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Hilpert, Martin

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Hilpert, Martin
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Professeur.e ordinaire
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martin.hilpert@unine.ch
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https://libra.unine.ch/handle/123456789/717
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0000-0002-6347-5076

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  • Publication
    Accès libre
    Usage-Based Approaches to Germanic Languages
    (2024)
    Hilpert, Martin 
    The theoretical outlook of usage-based linguistics is a position that views language as a dynamic, evolving system and that recognizes the importance of usage frequency and frequency effects in language, as well as the foundational role of domain-general sociocognitive processes. Methodologically, usage-based studies draw on corpus-linguistic methods, experimentation, and computational modeling, often in ways that combine different methods and triangulate the results. Given the availability of corpus resources and the availability of experimental participants, there is a rich literature of usage-based studies focusing on Germanic languages, which at the same time has greatly benefited from usage-based research into other language families. This research has uncovered frequency effects based on measurements of token frequency, type frequency, collocational strength, and dispersion. These frequency effects result from the repeated experience of linguistic units such as words, collocations, morphological patterns, and syntactic constructions, which impact language production, language processing, and language change. Usage-based linguistics further investigates how the properties of linguistic structures can be explained in terms of cognitive and social processes that are not in themselves linguistic. Domain-general sociocognitive processes such as categorization, joint attention, pattern recognition, and intention reading manifest themselves in language processing and production, as well as in the structure of linguistic units. In addition to research that addresses the form and meaning of such linguistic units at different levels of linguistic organization, domains of inquiry that are in the current focus of usage-based studies include linguistic variation, first and second-language acquisition, bilingualism, and language change.
  • Publication
    Accès libre
    Der Erwerb von es-Konstruktionen durch spanischsprachige Deutschlernende
    (2017)
    Fahrner, Annette 
    ;
    Hilpert, Martin 
    ;
    Jacob, Daniel, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i. Brisgau
    This dissertation lies in the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and contrastive analysis. It investigates how adult Spanish learners of German as a foreign language acquire constructions with the German pronoun “es” (Engl. “it”). The theoretical framework is Construction Grammar (CxG) and the usage-based approach. The general hypothesis is the following: Spanish learners of German have to make a substantial effort in order to acquire German constructions with “es”. Traditionally, the difficulty of this task has been related to the grammatical complexity of German “es” constructions. However, this thesis argues that other factors, such as frequency and saliency, have to be taken into account. The dissertation consists of two empirical studies. In the first study, a constructional analysis of German “es” occurrences is presented. The second study focuses on the acquisition of “es” constructions by Spanish-speaking learners of German as a foreign language, combining a small corpus analysis of a corpus of learner data and a psycholinguistic experiment.