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Prof. Dr. Daniel Jacob

Romanische Linguistik
Universität Freiburg
April 2010 – März 2011

Vergangene FRIAS-Aufenthalte

  • April 2010 – März 2011

 

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Daniel Jacob completed his PhD in Romance Philology in 1987 at the University of Heidelberg. From 1988 to 1994 he collaborated on an interdisciplinary research project on oral and scriptural cultures (SFB 321: Übergänge und Spannungsfelder zwischen Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit) at the University of Freiburg. In 1995 he became a Professor of Romance Philology at the University of Munich (LMU); from 2001 to 2007, he held the chair of Ibero-Romance Linguistics at the University of Cologne; since 2007 he has held the chair of Romance Linguistics at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau. He taught as a guest professor at various universities in Latin America (México D.F.; Guadalajara, Mexico; Morelia, México; San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina; Caracas, etc.). His main research interests are Romance syntax (mainly Spanish and French, following a “functionalist” approach), language evolution and grammatical change, socio-historical aspects of discourse and text production.
 

Selected Publications

  • Markierung von Aktantenfunktionen und «Prädetermination» im Französischen. Ein Beitrag zur Neuinterpretation morphosyntaktischer Strukturen in der französischen Umgangssprache. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1990 (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie, 231).
  • Die Auxiliarisierung von habere und die Entstehung des romanischen periphrastischen Perfekts, dargestellt an der Entwicklung vom Latein zum Spa¬ni¬schen, Habilitationsschrift, Freiburg/Br., 1994, 396 Seiten.
  • Jacob, Daniel; Kabatek, Johannes (eds.): Lengua medieval y tradiciones discursivas en la Península Ibérica: descripción gramatical - pragmática histórica - metodología. Frankfurt a. M./ Madrid: Vervuert/Iberoamericana, 2001 (Lingüística Iberoamericana, 12)
  • Jacob, Daniel; Krefeld, Thomas; Oesterreicher, Wulf (eds.): Sprache - Bewußtsein - Stil. Theoretische und historische Perspektiven. Tübingen: Narr, 2005.
  • Dufter, Andreas; Jacob, Daniel (eds. 2009): Focus and Background in Romance Languages, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins (Studies in Language Com¬panion Series, 112)
  • "Relative Referenzbereiche oder: Was ist Definitheit?", in: Anschütz, Susanne (ed.), Texte, Sätze, Wörter und Moneme, Festschrift für Klaus Heger zum 65. Geburtstag, Heidelberg: Heidelberger Orientverlag, 1992, 301-324.
  • "Poésie rythmique et 'traditions discursives': une perspective prototypicaliste sur les genres médiévaux", in: Poetry of the Early Medieval Europe: Manuscripts, Language and Music of the Rhythmical Latin Texts, III Euroconference for the Digital Edition of the 'Corpus of Latin Rhythmical Texts 4th-9th Century, a cura di Edoardo D'Angelo e Francesco Stella, Firenze: SISMEL/Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2003, 267-289.
  • "De la función primaria a la autonomía de la sintaxis: hacia un en¬foque sociológico del cambio gramatical", Lexis (Lima/Perú) 27, 2003, 359-399
  • "Adjective position, specificity, and information structure in Spanish", in: Heu¬singer, Klaus v.; Kaiser, Georg; Stark, Elisabeth (eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop "Spe¬cificity and the Evolution/Emergence of Nominal Determination Systems in Romance", Konstanz: Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Konstanz, Arbeitspapier Nr. 119, 2005, 71-179.
  • "Zwischen Universalität, Historizität und Typologie: Projektionen des Verhältnisses von Sprache und Denken bei W. v. Humboldt", in: Jacob, Daniel; Krefeld, Thomas (eds.), Sprachgeschichte und Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft, Tübingen: Narr, 2007, 143-168.

 

FRIAS Research Project

Imagination: the anthropology of virtual experience and its relevance for linguistics

The starting point of this project is the idea that linguistic utterances are fundamentally based on a process of imagination; that this process is in some ways similar to other imaginative or "simulating" processes, such as (visual) imagery, (day-)dreaming, episodic memory, future projection, etc.; and that all these processes share certain traits with "real" experience, i.e. senso-motoric action. Describing any referential process as a psychological or cognitive process means giving a radically psychological interpretation of the classical philosophical and linguistic problem of reference. Such an approach allows us to account for a number of phenomena in cases where traditional theories of reference are problematic, such as cases of non-specificity, "intentional" or "opaque" contexts, fictional, modalized and counterfactual discourse, shifted deixis, effects of empathy and perspectivization. Moreover, it accounts for the establishment of fictional or ad-hoc "worlds" ("mental spaces", Fauconnier) and allows us to explain what literary, fictional discourse and ordinary discourse have in common.