Word order optionality in the postfinite domain in North and Continental West Germanic has attracted much attention in generative syntax in the past three decades, in particular the phenomena known ...read more
This project uses the critical philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche to develop a comprehensive understanding of the meaning and function of the nihilism(s) confronting us in today’s ecological crises. Despite increased ...read more
Genialität und Virtuosität sind (schon der Etymologie nach) in der (deutschen) Literatur- und Kunstgeschichte stark mit Männlichkeit verknüpft, während weibliche Abweichung von der Norm nur in beschränktem Maße gewürdigt bzw. ...read more
This project examines the diverse representations of early Judaism across the German-speaking lands of the 19th century. In view of the rising nation-state, it illuminates the importance of the ancient past ...read more
The purpose of this project is to perform a semantic and etymological study of the Greek verb ἀραρίσκω ‘to adapt’ and its cognates. The origin of the word, i.e. its ...read more
The research project The System of Mohist Logic and Its Methodology engages with the work «Mozi» (《墨子》, mò zǐ), ascribed to the philosopher Mozi (墨子, trad. ca.470–391 BCE). The scholarship does not agree ...read more
The proposed study region, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg and France, belongs during the Bronze Age to an area of contact between different cultural complexes. Its western part was integrated in ...read more
Scholars usually concurr that transport by rivers and lakes greatly stimulated the development of trade in the Roman empire. The contribution of rivers and lakes to transport networks is mostly ...read more
Many of the values shared across modern Europe were first adopted by noblemen and -women in the High Middle Ages in order to present themselves as morally superior and thus to ...read more
The aim of my research is to bridge the gap between research into so-called translation universals (explicitation, implicitation, interference and shining-through) in the domain of corpus translation studies and, on ...read more