ON ‘HOW’ IN GERMANIC

New Technologies for Old Germanic. Resources and Research on Parallel Bibles in Older Continental Western Germanic

We provide an overview of on-going efforts to facilitate the study of older Germanic languages currently pursued at the Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany. We describe created resources, such as a parallel corpus of Germanic Bibles and a morphosyntactically annotated corpus of Old High German (OHG) and Old Saxon, a lexicon of OHG in XML and a multilingual etymological database. We discuss NLP...

On the use of passives across Germanic

Introduction There has long been an intuition that the subject position is deeply relevant to information structural concerns cross-linguistically, particularly because they frequently appear at the left edge of a clause, which is thought to be associated with given/topical information (cf. Vallduvi 1992). This raises interesting questions about the role of the passive construction in the disco...

Linearization of Verb Clusters in West Germanic

Tone in Germanic: Comparing Limburgian with Swedish

The Provenance of Provenance in Germanic Areas