Partition and individuation in Germanic

该项目的目的是调查的作用，不定冠词，形容词屈折变化，和n后缀在日耳曼语-无论是在方言以及历时的角度。我们首先观察到，在现代巴伐利亚（和阿勒曼尼语）方言中，不定冠词既可以用来表示分词（ich bräuchte ein Geld --我需要 *a* cash），也可以用来表示更常见的个人阅读，我们要问这些阅读有什么共同之处，以及如何以理论上令人满意的方式来模拟这种情况。最初的假设是，不定冠词和n后缀有共同的来源，抽象的意义是“分割”或更抽象的“区分”（还有其他部分留下）。这一基本意义可以通过进一步的语义单位来丰富，从而可以表达子类、个体甚至特定的阅读。语言因使用不同的词项或使用不同的词项而产生歧义。其理论框架是纳米句法，其中每一个意义单位都有一个单独的功能中心。我们的任务是确定和证明经验的正确顺序（层次结构），这些头。本项目的第二部分涉及日耳曼语的历时发展。众所周知，MHG中的指数（例如分格）曾经是属格标记。 它计划检查，描述和存储在一个注释数据库中的内部日耳曼在这方面的变化。纳米语法可以非常有效地用来追溯这些发展-甚至更多地预测可能的发展。由于 * ABA定理，它是预测，一个词项可以词汇化进一步的功能中心，是直接邻居。因此，其可能的延伸路线（导致歧义）受到限制。另一方面，可以预测在功能投射的序列中新的词汇项目可能进入的位置。该项目旨在根据将收集和系统化的日耳曼语数据测试这些模型。

The aim of the project is to investigate the role of the indefinie article, adjectival inflection, and n-suffixation in Germanic - both under a dialectal as well as a diachronic perspective. Starting with the observation that in modern Bavarian (and Alemannic) dialects, the indefinite article can be used to express partitive (ich bräuchte ein Geld - I need *a* cash) as well as the more usual individual reading, the question what these readings have in common and how one can model this situation in a theoretically satisfying way. The initial hypothesis is that the indefinite article and the n-suffixation have a common source and that the abstract meaning is 'partition' or even more abstract 'discrimination' (there are other parts left). This basic meaning can be enriched with further semantic units such that sub-kind, individual and even the specific reading can be expressed. Languages vary whether engage then different lexical items or use item, leading to ambiguity. The theoretical framework is Nanosyntax in which for every meaning unit a separate functional head ist posulted. The task is to identify and justify empirically the correct order (hierarchy) of these heads. The second strand of the project deals with the diachronic development within Germanic. As is well-known, the exponent e.g. for partitive used to be genitive marking in MHG. It is planned to examine, desrcibe and store in a annotated database the inner-Germanic variation in this area. Nanosyntax can be used very fruitfully to trace back such developments - and even more to make predictions about possible developments. Due to the *ABA-theorem, it is predicted that one lexical item can lexicalize further functional heads that are immediate neighbours. Its possible route of extension (leading to ambiguity) is thus constrained. On the other hand, predictions can be made where in the sequence of functional projections new lexical items may enter. The projects aims to test these models against the data from Germanic that will be gathered and systematized.