Allein hat auf den ersten Blick die drei gleichen Verwendungsmöglichkeiten wie nur: eine restriktive, eine bewertend, graduierend oder skalar genannte, und eine adversative. (Nur hat zusätzlich eine vierte Verwendung als Modalpartikel, die allein nicht hat). Diese Auffä...

International audience; Ausgangspunkt und Problemstellung Ziel des Aufsatzes ist es, bestimmte caused-motion-Konstruktionen auf ihre Idiomatizität hin zu prüfen und ihre Anbindung an die Phraseologie kritisch zu hinterfragen. Vor diesem Hinter-grund lässt sich die Unter...

In this article, we attempted to examine the issue of the existence of differences in eye move-ment of school-age students as they solve tasks of different difficulty levels in the sciences and natural sciences (computer science, mathematics, physics, biology). Categori...

International audience; This article focuses on the role of corpus in language classroom, a tool that allows to identify syntactic and semantic properties of discourse markers that are not discussed in traditional grammar books. The use of the corpus could assist French...

The pilot study takes into focus a so far widely unexamined branch of language acquisition and developmental psychology. The object of investigation is the salutatory behavior of children between four and seven years of age. The analysis of data gathered in a Swiss kind...

Editorial to the Special Issue in Honour of John M. Findlay

The tradition of bilingual lexicography in the Indian subcontinent is more than two centuries old and goes back to as far as 1772 (Hadley). This article examines the development of bilingual lexicography in the Indian subcontinent with special reference to English-Hindu...

This paper deals with the question of which search strategies are adapted to corpus analysis when trying to point out textual phenomena such as, for instance, indirect and direct speech. My study investigates the quantity and the various forms of direct and indirect spe...

Interactional approaches to prosody have seen an enormous growth in the last decades. One crucial assumption common to these approaches is that prosodic devices may serve as resources for structuring and organizing an interaction. Methodologically, interactionally infor...

In this contribution, different varieties of German (Swiss German dialects, Standard High German) are compared with regard to their conceptual and syntactic elaboration of spatial descriptions. The case study examines a particular scene from the informant's picture-book...