"The historical development of sentence-internal capitalization in words in German."
Welcome to the webpage of the SIGS project!
- The second phase of the project (2016-2018) is located at Hamburg University.
- There will be a conference Hexenverhörprotokolle als sprachhistorisches Korpus in Hamburg.
- The first phase of the SIGS project (2013-2015) is over.
The project ''Die Entwicklung der satzinternen Großschreibung im Deutschen'' (SIGS 2013-1015) (The development of sentence-internal capitalization of words in German) funded by the DFG is a cooperation between Renata Szczepaniak (Hamburg) and Klaus-Michael Köpcke (Muenster).
You can find the workflow and the description of our corpus here and a list of talks and publications here.
The research was funded by the
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It combines linguistic questions originating from historical graphematics and cognitive linguistics with witch interrogation protocols. The project is based on the assumption that the sentence-internal capitalization in German develops from a pragmatic function (emphasis) to a syntactically motivated capitalization. In order to analyze the potential cognitive-semantic (referentiality) and morphosyntactic (animacy) factors, the witch interrogation protocols were annotated (see corpus).