Sonja FriedrichsText+ User Story Endangered Linguistic Diversity Frank Seifart (Leibniz ZAS) DFG subject area: 104 Linguistics Text+ data domain: Collections Motivation General and Comparative Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages (subject area “104-01) have unsurprisingly a high demand for natural language recordings from as many different languages as possible to undertake comparative studies of morphological, syntactic, or prosodic systems, see …
Text+ User Story A digital bilingual edition of the scientific notes of a German scientist on his research in Ethiopia – Georg Wilhelm Schimper: In Abyssinia. Observations on Tigre, (edited by Andreas Gestrich and Dorothea McEwan in collaboration with Stefan Hanß) Christina von Hodenberg, Markus Mößlang (Deutsches Historisches Institut London) DFG subject area: 104 Linguistics …
Text+ User Story Acta Pacis Westphalicae Project Freya Hewett (University of Potsdam) DFG subject area: 102 History Text+ data domain: Collections Motivation The Acta Pacis Westphalicae (APW, http://pax-westphalica.de/) project is one of the most significant historical initiatives. The first volume was published in 1962 and the project is still ongoing. In 2014, the Acta Pacis Westphalicae edition was made available online (as part of a DFG …
Text+ User Story Annotated corpus of Low German contemporary texts Michael Elmentaler (University of Kiel) DFG subject area: 104 Linguistics Text+ data domain: Collections Motivation Various surveys from recent years show where and how many people still speak “Platt” (Low German). However, little is known about the linguistic characteristics of modern Low German. This is due to …
Text+ User Story Corpus of Low German plays of the 15th to 18th century Michael Elmentaler (University of Kiel) DFG subject area: 104 Linguistics Text+ data domain: Collections Motivation Since the entire development of language before the invention of the phonograph (1877) is only indirectly accessible to us via written language testimonies or meta-linguistic language testimonies, the …
Text+ User Story Attitudes towards regional language forms in the city: Low German in Hamburg (NiH) Ingrid Schröder (Universität Hamburg) DFG subject area: 104 Linguistics Text+ data domain: Collections Motivation Since the 1990s there has been a trend towards the analysis of qualitative research data on language attitudes and language biographies. Previous studies on the …
Text+ User Story Good and better speeches Thorsten Trippel (Universität Tübingen) DFG subject areas: 104 Linguistics, 105 Literary Studies, 111 Social Sciences Text+ data domain: Comprehensive Motivation Speeches are part of many social and societal processes and functions. However, a practical question is, which speech is “good” or how a speech can be “improved”. Apart …
Text+ User Story Data Archiving Support Claus Zinn (Universität Tübingen) DFG subject areas: Interdisciplinary Text+ data domain: Collections Motivation I am a linguist of many decades of experience and have accumulated rich collections of research data. Also, I am aware of the need for a proper management of research data. Consequently, I have tried to …
Text+ User Story Roman Social History Marietta Horster (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften) DFG subject area: 101 Ancient Cultures, 102 History Text+ data domain: Collections Motivation I am an ancient historian, and I am very much interested in sociolinguistics as an area that might change research in the field of Roman social history. Inscriptions are the most important source to …
Text+ User Story Humanist Computer Interaction under Scrutiny Marcel Frey-Endres, Torsten Schenk (Technical University of Darmstadt), Tim Geelhaar, Anna-Lena Körfer (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) DFG subject areas: 101 Ancient Cultures, 104 Linguistics Text+ data domain: Collections Motivation The project Humanist Computer Interaction under Scrutiny (short: Humanist) is a joint project of the Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), the University of Applied …