Publications
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Chapter Ruth Barcan Marcus on Believing Without a Language
(2015)
This paper surveys Ruth Marcus’ many contributions to modal logic and its interpretation, starting with her pioneer work on quantified modal logic and ending with the controversies concerning the origin of the idea of rigid ...
Mutual Intelligibility between Closely Related Languages
(2024)
This book offers a comprehensive treatment of research on mutual intelligibility between closely related languages and its linguistic and extra-linguistic determinants. It synthesizes existing research and reflects on new ...
Coding da Vinci – Das Playbook
(2023)
Since 2014, the project "Coding da Vinci," which was funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation from 2019 to 2022, has been connecting communities of cultural enthusiasts and technologically minded people with German ...
Neues aus Wissenschaft und Lehre der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf 2010
(2011)
Das Jahrbuch der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf versteht sich als Forum für den wissenschaftlichen Dialog der Universität zu Zeitfragen, zu aktuellen Problemlagen und Herausforderungen von Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft, ...
Chapter Føllesdal and Frege on Reference
(2013)
In this essay I first identify some desiderata for a theory of reference that appear in Føllesdal’s later work (Section 1). We will see that these desiderata are highly Fregean in character. Next I outline a Frege-inspired ...
Chapter Locality and the functional sequence in the left periphery
(2017)
This volume brings together a selection of articles illustrating the multifaceted nature of current research in generative syntax. The authors, including some of the leading figures in the field, present analyses of ...
Chapter Criterial Freezing in small clauses and the cartography of copular constructions
(2018)
Criterial Freezing is a particular instance of freezing arising in criterial configurations, i.e., in configurations dedicated to the expression of scope-discourse properties. Recent proposals (e.g., Rizzi 2015a,b) try to ...
Heinrich Heine - ein deutscher Europäer im französischen Exil
(2011)
The presentation on Heinrich Heine to the Berlin Legal Association summarizes the stations of his life, the path of a German European in French exile.
Chapter Sign language ideologies: Practices and politics
(2020)
This book focuses on how sign language ideologies influence, manifest in, and are challenged by communicative practices. Sign languages are minority languages using the visual-gestural and tactile modalities, whose affordances ...
Chapter Sign language ideologies: Practices and politics
(2020)
This book focuses on how sign language ideologies influence, manifest in, and are challenged by communicative practices. Sign languages are minority languages using the visual-gestural and tactile modalities, whose affordances ...
Chapter Servant Testimonies and Anglo-Indian Homes in Nineteenth-Century India
(2018)
Our house is our corner of the world (G. Bachelard) Houses and homes prove complex and powerful concepts, invoking places, persons, emotions, and fantasies. This book, with photographs from Maurice Weiss, demonstrates how ...
Running and Clicking: Future Narratives in Film
(2013)
Running and Clicking examines how Future Narratives push against the confines of their medium: Studying Future Narratives in movies, interactive films, and other electronic media that allow for nodes, this volume demonstrates ...
Chapter 87 Scalar implicature as a grammatical phenomenon
(2012)
This article develops various arguments for the view that scalar implicatures should be de-rived within grammar and not by a theory of language use (pragmatics). We focus primarily on arguments that scalar implicatures can ...
Innovative Nursing Care
(2023)
Higher life expectancy on a global level requires complex nursing care as poor education and a lack of knowledge can lead to mistakes. There is a need for nurses who can provide high quality and advanced nursing practice. ...
The Book of Job
(2017-06-26)
The Book of Job has held a central role in defining the project of modernity from the age of Enlightenment until today. Why has Job`s response to disaster become a touchstone for modern reflections on catastrophic events? ...
Heinrich Heine - ein deutscher Europäer im französischen Exil
(2011)
The presentation on Heinrich Heine to the Berlin Legal Association summarizes the stations of his life, the path of a German European in French exile.
Spracheinstellungen und Identitätskonstruktion
(2014)
This study examines statements about language attitudes expressed by bilingually raised Germans of Vietnamese origin during language biographical interviews in search of specific conversational features. A further focus ...
Creativity and the Agile Mind: A Multi-Disciplinary Study of a Multi-Faceted Phenomenon
(2013)
Creativity; Language; Visual Communication; Music; Cognitive Science
Cultures of Eschatology Volume 1: Empires and Scriptural Authorities in Medieval Christian, Islamic and Buddhist Communities
(2020)
The belief in the Last Things has an integral place in Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism. The two volumes want to explain how eschatological thought influenced and factored into the political and religious perception and ...
Decolonising Medieval Fennoscandia
(2023)
The study investigates the relationship between Norse and Saami peoples in the medieval period and focuses on the multifaceted portrayal of Saami peoples in medieval texts. Through a systematic analysis of the sources, ...