Prof. Dr. Silvia Kutscher

Prof. Kutscher erforscht derzeit die Registervariation und asymmetrische Kommunikation im Altägyptischen sowie die multimodale Kommunikation in historischen Sprachen. Ihr Fokus liegt auf der Analyse, wie Sprache in verschiedenen Kontexten unterschiedlich verwendet wird — etwa in monumentalen Inschriften des Alten Ägypten, wo Schrift, Bild und räumliche Anordnung zusammenwirken. Sie entwickelt theoretische Rahmen und Vergleichsmethoden, um sprachliche Systeme kontrastiv zu beschreiben, von der Altägyptologie über Gebärdensprachen bis zu modernen europäischen Sprachen. Ihre Arbeiten ermöglichen es, historische Kommunikationspraktiken systematisch zu rekonstruieren und dabei auch die Grenzen und Möglichkeiten von Sprachvergleich zu klären — relevant für Kulturinstitutionen, Archive und digitale Editionsprojekte, die historische Texte und Inschriften erschließen und kontextualisieren möchten.

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• SFB 1412/1: Registerkompetenz im Altägyptischen (TP B03)

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  Förderer: DFG Sonderforschungsbereich Zeitraum: 01/2020 - 12/2023 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Frank Kammerzell, Prof. Dr. Silvia Kutscher

• SFB 1412/2: Registervariation und asymmetrische Kommunikation im Alten Ägypten (TP B03)

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  Förderer: DFG Sonderforschungsbereich Zeitraum: 01/2024 - 12/2027 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Silvia Kutscher, Dina Serova

• The language of the Laz in Turkey: Contact-induced change or gradual language loss?

  2015

  Publication Server of the Institute for German Language (Institute for German Language)

  Laz, a sister language of Georgian spoken on the southeastem coast of the Black Sea, is the only member of the South Caucasian family which is spoken primarily in Turkey. Due to the socio-political circumstances all Speakers of Laz living in Turkey are bilingual and use Laz primarily in private communication. Using these observations as a starting point, the paper looks at the question of whether Laz is an endangered language. In order to clarify the sociolinguistic Situation of Laz in Turkey, the different levels involved in the process of gradual language loss (language-extemal factors, speech behaviour and structural consequences within the language system) are dealt with in detail. To determine which data should be taken as basis for the documentation of the language, the paper also discusses linguistic criteria for differentiating between fully competent Speakers of Laz and Speakers who show signs of language attrition.

• Laz positional verbs: semantics and use with inanimate Figures

  2007

  Linguistics · DOI

  In this article, we discuss the meaning and use of positional verbs in the South-Caucasian language Laz. Positional verbs are defined as those verbs which — in combination with one of several locational verbal prefixes (preverbs) — may appear in the basic construction that functions as an answer to a “where” question, the so-called basic locative construction (BLC). Within this class of verbs, we pay particular attention to those positionals which are used regularly in our data to describe the configuration of inanimate movable objects. Laz is shown to be a multiverb language, i.e., a language that uses a comparatively large set of verbs in the BLC. The fourteen verbs in question are PRV-dgun ‘stand’, PRV-ren ‘stand’, PRV-zun ‘lie’, PRV-xen ‘sit, stay’, PRV-bɣun ‘be located as mass’, PRV-mpiy ‘be spread’, PRV-sun ‘be smeared’, PRV-tun ‘cover’, PRV-bun ‘hang’, PRV-nʒoy ‘stick, be stuck’, PRV-n un ‘be dipped’, PRV- abun ‘stick to, be sticky’, PRV- orun ‘be bound’, PRV-gzun ‘burn’. The semantics and the use of these verbs are described in some detail including nontypical configurations, which trigger variation among speakers due to alternative categorizations and prototype effects.