This article focusses on the relationships between volunteers and refugees in the German “welcome culture”. I highlight the continuities between historical and colonial notions of feminine charity and contemporary ...

The Bologna Process, whose objective is the creation of an „European Higher Education Area“, should be concluded in 2010. In the last years the reactions ranged from total rejection over a more temporising attitude to clear ...

The paper deals with lexical types of the reflexive marker in Slavic. On the one hand, this exponent shows up in a range of expressions associated with diverse interpretations. On the other hand, the properties within the ...

Across languages, we find indefinites that trigger modal inferences. This article contributes to a semantic typology of these items by contrasting Spanish alg un with indefinites like German irgendein or Italian uno ...

"Zu Risiken und Nebenwirkungen fragen Sie Ihren Arzt, Apotheker oder das Klinische Ethik-Komitee in Ihrer Umgebung." Die Einrichtung von Klinischen Ethik-Komitees ist eine direkte Reaktion auf die Professionalisierung des ...

Im Jahr 2003 fand in der Göttinger Jakobikirche eine hochkarätige und deshalb zu Recht viel beachtete Vorlesungsreihe zur Wirkungsgeschichte der Bibel statt. Namhafte Vertreter bester Göttinger Philologie fanden hier ihr ...

The author’s recently published monograph on Alexander von Humboldt* describes the multiple images of this great cultural icon. The book is a metabiographical study that shows how from the middle of the nineteenth century ...

Word stress in German is usually thought of as following the Germanic stress pattern (main stress on first stem syllable); quasi-monomorphemic words like Fore´lle or Holu´ nder suggest, however, that Modern German follows ...

Modern German is a language with relatively >free< word order, i. e.: the serialization of constituents is dependent not only on syntactic requirements, but determined also by information structural or cognitive factors. ...