefan; Maquate, Katja; Norde, Muriel; Sauerland, Uli; Szucsich, Luka; Verhoeven, Elisabeth; Waltereit, Richard; Wolfsgruber, Anne; Zeige, Lars Erik  (2020) Register: Language Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation In:  REALIS: Register Aspects of Language in Situation [DOI] [ViVo]

  The Collaborative Research Center 1412 “Register: Language Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation” (CRC 1412) investigates the role of register in language, focusing in particular on what constitutes a language user’s register knowledge and which situational-functional factors determine a user’s choices. The following paper is an extract from the frame text of the proposal for the CRC 1412, which was submitted to the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in 2019, followed by a successful onsite evaluation that took place in 2019. The CRC 1412 then started its work on January 1, 2020. The theoretical part of the frame text gives an extensive overview of the theoretical and empirical perspectives on register knowledge from the viewpoint of 2019. Due to the high collaborative effort of all PIs involved, the frame text is unique in its scope on register research, encompassing register-relevant aspects from variationist approaches, psycholinguistics, grammatical theory, acquisition theory, historical linguistics, phonology, phonetics, typology, corpus linguistics, and computational linguistics, as well as qualitative and quantitative modeling. Although our positions and hypotheses since its submission have developed further, the frame text is still a vital resource as a compilation of state-of-the-art register research and a documentation of the start of the CRC 1412. The theoretical part without administrative components therefore presents an ideal starter publication to kick off the CRC’s publication series REALIS. For an overview of the projects and more information on the CRC, see https://sfb1412.hu-berlin.de/.

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Presentations

2022

• Beier, Phil  (2022) Altschwedisch für Laien. Registeranalyse in Birgittas Offenbarungen In:  17. Überregionale Promovierendentagung der Skandinavistik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn [ViVo]
• Beier, Phil  (2022) Register in den Offenbarungen der Heiligen Birgitta von Schweden In:  25. ATdS, LMU München [ViVo]
• Norde, Muriel; Beier, Phil  (2022) Modelling modal meaning: Directivity in Old Swedish religious prose In:  25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Oxford [ViVo]
• Schnelle, Gohar; Lehmann, Nico; Marklová, Anna  (2022) Reading circle terminology In:  CRC 1412 – Spring Retreat 2022 [ViVo]
• Norde, Muriel; Beier, Phil  (2022) Modal constructions in Old Swedish legal and religious texts In:  Expressions of modality in Germanic: Competition and change, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin [ViVo]
• Beier, Phil  (2022) Register im Altschwedischen? Heliga Birgittas Uppenbarelser In:  Lingvistisk lördag, ISFAS, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel [ViVo]
• Beier, Phil  (2022) Two perspectives on studying register in St Birgitta's revelations In:  NECRON - Network of Early Career Researchers in Old Norse, Stockholms Universitet [ViVo]
• Beier, Phil  (2022) Registers in St. Birgitta's Revelations In:  OXBER-Summer School: Medialität / (Re-)Mediation, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin [ViVo]

2021

• Schnelle, Gohar; Beier, Phil  (2021) Register dependent variation. Instructions in Notker’s Psalterium and the Revelations of St. Birgitta In:  Intra-Writer Variation in Historical Sociolinguistics FAU Erlangen [ViVo]
• Beier, Phil; Unverzagt, Silke  (2021) Register dependent variation. Instructions in Notker’s Psalterium and the Revelations of St. Birgitta In:  Kolloquium SFB1412 (2021) [ViVo]
• Beier, Phil  (2021) Latinsk påverkan på ett religiöst register? Framväxten av register i Heliga Birgittas uppenbarelser In:  Svenska Språkets Historia 16 (SSH16) Lunds universitet [ViVo]
• Beier, Phil  (2021) Register emergence and Register Change in St. Birgitta's revelations In:  Sällskapet för östnordisk filologi (SÖF) femte internationella konferens [ViVo]

2020

• Norde, Muriel; Beier, Phil  (2020) Registergenes och registerförändring i fornsvenskan – det Birgittinska materialet In:  Kollokviet för nordisk filologi (Institutionen för svenska och flerspråkighet Stockholms universitet) [ViVo]
• Schnelle, Gohar  (2020) Identification of early Old High German registers by lexical features In:  Kolloquium SFB1412 (2020) [ViVo]