Academic interests
- Grammatik und Deutsch als Fremdsprache
- Syntax, Morphologie
- Lexikon, Argumentstruktur, Nominalisierung, Aspekt
- Kontraste zwischen skandinavischen und westgermanischen Sprachen
- Tysk grammatikk, kontrastiv lingvistikk, syntaks, korpuslingvistikk
Tags:
German,
German language,
Linguistics,
Syntax,
Translation,
Translation Studies
Publications
Tysk, Tysk språk, Lingvistikk, Syntaks, Oversettelse, Oversettelsesstudier
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Solfjeld, Kåre & Pitz, Anneliese Pauline
(2023).
Om å gjengi andres tale - paralleller og kontraster i norsk, tysk og engelsk.
ELLA – Education, Literature, Language – Utdanning, litteratur, språk.
1(1).
doi:
10.58215/ella.6.
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Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine; Pitz, Anneliese Pauline & Torgersen, Henrik Anker Tumert
(2021).
Lexical interference in non-native resolution of possessives?
Oslo Studies in Language (OSLa).
12(2),
p. 25–63.
doi:
10.5617/osla.8955.
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Research on non-native pronoun resolution has predominantly been concerned with (i) ‘ordinary’ 3rd person pronouns/anaphors like En. "he", "she", "they" or "himself", "herself", "themselves", (ii) language pairs involving English as the native (L1) or the foreign (L2) language, and (iii) the role that binding constraints and syntactic structure in general play in L2 versus L1 processing. The present paper – a follow-up study to Pitz et al. (2017) – deviates from this trend in all three respects: We investigate how L1-Norwegian learners of L2-German interpret the two German possessive pronouns/determiners "sein" (≈ his) and "ihr" (≈ her or their), arguing that lexical divergence between the possessive systems, and in particular the formal similarity between binding-neutral L2-German "sein" and the L1-Norwegian reflexive possessive "sin", may enhance or interfere with L2 comprehension, depending on the structural conditions. In Section 2 we briefly present the two possessive systems. Section 3 summarizes relevant research on pronoun resolution, with a special view to possessives. Sections 4–6 present a pilot study on L1-Norwegian learners’ grammaticality judgments of "sein" and "ihr" in simple sentences (Sect. 5) and a forced-choice resolution experiment involving a group of L1-Norwegian learners with a background two or three years’ teaching of L2-German at high-school level and a control group of native speakers of German (Sect. 6). The final Section 7 provides a summary and concluding discussion of our findings.
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Pitz, Anneliese Pauline & Solfjeld, Kåre
(2019).
Redewiedergabe in Online-Pressetexten – kontrastiv.
Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik.
ISSN 0301-3294.
47(1),
p. 137–176.
doi:
10.1515/zgl-2019-0005.
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This article looks into what structures are used to report longer sequences of speech in German, English and Norwegian online press media. In German the subjunctive is used to signal speech report, and so there is a wider range of structural possibilities in German than in English and Norwegian, which have no counterparts to the subjunctive. The study is corpus-based and identifies and compares recurring patterns in reported sequences in the three languages, as well as type and range of verbs of utterance. The concept of syntactical integration of the reported speech and markers of report (Leistner 2016) is central. The study shows that also in the two languages without subjunctive the source of a text part is in general clear: The reader knows whether the text part stems from the journalist or from a reported person. The structural variety in German is outweighed by long sequences of direct speech in English and Norwegian, unambiguously identified as report. This seems to entail a stronger obligation to the wording of the original in English and Norwegian than in German, which on the other hand displays a stronger structural variation.
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Pitz, Anneliese Pauline; Behrens, Bergljot; Bott, Oliver; Solstad, Torgrim; Hörnig, Robin & Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine
(2017).
An empirical L2 perspective on possessives: German/Norwegian.
Oslo Studies in Language (OSLa).
9(2),
p. 41–74.
doi:
10.5617/osla.4765.
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The present paper reports on two empirical studies concerning the acquisition of possessive systems by L2 learners of Norwegian and German respectively. The first study investigates comprehension and production in written translation while the second study is a set of offline experiments testing the interpretation of possessives by both native speakers and German learners of Norwegian. Norwegian distinguishes between reflexive and irreflexive possessives, while German does not. The reflexive stem form si* is phonologically similar to German sein*, but may correspond to ihr*, a feminine or plural possessor, as well. These differences make the acquisition of Norwegian and of German as a foreign language a complex procedure of restructuring both at the phonological and the grammatical level. Results of the study indicate that the only partly overlapping forms and structural constraints on possessives in the two languages are cognitively demanding in L2 acquisition and subject to transfer effects.
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Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine; Helland, Hans Petter & Pitz, Anneliese Pauline
(2017).
An L2 perspective on possessives: Contrasts and their possible consequences.
Oslo Studies in Language (OSLa).
9(2),
p. 3–39.
doi:
10.5617/osla.4762.
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The present paper presents the contrastive background and the basic objectives of a cross-linguistic research project (POSS) that takes an L2-oriented perspective on possessives in English, Norwegian, German, French and selected Slavic languages. Our paper focuses on L1/L2 pairs involving Norwegian as L2 or L1. Section outlines the rationale behind our project. The morphosyntactic (‘core’) systems of English, French, German, Norwegian and Russian third possessives are described and compared in section while section draws attention to dimensions of contrasts that fall outside the scope of our project. Section specifically addresses the L2 issue, presenting for selected L1/L2 pairs our basic assumptions concerning challenges to the acquisition of the L2 possessive core system. Section contains a concluding summary.
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Behrens, Bergljot & Pitz, Anneliese Pauline
(2014).
Fantastiske Absolutter -Absolutt Fantastisk.
In Helland, Hans Petter & Salvesen, Christine Meklenborg (Ed.),
Affaire(s) de grammaire. Mélanges offerts à Marianne Hobæk Haff à l'occasion de ses soixante-cinq ans.
Novus Forlag.
ISSN 9788270997534.
p. 157–185.
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Pitz, Anneliese Pauline
(1993).
Derived delimiters.
University of Trondheim Working Papers in Linguistics.
ISSN 0802-3956.
16.
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Solfjeld, Kåre & Pitz, Anneliese Pauline
(2018).
Sequenzen von Redewiedergabe in Online-Texten, Vergleich Deutsch, Norwegisch, Englisch.
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Behrens, Bergljot; Pitz, Anneliese Pauline; Helland, Hans Petter & Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine
(2017).
Introduction to Possessives in L2 and translation: basic principles and empirical findings.
Oslo Studies in Language (OSLa).
9(2),
p. 1–2.
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Pitz, Anneliese Pauline
(1995).
Sarah Fagan: The Syntax and Semantics of Middle Constructions.
Beiträge zur Geschichte der Deutschen Sprache und Literatur.
ISSN 0005-8076.
117(1),
p. 106–111.
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Pitz, Anneliese Pauline
(1995).
The interaction between conceptual and morphological complexity in nominalization processes.
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