Linguistic purism in action : how auxiliary tun was stigmatized in Early New High German / / Nils Langer

• Autore: Langer Nils <1969->
• Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; New York : , : Walter de Gruyter, , 2001
• Edizione: Reprint 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (324 pages)
• Disciplina: 437/.02
• Soggetto topico: German language - Early modern, 1500-1700 - Auxiliary verbs; Tun (The German word); German language - Standardization - History
• Note generali: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2000.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-312).
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Table of Content -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Part I. The Distribution of Auxiliary Tun -- 3. Part II. The Stigmatization of Auxiliary Tun -- 4. Conclusion -- 5. Appendix: Data and Bibliographies
• Sommario/riassunto: Anhand der Geschichte des Hilfsverbs tun (Susanne tut gern Kuchen essen) seit 1350 wird gezeigt, dass präskriptive Grammatiker im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert aktiv in den Standardisierungesprozess eingegriffen haben, um gewisse morphosyntaktische Konstruktionen von der Prestigesprache "Standarddeutsch" fernzuhalten.; The auxiliary do (tun) is one of the most-discussed constructions in West Germanic. In German, there is a striking opposition between modern standard German, where the construction is virtually ungrammatical and considered to be "sub-standard" by most speakers, whilst, as this book shows, the construction is attested in all modern dialects as well as historic stages since 1350. In answering why auxiliary tun is ungrammatical in modern standard German, it is shown that the stigmatization of tun was caused by prescriptive grammarians in the 16th-18th century. Furthermore it is shown that the stigmatization of tun as "bad" German occurred in clearly discernible stages, from bad poetry (1550-1680), to bad written German (1680-1740) and finally to "bad" German in general (after 1740), thus providing evidence that the history of the standardization of German needs to take into account direct metalinguistic comments from prescriptive grammarians. The effectiveness of linguistic purism is also shown by evidence from two other constructions, namely polynegation and double perfect.
• Titolo autorizzato: Linguistic purism in action
• ISBN: 3-11-088110-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810101103321
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