Tuegdee, Ariyawong
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Dissertation topic:
" Rectional variants in prepositions and prepositional phrases. A diachronic study of syntactic variation in contemporary German."
Contact address at the University of Würzburg:
Institute of German Philology
Chair of German Linguistics
Am Hubland
D-97074 Würzburg
First supervisor: Prof. Dr Wolf Peter Klein
Second supervisor:
Class in the Graduate School: "Philosophy, Languages, Arts"
Doctorate in the Graduate School from WS 2019/2020.
Abstract:
The study concerns a grammatical variation in contemporary German, the historical and linguistic background of which is to be researched. In the broadest sense, the variation deals with the relationships between rections that can be observed in the context of grammaticalisation processes.
It is often mentioned in the literature that after some prepositions and preposition-like phrases that govern the genitive, such as anhand (an Hand), aufgrund (auf Grund) or anstelle (an Stelle) , an additional preposition, namely von , can occur: anhand (an Hand) von, aufgrund (auf Grund) von or anstelle (an Stelle) von. With some prepositions, the dative case is still possible, for example, innerhalb, südlich, unweit. However, this variation has not yet been sufficiently analysed. The dissertation will address the following questions: Which prepositions and prepositional phrases can govern a von phrase? How frequent is this case compared to its alternatives? What is the morpho-syntactic, semantic-stylistic background of this alternation and what influencing factors can be observed? How can we analyse this variation of the rection from the perspective of language history and language change theory?
We will analyse prepositions and prepositional phrases that show this potential variation. The investigation will be carried out using corpora containing texts from different time periods.
