Rosemarie Lühr – författare

In the last few years a lively discussion on information packaging has arisen, where traditional dichotomies Theme/Rheme, Topic/Comment and Focus/Background have been taken up again and partly reinterpreted. The discussion is mainly being held in syntax, but also in the fields of semantics and pragmatics. Some remarkable progress has been made especially in Focus phonology.Even if the role of information conveying and information packaging in the Indoeuropean languages was hinted at as early as in the classical studies of the Neogrammarians, this field has remained neglected in today's historical linguistics. This volume tries to partly cover this lack with a sample of papers which offer a various range of new empirical data analyzed from the point of view of information structure. The novelty of the papers consists in the modern theoretical perspective from which the data are analyzed and in the various phenomena considered, which range from the rise of clitic elements to word order change and verb movement.Editorial boardDr. habil. Kai Alter (Newcastle University Medical School)Prof. Dr. Ulrike Demske (Universität des Saarlandes)Prof. Dr. Ewald Lang (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)Prof. Dr. Rosemarie Lühr (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)Prof. Dr. Thomas Pechmann (Universität Leipzig)Prof. em. Dr. Anita Steube (Universität Leipzig)

In the last few years a lively discussion on information packaging has arisen, where traditional dichotomies Theme/Rheme, Topic/Comment and Focus/Background have been taken up again and partly reinterpreted. The discussion is mainly being held in syntax, but also in the fields of semantics and pragmatics. Some remarkable progress has been made especially in Focus phonology.Even if the role of information conveying and information packaging in the Indoeuropean languages was hinted at as early as in the classical studies of the Neogrammarians, this field has remained neglected in today''s historical linguistics. This volume tries to partly cover this lack with a sample of papers which offer a various range of new empirical data analyzed from the point of view of information structure. The novelty of the papers consists in the modern theoretical perspective from which the data are analyzed and in the various phenomena considered, which range from the rise of clitic elements to word order change and verb movement.

Editorial board

Dr. habil. Kai Alter (Newcastle University Medical School)

Prof. Dr. Ulrike Demske (Universität des Saarlandes)

Prof. Dr. Ewald Lang (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Prof. Dr. Rosemarie Lühr (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)

Prof. Dr. Thomas Pechmann (Universität Leipzig)

Prof. em. Dr. Anita Steube (Universität Leipzig)

Volume VII of the "Etymological Dictionary of Old High German" contains the lemmata series Q - Ska ( quaderna - skazzôn ). In this volume, as in the previous ones, a well-founded etymology is presented for the first time for numerous Old High German words. But there are also plausible proposals for solutions for words that have continued into the contemporary language and whose origins are described in etymological works on New High German as "uncertain". In the case of loan words, the investigation of the respective etyma goes beyond Old High German and Germanic. The dictionary thus offers a solid basis for detailed studies of the loan vocabulary of Old High German. The lemmatization of word formation elements gives the user of the dictionary insights into derivative-morphological questions. Since modern methods of Indo-European studies such as the laryngeal theory or the system of accent and ablaut classes are consistently applied, the dictionary puts German and Indo-European word research on a secure basis. The clear three-way division of the main lemmas into a German, a Germanic and an Indo-European part means that a wide range of users is addressed.

Band V des »Etymologischen Wörterbuchs des Althochdeutschen« enthält die Artikelstrecken I, J, K und L. Dieser Band legt für zahlreiche althochdeutsche Wörter, die nicht bis in die Gegenwartssprache fortleben, erstmals eine fundierte Etymologie vor. Aber auch für bis ins Neuhochdeutsche fortgesetzte Wörter, deren Herkunft in den vorhandenen Werken zur Etymologie des Deutschen als »unklar« oder »unsicher« bezeichnet wird, schlägt er plausible Lösungen vor. Außerdem bietet das Wörterbuch eine solide Grundlage für detaillierte Untersuchungen zum althochdeutschen Lehnwortschatz. Aufgrund seiner Anlage ist es auch für Untersuchungen zum Wortschatz anderer altgermanischer und indogermanischer Sprachen, für die bislang keine ausführlichen oder nur veraltete Herkunftswörterbücher zur Verfügung stehen, unentbehrlich. Da Methoden der modernen Indogermanistik und Germanistik Anwendung finden, stellt das Wörterbuch die germanistische und indogermanistische Wortforschung auf eine sichere Basis und erweist sich als ein Arbeitsmittel, das auch für andere sprachwissenschaftliche Disziplinen wie Dialektologie, Wortfeldforschung, Semantikforschung gewinnbringend eingesetzt werden kann.