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Languages, Literatures and Cultures, School of: Recent submissions
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Taking Stock: The Disappearance of German-American Literature?
(Peter Lang, 2011)This essay provides a survey of recent initiatives by Germanists, Americanists, and cultural historians, for example, that aim to rediscover and re-evaluate German-language literary texts published in the United States. ... -
The Americanization of Ernst Moritz Arndt's Political Poetry in the Nineteenth Century
(Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2007)Ernst Moritz Arndt's patriotic poem, "Des Deutschen Vaterland" (1813), written in response to the Wars of Liberation, is characterized by its anti-French rhetoric and call for a unified German nation. Widely published and ... -
Reinhold Solgers Roman Anton in Amerika: Transatlantische Interpretationen des Amerikaerlebens
(Praesens Verlag, 2011)Anton in Amerika: Novelle aus dem deutsch-amerikanischen Leben (Anton in America: A Novel from German-American Life, 1862), written by the German intellectual and revolutionary Reinhold Solger (1816-1866), depicts the often ... -
From Domestic Farce to Abolitionist Satire: Reinhold Solger's Reframing of the Union (1860)
(2005)The Hon. Anodyne Humdrum; or, The Union Must and Shall be Preserved (1860), written by forty-eighter Reinhold Solger (1817-1866) seven years after he emigrated to the United States, reveals how a German-American writer ... -
Sifting the Evidence for the Reconstruction of Pannonian Slavic
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Analyzing part-of-speech variability in a longitudinal learner corpus and a pedagogic corpus
(Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2013)This study investigates the development of part-of-speech variety in the writing of a cohort of beginning college-level learners of German over three semesters of study in comparison with the pedagogical input they received ... -
PIE inheritance and word-formational innovation in Slavic motion verbs in i
(John Benjamins, 2010)The unprefixed imperfective verbs of motion with present tense in -i (such as Russian vodit’, vozit’, bežat’), most of which are considered indeterminate in the modern languages, developed over a lengthy period from ... -
A Balkanism in Central Europe? Realis vs. Irrealis in Subordinate Clauses in Prekmurje Slovene
(Nakl. Kleinwächter and Slezská univerzita v Opavě, 2011)The paper examines the distinction between realis- and irrealis-marking complementizers (ka vs. da in the Prekmurje (Pannonian) dialect of Slovene and compares the phenomenon to the same distinction observed in Balkan ... -
On The Role of Duration in Connected Speech
(Editora da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 2012)In this study it is argued that the main role of duration in connected speech is to direct attention to statistically significant variations in sound segment lengthening and reduction, during speech acts. If this role is ... -
The effectiveness of written corrective feedback in teaching beginning German
(Wiley, 2010-12)This study explores the effectiveness of instructor-written corrective feedback for the improvement of writing accuracy by beginning college-level learners of German. The researcher investigated changes in error rates in ... -
O jeziku slovanskih prebivalcev med Donavo in Jadranom v srednjem veku (pogled jezikoslovcev)
(Zveza zgodovinskih društev Slovenije, Ljubljana, 2012)The essay responds to historians and archaeologists using linguistic data to enrich or justify their explanations about populations in the past, focusing on the language of the Slavic population between the Danube and the ... -
The Best Man in the Play: Female Agency in a Gender-Inclusive Comedia
(The Comediantes, 2008)As an example of how newly reformulated, gender-inclusive Comedia canon demands that we reevaluate earlier assumptions made about the male-authored canon, this study engages two examples of the popular comic convention of ... -
What Don Quixote Means (Today)
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The Illyrian Movement: A Croatian Vision of South Slavic Unity
(Oxford University Press, 2011)The article appears in a handbook that demonstrates the interconnection between language and ethnic identity, providing a systematic treatment of language and ethnic identity efforts, assessing their relative successes ... -
Študent naj bo na ameriškem kolidžu
(Založba Aristej, 2007)The essay in the form of a diary describes for Slovene readers the process of deciding on a college in the United States. The essay presents the family dynamics as well as social and economic tensions of the decision.