Edgar BaumgärtnerEuropa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) · Department of Linguistics
Edgar Baumgärtner
Master of Arts
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Introduction
I am working on morphosyntactic variation in extraterritorial varieties of Upper and Middle German spoken in the German National District of the Atlai Krai in Russia. In my PhD I focus on phenomena such as the weakening of strong verbs or variation in the placement of finite verbs. Therefore, I conducted interviews and recorded a total of 24 frog stories. I compare my findings with other so called speech islands in order to disentangle internal (typological) and external (contact) influence.
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Additional affiliations
May 2018 - present
May 2017 - March 2018
June 2012 - April 2014
Education
April 2015 - March 2018
Field of study
- Sprachen, Kommunikation und Kulturen in Europa
October 2009 - March 2015
October 2008 - September 2009
Publications
Publications (4)
The article tries to provide empirical evidence for a hypothesis stated by Elisabeth Leiss in 2000, according to which aspect and article are not, as widely assumed, distinct from each other. Instead, Leiss claims that they are similar in function and only different in form. In order to find out whether there is a link between those two grammatical...
