Konstantin Niehaus
List of John Benjamins publications for which Konstantin Niehaus plays a role.
Articles
2024 Article use in Upper German – a ‘radical’ stage of grammaticalization? New findings from Austria Linguistic Variation 24:1, pp. 37–76 | Article
Despite an increasing interest in German dialect syntax, the study of article use in Upper German (Alemannic and Bavarian) remains a desideratum. This is true in particular for Austrian varieties. The present study focusses on article variation and change in Austrian Upper German and discusses… read more
2023 The temporality of commodified landscapes at events & local constructions of identity in Salzburg Linguistic Landscape 9:4, pp. 357–386 | Article
This paper presents a study of how temporary, fixed-term local semiotic landscapes in Salzburg, Austria, contribute to a construction of local identity. For this purpose, two main events in the city’s calendar were investigated, the Ruperti fair in the autumn and the Christmas market in the… read more
2018 ‘From above’, ‘from below’, and regionally balanced: Towards a new corpus of nineteenth-century German Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change, Whitt, Richard J. (ed.), pp. 17–40 | Chapter
In this chapter, we report on an ongoing project on a corpus of German in the long nineteenth century. Similar to other historical corpora of German (and unlike existing corpora for the nineteenth century), the Nineteenth-Century German Corpus will focus on regional variation. In addition, it will… read more