Since the 1960s Germany has seen the arrival of a considerable number of immigrants, mainly from Turkey. The Turkish language, the religion of the Turkish people and other Turkish groups manifest themselves in their naming traditions. The Turkish history, culture and language (also of other groups who speak a Turkish language) is unknown in Germany. The present paper is the beginning of a project of a Turkish dictionary with Turkish names.

Since the 1960s Germany has the arrival of a considerable number of immigrants, mainly from Turkey. This paper is a statistic investigation of Turkish names in Germany.

This paper examines company names from a pragmatic point of view and focuses on their functions in different local and socio-cultural contexts. A company name has to fulfil many functions, among them identification, distinction, protection and promotion. The latter function is of special relevance, since the world of today is a consumer culture, where many activities in business and even in personal contexts have to some extent been influenced by promotional concerns. The promotional function of company names can be realised by different naming strategies, including linguistic form and graphic design. In recent years, however, studies of cultural, social or emotional values of names have gained in importance. The name is seen as reflecting sets of common values that are connected with the environment in people’s minds, thus maintaining a certain ‘we-feeling’. This can, for example be achieved by the inclusion of locations as elements of company names. The name is linked to a particular region and thus connotes the company’s origin, traditions and scope of business or personal attachment to a certain place. Based on the 2007 lists of the top 100 companies, ranked by revenues, in Central Germany (Mitteldeutschland) and Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), the present study aims at a more systematic description of regional connotations of company names, which are especially frequent in the eastern part of Germany. Possible explanations for this situation will be offered and discussed with respect to factors such as economic motivation, historical background, local culture and global competition.

Effort, not only to show the radius of a place name’s etymological explana- tions in theory, but also to work out the real primary meaning – examplified by "Hundshaupten".

When analysing the etymological layers of Hungarian river names, it becomes soon clear that loan names make up a much larger group than in the group of settlement names, for instance. This fact can be due to the phenomenon that in the case of hydronyms, name-giving and name-usage is driven mainly by communicative needs, while other (e. g. socio-cultural or political) factors only rarely influence name-giving. In my paper, it was my aim to provide an etymological typology of Hungarian hydronyms from the Árpád-era (896 –1350). It seems to be justified to choose the Hungarian hydronyms of the Árpád-era as the corpus of my investigation, for the country was strongly multilingual and multiethnic in this period of time (Hungarian, Slavic, German, Turkish), which also has an effect on the system of water names. The survey of the linguistic layers of river names shows that largely the same semantic content appears in river names originating from different languages. The semantic types appearing in river names belong to the so-called panchronistic feature of the hydronym system, in other words, they show signs of universal human thinking.

Overview of the possibilities of data collection of current family names in Roman language-speaking countries in Europe (Italy, France, Spain and Portugal). Includes concrete examples and suggestions on their interpretation.

Family names derived from names of local origin are not at the top of the frequency lists. Potentially any place name may become a family name. In the following, this investigation addresses the question whether all Saxonian family names have become family names, and shows the large advances which can be achieved especially for this group of names with the aid of modern onomastic distribution maps.

Whereas in Sachsen, Brandenburg or Schleswig-Holstein all place names are worked on, the examination of the meaning of many place names in Sachsen-Anhalt is still a desideratum. This article surveys the meaning of the older place names in the former Landkreis Sangerhausen (southern Sachsen-Anhalt) – current and deserted place names – in the territorial boarders of the period 1990 –2007, as well as their level of research based on the author\''s Master\''s degree thesis of the winter semester 2007/08. The author gathered all documentary evidences that could be found in the written sources of regionally specific source books from the first naming in the sources to the 15th / 16th century. The reseach revealed that the oldest names were to be found near the rivers and on most fertile grounds. These place names were mostly derivatives, but one can find also some very old compounds.

In the last years a rapid emergence of lexical resources has evolved in the Semantic Web. Whereas most of the linguistic information is already machine-readable, we found that morphological information is mostly absent or only contained in semi-structured strings. An integration of morphemic data has not yet been undertaken due to the lack of existing domain-specific ontologies and explicit morphemic data. In this paper, we present the Multilingual Morpheme Ontology called MMoOn Core which can be regarded as the first comprehensive ontology for the linguistic domain of morphological language data. It will be described how crucial concepts like morphs, morphemes, word forms and meanings are represented and interrelated and how language-specific morpheme inventories can be created as a new possibility of morphological datasets. The aim of the MMoOn Core ontology is to serve as a shared semantic model for linguists and NLP researchers alike to enable the creation, conversion, exchange, reuse and enrichment of morphological language data across different data-dependent language sciences. Therefore, various use cases are illustrated to draw attention to the cross-disciplinary potential which can be realized with the MMoOn Core ontology in the context of the existing Linguistic Linked Data research landscape.

Der Band „Satz, Äußerung, Schema“ in der Handbuchreihe „Sprache und Wissen“ offeriert „Überlegungen zu einer modalitätsübergreifenden Einheitenbildung“, die den gemeinsamen Gegenstand unterschiedlicher Forschungsgebiete der germanistischen Linguistik in den Mittelpunkt stellen: den so genannten ‚satzwertigen Ausdruck‘. Im vorliegenden Beitrag werden die Ansätze einer gebrauchsbasierten Konstruktionsgrammatik im Mittelpunkt stehen (vgl. u.a. Croft 2001, 2013; Bybee 2013; Boas 2013; Deppermann 2006; Goldberg 1995, 2003, 2006, 2013; Gries 2013; Stefanowitsch/Gries 2003; Gries/Stefanowitsch 2004; Langacker 2005, 2009; Lasch/Ziem 2014; Ziem/Lasch 2013). Besonderes Augenmerk gilt dem Verhältnis zwischen den Konzepten ‚Satz‘, ‚Konstruktion‘, ‚Aussagekomplex‘ und ‚Schema‘ in der geschriebenen Sprache. Dem Konzept ‚Aussagekomplex‘ wird hier vor dem Begriff der Äußerung aus zwei Gründen der Vorzug gegeben. Zum einen wird der Begriff der Äußerung eher selten auf schriftsprachliche Untersuchungsgegenstände angewendet (zur gesprochenen Sprache vgl. die Beiträge von Bücker und Imo in diesem Band). Hier spricht man etwa in text- und diskurslinguistischen Untersuchungen von Aussagen und Aussagenkomplexen (vgl. bspw. Busse 1987, 1997, 2007, 2008; Busse/Teubert 2013; Felder/Müller/Vogel 2012; Spitzmüller/Warnke 2011). Zum anderen sind es gerade diese Aussagenkomplexe, die als transphrastische Einheiten in einer Komplexitätshierarchie über der Periphrase anzusiedeln sind und sich damit als Gegenstand anbieten, wenn man die Reichweite des Konstruktionsbegriffs ausloten möchte.