Während für koloniale Straßennamen im heutigen deutschsprachigen Raum ein reges Interesse zu verzeichnen ist, das vorrangig an Diskussionen einer etwaigen Notwendigkeit ihrer Umbenennung in einzelnen Städten anknüpft, sind die sprachhistorischen Benennungen in ortsübergreifender Perspektive in Bezug auf Kolonialismus und koloniale Themen unerforscht. Die Arbeit geht den linguistischen Praktiken solcher toponymischer Namenvergabeprozesse vom Beginn der faktischen Kolonialzeit bis zur Endphase der nationalsozialistischen Herrschaft nach. Sie erhebt und analysiert strukturbezogen-funktionale Muster sowie diskursive Argumentationszusammenhänge hinsichtlich der damit versprachlichten kolonisatorischen Gewissheiten. Der umfangreiche Datenbestand (über 500 Straßennamen), deren koloniale Benennungsmotivik anhand zahlreicher Quellen und Quellengattungen bis 1945 nachgewiesen werden kann, zeigt, dass die Bedeutung kolonialtoponomastischer Raumaneignung bzw. -besetzung in erheblichem Ausmaß auch auf das Deutsche Reich zurückwirkte. In der Verbindung innovativer Onomastik und Diskurslinguistik werden die globalen Verflechtungsgeschichten erstmalig anhand der Benennung des öffentlichen Raumes in der deutschen Metropole umfassend erfasst und erläutert.

Despite some critical voices, in German linguistics the concept of confix can meanwhile be considered as an established morpheme category. Schmidt (1987) introduced the term into German to describe bound morphemes that are lexical, but not inflectable. Since the 2000s, an increasing number of publications deal with the phenomenon and the term has begun to enter linguistic reference works as well. In French, the situation is completely different due to the structure of the language (poor in compounds and mostly post-determinative). Although the term and the concept have originall y been coined by the French structuralist André Martinet ([1961] \(^3\)1980 ), the denomination itself is barely present in Romance linguistics. French researchers usually take different approaches to discuss the phenomenon (e.g., neoclassical compounds, constructed lexemes). In Italian, the denominations confisso/ confissazione are first used by De Mauro (1999), who adopts both the term and concept directly from Martinet; moreover, they can be found in some contributions on word formation and lexicology (e.g., Adamo/Della Valle 2008). Nevertheless, the Italian termino-logy remains heterogeneous, with some researchers still using the terms prefissoide/suffissoide coined by Migliorini (1963). As I will show by comparing the languages in question, the terminology and the concept of confixes vary greatly between Romance and Germanic languages.

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The article starts with the etymology of the words Vorlesung („lecture“) and Hörsaal (“lecture hall”). On the one hand, it turns out that the two expressions are deeply anchored in the history of the old Latin scientific language. They transmit Latin structures and perspectives in German neologisms. On the other hand, the two words arose exactly at the time when the sciences were moving from Latin to German, thus distancing themselves from the traditional forms of Latin scholarship. In this light, they exemplify an epochal change in the history of the German language, but at the same time they represent a great European continuity. Against this background, the two words can be interpreted as symptomatic words associated with the Enlightenment’s confident outlook on the future relationship between science and society. Further corpus linguistic surveys also show how productively the two words appear in word formation processes. In particular, these surveys show by way of example that and how German standard language has benefited from the emergence of German academic language.

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